in a solemn chapter held by the Soveraign and certain of the Knights Companions of that most noble Order in the red room at Whitehall which Oath was administred to him by Seth Bishop of Salisbury Chancellour of the Garter one of the Officers of that order then kneeling on his Majesties left hand As to the exercise of his office of Norroy when he was Provincial K. of Armes for the northern parts of this Realm the books of his visitation of the several Counties under his charge remaining in the Coll. of Armes will sufficiently manifest his care therein as by taking exact notice of all collaterals viz. Uncles Aunts Brothers and Sisters in the descents there drawn Also by publickly disclaiming all such as did take upon them the titles of Esquire or Gentlemen without just right and truly registring the Armes of all such as could shew any justifiable right thereto His care also was manifested in defacing such Tablets of Armes as he found in any publick places which were fictitious and by pulling down several Atchievments commonly called Hatchments irregularly and against the law of Armes hung up in any Churches or Chappels within the precincts of his Province the particulars whereof are expressed in that large book in the Office or Coll. of Armes covered with russet leather and called the Earl Marshalls book Further also to vindicate the just rights of his said office he commenced a sute at the common law against one Randal Holme a Painter of the City of Chester who had boldly invaded the office of him the said Norroy by preparing Atchievments for the funeral of Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton in the County of Lancaster Kt and giving directions for a formal proceeding at the solemnity thereof whereupon he had a verdict against him the said Holme at the general Assizes held at Stafford in March an 1667 and recovered good damages with costs of suit The titles of such books touched on before which are published under Sir Will. Dugdales name are these 1 Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae caenobiorum Benedictinorum Cluniacensium Cisterciensium Carthusianorum à primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem ex Mss ad Monasteria olim pertinentibus Archivis turrium Lond. Ebor. c. Lond. 1655. and 82. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. 2 Monastici Anglicani volumen alterum de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis scil Hospitaliariis Templariis Gilbertinis Praemonstratensibus Maturinis sive Trinitaniariis Cum appendice ad vol. primum de Caenobiis aliquot Gallicanis Hibernicis Scoticis necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis à primordiis c. Lond. 1661. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. These two large volumes tho they were published under the names of Roger Dodsworth of Yorkshire and Will. Dugdale of Warwickshire yet the chiefest now of the Coll. of Armes have several times informed me that they were both collected and totally written by Dodsworth as the original which they had seen do testifie And Dr. Barlow hath several times told me that much about the time of death of Dodsworth they were offer'd to him to be bought that he might take some order to have them published Howsoever it is sure I am that Sir William did take great pains to have them published did methodize and order them correct them when at the press and made several indexes to them This Roger Dodsworth was the Son of Matthew Dodsworth Esq Registrary as I have heard of the Church of York by Elianor his Wife Daughter of Ralph Sandwith Esq was born on the 24 July 1585 at Newton Grange in the Parish of S. Oswald in Ridale in Yorkshire being the house and possessions of his Mothers Father but whether he was ever educated in any University I could never learn This Person who had a natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities began early to make collections of them especially such that related to Yorkshire and afterwards was much encouraged in his labours by Sir Thomas afterwards Lord Fairfax who for several years allowed him a pension He was a Person of wonderful industry but less judgment was always collecting and transcribing but never published any thing He died in the month of August 1654 and was buried in the Church of Rufford in Lancashire After his death the said Lord Fairfax took into his possession not only all the old Mss which he had obtained from several hands but also all his proper collections which he had written from Mss Leigher books evidences in the Tower at York in the custody of many Gentlemen not only in Yorkshire but other northern Counties as also his collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions c. which being done he communicated them to Dr. Nat. Johnston a Physit of Yorkshire with hopes that he would extract from them and make and compleat a book of Antiquities of the West Riding of Yorkshire which he hath not yet done being as I have been informed weary of the work When the said Lord Fairfax died he bequeathed the said old Mss and collections which last amounted to 122 volumes at least to the publick Library in Oxon but were not conveyed thither till June 1673 which being then a wet season most of them took wet and had it not been for the author of this book who with much ado obtained leave of the then Vicechancellour to have them conveyed into the muniment room in the School-Tower purposely to dry them on the leads adjoyning which cost him a months time to do it they had been utterly spoiled The other books that Sir William Dugdale hath published are there 3 The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records leiger-books manuscripts charters evidences tombes and armes Beautified with maps prospects and portraictures Lond. 1656. fol. The foundation of tnis book which is his Master piece was laid on the collections of divers antiquities for the said County made and gathered by Sir Simon Archer Knight whom I have mention'd in the first vol. of this work p. 504 which Sir Simon dying at Warwick about the beginning of 1666 was gathered to the graves of his Fathers in Tamworth Church 4 The History of S. Pauls Cathedral in London from its foundation till these times extracted out of original charters records leâ—ger-books and other Manuscripts Beautified with sundry prospects of the Church figures of tombes and monuments Lond. 1658. in a thin folio 5 The History of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom and of the improvement thereby Extracted from recordâ— Mss and other authentick testimonies Lond. 1662. fol. Adorned with several Cuts 6 Origines juridiciales or historical memorials of the English laws Courts of Justice forms of Trial punishment in cases criminal law writers law books grants and settlements of estates degree of Serjeant inns of Court and Chancery Also a chronologie of the Lord Chancellours and Keepers of the great Seal L. Treasurers Justices itinerant Justices of
to print his Sermons which much deserve to be publish'd but such as are set forth are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon before his Majesty on Good Friday at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1664. on Joh. 19. part of the 19 ver Lond. 1665. qu. 2 Serm. before the K. on Tuesday 20 June 1665 being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the late Victory at sea on Psal 54.6.7 Lond. 1665. qu. 3 Serm. before the K. 1666 on the like occasion on Psal 18.1.2.3 Land 1666. qu. c. He died of the Small Pox on the eleventh day of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed from Bishops Thorp to York and there inter'd in the Cathedral When he was promoted to the See of York Dr. Franc. Turner succeeded him in Rochester and Dr. Tho. Sprat in the Deanery of Westminster and an year and a half after his death Dr. Tho. Lamplugh B. of Exeter succeeded him in the See of York as I shall tell you elsewhere Soon after was put a large and comely Monument over his grave with this inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Dolben filius Gulielmi S. Th. Professoris Ex antiqua familia in Cambria septentrionali oriundus Natus Stanvici in Agro Northampton Mart. 20. A. D. 1624. Anno aetatis 12 Regiam scholam Westmonast auspicato ingressus Singulari istius loci genio plenus 15 exivit In numerum Alumnorum Aedis Christi Oxon electus Exardente bello civili Partes regias secutus est in pugna Marstonensi Vexillarius In defensione Eboraci graviter vulneratus Effuso sanguine consecravit locum Olim morti suae destinatum A. D. 1656. à Rev. Episc Cicestrensi sacris ordinibus initiatus Instaurata Monarchia factus est Aedis Christi Canonicus Deinde Decanus Westmonasteriensis Mox Carolo II. Regi optimo ab Oratorio Clericus Episcopus postea Roffensis Et post novennium Regis Eleemosynarius Anno denique 1683. Metropol Eboracens honore cumulatus est Hanc provinciam ingenti animo pari industria administravit Gregi Pastoribus exemplo Intra 30 circiter menses seculi laboribus exhaustis Caelo tandem maturus Lethargia Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus A. D. 1686 aet 62 Potentis Princ. Jac. II. altero die dominico Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes In Eccles sua Cathed septimanatim celebrandas instituerat Caelo fruebatur Maestissima conjux magni Gilberti Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis Ex qua tres liberos suscepit Gilbertum Catharin Johan Monumentum hoc posuit Desideratissimo Marito In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructâ Bromleiensi Palatio reparato in Caenobio Westmon conservato In Senatu Ecclesiis Eloquentiae gloriâ In Diocoesibus suis Episcopali diligentia In omnium priorum animis justâ veneratione semper Victuro WILLIAM COVENTRIE fourth son of Tho. Lord Coventrie sometimes Keeper of the Great Seal of England by Elizabeth his wife daughter of John Alderley of London was born either in the City or Suburb of London became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 14 years but leaving that house without a degree he travelled beyond the Seas and at his return seemed to adhere to the cause of K. Ch. 2. After his restauration he was elected a Burgess for the Town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 and two years after was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University being about that time Secretary to his Royal Highness James Duke of York In 1665 Jun. 26 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and was afterwards sworn one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council being then esteemed upon all accounts qualified for noble employments for at that time if I mistake not he was Secretary to the Navy the said Duke being then General at Sea in the Wars against the Dutch by which employment he got a considerable estate in money which ever after kept up his port according to his quality But at length behaving himself displeasing to the said Duke when there was need of him he was removed from his service whereupon setling at Minster Lovel near Witney in Oxfordshire became much respected by the neighbouring Gentry for whose sake he was the first that found out a way for the ease of him or them that should bear the Office of Shrievelty For whereas before it was usual for the High Sheriff to expend four or five hundred pounds ere he could be quit of his Office he then in Octob. 1675 by certain Articles which he framed and were afterwards subscribed by the Gentry to stand to brought that sum to 50 or 60 l and the first High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that enjoyed the benefit of the said Articles was Sir Edm. Fetyplace of Swinbroke near Burford Baronet who was elected to that office in Nov. the same year Among several things which the said Sir Will. Coventrie wrot and published without his name set to them were these Englands appeal from the private Cabal at Whitehall to the great Council of the Nation the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Printed 1673. in 7 sh in qu. Letter written to Dr. Gilb. Burnet giving an account of Cardinal Pole's secret powers From which it appears that it was never intended to confirm the alienation which was made of the Abbey-Lands To which are added two Breves that Card. Pole brought over and some other of his Letters that were never before printed Lond. 1685. in 5 sh in qu. He hath also written another thing to which his name was set intit The Character of a Trimmer His opinion of 1. The Laws and Government 2. Protestant Religion 3. The Papists 4. Forraign Affairs Lond. 1689. in 6 sh in qu. sec edit the first of which had not his name set to it At length this honorable Knight retiring to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the sake of the Water there to cure his distemper died at Somerhill near thereunto of the gout in the Stomach which the Physitians took to be the Stone on Wednesday 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to Penshurst in the said County and buried in the Church there He bequeathed 2000 l. to the French Protestants that were then lately come into England upon their expulsion from their own Country upon account of Religion and 3000 l. for the redemption of Captives at Algiers as the current report then went appointing Dr. Compton B. of London and Dr. Jo. Fell B. of Oxon Overseers of his gift JOHN FELL son of Dr. Sam. Fell sometime Dean of Ch. Ch. by Margaret his wife daughter of Tho. Wyld of the Commandery in the Suburbs of Worcester Esq was born at Suningwell near to Abendon in Berks educated mostly in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire founded by John Lord Williams made Student of Ch.
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 Maesâ—y Pandy was born at Bodâ—y Fudden in the Parish of Trawsfynydd in the County of Merioneth in Jul. or Aug. an 1610 became a Com. of Oriel Coll. for a time afterwards of Jesus where he was Scholar and thence again to Oriel Coll of which he became Fellow in 1631 and a great Tutor for many years When the K. and Court were setled in Oxon he became known to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York then there who made him his Chapl. and gave him the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York which he kept to his death After the decease of his father which was in the time of the Troubles he succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Ruabon but was soon deprived of it and his Prebendship by the Usurpers till restored again to both by the happy Revolution in 1660. On the 13 of Aug. 1661 he was made Canon of S Asaph and in the month following he was actually created D. of D. On the 14 of Dec. 1663
to be celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the Country to whom the Bankers case was formerly sent In 1680 was a book published entit The rights of the Bishops to judge in Capital cases in Parliament cleared Being a full answer to two books lately published the first entit A letter from a Gentleman to his friend c. The other A discourse of the Peerage and jurisdiction of the Lords spiritual in Parliament endeavouring to shew the contrary Lond. in oct Tho no name is set to this book yet it was commonly then reported to have been written by Thom. Turner the same I suppose who was author of The Case c. Sir Tim. Turner before mention'd died very aged in 1676. and his Son Thom. the Writer about the beginning of the year 1680. Qu. Jan. 25. Lancelâ—t Addison of Qu. Coll. 29. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll. Both these are Writers and now living and therefore are to be remembred hereafter The first is Dean of Lichfield the other B. of Rochester Feb. 13. Tho. Tomkins of Ball afterwards of All 's Coll. 24 Rob South of Ch. Ch. He is also living and hath published several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers Adm. 147. Bach. of Law Oct. 12. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. Dec. 14. Nath. Bond of All 's Coll. Mar. 15. Joseph Keble of All 's Coll. As for Nath. Bond who was of the same family with Dennis Bond mention'd in the first vol. p. 323 he was as I conceive Recorder afterward of Weymouth being then a man of those times In the latter end of Apr. 1689 he being by writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law by K. Will. 3 was sworn on the 2 of May at the Bar of the Common-pleas in Westm Hall with several others that had been with him called to that degree Afterwards he was Knighted made one of the Kings Serjeants c. The last of the said three Joseph Keble is living in Greys Inn and hath published several things and therefore he ought hereafter to be mentioned among the Writers Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. May 30. Benj. Parry of Jesus Coll. 31. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. June 1. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 13. John Cawley of All 's Coll. July 6. Zachary Mayne of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Ch. Ch. and afterwards made by the Visitors first Demie of Magd. Coll and then Fellow took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1652 at which time he had the letters of the Chancellour O. Cromwell for the dispensation of the want of two or three terms in which letters he is stiled eminently godly and of able parts Afterwards he was senior Collector of the Lent in 1652 and when Master of Arts a godly preacher in these parts After his Majesties restauration he conformed and wrot 1 Treatise of Justification c. Lond. 1662. oct 2 S. Pauls travelling pangs c. Pr. 1662. oct and perhaps other things He is now living a School-master in or near Exeter as I have lately been informed by one of his contemporaries in Magd. Coll. July 6. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall He accumulated the degrees in Arts and was admitted in Convocation Adm. 65. Bach. of Phys Apr. 11. Joh. Betts of C. C. Coll. June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. These were both learned Physitians the former of which hath published several things of his faculty the other not but left his profession for his original fac of Div. as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Two were admitted this year as Jam. Stopes of Magd. Hall and Thomas Harward of Trin. Coll. but neither of them were Writers ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Apr. 11. John Arnold of Mert. Coll. He afterwards withdrew himself and stood not in the Act to compleat his degree went to York and there practised his faculty to the time of his death Joh. Betts of C C. Coll was adm the same day He accumulated the degrees in Phys June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He accumulated having before been employed in the service of the State as Physitian to the sick and wounded of the Navy which work he managed with much diligence and success to the full satisfaction both of the Generals at Sea and also of the Commissioners of the Admiralty c. After his Majesties restauration he reassumed his former fac of Divinity became one of the Royal Society President of his Coll one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 28. June 1670 was installed Dean of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Rob. Creighton to the See of B. and Wells In Apr. 1691 he was nominated by their Majesties Bishop of Bristow with liberty to keep his Deanery in Commendam but he refused it because he was minded to carry on his benefaction to his Coll being then about to reedifie the Chappel thereof and to do good thereunto and his Church of Wells He is accounted a most celebrated Latine Poet as it appears by those many Copies of verses of his that are extant some of which are made publick in a book lately printed at the Theater in Oxon entit Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta c. printed in oct Doct. of Div. May 29. Joh. Conant M. A. Rector of Exeter Coll. was then admitted in Convocation In 1662 he left his Rectory because he refused to subscribe to the Act of conformity but afterwards upon better thoughts conforming he became a Minister in Northampton where he now continues an aged man In 1676 June 8. he was installed Archdeacon of Norwich in the place of Mr. John Reynolds deceased which Dignity was confer'd upon him by Dr. Edw. Reynolds B. thereof whose Daughter he formerly had married and on the 3. of Dec. 1681 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Nath. Tomkins deceased He is a learned pious and meek Divine but hath published nothing Seth Ward of Wadham Coll Savilian professor of Astron was admitted in the same Convocation May 31. Joh. Wallis of Exeter Coll. Sav. Prof. of Geom. About this time arose a controversie between Dr. Wallis and Dr. Ward before mention'd concerning seniority in Doctorship Wallis he aver'd that he was incorporated Mast of Arts of this University before Ward and therefore 't was his but it appearing that Ward stood first in the Proctors book at Cambridge for they proceeded in Arts both in one year the Vicechancellour Dr. Owen decided the matter on Wards behalf Whereupon Wallis went out Grand compounder and so got seniority not only of Ward but of the rest that proceeded in Div. this year Dr. Wallis was afterwards against oath and statute elected Custos Archivorum in the place of Dr. Langbaine at which time stood for that office one every way capable of it viz. Dr. Rich. Zouche which being a most unjust act as being carried on and done by the godly
Athenae Oxonienses An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous Vniversity OF OXFORD FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh Dom. 1500 to the End of the Year 1690. REPRESENTING The Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES the great Accidents of their LIVES and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS To which are added The FASTI or Annals of the said University For the same time The SECOND VOLUME Compleating the Whole WORK Antiquam exquirite Matrem Virgil. LONDON Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard MDCXCII THE INTRODUCTION A General and perfect History of the Learning of the English Nation is a Work of that Vse and Fame that every advance towards that design hath so much the greater share and proportion of Glory as it tends nearer in to the accomplishment of so vast an Vndertaking And therefore it will naturally be the subject of wonder why our Author should not rather chuse to carry the date of those Memoires as high as the first Original of Learning in Britain and to extend enquiries as far as to the Schools and Societies of this Island than to confine himself within the bounds of two Centuries only and of one single Vniversity It is to be own'd indeed that even this so great a Work with a little alteration of the Model might have been almost wholly compos'd of the Materials which our Author had here prepar'd if it had been his design to affect rather the Shew and Grandeur of the Frontispiece than the Beauty and Strength of the Fabrick But when the Reader shall consider what is here offer'd he will have no reason to blame the modesty of our Author That his Performance has exceeded his Promise and that his Title only is below his Work For first As in Civil History four great and remarkable Periods have usually been taken from the rise and fall of Monarchies so upon a general view of the best Authors and their Writings it is easie for us to observe four signal Epocha's in the Increase and Decay of Learning The three first of those from the Nations which were successively the Seats of Empire and of Learning may be nam'd the Chaldean the Grecian and the Roman and the last in honor of those that were the chief Favorers and Promoters of the restoration of Letters the Alfonsine or Medicean When the Empire was first settled in the East whether among the Assyrians first or afterwards among the Medes or lastly among the Persians Learning still continued within the Confines of Asia their Philosophy as well as their Monarchy was confin'd to that great Continent as being alike rather desirous of establishing its Power than of inlarging its Dominions The Native Riches of the Country made them despise Commerce with the West and the in-born Wit of the Eastern Inhabitants seem'd to promise it self no improvement from the Society of those who were at a greater distance from the Sun Hence very improbable it is that during this Epocha of Learning so distant an Island as this of Britain should be sought out and cultivated by those who had but a late and that no great Intercourse even with the nearest Europeans Especially since the People it self was so wealthy and so sensible of its own sufficiency that even the greatest Advantages which we either conceive or find in this Island could hardly tempt them to so long and so unnecessary a Voyage However since I have no mind to contradict Etymologists because I have no inclination to dispute with them It may be own'd that some part of our Tongue especially of the Cornish and Welsh Dialects seems to retain some appearance of conformity with the Eastern Originals Whether this Agreement of Words and at least of some Letters in them can be wholly ascrib'd to Chance or whether in all derivative Tongues there still remains some footsteps and traces of the common Language or whether as in some words the sense naturally directs different Nations to the same sound or whether lastly there was an antient correspondence between Asia and Britain and the Phenicians a Nation born for Trade being tempted by the value of our Tin and other Metals brought from the Coast of Syria not only the Native Commodities of that Soil but the Language Customs and Religion of those Countries Certain it is that our Correspondence if any was not with Scholars but Seamen and consequently that whatever alterations our Tongue our Vsages and Religion might receive from them our Learning could have no Advance or Improvement In the second Period of Learning when the Grecians had first made themselves Masters of the Arts and Sciences and afterwards of the Treasure of Asia 'T is not wholly improbable that a vain-glorious People fruitful of Colonies and successful in Navigation should carry their Trade beyond the Mediterranean and place even in this remote Island the monuments of their Learning and of their Power For tho it would not be easie for our Antiquaries to find out the Altar which Ulysses erected in this Island and the search after the College of Athenian Philosophers which the Learned King Bladud happily founded in this his Kingdom might as successfully be made in Utopia as Britain yet it is not hard even in that age to descry not only some remains of their Language but some footsteps too of their Philosophy For as it appears from Cesar that the Druids the antient Philosophers of this Island us'd the Language of the Grecians or at least their Characters so are the Notions of the Druids and Bards such as seem to confess the same Original Whether the Neighbouring Colony of the Grecians at Marseils contributed to the cultivating this Nation or whether the Scythians that with a more than ordinary shew of probability have been prov'd to have Peopled this Island having had formerly the advantages of a nearer Correspondence with the Greeks brought hither the small stock of their borrow'd Knowledge and not only subdu'd but informed us However the matter is our Author hath with prudence begun this History of Learning below the date of those remote and doubtful inquiries as being Topicks already exhausted by the most fanciful Antiquaries and which as dark and barren Islands can at best yield no praise to any other than their first Diseâ—verers Afterwards Learning like the Sun having first enlightned the Eastern Countries and then gradually proceeded to the Neighbouring Nations at last took its progress to the West and so far dispers'd its Beams that even the most remote Islands were made Sharers in its influence For when the Romans had subdu'd Greece and brought from thence not only the Riches of the Country but their Arts and Learning too as the noblest spoils and marks of their Conquest Then began in Italy the third Period of Learning which was so much greater than the former as the Empire under which it
temper great experience travels and modern Languages Our Author Warmstrey hath also written Various Poems And other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day on the 28 of May in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried among the Graves of the Warmstreys not far from the north door of and within the Cathedral Church of Worcester leaving then behind him a widdow named Isabell I shall make mention of his Brother Dr. Tho. Warmstrey under the year 1665. JOHN THORNBOROUGH Son of Giles Thornborough was born within the City of Salisbury became a Semi-Com or Demie of S. Mary Magd. Coll. in the year 1570 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke with whom continuing for some time that Count bestowed upon him the Rectory of Chilmark in Wilts and thereby became the first that planted him in the Church of Christ Soon after he became Chaplain in Ordinary to Qu. Elizabeth by the endeavours of the said Count and beneficed in Yorkshire so that being put into the road of Preferment he had the Deanery of York confer'd on him upon the promotion of Dr. Mathew Hutton to the See of Durham to which being elected 28 Oct. 1589 was soon after install'd In 1593 he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland where peâ—forming many signal services for the Crown of England he was translated to the See of Bristow in 1603 with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery of York in commendam But as for his Benefices in Yorkshire which were the Rectories of Brandesburton and Misperton alias Kirkby over Carr they were bestowed on Peter Rollocke Bishop of Dunkell in the month of Aug. the same year On the 17 Feb. 1616 was translated to Worcester whereupon his Deanery was given to Dr. George Meriton Dean of Peterborough elected thereunto 25 Mar. 1617 and his Bishoprick of Bristow to Dr. Nich. Felton Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge to which being consecrated 14 Dec. 1617 sate there till the 14 March 1618 on which day he was translated to Ely As for Thornborough he was a person well furnish'd with Learning Wisdom Courage and other as well episcopal as temporal Accomplishments beseeming a Gentleman a Dean and a Bishop But above all he was much commended for his great skill in Chymistry a study but seldom followed in his time And 't is thought that by some helps from it it was that he attained to so great an age A most learned Chymist of this mans time tells us that he knew a Bishop whose fame in Chymistry being celebrated of many he visited and after he had seen a little chymical tract written with his own hand he took him labouring in our gold whence he studied to extract Vitriol which he held his only secret whereupon he left him for that he knew that he had neither before him the proper matter nor the manner of working according to the doctrine of Philosophers c. But who this Bishop was unless our Author Thornborough or a Bishop in Germany whom he met in his Travels I know not nor doth it signifie much His writings are these The joyful and blessed reuniting the two mighty and famous Kingdoms of England and Scotland into their ancient name of Great Britain Oxon. 1605. qu. published under the name of John Bristoll But several things therein being conceived to be derogatory to the honor of both Houses of Parliament the Author was complained of only in the upper house which was soon after passed over In 1604 was printed at London A Treatise of Union of the two Realms of England and Scotland said in the title page to be written by J. H. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Nihil Aliquid Omnia in gratiam eorum qui artem auriferam physico-chymicè pie profitentur Oxon. 1621. qu. The last will and testament of Jesus Christ touching the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood c. Oxon. 1630. qu. A discourse shewing the great happiness that hath and may still accrue to his Maj. Kingdoms of Engl. and Scotland by reuniting them into one Great Britaine in two parts Lond. 1641. in tw published under the name of Joh. Bristoll but 't is not the same with the former 'T was afterwards printed at Edenburgh in the Latin Tongue Pax vobis concerning the Unity and Peace of the Church This I think is not printed nor other things that he had lying by him at the time of his death He departed this mortal life in the Castle called Hartilborough in Worcestershire after he had been twice married on the ninth day of July in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried on the north side of the Chappel behind the east end of the choire belonging to the Cath. Chur. of Worcester near to a fair alabaster monument which he had fourteen years before erected for himself with his Statua in his episcopal Robes curiously carved in stone lying thereon On the Canopy over his head I find this written on the side of it Denarius Philosophorum dum spiro spero And on the north side is this In uno 2 0 3 2 4 1 10. non spirans spero Over his head is this Qui dormis attolle caput quia in infirmitate virtus in morte vita in tenebris lux And over his feet mors nubecula transiens laborum finis vitae janua scala coeli mihi lucrum Besides these Sentences is a large Inscription painted on a table hanging above his feet which for brevity sake I now omit See more in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 200 b. He had issue by his first wife Sir Benj. Thornborough Kt. and Edw. Thornborough Archdeacon of Worcester who died in 1645 and by his second named Elizab. Bayles of Suffolk Sir Tho. Thornborough of Elmeley Lovet in Worcestershire Kt. c. He had also a Brother named Giles who was Subdean and one of the Canons of Sarum in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth as also Rector of Orcheston S. George in Wilts who died in 1637 leaving a Relict behind him named Jane He had also a nephew of the same name Preb. of Worcester in 1629 who dying in 1663 one Will. Owen M. A. was installed in his place 13 Feb. the same year A little before this Bishops death he told his Maj. K. Ch. 1. that he had outlived several that had expected to succeed him in the See of Worcester and now said he I am afraid I shall outlive my Bishoprick which almost had come to pass JOHN DAWSON a most eminent Preacher of his time was born in Oxfordshire particularly as it seems within the City of Oxon became first of all conversant with the Muses in Ch. Ch. in Mich. term 1620 aged about 15 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards entring into holy orders was made Vicar of Maydenhead in Berks where and in the neighbourhood he was much
in the Archives of Bodlies Library also Britannia Scholastica vel de Britanniae rebus scholasticis lib. 10. 'T is a Lat. Poem in qu. dedicated to Sir Tho. Bodley and is reserved as a rarity for 't is a MS. in the Archives of his Library The said ten books are thus entit 1. Heroicus 2. Provincia 3. Heptarchia 4. Alfredus 5. Neotus 6. Elfleda 7. Parallismus 8. Itinerarium 9. Benemeriti 10. Foxus meaning Fox Founder of C. C. Coll. He also published a Sermon of Dr. Miles Smith B. of Gloc. preached at an Assize in Cirencester on Jer. 9. ver 23 24. At length upon the approach of the Civil War in England our Author Burhill retired for quietness sake to his Rectory of Northwold near to Thetford in Norfolk where dying in the month of Octob. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred forty and one was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the south side near to the entrance thereof from the Church as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Joh. Burrell Minister of Thetford dated 3 May 1673 who also tells me therein that Dr. Burhill was had in general esteem of a very great Scholar and a right worthy Churchman That the memory of him is pleasant to those that knew him c. JOHN EATON a Kentish man born became the first receiver of the exhibition which Rich. Blount gave to Trinity College an 1590 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1603. Afterwards he became a Curat for several years in divers places and at length in 1625 or thereabouts he was made Minister and Preacher at Wickham Market in Suffolk where he continued to the time of his death being accounted by all the neighbouring Ministers a grand Antinomian if not one of the Founders of the Sect so called His Works are The discovery of a most dangerous dead faith Lond. 1641. in tw Abrahams steps of faith printed with the former The Honey-comb of free Justification by Christ alone collected out of the meer authorities of Scripture c. Lond. 1642. in a thick quarto published by Rob. Lancaster who in his Epistle before it tells us that the Authors Faith Zeal and Diligence in doing his calling and his faith patience and cheerfulness in suffering for the same were so exemplary that they are worthy to be set forth as a pattern not only to all good People and Ministers now but even all succeeding Generations c. Thus he who was one of his admirers and sect by which we are given to understand that he suffered much from his Diocesan and others for his heterodox opinions At length dying at Wickham Market before mention'd in sixteen hundred forty and one was there buried In his pastoral charge succeeded one Zeph. Smith who afterwards published Directions for Seekers and Expectants or a guide for weak Christians in these discontented times c. on Psal 119. ver 102. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things BARNABAS POTTER received his first being in this world within the Barony of Kendall in the County of Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1594 aged 15 years Where after he had undergone with some hardship the place of a poor serving Child and Tabarder he was when M. of Arts made Fellow of the said College Afterwards entring into holy orders he became not only a puritanical Preacher in these parts but at Totness in Devonshire where he was much followed by the precise party In 1615 he proceeded in Divinity and in the year following was elected Provost of his College which place he holding about 10 years resign'd it being then one of the Kings Chaplains and by his interest got his Nephew Christopher Potter to succeed him In 1628 he tho a thorough pac'd Calvinist was made Bishop of Carlile to which being consecrated in the Chappel of Ely house in Holbourn near London on the 15 of March had the temporalities thereof given to him by the King on the 23 of the same month in the year before mention'd He hath written and published Lectures on the sixteenth Chapt. of Genesis When or where printed I know not Lect. on the 12.13.14.15.17.18 Chapters of Genesis Whether printed I cannot tell He had also written Lectures on the Plagues of Egypt from Exodus and on the Beatitudes from part of S. Luke but are not as I conceive extant Several Sermons as 1 The Baronets burial Or a funeral sermon at the solemnities of that honorable Baronet Sir Edw. Seymours burial on Deut. 34. ver 5. Oxon. 1613. qu. 2 Sermon on Easter Tuesday at the Spittle c. This learned and godly Bishop gave way to fate in his Lodgings within the Parish of S. Paul in Covent Garden near London in the beginning of January in sixteen hundred forty and one whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish on the sixth day of the same month At which time he left behind him a widow named Elizabeth but whether any Children I cannot tell BARTHELMEW PARSONS a most laborious and frequent Preacher was a Somersetshire man born and of the same Family with Fath. Parsons the Jesuit applied his mind to Academical studies in Oriel Coll. in the year 1590 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy orders and preached constantly for a time in these parts In 1611 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time Vicar of Collingbourne-Kingston and Rector of Ludgarshall in Wiltshire at which places he was much followed and admired for his hospitality and preaching He hath written and published Sermons as 1 The barren tree's doome on Math. 3.10 Lond. 1616. qu. 2 Sermon on Psal 82.6 printed 1616. qu. 3 First fruit of the Gentiles three Sermons on Math. 2. ver 1.2 c. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 Dorcas or a perfect pattern of true discipline on Acts 9.36 Oxon. 1631. qu. 5 Boaz and Ruth blessed or a sacred contract c. on Ruth 4.11 Oxon 1633. qu. 6 Four Sermons on Acts 10.1.2 Lond. 1635. qu. 7 Sermon on Ephes 6.12.13 Oxon. 1637. qu. 8 History of Tithes or Tithes vindicated to the Presbyters of the Gospell on Deut. 33.11 Oxon 1637. qu. This Sermon hath also this lat title Honos est onus Levitarum 9 Sermon at the funeral of Sir Franc. Pile Bt. at Collingbourne Kingston in the County of Wilts 8 Dec. 1635 on Isay 57.1.2 Oxon. 1636. qu. and others which I have not yet seen This venerable and frequent Preacher Mr. Barth Parsons died in the latter end of February in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church of Ludgarshall before mention'd on the 27 day of the same month as the Register of that Church inform'd my sometimes acquaintance Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts Esq GEORGE WEB or Webbe a Ministers Son was born at Bromham in Wilts began
to be conversant with the Muses in Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1598 aged 17 years admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 8 May in the year following took the degrees in Arts holy orders and about that time was made Minister of Steple-Ashton in his native Country by the favour if I mistake not of the Earl of Pembroke where also he taught Grammar as he did afterwards for a time in Bathe In 1621 Jul. 28. he was inducted Rector of the Church of S. Pet. and Paul within the City of Bathe being then Bach. of Div. and three years after proceeded in that faculty When K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary and in his Attendance at Court he baptized his first child by the name of Charles James 13 May 1629 which child died about an hour after In 1634 he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland to which being consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin on the 18 of Decemb. the same year his Rectory at Bathe was bestowed on his Son Theoph. Webbe M. of A. of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Webbe who sate at Limerick to the time of his death was a person of a strict life and conversation and had so great a command of his Pen and Tongue that he was accounted the best Preacher of his time in the royal Court and the smoothest writer of sermons that were then published His works are these A brief Exposition of the Principles of Christian Religion gathered out of the holy Scriptures for the benefit of all that are desirous to hear sermons and to receive the Sacrament with comfort Lond. 1612. oct ded to his beloved hearers and congregation of Steple-Ashton and Semington The practise of quietness directing a Christian how to live quietly in this troublesome World Lond. 1631. in tw third edit Arraignment of an unruly tongue wherein the faults of an evil tongue are opened the danger discovered and remedies preserved c. Lond. 1619. in tw Agurs prayer or the christian choice for the outward estate and condition of this present life c. Lond. 1621. in tw It is grounded on Prov. 30.7.8.9 To which are added the rich and poore mans prayer Catalogus Protestantium Or the Protestants Calender containing a survey of the Protestant Religion long before Luthers dayes Lond. 1624. qu. Lessons and Exercises out of Cicero ad Atticum pr. 1627. qu. Pueriles confabulatiunculae or Childrens talke in Engl. and Lat. pr. 1627. qu. Several sermons They are in number at least twelve and were all published between the years 1609 and 1619. Among them I find these following 1 Gods controversie with England preached at Paules cross on Hosea 4.1.2.3 Lond. 1609. oct 2 The Bride royal or the spiritual marriage between Chr. and his Church c. on Psal 45.13.14.15 Lond. 1613. oct 'T was delivered by way of congratulation upon the marriage between the Palsgrave and the Lady Elizabeth in a serm preached 14 Feb. on which day the marriage was solemnized an 1612. Seven more of his sermons were published in 1610 one in 1611 one in 1612 and another in 1616. He also translated into English the First comedy of Pub. Terentius called Andria Lond. 1629. qu. The book is divided into two columes the first hath the English the other the Latine Also the Second comedy called Eunuchus which is divided in columes and printed with the former both very useful for school-boyes and are yet used as his two former school-books are in many schooles What other things he hath published I cannot yet find nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying in Limerick Castle in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred forty and one being then detained prisoner there by the Irish Rebels was permitted by them to be buried in S. Munchins Churchyard in Limerick But before he had lain 24 hours in his grave some of the meaner sort of Rebels took up the body and searched it in hopes of finding rings or other choice things but being frustrated they reposed the body in the same place as I have been informed by his Son HENRY ROGERS an eminent Theologist of his time a Ministers Son and a Herefordshire man by birth was admitted scholar of Jesus Coll. in 1602 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts holy orders and soon after was cried up for a noted preacher At length being made Vicar of Dorston in his own Country and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford he proceeded in Divinity This person having several years before fallen into the acquaintance of a Yorkshire man named John Perse alias Fisher a Jesuit with whom he several times had disputes the said Fisher did at length without Rogers his consent publish certain matters that had passed between them whereupon our Author Rogers put out a book entit An answer to Mr. Fisher the Jesuit his five propositions concerning Luther with some passages by way of dialogue between Mr. Rogers and Mr. Fisher printed 1623. qu. to which is annex'd Mr. W. C. his dialogue concerning this question Where was the Church before Luther discovering Fisher's folly Afterwards came out a Reply by Fisher or some other Rom. Cath. which made our Author Rogers to publish The protestant Church existent and their faith professed in all ages and by whom Lond. 1638. qu. To which is added A catalogue of Counsels in all ages who professed the same What other things he hath written or published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that as his Son in Law hath told me by Letters he was buried under the Parsons seat in the Church of Wellington about four miles distant from the City of Hereford but when he added not or that he was beneficed there Yet that he died in the time of the civil War or Usurpation those of his acquaintance have informed me ANTHONY STAFFORD an Esquires son was born of an antient and noble Family in Northamptonshire being descended from those of his name living at Blatherwicke in that County entred a Gentleman Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1608 and in that of his age 17 where by the help of a careful Tutour but more by his natural parts he obtained the name of a good scholar became well read in antient history Poets and other authors What stay he made in that house I cannot yet tell or whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts according to the usual course Sure I am that in 1609 he was permitted to study in the publick library purposely to advance his learning having then a design to publish certain matters and in 1623 just after the Act he was actually created M. of Arts as a person adorned with all kind of literature His works are these His Niobe dissolved into a Nilus or his age drown'd in her own tears c. Lond. 1611 and 12. in tw Meditations and resolutions moral divine and political cent 1. Lond. 1612. in tw Life
admitted to that degree c. At length begging pardon for what he had done and making a publick submission before the ven house of Congregation of Regents he was admitted to that degree on the sixth of the said month of Dec. Afterwards he had some small Cure about Bishopsgate in London confer'd on him took the degree of Master and at length that of Bach. of Div. About which time he was a Preacher at Chiswick in Middlesex afterwards Minister of Coggeshall in Essex and aâ— length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion was maâ—â— a member of a Sub committee for the advancement of money to carry on the War against the King and by a factious party became Rector of S. Alphage near London Wall and Cripplegate in the place of a loyal person first shamefully abused then ejected and soon after dead with grief In that place being setled tho it was but for a short time he exercised his gifts in preaching against Prelacy and encouraging his Parishioners to Rebellion He would dispute and reason much against Antinomians as those that were his Contemporaries have told me and tho he seemed to be a Saint yet he was a Simoniake and perjur'd standing both upon record Also as another saith Tho he had but one thumb yet would he have had not an eare had not his Majesty bestowed two on him when twelve years since about 1633 they were sentenced to the pillory Since which time he hath been such a grateful penitent that in one day he was proved guilty but of simony sacriledge and adultery c. His works are Sermons as 1 Fury fiered or crueltie scourged on Amos 1.12 Lond. 1625. oct preached at S. Buttolphs without Bishopsgate 2 The bearing and burden of the spirit in two sermons on Prov. 18.14 Lond. 1639. oct 3 Eye of faith open to God on .... Lond. 1640. in tw 4 Wonder working God or the Lord doing wonders on .... Lond. 1641. in tw with Englands troubles in qu. which I have not yet seen Antinomianisme anatomized Or a glass for the lawless who denie the moral law unto Christians under the Gospel Lond. 1643. qu. The substance of it is an extract from one of the books of Dr. Tho. Taylor At length after all his actings to carry on the blessed cause he did very unwillingly give up the ghost in Octob. in the year sixteen hundred forty and three whereupon his body was buried in the chancel of his Church of St. Alphage before mention'd on the 15 day of the same month What relates farther to his death and burial let another speak for me as he had received it by letters from London Joh. Sedgwick one of the three brothers with four fingers on a hand hath spent his lungs and caused Mr. Tho. Case to exercise his which he did very mournfully in his Funeral sermon lately preached telling the auditory that his departed brother was now free from plunder and that when he was ready to expire he would often ask how does the Army how does his Excellency with many such sweet expressions as moved some Citizen to send Mr. Case a fair new Gown lest he chance to recurr to his old way of borrowing c. JOHN BAINBRIDGE son of Rob. Bainbr by Anne his wife daugh of Rich. Everard of Shenton in Leycestershire was born at Ashby de la Zouch in the same County educated in Emanuel Coll. under the tutelage of his Kinsman Dr. Joseph Hall took the degrees in Arts studied Physick retired into his own Country practised there and taught a Grammar school At length publishing An astronomical description of the late Comet from 18 of Nov. 1618 to the 16 of Dec. following Lond. 1619. qu. he became acquainted with Sir Hen. Savile who founding an Astronomy-lecture in this University in the year wherein the said book was printed preferred our Author Bainbridge thereunto Whereupon going to Oxon he was entred a Master-Commoner of Merton Coll. was incorporated Doctor of Physick as he had stood at Cambridge lived in the said Coll. for some years the society of which house confer'd on him the superior Readers place of Lynacres lecture 1635 and afterwards in an house opposite to their Church He also published Procli sphaera Ptolomaei de hypothesibus planetarum liber singularis c. Lond. 1620. qu. Ptolemaei canon regnorum printed with the former Both which were collated with Mss put into latine and illustrated with figures by the said Dr. Bainbridge who also wrot Canicularia being a treatise of the Dog-star and of the canicular days Oxon. 1648. oct published by Joh. Greaves together with a demonstration of the Heliacal rising of Sirius or the Dog-star for the parallel of Lower Aegypt At length after he had been Savilian Professor of Astronomy about 24 years in this University and superior Reader of Lynacres lecture in Mert. Coll. about 8 years surrendred up his last breath in his house near the said Coll. on the third day of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and three whereupon his body being conveyed thence to the public schools rested there for some time Afterwards an Oration being delivered before the several degrees that were then left in the University in praise of the defunct and his learning it was accompanied by them to Mert. Coll. Church and there solemnly deposited on the left side of Briggs his grave near to the high Altar The Epitaph on his grave-stone which was made by Mr. Greaves before mention'd his successor in the Astronomy lecture you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 89. b. 90. a. Many of his writings came after his death into the hands of the said Greaves besides what is before mention'd but whether worthy of the press I cannot tell Among them was his Discourse of the Periodus Sothiaca which the said Greaves was about to perfect and publish an 1644. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT the most noted Poet Orator and Philosopher of his time was born at Northway near Tâ—wksbury in Glocestershire in Sept. 1611. 9. Jac. 1. and baptized there on the 26 day of the same month His father Will. Cartwright was once a Gent. of a fair Estate but running out of it I know not how was forced to keep a common Inn in Cirencester in the same County where living in a middle condition cansed this his son of great hopes to be educated under Mr. Will. Topp Master of the Free-school there But so great a progress did he make in a short time that by the advice of friends his father got him to be sped a Kings-scholar at Westminster where compleating his former learning to a miracle under Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1628 put under the tuition of Jerumael Terrent went thro the Classes of Logic and Philosophy with an unwearied industry took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1635 holy orders and became the most florid and seraphical Preacher in the
be in Latine or in another Language In the year 1608 he went according to summons to Rome where being appointed for the mission of Ireland he published his profession of the four vows and then being sent back to the Low Countries he went again into Ireland where he spent many years in confirming the Rom. Catholicks in their antient Religion and in gaining proselytes to his opinion At length the Rebellion breaking out there in 1641 of which he was a great Abettor and Encourager was after the Rebels began to be subdued forced to fly for shelter into Woods and on Mountains and to creep and sculk into every place for fear of being taken and hanged by the English Soldiers In the beginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change his place and retire for safety to a moorish and boggy ground where sheltring himself under a Shepherds cote no better than a hovel which could not keep out the wind and rain lived there in a very sorry condition and had for his bedding a pad of straw which would be often wet by the rising and coming in of the water Notwithstanding all this misery he seemed to be very cheerful and was ready to instruct the young ones about him and comfort others But being in a manner spent and his age not able to bear such misery long was with much ado taken away And being conveyed to some of the brethren into a better place expired among them on the Calends of Febr. the same year but where or in what place buried my informer tells me not By his death the R. Catholicks lost a pillar of their Church being esteem'd in the better part of his life a great ornament among them and the greatest defender for their Religion in his time GEORGE SANDYS a younger son of Edwin Archb. of York was born at Bishops Thorpe in that County and as a member of S. Maries Hall was matriculated in the University in the beginning of Dec. 1589 and in that of his age eleven at which time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the said Matricula but both as I conceive received their tuition in Corp. Ch. Coll. How long George tarried there or whether he took a degree it appears not In the month of Aug. 1610 he began a long journey and after he had travelled thro several parts of Europe visited divers Cities particularly Constantinople and Countries under the Turkish Empire as Greece Egypt and the Holy Land Afterwards he made a view of the remote parts of Italy and the Islands adjoyning That being done he went to Rome the Antiquities and Glories of which place were in four days time shew'd unto him by Nich. Fitzherbert sometimes an Oxford student who as I have before told you ended his days in 1612. Thence our Author went to Venice from whence he first set out and so to England Where digesting his notes and enterlarding them with various parts of Poetry according to the fashion of that time published them in English under this title Sandys Travailes c. in four books Lond. 1615. 1621. 27. 32. 52. 58. 70. 73. c. all in folio and illustrated with several Maps and Figures except the first edit The said Travailes are contracted in the second part of Sam. Parchas his books of Pilgrims lib. 8. The Author upon his return in 1612 or after being improved in several respects by this his large journey he became an accomplish'd Gent. as being Master of several Languages of a fluent and ready discourse and excellent Comportment He had also naturally a poetical fancy and a zealous inclination to all humane learning which made his company desir'd and acceptable to most vertuous men and Scholars of his time He also wrot and published A paraphrase on the Psalms of David and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testam Lond. 1636. oct reprinted there in fol. 1638 with other matters following under this title Paraphrase upon the divine Poems which contain a paraphrase on Job Psalmes of David Ecclesiastes Lamentations of Jeremiah and songs collected out of the Old and New Test The said Paraphrase on Davids Psalmes was one of the books that K Ch. 1. delighted to read in as he did in G. Herberts Divine poems Dr. Hammonds Works Hookers Ecclesiast policy c. while he was a Prisoner in Carisbroke Castle in the Isle of Wight Paraphrase on the divine Poems viz. on the Psalmes of David on Ecclesiastes and on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1676. oct Some if not all of the said Ps of David had vocal Compositions set to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Lawes with a thorough bass for an Organ in 4 large books or volumes in qu. He the said G. Sandys translated also into English 1 The first five books of Ovids Metamorphosis Lond. 1627. 32. 40. fol. methodized and expressed in figures 2 Virgils first book of Aeneis printed with the former 3 Tragedy of Christs passion Lond. 1640. written in lat by Hug. Grotius to which Trag. Sandys put also notes What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he being then or lately one of the Gent. of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. gave way to fate in the house of his neice the Lady Margaret Wyat dau of Sir Sam. Sandys and widdow of Sir Francis Wyat Kt. Grandson to Sir Tho. Wyat beheaded in Qu. Maries Reign called Boxley abbey in Kent in the beginning of March in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the parish Church there near to the door on the south side but hath no remembrance at all over his grave nor any thing at that place only this which stands in the common Register belonging to the said Church Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum sui saeculi facile princeps sepultus fuit Martii 7. stilo Anglic. an dom 1643. One Tho. Philpot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed at Lond. 1646. in oct a copy of verses not to be contemn'd on his death I find another George Sandys contemporary with the former and a Knight who having committed felony was executed at Tybourne as it seems on the fourth of March 1617. HANNIBAL GAMMON a Londoner born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1599. and in that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Minister of S. Maugan in Cornwall where he was much frequented by the puritannical party for his edifying and practical way of preaching He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods smiting to amendment c. preached at the Assizes in Launceston 6. Aug. 1628. on Esay 1.5 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Praise of a godly woman a wedding Sermon c. Lond. 1627. q. 3 Sermon at the Lady Roberts funeral 10. Aug. 1626. c. These two last I have not yet seen nor another Sermon preached at the Assizes in Launceston
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 8â— 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 1â—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 mentionâ—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 â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
say that he was natione Teutonicus fortunâ Batavus religione Calvinista c. His Father who was a sufficient Clothier of Newbury perceiving this his Son to have pregnant parts sent him to the College at Winchester where being elected a Child and soon made ripe for the University in the School there founded by Will of Wykeham was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. in the year 1596 and two years after having by that time shaken off his wild extravagancies was admitted Verus Socius after which he diligently applied himself to the Theological Faculty for 16 years together In 1604 he proceeded in Arts and about that time taking Holy Orders became a frequent and diligent Preacher in these parts noted to the Academians for his subtile wit exact judgment exemplary life and conversation and for the endowment of such qualities that were befitting men of his Function In 1614 he proceeded Doct. of Divinity and about that time went into Germany as Chaplain to Princess Elizabeth Daughter of King James I. and Consort of the Prince Palatine where continuing for some time did improve himself much by the conversation he had with German Divines After his return he exchanged the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks which the Society of New Coll. gave him before his departure beyond the Sea for Newbury near to the place of his Nativity with Dr. Nathan Giles Canon of Windsor where being setled he laid a foundation of his doctrine and the seeds of his zealous opinion tho not improved by his Auditors according to his wish His plain preaching was good his solid disputations were accounted by some better and his pious way of living by others especially the Puritans best of all yet some of New Coll. who knew the Man well have often said in my hearing that he was always hot-headed and restless The most learned men even those of his adverse party did confess that there was nothing extant more accurate exact and full touching the Arminian controversies than what was written by this our Author Twisse He also if any one as those of his persuasion say hath so cleared and vindicated the cause from the objected absurdities and calumnies of his Adversaries as that out of his labours not only the learned but also those that are best vers'd in Controversies may find enough whereby to disintangle themselves from the snares of Opposites The truth is there 's none almost that have written against Arminianism since the publishing any thing of our Author but have made very honourable mention of him and have acknowledged him to be the mightiest man in those Controversies that his age hath produced Besides Newbury he was offer'd several preferments as the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonshire a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester the Wardenship of Wykehams Coll. there and a Professors place at Franeker in Frisland But the three last were absolutely refused and the first he would not accept unless he could obtain liberty of his Majesty in whose gift Newbury was and is to have had an able man to succeed him there Besides also upon conference with Dr. Davenant Bishop of Salisbury Ordinary of that place the King was well satisfied concerning Twisse that he was unwilling to let him go from Newbury In the beginning of the Civil War began by the Presbyterians an 1641. -2. he sided with them was chose one of the Assembly of Divines and at length Prolocutor of them Among whom speaking but little some interpreted it to his modesty as those of his persuasion say as always preferring penning before speaking and others to the decay of his intellectuals But polemical Divinity was his Faculty and in that he was accounted excellent While he was Prolocutor he was one of the three Lecturers in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London which was given to him for his losses he sustained at Newbury being forced thence as his brethren said by the Royal Party He hath written Vindiciae gratiae potestatis ac providentiae dei Hoc est ad examen libelli Perkinsiani Gul. Perkins de praedestinationis modo ordine institutum à Jacobo Arminio responsio Sholastica tribus libris absoluta Una cum digressionibus ad singulas partes accommodatis c. Amstel 1632. 1648. fol. A discovery of Dr. Jacksons vanities c. Printed beyond the Sea 1631. qu. This was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of divine Essence and attributes but the Doctor made no reply Dissertatio de Scientiâ mediâ tribus libris absolutâ c. Arnhem 1639. fol. Wherein Gabr. Penots book intit Libertatis humanae propugnaculum and that of Franc. Suarez De Scientia dei are answer'd Digressiones Printed with the Dissertatio Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians delivered by way of answer to the Translator of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath Divided into two parts 1 An answer to the preface 2 A consideration of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise of Reprobation in answer to Mr. Jo. Cotton Lond. 1646. qu. Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Franc. Junio Joh. Arnold Corvin Amstel 1649. fol. published by Andr. Rivet The doubting conscience resolved in answer to a pretended perplexing question c. Wherein is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures not the Pope is the foundation whereon the Church is built c. Lond. 1652. oct published by Sam. Hartlib The riches of Gods love unto the Vessels of Mercy consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath Or an answer to a book intit Gods love to mankind manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation in two books One against Mr. Sam. Hoard and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft London Oxon. 1653. fol. Two tracts in answer Dr. to H. Hammond the one concerning Gods decree definite or indefinite the other about the object of predestination Printed with the former book The Synod of Dort and Ales reduced to practice with an answer thereunto The Scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of Faith made good against the Papists Lond. in tw Christian Sabbath defended against the crying evil in these times of the Antisabitarians of our age shewing that the morality of the Fourth Commandment is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day Lond. 165. qu. Fiveteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede See in the 4 book of the said Mr. Medes works Besides these and something upon the Commandments that are printed he left behind him many Manuscripts mostly compleat of his own composition which were carefully kept in the hands of his Son Rob. Twisse a Minister in Westminster but what became of them after his death which hapned in the latter end of the year 1674 I know not Among them are 1 Examen Historiae Pelag written by Ger. Jo. Vossius put after the Authors death into the
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
born in S. Michaels Parish in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622 became a sojourner of the said Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640 was elected Fellow soon after took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1644 and in the year following he by the name of Captain Mathias Prideaux was by vertue of the Chancellours letters actually created Master of Arts. Under the name of this person was publish'd after his death An easie and compendious introduction for reading of all sorts of Histories Oxon 1648. qu. There again 1655. qu. To which is added A synopsis of the Councils written by the Father of the Author Mathias who as 't is said had a considerable hand in the Easie and comp Introd This Mathias Prideaux who was esteemed by his contemporaries an ingenious man died at London of the Small pox in sixteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts to which place he receded after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Forces under the command of the Parliament He had written one or more trite things but were never published JOHN GREGORY the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning was born at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks on the 10 Nov. 1607 applied himself to academical learning in the condition of a Servitour in Ch. Ch. an 1624 being then put under the tuition with his Master Sir Will. Drake of the most ingenious and learned Mr. George Morley afterwards Bishop of Winchester where for several years spending sixteen of every 24 hours he arrived to great learning and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631. About which time being received into the favour of Dr. Duppa the vigilant Dean of his house he was by him made Chaplain or petty Canon of the Cathedral and after that his own Domestick and Prebendary of Chichester and Salisbury when he successively sate at those places as Bishop He attained to a learned elegance in English Latine and Greek and to an exact skill in Hebrew Syriack Chaldee Arabick Ethiopick c. He was also well vers'd in Philosophy had a curious faculty in Astronomy Geometry and Arithmetick and a familiar acquaintance with the Jewish Rabbines antient Fathers modern Criticks Commentators and what not His works are Notes on the View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law written by Sir Tho. Ridley Kt. Oxon. 1634. qu. second Edit Ox. 1662. oct there again 1675. 76. qu. In which notes he being scarce 26 years old when he wrot them he made an early discovery of his civil historical ecclesiastical ritual and oriental Learning through which he miraculously travel'd without any guide except Joh. Dod the Decalogist whose society and directions for the Hebrew tongue he enjoyed one Vacation at his benefice in Northamptonshire Notes and Observations upon some passages of Scripture Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1660. 65. 71. 83. qu. translated also into Lat. and remitted into the Critica sacra From â—hich notes may easily be discovered his exact skill in the oriental Tongues Certain learned Tracts as 1 A discourse of the 70 Interpreters the place and manner of their interpretation 2 Discourse declaring what time the Niceen Creed began to be sung in the Church 3 Serm. upon the Resurrection on 1 Cor. 15. ver 20. 4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a disproof of him in the 3 of Luke ver 36. 5 Discovery of an antient custom in the Ch. of Sarum making an anniversary Bishop among the Choristers on Innocents day 6 The several accounts of time among all nations from the Creation to the present age 7 The Assyrian Monarchy being a description of its rise and fall 8 Descript and use of the terrestial globe Which eight Tracts were printed under the title of Gregorii posthuma at Lond. 1650. 64. 71. 83. qu. with a short account of the Authors life set before them written by his dearest friend John Gurgany son of Hugh Gurgany of London Priest sometimes a Servitour of Ch. Ch. afterwards Chaplain of Merton Coll. who dedicated them to Edw. Bysshe Clar. King of Arms a Patron not only to the Author but Gurgany in the time of their Afflictions Optica promota seu abdita radiorum reflexorum refractorum mysteria Geometricè enuclâ—ata Lond. 1663. published then under the name of Jo. Gregorius Observationes in loca quaedam excerpta ex Joh. Malatae chronographia Ms which after his death came into the publick Library at Oxon where it now remains Edm. Chilmead having afterwards prepared the whole work of Malâ—ta for the Press intended as it seems to prefix the said Observations as a Preface he having therein spoken something of the said Author but that Author being publish'd at Oxon in 1691 Gregories Observations were laid aside as containing things little material and instead of them there is added a Preface or Prolegomena to Malata by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. Fellow of Wadh. Coll. See the said Preface § xliii He the said Gregory did also translate from Gr. into Lat. 1 Palladius de gentibus Indiae Bragmanibus 2 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 3 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Which Translations coming after his death into the hands of Edm. Chilmead Chapl. of Ch. Ch. came after his into those of E. Bysshe Esq before mentioned who published them under his own name in 1665. as I shall tell you elsewhere At length after an industrious and short life he gave way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the left side of the grave of W. Cartwright in the isle joyning on the south side of the choire of the Cath. of Ch Church in Oxon. Some years before his death he being reduced to poverty because he was deprived of the benefit of his two Prebendships he retired to an obscure Ale house standing on the Green at Kidlington near Oxon kept by one Sutton Father to that Son whom our learned Author had bred up from a boy to attend him There I say spending some time in great retiredness died obscurely and by the contribution of one or more friends his body was conveyed to Oxon. CHARLES BUTLER was born at one of the Wycombs Great Wycombe I suppose in Bucks entred a Student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579 took a degree in Arts and being made one of the Bible Clerks of Magd. Coll. was translated thereunto Soon after proceeding in that faculty he became Master of the Free-school at Basingstoke in Hampshire where continuing 7 years with the enjoyment of a Cure of a little Church called Skewres was promoted to the Vicaridge of Lawrence-Wotton three miles distant thence a poor preferment God wot for such a worthy scholar where being setled he wrot and published these books following which shew him to have been an ingenious man and well skill'd in various sorts of learning The feminine Monarchy or a Treatise of Bees Ox. 1609. oct Lond. 1623. Ox. 1634. qu. translated into Latine by
also written a seditious book intituled his Last Will and Testament was according to an order of the Committee of Estates in Scotland fetcht from the burial place and on a Market-day broke by the Common-hangman at the cross of Kirkadie where he had formerly been Minister THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted Schoolmaster of his time Son of Tho. Farn. of London Carpenter Son of ... Farnabie sometimes Mayor of Truro in Cornwall was born in London about 1575 became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of 1590 at which time being a youth of great hope he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a learned Fellow of that House who made him his Postmaster and so consequently his Servitour being the fashion then for Postmasters to serve those Fellows from whom they received their places But this youth being very wild tho of pregnant parts made no long stay there for being enticed to forsake his Religion and Country he left the Coll. very abruptly went into Spain and was for some time educated there in a certain Coll. belonging to the Jesuits At length being weary of their severe discipline he found a way to leave them and then being minded to take a ramble went with Sir Fr. Drake and Sir Joh. Hawkyns in their last voyage 1595 being in some esteem with the former Afterwards as 't is said he was a Soldier in the Low Countries being more addicted to that employment than to be a Scholar and that being reduced to poverty he made shift to be set on shoare in the Western part of England where after some wandring to an fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe the anagram of his sirname he setled at Martock in Sommersetshire and taught the Grammar School there for some time with good success For in the year 1646 when Mr. Charles Darby was called to teach that School he found in that Town and in the neighbourhood many that had been his Scholars ingenious Men and good Grammarians even in their grey hairs Among whom it was then reported that when he landed in Cornwall his distresses made him stoop so low as to be an Abcdarian and several were taught their hornbooks by him After he had gotten some feathers at Martock he took his flight to London and taught a long time in Goldsmiths-rents in Cripplegate Parish behind Redcross-street where were large gardens and handsome houses and great accommodations for the young Noblemen and other generous Youths who at one time made up the number of 300 or more The School-house was a large brick building divided into several partitions or apartments according to the distinctions of the Forms and Classes under the care and circumspection of the respective Ushers allotted to attend them In which time while he taught there he was made M. of A. of Cambridge and soon after incorporated at Oxon. At length upon occasion of some underhand dealing of his Landlords and frequent sicknesses in the City he removed about 1636 to Sevenock in Kent in the neighbourhood of which place at Otford he had purchased an estate taught there the Sons of several Noblemen and Gentlemen who boarded with him with great esteem grew rich purchased an estate there also and near Horsham in Sussex Upon a foresight of the Civil War he was esteemed ill affected to the cause for that when the protestation was urged in 1641 he then said it was better to have one King than five hundred Afterwards being suspected to have favoured the rising of the Country for the King about Tunbridge in 1643 he was thereupon imprisoned first in Newgate and thence removed on Shipboard it being then urged in the House of Commons whether he should be sent to America further'd by some of his good neighbours in Kent nay and by some that had been his Scholars as I have heard who sate in the two Houses but at length it being rejected he was removed to Ely-house in Holbourn where he remained for about an year before his death He was the chief Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Latinist and Grecian of his time and his School was so much frequented that more Churchmen and Statesmen issued thence than from any School taught by one Man in England The things that he hath written and published are these Notae ad Juvenalis Persii Satyras Lond. 1612. oct c. Notae ad Senecae tragoedias Lond. 1613. oct c. For which work he is commended by a certain Poet who was his friendly acquaintance Notae ad Martialis Epigrammata Lond. 1615. oct Genev. 1623. 33. c. in tw Notae ad Lucani Pharsal Lond. 1618. oct Index Rhetoricus Scholis institutioni tenerioris aetatis ac commodatus Lond. 1625. oct Phrases Oratoriae elegantiores poeticae Lond. 1628. oct 5th edit Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum eorumque latina versu à variis redditorum Lond. 1629. in oct c. Notae ad Virgilium Lond. 1634. in oct Notae in Terentium Lond. in tw Notae in Ovidii Metamorph. libros 12. Lond. in tw c. Ib. 1677. c. Systema Grammaticum Lond. 1641. in oct Index Rhetoricus Oratorius cum formulis Oratoriis indice poetico Lond. 1646. oct Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat Lond. in oct Tabulae Grecae Linguae Lond. in qu. Syntaxis Ib. in oct Epistolae Variae ad doctiss viros Other things he hath written as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Sevenock commonly called Sennock be forementioned over whose grave was this Epitaph put P. M. viri ornatissimi Thomae Farnabii Armigeri causae olim Regiae reique publicae sed literariae vindicis acerrimi Obiit 12 Junii 1647. Vatibus hic sacris qui lux Farnabius olim Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet By his first Wife named Susan Dau. of Joh. Pierce of Launcells in Cornwall he had a Son named John who followed his Fathers martial humour being a Captain in the Kings Army to whom he left his estate in Sussex where he lived in good esteem and died about the beginning of 1673. By his second Wife Anne Daugh. of Dr. John Howson Bishop of Durham he had several children one of which was named Francis to whom he left his estate at Kippington in the Parish of Sennock where he was lately living a Justice of Peace in good esteem from whose mouth I formerly received several passages of his Fathers life which are remitted into the former discourse At which time he aver'd to me that the great Grandfather of his Father viz. the Father of him who was Mayor of Truro was an Italian Musician The memory of this eminent Schoolmaster is celebrated by several Authors among whom is John Dunbar a Scot who stiles himself Megalo-Britannus Rich. Bruch and others DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobstow in Cornwall retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates Hall in the beginning of
the year 1592 aged 19 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602 and six years after leaving that House travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas whereby he obtained as well learning as experience At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois and by him respected and exhibited to After his death our Author with his Wife retired to Gloc. Hall where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen that by his endeavours the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall the which with his Lecture he kept to his dying day and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man and by others a Calvinist He hath written De ratione methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Oxon. 1625. oct printed there again in 1637. in oct with this title Relectiones hyemales de ratione methodo legendi utriusque historias civiles ecclesiasticas c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct and had at the end this Speech of our Author printed with it viz. Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica added thereunto and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia set before it They were rendred into English I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know these things following viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County being the only Son of Baxter Bohun who with his ancestors have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8. that in the year 1663 he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge and continued there till the latter end of 1666 when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there to his great hindrance in Learning In 1675 he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg'd In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary he was restored to that office upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting without his seeking and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation in three parts being the History of three Sessions of Parliament The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. 2 A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments printed with and added to the Address 3 A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there Lond. 1684. in 4. sh and an half in fol. 4 The Justice of Peace his calling a moral Essay Lond. 1684. oct 5 A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book entit Paetriarcha or the natural Law of Kings c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book Lond. 1685. oct 6 A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities c. of the whole world with a short historical account of the same and their present state Lond. 1688. oct 7 The history of the desertion or an account of all the publick affairs in England from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following Lond. 1689. oct 8 An answer to a piece called The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country Gentleman printed at the end of The Hist of desertion The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed was written by Jer◠Collier of Cambridge 10 The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern'd in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells which Mr. Bohun is satisfied is not true and therefore he desires that and the whole paragraph in which it is may be cancel'd 11 Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury as I shall tell you by and by He hath also translated into English several things among which is 1 The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus Lond. 1684. qu. 2 An Apologie of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent Lond. 1685. in oct written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell collected by Mr. Bohun from the large life of the said Person written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 3 The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories as I have told you before 4 The universal Historical Bibliotheque or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages wherein a short account is given of the design of almost every book and the quality of the author if known For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687 Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London 5 The 25. and 26 th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome began in Germany by Mart. Luther Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. 6 The present state of Germany or an account of the extent rise forme wealth c. of that Empire c. Lond. 1690. oct written in lat by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name What other things he hath written and translated I know not sure I am that our Author Whear hath besides the before-mentioned things published these following Parentatio Historica Sive commemoratio vitae mortis V. C. Guliel Camdeni Clarentii facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus Charisteria These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis
out that after the turn of the times it was by his means stocked with such a factious and fanatical Crew that all endeavours could not reform it nor ever as 't is thought will it continuing so to this day In 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant and sitting often with them at Westminster shewed himself one of the most learned and moderate among them and soon after did by order not only succeed Dr. Featley in the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey ejected thence but had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy it till such time Dr. Featley could get back our Authors from the Soldiers under Prince Rupert When the broils of the Nation were over he repaired to Dorchester and in Nov. 1647 was designed Warden of New Coll. upon the death of Dr. Pink by Will Lord Say and Nath. Fiennes his son but if I am not mistaken he refused that office He was a person of great gravity and presence and had always influence on the puritannical Party near to and remote from him who bore him more respect than they did to their Diocesan His works are these Commentary on the three first Chapters of Genesis with large Observations on the same Lond. 1656. 57. fol. Directions for the profitable reading of the Scriptures Printed in oct Of the Sabbath Printed in qu. Way to the tree of life in sundry directions Pr. 1647. oct 'T is the same I think which is called The Directory to perfection Several Sermons as 1 The troubles of Jerusalems Restauration or the Churches Reformation Fast-sermon before the H. of Lords 26 Nov. 1645. on Dan. 9.15 Lond. 1646. qu. with others which I have not yet seen Ten vowes to the Parishioners of Dorchester Ms written about the year 1628 answer'd by Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow in 1660. At length having lived beyond the age of man died suddenly on the 21 of July in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was inter'd in the Church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester which is a Chappel belonging to Trinity Church before mentioned Besides this John White was another of both his names a Ministers son Doctor of Divinity brother to Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely and a publisher of several books born at S. Neots in Huntingdonshire bred in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became Vicar of Eccles in Lancashire Whence after he had continued some years he was brought into Suffolk by Sir John Crofts who bestowed on him the best Living that he had to give He sent for him unknown from Eccles where he lived in those distresses which he was never able to look through He furnished him with books fit for his studies he honoured and countenanced him so much that all the Country was satisfied he had a love and respect for him He wrot a book called The way to the true Church and A defence of it against the two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit published and other things as the Oxford Cat. will tell you One T. W. P. Priest who had sometimes as it seems been of Cambridge wrot a book against Jo. White called White died black But John dying before he could make a reply his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the bucklers and forthwith published a book against the said T. W. intit Orthodox faith and way to the Church explained c. Lond. 1617. qu. In the last will and test of the said John White without date I find these things said of himself Whereas for 20 years past by preaching and writing published in two books I engaged my self against Papistry I profess I have done therein nothing against my Conscience but desire all men to assure themselves that if any error hath escaped me it hath passed me through oversight when I always bended my self to that work of writing with much humility to God and such diligence as I was able to use And having the books always by me I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity and in the writings publickly receiv'd in the Church of Rome it self and I constantly avouch that what I have writ is the truth and have been the more confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour of my Adversaries against me c. This Will was proved 21 Feb. 1619 being two or more years after his death at which time he was Chaplain in ordinary to the King and his Father living after he had spent 50 years in preaching the word of God EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert by Magd. his wife dau of Sir Rich. Newport of Highâ—Arcall in Shropshire Knight was born in the sometimes most pleasant and Romancy place in Wales called Mountgomery Castle became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in 1595 aged 14 years where being put under the tuition of an eminent Tutor laid the foundation of that admirable learning whereof he was afterwards a compleat Master Thence he betook himself to travel as also to certain military exercises in foreign parts whereby he became much accomplish'd After his return he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. afterwards one of the Counsellors to that King for his military affairs and sent Embassador to Lewes 13. King of France to mediate for the relief of the Protestants in that Realm then besieged in several places In which service continuing about five years he was recalled in July 1621 because he had irreverently treated de Luyens the great Constable of France and Edw. Sackvile was sent in his place In the 22 of K. Jam. 1. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of the Realm of Ireland by the name of Lord Herbert of Castle Island and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Shropshire He was a person well studied in the Arts and Languages a good Philosopher and Historian and understood men as well as books as it evidently appears in his Writings the titles of which follow De veritate prout distinguitur à revelatione à verisimuli à possibile à falso c. Par. 1624 and 1633. Lond. 1645. qu. c. Translated into French and printed 1639. qu much valued by learned men and reposed as 't is said in the Popes Vatican Answered by P. Gassendus in his third Tome the title of which is Opuscula philosophica from p. 411. to p. 419. in an Epistle directed to our Author Herbert Lugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his More reasons for the Christian Religion c. Printed at Lond. in tw De causis errorum una cum tractatu de religione Laici appendice ad sacerdotes nec non quibusdam poematibus Printed with the book De veritate c. 1645. qu. Life and Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649 and 72. fol. Both which editions being collated with the original Ms in the Archives of Bodleys Library given thereunto by the Author in 1643 by certain
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. 1â—53 and 79. oct Leydâ—â— 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
his last will and testament He was an humble man of plain and downright behaviour careless of money and imprudent in worldly matters All that knew him esteem'd him a noted Artist a plentiful fountain of all sorts of learning an excellent Linguist a Person of a prodigious memory and so profound a Divine that they have been pleased to entitle him Columna fidei orthodoxae and Malleus Heresecus Patrum Pater and ingens Scholae Academiae oraculum In him also as an ingenious Author saith the heroical wits of Jewell Rainolds and Hooker as united into one seem'd to triumph anew and to have threatned a fatal blow to the Babylonish Hierarchy Insomuch that he might have justly challenged to himself that glory which sometimes Ovid speaking of his own Country Mantua Virgilium laudet Verona Catullum Romanae gent is gloria dicar ego As his learning was admired by forreigners Sext. Amama Rivet and others so were his books especially those written in Latine a cat of which and of the English follow Tabulae ad Grammaticam Graecam introductoriae c. Oxon. 1608. 1629. 39. c. qu. Tyrocinium ad Syllogismum legitimum contexendum Heptades Logicae sive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria These two last are printed and go with the Tabulae c. Castigatio cujusdem circulatoris qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon Johannem Cydonium E Soc. Jesu seipsum nuncupat Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum Oxon. 1614. oct Alloquium sereniss Reg. Jacobo Woodstochiae habitum 24. Aug. 1624. pr. in one sh in qu. Orationes novem inaugurales de totidem Theologiae apicibus prout in promotione Doctorum Oxoniae publicè proponebantur in Comitiis Oxon. 1626. qu. Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus praecipuè hoc tempore controversis prout publicè habebantur Oxoniae in vesperiis Oxon. 1625. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the consecration of Exeter Coll. Chap. on Luke 19.46 Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Purez Uzzah Serm. before the K. at Woodstock on 2. Sam. 6. ver 6.7 Oxon. 1625. qu. 3 Concio ad Art Baccalaureos pro more habita in ecclesia B. Mariae Oxon. in die cinerum in Act. 2.22 an 1616. Oxon. 1626. Twenty Sermons Oxon. 1636. qu. The two first of which are entit Christs counsell for ending law cases Among them are the Consecration Serm. and Perez-Uzzah beforementioned Nine Sermons on several occasions Oxon. 1641. qu. Lectiones XXII Orationes XIII Conciones VI Oratio ad Jacobum Regem Oxon. 1648 fol. Among which are contained the former Lections Orations and Speech to the K. Jam. at Woodst Fasciculus controversiarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus c. Oxon. 1649. 51. 52. qu. Theologiae Scholasticae Syntagma Mnemonicum Oxon 1651. Conciliorum Synopsis Printed with the Syntagma before-mentioned Published in English at the end of An easie and compendious introduction c. mentioned before in Mathias Prideaux Historie of successions in states countries or families c. Oxon. 1653. c. Epistola de Episcopatu fol. a fragment of which I have seen in one folio sh Euchologia or the doctrine of practical praying being a legacy left to his daughters in private directing them to such manifold uses of our Common-prayer-book as may satisfie upon all occasions without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes Lond. 1655. 56. oct c. Dedicated to his daughters Sarah Hodges and Elizabeth Sutton The doctrine of conscience framed according to the form in the Common-prayer left as a legacy to his Wife Printed in tw Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam Oxon. 1657. oct Published by Mr. Tho. Barlow with an Epistle before it in the name of the printer Hypomnemata Logica Rhetorica Phys Metaphys c. Oxon. in oct Sacred eloquence or the art of Rhetorick as it is laid down in Scripture Lond. 1659. oct What other things are published under his name I know not unless a Comment on the Church Catechisme pr. 1656. in oct and therefore I am to add that he departing this mortal life of a Feaver at Bredon in Worcestershire in the house of Dr. Hen. Sutton Son of Will. Sutton D. D. Chanc. of Glocester and Rector of Bredon who married his daughter Elizabeth on the twentieth day of July in sixteen hundred and fifty was accompanied to his grave in the Chancel of the Church there by many Persons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place on the 16. of August following Over his grave was a plain stone soon after laid with an Epitaph composed by himself the day and year of his death excepted engraven on a brass plate fixed thereunto the copy of which is already printed wherein you 'll find that he was sometimes Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. Before I go any farther I shall take leave upon the hint before-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux's making his College florish to set down the names of such Outlanders that have retired to Exeter Coll. for his sake have had Chambers there and diet purposely to improve themselves by his company his instruction and direction for course of studies Some of them have been Divines of note and others meer Lay-men that have been eminent in their respective Countries wherein afterwards they have lived most of them are these Joh. Combachius the Philosopher Phil. Cluver the Geographer Sixt. Amama Linguist Nichol Vignier and Dav. Primerose two learned Frenchmen All whom are already mentioned among these Writers Christian Rumphius an eminent Physician see in the Fasti an 1613. Jacobus Dorvilius commonly called D'Orville a Gentlemans Son of Heidelberg in Germany matriculated as a member of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and in that of his age 19. Joh. Schermarius a learned German who occurs a member of Ex. Coll. 1613 in which year he had certain lat verses published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frederick Dorvilius two other Germans who are mentioned in the Fasti an 1613. and 15. Joh. Rodolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia was a Sojournour of the said Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and afterwards published some of Pet. Martyrs works as I have before told you Joh. Waserus a Native of the same place entred Soj. in the same term and year and afterwards the writer of Elementale Chaldaicum and other things Caesar Calendrinus entred into the said Coll. in the beginning of 1616. see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de Junge a Zelander in Mich. term 1619. Paul Amaraut or Amarant a Germ. matriculated among the Exonians 1619 aged 18. Christian Son of Herman Julius Viceroy to the K. of Denmark in the Isle of Gotland Gregory and Errick Sons of Pet. Julius Lord of Alsted Linberg c. in Denmark Which three young men were instructed in Logick and Philosophy by Dr. Prideaux Ovenius Julius elder brother to the said Christian was also a Student in the said Coll. under Prideaux who
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
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
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
Oct. 1646 where he continued a constant Preacher doing good in his zealous way to his dying day His love to learning was very great and his delight to exercise himself was greater than his weak body could bear He had a strong memory which he maintained good to the last by temperance He was well skill'd in Greek and Hebrew was a fluent Preacher but too much addicted to Calvinisme He hath transmitted to posterity A Breast-plate for the keeping of the heart being the substance of certaine Sermons on Prov. 4.23 former part Lond. 1660. in oct A rich treasurie for the promises being the substance of other Sermons on Micah 7.19 Lond. 1660. oct Some or all of these Sermons were published in 1650. in oct Which two treatises The Breast-plate and Rich treasurie were published by Hugh Gundrey beforemention'd and one Joseph Crabb who dedicated them to William Lord Sydenham a member of Olivers Council one of his Lords and sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University Exposition on the first Chapt. of the Epist of S. Paul to the Ephesians whether this was published after his death I cannot tell He paid his last debt to nature on the 27 of Novemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried I suppose in the Church of Neitherbury having before married Joane the Daugh. of George Scullard of Rumsey in Hampshire and been appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters GILES WORKMAN Son of Will. Workm was born at Newton-Bagpath in Glocestershire entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in the year of his age 18 dom 1623 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became Vicar of Wallford in Herefordshire Master of the College School in Glocester and at length by the favour of Matth. Hale Esq afterwards L. Ch. Just of the Kings-bench he became Rector of Alderley in Glocestershire He hath written A modest examination of Lay-mens preaching discovered to be neither warranted by the Word of God nor allowed by the judgment or practice of the Churches of Christ in New England c. Lond. 1646. in about 6. sh in qu. What else he hath published unless one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen I know not nor any thing besides only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and five as his eldest Son hath informed me was buried in the Church of Alderley beforemention'd This Person who was a quiet and peaceable Puritan had a Brother called John Workman a schismatical Lecturer in Glocester who by medling with things indifferent created not only a trouble to his Diocesan but to the Archb. of Canterbury as you may fully see in Canterburies Doome THOMAS WILLIS whom some pedagogical Writers call Volentius was born of a gentile Family of his name living at Fenny compton in Warwickshire began to be conversant with the Muses in S. Johns Coll in Easter term 1602 aged 19 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Schoolmaster at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex where he spent near 50 years of his time in the instruction of youth for whose use he wrot these things following Vestibulum Linguae Latinae A Dictionary for Children consisting of two parts c. containing near ten thousand words besides thrice the number derived from and known by them c. Lond. 1651. oct Phraseologia Anglo-Latina Anglicisms latinized c. Lond. 1655. oct This is the same which hath another title sometimes set to it running thus Proteus vinctus Sive aequivoca sermonis Anglicani ordine alphabetico digesta latine reddita To this Book was afterwards added Paraemilogia Anglo-latina Or a collection of Engl. and Lat. Proverbs and proverbial sayings matched together Both which were printed in one Vol. at Lond. 1672. oct This last was wrot with a design to supply what was defective and wanting in our Author Willis his Phraseologia c. by Will. Walker bred up in School learning under Joh. Clerk Bach. of Div. sometimes publick Schoolmaster of Lincoln afterwards teacher of a private School in Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire and a Writer of school-books under whom he the said Walker being ripen'd for the University was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity afterwards he became Master of the publick School at Lowth in Lincolnshire founded by K. Ed. 6. then Rector of Colsterworth in the same County by the donation of Dr. Tho. Pierce as Prebendary I think of Lincoln who had been for several years a great encourager of Mr. Walker's useful studies and at length Master of the Free-school at Grantham where he continued to the time of his death which hapned in the beginning of January or thereabouts an 1684. This person who was very useful in his generation hath written and published 1 Treatise of English Particles several times printed 2 Troposchematologiae Rhetoricae libri duo Lond. 1668. dedic to his Patron Dr. Pierce before mention'd 3 Explanations of the Royal commonly called Lillyes Grammar in two parts Lond. 1670. 74. oct 4 Modest plea for Infant Baptism Cantab. 1677. in tw 5 English Examples of the Lat. Syntaxis c. Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it aged 59 years and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen particularly his Dictionary of English and Latine Idioms and his book intit De argumentorum inventione libri duo c. in oct ROBERT MATON son of Will. Maton of Tudworth in Wilts was born in that County became a Commoner of Wadh. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and afterwards holy Orders but where beneficed unless in his own Country I cannot tell nor any thing else of him but that as to opinion he was always in his heart a Millinary which he never discovered in publick till the Rebellion broke out and then the Press being open for all Opinions he published these things following Israels Redemption or a prophetical history of our Saviours Kingdom on earth that is of the Church Catholick and Triumphant on Acts 1.6 Lond. 1642. oct Discourse of Gog and Magog or the battle of the great day of God Almighty on Ezek. 38.2 Printed with the former book Comment on the 20 chap. of the Rev. Lond. 1652. quart Israels Redemption redeemed or the Jews general and miraculous Conversion to the faith of the Gospel and return into their own Land and our Saviours personal reign on Earth proved from the Old and New Test c. of purpose to satisfie all Gainsayers and particularly Mr. Alex. Petrie Minister of the Scottish Church at Roterdam Divided in two parts Lond. 1646. qu. Which book being answer'd by the said Petrie it came out again under this title with additions and amendments A Treatise of the fifth Monarchy or Christs personal reign on
to the Army in Scotland where he died in the beginning of the year 1650. THOMAS LAURENCE a Ministers Son was born in Dorsetshire became Scholar of Ball. Coll. in 1614 aged 16 years elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1618 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became a noted Preacher in the University was made Prebendary of Lichfield Doct. of Div Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. by the endeavours of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Cant with whom he was in much esteem Master of Ball. Coll. and Marg. professor of the University 1637 At which time he was accounted famous for Scholastical Divinity a profound Theologist and Exquisite in the excellencies of the Greek and Lat. Tongues After the declining of the cause of K. Ch. 1. and upon a foresight thereupon of the ruin of all things that would follow he grew melancholy careless and did much degenerate in his life and conversation At length when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament came to visit the University he resigned his Headship to prevent expulsion Afterwards he submitted to their Authority had a certificate under the Commissioners or Visitors hands dated 3. Aug. 1648 whereby they attested that he had engaged to observe the Directory in all Ecclesiastical administrations to preach practical Divinity to the People and to forbear preaching of any of those Opinions that the reformed Church hath condemned Being thus dismissed with the loss of all he had in the University he retired to his Friend Coll. Valentine Walton one of the Kings Judges to whom he had shew'd many singular curtesies while he was a Prisoner of War in Oxford Garrison and at length by exchange had procured his release I say that he retiring to the said Collonel and laying open his condition before him he did commiserate it so much that he did not only exhibit to his wants for the present but soon after setled upon him a little Chappelrey called Colne in the Parish of Somersham in Huntingdonshire which he enjoyed to the time of his death The Reader may be pleased here to note that Somersham with its appurtenances being part of the Qu. jounture the said Col. Walton got it to be setled on him and his posterity for ever for the services he had done for the Parliament And tho the Church thereof did belong to the Margaret professor of Cambridge yet by his power he got the tithes of Colne to be separated from it and be setled on the Chappel of Colne whereby he made it a little rectory purposely as 't is thought for the sake of his learned Friend Laurence who hath these things following going under his name viz. Several Sermons as 1 The duty of the Layty and Priviledge of the Clergy preached at S. Maries in Oxon 13. July 1634 being then Act-Sunday on Exod. 20.21 Oxon. 1635. qu. 2 Of Schisme in the Church of God preached in the Cath. Ch. at Sarum at the Visitation of Will Archb. of Canterbury 23. May 1634 on 1. Cor. 1.12 Oxon. 1635. qu. 3 Serm. before the Kings Maj. at White-hall 7 Feb. 1636 on Exod. 3.5 Lond. 1637. qu. In this Sermon he moderately stated the real presence and thereupon suffered trouble for it Also for other passages therein he was charged by the Puritans to be a grand Arminian He hath also written Index Materiarum Authorum MS. fol. in the Bodleian Library and other things fit for the press as I have been credibly informed by those that well knew the Author who dying in great obscurity at Colne in Huntingdonshire beforemention'd was buried in the Chappel there on the tenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven Had he lived 3 years longer he would have been consecrated Bishop of a certain See in Ireland to which he had been nominated some years before his death but the name of the See I cannot now tell you WILLIAM BURTON Son of Will. Burt. sometimes of Atcham in Shropshire second Son of Tho. Burt. of Longnore near to Shrewsbury Son and Heir of Edw. Burton of the same place who died in 1558 was born within the precincts of the Austin Friers in London as his Daughter hath informed me educated in Pauls School under Alex. Gill Senior became a Student in Qu. Coll. in Easter term 1625 aged 16 years being then accounted a good Grecian But having not wherewithal to maintain him the learned Mr. Allen who found him to be an ingenious youth took him to him to Gloc. Hall and confer'd on him the Greek Lecture there which he kept during his continuance in the University In 1630 he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law but indigence which commonly attends good wits forcing him to leave the University he became the Assistant or Usher of Mr. Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaster of Kent with whom remaining some years was at length made Master of the Free-School at Kingston upon Thames in Surrey where he continued till two years before his death at which time being taken with the dead palsie he retired to London where he lived to see the most part of his last book called A Com. on Antoninus his Itinerary printed He was an excellent Latinist noted Philologist was well skill'd in the tongues was an excellent Critick and Antiquary and therefore beloved of all learned men of his time especially of the famous Usher Archb. of Armagh He hath written and published these things following Laudatio funebris in obitum viri excellentiss D. Thomae Alleni Lond. 1632. Ox. 1633. qu. The said speech was spoken by the Author in the Refectory of Gloc. Hall before the body was carried thence Afterwards another was spoken at the Grave in Trin. Coll. Chap. by George Bathurst as I have elsewhere told you which with Burtons were both printed together Annotations on the first Epistle of Clement the Apostle to the Corinthians Lond. 1647. and 52 in qu. Wherein as much reading is shew'd by the Author so some things therein do rankly smell of Presbytery The said first Epistle being set forth in Latine by Patrick Yong in 1633 was translated into English by our Author who thereunto did add the said Annotations as a very proper and sutable remedy if rightly attended to to cure the many distracting schismes of those loose and dissolute times when published Graecae Linguae Historia Lond. 1657. oct 'T is the sum of one or more speeches delivered in the refectory of Gloc. Hall 1631. Veteris Linguae Persicae Historia Lond. 1657. oct This printed with the former book and before them is an Epistle written by way of commendations by the learned Langbaine friend to our Author Burton A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or journeys of the Rom. Empire so far as it concerneth Britain c. Lond. 1658. fol. with the Authors Picture before it He also translated from Lat. into English a Book intit The beloved City or the Saints Raign on Earth a thousand years asserted and illustrated from
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
the objects and office of faith as justifying c. Oxon 1657. oct and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen HENRY PARKER the fourth son of Sir Nich. Parker of Ratton in the Parish of Willington in Sussex Kt. by Catharine his wife dau of Joh. Temple of Stow in Bucks Esq was born in Sussex at Ratton I think became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the latter end of 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 he being then a Member of Lincolns Inn and about that time a Barrester When the grand Rebellion began he sided with the Presbyterians and became Secretary to the Army under Robert Earl of Essex in which office he continued some years to his enrichment Afterwards he turned and became an Independent went beyond the seas and lived for some time at Hamborough At length when Oliver Cromwell came to be General he was called thence to be a Brewers Clerk that is to be Secretary to the said Cromwell with whom he was in great esteem He hath written A discourse concerning Puritans Tending to a Vindication of those who unjustly suffer by the mistake abuse and misapplication of that name Lond. 1641. in 9 sh in qu. which is the second edit much enlarged Observations upon some of his Majesties late Answers and Expresses Lond. 1642. qu. Answer'd by Dudley Digges of All 's Coll. Of a free trade a discourse seriously recommending to our Nation the wonderful benefits of trade c. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh in qu. Answer to a poysonous seditious paper of David Jenkyns Lond. 1647. qu. The Scots holy Warr or the mischief of the Covenant to Great Britaine Lond. 1657. qu. He is also supposed to be Author of A political Catechisme or certain questions concerning the government of this land Lond. 1643. qu. answer'd in his Majesties own words as also of other Pamphlets which have the Letters H. P. put to them This person who was a man of dangerous and anti-monarchical Principles died distracted in the time of Oliver L. Protector as I have been informed by Fab. Philipps of the Inner Temple Esq There was another of both his names who was a Barrister of Greys Inn and a Burgess for Orford in Suffolk for that Parliam which began at Westm 17 Octob. 1679 but he was a younger brother of Sir Philip Parker of that County and tho able to write yet he hath published nothing as I can yet learn He died about the month of Sept. 1681 and his Library was exposed to sale in Dec. following ROBERT WARING son of Edm. War of Lea in Staffordshire and of Owlbury in Shropshire was born in Staffordsh elected from Westm school a Student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1630 and that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards bore arms for his Maj. Ch. 1. with in the Garison of Oxon was elected Proctor of the University in 1647 and the same year History Professor but deprived of it and his Students place by the impetuous Visitors authorized by Parliament when they came to the University under pretence of reforming it Afterwards he retired to Apley in Shropshire upon the invitation of Sir Will. Whitmore a great Patron of distressed Cavaliers lived there obscurely for a time and buried his excellent parts in the solitudes of a Country life Afterwards he travelled with the said person into France where he continuing about an year returned into England sickned soon after and died in Lincolns Inn Fields near London He was a most excellent Lat. and Engl. Poet but a better Orator and was reckon'd among the great Wits of his time in the University He hath transmitted to Posterity these things following A publick conference betwixt the six Presbyterian Ministers and some Independent Commanders held at Oxford on the 12 of Nov. 1646. Printed 1646. in two sh in qu. An account of Mr. Prynns refutation of the University of Oxfords Plea sent to a friend in a second Letter from Oxon printed 1648. in 2 sh in qu. The first Letter was written by Rich. Allestrie as I shall tell you elsewhere Effigies Amoris sive quid sit amor efflagitanti responsum Printed at Lond. about 1649 in tw published from the original copy by Mr. John Birkenhead on the desire of the Author who would have his name conceal'd because of his Loyalty The third Edit came out after the Restauration of his Maj. by Will. Griffith of Oxon with an Epistle befoâ—e it written by him to the said Joh. Birkenhead then a Knight wherein he gives not only a just character of our Author but also of Sir John To the said Edition is joyned our Authors Carmen Lapidorium written to the memory of Ben. Johnson which Griffith finding miserably mangled in Jonsonus virbius or Verses on the death of Ben. Johnson he with his own hand restored it to its former perfection and lustre by freeing it from the errors of the Press Mr. Griffith in his Praeloquium concerning our Author Waryng saith that Cartwright Gregory Digges c. together with Jo. Birkenhead were numina Oxonii tutelaria every one of them had ingenium caelitus delapsum quae quasi numina dum intra maenia retinuit sua perstitet Oxonium nec hostili cedens fraudi nec infest is inimicorum succumbens armis c. The fourth Edition of it was printed at Lond. 1668 and an English Edition of it came out in 1682 under the title of The picture of Love unveil'd done by John Norris of All 's Coll. who in his Preface to it saith that the Author of it is admired by him for sweetness of fancy neatness of stile and lusciousness of hidden sense and that in these respects he may compare with any other extant c. At length our Author Waryng contracting a malignant disease too prevalent for nature he gave way to fate to the great reluctancy of all those who knew the admirable Vertues and Learning of the person The next day being the tenth of May in sixteen hundred fifty and eight his body was conveyed to the Church of S. Michaels Royal commonly called College hill because Whittingdon Coll. stood there where after his sorrowful friend and acquaintance Dr. Bruno Ryves afterwards Dean of Windsore had delivered an excellent Sermon to the numerous Auditory of Royalists his body was deposited close under the south wall at the upper end of the Isle on the south side of the Chancel Ten days before was buried in the said Church the most noted Poet of his time Jo. Cleaveland and within few days after was buried in Waryngs grave the body of his eldest brother called Walt. Waryng esteemed by some an ingenious man Fourteen years after the death of Rob. Waryng was published A sermon preached at S. Margarets Westminster at the funeral of Mrs. Susanna Gray dau of Hen. Gray Esq of Enfield in Staffordshire on 2 Sam. 12.15 to
1606 aged 15 years admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608 Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614 and Probat Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rheine made D. of Div. of the University of Leyden in his passage thither or return thence incorporated in the same degree at Oxon in 1624 constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1 and at length in 1638 or thereabouts he was made Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate within the City of London which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling learned and well read in most parts of Divinity as in these his labours following is evident Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentarie on the Proverbs c. Lond. 1638. fol. Commentarie on Ecclesiastes c. Lond. 1639. fol. Exemplary life and death of Mr. ... Jurdaine printed in qu. One Ferdin Nicolls Minister of S. Marie Arches in Exeter hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter Whether he be the same Jurdaine whose life Dr. Jermin wrot I know not for I have not yet seen it nor The Fathers instruction to his Child printed at Lond. 1658. oct said to be written by Jermin At length after he had suffer'd much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory plundering and other miseries lived as opportunity served and on the benevolence of some generous Loyallists Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death In fine preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August being then the Lords day in sixteen hundred fifty and nine dropt dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. a. ZACHARIE BOGAN Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15 admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nov. the year following left the University when the City of Oxon was garrison'd for the King return'd after the surrender thereof to the Parliament took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646 elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following and afterwards proceeding in his faculty became a retired and religious Student and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues He hath written Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae Printed several times before 1674. in qu. Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts Oxon. 1653. oct dedicated to his Father Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life Oxon. 1653. oct grounded on Psal 32.11 and on Phil. 4.4 dedicated to his Mother Joan. Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi Oxon. 1658. oct Help to prayer both extempore and by a set forme as also to meditation c. Oxon. 1660. oct published after the Authors death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrot a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College set before a book going under his name entit Delphi Phaenicizantes c. Oxon. 1655. oct At length this our Author Bogan who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi joyning to the S side of the Chappel there At that time and before the Nation being very unsetled and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise he would have given that money to his College His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joyning to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon. CHARLES HERLE third Son of Ed. Herle Esq by Anne his Wife Daugh. of John Trefrie was born at Prideaux Herle near Lystwithyel in Cornwall where tho his ancestors have lived several generations in gentile fashion yet they were originally of West Herle in Northumberland At 14 years of age in 1612 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1618 and afterwards Holy Orders but what were his employments or preferments that immediatly followed I know not Sure I am that he was Rector of one of the richest Churches in England which is at Winwick in Lancashire before the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 that at the eruption he having always been esteemed a Puritan sided with the Presbyterian Party took the Covenant was elected one of the Assemb of Divines in 1643 being then a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and in the year 1646 July 22 he was voted by the members of the said Parliament Prolocutor of that Assembly after the death of Twysse In 1647 he with Steph. Marshall went with certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament into Scotland to give them a right understanding of the affairs in England but what he did there was chiefly to give constant notice of the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their Levies After the King was beheaded he retired to his rectory of Winwick having first received satisfaction from the Parliament for his Service and losses he sustained at Winwick after he had fled to London for protection during the heat of the War where he was esteemed by the factious party the prime man of note and power among the Clergy In 1654 he was by the Authority of Parl. appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Lanc. for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters in which office he with Is Ambrose of Preston Edw. Gee of Eccleston c. shewed great severity against them This Mr. Herle hath extant under his name these things following Several Sermons as 1 A pair of Compasses for the Church and State Sermon before the House of Com. at their monthly fast ult Nov. 1642 on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Davids Song of three parts Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Lords for Gods great deliverance of the Parl. City and Kingdom
5 of Aug. following being Sunday Mr. Edw. Reynolds preaching to the University in the Chappel of Mert. Coll of which he was Fellow touched upon the passages which had hapned between Prideaux and Heylyn impertinently to his text but pertinently enough unto his purpose which was to expose Heylyn to disgrace and censure But so it was that tho he was then present yet it did little trouble him as he himself acknowledgeth In Feb. 1627 he was by the letters of the Lord Danvers then Earl of Danby commended to Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells for his advancement in the Church By vertue of which he was received by him as our Author Heylyn tells you at large in the life of the said Bishop published 1668 at which time having several private discourses together Laud fell upon the business at Oxon. between Prideaux and him adding withal that he had read his supposition when he answered pro forma a copy of which Heylyn had given to him and found therein that it was so strongly grounded that all the Prideauxes were not able to overthrow it in a fair way that also he would not have him discouraged by noise and clamours telling him farther that he himself had in his younger days maintained the same positions in a disputation in S. Johns Coll. for which he was much clamoured at by Dr. Abbot then Vicechancellour afterwards Archb. of Cant. and made a by-word and reproach in the University but he thanked God he had overcome that difficulty and got the better of his Adversaries and so might he Finally he admonished him to hold in that moderate course he found him in and to apply his study to the making up of breaches in the walls of Christendome c. In the latter end of 1628 he went as Chaplain to the E. of Danby beforemention'd into the Isle of Guernsey of which the said Earl was Governour where continuing about 3 weeks returned into England drew up a discourse of that voyage and in the Month of June in the year following did present it to Laud then Bishop of London to whose patronage as it seems he had committed it The same year also 1629 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and nominated one of his Maj. Chaplains in Jan. the same year So that being Shipped and in hopes of a good wind he thought it did concern him to do somewhat to be known at Court especially by the great ones there Whereupon he fell into a resolution to effect the History of S. George Patron of the most noble Order of the Garter the studying and writing whereof took up all the spring time of 1630. He found it full of difficulties the whole world being against him and no path to follow but at length he overcame it Upon Act Sunday the same year he preached the University Sermon at S. Maries on this text But while men slept the Enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away Matth. 13.25 In which Sermon he discovered the great mystery of iniquity which lay hid under the specious project of the Feoffes for buying in of impropriations and was the first who ever gave publick notice of the danger of it to the undeceiving of the People It made much noise and brought to him more envy as he is pleased to say if I mistake not in his Historie of the life of Dr. Laud. The same year also on S. Mar. Magd. day he resigned his Fellowship having been married almost two years before In Oct. 1631 he was made Rector of Henningford in Huntingdonshire by the procurement of Dr. Laud and on the first of Nov. following the K. gave him a Prebendship of Westminster void by the death of Dr. George Darrell somtimes Fellow of All 's Coll. Which matter so soon as it came to the knowledge of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and then Dean of Westminster it put him to extreme vexation because this our Author Heylyn was beloved of Dr. Laud between which Bishops there was never a right understanding and that also there was likely to follow great discord between them because of several affronts that Williams had before given him for his forwardness high conceit of himself and confidence The next year the K. bestowed on him the rich Parsonage of Houghton in the Spring within the Bishoprick of Durham void by the preferment of Dr. Aug. Lindsell to the Bishoprick of Peterborough which for his own convenience the King gave way that he should change it with Dr. Marshall for the rectory of Ailresford in Hampshire In 1633 he proceeded D. of D. and in the Vespers then held had these 3 questions following to answer to 1 An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis Aff. 2 An Eccles habeat authoritatem decernendi ritus ceremonias Aff. 3 An Eccles habeat authoritatem interpretandi Scripturas sacras Aff. All which tho taken Verbatim out of the 20 Article of the Church of England were so displeasing to Prideaux the Professor that he fell into very great heats and passion in which he let fall certain matters very unworthy of the place where utter'd as also distastful to many of the auditory among whom were James du Perron the Queens Almoner afterwards Bishop of Angoulisme in France which after drew some censure on him The particulars were these 1 Ecclesia est mâ—ra chimera 2 Ecclesia nihil docet nec determinat 3 Controversiae omnes melius ad Academiam referri possunt quam ad Ecclesiam 4 Docti homines in Academiis possunt determinare omnes controversias etiam sepositis Episcopis c. Upon occasion also of mentioning the absolute decree he brake into a great and long discourse that his mouth was shut up by Authority else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis which fetcht a great hum from the Country Ministers then present What therefore followed upon this you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 440. a. But so netled was Prideaux that the K. by Heylyns means should take cognizance of that matter that when he put in his protestation against the utterance of those things alledged against him into the hands of the Chancellour of the University in Aug. following did at the same time the King being then at Woodstock cause a paper to be spread about the Court touching the business of the Vespers in the last Act very much tending to Heylyns disgrace Heylyn therefore being not able to brook it for he was of an high and audacious spirit it so fell out that when in Oct. following came out his Maj. declaration concerning lawful sports which raised much clamour against the King and more against Dr. Laud Heylyn for the appeasing it fell upon a course of translating Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath and putting a preface to the same which being published in print in Hilarie term an 1633 conduced much to his Majesties proceedings in
he was one of the pillars of Presbytery and by others a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils One Mr. Ley a learned Divine wrot a book about 1624. intit The Christian Nomenclator c. against the Papists mention'd in Joh. Gee's book intit The foot out of the snare c. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not HENRY JACKSON Son of Hâ—n Jacks Mercer was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602 aged 17 years or thereabouts having for two years before been Clerk of the said house admitted probat Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612 to the reading of the Sentences five years after and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield sometimes his Tutor he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which was all the preferment he ever look'd after for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds whose memories being most dear to him he did for the sake of the first industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises and of the latter several of his Epistles and Orations He also did diligently recognize and added marginal notes with a copious Index to the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll. seven of the former of which are De corruptis Artibus the other five De tradendis disciplinis He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author had revised compared and collected them All which he did intend at his own charge to publish but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642 the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house scatter'd the said Collection and made it so imperfect that it could never be recovered He hath written Vita Ciceronis ex variis autoribus collecta Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest lib. quintum Both which dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell He also translated from English into Latine Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct written by the said Dr. Benefield as I have elsewhere told you Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptisme which he intituled De Baptismo cognitione sui next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus But whether these three last which are in MS. in my hands are published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides only that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis Hamp near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention'd I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man printed 1660 in oct but of what University he was if of any I know not THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1610 aged 21 years or more took one degree in the Civil Law and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joyning to the Cloister there Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death He hath written Vulgaria sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis emittendos quà m maximè conducentia modo solerter edoceantur c. in novem classes distributa Oxon. 1652. oct Adagia selectissima c. Ib. eod an oct He died at Swaclyve on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years and was two days after buried in the Church there EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608 aged 20 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts left the said Coll. in 1623 and was about that time made Master of the said School and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester and Doct. of Div. He hath published Several Sermons three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester The first on Sunday Aug. 19. an 1660 at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church on Psal 14.7 The second on Jan. 30. an 1661 being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory on Jer. 4.20 And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1662. in oct In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester leaving then behind him the character of a learned godly and orthodox Minister of Gods word HENRY JEANES Son of Christop Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire was born at Allensay in that County as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsomer term in the year 1626 aged 15 years where pecking and hewing continually at Logick and Physicks became a most noted and ready Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he removed to Hart Hall took holy Orders and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University In the beginning of Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians notwithstanding he had before while he continued in the University been a scoffer of them and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater he became Rector of the Church there where during the times of Usurpation he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University and read to them contrary to his Oath Logick and Philosophy and had often times set Disputations among them while he himself moderated He was a most excellent Philosopher a noted Metaphysitian and well grounded in polemical Divinity He was also a scholastical man a contemner of the World generous free-hearted jolly witty and facetious and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian perswasion who generally are morose clownish and of sullen and reserved natures The books that he hath written and published are many the titles of most if not all follow Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence
of other persons to the same purpose an 1660. in oct The design was to perswade Oliver to take upon him the Kingship of Gr. Britain and Ireland All which Pamphlets one excepted were printed at Lond. in qu and not one of them exceeds the quantity of a sheet of paper I am perswaded that many more are extant under his name or at least written by him without any name set to them but such I have not yet seen At length after a great deal of moyling turmoyling perfidiousness and I know not what he laid down his head and died in his house at Burford before mention'd on that memorable day the third of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and two days after was buried without pomp in a little isle on the north side of the Church there next below that isle where the costly tomb of Sir Laur. Tanfeild stands At that time the body of his only Wife Elizabeth who died the 19 of April foregoing buried in the Communion Chancel of Burford Church was taken up and laid close to that of her Husband He forbad as I have been informed any excessive costs at his funeral or for a monument to be put over his body and was heard several times in his last hours to say that he desired no other Epitaph than Vermis sum So that as yet he hath no Monument nor so much as any Stone over his grave the floor being now or at least lately covered only with sand and unpaved What remains more to be remembred of him if not too much already is his own confession on his death-bed made to Dr. Ralph Brideoak then Rector of Witney near Burford who administring to him ghostly counsel and desiring to know how he had kept and observed the fifth Commandment remembring him that Disobedience Rebellion and Schism were the great sins against it made this confession Yes there is my trouble my disobedience not against my natural parents only but against the Pater patriae our deceased Sovereign I confess with Saul I held their clothes whilst they murdered him but herein I was not so criminal as Saul was for God thou knowest I never consented to his death I ever prayed and endeavoured what I could against it but I did too much almighty-God forgive me c. Then the said Doctor urged to him to confess if he knew any of those Villains that plotted and contrived that horrid murther which were not then detected to which he answer'd I am a stranger to that business my soul never entred into that secret but what concerns my self I will confess freely These things are especially laid to my charge wherein indeed I am too guilty as first that I went from the Parliament to the Army 2. That I proposed the bloody question for trying the King And 3. That I sate in Parl. after the Kings death To the first I may give this answer that Cromwell and his Agents deceived a wiser man than my self I mean that excellent King and then might well deceive me also and so they did I knew the Presbyterians would never restore the King to his just Rights these men the Independents swore they would For the second no excuse can be made but I have the Kings pardon and I hope Almighty God will shew me his mercy also yet even then when I put the question I hoped the very putting the question would have cleared him because I believed four for one were against it but they deceived me also To the third I make this candid confession that 't was my own baseness and cowardize and unworthy fear to submit my self to the mercy of those men that murthered the King that hurried me on against my own conscience to act with them Yet then I thought also I might do some good and hinder some ill Something I did for the Church and Universities something for the King when I broke the oath of abjuration Something also for his return but the ill I did over-weighed the little good I would have done God forgive me for this also c. He also confessed that he had no hand in or gave any consent to the murthering and ruining the Fathers of the Church and also that he died a dutiful son of the Church of England as it was established before the Rebellion broke out c. After which confession which was done like a very hearty Penitent he received the absolution of the Church with much content and satisfaction He left behind him one only son named John the grand Braggadocio and Lyer of the age he lived in bred in C. C. Coll. in this University made early motions and ran with the times as his Father did was a Recruiter of the Long Parliament consented to the tryal of the King was a Colonel while Oliver was Protector from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 9 of March 1657 was one of the six Clerks in Chancery and for a time Governour of Windsore Castle In 1672 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and in the latter end of 1677 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. K. Ch. 2. This person who hath two or more Speeches in print spoken in the times of Usurpation died at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks the Mannour which his Father purchased of the Fettiplaces on the ninth day of Nov. 1681 and was buried in the Church there near to the body of his second wife named Mary Blewet the widow of .... Stonehouse Baronet by whom he had one only son named William who took to wife Catherine Hamilton of the noble Family of the Hamiltons in Scotland particularly of those of Pasley and by her had issue John and James Lental He died at Burford on the 5 of Sept. 1686 aged 27 years or thereabouts and was buried near to the grave of his Grandfather HUMPHREY CHAMBERS a Gentlemans son was born in Somersetshire became a Communer of University College in 1614 aged 15 years stood for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. in 1619 but put aside as insufficient notwithstanding he like a vain man had a little before taken occasion to display his Oratory in a flourishing Speech on the death of a Student of Univ. Coll. not in the Rectory or Chappel as the custom is but in a pew set in the middle of the Quadrangle on purpose After he had taken the degree of Master of Arts he entred into holy orders and in June 1623 was made Rector of Claverton in his own Country on the death of Joh. Bewshen Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Div. and was esteemed by the neighbouring Ministers an orthodox man But when the times began to change in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines and maintained a horse and man at his own charge in actual service against the King Soon after he had the rich Rectory of Pewsie near to Marlborough in Wilts bestowed on him for
Parliament to the H. of Commons c. on Jerem. 8.11 Lond. 1660. qu. Therein is somewhat added above what was preached 6 God's great demonstration and demands of justice mercy c. Serm. on Micah 6.8 before the H. of Com. at their solemn Fast before their first sitting 30 Apr. 1660. Lond. 1660. qu. And other Sermons which I have not yet seen Certain scruples and doubts of conscience about taking the solemn League and Covenant tendered to the consideration of Sir Laur. Bromfield and Zach. Crofton Lond. 1643 and 1660. qu. Hierapistes or a defence by way of Apology of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1653. qu. Christ at the Wedding or the pristine sanctity and solemnity of Christian Marriages Lond. 1654. qu. The case of the Ministers maintenance by tithes plainly discussed in conscience and prudence c. Lond. 1653. qu. It must be now known that Oliver Cromwell by his Declaration did require all persons not to entertain in any capacity whatsoever any person engaged in the late Wars for the King or who were any way assistant to his cause prohibiting then also all such persons the exercise of any part of their Ministry Whereupon this severity moved our Author to write this Pamphlet A petitionary remonstrance presented to Oliver Protector 4 Feb. 1655 in behalf of his distressed brethren of the Church of England deprived of all publick Employment by his Declaration 1 Jan. 1655. Lond. 1659. qu. At the same time Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland went from Riegate to Whitehall on purpose to the said Protector to interceed for his indulgence towards them He took also the safest opportunities for mediating for them for the space of more than a month but was forced at last to retreat to his Country retirement and so to his grave with little success and less hope to his great grief and sorrow using this expression to our Author Dr. Gauden that he saw some men had only guts and no bowells c. But if another Author may be believed his intercessions did take effect Ecclesiae Anglicanae suspiria setting forth her former Constitution compared with her present condition in 4 books Lond. 1659. fol. Antisacrilegus or a Defensative against the plausibleness or guilded poyson of that nameless Paper supposed to be the plot of Dr. Cornelius Burges and his Partners which attempts the Kings Maj. by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament to the Purchasers of Bishops c. Lands their illegal bargain for 99 years Lond. 1660. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Account of the life and death of Dr. Ralph Brownrig lately B. of Exeter This is at the end of his funeral Sermon before mention'd The loosing of S. Peters bonds setting forth the true sense and solution of the Covenant in point of conscience Lond. 1660. qu. Answer'd by one Joh. Rowlands in a pamphlet printed in qu. the same year Analysis of the Covenant Lond. 1660. qu. Soon after came out two answers The first of which was intit after this rude manner An anatomy or confutation of that idolized piece of nonsense and blasphemy of Dr. Gauden c. No name is set to it The second was St. Peters bonds abide by Zach. Crofton Both which were printed at Lond. 1660. qu. These two were soon after replyed upon by John Russell of Chinkford in Essex in a little piece in qu. intit The solemn League and Covenant discharged or S. Peters bonds not only loosed but annihilated c. attested by our Author Gauden Lond. 1660. in 3 sh and half in qu. Whether the said Joh. Russell be the same with him who became Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. 1630 in which year Will. and Franc. Russell before mentioned were entred Students of the same house I cannot yet tell About the same time came out another book intit An Anonymus Questionist in defence of Dr. Gauden c. And soon after this Analepsis Analeptica The fastning of S. Peters bonds in seaven links or proportions or the efficacy and extent of the solemn league and covenant asserted and vindicated against the doubts and scruples of Dr. Joh. Gaudens Anonym Questionist Mr. Joh. Russells St. Peters bonds not only loosed c. Dr. Featley his League illegal falsly fathered on him and The University of Oxon their reasons for not taking the Covenant c. Written by Zach. Crofton Minister of S. Botolphs Aldgate in London After this our Author Gauden came out with Anti Baal-Berith or the binding of the Covenant and all Covenantiers to their good behaviour By a just vindication of Dr. Gaudens Analysis that is his resolving the Covenant to law and justice to duty and conscience to reason and religion or to his dissolving it against the cacotomy of a nameless and shameless Libeller the worthy Hyperaspites of Dr. Burges Also against the pitiful cavils and objections of Mr. Zach. Crofton a rigid Presbyter with an answer to that monstrous paradox of No sacriledge no sin to alienate Church lands without and against all laws of God and man c. Lond. 1661. qu. The said Crofton came out soon after with a reply intit Anti-Bereth-Baal c. Lond. 1661. qu. Considerations touching the Liturgy of the Church of England in reference to his Maj. late Declaration c. Lond. 1661. qu. Answer'd by a vain and idle book intit Rhetorick restrained or Dr. Joh. Gauden Lord B. elect of Exeter his considerations of the liturgy of the Church of England considered and clouded Published under the name of Tho. Bold of Exon attested by Zach. Crofton and printed at London the same year Counsell delivered to 44 Presbyters and Deacons after they had been ordained by him in the Cath. Ch. of Exeter c. 13 Jan. 1660. Lond. 1661. in Lat. and Engl. in 2 or 3 sh in fol. printed also at Lond. in Lat. by it self Life of Mr. Richard Hooker This is written in a large Preface before Mr. Hooker's works which Dr. Gauden pablished at Lond. 1661. fol. In the said life and preface he doth with great confidence use divers Arguments to satisfie the world that the three books joyned to the five genuine books of the said Mr. Hooker are genuine and pen'd by him notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the regal power which are to be found therein He hath also committed many errors as to several matters relating to his life and actions which being made evident elsewhere I shall now pass them by and proceed A pillar of gratitude humbly dedicated to the glory of God the honour of his Majesty c. for restoring of Episcopacy Lond. 1661 2 in a thin fol. On which book hangs an old story written by a Presbyterian but whether all true I must leave it to the judgment of the Reader He tells us that About the month of January 1661 a reverend gaudy Prelate did put forth A pillar of gratitude c. wherein having
Redeeming the time serm on Ephes 5.16 Lond. 1658. qu. Looking unto Jesus A view of the everlasting Gospel or the Souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation Lond. 1658. qu. Printed with the former In the penning of which he took most delight as being a subject as he complains almost wholly neglected by all others Warre with Devils Ministration of and Communion with Angells Printed also with the former At the end of this Treatise are subjoined two Letters the first written by Rich. Baxter dat at Lond. 29 Nov. 1661. and the other by Will. Cole dat at Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He hath also a Sermon extant preached at the funeral of the Lady Houghton which I have not yet seen nor others He died suddenly of an Apoplexy as I have heard but when I know not JAMES HEATH Son of Rob. Heath the Kings Cutler living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster was born I presume there educated in Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646 aged 17 ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 lived afterwards upon his Patrimony and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent and then married which hindred his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them He was a good School-scholar had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen but wanted a head for a Chronologer and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. Lond. 1661. oct enlarged by the Author and compleated from 1637 to 1663 in four parts Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War which makes the book valued the more by some Novices But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets and all sorts of News-books are innumerable Errors therein especially as to name and time things chiefly required in History To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662 to 1675. by Joh. Philipps Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazets Another Edit is continued to 1691. Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable Writer who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist from the time of Christ till the year 1648 and and of divers other things The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659 till this present c. Lond. 1662. in a large oct It reaches to the month of May 1661 and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Gaâ—ter the Nobility Archb. and Bishops Judges Baronets and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662. Flagellum or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper Lond. 1663. The third Edit came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct Elegy with Epitaph on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincolne who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh of paper A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors who have endured the pains and terrors of death arraignment c. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State Lond. 1663. in tw Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant all the particulars of that Subject c. Printed in tw but when I know not for I have not yet seen it He died of a Consumption and Dropsie in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish near to the Skreen-door leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish as also the foundation of other matters which he intended to have published if life had been spared JOHN L'ISLE son of Sir Will. L'isle of Wootton in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire Knight was born there became a Communer of the upper Order of Magd. Hall in the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took a degree in Arts went to one of the Temples and at length became a Barrister and Counsellor of note In the year 1640 he was chose a Burgess for Winchester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13 of Apr. and again for the same place in that unhappy Convention that met on the 3 of Nov. following In which last Parl. he improved his interest to the purpose bought State lands good cheap was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester which belongs to a Divine upon the Ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis which Office he voluntarily surrendring up into the hands of the Parliament in the latter end of June 1649 it was confer'd upon John Cook the then Sollicitor General In Dec. 1647 he was appointed one of the Commons to carry to his Maj. in the Isle of Wight the four Bills dethroning Bills and in Jan. 1648 was one of the Judges to condemn to death his said Majesty Soon after he was constituted a Member of the Council of State and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary and from that to Kingly again and did swear Oliver Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate contrary to the four Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that made it Treason so to do In 1654 he by the name of John L'isle one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal and Recorder of Southampton was chose Burgess for that place to serve in the Parliament which began 3 of Sept. the same year was afterwards taken out of the House to have a negative Voice in the other House that is House of Lords and made President of the High Court of Justice for a time by whose violence acted there fell many gallant and heroick Spirits some of which I am now about to mention He hath extant under his name Several Speeches as 1 Speech spoken in a common Hall London 3 Jul. 1645. concerning observations on the Kings Cabinet of Letters See more in Tho. Browne under the year 1673. 2 Speech while he was Pres. of the High Court of Justice at the pronouncing of sentence of death on Sir Hen.
Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh and Dr. Joh. Hewit Jun. 2. an 1658. 3 Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton Edm. Stacy Oliv. Allen Will. Carrent Joh. Betteley Hen. Fryer and Joh. Sumner July 2. 1658 c. Which Speeches I have seen printed Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others among whom are Rog. Boyle Baron of Broghill in Ireland Sir Charles Wolseley Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey c. all Oliver's Lords A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he with other Regicides fled beyond the seas and L'isle setling at Losanna he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellour of England being always vested with the robe of that dignity At length certain Irish-men taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him as they did Edm. Ludlow Will. Goffe Edward Whaley c. for a time and shew him so much respect and honour as they did one of them ventred upon him as he was going to Church accompanied with the chief Magistracy and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four Which done two more Irish men rode into the press and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there as I have been credibly informed leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Non-conformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutch-man born originally a Schoolmaster and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden Whence coming into England upon no good account was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge which he was about to found some years before his death But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy was upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cosin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. which afterwards came to his Majesties knowledge silenced and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex lived there for some time Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute their designs he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage in the beginning of May 1649 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging and finding him at supper stab'd him in several places and cut his throat whereupon one of them said Thus dyes one of the Kings Judges This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword Afterwards they quietly departed and 't was not known but privately for some time after who did the fact Within few days following this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note then in their custody and certainly they had done it had he not made a timely escape Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following where continuing till Sept. 1661 was then taken up with the bodies of other Cromwellians and buried in a hole in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning He hath published as 't is said several things but all that I have seen of his is De praelio Nuportano Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu. JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon 2 Febr. 1598 bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a Communer for a time of Brasn Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615 and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton and after the Kings restoration in 1660 he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing was a sententious and acute Preacher and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages He hath written Grammatica Arabica In 3. vol. in qu. Danielis Prophetiae Liber Syriace In one vol. qu. Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia formâ oblonga In 4. vol. oct Flexio Verborum Arabicorum In one octavo All which are written with his own hand and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton on the twentieth day of Octob. RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622 was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitour or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he left the University and through some petite employments of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause a reformer of his Church of Superstition as he called it by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel by denying his Parishioners particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton the Sacrament unless they would take it any way except kneeling c. He was one of the Assemb of Divines a great Covenantier an eager
come within the compass of a remedy in a short time and likewise the Tooth-ach infallibly Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants Lond. 1661. oct and 69. qu. Spoken on the 23 of Jan. 1660 in a large meeting of the Royal Society in Gresham Coll. Printed in Lat. at Amsterd 1663. and 69. in tw under this title Dissert de plantarum vegitatione Choice and experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery Cordial and distilled Waters and Spirits Perfumes and other Curiosities These two last things were translated out of several Languages for so they were collected and written by George Hartman sometimes Steward to Sir Kenelme the Collector and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct The first was printed afterwards under this title Medicina experimentalis Franc. 1677. oct His Closet opened whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin Sider Cherry-wine c. Lond. 1669. 77. oct Excellent directions for Cookery c. Lond. 1669. 77. octavo Choice collection of rare chymical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy As also rare and unheard of medicines Menstruums and Alkahests with the true secret of volatizing the fixt salt of Tartar c. Lond. 1682. oct c. Published by Hartman before mention'd who had operated for Sir Kenelme for many years These are all the things which he hath written that I yet know of except as some are pleased to say which I scarce believe the Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and the Revenues thereof Lond. 1646. 47 which he published at the request of the Earl of Dorset See more in Rich. Steuart under the year 1651. He also translated into English A Treatise of adheering to God Lond. 1654. oct Written by Albert the great Bishop of Ratisbon To conclude he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Covent Garden on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in a Vault built at his own charge under the east end of the south Isle or Alley joyning the Choire of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London by the body of Venetia his sometimes wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Edw. Stanley of Tongue-Castle in Shropshire to whose memory he had some years before his death erected over the said Vault a stately altar monument of black marble and thereon had caused her bust made of Copper gilt to be fastned with four inscriptions of Copper gilt to be affixed to the said monument Which being done he caused the draught or picture of the said monument with the several inscriptions to be entred in a large folio book of Vellam containing the history of the family of Digby which our Author caused to be made of all matters relating thereunto that could be found from record either remaining in the custody of his family or in the Tower or any office in London together with the pictures of their monuments that could be found in any Church whatsoever in which they had been buried Which book as his son John hath said did cost his father about 1000 l. The next year after our Author Sir Kenelme was buried the said monument with bust was spoiled and defaced when the Church it self was burnt in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London His study of books being a most admirable collection which he had conveyed into France in the time of the Rebellion fell after his death for want of his being naturalized into the French Kings hands of whom being beg'd by a certain Gentleman it was sold as the report then went for ten thousand Crowns Sir Everard Digby father to Sir Kenelme was a most goodly Gentleman and the handsomest man of his time but much pitied for that it was his ill fate to suffer for the Powder-plot in 1605 aged 24 at which time when the Executioner pluck'd out his heart when his body was to be quartered and according to the manner held it up saying Here is the heart of a Traytor Sir Everard made answer Thou liest This a most famous Author mentions but tells us not his name in his Historia vitae mortis The said Sir Everard was son of Everard Digby of Dry stoke before mention'd sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge an 1579 a Publisher then and after of several books as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you among which is A Dissuasive from taking away the Goods and Livings of the Churchy c. Printed at Lond. in qu. This Everard the Writer died at Dry-stoke in 1592. or thereabouts Sir Ken. Digby had a younger brother called Sir Joh. Digby who very readily serv'd his Majesty K. Ch. 1. when his Parliament took up Arms against him was a Colonel and afterwards a Major Gen. in the western parts of England while Mr. Joh. Digby a younger son of John Earl of Bristow was a Gen. there for his Maj. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN LEWGAR was born of gentile parents in London admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 and in that of his age 14 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time beneficed in Essex After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion wherein Chillingworth shewing himself a person of great dexterity Lewgar was at length meerly by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church and that the Protestants were all in the wrong as he used often to tell his friends and withall to add that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit but high and conceited and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience c. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert called Lord Baltimore who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. travelled into Maryland belonging to the said Lord where after he had spent several years and had buried his wife he returned into England some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore where he wrot Erastus junior a solid Demonstration by Principles forms of Ordination Common Laws Acts of Parliament that no Bishop Minister nor Presbyter hath any Authority to preach c. from Christ but from the Parliament Lond. 1659. 60. Erastus senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that admitting Lambeth Records to be true those called Bishops here in England are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction or so much as legal c. Lond. 1662. oct He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London in sixteen hundred sixty and five by too much exposing
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUEâ— FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
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
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 â—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
the second Vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts and printed at Lond. 1665. fol. having been by him performed during his retirement in the time of sickness at Kingston upon Thames This author was afterwards published in lesser volumes with this title The Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse adorned with sculptures and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1673. 74. in two vol. in oct The next things that he composed were The Ephesian Matron and The Roman Slave two heroick poems dedicated to Thomas Earl of Ossory And altho a second part met with a fate not common yet it was esteemed equal with the former Afterwards he wrot Carolies an Epick poem in 12. books so called from our miracle of Heroes K. Ch. 1. being the best pattern of true prudence valour and christian piety This was utterly lost in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 when then the habitation of our author Ogilby in the White friers near Fleet-street was burnt and he himself undone having but 5 l. left to begin the world again But so it was that he had such an excellent invention and prudential wit and was Master of so good addresses that when he had nothing to live on he could not only shift handsomly but would make such rational proposals which were embraced by rich and great men that in short time he would obtain an estate again He never failed in what he undertook but by his great industry and prudence went through it with profit and honor to himself Soon after the said conflagration he had his house in the White friers before mention'd rebuilt set up a Printing-house therein employed able workmen became his Majesties Cosmographer and Geographick Printer and by proposals printed several books that he and his Assistants had translated and collected as 1 An Embassy from New Batavia to the Emperor of China c. Lond. 1669. fol. adorned with Maps prospects and various sculptures as all the books following which he published were 2 Description of Africa c. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first part of his English Atlas 3 Descript of America c. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second 4 Atlas Japanensis Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassie from the East India Company of the Unital Provinces to the Emperour of Japan c. Lond. 1670. fol. 5 Atlas Chinensis Being the second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two Embassies from the East India Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simlamong c. Lond. 1671. fol. 6 Asia the first part being an accurate description of Persia and the several Provinces thereof c. Lond. 1673. 74. fol. The 2d part the author did not live to finish however this is looked upon as another part of the English Atlas 7 Description of Europe not finished by the Author who intended it to be the fourth part of the Engl. Atlas 8 Britannia An Historical and Geographical description of Britanie c. The first part fol. All which are printed on imperial paper adorned with maps and most curious sculptures and were carried on and sold by way of standing Lotteries There also goes under his name A pocket book of Roades in England and a new map of the City of London as it is new built c. Printed in one sheet of large paper He also and Will. Morgan made A new and accurate Map of the City of London distinct from Westminster and Southwark c. which is six foot long and six foot deep with a long narrow book to describe the places therein as also A Map of London Westminster and Southwark and A survey of Essex with the roads therein exactly measured c. At length Mr. Ogilby having lived to a fair age gave way to fate on the fourth day of Sept. 1676. and was buried in the Vault under part of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London At which time many Persons of great knowledg usually said that had he been carefully educated when a young man in an University might have proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch Nation JAMES HOWELL was born in Caermerthenshire particularly as I conceive at Abernant of which place his Father was Minister In what year he was born I cannot precisely tell you yet he himself saith that his ascendant was that hot constellation of Cancer about the midst of the Dog-days After he had been educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Hereford he was sent to Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1610 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then being a pure Cadet a true Cosmopolite not born to land lease house or office was in a manner put to it to seek his fortune but by the endeavours of friends and some money that his Father assisted him with he travelled for three years into various Countries whereby he advantaged himself much in the understanding of several languages Some years after his return he was sent into Spain 1622 to recover of the King of that place a rich English Ship seized on by his Vice Roy of Sardinia for his Masters use upon some pretence of prohibited goods therein Three years after his return in which interval he was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1623 he was entertained by Emanuel Lord Scrope Earl of Sunderland and Lord President of the North and by him was made his Secretary So that residing in York for that purpose he was by the Mayor and Aldermen of Richmond chose a Burgess for their corporation to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster in the year 1627. Four years after he went Secretary to Robert Earl of Leycester Embassador extraordinary from our King to the King of Denmark before whom and his Children he shew'd himself a quaint Orator by divers lat speeches spoken before them shewing the occasion of their Embassie to condole the death of Sophia Qu. Dowager of Denmark Grandmother to Ch. 1. K. of England Afterwards going through several beneficial employments particularly the assisting the Clerks of the Council was at length in the beginning of the Civil War made one of those Clerks but being prodigally inclined and therefore running much into debt he was seized on by order of a certain Committee after the King was forc'd from his Parliament and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. So that having nothing to trust to but his wits and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Pernassus which he held in fee of the Muses he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books which tho several of them are meer scribbles yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistance during his long stay there After the Kings return in 1660 we never heard of his restauration to his place of Clerk of the Council having before flatter'd Oliver and sided with the Commonwealths men only that he was made the Kings Historiographer being the first in England that bore that title and having no
intemeratâ Parliamento praestitâ morte inopinâ noctu correptus diem suum obiit id Nov. A o libertatis humanae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. A o libertatis Angliae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. Aetatis suae Lv. Hoc in honorem servi tam bene meriti Parliament Reipub. Angl. P. P. Soon after was an Epitaph made in answer to it beginning thus Asta viator poetam legas Lucani interpretem quem ita feliciter Anglicanum fecerat ut Maius simul Lucanus videbatur c. But before his body had rested in the said South Isle eleven years 't was taken up with other bodies that had been unwarrantably buried there from 1641. to his Majesties restauration and buried in a large pit in the yard belonging to S. Margarets Church in Westminster where to this day it continueth At the same time his monument also was taken down and throw'd aside and in the place of it was set up that of Dr. Tho. Triplet an 1670. ALEXANDER HUISH was born in the Parish of S. Cuthbert within the City of Wells became either a Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall 1609 from whence being taken by the Foundress of Wadham Coll. was made by her one of the original Scholars thereof an 1613 and in the same year he took the degree of Bach. of Arts being the first of all that obtained that degree as a member of that College Afterwards being Master of his faculty he entred into holy Orders became a noted Preacher and in the year 1627 was admitted to the reading of the sentences Afterwards he was made Rector of Beckington and of Hornbloton in Sommersetshire the last of which he obtained on the death of Thom. Clarke by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Milbourne Esq in the beginning of Febr. 1638. Afterwards he became a sharer of afflictions for the Kings cause in the sad time of rebellion and tho driven from place to place yet in the quiet repose that he sometimes obtained he did improve his talent for the publick good of learning After the return of his Maj. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was restored to what he before had lost and the same year Sept. 12 he was collated to the Prebendship of Whitlackington in the Church of Wells the gift of which he had before obtained He was a person well read in the Fathers a noted Critick a good Linguist and a solid and sober Divine He hath written Lectures on the Lords Prayer in three parts Lond. 1626. qu. He also was much assisting to Dr. Brian Walton in the compleating the Polyglot Bible was one of the four correctors of it at the Press and took great pains in the Septuagint translation the Greek text of the New Testament and the vulgar latine compared with the most antient Alexandrian MS copy with the old edit of the Septuagint printed at Rome according to the Vatican copy and Rob. Stephens his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament and did diligently collect the various readings of the Alexandrian Copy which are throughout the work put under the Roman edition of the Septuagint and Stephens's edition of the Greek text of the New Testament In the sixth vol. of the said Polyglot Bible our author Huish hath a Greek Hymn with the latine to it written by him on S. Hilaries day 13. Janu. Styl vet 1657 8 in the year of his great climacteric 63. At length having lived beyond the age of man and done extraordinary benefit for the common good died in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried either at Beckington or Hornbloton In his Prebendship succeeded Henry Dutton Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon to which he was collated on the 22. of April in the same year See more of Alex. Huish in the first vol. an 1617 in John Flavell nu 447. GEORGE HALL son of Dr. Joseph Hall sometimes Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwich was born at Waltham Abbey in Essex where his Father had been a constant Preacher for above 20 years had the seeds of virtue sown in him very early by his said Father who when this his Son was ripe for the Univ. sent him to Exeter Coll. an 1628 aged 16 years Where living in the condition of a commoner under a noted and careful Tutor he became Fellow of that house an 1632 and afterwards proceeding in Arts took holy Orders became Archdeacon of Cornwall and Vicar of Mayhenet in that County What his sufferings were in the time of rebellion I know not Sure I am that several years before his Majesties restauration he was first preacher of S. Barthelmews near to the Old Exchange and afterwards Vicar of S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London and that after his Majesties restauration he became one of his Chaplains Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. G. Goodman who had held it in Commendam with the See of Glocester Doctor of Divinity actually created and Archdeacon of Canterbury At length upon the death of Dr. Hen. Ferne he was consecrated Bishop of Chester on the eleventh day of May an 1662 and about the same time had the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire confer'd on him by Sir Orlando Bridgman then chief Justice of the Common-pleas Which rich rectory he kept in Commendam with his See to his dying day He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Gods appearing for the tribe of Levie Serm. preached at S. Pauls 8. Nov. 1655 to the Sons of the Ministers on Rom. 8.31 Lond. 1656. qu. 2 Serm. at Court on Psal 7.9 Lond. 1666. oct c. He hath also written a book against Papists and Popery entit The triumphs of Rome over despised protestancy Lond. 1655. qu. there again 1667. oct He paid his last debt to nature in the rectory house at Wigan before mentioned on the 23. of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried at the east end of the Rectors Chancel there Over his grave was soon after a large marble stone laid with this inscription thereon P. M. S. ejus repostus pulvere in sacro cinis expectat istic ultimae sonum Tubae mendace qui ne falleret titulo lapis sonum hoc sepulchro jussit incidi suo Georgius Hall S. Th. Pr. Ecclesiae dei servus inutilis sed cordatus D. Josephi Hall Praesulis pientissimi primo Exoniensis dein Norwicensis scriptis semper victuri filius imo umbra potius sex inter septemque annos sedit non meruit Cestriae Episcopus denatus aetatis suae anno LV. Christi vero MDCLXVIII Mirare lector Praesulis modestiam aliunde quaeras caetera By his last Will and Test he gave to Exeter Coll. after the decease of his Wife Gertrude who was afterwards buried under the same marble his Golden cup and all his Estate of land at Trethewen in S. Germans in Cornwall to the end that they be employed to the best commodity
and sometimes at London he continued with that Count more than an year In which time he did translate one of Virgils Aeneids and burlesqu'd it but whether he ever publish'd it I know not K. Ch. 1. did grant to him the reversion of the place of Surveyor of his buildings after the decease of Inigo Jones Which place he entring upon at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 for the said Jones died 21. July 1651 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London he enjoyed it to the time of his death and got by it 7000 l. In the year following he was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. and became much renown'd in the Court of that King for his ingenuity but upon some discontent arising from a second match he became craz'd for a time and so consequently contemptible among vain Fops Soon after being cured of his distemper he wrot excellent verses on the death of Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and some months after followed him The things that he hath written and translated have been many but those that are published are only these The Sophy a tragedy Lond. 1642. qu. and 1667. oct Coopers hill a poem Oxon 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at Lond. 1650 and 55 in qu. There again in 1667. 68. in oct A poem it is which for the Majesty of the stile is and ever will be the exact standard of good writing It was translated into Latin verse by Moses Pengrey as I shall elsewhere tell you An Essay against gaming Lond. in about 3 sh in oct This I have not yet seen Cato Major of old age a poem Lond. 1648. in tw in 4 parts c. The destruction of Troy or an Essay upon the second book of Virgils Aeneids Lond. 1656. in 4 sh and an half in qu written in the year 1636. Panegyrick on his excellency the Lord General George Monk Commander in chief c. Printed at Lond. in one sh in qu. in the month of Mar. 16â—â— â—â— Tho the name of John Denham is not set to it yet the frequent report was then among the Academians that he was the author of it Various poems and translations Lond. 1667 68. c. oct Among which is The Destruction of Troy Cato Major before mention'd and A Poem on Mr. Abr. Cowleys death and burial among the antient Poets Which last was a little before printed by it self in one sheet in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them also as I remember is The Prologue to his Majesty at the first play presented at the Cock pit in Whitehall being part of that noble entertainment which their Majesties received Nov. 19. an 1660 from his Grace the D. of Albemarle Which Prologue was printed by it self at Lond. 1660. on one side of a broad sheet or paper A new version of the Psalmes of David This I have not yet seen only mention of it in an excellent copy of verses made in its commendation by Mr. Sam. Woodford sometimes of Wadham Coll in his Occasional compositions in English rimes Lond. 1668. p. 146. The true Presbyterian without disguise or a character of a Presbyterians way and actions Lond. 1680. in half a sh in fol. The name of Sir John Denham is set to this poem but then question'd by many whether ever he was the author of it See other works of his poetry in Sir Will. D'avenant before mention'd He died at his Office near to Whitehall which he before had built in March in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried on the 23 of the same month in the s cross isle or trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer and Abr. Cowley In the year 1666 were printed by stealth in oct certain poems entit Directions to a painter in four copies or parts and each dedicated to K. Ch. 2 in verse They were very satyrically written against several persons engaged in the War against the Dutch an 1665 and at the end of the said four parts is a copy entit Clarindons house-warming Sir John Denhams name is set yet they were then thought by many to have been written by Andrew Marvell Esq and after that his epitaph both bitterly reflecting on Edw. E. of Clarendon his house called Clarendon house and his ways of scraping up wealth To which Directions tho The Printer that printed them being discovered stood in the pillory for the same GEORGE BATE a most noted Physitian of his time Son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in Buckinghamshire was born at Maidsmorton near to Buckingham became one of the Clerks of New Coll. in the beginning of 1622 aged 14 years was thence translated to Qu. Coll. for a time and thence to S. Edm. Hall took the degrees in Arts as a member of the last entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that faculty 1629 at which time being licensed to practice exercised it in and near Oxon. for some years among precise and puritanical people he being then taken to be one of their number In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty and became thereupon more noted among men especially when K. Ch. 1. to whom he was chief Physitian and his Court kept their residence several years in Oxon in the time of the grand rebellion Afterwards when his Maj. and his cause declined he retired to London closed with the times for interest sake became Physitian to the Charter-house Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and at length chief Physitian to Oliver while he was General and afterwards when Protector and did not stick tho he pretended to be a concealed Royalist to flatter him in an high degree Upon the restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 he got in with the Royal party by his Friends report that he by a dose given to Oliver hastned him to his end was made chief Physitian to K. Ch. 2. and a member of the Royal Society His published works are these The Royal Apologie or the declaration of the Commons in Parliament 11. Feb. 1647. canvassed Printed 1648 in about 14 sh in qu. There was also a book entit The Regal Apologie printed as 't is said at Paris the same year in qu but who the author of it was I know not unless the King himself Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia simul ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brevis narratio Par. 1649. Franc. ad Maen 1650. 51. qu. Which being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylyn before it went to the Press or else when the second part was joyned to it were by him made many observations on it which much tended to the honor of the King and Church This first part of Elenchus was translated into English by an unknown hand and printed at Lond. 1652 in oct The second part of the said Elenchus wherein the author was
have mention'd in the first vol. of this work under the year 1621 by Joan his wife daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire was born in the same house and chamber at Wornal in Bucks wherein his father had received his first breath in the month of January 1591. and was baptized there on the 16 of the said month educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordsh and partly in the College School at Westminster from which last he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1608 being then put under the tuition of a noted Tutor Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders became a most florid preacher and successively Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. 1. of pious memory Archdeacon of Colchester Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral Canon of Ch. Ch Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 D. of D. and Dean of Rochester in which Dignity he was installed 6. Febr. 1638 but whether in the room of Dr. John Richardson who occurs Dean of that Church in Apr. 1636 in which month and year he died or in that of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall who had the grant of the Deanery of Durham made to him in 1638 but not installed therein till May 1639 I cannot justly tell In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester being one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late promoted to that honorable office to which being consecrated at Westminster as it seems on the 19. of Decemb. the same year sate there without any removal saving only that by the members of the Long Parliament to the time of his death When he was young he delighted much in the studies of Musick and Poetry which with his wit and fancy made his conversation much accepted When he was elder he applied himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity in which faculty he became eminent as his Sermons partly shew which remain'd fresh in the minds of his Auditors many years after his death His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached at Pauls cross 25. Nov. 1621. upon occasion of that false and scandalous report lately printed touching the supposed apostacy of Dr. John King late B. of Lond. on Joh. 15.20 Lond. 1621. qu. To which is added The examination of Tho. Preston taken before the Archb. of Cant. at Lambeth 20. Dec. 1621 concerning his being the author of the scandalous report of Bishop Kings apostacy 2 Davids enlargement the morning Sermon on Act Sunday on Psalm 32.5 Oxon. 1625. qu. See more in John King in the first vol. an 1638. p. 526. 3 Sermon of deliverance at the Spittle on Easter Munday on Psal 91.3 Printed 1626. qu. 4 Two Sermons at Whitehall in Lent on Eccles 12.1 and on Psal 55.6 Printed 1627. in qu. 5 Serm. at Pauls on his Maj. inauguration on Jer. 1.10 Printed 1640. in qu. 6 Sermon at Whitehall 29. May being the happy day of his Maj. inauguration and birth on Ezek. 21.27 Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Serm. at the funeral of Brian Bishop of Winchester in the Abbey Ch. of Westm 24. Apr. 1662 on Psal 116.15 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 Visitation Serm. at Lewis 8. Oct. 1662 on Titus 2.1 Lond. 1663. qu. 9 Sermon preached 30. Jan. 1664 at Whitehall being the day of the Kings Martyrdome on 2 Chron. 35.24.25 Lond. 1665. qu. Exposition on the Lords Prayer delivered in certain Sermons on Matth. 6.9 c. Lond. 1628. qu. It must be now observed that this worthy Bishop being at divine Service on Sunday in a certain Church at Langley I think in Bucks and hearing there a Psalm sung whose wretched expression quite marr'd the Pen-mans matter and his devotion he did at his return home that evening try whether from the version of our Bible he could not easily and with plainess suiting the lowest understanding deliver it from that garb which indeed made it ridiculous From one to another he passed on until the whole book was run through Which done he could not resist the advice and importunity of better judgments than his own to put it to the press He was as he confess'd discouraged knowing that Mr. George Sandys and then lately one of our pretended Reformers had failed in two different extremes The first too elegant for the vulgar use changing both meter and tunes wherewith they had been long acquainted the other as flat and poor as lamely worded and unhandsomly rimed as the old which with much confidence he undertook to amend He therefore ventur'd in a middle way as he himself said aiming without affectation of words and endeavouring to leave them not disfigur'd in the sense This version soon after came out with this title The Psalmes of David from the new translation of the Bible turn'd into meter to be sung after the old tunes used in Churches Lond. 1651. 54. in tw c. He hath also written Poems Elegies Paradoxes and Sonnets Lond. 1657. oct When these poems were first published all the report was that Dr. Philip King Brother to the said Hen. King was the author and thereupon it was put into the Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philips name Several letters Among which are extant one or more to the famous Dr. Usher Primat of Ireland and another to Isaac Walton concerning the three imperfect books of Rich. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie dat 13. Nov. 1664. Pr. at Lond. 1665. oct Divers Lat. and Gr. poems Many of which are extant in several books What remains to be observ'd of this Prelate is that he was always puritannically affected and therefore to please the Puritan he was promoted to the See of Chichester That after Episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament he mostly lived in the house of Sir Rich. Hobart who had married his Sister at Langley near to Colebrook in Bucks That being restored to his See at the return of K. Ch. 2. became esteemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and diocess the Epitome of all honors virtues and generous nobleness and a person never to be forgotten by his Tenants and by the Poor That also being not removed to a better See became discontented as I have heard and a favourer thereupon of the Presbyterians in his Diocess And lastly that dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried on the South side of the Choir near the Communion Table belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester Soon after was a comly monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was antiquâ eâque regiâ Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi prosapiâ oriundus that he was natalium splendore illustris pietate doctrinâ virtutibus illustrior c. Near to his body was in short time after buried his eldest Son named John to whose as also to the memory of the said Bishop King did his Widow Anne Daughter of Sir Will. Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh
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 â—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
Davenports perswasion Whereupon Best came out with The Churches plea for her right or a reply to an answer c. Amst 1635. qu and soon after our author Davenport with An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill refused to joyn with the Ministers in their meetings took away many of their disciples such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts and preached and prayed to them in private houses In the beginning of the rebellion he returned into England as other Nonconformists did and had a cure bestowed on him but finding matters not to go current with his humour he by the perswasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there where he continued in great esteem with those of his perswasion to the time almost of his death His other writings are these Catechisme containing the chief heads of Christian religion Lond. 1659. oct Published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England In this Catechisme one Will. Hook a teacher there had a hand I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire author of 1 New Englands tears for old Englands fears c. Print 1640-1 qu. 2 The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven Pr. in oct 3 Sermon in New England in behalf of old England Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons He died in or near London 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden near to the said City See more of him in Jerom Turner an 1655. Several Sermons as 1 The Messiah is already come on Acts 2.36 Lond. 1653. qu. 2 Gods call to his people to turn unto him c. in two Sermons on two publick fasting days in N. England Lond. 1670. qu. 3 Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests on Lam. 3.26 Printed 1661 in tw and others among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18 Lond. 1629. qu. The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget entit The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods Lond. 1672. oct He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mention'd published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants or Saints portion in 14. sermons with four other added an 1629. qu. c. At length he having lived beyond the age of man surrendred up his Soul to God at Boston in New England to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668 on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was inter'd there in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton for whom in his life time he had an extraordinary respect He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing Which being esteemed very fit for the press was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely and Mr. Ed. Veal and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it to be sold for 7. sh in quires in Mich. term an 1687. But soon after the printing of it was stop'd and the merchant who design'd afterwards to publish it died so 't is question'd now whether ever it will see light JOHN MAYNARD esteemed by those of his perswasion an eminent and judicious Divine was born of a gentile family in Sussex at or near Riverfield became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall In 1622 he took the degree of Mast of Arts as a Compounder entred into holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country But when the rebellion broke out he shew'd himself more a Puritan and preached with more liberty than he did before whereupon being appointed one of the Ass of Divines he took the Covenant held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament had other preferments I presume bestowed upon him and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His writings are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1645. qu. 2 A shadow of the victory of Christ Fastâ—serm before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The young mans remembrancer and old mans monitor Lond. 1669 oct The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ or the harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded c. delivered in several sermons Lond. 1674. oct What became of this reverend author after his Majesties restauration I mean whether he conformed or was ejected I know not nor any thing else of him only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction several years after his death 13. June 1687. I find another John Maynard who published a book entit The XII wonders of the world set and composed for the Viol de Gambo the Lute and the voice to sing the verse c. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. Julians in Hertfordshire Another John Maynard who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter under the year 1690. WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term an 1624 aged 15 years Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Div. than Philosophy After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entred into the sacred function and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England but upon the turn of the times in 1â—41 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor put in a Curate into Farnham and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj.
years and was buried according to his desire near the west door fast by the Christning pew in S. Pauls Church in Covent Garden within the liberty of Westm but he was no kin to the former Will. Neile because he was of the Neales of Wollaston near Northampton JOSHUA CHILDREY son of Robert Childrey was born within the City of Rochester where being educated in Grammar learning became a Student in Magd. Coll. in Lent term 1640 aged 17 years and about that time was made one of the Clerks of the said house But soon after leaving the University upon the eruption of the civil war he returned to his native Country and came not again till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time taking the degree of Bach. of Arts was two years after that expelled by the Parliamentarian Visitors Afterwards he taught School at Faversham in Kent yet not without some disturbance by the godly party where continuing till his Maj. restoration was made Chaplain to Henry Lord Herbert was actually created D. of D. and had the Rectory of Upway in Dorsetshire bestowed on him In the year 1663 Jan 23 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Anth. Hawles and on the first of June 1664 he was collated to the Prebendship of Yatminster Prima in the Church of Salisbury by Dr. Earle Bishop of that place he being then accounted a learned and religious Divine a good Astrologer and a great Virtuoso His works are Indago Astrologica or a brief and modest inquiry into some principal points of Astrology as it was delivered by the Fathers of it and is now generally received by the Sons of it Lond. 1652. in 2. sh in qu. Syzygiasticon instauratum or an Ephemeris of the places and aspects of the Planets c. calculated for the year 1653. Lond. 1653 oct His chief design is to prove the aspects of the Planets related to the Sun of greater efficacy in the change of the air then when respecting the earth as center c. Britannia Baconica or the natural rarities of England Scotland and Wales According as they are to be found in every Shire Historically related according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon c. with observations upon them and deductions from them c. Lond. 1661. oct From which book Dr. Rob. Plot took a hint for the writing The natural History of Oxfordshire As for the other works of his which are not extant you may be pleased to know from his letter dated at Upway 12. Jul. 1669. written to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg Secretary of the Royal Soâ—ciety concerning some observations of the weather philosophical collections Portland and Purbeck stones serving for fewel shifting of tydes at Weymouth c. thus In my next God willing I shall send you part of my collections of Naturalls out of voyages and itineraries In the mean time take this brief account of my studies so far as concerns Philosophy Some two years before the happy return of the King I bought me as many paper books of about 16 sheets apiece as my Lord Verulam Bacon had Histories at the end of his Novum Organon Into which books being noted with the figure and title given them by my Lord I entred all Philosophical matters that I met with observable in my reading and intend God willing to continue it This I acquaint you with to let you see how earnest and serious I have been for several years in that which is the business of the Royal Society tho indeed I first fell in love with the Lord Bacons philosophy in the year 1646 and tried several experiments though such as I now reckon be not of any moment in 1647. 48. 49. 50 and besides these I have two larger paper books in folio one of which I call Chronologia naturalis and the other Geographia naturalis the former containing the time of all droughts comets earthquakes c. and the other the natural rarities of Countries These paper books cannot be expected to be yet full and God knows whether I shall live to see them filled But God willing such and so as they are I intend to bequeath them to the Royal Society whensoever I die c. He concluded his last day at Upway before mention'd having never been of the said Society on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In the latter end of Sept. following succeeded him in his Archdeaconry John Sherman Doct. of Div. of Camb. who dying in the parish of S. Sepulchre in London after a short injoyment of that Dignity viz. in the latter end of the year in March 1670 was succeeded in the beginning of May following by John Prideaux D. D. as I shall elsewhere tell you Besides this John Sherman was another of both his names but before him in time educated in Gramar learning in the Charter-house School in Academical in Trin. Coll. in Camb. where he arrived to great eminence in several sorts of literature He wrot a book entit White salt or a sober correction of a mad world in some well wishes to goodness Lond. 1654. oct and another called The infallibility of the holy Scripture asserted c. Lond. 1664. qu. c. This learned religious and conscientious Person died in Aug. as it seems an 1663. EDWARD FORD the eldest Son of Sir John Ford Knight was born at Uppark in the parish of Harting in Sussex became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left that House and whether afterwards he travelled or studied in the Inns of Court I know not Sure it is that about the beginning of the Civil War he was prick'd High Sherriff for Sussex adheer'd to the King at Oxon from whom he received the honour of Knighthood there 4. Oct. 1643 and about that time had a commission to be a Colonel in his Army against the Rebels for which afterwards he suffered equally with other Royalists In Nov. 1647 when the King made his escape from Hampton Court he with Dr. Steph. Goffe were committed to safe custody as being suspected for the design of the Kings escape In 1656 he upon Olivers encouragement and invitation of the chief Citizens of London raised the Thames water into all the highest streets of that City ninety three foot high in four eight-inch pipes to the wonder of all and honor of the nation done at his own charge and in one years time with his rare engine that he had invented for that purpose by which several parts of the nation did afterwards find benefit in the draining of Mines and Lands much better and cheaper than any other device before 'T was he also that made the great water Engine against Somersethouse for the serving the Inhabitants of the Strand and of other parts adjoyning with water which hindring the
assuming to himself the office of a single person that is the Protectorship for which he was more than once imprison'd to the terror of his party In the latter end of 1654 he raised and headed a party of Phanaticks on the rising of the Cavaliers at Salisbury and did all his endeavours to keep down their rising in Wales So that by his great Authority and gains in those parts he from a poor boy a Groom or Ostler as the Author of Strena tells you became great and wealthy purchased some of the Kings Fee-farm Rents and Lordships for the most part in another mans name and to perpetuate his memory built for himself a very fair and sumptuous house in Kerry in Montgomeryshire In 1657 I find him in Oxford where being minded to shew his parts he did by the help of some of the Brethren there get into Allsaints Pulpit on Wednesday 15 July the same year and having got together a great Auditory in a very short time as well of Scholars as Layicks many of whom came purely out of novelty he did first of all very plentifully rail against the Universities and humane Learning and then against certain persons in Oxon among which was Mr. Hen. Hickman Fellow of Magd. Coll for whom he told the Auditory that the Pope would provide for him a Miter and the Devil a Frying-pan c. said upon no other account as was conceived but because the said Mr. Hickman spoke publickly in the Divinity-school in the last Vespers when he disputed upon this question An Ministri Anglicani habeant validam ordinationem that the Church of Rome for ought he knew was a true Church or to that effect not that he was drawn to say so by force of argument but opinion Upon the approach of the Kings restauration he was seized upon and imprison'd at Shrewsbury and according to the opinion of those of his perswasion he suffered much of which matter hear what one of his mind doth cantingly deliver Mr. Vav Powell who is accounted by many Ministers and others that knew him well to be a man of God mighty in Scriptures an able and painful Preacher of the Gospel in a great part of North and South Wales usually preaching as that learned eminent and holy man of God John Calvin did six or seven times or oftner every week to the saving of many from their sins and from hell and swift destruction thereby was seized upon and imprison'd at Shrewsbury as also many of his friends in several northern Counties in Wales not for any crime committed by him or them yea and divers of their houses plundered by Soldiers shewing no warrant for their proceedings therein This was about the latter end of Feb. 1659 c. He tells us also that in South Wales some of the Congregation with that precious man of God Mr. Jenkin Jones who preached the Gospel in several Counties as Mr. Vavasor Powell did was imprisoned also as was Thom. Gwinn a Gentleman Cavalier in Wales who about 1657 was wrought upon by the Ministry of the said Jones and brought over to his party But the said Jones and Gwinn were not imprisoned till his Maj. Restauration About that time all the lands and tenements that had been purchased by V. Powell were taken from him and he removed from Shrewsbury where he was much haunted by his party into Mountgomeryshire and there kept in close custody and from thence to the Prison called the Fleet in London In 1662 he was translated thence to Southsea Castle near Portsmouth where continuing 5 years became intimate with Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch who also was committed Prisoner to that place while Powel was there In 1667 he was removed by Habeas Corpus obtained in Mich term and being set at liberty he retired to Wales but before ten months end falling to the trade of conventicling and preaching Sedition he was made Prisoner again at Cardiff 1668 and the year following was sent to the Fleet again being then at Lambeth because not then rebuilt after it had been burnt down by the dismal Conflagration that hapned in Lond. 1666 where he continued till he was discharged by death He was a person of good natural parts but a grand Schismatick a busie body pragmatical bold and an indefatigable enemy to Monarchy and Episcopacy What his Religion was I cannot justly tell you some held him to be an Anabaptist others a Fifth-monarchy man and a Millinary sure it is he was neither Presbyterian or Independent but a most dangerous and pestilent man and one that did more mischief to his native Country of Wales than can be imagined As for those Books and Pamphlets which go under his name they are these Disputation between him and Joh. Goodwin concerning universal Redemption held in Colemanstreet Lond. 31 Dec. 1649. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader may be pleased now to know that V. Powell upon this dispute supposing himself able to encounter any Minister in Wales did after his settlement there send a bold challenge to any Minister or Scholar that opposed him or his brethren to dispute on these two questions 1 Whether your calling or ours which you so much speak against be most warrantable and nearest to the word of God 2 Whether your mixt ways or ours of Separation be nearest the word of God This Challenge being sent flying abroad 11 of June 1652 it came into the hands of Dr. George Griffith of Llanymynech in Shropsh who looking upon it as sent to him he returned an answer in Latin two days after with promise on certain conditions to dispute with him either in private or publick On the 19 of the same month V. Powell returned a reply in Lat. from Redcastle but so full of barbarities that any School-boy of 10 years of age might have done better After this the Doctor made a rejoynder in elegant Latine wherein he corrected Powell for his false Grammar Barbarisms and Solecisms and did set a day whereon they should meet to dispute on the aforesaid questions but the time place and method with conveniences being discussed and delayed from time to time the disputation was not held till the 23 of July following At that time both parties meeting in the company of their frends Powell's cause fell to the ground meerly as 't was conceived for want of Academical learning and the true way of arguing So that he being then much guilty of his own weakness endeavoured to recover it and his reputation by putting a relation of the Dispute in the News-book called the Perfect Diurnal as if he had been the Conqueror Which relation redounding much to the dishonour of the Doctor he the said Doctor did publish a Pamphlet intit Animadversions on c. See more in George Griffith among these Writers an 1666. p. 270. V. Powell hath also written and published Scriptures concord or a Catechisme compiled out of the words of the Scripture c. Lond. 1647. oct sec edit ibid. 1653. fifth edit Several
Sermons as 1 Christ exalted by the Father God the Father glorified and Mans redemption finished preached before the L. Mayor of Lond. Lond. 1649. qu. c. Christ and Moses excellency or Sion and Sinah's glory being a triplex treatise distinguishing and explaining the two Covenants of the Gospel and the Law c. Lond. 1650. oct Dialogue between Christ and a Publican and Christ and a doubting Christian Common-prayer book no divine service A small curb to the Bishops career c. Lond. 1660. in 5 sh in qu. The bird in the cage chirping c. Lond. 1661 2. oct Written while he was in Prison The Sufferers Catechisme Written also when he was in Prison Brief Narrative concerning the proceedings of the Commissioners in Wales against the ejected Clergy Written upon the spreading of a report that he was put in the Fleet Prison for a great part of the Revenew of the Tythes of Wales from which aspersion as the Brethren called it tho a friend of his had written a Pamphlet called Examen purgamen Vavasoris an 1653 yet not knowing how far such a report might influence to the reproach of the Gospel he did publish the said Pamphlet The young-mans conflict with the Devil Printed in oct This I have not yet seen Sinful and sinless swearing An Account of his Conversion and Ministry Lond. 1671. oct 'T is a canting and enthusiastical piece A confession of Faith concerning the holy Scriptures Printed with the said Account as also two little Appendices Some gracious experimental and very choice Sayings and Sentences Pr. also with the said Account Certain Hymns There also His death-bed Expressions A new and useful Concordance of the Bible with the chief acceptations and various significations contained therein Also marks to distinguish the commands promises and threatnings Lond. 1671 and 73. oct This was mostly done by V. Powell but finished by N. P. and J. F. c. Commended to the world by Edw. Bagshaw and J. Hardcastle and afterwards by Jo Owen D. D. Collection of those Scripture-Prophecies which relate to the call of the Jews and the glory that shall be in the latter days Printed at the end of the said Concordance to which was afterwards 1673 added near nine thousand Scriptures omitted in the former Edition with the addition of the Scripture Similies c. The most ingenious Mrs. Kath. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan hath among her Poetry a Poem upon the double murder of K. Ch. 1 in answer to a libellous copy of rimes made by V. Powel but in what book those rimes are or whether they were printed by themselves I cannot tell He died in the Fleet prison before mention'd on the 27 of Oct. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at the lower or west end of the fanatical burial place near to Bunhill and the New Artillery garden in the Suburb of London in the presence of innumerable Dissenters that then followed his corps Over his grave was soon after erected an altar-monument of free stone on the plank of which was engraven this epitaph made by his dear friend E. Bagshaw before mention'd Vavasor Powell a successful teacher of the past a sincere witness of the present and an useful example to the future age lies here interred who in the defection of so many obtained mercy to be found faithful for which being called to several prisons he was there tried and would not accept deliverance expecting a better resurrection In hope of which he finished this life and testimony together in the eleventh year of his imprisonment and in the 53 year of his age Octob. 27. an 1671. In vain Oppressors do themselves perplex To find out arts how they the Saints may vex Death spoils their plots and sets the oppressed free Thus Vavasor obtain'd true liberty Christ him releas'd and now he 's joyn'd among The martyr'd Souls with whom he cries How long Rev. 6.10 I have been informed by M. Ll who knew and was acquainted with V. Powell that he was wont to say that there were but two sorts of people that had Religion viz. the gathered Churches and the Rom. Catholicks and would not allow it to the Church of England men or to the Presbyterians He farther informed me that when he preached a mist or smoak would issue from his head so great an agitation of spirit he had c. and therefore 't was usually reported by some especially those that favoured him that he represented the Saints of old time that had rayes painted about their heads JOHN HARMAR an excellent Greecian of his time was born at Churchdowne commonly called Chursden near to and in the County of Glocester educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became a Semicommoner or Demie of Magd. Coll. 1611 aged 17 years or more being then about an years standing in the University took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1617 which was the highest Acad. degree he took tho afterwards he was always called by the name of Doctor Harmar About that time he entred into holy Orders was Usher of the School joyning to his College and a Preacher for some time in these parts At length he became the chief Master of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire and thro some petite and pedagogical employments of which the under-Mastership of the Coll. school at Westm was one the Kings Greek Professor of this University and Rector of the Donative of Ewhurst in Hampshire the Patron of which being a convicted Recusant the Vicechancellor and Masters did elect and present him thereunto 30 March 1659 by virtue of the Chancellours letters Rich. Cromwell whom he highly flatter'd written in his behalf But losing those two places after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 he retired to Steventon in Hampshire where he mostly lived on the Joynture of his wife He was a most excellent Philologist and a tolerable Latine Poet was happy in rendring Greek into Latine or Latine into English or English into Greek or Latine whether in prose or verse which we now call transversing and transprosing But as in these he did excell and therefore often made use of by Scholars so did he go beyond all that I knew of his condition that affected popular applause he being of so credulous a humour as to take all that was said or done to him to redound to his honour and credit much like the humour of Tom Coryate who was a Whetstone for the Wits of his time Besides all this he being also a meer Scholar and therefore mostly in a poor and shabbed condition whether in his way of living or habit he flatter'd all Men and Powers that were uppermost whether lawful or usurping and endeavoured to make himself known to all Patrons of Learning if it were only for a meals meat or gain applause He hath written and published these things following Praxis Grammatica verum genuinum declinationum conjugationum usum liquidò indicans c. cum
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 sortâ— of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
1971. On the plank of black marble which covers the monument are the Armes of Bagshaw impaling the pretended Armes of Peacock the said Bagshaw having some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous and superannuated maid but perfectly blind named Margaret the daugh of John Peacock of Chawley in the parish of Comnore near Abendon in Berks but had no issue by her WILLIAM NICOLSON son of Christop Nicolson a rich clothier was born at Stratford near to Hadleigh in Suffolk on the first day of Nov. 1591 educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Madg. Coll being then choirester of that House Afterwards having made an entrance into the Logical Class he was made one of the Clerks took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 at which time I conceive he was Chaplain to Henry Earl of Northumberland then a prisoner in the Tower of London and Tutor to his son the Lord Percy But his cheif delight being exercised in the fac of Grammar and therefore noted by many for it he was made Master of the Free-School at Croydon in Surrey to which office he was admitted 3 Jul. 1616 in the place of one Robert Davys Bach. of Arts of Oxon then displaced for his frequent hunting with dogs and neglecting the School From that time to the beginning of 1629 he continued there doing great benefit by his instruction and then being succeeded by one Joh. Webb M. of A. of Madg. Hall our author retired into Wales where having a little before obtained the rectory of LLandilo-vaour or LLandellovar in Caermerthenshire was made soon after Residentiary of S. David and Archdeacon of Brecknock in the place of one Isaac Singleton in the beginning as it seems of the rebellion In 1643 he was elected one of the Ass of Divines but never as I conceive sate among them and soon after loosing his spiritualities he taught a private School in Caermerthenshire and by his writings defended and maintained the Church of England then exceedingly clouded against its Adversaries After the Kings restauration he was by the endeavours of Edward Earl of Clarerdon L. Chanc. of England designed Bishop of Glocester by his Majesty by vertue of whose letters he was diplomated Doct. or Div. in the beginning of Dec. 1660. and on the sixth of Jan. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster after it had laid void several years by the death of Godfrey Goodman Which Bishoprick he kept without any translation to another See to his dying day keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of Brecknock and the Rectory of Bishops-Cleeve in Glocestershire He was a right learned Divine well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen but above all most excellent he was in the critical part of Grammar in which faculty none in his time or perhaps before went beyond him His writings which shew him to be a person of great erudition prudence modesty and of a moderate mind are these A plain but full exposition of the Catechisme of the Church of England enjoyned to be learned of every child before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop Lond. 1655. 61. 63. 71. qu. c. Apologie for the discipline of the antient Church intended especially for the Church of England Lond. 1659. qu. Exposition on the Apostles Creed delivered in several Sermons Lond. 1661. fol. An easie Analysis of the whole book of Psalmes Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the Bishops Pallace at Glocester on the fifth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried on the eigth day of the same month in a little isle joyning on the South side to the Virgin Maries Chappel in the Cathedral there Over his grave was afterwards a blew stone laid and on the wall near it a table of black marble erected with this inscription following in golden letters Aeternitati S. In spe beatae resurrectionis hîc reverendas exuvias deposuit Theologus insignis Episcopus verè primitivus Gulielm Nicolson in agro Suffolciano natus apud Magdalenenses educatus ob fidem Regi Ecclesiae affictae praestitam ad sedem Glocestrensem meritò promotus an 1660. In concionibus frequens in Scriptis nervosus legenda scribens faciens scribenda Gravitas Episcopalis in fronte emicuit pauperibus quotidianâ Charitate beneficus comitate erga Clerum literatos admirandus gloriae ac dierum satur in palatio suo ut vixit piè decessit Febr. 5. anno aetatis LXXXII Dom. MDCLXXI Elizabetha conjux praeivit in hoc sacello sepulta Apr. xx an Dom. MDCLXIII Owenus Brigstock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermerthen Armiger praedictae Elizabethae nepos hoc grati animi monumentum executore recusante propriis sumptibus erexit an MDCLXXIX The said Brigstock was Grandson to the said Elizabeth GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernarvonshire educated in a private School in Caernarvon applyed his muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church in the latter end of 1603. aged 16 years but before he was honoured with a degree he left that House and by the perswasions of John Williams afterwards B. of Lincoln he removed to Cambridg where he prefer'd him to a Tutor patroniz'd him further'd his entrance into the Ministry and after he had attained to the degree of M. of A. got him to be Chaplain to Philip Earl of Montgomery being about that time also 1614. Parson of S. Bennet Sherhogg in London About the time that he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences he was made Parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales where he received good encouragement in the Ministry from Sir John Wynne Baronet and Sir Rich. Wynne his son and was infinitely admired for his excellent way in preaching and for his religious life and conversation He was then accounted a person very well read in scholastical and historical Divinity as also in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councils and therefore it was that he was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1. he being then D. D. In 1628 he became Prebendary of the eighth Stall in the collegiate Church of Westminster in the room of Dr. Laud who till then had kept it in commendam with his Bishopricks and in 1633 he was made Dean of Banger installed therein 28 Mar. 1634. and Archdeacon of Anglesy which Deanery had before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith Afterwards he was designed to be Tutor to Pr. Charles but Archb. Laud commending to his Majesty Dr. Duppa for that Employment our Author Williams who had been Tutor to the Lord Charles Herbert Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery I mean that Charles who died at or near Florence an 1634. was then put aside to his great discontent In 1641 he was at the motion of his ever honored Lord the said Earl made to the King constituted Bishop of Ossory in Ireland to which See being consecrated
The faithful Shepherd on Psal 80.1 Ibid. 1665. qu. 6 The flying Sea on Psal 114.5 Printed 1665. qu. 7 The only way to preserve life preached before the House of Commons at Oxon on Amos 5. ver 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these he hath several other Sermons which I have not yet seen He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion which was published in English an 1664 but this neither have I yet seen At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny By his last Will and testam dat 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile worth forty pounds per an to be setled upon eight poor distressed Widows for whom he had erected eight several Alms-houses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocess In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut of Ireland for not promoting him as 't is thought to a higher Bishoprick Which being esteemed scandalous was struck out of his Will when proved JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents in Hampshire as it seems educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1652 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1663 being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet as it appears by this book which he composed when a young man Musae sacrae seu Jonas Jeremiae threni Daniel Graeco redditi carmine Oxon. 1652. oct and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses dispersed in various books He died at Petersfield on Good Friday Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton dated at Farnham 26. May 1683. HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sav. was born of a gentile Family at Dobs hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nov. 1625 was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that 1630 he was compleated Master of his faculty In the beginning of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with William Lord Sandys whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married and by the opportunity of that journey he not only learned the Language of that Country saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities but learn'd to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students Soon after his return he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity After the restauration of K. Ch 2 and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Glocester an 1665 and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith He hath written and published Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae an 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus aff c. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after these questions were answer'd by John Tombes of Magd. Hall Thesis Doctoris Savage nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum c. Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombes Printed at the end of Thesis Confirmatio c. Reasons shewing that there is no need of such reformation of the publick 1. Doctrine 2. Worship 3. Rites and Ceremonies 4. Church Government and 5. Discipline as is pretended c. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson since B. of Chester the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii c. entit No necessity c. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage were wrot against a Pamphlet called Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges an 1665. Which tho in the title it is said to have been wrot by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England yet Mr. Baxter saith that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation c. meaning I conceive the said Reasons which so much as he farther affirms offended the Episcopal party This is yet further rendred the more probable because that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. Pearsons No necessity c. Cornel. Burges as possibly judging himself more concern'd than any body else in the success of these Reasons c. in a Postscript to a Treatise of his annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity c. The said Reasons shewing c. were answer'd again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis Dr. Savage hath also written The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion or an answer to a book entit Sions groans for her distressed c. Offered to the Kings Majesty Parliament and People Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book The dew c. have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted or an answer to a book entit Sions groans c. Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation founders and affairs of Balliol College gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities c. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History neither a timing head nor indeed record enough from his Coll. for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 12. Hen. 8. nor no antient rolls of Accompts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented as also the names of the Fellows he hath committed many foul errors therein especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men which never studied or were conversant with the muses therein as Joh. Duns Scotus Dr. Tho. Gascoigne Steph. de Cornubia c. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus Tho. de Wylton Rich. Rotheram Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham c. Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani
there-molested by the loyal party at Ashover and near it he went to London where he became preacher to the Congregation in S. Sepulchres Church and was much admired by the Brethren In the raign of Oliver about 1656 he by the favour of those then in authority became Rector of Waltham in Leycestershire conformed at his Majesties restauration and on the 12. of March 1669 was instituted and inducted into the Rectory of Ailston in the said County This person who was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen hath written and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Rainbow Sermon at Paules Cross 10. June 1617 on Gen. 9.13 Lond. 1617. qu. 2 The Godly mans guide on Jam. 5.13 Lond. 1620. qu. 3 The true way of a Christian to the new Jerusalem or a threefold demonstration c. on 1 Cor. 5.17 Ibid. 1622 qu. 4. Anatomy of Conscience c. Assize Serm. at Derby on Rev. 20.11 Ibid. 1623. qu. c. A light from Christ leading unto Christ by the starr of his word Or a divine directory for self examination and preparation for the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1645. oct In another edition or another title Pr. there in a thick oct the said book hath this title A light c. Or the rich Jewel of Christian Divinity c. by way of Catechism or dialogue Defence of Scriptures and the holy Spirit speaking in them as the chief Judge of Controversies of faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. Vindication of the honor done to the Magistrates Ministeâ—s and others Printed with the Defence c. and both contained in a relation of a disputation at Chesterfield in Derbyshire between some Ministers and James Nayler an erring Quaker The said Defence and Vindication were both answer'd by George Fox a ringleader of Quakers in his book entit The great mysterie of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 127. c. Defence and justification of Ministers maintenance by tithes and of Infant-baptisme humane learning and the Sword of the Magistrate c. in a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to the said Im. Bourne Lond. 1659. qu. Animadversions upon Anth. Perisons Parsons Great case of tithes Printed with the Defence and justification c. A Gold chaine of directions with 20 gold linkes of love to preserve love firme between husband and wife c. Lond. 1669. in tw dedicated to his Patron John Lord Roos What other matters he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 27. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Ailston before mentioned and that soon after was a little inscription put over his grave wherein 't is said that he died in the eighty second year of his age JOSEPH CARYL was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner or Sojournour of Exeter Coll in the beginning of 1621 aged 17 years where by the benefit of a good Tutor and discipline he became in short time a noted Disputant In 1627 he proceeded in Arts and entring into holy Orders exercised his Function in and near Oxon for some time At length being puritanically affected he became preacher to the honorable Society of Lincolns Inn where he continued several years with good liking and applause In 1642 and after he became a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and a Licenser of books for the Cause And in the year following being a zealous Covenantier and a pretender to reformation he was elected one of the Ass of Divines among whom he frequently sate and controverted matters of Religion In 1645 he was made Minister of the Church of S. Magnus near London bridge by the factious party there because he was an enemy to the Bishops and a zealous preacher up of rebellion where for many years he carried on the cause without interruption In January 1646 he with Steph. Marshall both by that time notorious Independents and great siders with the Army raised by the said Parliament to pluck down the K. and his party were appointed Chaplains to the Commissioners sent by the said Parliament to the King then at New-castle in order for an accommodation of peace Thence by easie journeys they accompanied the K. and Commissioners to Holdenly in Northamptonshire where his Maj. making some continuance without any of his Chaplains in Ordinary to wait upon him because they disrelish'd the Covenant they the said Ministers upon the desire of the Commissioners did offer their service to preach before the K. and say Grace at Meales but they were both by him denied the K. alwaies saying Grace himself with an audible voice standing under the State So that our author Caryl and Marshall to whom the King nevertheless was civil did take so great disgust at his Majesties refusals that they did ever after mightily promote the Independent slander of the Kings obstinacy T is said that Marshall did on a time put himself more forward than was meet to say Grace and while he was long in forming his Chaps as the manner was among the Saints and making ugly faces his Maj. said Grace himself and was fallen to his meat and had eaten up some part of his dinner before Marshall had ended the blessing but Caryl was not so impudent yet notwithstanding tho they then fully saw the great civilities moderation sweet temper humility prudence and unexpressible devotion in his Majesty yet there was no reluctancy in them as there were in some of the Commissioners especially in Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne In Sept. 1648 our author Caryl was one of those five Ministers that went with other Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat of peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight where tho he preached before them yet his Maj. would not accept of him or of any of the rest among his Chaplains then with him to pray or preach before him which did again enlarge his disgust The same year January 30 some hours before the K. suffer'd death the Committee of parl ordered that he Phil. Nye and other Ministers should attend the said King to administer to him those spiritual helps as should be sutable to his then present condition but the K. being acquainted with it he would not be troubled with them so that all the desires that our author had to serve or rather impertenize his Maj. were frustrated In Apr. the next year he with Marshall and Nye were employed by the Grandees of the Army to invite and cajole the secured and secluded Members to sit in the Parliament House among the Independents but they effected nothing In Sept. 1650 he and Joh. Owen an Independent Minister were by order of Parliament sent to Scotland to attend Ol. Cromwell who desired their company at that place to receive comfort by their prayers and preachings In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of public Ministers in which
office he lick'd his fingers sufficiently and in the year after he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and School-Masters as they were then by the godly party so called In 1659. Nov. 1. he with Whally Goffe c. began their journey towards Scotland to give George Monke General of the Army there a right understanding of affairs in England in order to the avoiding effusion of more blood but they returned unsatisfied and on the 14. of March following he was with Edw. Reynolds and others appointed by Act of Parliament to approve of and admit Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that being null'd at the Kings restauration he receeded to his cure at S. Magnus where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The works of Ephesus explained in a Serm. before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 27. Apr. 1642 on Rev. 2. ver 2.3 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The nature solemnitie grounds propertie benefits of a sacred Covenant c. preached to those that were to take the Covenant 6. Oct. 1643 on Nehem. 9.38 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The Saints thankfull acclamation at christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of C. 23 Apr. 1644 for the great victory given to the parl Army under the command of the Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorks and to other of the parl forces in Pembrokesh on Rev. 11.16.17 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Arraignment of unbelief as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. May 1645 on Isay 7.9 Lond. 1645. qu 5 Heaven and earth embracing or God and man approaching Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. Jan. 1645 on Jam. 4.8 the former part of the vers Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Joy out-joyed c. Th. giv Serm. at S. Martins in the fields 19 Feb. 1645 for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Luke 10.20 Lond. 1646. qu. 7 Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies and required duties Th. giv Serm. before both Houses of parliament L. Mayor and Aldermen and Ass of Divines 2. Apr. 1646 for recovering of the West and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse c. on Psal 118.17 Lond. 1646. qu. Hugh Peters was the other person that held out before the said auditory on the same day on Psal 31.23 which Sermon was printed twice in 1646. Besides these he hath other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. 1 Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 29. July 1646 At which time Jeremiah Whitaker held forth before the said House as Sam. Bolton and Simeon Ash did before the Lords 2 Thanksgiving Serm. before the Parl. at S. Marg. West Oct. 8. on Psal 111.1.2.3.4.5 3 Fast Serm. before the Parl. 24. Sept. 1656 on Jer. 4. part of the ninth verse and 4 Fast and Thanksgiving Sermon bef the parl in Aug. and Oct. 1659 c. Sermons upon other occasions as 1 Davids prayer for Solomon Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Serm. pr. 1657. 3 Farewell Serm. at S. Magnus on Rev. 3.4 Lond. 1662 oct Printed with other Farewell Sermons of certain Lond. Ministers of the presb and Indep persuasion who were ejected from their respective Churches for nonconformity on S. Barth day 1662. The names of them were Edm. Calamy Dr. Th. Manton Tho. Case Will. Jenkins Rich. Baxter Dr. Th. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Thom. Watson Tho. Lye and Matth. Mead. The pictures of all which are in the title page and the title in the middle of them running thus The farewell Sermons of the late London Ministers preached 17. Aug. 1662 c. Our author Jos Caryl hath also written and published Exposition with practical Observations on the book of Job delivered in several Sermons and Lectures in S Magnus Church c. Printed at Lond. in 11 Volumes in qu. Afterwards published in two large folios The first of which was printed at Lond. 1676. and the other in 1677 with the authors picture before it Which volumes are epitomised in the second vol. of Math. Poole's Synopsis Criticorum The nature and principles of Love as the end of the commandment declared in some of his last Sermons Lond. 1674. oct with an Epist prefix'd by Jo. Owen D. D. Gospel-Love Heart-purity and the flourishing of the righteous being his last Sermons Lond. 1674 75. oct He also had a prime hand in a book entit An English Greek Lexicon containing the derivations and various significations of all the words in the New Testament c. Lond. 1661 oct The others that joyned with him in this work were George some call him Thomas Cockayne Ralph Venning Will. Dell Matth. Barker Will. Adderley Matth. Mead and Hen. Jessey all Nonconformists Also a hand in another book called Saints Memorials or Words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divine Sentences by several Presbyterian Ministers Lond. 1674. oct Those parts which Caryl composed are 1 The Palmtree Christian p. 51. 2 Practical and Experimental considerations and characters of the real Christian p. 57. 3 On Gospel Charity p. 65. 4 The heart anatomized p. 74. 5 Divine Sentences or a guide to a holy life p. 77. After which in p. 109 follows his Elegy and Epitaph The other persons that had hands in the said Saints Memorials were Edm. Calamy and James Janaway whom I have and shall mention elsewhere as also Ralph Venning sometimes of Emmanuel Coll. in Cambr. who among several things that he hath published are Orthodox Paradoxes or a beleiver clearing truth by seeming contradictions Lond. 1647. tw To which is added an Appendix or the triumph of assurance over the law sinn the world wants and present enjoyments He hath also several Sermons extant as A warning to backsliders c. preached at Paules before the L. Mayor and Alderm of Lond. on Rev. 2.5 Lond. 1654 qu. c. He died on the 10 of March 1673 and was buried in the presence of very many Nonconformists at which time Rob. Bragge preached his funeral Sermon entit A Cry for Labourers in Gods harvest on Matth. 9 38. Lond. 1674. qu. At the end of which Sermon are the titles of nine books which had been written and published by Ralph Venning As for our author Jos Caryl who was a learned and zealous Nonconformist he died in his house in Bury street in London on the 25. of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and two but where buried unless in the Church of S. Magnus before mention'd wherein he had for many years posses'd his auditors with many unworthy things against K. Ch. 1. and his Son their followers and the prelatical party I know not Several elegies were made on him after his death of which two or more I have seen extant JOHN RILAND son of Rich.
other uses belonging to different Glands as well for conservation of the individual as propagation of the species Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth He hath also given an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae how new Glands are often generated as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery Pancreas c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations What else he hath written I find not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three was as I suppose buried in the Church of S. Bottolph situat and being without Aldersgate in London GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the antient Borough of Maidstone in Kent an 1627 brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647 at which time he entred himself a Communer of Magd. Hall Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll and on the sixth day of Octob. following 1648 he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nov. the same year took the degree of Master of Arts six days after In 1660 or thereabouts he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks and in Aug. 1662 being ejected tor nonconformity he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain At length upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death His works are these The dore of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration or a Treatise containing the nature necessity marks and means of regeneration Lond. 1660. c. in oct and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct The Christian mans calling or a treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered c. Lond. 1661. c. qu. The second part of this book which directeth Parents Children Husbands Wives Masters Servants in prosperity and adversity to do their duties was printed at Lond. 1663 c. qu. and the third part there in 1665 c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The Pastors farewell and wish of welfare to his people or a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32 Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached as it seems at Gr. Kimbell before mention'd 2 The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith or one cast for eternity c. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone on Psal 73.26 Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion 3 Men are Gods Gods are Men two Assize sermons These I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts Heaven and Hell epitomized the true Christian characterized as also an exhortation with motives to be speedy about the work of Conversion Lond. 1663. qu. The beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660. c. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235. Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being attributes works and word opened and applied Lond. 1672. oct The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment for sins of omission wherein is discovered the nature causes and cure of those sins Lond. 1675 and 79. oct What other things this Mr. Swinnock who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his perswasion hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mention'd In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martins lane near Canon street in London sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England and for wearing a Surplice which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662 after he had often said among the brethren he would rather burn than conform c. as the Author of the said Mirab. an saith it pleased the Lord as he further adds to strike him with sickness which proved a violent burning feaver whereof within a few days after before another Lords day came about he died c. Who this Mr. Swinnock was I cannot tell neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name otherwise we might have said something more of him and something to the disproof of that most vile Author THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620 aged sixteen years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1627 made Proctor of the University in 1636 and the year after domestick Chaplain to Archbishop Laud and Bach. of Divinity Soon after he became Rector of S. Mary the Great called Aldermary in London Canon of Windsore in 1639 and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians he retired to his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain at Oxford By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Div. in Feb. 1642 having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did After the return of his Majesty he was restored to what he had lost kept some of his Spiritualities especially Windsore to the time of his death without any other promotion in the Church He hath written and published A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Maries in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 on Psal 130.4 Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4 preached before his Parishiones
having received a call he went to New England where he finished his course This Person was composed of a strange hodg-podg of opinions not easily to be described was of a roving and rambling head spent much and I think died but in a mean condition And tho he was a great pretender to Saintship and had vowed an eternal love to his Wife before mention'd who died 22. Apr. 1655 yet before he had remained a Widower an year he married a religious Virgin named Frances the only Daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the scismatical Vicar of Bray near Windsore who dying also in the first year of her Marriage in Childbed I think aged 25 years he took soon after as I have been told a third Wife according to the fleshly custom of the Saints of that time He hath written A double Watchword or the duty of watching and watching to duty both echoed from Revel 16.5 and Jer. 50.4.5 Lond. 1661. oct and perhaps other things He died at Boston in New England in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried there In the Church or Chappel belonging to Eaton Coll. was a monument with a large canting inscription set up by this D. Oxenbridge for his first Wife Jane Butler wherein 't is said that while he preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in the House But the said inscript or Epitaph giving great offence to the Royallists at the restauration of K. Ch. 2 they caused it to be daub'd or covered over with paint There was also a Monument and Inscription set up for his second Wife the contents of which and the other I have but this last is not defaced JONATHAN GODDARD son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford was born at Greenwich in Kent became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he then left that House and went as I presume beyond the Seas On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Cambridge at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament and at length to Oliver Cromwell with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he by the said Olivers power became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an 1653 and made one of the Council of State in the same year About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London afterwards of the Royal Society and Professor of Physick in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. which was in 1660 he lived mostly in that of Gresham where being an admirable Chymist he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients besides what he operated for his own satisfaction He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledg among them and when any curious experiment was to be done they made him their Drudg till they could obtain to the bottom of it He hath written A discourse concerning Physick and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries Lond. 1668. oct An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 41. He is said to have written of this matter of the Abuse of Physick more warily and with greater prudence than Christ Merret Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in London c. Lond. 166. qu. Proposal for making wine See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Experiments of the Stone called Oculus mundi See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Some observations of a Camelion See in the Philosophical Transactions nu 137. p. 930. c. Experiments of refining gold with Antimony See there also nu 139. p. 953. c. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgeons Hall and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit as 't is said for the press He had also laying by him at his death Arcana medicinalia Published at the end of the second Edit of Pharmacopoeia Bateana by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary Lond. 1691. oct He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury where a club of Virtuosi sometimes met to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helens Church in London He was Master of a most curious Library of books well and richly bound which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society but he dying intestate it came into the hands of the next Heir viz. his Sisters Son a Scholar of Caies Coll. in Cambridge I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist dedic before Praelectio de Cometis inquisit in Bullialdi Astronom Philolaicae fundamenta and in the Epist ded before Delphi Phoenicizantes c. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him RICHARD SMITH the Son of a Clergy man named Richard Smith a Native of Abendon by Martha his Wife Daughter of Paul Darrel or Dayrell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks Esq Son of Richard Son of another Ric. Smith of Abendon in Berks. sometimes Gent. Usher to Qu. Elizabeth was born at Lillingston Darrel before mention'd an 1590 and after the beginning of the raign of King James 1. was sent to the Univ. of Oxon where his stay being short he was not matriculated and therefore I cannot positively tell you of what Coll. or Hall he was a member Thence he was taken away by his Parents and put a Clerk to an Attorney belonging to the City of London but his mind hanging after learning he spent all the time he could obtain from his employment in Books At riper years he became Secondary of the Poultry Compter within the City of London a place of good reputation and profit being in his time worth about 700 l. per an which he executed many years but upon the death of his Son an 1655 begotten on the body of his Wife Elizab. Daughter of George Deane of Stepney to whom he intended to resign his place he immediatly sold it and betook himself wholly to a private life two thirds of which at least he spent in his Library He was a person infinitely curious in and inquisitive after books and suffered nothing considerable to escape him that fell within the compass of
pure elegancy delightful unaffected neatness of lat stile none scarce hath equal'd much less outdone him how great soever When at any time he is mention'd by authors as he is very often it is done in words expressing their highest esteem of his great worth and excellency and placed still as first in rank among Physitians And further also he hath laid a lasting foundation of a body of Physick chiefly on Hypotheses of his own framing See more in the Epistle to the reader before his works printed at Geneva in two vol. an 1676. His works are these Diatribae duae Medico-philosophicae de fermentatione altera de febribus Hag. Com. 1659. oct Lond. 1660. 65 c. in tw Answer'd by Edm. de Meara a Doctor of Physick of Bristow and Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians See more in Rich. Lower an 1690. Dissertatio Epistolica de Urinis Printed with the former book Cerebri Anatome Lond. 1664. oct Amstel 1667. in tw Whatsoever is anatomical in that book the glory thereof belongs to the said R. Lower whose indefatigable industry at Oxon produced that elaborate piece De ratione motus musculorum Printed with Cer. Anat. Pathalogiae cerebri nervosi generis specimina in quo agitur de morbis convulsivis de scorbuto Oxon. 1667. qu. Lond. 1668. Amstel 1669. c. in tw An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 31. Affectionum quae dicuntur Hystericae Hypochondriacae Pathologia spasmodica vindicata contra responsionem epistolarem Nathan Highmore M. D. Lond. 1670. qu. Leyd 1671. in tw c. Exercitationes Medico-physicae duae 1. De sanguinis accensione 2. De motu musculari This is printed with the book next before going and an account of both of them are in the Phil. Transact num 57. De anima Brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensativa est exercitationes duae c. Lond. 1672. in qu. and oct c. Amstel 1674 in tw And also of this num 83. All which books except Affectionum quae dicuntur c. and that De anima Brutorum were translated into English by S. P. Esq Lond. 1681. fol. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore Part. 2. Oxon. 1674. and 75 in tw and qu. Published by Dr. Jo. Fell who in a Postscript added to the authors preface gives some running account of the said author but false as to his parent This Pharmaceutice was translated into English by Anon-Lond 1679. fol. but being not well done it was corrected by S. P. Esq before mention'd and involved in the former translation of 1681. Afterwards came out The London practice of physick or the whole practical part of physick contained in the works of Dr. Willis faithfully made English and printed together for the publick good Lond. 1685. oct with his picture before it What are therein made English of his works are 1 His first and second parts of the Pharmaceutice rationalis 2 His tract of Convulsive diseases 3 His tract of the Scurvy 4 His tr of the Diseases of the brain and Genus nervosum 5 His tr Of Feavers The other parts of his works being Theoretical are therein omitted This translation is said to be different from that containing the same pieces contained in his former translations of all his works in fol. A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague or any contagious distemper in City Camp Country Fleet c. and for curing such that are infected with it This was written in 1666 but not printed till the latter end of 1690. At length after a great deal of drudgery that he did undergo in his faculty mostly for lucre sake which did much shorten his life he concluded his last day in his House in S. Martins-lane before mention'd on the eleventh day of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and five whereupon his body was conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and there inter'd in the large isle or trancept joyning to the North side of the choire near to the body of Mary his first Wife Daughter of Samuel Fell D. D. sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon Which Mary died on the Vigil of Allsaints an 1670. The said Dr. Willis who left behind him the character of an orthodox pious and charitable physitian did some years before his death settle a salary for a Reader to read prayers in S. Martins Church in the fields in Westm early and late every day to such servants and people of that parish who could not through multiplicity of business attend the ordinary service dayly there performed All his Latin works were printed in two vol. in qu. at Geneva 1676 as I have before told you and at Amsterdam 1682. qu. by Gerard Blasius M. D. and ordinary professor of the same faculty at that place JOSHUA STOPFORD a Lancashire man born was entred into Brasnose Coll. in Mich. term 1654 aged 18 years being then or soon after Scholar of that House went afterwards to Magd. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1657. Afterwards he entred into Orders became Preb. of Donington in the Church of York collated thereunto by Archb. Frewen 9. Nov. 1660 and about the same time Vicar of S. Martins Church in Conystreet there In the month of Apr. 1670 he was created Master of Arts and in the next month he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being at that time Rector of Allsaints Church in the said City of York He hath written Pagano-Papismus or an exact parallel between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian in their doctrines and ceremonies Lond. 1675. oct publ in Mich. term 1674. Before this work is a catalogue of books and authors made use of by this writer which is very considerable both for number and value To which piece is joyned another of smaller bulk written by the same author entit The ways and methods of Romes advancement or whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their doctrines discovered in two Sermons preached 5. Nov. 1671 on Rev. 18.23.24 A catalogue of authors of the like nature with the former is also prefix'd and in the Epistle to the Reader 't is said that those two Sermons were published to vindicate them and their author from the unjust aspersions and false accusations cast upon them by a generation of men who make lies and calumnies a constituted part of their religion He died in the month of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was I presume buried in the Church of All 's before mention'd and not in the Cathedral because he resign'd his Prebendship in 1663. He was a person very well read in substantial and noted authors and might had life been spared done good service for the Church of England of which he was a most zealous member FRANCIS ROBERTS son of Hen. Roberts of Alslake in Yorkshire was
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
restauration he lived in and near London a Nonconformist to his dying day being in high value for his edifying preaching among the Brethren in Conventicles Under his name are published Several sermons as 1 How we must govern our tongues on Ephes 4.29 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Purgatory a groundless and dangerous doctrine on 1. Cor. 3.15 'T is the 24 sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. c. His Legacy being a discourse of the perfect man Lond. 1679. in a small oct 'T is grounded on Psal 37.37 At length this zealous person having preached twice to his congregation on the Lords day being then the 30. of January and finished his work departed this life in the night of the same day and went to his rest in the 41 year of his age in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was buried towards the West end of Tindals Cemetery commonly called the Fanatical burial place joyning to the New Artillery Yard or Garden near London Over his grave was soon after erected an Altar-monument of white stone built on a brick foundation with this inscription engraven thereon The Saint whose dust this stone doth hide Sung Epicedium first then dy'd His life he spent lost man to save And yet 's not silent in the grave Reader no more but underneath he lies Who whilst he liv'd th' world had one good one wise EDWARD TURNOUR son of Arthur Turnour of Little Parendon in Essex Serjeant at Law was born in Essex educated in Grammar learning partly under a private Tutor but chiefly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks. under Dr. Tho. Godwin the famous Schoolmaster there became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 15 years where spending about 10 terms in Logicals and Philosophicals he afterwards retired to the Middle Temple applied himself severely to the studies of the Municipal Laws and took the usual degrees belonging thereunto After his Majesties restauration he became Attorney to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood was elected Speaker for the Parliament that began at Westminster 8. May 1661 afterwards made Solicitor Gen. to his Majesty Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer 1671 and the same year Serjeant at Law Under his name were printed Several speeches as 1 Sp. to the House of Commons when they chose him Speaker 8. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in one sh in fol. 2 Sp. to his Maj. when he was presented to him by the House of Com. to be their Speaker 10. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. sh in fol. 3 Sp. after the L. Chanc. had declared the Kings approbation of the choice of the H. of C. Lond. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 4 Sp. to the King at the passing of the bill for confirmation of the Act of oblivion 8. July 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. or 2. sh in fol. 5 Sp. to the K. at the adjournment of the Parl. 30. July 1661. Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 6 Sp. upon the Parliaments adjournment 20. Dec. 1661 Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh fol. In which Speech as 't is said he compared the restitution of our monarchy to the return of the tide after a very low ebb at which very time there hapned at London-bridge a very strange double tide which by the troublesome and factious party was looked upon as a prodigie 7 Sp. upon the Commons reasons and address presented to hiâ— Maj. 28. Feb. 1662. As also his report of the substance of his Majest gracious answer thereunto Lond. 1662. in two sh in fol. or thereabouts 8 Sp. to his Maj. representing the humble thanks of the H. for his gracious acceptance of their endeavours in the service of his Maj. and of the publick c. 17. May 1664. 9 Sp. to his Maj. and both Houses of Parl. at Oxon at the prorogation of the Parl. 21. Oct. 1665. Oxon. 1665. in fol. 10 Sp. to the Kings Majesty at the prorogation of the Parliam 8. Feb. 1666 Lond. 1666. in 2. sh in fol. or thereabouts These are all that I have seen besides several of his discourses in the trial of the Kings Judges an 1660 and therefore I have no more to say only that he the said Sir Edw. Turnour with Justice W. Ellis being appointed to go as Judges of the Assize for the Norfolk Circuit in the month of Feb in the Lent then ensuing died at Bedford on the fourth of March following in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to London laid there for some days in state After which he was dignâ pompâ carried to Little Parendon before mention'd and according to his own command he was inter'd in the Chancel of the Church there under the marble stone that covered the grave of his first Wife THOMAS GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652 p. 87. was born at Colmore in Hampshire mostly educated in the Charterhouse School near London admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 15. Mar. 1627 where making great progress in Log. Phil. and other learning he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became Deputy Professor of the Arabick Lecture in the absence of Mr. Edw. Pocock an 1637 Bach. of Div. in 1641 Rector of Dunsby in Lincolnshire in the times of Usurpation and of another place near London had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him in 1661 and a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough in the place of Mr. Will. Towers deceased an 1666 being then Rector of Benyfield in Northamptonshire Which last he resigned some years before his death through trouble from his Parishioners who because of his slowness of speech and bad utterance held him insufficient for them and it notwithstanding he was a man of great learning His works are these De Linguae Arabicae utilitate praestantia oratio Oxonii habita 19. Jul. 1637. c. Ox. 1639. in 3. sh in qu. Observationes quaedam in Persicam Pentiteuchi versionem They are in the sixth Tome of Bib. Polyglot p. 48. Annotationes quaedam in Persicam interpretationem Evangeliorum In the said sixth Tome p. 56. Which annotations were translated into Lat. by Sam. Clerk This learned person Dr. Greaves did in his latter days retire to Weldon in Northamptonshire where he had purchased an Estate and dying there on the 22. of May in sixteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Chancel of the Church at that place Over his grave was soon after a plain gravestone laid in the N. East corner of the said Chancel with this inscription thereon Thomas Gravius S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Petroburg Praebend vir summae pietaâ—is eruditionis in Philosophicis paucis secundus in Philologicis peritissimis par in Linguis Orientalibus plerisque major quarum Persicam notis in appendice ad Biblia Polyglotta doctissime illustravit Arabicam
publicè in Academiâ Oxon professus est dignissimus etiam qui Theologiam in eodem loco profiteretur Poeta insuper Orator insignis atque in Mathematicis profundè doctus Reipublicae Literariae Ecclesiae Christianae flebilis obiit Maii 22. an 1676. aet suae 65. I find one Thom. Greaves a Minister to have written A brief summ of Christian Religion c. Lond. 1656. oct whether by the former or another Thomas Greaves I cannot yet tell JOHN TOMBES was born in a Market Town called Beaudley in Worcestershire became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Lent term an 1617 aged 15 years where in short time after he shewed himself a most excellent Disputant a person of incomparable parts and well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages In 1623 he was appointed Catechisme Lecturer of the said Hall in the place of Will. Pemble deceased whose Pupil he had been and the next year proceeding M. of A he became a noted Tutor there About that time he entred into holy Orders and shortly after was esteem'd so famous for his preaching that he was much courted to be one of the Lecturers at S. Martins Ch. commonly called Carfax in Oxon which cure he at length taking was much followed for his excellent Sermons especially by the puritanical party who held him in great admiration In 1630 he left the University and became a Preacher in the City of Worcester and the next year after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But he continuing at Worcester not long he went by vertue of a call to Leonminster commonly called Lemster a Market Town in Herefordshire of which place he became Vicar beloved of the Parishioners and Neighbourhood and resorted to far and near for his familiar and practical way of preaching As it was suspected while he was in Oxon so was it at Lemster and elsewhere confidently believed that he would in time having no preferment given to him sutable to his merits do a great deal of mischief to the Church of England as most great Scholars have done for want of it In the year 1641 when the restless fury of the Presbyterians vented out into a dismal rebellion this our author sided with them and in the following year when Nath. Fiennes managed Bristow for the Parliament and made mad work there in ejecting loyal Citizens from the Corporation and Orthodox Ministers from the Church he upon invitation came in to him and thereupon he and his followers made him Minister of Allsaints Church in the place of one Williamson an Orthodox man then ejected While he continued there which was till Aug. 1643 at which time the City was surrendred to the Kings party he did a great deal of hurt by his schismatical preaching Afterwards going to London he became Master of the Temple where he preached against the errors of the Antinomians ex male intellectâ doctrina as he says de justificatione peccatoris c. But being supplanted of that place by Rich. Johnson sometimes of Bras Coll. an 1647 he went to Beaudley at what time Mr. Rich. Baxter preached at Kidderminster another Market Town about three miles distant from that place And 't is verily thought that he was put upon the project of going there purposely to tame Baxter and his party who then carried all the Country before them They preached against one anothers doctrines Tombes being then a Preacher at Beaudley which he kept with Lemster newly restored to him being before forced thence by the royal party and published books against each other Tombes was the Coryphaeus of the Anabaptists and Baxter of the Presbyterians Both had a very great company of auditors who came many miles on foot round about to admire them Once I think oftner they disputed face to face and their followers were like two Armies And at last it came so to pass that they fell together by the ears whereby hurt was done and the Civil Magistrate had much ado to quiet them All Scholars there and then present who knew the way of disputing and managing arguments did conclude that Tombes got the better of Baxter by far In the year 1653 he being then as before frequently in London he was by ordinance appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of publick Ministers but what preferment he got by that employment which most of them had obtained I find not unless it was the Parsonage of Rosse and the Mastership of the Hospital at Ledbury both in Herefordshire which he kept with Lemster and Beaudley About the year 1658 he married Elizabeth the Widow of Wolstan Abbot of the City of Salisbury by whom enjoying an Estate lived mostly there to the time of his death At the Kings restauration in 1660 when he then saw to what a woful condition this poor Nation of England had been brought unto by restless men and their several opinions as to religion he willingly submitted sided with the Royal party but yet would never accept of either Benefice or Dignity which was offer'd to him Set aside his Anabaptistical Positions he was conformable enough to the Church of England would frequently go to Common prayers and receive the Sacrament at Salisbury and often visit Dr. Ward Bishop of that place who respected Tombes for his learning Dr. Sanderson sometimes the learned Bishop of Linc. had a great esteem for him and so had one of his successors Dr. Barlow but the same respect that the last bore to our author the same he paid to all of what sect soever that were learned In 1664 he was present at the Oxford Act and there in the Vespers he did modestly challenge to maintain against any person certain Anabaptistical Tenents but none there did think it then convenient to grapple with him and the rather for this reason that he had made those matters his study for more than 30 years and that none ever before went beyond him He seemed to many to be a very pious and zealous Christian and would never be violent especially in his latter days against any party that was opposite to his opinion but be charitable and complesant His body was little and neat limb'd he had a quick searching eye and was so exceeding apprehensive that he would find out the end upon the first entry of the Disputes He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Vae Scandalizantium or a treatise of scandalizing c. preached at Lemster in Herefordsh on Luke 17.1.2 Oxon. 1641. oct 2 Jehovah Jireth or Gods providence in delivering the godly in two Sermons in Bristol on a Thanksgiving day 14. March 1642 for the deliverance of that City from invasion and plot by the Malignants on 2. Pet. 2.9 Lond. 1643. qu. Before which is set by the author A short narrative of the said bloody and damnable plot 3 The Leaven of pharisaical Will-worship preached at Lemster 24. Nov. 1641 on Matth. 5.9 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Anthropolatria The sin of glorying in
Coll Winton Socius Obiit 19 Junii 1676 anno aetatis suae 59 Moerens conjux posuit hoc HENRY STUBBE the most noted person of his age that these late times have produced received his first breath in an obscure Village called Partney near Spilsbye in Lincolnshire on the 28 of Febr. an 1631 at which place his Father who was a Minister then lived but he being Anabaptistically inclin'd was forced to leave it and thereupon he with his Wife and Children went into Ireland and there at Tredagh he found an Employment which was if you 'll believe a nameless satyrical Author the Office of Beadle of the Beggars as being well acquainted with the executive part of Power at the Carts tail Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in that Country in 1641 the Mother fled with our Author and another Child towards England and landing at Leverpoole in Lancashire they all beated it on the hoof thence to London where she gaining a comfortable subsistance by her needle sent her son Henry being then 10 years of age to the Coll. School at Westminster At that time Mr. Rich Busbie was the chief Master who finding the boy to have pregnant parts to a miracle did much favour and encourage him At length Sir Hen. Vane junior the same who was beheaded on Tower-hill 1662. coming casually into the school with Dr. Lamb. Osbaldeston he did at the Masters motion take a kindness to the said boy frequently reliev'd him with money and gave him the liberty to resort to his house and to fill that belly which otherwise had no sustenance but what one penny could purchase for his dinner and as for his breakfast he had none except he got it by making some bodies exercise Soon after Sir Henry got him to be a Kings scholar and his Master perceiving him to be beyond his years in proficiency he gave him money to buy books cloaths and his teaching for nothing In the beginning of the year 1649 Sir Henry got him to be sped for a Students place in Ch. Church where shewing himself too forward pragmatical and conceited being well stock'd with impudence at school was often kick'd and beaten And in the year after abusing the Censor morum Will. Segary that noted Disciplinarian in a speech that he utter'd was for so doing and his impudence in other respects whipt by him in the publick refectory The same year the Oath called the Engagement being fram'd by the then Parliament was some time after sent to the University by him 'T was I saith he that brought the Engagement down to Oxon though I took it net being then an Undergraduat and having got Dr. S. F. Sam. Fell as it should seem and Dr. R. Reynolds to be turned out I saved the remains of the Cavaliers of Ch. Ch. and Queens Coll and gave them opportunities to live securely and educate others in their principles c. While he continued Undergraduate it was usual with him to discourse in the publick Schools very fluently in the Greek Tongue as it was at the same time with one John Pettie of Balliol afterwards of Queens Coll and others whose names are forgotten But since the Kings restauration we have had no such matters which shews in some part that Education and Discipline were more severe then as indeed they were than after when Scholars were given more to liberty and frivolous studies After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and determined he went into Scotland and served in the Wars there for the Parliament from 1653 to 1655. Upon his return he took the degree of Master and in the beginning of the year following an 1657 he was upon the death of Mr. Franc. Yonge of Oriel Coll prefer'd upon the motion made of Dr. Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. to Mr. Thom. Barlow the Head-keeper of the Bodleian Library to be the second-keeper of the same Which Office he holding three years being all that time much favoured by the Head-keeper did by the benefit of a prodigious memory most wonderfully advantage himself in several sorts of Learning At length Dr. E. Reynolds being restored to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of 1659 a little before which time viz. in Feb. Stubbe was complained of in the Parliam house as one that palliated in print Sir Henry Vane's wickedness he not only ejected him from his Students place in the said house but found means to remove him from the Library and especially for this reason that he had written and published a most pestilent book called A light shining out of darkness wherein are many things said against the Universities and Clergy But if you 'll believe the Author he 'll tell you that that book which he calls the Invidious Queries was written to terrifie the Presbyterians and make them more complacential yet withall protests that they contained no tenets of his for he knew they were not defensible against the learned and judicious Episcoparians tho they had force and address enough against the more ignorant Presbyterians but were written to excuse those who had made those to be their Assertions which were his doubts and this he declared in the Preface to that book He tells us also that what he wrot in that book and others was against the Presbyterian Clergy the Presbyterian Universities and the Usurpations of Oliver and Richard After his Ejection he retired to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to practise the Faculty of Physick which he for some years had studied and after the Kings restauration he made early and voluntary Applications to Dr. Geor. Morley for his Protection in his retirement assuring him of an inviolable passive Obedience which was all he could or would pay till the Covenant was renounced When the restauration of the Bishops was made he at the first motion of the said Dr. Morley then his Diocesan received confirmation at his hands and soon after took occasion to publish a translation concerning the arts of Grandure and Submission which I shall anon mention and in the Dedication thereof to make this mention of himself I have at length removed all the Umbrages I ever laid under I have joyned my self to the Church of England not only upon account of its being publickly imposed which in things indifferent is no small consideration as I learned from the Scottish Transactions at Perth but because it is the least defining and consequently the most comprehensive and fitting to be national In the year following he took a journey to the Island of Jamaica being designed Physitian of that place by his Majesty who as he saith honored him with that title In which place having been mostly sick during his abode there he would have otherwise advanced himself much in the knowledge thereof and in experiments and things philosophical For which reason also it was why he did not accept of an invitation to go to Mexico and Peru to practise his Faculty there After his
1680. EDWARD REYNOLDS son of Austin Reynolds one of the Customers of Southampton by Bridget his wife son of John Reynolds of Langport in Somersetshire and he the son of another John was born in the parish of Holy-rood within the said borough of Southampton in the month of Nov. 1599 bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School there founded by K. Ed. 6. in the 7. year of his raign became one of the Portionists or Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1615 and Probationer Fellow in 1620 in which place which he got by his skill in the Greek tongue as also throughout his Bachelaurship he shewed himself a good Disputant and Orator After he had taken the degree of Master he entred into holy Orders and became a noted Preacher tho of an hoarse voice afterwards Preacher to the honorable society of Lincolns Inn and Rector of Braunston or Braynton in Northamptonshire At length the grand rebellion breaking forth in 1642 he sided with the Presbyterian party having long before that time been puritanically affected and in the year 1643 he became one of the Assembly of Divines a Covenantier a frequent preacher in London and somtimes before the Long Parliament In 1646 he was appointed by the Parliament one of the six Ministers to go to and settle in Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience to the said Parliament afterwards one of the Visitors to brake open turn out and take possession Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Sam. Fell ejected and Vicechancellour of the University at which time he became Doctor of Div. by actual creation and what not But being forced to leave his Deanery in the latter end of 1650 because he refused to take the Independent Engagement he retired to his former cure for a time Afterwards he lived mostly in London preached there and flatterd Oliver and his Gange and after his death being then Vicar of S. Lawrence in the Jewry he did the like to Richard and was the Orator or Mouth of the London Ministers to welcome that Mushroom Prince to his Throne 11. Octob. 1658. Also when hopes depended on Monke's proceedings from Scotland he struck in with him and who more ready than he Dr. Reynolds and other Presbyterians when he and they saw how things would terminate and could not be otherwise holpen to bring in the King after his long exile by using his interest in the City of London where he was the pride and glory of the Presbyterian party When the secluded Members were restored to sit in Parliament they restored him to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of March 1659 with hopes to continue there and carry on the Presbyterian discipline In May following 1660 when his Majesty was at Canterbury in order to his restauration he and Edm. Calamy another zealous Presbyterian were admitted his Chaplains on the the 26. of that month and after his restauration he preached several times before him as he did also before the Houses of Parliament But in the latter end of June following he being desired to leave his Deanery to make room for an honest and Orthodox man he was in the next month elected by vertue of the Kings Letter Warden of Mert Coll choosing rather to have somthing than nothing Soon after upon the feeling of his pulse the King bestowed on him the Bishoprick of Norwych which See he willingly taking without a Nolo was after he had taken the Covenant and had often preached against Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church of England consecrated thereunto in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster on the sixth day of January an 1660 by vertue of which Bishoprick he became an Abbat a strange preferment me thinks for a Presbyterian I mean Abbat of S. Bennet in the Holme which he kept with great regret to his quondam Brethren whom he then left to shift for themselves to his dying day He was a person of excellent parts and endowments of a very good wit fancy and judgment a great Divine and much esteemed by all parties for his preaching and florid stile A writer of another persuasion tells us that he was a person of great authority as well as fame among the men of the Calvinistical perswasion c. and many there were that were of the like opinion One that knew him well saith that he was a person of singular affability meekness and humility of great learning a frequent preacher and constant Resident And it was verily thought by his contemporaries that he would have never been given to change had it not been to please a covetous and politick Consort who put him upon those things he did His works are these The vanity of the creature on Eccles 1.14 Sinfulness of sin on Rom. 7.9 and on 6.12 Use of the Law on Rom. 7.13 Life of Christ on 1. Joh. 5.12 An explication of 110. Psal Meditations on the holy Sacrament of the Lords lâ—st suppper Explication of the 14 chapter of Hosea in seven humiliation Sermons Treatise of the Passions and faculties of the soul of man All or most of which having been printed several times in qu. were all printed in one folio at London an 1658 with the authors picture before them and went by the name of Dr. Reynolds his works They were much bought up read and commended by men of several persuasions and one who was esâ—eâ—meâ— by all that knew him a jovial wet Presbyterian that had read them several times could not forbear to write two short Poems in commendation of them Thirty Sermons preached on several solemn occasions They were preached between the year 1634 and that of his death and some of them had been printed several times At length they were reprinted in the second impression of his works at Lond. 1679 fol. Among them is his Lat. Sermon preached at Oxon. 1649 entit Animalis homo on 1. Cor. 2.14 He also wrot the Ass of Divines Annotations which are on Ecclesiastes which being admirably done it was wished by many learned men of the Presbyterian perswasion that the rest had been all wrote pari filo eruditione He also was the author of the Epistolary preface to Will. Barlee's Coâ—reptory Correction c. of some notes of Tho. Pierce concerning Gods decrees especially of Reprobation which book of Barlee with the said Ep. Preface a second of Tho. Whitfield and a third of Dan. Cawdrey somtimes of Cambridge were printed at Lond. 1656. qu. At length this learned Bishop Dr. Reynolds who probably hath written other things besides those I have already mention'd made his last change in this world on the 28 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried at the upper end of the Chappel built by him 1662 joyning to the Bishops Pallace in in Norwych Over his grave was soon after fastned marble to the wall with this Epitaph engraven thereon H. I. S. I. Edoardus Reynolds SS T. P. primus a reditu Regis Caroli
Morice received a letter from the King by Sir Joh. Greenvill afterwards Earl of Bathe to excite him to influence the General to his restauration which he answered with assurance of his utmost zeal and affection for that service whereupon in Feb. 1659 he received from his Majesty by the hands of the said Sir John with approbation of the General the Seal and Signet as the badge of the Secretary of States Office About which time it was his business to keep the then expiring Session of Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling with the change of the Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who then passionately longed for their dissolution On the 10. of March following he was by the Generals motion made a Colonel of a Regiment of Foot and Governour of the Fort and Island of Plymouth and after he had joyned with the General in the great secret of the restauration he was not only knighted by his Majesty then at Canterbury in his way to London 26. May 1660 but had the Office of Secretary confirm'd unto him and then sworne also one of his Majesties Privy Council In 1661. he was chosen for Plymouth to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. of May but he being much taken up with his new Employment he could not do his duty in the House so well and truly as he wished he could How influential Sir William was in his Majesties reduction and establishment may easily be collected from the Letters under the hands of his Majesty and Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chancellour now in the custody of Henry Earl of Clarendon And may perhaps be made more manifest unto the World upon the publication of an History said to be written by the said Sir Edw. Hyde afterwards E. of Clarendon who was most particularly acquainted witth all the steps made in the transacting of that whole affair At Michaelmas in the year 1668 Sir W. Morice did upon his humble desire made to his Majesty resign his Secretariship and was succeeded by Sir John Trevor son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt so that retreating into the Country he passed the rest of his life in a quiet retirement at Werington before mention'd situate in the west part of Devonshire where he erected a fair Library valued at twelve hundred pounds which was the principal divertisement and most sensible pleasure he took during the last years of his life He hath written and published Coena quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The new enclosures broken downe and the Lords Supper laid forth in common for all Church Members having a dogmatical faith and not being scandalous In a Diatribe and defence thereof Lond. 1656. 57 qu. This book being afterwards much enlarged came out again with this title The common right to the Lords Supper asserted in a Diatribe and a defence thereof c. Lond. 1660. fol. The first edition of this book came out as it seems in 1651. qu. in answer to one Humph. Saunders who had written a book of administring the Sacrament to a select company Letter to Gen. Monke in answer to his of the 23. of Jan. directed to Mr. Rolle to be communicated to the Gentlemen of Devonshire This Letter is dated 28. Jan. 1659 and is said to be written by an excluded Member of Parliament particularly by W. Morice as the general Voug then was yet it is subscribed by R. M. He died on the twelfth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in Werington Church in an Isle belonging to his Family His eldest son William Morice Esq was made a Baronet 20. of April 1661. MATTHEW HALE son of Rob. Hale Esq a Barrester of Lincolns inn by Joan his Wife Daughter of Matthew Poyntz of Alderley in Glocestershire Gent was born at Alderley on the first day of Nov. an 1609 educated in Grammar learning at Wotton Under-edge the Seat of his ancestors in the same County not in the Free-school there but under one Mr. Staunton the scandalous Vicar so he was accounted by Orthodox Clergy of the neighbourhood of that Town became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Obadiah Sedgwick mention'd under the year 1657. p. 138. in Mich. term 1626 where continuing about three years laid the foundation of some learning and knowledge which he afterwards built upon and might have proceeded farther had not his thoughts been diverted by certain juvenile vanities Afterwards upon the advice of Sir Jo. Glanvill Serjeant at Law who occasionally observed in him a clear apprehension of things a solid judgment and a great fitness for the study of the Law he was taken off from the design of being a Soldier which he intended and was admitted a Student in Lincolns inn 8. Nov. 1629 And being then deeply sensible how much time he had lost and that idle and vain things had over-run and almost corrupted his mind he resolved to redeem the time he had lost And therefore for many years together he studied at the rate of 16 hours a day threw aside all fine clothes and betook himself to a plain fashion which he continued to use in many points to his dying day Will. Noy the Attorney General being of the same Inn took early notice of him directed him in his studies and grew to have such friendship for him that he came to be called Young Noy The learned Selden also soon found him out who tho much superior to him in years yet he came to have such a liking of him and also of Mr. John Vaughan of the Inner Temple afterwards L. Ch. Just of the Common pleas that as he continued in a close friendship with them while he lived so he left them at his death two of his Executors By his acquaintance it was that he persued other learning than that of his profession so that by great industry accompanied with good natural parts he became well read in the Civil and Rom laws attained to a great readiness in Arithmetick Algebra and other mathematical sciences He obtained also a great insight in Philosophy whether experimental or theoretical Physick Anatomy and Chirurgery He was well acquainted with the antient Greek Philosophers but want of occasion to use them wore out his knowledge of the Greek tongue And tho he never studied the Hebrew yet by his great conversation with Selden he understood the most curious things in the Rabinical learning But above all these he seemed to have made the study of Divinity the chief of all others to which he not only directed every thing else but also arrived at that pitch in it that those who have read what he has written on that subject will think that it hath had most of his time and thoughts Some years before the unhappy Wars broke forth he was called to the Bar and when they did break forth he sided with the Presbyterians having been for the most part when young educated under
Apostles by their most macerated bodies and countenances and were indeed in that respect pitied by many comforted and bless'd by true Hearts as they passed the streets After his Majesties restauration he did not read the English Liturgy in his Church in Covent garden neither did the Parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another till the latter end of 1661 at which time they petitioned the Bishop of London to have it read unto them In the interim this fat Doctor had a fat Deanery design'd him by his Majesty upon a supposal that he would conform and 't was verily thought that he would have taken it as Reynolds had the Bishoprick of Norwych could he have been ascertain'd that the Kings declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs published at his restauration would have indulged him while he was a Dean as then while he was a parochial Minister or as 't is said had not a female Saint who had read many of his books and wrot much of his Sermons extracted from them every sentence that made for the Covenant for the government by presbytery for the honor of Smectymnus or that made against the Bishops and Liturgy of the Church all put in a Letter and sent by her to him Which of these two was the reason I am not certain Sure it is that while these things were agitating and after he had taken a great deal of pains as a commission'd person by his Majesty in the Savoy conference about the Liturgy the Act of uniformity was published and rather than he would conform he not only refused the Deanery but left his rectory at Barthelmew day an 1662. Afterwards he did set up a Conventicle in Covent-garden and tho imprison'd for it for some time in the Gate-house yet as 't was thought he got more from the Brethren than if he had been a Dean or had continued in his rectory His works are these Many Sermons as 1 Meat out of the Eater or hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times Fast sermon before the House of Commons 30. June 1647 on Zech. 14.9 latter part Lond. 1647 qu. 2 Englands spiritual languishing with the causes and cure Fast serm before the H. of Com. 28. June 1648 on Rev. 2.3 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord on Rev. 14 13. 4 Sermon before the L. Protector and Parl. on a publick day of humiliation 24. Sept. 1656. on Amos 4.12 5 The Saints triumph over death Fun serm on Ch. Love 25. Aug. 1651. on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1658 oct 6 Sermon on Matth. 15.7.8 Printed in the book called The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Farewel sermon at Barthelmew-tyde on Heb. 12.2 Lond. 1662. oct This sermon tho put out under his name yet it was disclaimed by him under his hand in the common News of Sept. 24. an 1663. published by Roger L'estrange 8 How we ought to improve baptisme on Acts 2.38 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 9 Serm. on 2. Thes 2.15 Published in the Morning exercise against popery in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 10 Serm. on Rom. 5.12 Published in The morning exercise methodized c. Lond. 1676. qu. 11 Twenty sermons on the Psalms Acts c. Lond. 1678. qu. with his picture before them published by Dr. Will. Bates 12 Eighteen sermons on the second Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Thess containing the description use growth and fall of Antichrist c. Lond. 1679 oct 13 Sermons on the 119 Psal Lond. 1681. fol. They are in number 190 and have his picture before them This is called The first vol. of Sermons 14 A second Volume of sermons in two parts The first containing 27 sermons on the 25 of S. Matthew forty and five on the 17 of S. John and twenty and four on the sixth to the Romans The second part containing 45 sermons on the eighth to the Romans and 40 on the fifth Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Corinthians c. Lond. 1684. 85. fol. 15 The third Vol. of sermons in two parts The first containing sixty six sermons on the eleventh Chapt. to the Hebrews To which is annex'd A Treatise of the life of faith The second part contains A Treatise of self denial with several sermons on the sacrament of the Lords Supper and other occasions c. Lond. 1689. fol. Besides these there is now May 1691 prepared for the press a fourth Vol. in fol. of select sermons on several Texts A practical commentary or exposition on the Epistle of S. James Lond. 1651. 53. qu. Exposition on the Epistle of S. Jude Lond. 1652. qu. Smectymnus redivivus being an answer to a book entit An humble remonstrance c. Lond. 1653. 60. 61. This book called Smectymnus was written as I have elsewhere told you by Steph. Marshall Edm. Calamy Thom. Young Matth. Newcommen and Will. Spurstow and first of all published in 1641 being the year after the said Humble remonstrance was published Practical exposition of the Lords Prayer Lond. 1684. oct with his picture before it He also made some additions to the second edition of The life and death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of Exeter written by Ferdinando Nicolls Minister of S. Mary Arches in Exeter Lond. 1655. in tw Also an Epistle commendatory before A Commendatory or Exposition on the second Epist to the Corinth Lond. 1655. fol. Written by Dr. Rich. Sibbs was one of the three that collected and published Thirty and one select sermons written by Will. Strong and wrot the Epistle to the reader before the second edit of The larger and lesser Catechismes of the Assemb of Div. Lond. 1658. qu. with several other little things of the like stamp He paid his last debt to nature after he had ran through many changes on the 18. of Oct. S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was accompanied to his grave in the Church at Stoke-Newington near London before-mention'd by hundreds of the brethren At which time Dr. Will. Bates one of his perswasion the same who also had been offered a Deanery with our author if he would conform preached his funeral Sermon Which being published the Reader if curious may see therein the character and encomiums of him the said Dr. Manton JOHN PARRY son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland was born in the City of Dublin educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650 was incorporated there in the same degree and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesties restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquess afterwards Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm took the degree of Bach. of Div. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660 and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time was incorporated in
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 Sanctoâ—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
to a senior Master Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards tho not in Orders from a Bishop he was made Minister of S. Mary Magdalens Church in Milkstreet in London which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an 1662 left it because he would not conform Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his perswasion He hath written Spiritual antidote for a dying soul Lond. 1665. oct Gods terrible voice in the City by plague and fire Lond. 1667. oct Of Christs certain and sudden appearance to judgment Lond. 1667. oct and several times after the sixth edit came out in 1683. and the book it self is grounded on Rev. 22.20 last part Answer to the sandy foundation of Will Pen the Quaker Defence of the Trinity Satisfaction by Christ and Justification of Sinners Lond. 1667. in tw or sixt Wells of salvation opened or words whereby we may be saved With advice to young men Lond. 1669. oct Explicatory Catechisme or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved c. Lond. 1673 c. oct The true Christians love of the unseen Christ or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians Lond. 1677. 84. in tw Appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him Printed with The true Christians love c. Holy and profitable Sayings Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh of paper Several sermons as 1 Fire and Brimstone from Heaven from Earth in Hell or three discourses 1. Concerning the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah formerly 2. Concerning c. Lond. 1670. oct contained in several sermons 2 Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness and how it may be attained on Psal 32.1 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate published by Sam. Aneley 3 Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2 and part of the third verse This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Serm. on Isa 57.1.2 Printed 1667 oct This I have not yet seen nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. VVill. Sherlocke This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. Leonards Shoreditch in the month of Octob. the 15 day as it seems in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7 afterwards published under the title of Vincentius redivivus in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678. SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Taylor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion a busie man against the Kings party and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire on the 16 of July 1624 bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641 but being soon after called thence without the taking of a degree upon the eruption of the Civil Wars he took part with the Rebels upon his fathers instance and at length became a Captain under Colonel afterwards Major General Edw. Massey and when the Wars ceased he was made by his fathers endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire and had in those times great power there which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the Kings party His father setled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought and had the moity of the Bishops Pallace in Hereford setled on him the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches on which he laid out much mony in building and altering Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire in the beginning of Aug. 1659 he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster and shew'd himself very active in that employment but at the Kings return he lost all and was in a manner ruined Soon after by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirke and five years after about 1665 he was by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others made keeper of the Kings Store-houses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Sea-port Town in Essex where he continued to the time of his death This person being a great lover of Antiquities did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford of most or at least the best Mss therein and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester and the evidences pertaining thereunto among which as I have heard he got the original grant of K. Edgar whence the Kings of England derive their right to the soveraignty of the Seas which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosophers stone in Hieroglyphicks with some few lat verses underneath And being limn'd with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 who offer'd 100 l. for it but was refused by the owner This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Britains notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Lond. 1663. qu. Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History Printed with the former book At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms by him publish'd entit Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum c. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies Library communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but his name being not put to would never after own them He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities as Armes monumental Inscriptions c. in many places of Herefordshire during his employment there under the two Protectors Which being now or at least lately in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the
and artificial Sines Tangents and Secants and table of Logarithms and the use of the said Canon in the resolution of all Triangles plain or spherical c. in two books Lond. 1658. fol. one composed by our author Newton the other translated from the lat copy of Hen. Gellibrand Chiliades centum logarithmorum Printed with the former Geometrical Trigonometrie c. Lond 1659. Mathematical Elements in three parts Lond. 166â— 63. qu. A perpetual Diary or Almanack Engraven on copper and printed on one side of a sheet of paper 1662. Description of the use of the Carpenters Rule Lond. 1667. Ephemerides or Diary shewing the interest and rebate of money at six per cent c. Lond. 1667. Chiliades decem logarithâ—oâ—um Lond. 1667. Tabula partium proportionalium Lond. 1667. The scale of interest or the use of decimal fractions c. part 2. Lond. 1668. oct School pastime for young Children or an easie and delightful method for the teaching of Children to read English directly Lond. 1669. oct Art of practical gauging of casks and Brewers tuns c. Lond. 1669. Introduction to the Art of Logick Lond. 1670. 78. in tw Introd to the Art of Rhetorick Lond. 1671. in tw which as to its form and method is the same with that of Ch. Butler and for invention and disposition with that of the first part of Mich. Radau's Orator extemporaneus But these two Introductions I presume are or at least most part of them involved in The English Academy that follows The Art of natural Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions vulgar and decimal c. Lond. 1672. oct The English Academy or a brief Introduction to the seven liberal Arts Grammar Arithmetick Geometry Musick c Lond. 1677. oct Most of which Arts having before been published singly by themselves are in this book epitomized and chiefly intended for the instruction of young Scholars who are acquainted with no other than their native language Cosmographie or a view of the terrestial and celestial Globes in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid Geometrie c. Lond. 1679 oct Introduction to Astronomie in two parts Introd to Geography These two are printed with the Cosmography This learned but capricious and humerous person Dr. Newton died at Rosse before mentioned on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under the south wall as I have been informed by a Gentleman of the neighbourhood in those parts He had an elder brother named Humph. Newton Bach. of the Civ Law and sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. who dying on the 6 of Sept. 1659 was buried in the Chappel of that College Besides the said Joh. Newton I find another M. of Arts sometimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambr. and afterwards Vicar of S. Martins Ch. in Leycester author of a Sermon intit The penitent recognition of Josephs Brethren c. Lond. 1684. quart ANTHONY PALMER son of Anth. Palm was born at Great Comberton in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol Coll. an 1634 aged 16 years admitted Fellow thereof after he had taken one degree 29 Nov. 1640 and in the year after being then Master of Arts he entred into holy Orders But all things at that time being in a very sad confusion in the Nation he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant took the Covenant had some employment among them and was all things to all men such was the mutability and vanity of the person At length the rich Rectory of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire being made void he got into it resign'd his Fellowship in Octob. 1649 took the Engagement and was afterwards an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejecting of such whom the Brethren called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is loyal and orthodox Clergymen being about that time 1654 Anabaptistically inclin'd and a great favourer of those of that perswasion and their Tenets About the time of his Majesties Restauration he was by the force of some of the Royallists of his Town driven from his charge as having been a most pernitious person as to his doctrine and a great enemy to the Loyal party whereupon he withdrew and put in a Curate but he being disturb'd they got one to read the Common-Prayer In the year following there was published in that Villanous imposture called Annus Mirabilis or the year of prodigies and wonders c. Printed 1661. a story concerning this matter and an account of a strange judgment that befel two of his Disturbers viz. one who was soon after suddenly striken with death and another who was smitten in a very strange manner c. After our author Palmer had been forced to leave that comfortable harbour he retired to London where we find him to have had a hand in or at least consenting to that stupendious Tragedy which was intended to be acted by the Satanical Saints in Nov 1662 for which George Phillipps Tho Tonge Franc. Stubbs c. suffered 22. Dec. the same year Afterwards he carried on the trade of conventicling to his last and thereby obtained a comfortable subsistance from the brethren His works are these A Scripture raile to the Lords table against Mr. Jo. Humphrey's treatise of Free admission to the Sacrament Lond. 1654. oct or tw Memorials of Godliness and Christianity with the way of making religion ones business c. Lond in tw The Christians Freedome by Christ or Gods deed of Gift to the Saints Lond. in tw The Gospel new Creature wherein the work of the Spirit is opened in awakening the soul to the gaining pardon of sin and an interest in Jesus Christ is plainly opened c. Lond 1658 1674. oct The Tempestious soul Calmed by Jesus Christ These two last are grounded upon certain texts of Scripture He hath written other things which I have not seen and therefore I shall only tell you that he taking his last farewel of this world on the 26. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the phanatical burial place joyning to Old Bedlam near to Morefields by London where some years since I saw an altar monument of stone over his grave Several of the Sirname of Palmer have been writers and one Thom. Palmer who was Minister of S. Laurence Pountney in London did zealously assert the former rebellion as well with his Sword as Pen. Upon his Maj restauration being ejected he retired into Derbyshire where we find him at Aston carrying on the cause by preaching but being thence ejected he became an Itinerant preacher and a gatherer of Churches here and there and in the month of July or thereabouts an 1663 he was secured in Nottingham for preaching in Conventicles But soon after getting loose we find him engaged in that fanatical hellish plot in the north parts of England which was discovered in the beginning of Oct.
want of understanding tho 't is well known as the E. of Devonshires Chaplain hath said he several times within two years after his death received the Sacrament from him with seeming devotion He dyed at Hardwyke before mentioned about 10 of the clock at night on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine Whereupon his body being wrap'd up in a woollen shroud and coffin'd was two days after accompanied by most of the E. of Devonshires Family and some of the neighbourhood after they had received a funeral entertainment to the Parish Church called Hault-Hucknell where in an Isle joyning to the Church he was inter'd with the service in the Common-prayer book close to the rail of the monument of the Grandmother of the then present Earl of Dev. Soon after was a Marble stone with an inscription thereon laid over his grave the contents of which and a farther account of the person you may at large see in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium following the life in prose before mention'd written by himself and published by Rich. Blackbourne born in London sometimes M. of A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of Leyden in Holland The materials of which were all or at least the most part taken from the English life in Mâ— of Thom. Hobbes largely and more punctually written by John Aubrey his antient acquaintance born at Easton-Piers near Malmsbury bred under the same Master who had been a Pedagogue above 40 years that educated Hobbes in Grammatical learning afterwards he became Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in Oxon then a Student in the Middle Temple and afterwards a member of the Royal Society Mr. Hobbes by his last Will and Test dat 25. Sept. 1677. did bequeath to Mary Tirell Daughter of his deceased Broâ—ther Edm. Hobbes 40 l. To Eleanor Harding Daughter of the said Edm. 40 l. To Elizab. Alaby Daughter of Thomas Alaby 200 l for her furtherance in marriage which Eliz. was then an Orphan and committed to the tuition of Mâ— Hobbes Exec. to the said Tho. as also an 100 l which thâ— Earl of Devon gave him to dispose in his will to be equalâ—ly divided among the Grandchildren of his said Bâ—otheâ— Edm. Hobbes to the eldest of which named Thom. Hobbes he had before given a piece of Land He also lefâ— considerable Legacies to his Executor James Wheldon a servant to the Earl of Devonshire who before had for many years been his Amanuensis EDWARD BYSSHE or Bissaeus as he writes himself Son of Edw. Bysshe of Burstow in Surrey Esq a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was born at Smallfield in the Parish of Burstow the capital tenement of which he and six of his Ancestors or more were not only Lords of but of divers other Lands in Horne near thereunto and elsewhere in the said County and some of them also owners of the Mannour of Bysshe or Bysshe Court situated and being between Burstow and Smallfield As for our author whom we are now to mention he became a Communer of Trin. Coll. in 1633 aged 18 years but before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the Common Law and was made a Barrester In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year and afterwards taking the Covenant he was about 1643 made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir John Borough who had followed his Majesty to Oxon. On the 20 of Oct. 1646 there were votes passed in the House of Commons that he the said Bysshe should be Garter K. of Arms and Clarenceaux and Will. Râ—ley should be Norroy or the Northern K. of Arms and that a committee be appointed to regulate their fees so that if Bysshe was ever invested in the said office of Clarenceaux as several of the Coll. of Armes say he was then did he succeed Arthur Squibb who had obtained that office by the endeavours of his Son in Law Sir John Glynn a noted and leading member in that Parliament upon the recess to his Majesty at Oxon of Sir Will. Le Neve Howsoever it is sure I am that in the greatest part of the interrupted times our aâ—thor Bysshe was both Garter and Clarenceaux his genie being more adequat to Arms and Armory in which he did excel than to the municipal laws In 1654 he was elected Burgess for Rigate in Surrey to serve in that Convention called the Little Parliament that met at Westm 3. Sept. the same year and in 1658 a Burgess for Gatton in the same County for that Convention that met at the same place 27 Jan. in that year After the Kings restauration he was forced to leave his Gartership to make room for Sir Edw. Walker who had that office conferr'd on him by his Majesty on the death of Sir Hen. S. George an 1644. and with much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux Sir Will. Le Neve being then distracted had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for Blechenley to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May the same year which continuing 17 years or more he became a Pensioner as 't is said and received 100 l. every Session and yet was very poor In the rebellious times he was a great gainer by being a Parliament man and thereupon became an encourager of learning and learned men particularly that noted Critick John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice Library of books all richly bound with gilt dorses but after the Kings restauration running much in debt became at length necessitous and not only took dishonest courses by issuing out divers Grants of Armes under hand as Clarenceaux to the undoing of the Heralds Office meerly to supply his necessities but also sold many of his books which cost him much for inconsiderable prizes He had been one that understood Armes and Armory very well but could never endure to take pains in Genealogies and in his younger years was esteemed a worthy and virtuous Person but in his latter not being thâ—n much degenerated as to manners His works of learning are these Notae in librum Nicholaâ— Upton de studio militari Notae in Johannis de Bado aureo libellum de Armis Notae in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam These three things which were all printed together at Lond. 1654. fol. weâ—e written by Sir Ed. Bysshe in English but translated into Latine by Dav. Whitford to whom he exhibited after his expulsion fâ—om the Univ. of Oxon. for several years He also pâ—t out under his own name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some notes and corrections entit Palladius de gentibus Indiae â—ragmanibus Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr. and Lat. To which he added 1 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 2 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Both in Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces see more in Jo. Gregory under the year 646.
respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum Manuale Missionariorum Regularium praecipuè Anglorum S. Francisci c. Printed 1658 and at Doway 1661. in octav Apologia episcoporum seu sacri magistratus propugnatio c. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct Liber dialogorum seu summa veteris Theologiae dialogismis tradita Duac 1661. in oct Problemata scholastica controversialia speculativa c. Corollarium dialogi de medio statu animarum c. Paralipomena philosophica de mundo peripatetico This was published at Doway under the name of Francisc Coventriensis an 1652. in oct All these except the three first most of which had been printed in little volumes by themselves were printed in two volumes in fol. at Doway an 1665 which cost the author having no contribution given him towards the press 220 l. Religio philosophiae Peripati discutienda in qua offertur epitome processus historiae celeberrimi miraculi à Christo nuperrimè patrati in restitutione Tibiae abscissae sepultae ab Aristotile in suis principiis examinati Duac 1662. oct Supplementum Historiae Provinciae Angliae in quo est chronosticon continens catalogum praecipua gesta Provincialium Fr. Min. Provinciae Angliae Duac 1671. fol. to be put at the end of Fragmenta seu Hist Min. c. Disputatio de antiqua Provinciae praecedentia Printed there also the same year and to be put in the same vol. at the end of Supplementum Hist This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh an 1670. Enchiridion of Faith in a dialogue concerning christian religion Printed under the name of Franc. Coventrie 1655. oct Explanation of the Romane Catholic belief Printed 1656 and 1670 in one sh in oct 'T is reported by a nameless author that he S. Clara wrot and published The Christian Moderator or persecution for Religion condemned c. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec edit and that he whom he calls that famous or rather infamous Priest presented one of them to a Lady who told it to a reverend Minister of this City London that he was the author of that book But let this Anon. say what he will sure I am that I have been informed by R. Catholicks of unquestionable veracity that neither he nor William Birchley was the author but one John Austen born at Walpole in Marshland in the County of Norfolk and bred in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge which house he leaving and his religion too about 1640 entred himself into the Society of Lincolns Inn with intentions to follow the municipal Laws but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was driven thence It is to be noted by the way that this Austen being a man of good parts and much in esteem with the R. Catholicks he did write and publish several books that is to say besides the three parts of The Christian Moderator which he put out under the name of W. Birchley 1 Two vol. of Devotions after the old way printed in octavo and afterwards reprinted in 1672 with a preface to them written by Joh. Sergeant He also wrot a third volume which is not yet published 2 Treatise in behalf of the oath of Allegiance 3 Letter from a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a friend written in the time of war and other things among which must not be forgotten A punctual Answer to Dr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of Faith c. Six or seven sheets of which were printed off but for what reason all were not finished I cannot tell He died in his house in Bow street in Cov. Garden near London in the summer time an 1669 and was buried in the Ch. of S. Paul there Two parts of the said Christian Moderator being esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a venemous potion as full of dangerous Ingredients c. was examin'd and animadverted upon in a book called Legend◠lignea c. p. 29.30 c. One Will. Austen of Linc. Inn Esq who died 16 Jan. 1633 wrot Devotionis Augustinianae flamma or certain devout and learned Meditations c. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but of what kin he was to John I know not As for our author Christop Davenport alias Sancta Clara who mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt and sometimes by that of Coventrie died in Somerset house in the Strand near London on the 31 of May early in the morning being then Whitmunday in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried not according to his desire in the Vault under Somerset house Chappel which the Queen opposed but in the Church belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the said Strand It was his desire many years before his death to retire to Oxon in his last days there to die purposely that his bones might be laid in S. Ebbes Church to which the mansion of the Franciscans or Grey Friers sometimes joyned and in which several of the Brethren were antiently interred particularly by those of his old friend Joh. Day a learned Frier of his order born at the Mill in the Parish of S. Cross alias Halywell near Oxon who was buried at the west end of the said Church near the Font an 1658 but troubles coming on by the breaking out of the Popish Plot his design was frustrated JOHN WILMOT Earl of Rochester Viscount Athlone in Ireland and Baron of Adderbury in Oxfordshire was born at Dichley near Wodstock in the said County .... Apr. 1648 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Burford under a noted Master called John Martin became a Nobleman of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Phineas Bury Fellow and inspection of Mr. Blandford the Warden an 1659 actually created Master of Arts in Convocation with several other noble persons an 1661 at which time he and none else was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellour of the University Clarendon who then sate in the supreme chair to honour that Assembly Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and at his return frequented the Court which not only debauched him but made him a perfect Hobbist and was at length made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and Controller of Wodstock Park in the place of Sir W. Fleetwood deceased He was a person of most rare parts and his natural talent was excellent much improved by learning and industry being throly acquainted with all classick Authors both Greek and Latine a thing very rare if not peculiar to him among those of his quality He knew also how to use them not as other Poets have done to transcribe and steal from but rather to better and improve them by his natural fancy But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temper unhappily inclining him to the excesses of Pleasure and Mirth which with the wonderful pleasantness of his unimitable humour did so far engage the affections of the Dissolute towards him that to
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 highâ—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
way as they call it of promoting learning now for some years carried on and professed tho not at this time 1690 and several years since with that active vigour as at first by the Royal Society The institution of which its religious tendency towards the advancement of true substantial and solid improvements and great benefit which hath and may accrue thence to humane life by that real and useful knowledge there aimed at and in part obtained he hath with some shew and appearance at least of reason defended against H. Stubbe and all this against the old way which he calls a bare formal Scheme of empty airy notions sensless terms and insignificant words fit only to make a noise and furnish men with matter of wrangling and contention c. His reflecting on his University education with such regret and disatisfaction declaring often in common discourse that his being trained up in that trite and beaten road was one of his greatest unhappinesses that had ever befalen him as it savoured plainly of too much arrogance thus rashly to condemn the statutable continued practice of such a learned body which doth not as is by our modern Virtuosi falsly pretended so slavishly tye up its youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristole as not to be permitted in any cases to depart from his somtimes erroneous sentiments but gives them free and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing with the many and different writers who set up with the specious name of new Philosophy referring still to the authority of Aristotle as unquestionable in the performance of public exercise So neither did it seem to consist with those grateful returns which his more benign mother the University might here reasonably looked for from him as some slender requital for her so frankly bestowing on him the ground-work or foundation at least of all that learning which afterwards rendred him so mightily known and famous to and among some people Mr. R. Baxter to whom our author wrote a large courting Letter dat 3. Sept. 1661 wherein it appears that he admired his preaching and writings saith that he was a man of more than ordinary ingeny that he was one of themselves here tho an Originist a most triumphant Conformist and not the greatest contemner of Nonconformists and famous for his great wit c. which last commendation is given of him by the most famous Th. de Albiis an eminent writer of another persuasion As for the books that this our author Glanvill hath written the titles of which follow some of them are new vamp'd have fresh titles and somtimes new dedications put to them which whether it was so contrived to make the world believe that he was not lazy but put out a book every year I leave to others to judge The vany of Dogmatizing or confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledg and its causes with some reflections on Peripateticisme and an apologie for philosophy Lond. 1661. oct All or most of this book is contained in Scepsis scientifica c. as I shall tell you by and by It was answered by Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book entit Sciri sive Sceptices Scepticorum a jure disputationis exâ—lusio Lond. 1663. in tw By this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the same with Tho. White second son of Rich. White of Hutton in Essex Esq by Mary his wife daughter of Edm. Plowden the great Lawyer in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth which Th. White having been alwaies from his childhood a Rom. Catholick became at length a Secular Priest and a most noted Philosopher of his time as his published writings much sought after and admired by many shew Hobbes of Malmsbury had a great respect for him and when he lived in Westminster he would often visit him and he Hobbes but seldom parted in cool blood for they would wrangle squabble and scold about philosophical matters like young Sophisters tho either of them was 80 years of age yet Hobbes being obstinate and not able to endure contradiction tho well he might seeing White was his Senior yet those Scholars who were somtimes present at their wrangling disputes held that the Laurel was carried away by White who dying in his lodging in Drury lane between the hours of two and three in the afternoon of the sixth day of July an 1676 aged 94 years was buried almost under the Pulpit in the Church of S. Martin in the fields within the liberty of Westminster on the ninth day of the same month By his death the R. Catholicks lost an eminent ornament from among them and it hath been a question among some of them whether ever any Secular Priest of England went beyond him in philosophical matters Our author Glanvill hath also written Lux Orientalis or an Enquiry into the opinion of the Easterne Sages concerning the pre-existence of Soules being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of Providence c. Lond. 1662. oct There again 1683. See at the end of this Cat. of our authors works Scepsis Scientifica or confest ignorance the way to Schisme in an Essay to the vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion Lond. 1665. qu. A reply to the exceptions of the learned Tho. Albius c. Or thus Scire i tuum nihil est or the authors defence of the vanity of Dogmatizing c. Printed with Scep Scient A Letter to a friend concerning Aristotle Printed also with Scep Scient Some philosophical considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft In a letter to Rob. Hunt Esq Lond. 1666. qu. But all or most of the impression of this book being burnt in the great fier at Lond. in the beginning of Sept. the same year it was reprinted there again 1667. qu. The said Phil. consid were answer'd by John Webster practicioner in physick and chirurgery in the W. Riding of Yorshire in a book which I shall anon mention A blow at moderne Saducisme in some philosophical considerations about Witchcraft Lond. 1668 c. qu. See more towards the latter end of this Cat. of books Relation of the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mumpesson Printed with the Blow at Mod. Sad. This disturbance in the house of Tho. Mompesson of Tidworth in Wilts Esq was occasion'd by its being haunted with evil Spirits and the beating of a drum invisibly every night from Febr. 1662 to the beginning of the year following and after Reflections on drollery and Atheisme Pr. also with A Blow at Mod. Sad. Palpable evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft in an account of the famed disturbance by a Drummer in the house of Mr. Mumpesson c. Lond. 1668. This is most if not all the same with the former only the title alter'd A Whip for the Droll Fidler to the Atheist being reflections on Drollery and Atheisme Lond. 1668. This is also mostly the same with Rest on droll and Ath. before-mention'd 'T
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
at Edinburgh in his rambles into Scotland where the Doctors being taken with the forwardness prettiness and conceitedness of the Youth did confer on him that degree In the beginning of May 1660 he was admitted the Sen. Proctor of the University but being soon after ejected his fellowship of New Coll. by the Kings Commissioners to make room for that person whose bread he had eaten for 10 years he removed to Hart Hall where he continued till his Proctorship was terminated by which office he and his brother Proctor were great gainers by the many creations in several degrees that year made Afterwards he retired to Greys Inn of which he was about that time a Barrister and having consumed a considerable part of the estate left him by his relations travelled beyond the Seas was at Rome and in Flanders he served in the wars as a volenteer for one Summer After his return having by that time but little left he took holy orders threw himself upon the Church a usual thing with Bankrupts became Minister of Colleton in Devon and of another Church in Sommersetshire Both which he kept for some years but having an unsetled head he got himself to be made Chaplain to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winchester who giving to him the Rectory of Brixton or Brightstone in the Isle of Wight he setled there for a time But the aire agreeing not with his constitution Mr. James Rudyerd presented him to Winchfield in Hampshire so that being thereby incapacitated to hold Brixton with it he changed Brixton for North Waltham near to Basingstoke in the same County both which he kept together for about three years and then finished his course occasion'd sooner than otherwise it might have been by too much drudging at his study to carry on the duties required of him He hath written and published The entrance of Mazzasini or some memorials of the state of France between the death of the Cardinal of Richlieu and the beginning of the late Regency Oxon. 1657. oct But his contemporaries then in the University knowing him to be too forward and conceited did generally report that he was not the author of the said book but another mans plagiary Whereupon he came out with another part entit The entrance of Mazzarini continued through the first years Regency of Anna Maria of Austria Qu. Dowager of France and Mother of the present Monarch Louis xiv c. Oxon 1658. oct And in the Epistle before it to the Reader he saith that he was only a divulger of things that were before publick in other Languages intimating that this as the former book were rather translations from or collections out of other authors than barely his own compositions Euphuia or the Acts and Characters of good nature Lond. 1665. oct After the writing of this book the author entred into holy Orders and afterwards published Several Sermons as 1 A call to the Shumalite or to the scatter'd and divided Members of the Church on Cantic 6.13 Lond. 1673. qu. 2 Wisdome and Prudence exhibited preached before L. Ch. Justice Rainsford and L. Ch. Just North in their late Western Circuit on Prov. 8.12 Lond. 1677. qu. c. Primordia or the rise and growth of the first Church of God described Lond. 1683. oct To which are added Two Letters of James Rudyerd Esq written to our author Tanner One about The multiplying of mankind till the flood the other concerning The multiplying of the children of Aegypt He died in the month of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the Church at Winchfield before mention'd leaving then behind him in the hands of Elizabeth his widdow the second part of Primordia in manuscript WILLIAM GOUGH commonly called Goffe son of Will. G. Minister of Earl-Stoke in Wilts was born there became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. Narcissus Marsh in Mich. term 1671. aged 17 years but when his Tutor was made Principal of S. Alban Hall he was translated to that House and took one degree in Arts as a member thereof an 1675. Afterwards leaving the University he repaired to London where he sided with the whiggish party upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot an 1678 industriously carried on the cause then driven on and wrot Londinum Triumphans or an historical acccount of the grand influence the actions of the City of London have had on the affaires of the Nation for many ages past shewing the antiquity honor glory and renowne of this famous City the grounds of her rights privileges and franchises the foundation of her Charter c. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo He died of the Small Pox about the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the parish Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet commonly called S. Dunstans in the West in London ROBERT WICKENS son of Joh. Wickens of Shitlanger in Northamptonshire was born in that County entred a Servitour of Ch. Ch. in Lent terme an 1632 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1639 holy Orders and about that time taught School near Campden in Glocestershire and afterwards at Worcester At length he being made Rector of Todenham in Gloc. where for some also he had taught Grammar on the death as I presume of Dr. Tho. Iles wrot and published Latinum Lyceum Graeca cum Latinis sive Grammaticae artis in utrâque Linguâ lucidissima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oxon. 1654. oct Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion Printed with the former book A compleat and perfect Concordance of the English Bible composed after a new and most compendious method Oxon. 1655. in a thick oct He died on the 29. of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried on the first of Decemb. following in the Chancel of the Church of Todenham before mentioned OBADIAH HOWE son of Will. Howe of Tattersal in Lincolnshire Priest was born in Leycestershire became either Batler or Com. of Madg. Hall in 1632 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and in the time of the rebellion siding with the rout became Rector of Stickney and some years after his Majesties restauration Vicar of Boston in Lincolnshire He was a person in Joh. Goodwins opinion of considerable parts and learning and yet he believed much more in his own He hath written The Universalist examined and convicted destitute of plaine sayings of Scripture or evidence of reason In answer to a treatise intit The Universalitie of Gods free Grace in Christ to mankind Lond. 1648. qu. The Pagan Preacher silenced c. Lond. 1653. Written in answer to Joh. Goodwins book entit The Pagans debt and dowry c. first published at London in 1652 and again in 1671. oct The said Pagan Preacher was replyed upon by Joh. Goodwin in his Preface to his Triumviri c. Severall Sermons as 1 The Royal Present as it was delivered in a Sermon in the Parish Church
additions with prefaratory discourses of Arms and Armory it was printed again at Oxon 1674. in 16 sh in qu. After this the Author growing wealthy and noted for a rich man became High-Sheriff of Wilts an 1680 whereupon suffering in his reputation by some of his neighbouring gentry he wrot and published Loyalty displayed and falshood unmask'd or a just Vindication of Tho. Gore Esq High-Sheriff of the County of Wilts in a letter to a friend Lond. 1681. in 1 sh qu. He gave up the ghost at Alderton before mention'd on the 31 of March Easter Munday in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church there among the graves of his Ancestors leaving then behind him several pieces of Heraldry of his own composure collections of Arms out of several Churches and Houses which he had made in his Journeys additions to and corrections of the books that he had published and a choice collection of Heraldry books and books relating to that faculty as well printed as in MS. WILLIAM CLARKE son of George Clarke by his wife the sister of Will. Prynne Esq was born at Swainswyke near Bathe in Somersetshire became a Communer of Oriel Coll an 1657 aged 17 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts 1661 and on the 30 of Mar. 1663 was made Fellow of his House About that time applying his mind solely to the study of Physick left his Fellowship three years after retired to his native Country and practised it in the City of Bathe where I saw him in 1678 and his book intit The natural history of Niter or a philosophical discourse of the nature generation place and artificial extraction of Niter c. Lond. 1670. oct Translated into Lat. and printed beyond the Seas after a full account of it had been made publick in the Philosophical Transactions numb 61. p. 2008. Afterwards the Author retired to Stepney near London in Middlesex where he practised his faculty with good success and dying on the 24 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there on the 27 of the same month He was usually called there Dr. Clarke but whether he ever took that degree elsewhere I cannot tell I am sure he was only Bach. of Arts of this University DANIEL WHISTLER son of Will. Whistl of Elvington in the Parish of Goring in the dioc of Oxford was born at Walthamstow in Essex educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in Jan. 1639 aged 20 years or thereabouts where going thro the severe exercise then kept up proceeded in Arts four years after About that time obtaining leave of his Society to travel he crossed the seas to Holland took the degree of Doctor of Phys at Leyden an 1645 and returning the year following to his Coll. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University 1647. Afterwards he submitted to the power of the Visitors appointed by Parliament kept his Fellowship tho absent became superior Reader of Lynacres Lecture but read not because he was practising his faculty in London and in 1653 he went as chief Physitian to the Embassy made by Bulstrode Whitlock into Sweedland After his return he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Fellow of the Royal Society when first instituted and at length upon the removal of Dr. Tho. Cox for being whiggishly inclined he was made President of the said College about S. Lukes day 1683. He hath written and published Disputatio medica inauguralis de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant The Rickets quam deo suppetias ferente c. Lond. 1645 and 1685. qu. This noted Doctor tho he had married a rich widdow and did obtain about 1000 l. per an by his practice many years before his death yet he died in the Coll. of Physitians very much in debt and worse than nothing on Sunday the eleventh day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried but a little better than in private towards the upper end of the north isle or alley joyning to the Church called Christ Church in London which is near the said Coll. of Phys THOMAS LYE son of Tho. Lye or Leigh was born at Chard in Somersetshire 25 of Mar. 1621 entred a Servitour of Wadh. Coll. under his learned and faithful Tutor Mr. George Ashwell in Mich. term 1636 elected scholar thereof 29 Jun. in the year following took one degree in Arts by the name of Tho. Leigh by which name also he had been matriculated went afterwards to Cambridge when Oxford was garrison'd for his Majesty took the degree of Master of Arts there in July 1647 being then or lately Master of the school at Bury S. Edm. in Suffolk returned afterwards to Oxon for preferment was made Chaplain of Wadh. Coll and incorporated Master of this University by the name of Tho. Lye in the month of May 1649. Soon after he was made Minister of Chard before mentioned and on the 24 of Aug. 1651 he preached a farewell sermon as being under the sentence of banishment because he would not swear against the beloved Covenant In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Somersetshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1658 upon the receipt of a Call he entred on the pastoral charge of Allhallowes Church in Lombard-street in London on the 20 of Nov. or thereabouts and by Act of Parl. of the 14 of March 1659 he was made one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way which Act being soon after annulled upon a foresight of his Majesties restauration he himself two years after was ejected for Nonconformity He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 The fixed saint held forth in a farewell Serm. at Allhallowes in Lombardstreet 17 Aug. 1662 on Phil. 4.1 Lond. 1662. qu. It was reprinted the same year in octavo among other farewell Sermons at Barthelmew tide with his picture very like him with other pictures of Nonconformists that then preached in and near London set in the title 2 Sermon on Luke 17.10 Printed in The morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 3 By what spiritual rules may catechising be best managed on Prov. 22.6 Printed in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 4 The true believers union with Christ on 1 Cor. 6.17 Pr. in The morning exercise at S. Giles in the fields near Lond. in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. In which Morn exerc one John Tillotson hath also a sermon An explanation of the shorter Catechisme composed by the Assembly of Divines 1647. With a plain and familiar method of instructing the younger sort in that Cat. Lond. in oct Several times printed The Childs delight together with an English Grammar Lond. in oct Several times printed A new
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 wâ—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
Peter in the East in Oxon under the South wall joyning on the S. side of the tomb-stone of Silv. Wood. ROBERT WHITEHALL son of Rich. Whiteh somtimes Bach. of Div. of Ch. Church afterwards Rector of Agmundesham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks was born at Amersham educated mostly in Westminster School under Mr. Rich. Busby became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1644. or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 for giving this answer to when required of them whither he would submit to their authority My name 's Whitehall God bless the Poet If I submit the King shall know it But he cringing afterwards to his Countrymen and Neighbours the Ingoldesbies especially to Rich. Ingoldesbie the Regicide before whom he often acted the part of a Mimick and Buffoon purposely to make him merry he was upon submission made to the Committee for regulating the Univ. of Oxon put in by them Bachelaur-fellow of Merton Coll an 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts was Terrae Filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasn Coll. 1655 entred on the Physick line and by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chancellour of this Univ. of Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Phys in 1657. Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of Physick but thereby obtained but little reputation and lesser by his Poetry to which he much pretended having been esteemed no better than a meer Poetaster and time-serving-Poet as these things following partly shew The Marriage of Arms and Arts 12. Jul. 1651 being an accompt of the Act at Oxon to a friend Lond. 1651. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. and hath in the title the two Letters of R.W. set down being then as since generally reported to be his and he would never positively deny it The occasion of the writing of it was this viz. that an Act having not been solemnized for several years before it became such a novelty to the then Students of the University most of which had been put into places by the Visitors that there was great rudeness committed by them and the concours of people in getting into places and thrusting out strangers during all the time of that solemnity in S. Maries Church Whereupon the Vicechancellour Dr. Greenwood of Brasenose a severe and cholerick Governour was forced to get several Guards of Musquetiers out of the Parliament Garrison then in Oxon to keep all the doors and avenews and to let no body in only such whom the Vicech or his Deputies appointed There was then great quarrelling between the Scholars and Soldiers and thereupon blowes and bloody Noses followed Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Protectorem Angliae inaugurato 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii officium dignitatem faeliciter electo an 1657 Pr. in half a sh on one side The Coronation a Poem Lond. 1661. in one sh in qu. Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide equiti aurato summo Angliae optato Oxoniae Cancellario c. Printed on one side of a sh in Lat. and English an 1660. Urania or a description of the painting of the top of the Theater at Oxon as the Artist lay'd his design Lond. 1669 in 3. sh in fol. c. Verses on Mris. Mary More upon her sending Sir Tho. Mores Picture of her own drawing to the Long Gallery at the public Schools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iconicum quarundam extranearum numero 258 explicatio breviuscula clara apprimè Epheborum aliquot proenobilium in usum exculta quâ ad SS Scripturas alliciantur Quibus singulis accessit symbolum cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex autoribus Graecis Latinis depromptâ Being an Epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old and New Testament after each Sculpture or cut Oxon. 1677 in a large and thick quarto It must be noted that the author had bought from Holland as many Cuts of the Old and New Test that cost him 14 l. Each Cut he caused to be neatly pasted in the middle of a large quarto paper on which before was printed a running title at the top and six English verses at the bottom to explain the Cut or Picture Which being so done in twelve copies only he caused each to be richly bound and afterwards presented a very fair copy to the King and the rest mostly to persons of quality of which number was Charles son and heir of Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester for whom he pretended 't was chiefly compos'd Gratulamini mecum Or a congratulatory Essay upon his Majesties recovery Lond. 1679. in one sh in fol. Written upon his Majesties being freed from an Ague at Windsore in Sept. 1679. The English Recabite or a defyance to Bacchus and all his Works A Poem in 67 Hexasticks c. Lond. 1681. in four sheets in fol. See more of him in his old friend Edm. Gayton p. 271 a Poet of the like stamp This Mr. Whitehall died on the eighth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five and was buried the next day in the south part or Isle of Merton College Church having for several years before hang'd on that house as an useless member JOHN ROBERTS son and heir of Richard Lord Roberts of Truro in Cornwall was born in that County entred a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux an 1625 where he continued two years or more and after his fathers death he succeeded him in his honour In the beginning of the grand rebellion raised by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in that unhappy Convention afterwards called the Long Parliament he adhered to the cause that was then by them carried on was made a Colonel in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex and Governour for a time of the Garrison of Plymouth in Devonshire against his Majesties forces but when he afterwards beheld how things would terminate he withdrew and acted little or nothing during the times of Usurpation After his Majesties restauration he retired to the Court and in 1662 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of William Lord Say deceased but giving not that content which was expected he was sent into Ireland to be Lord Lieutenant there in Sept. 1669 and his Government being disliked he was recalled in May following In Octob. 1679 he was made Lord President of his Majesties Council upon the removal of Anthony Earl of Shatfsbury and soon after he was made Earl of Radnor He hath written A discourse of the vanity of the creature grounded on Ecclesiast 1.2 Lond. 1673. oct and one or more books as I have been enform'd fit for the Press He died at Chelsey near London on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon about 8 days after his body was conveyed to Lanhedriock near Bodmin in Cornwall and buried
ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month at Hampton Court But no Council being then held notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day the matter was defer'd till the 27 of the same month Another Council being therefore there held on that day the charges and answers were debated Which done and the Lords concerned being withdrawn this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty against his now Majesty and against the Government When the Parties or Lords concern'd were called in again the Lord Chancellour only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mention'd as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following but Anglesey continuing extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudg'd by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July he wrot a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty which being openly read in Council the next day he did in some manner as 't was said resent it for some passages therein yet nothing appear'd entred to be done thereupon Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven James Touchet was called in several times and question'd about his Memoires which he acknowledging to be his the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682 the Privy Seal by command from his Majesty was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State without any farther hearing and was given to George Marquess of Halyfax Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven containing Observations c. was another book published intit Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires c. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase Author of The Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion c. and printed at London 1682. oct But the said Author who commends Anglesey's Letter was not regarded Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrot A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council c. Lond. 1682 in 18 sh in fol. and A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian Lond. 1683. in two sh in qu which Jovian was wrot by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2 but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat died soon after as I shall anon tell you leaving behind him The History of Ireland MS. and The Kings right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nov. 1687. in 10 sh and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8 put at the bottom of the title So that that person who in the time of the Popish Plot had shew'd himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists and Duke of York by publishing The weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome and other things was when the said Duke came to the Crown taken so much into favour as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws the publishing of which book was one At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Polititian for more than 45 years he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster on Easter Tuesday the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire where he had an Estate was buried in the Church there He left behind him a choice Library of Books which were exposed to sale by way of Auction in Oct. Nov. c. following JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire of which his father was Rector elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school an 1640 aged 15 years bore arms for a time in Oxon when made a Garrison for his Majesty and having made proof of his Courage in that service he was appointed an Ensign and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty but after the surrender of Oxford the declension of the Kings Cause and his Army disbanded he returned to Christ Church again and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647 and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Soon after he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of All 's Coll. with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660 in the place of John Pointer then ejected and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King he was upon his recommendation deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster upon the promotion of Dr. Earle to the See of Worcester in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nov. the same year he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty and at that time and before that place was manag'd to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity At length upon the death of Dr. Sterne Archb. of York he was by vertue of the Kings Conge d'eslire elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683 and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth was on the 23 of the same month enthronized He was a man of a free generous and noble disposition and withall of a natural bold and happy Eloquence As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours both in his Deanery of Westminster and his Archbishoprick of York He was not very careful
endeavours of some of his friends and fellow-sufferers to reduce the University to that manner and form as to Preaching Disputing Discipline Opinion c. as 't was while Dr. Laud was Chancellour thereof but because of the twenty years interval wherein a most strange liberty loosness in manners and religion had taken place they could not do it and I remember that many made it a ridiculous thing that he and they should in the least think of such a matter which a whole age could not do nor that also unless a succession of good Kings came that should be of the same mind and opinion with Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory He was a most excellent Disciplinarian kept up the exercise of his house severely was admirable in training up Youth of noble extraction had a faculty in it peculiar to him and was much delighted in it He would constantly on several mornings in the week take his rounds in his Coll go to the Chambers of Noblemen and Gent. Commoners and examine and see what progress they made in their studies He constantly frequented divine Service in public four times in a day and had besides Prayers twice every day in his own family He was a most zealous Favourer of the Ch. of England and none that I yet know of did go beyond him in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto He was a great encourager and promoter of Learning in the University and of all public works belonging thereunto witness not only the Edifices before mentioned but his sollicitation for the building of the publick Theater to the end that the house of God might be kept free for its own use He likewise advanced the learned Press and improv'd the Manufacture of Printing in Oxford in such manner as it had been designed before by that public spirited person Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and certainly it would have been by him effected as other matters of greater concern relating to Religion and Learning had not the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians prevented him He was also a person of a most generous spirit undervalued money and disburs'd it so freely upon learned pious and charitable uses that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing He was an eager defender and maintainer of the University and its Privileges especially while he executed the office of Vicechancellour against the Oppugners of them and always endeavour'd to advance its Liberties for which he often gained the ill opinions of the Citizens He was a bold and resolute man and did not value whaâ— the generality said or thought of him so that he could accomplish his just and generous designs which being too many to effect was the chief reason of shortning his days His charity was so great that he was a husband to the afflicted widow a father to the orphan and a tender parent to poor Children He constantly allowed an yearly pension to a poor man of S. Thomas in the Suburb of Oxon purposely that he should teach gratis 20 or 24 poor children of that Parish to read some of which he afterward bound Apprentices or made Scholars He was a person of great morals and vertues spent his time in celebacy of an unspotted life and unquestionable reputation On the 8 of Jan. 1675 he was elected Bishop of Oxon by the Chapter of Ch. Ch. by vertue of a Conge d'eslire sent to them from his Majesty and on the sixth of Febr. following being then Shrove Sunday he was consecrated in the Chappel of the Bishop of Winchester at Chelsey near London at which time liberty was given to him to keep his Deanery in commendam purposely to keep him in his Coll. that he might do farther good therein and in the University No sooner he was setled in his See but he betook himself to the rebuilding the Palace belonging thereunto at Cudesden near Oxon whereupon examining what had been done in order to it by any of his Predecessors which was no considerable matter he undertook and finished it as I have told you in the first vol. p. 634 yet enjoyed but a little time in it As for his Works pertaining to Learning they are these The life of the most learned Rev. and Pious Dr. Hen. Hammond Lond. 1661 c. oct Before which time he was supposed to be author of The interest of England stated or a faithful and just account of the aimes of all parties now pretending distinctly treating of the designments of the R. Cath Royalist Presbyterian Anabaptist c. Printed in 1659 in two sh in qu. but how true it is I cannot tell because I heard of it but very lately and that from no considerable hand It was answered by March Nedham as I have told you in my discourse of him The vanity of scoffing in a letter to a Gent. Lond. 1674 qu. No name is set to it only then generally reported to be his Responsio ad epistolam Thomae Hobbes Malmsburiensis See at the end of Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Several Sermons as 1 The Character of the last days preached before the King on 2. Pet. 3.3 Oxon. 1675. qu. 2 Serm. preached before the H. of Peers 22. Dec. 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation on Matth. 12.25 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Account of Dr. Rich. Allestree's life This is in the preface before the said Doctors Forty Sermons published by our author Dr. Fell who also reviewed and illustrated with marginal notes the works of S. Cyprian which he published under this title Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera recognita illustrata per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem Pr. 1682 fol. in the printing house joyning on the east side of the Theater erected at the charge of the University of Oxon on the motion of Dr. Fell an 1674. To which book were added Annales Cyprianici by Dr. John Pearson Bishop of Chester He also translated into English Of the Unity of the Church Printed also in the same house 1681. qu. Written originally by S. Cyprian See more of his works in Pat. Young in the first vol. p. 794 and in Ger. Langbaine and Tho. Willis in this p. 141 and 403. Dr. Fell also published or reprinted every year while he was Dean of Ch. Ch viz. from 1661 to the time of his death a book commonly a classical author against New-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
Authors died on the 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was buried in the Church at Pisford before mention'd He had some time before wrot the life of his wife but because there were some trifling stories in it it was not printed WILLIAM FULMAN the son of a sufficient Carpenter was born in a town famous for the birth or at least habitation of Sir Phil. Sidney called Penshurst in Kent in the month of Nov. 1632 and being a youth of pregnant parts while the most learned Dr. Hammond was Parson of that place he took him into his protection carried him with him to Oxon in the time of the troubles procur'd him a Choristers place in Magd. Coll. and caused him to be carefully educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to that house under the tuition of Mr. Will. White the vigilant Master thereof And being there well grounded in School learning that worthy Doctor put him upon standing for a Scholars place in Corp. Ch. Coll. where shewing himself an exact Proficient in classical learning was forthwith elected in 1647 and put under the tuition of an excellent Tutor but zealous Puritan named Zach. Bogan The next year he was ejected among other young men by the Parliamentarian Visitors to the great loss of his learning and tho his Patron Dr. Hammond was involved in the same fate yet he took him closer to him and made him his Amanuensis in which office he found him very serviceable and useful After he had arrived to the state of man he became by that Doctors endeavours Tutor to the son and heir of the antient and gentile family of Peto of Chesterton in Warwickshire where he found a comfortable harbour during the time of the Church of Englands disconsolate condition At length upon his Majesties return he was restored to his Scholarship was actually created Master of Arts and made Fellow of his House where continuing several years a severe Student in various sorts of learning was upon the death of Mr. Rich. Samwaies presented by the President and Fellows of his College to the Rectory of Meysey-Hampton near Fairford in Glocestershire where he finished his course He was a most zealous son of the Church of England and a grand enemy to Popery and Fanaticism He was a most excellent Theologist admirably well vers'd in ecclesiastical and profane history and chronology and had a great insight in English History and Antiquities but being totally averse from making himself known and that choice worth treasured up in his great learning did in a manner dye with him Had his indulgent Patron lived some years longer or he himself had taken those advantages as others did for their promotion in the Church upon account of their sufferings for the Royal cause he might without doubt have been a Dean but such was the high value that he set upon himself and his sufferings that he expected Preferment should court him and not he it Besides also he had not in him a complisant humour unless sooth'd up flattered or admired neither any application whether to advantage himself in learning experience or for his own commodity and therefore not known and so consequently as his merits deserved not so much admired as otherwise he would have been He wrot much and was a great Collector but published little as Academiae Oxoniensis Notitia Oxon. 1665. qu. Published again in the same vol. at London 1675 with very many additions and corrections taken from Historia Antiquitates Univ. Oxon published the year before the several sheets of which as soon as they were wrought off from the Press were by its Author sent to Mr. Fulman at Meysey-Hampton Appendix to the Life of Edm. Stanton D. D. wherein some passages are further cleared which were not fully held forth by the former Authors Lond. 1673. in 1 sh in oct Written upon the publication of the partial Life of that Doctor by one Will. Mayow a Nonconformist Divine See more in Edm. Stanton under the year 1671. Corrections of and Observations on the first part of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England Which Correct and Observ are remitted into the Appendix to the second vol. of the said Hist of the Reform written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1681. fol. p. 411. c. But the Reader may be pleased to know that some of the said Observations are omitted and others curtail'd to the great dislike of their Author who had applied himself with very great care and diligence for several years on the like Subject of The History of Reformation and so consequently was abler to judge more critically of such a matter than other persons He also reviewed the whole copy of the second vol. of the said Hist of the Reform before it went to the Press and with great judgment did correct such errors that he found in it He also with great pains sought after and found out the Works of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory and collected them into one large vol. with intentions to write the Life of that most religious Prince and to set it before them but he being unexpectedly taken with the Small Pox the Bookseller R. Royston employed Rich. Perincheif D. D. to draw up a history of it Which being so done not without the notes of Fulman it was printed before the said Collection with the name of Perincheif to it an 1662. fol. and so consequently the whole work was look'd upon and esteemed as due to him which otherwise was to have been due to Fulman Our author also did take a great deal of pains in writing the Life of the famous Joh. Hales of Eaton and had obtained many materials towards it but for want of application to persons for farther information of the man that work was left imperfect Also the Life of his founder Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester with an account of the learned Men Writers Bishops c. of C. C. Coll but for want of application also and endeavours to obtain Record from several Offices in Lond. and Westm to which I did often advise him and tell him where matter migh be had that work was also left imperfect And what he did as to the publication of the works of Dr. Hammond I have already told you in the life and character of that person At length this our learned author being overtaken with a malignant fever in a very unseasonable time which he did not nor would take care to prevent the danger that might ensue died of it at Meysey-Hampton early in the morn of the 28 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and eight leaving then behind him a great heap of Collections neatly written with his own hand but nothing of them perfect All which being afterwards conveyed to C. C. Coll. to be according to his desire put into the Archives of the Library of that house what had it been for those that had the care to have permitted the author of this
tye of friendship than blood perhaps could do His genie was then much inclining to the Mathematicks which being as 't were natural to him he quickly and easily obtained them Mr. Cha. Scarborough then an ingenious young Student and Fellow of Caies Coll. in the same University was his great acquaintance and both being equally Students in that faculty and desirous to perfect themselves they took a journey to Mr. Will. Oughtred living then at Albury in Surrey to be informed of many things in his Clavis Mathematica which seemed at that time very obscure to them Mr. Oughtred treated them with great humanity being very much pleased to see such ingenious young men apply themselves to those studies and in short time he sent them away well satisfied in their desires When they returned to Cambridge they afterwards read the Clav. Math. to their Pupils which was the first time that that book was read in the said University Mr. Laur. Rook a disciple of Oughtred I think and Mr. Ward 's friend did admirably well read in Gresham Coll. on the sixth Chapt. of the said book which obtained him great repute from some and greater from Mr. Ward who ever after had an especial favour for him In 1643 he with the Master and several of his Coll. were for the Kings Cause imprison'd in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and ejected from their several places much about which time he and Mr. P. Gunning Mr. Is Barrow Mr. Jo. Barwick c. did write a well pen'd treatise against the Covenant which was made publick After his release he was civilly and kindly received by his friend and neighbour Ralph Freeman of Aspden in Hertfordshire Esq and upon the ceasing of the Civil War he was entertained in the quality of a Chaplain to Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire In 1649 his mind being then changed as to orthodox Principles he by friends made to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon became Astronomy Professor thereof in the place of Mr. Joh. Greaves then ejected who upon an infallible foresight that he should be turn'd out put Ward upon to gain it because he would be sure as far as his power laid to get an able Successor and about that time he entred himself a Gentleman Commoner in Wadham Coll for the sake of VVilkins then Warden of that House In Oct. the same year he was incorporated Master of Arts and admitted to his Professorship and soon after took the Independent Oath called the Engagement the effect of which was to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. in which year Mr. Joh. Wallis the other Savilian Professor proceeding also fell out a Controversie between them occasion'd by Wallis who should have seniority which being decided by the Vicechanc. on VVards behalf VVallis went out grand Compounder and so got superiority as I shall largely tell you in the Fasti of that year In 1656 or thereabouts he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg the silenc'd Bishop of Exeter the Chantorship of that Church then void and in the year following gaining an interest among the Fellows of Jesus Coll. he was elected by them to be their Principal upon the resignation of Dr. Mich. Roberts but Franc. Howell of Exeter Coll. an Independent got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector In 1659 he was elected President of Trin. Coll. by a majority of Fellows made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bashurst but being soon after forced to leave that place to make room for the right owner Dr. Han. Potter who had in a most woful manner endured great hardship from the time of his ejection in 1648 the Politician retired to the great City where he became Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich and in the same year 1660 he was installed in his place of Chantor of Exeter At that time it was his endeavours to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambridge by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what About that time he became a member of the Royal Society and soon after Dean of Exeter where being setled he wound himself in a short time by his smooth language and behaviour into the favour of the Gentry of the neighbourhood In 1662 Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter being translated to VVorcester he was by the endeavours of a considerable party of the Gentry of Devonsh who were of the H. of Commons advanced to that See And being consecrated thereunto 20 July 1662 sate there but few years for on the death of Dr. Hyde he was translated to Salisbury 12 Sept. 1667. In 1671. Nov. 25 he was made Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter by the restitution of K. Ch. 2 after that place had been occupied by Lay-persons about 154 years He was a benefactor to the Royal Society gave a Pendulum Clock thereunto which goes for a week together to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend Laur. Rook. Also about 1672 he gave a considerable sum of money towards the making of the River at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church in Hampshire and in 1679 he bestowed a 1000 l. on Sidâ—ey Coll. in Cambridge In 1683 he built an Hospital or College at Salisbury for the entertainment of ten poor widows of Ministers of Gods word and in 1684 he built an Alms-house at the place of his nativity for four antient men and four antient women who had lived handsomely and brought by misfortune to poverty c. His Works as to learning are these A philosophical Essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God the immortality of the souls of men and the truth and authority of Scripture Oxon. 1652. oct c. De cometis ubi de cometarum natura disseritur Nova cometarum Theoria novissimae cometae historia proponitur Praelectio Oxonii habita Oxon. 1653. qu. Inquisitio in Ismaelis Bullialdi Astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta Printed with the book De cometis Idea Trigonometriae demonstratae in usum juventutis Oxon. Oxon. 1654. qu. The method of which mention'd in the Preface to this book Mr. Oughtred challenged for his Vindiciae Academiarum Containing some brief animadversions upon Mr. Joh. Websters book stiled The Examen of Academies Oxon. 1654. qu. Before this book is an Epistle written to the author by one who subscribes himself N. S. i. e. John Wilkins of Wadh. Coll being the two last letters of both his names Appendix concerning what Mr. Hobbes and Mr. Will. Dell have published on the same arguments Printed at the end of Vindiciae Academiarum As for Dell he had been educated in Cambridge and Webster who was then or lately a Chapl. in the Parl. Army had as I conceive been educated there also See in Thom. Hall under the year 1665 among the titles of
Viaticum from the hands of Dr. Alex. Monro Principal of K. James's Coll. at Edinburgh and his colleague in S. Giles's Church named Dr. John Strachan Professor of Div. at Edinb did assist after the manner of the Church of England They and several other Ministers and Layicks communicating then with him he regretted with tears the overthrowing of their Church saying he never thought to have outlived the Church of Scotland yet hoped others should live to see it restored c. His Father Will. Annand before mentioned lived very obscurely divers years after he came into England But at length obtaining the Vicaridge of Throwley in Kent 1649 and afterwards the rectory of Leveland in the same County the Usurper then ruling he caused his Son to be educated in learning in a good condition RICHARD SHERLOCK was born at Oxton in Cheshire and originally as 't is said a Student in Magd. Hall where he obtained a part of Acad. learning Thence he was translated to Trin. Coll. near Dublin where he proceeded Master of Arts in 1633 entred into the sacred function and soon after became Minister of several small Parishes in Ireland united together and yeilding no more than 8O l. per an At length upon the breaking out of the rebellion in that Country he journied into England and became Chaplain to a Regiment of his Majesties forces at Namptwich in Cheshire But that place being taken by the Parliament forces in Jan. 1643 he retired to Oxon where he became Chaplain to the Governour of the Garrison there and at length by the favour of Dr. Pink Warden of New College he was made one of the Chaplains of that House much about the time that P. Gunning and Is Barrow were made Chaplains also In 1646 he had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him in consideration of several Sermons that he preached either at Court or before the Parliament in Oxon but in the year 1648 or thereabouts being thrown out of his Chaplains place by the Visitors he became Curat for Dr. Jasp Mayne in an obscure Village called Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire who allowing him 16 l. per an for his pains for the Vicaridge there is esteemed to be worth but 50 l. yearly he gave a good part thereof away to the poor of that place At length leaving that Cure upon the ejection of the Doctor about 1652 he went into Lancashire became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Bindlosse of Borwick hall in the Parish of Warton Bt where as long as he continued he was very much troubled with the People called Quakers against whom he wrot several things as I shall tell you anon After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he was made Doctor of Div. of the Univ. of Dublin and about that time by the favour of his honorable Patron Charles E. of Derby whose Chaplain he was Rector of Winwick in Lancashire a place among other fat benefices of England of greatest name He was a person of a most pious life exemplary conversation of great charity hospitality and so zealous a man for the Church of England that he was accounted by precise persons popishly affected and a Papist in Masquerade He hath written and published The Quakers wild questions objected against the Ministers of the Gospel c. briefly answered Lond. 1654. oct 1656. qu. Animadverted upon by a noted Quaker called Rich. Hubberthorne in a book entit A Reply to a book set forth by the Priest of Borwick-hall in Lancashire called Rich. Sherlock c. Lond. 1654. qu. and by another more noted than he named George Fox in his book called The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 242.243 c. A discourse of the holy spirit his workings and impressions on the souls of Men This is also against the Quakers Discourse of divine revelation mediat or immediat Discourse of error heresie and schisme These three last pieces are printed with The Quakers wild Questions c. The principles of holy Christian Religion or the Catechisme of the Church of England paraphras'd c. Lond. 1656. oct Written for the use of Borwick-hall The thirteenth impression of this book came out at Lond. 1677. oct Sermon preached at a visitation held at Warrington in Lanc. 11. May 1669 on Acts 20.28 Lond. 1669. qu. Mercurius Christianus The practical Christian A treatise explaining the duty of self-examination c. Lond. 1673. oct Confessions Meditations and Prayers in order to the receiving of the holy Communion of the body and blood of Christ Printed with Merc. Christ The second part of the practical Christian consisting of meditations and psalmes illustrated with notes or paraphrased relating to the hours of prayer c. Lond. 1675. oct The practical Christian or the devout Penitent A book of Devotion containing the whole duty of a Christian in all occasions and necessities c. in 4 parts 1. Of self examination confession of sins c. 2. Of the Communion of the holy body and blood of Christ 3. Of the hours of Prayer and occasional meditations 4. Of the four last things death judgment hell and heaven Lond. 1676. 77. c. Several short but seasonable discourses touching common and private prayer relating to the publick offices of the Church c. Oxon. 1684. oct c. This book contains 1. The irregularity of a private prayer in a publick congregation which was first printed 1674 in 4 sh in qu. 2. Dr. Steuarts judgment of a private prayer in publick c. 3. A discourse of the differences between long prayers prohibited and continuance in prayers commanded 4. Meditations upon our going to Church with short directions for our demeanour in the House of God c. 5. Sermon preached upon the Archbishop of Yorks provincial Visitation at Warrington At length this most holy zealous mortified and seraphical Dr. Sherlock having spent all his time in holy and chast celebacy surrendred up his most pious soul to God in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried on the 25 of June within the Chancel at the first entrance into it out of the body of the Church at Winwick before mention'd at which time his friend and acquaintance Tho. Crane M. A. preached his funeral Sermon which being extant you may see a full account therein of the great piety charity hospitality strictness of life c. of him the said Dr. Sherlock Some years before his death he caused his Grave-stone to be laid in that place where his body was afterwards buried and ordered for his epitaph to be engraved in brass and sixt upon his stone this following Exuviae Richardi Sherlock S. T. D. indignissimi hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris Obiit 20 die Junii anno aetatis 76. an dom 1689. Sal infatuum conculcate Whereupon a certain Person reflecting upon it and much honouring his pious memory did subjoyn and add this further inscription En viri sanctissimi modestia Qui Epitaphium se indignum inscribi
volebat cum vita merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent In the Rectory of Winwick succeeded Thom. Benet M.A. Fellow of Univ. Coll lately one of the Proctors of this University now Master of the said Coll. WILLIAM THOMAS son of John Thomas was born on the bridge in the Parish of S. Nicholas in the City of Bristow on the second day of Feb. 1613 educated in Grammar learning at Caermethen in Wales by the care of his Grandfather Recorder of that Town became a Student in S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term 1629 thence translated to that of Jesus of which he was made Fellow when Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty took holy Orders and before the Civil War began he became Vicar of Penbryn in Cardiganshire Afterwards being sequestred for his loyalty he taught School at Laughern in Caermerthenshire where after a while he read the common prayer and preached yet not without some disturbance occasioned by Olivers Itinerant preachers After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he became Chauntor of the Cathedral Church of St. David in the place of Dr. Griff. Higges deceased was actually created Doct. of Divinity made Chaplain to James Duke of York and about that time had the Living of Llanbedder in the Valley in Pembrokshire confer'd upon him In 1665 Nov. 25. he was installed Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmestry deceased and about that time he gave up Llanbedder for the Rectory of Hampton Lovet six miles distant from Worcester On the 27. of January 1677 he was consecrated with Dr. Sancroft to the See of Cant. Bishop of S. David at which time liberty was given him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it and in the middle of Aug. 1683 he was translated to the See of Worcester in the place of Dr. James Fleetwood deceased where he sate to the time of his death in good respect from the Clergy and Laity He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the Assize at Caermerthen on Exod. 20.16 Lond. 1657. qu. 2 Serm. before the right honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament in the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. Westm upon the Fast-day appointed 10. Apr. 1678. on Luke 13.3 Lond. 1678. qu. 3 The mammon of unrighteousness detected and purified preached in the Cathedral of Worcester 19 Aug. 1688 on Luke 16.9 Lond. 1689. qu. Apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it Lond. 1678. 9 oct Written in the time of Usurpation A pastoral letter to his Clergy of Worcester Dioc. about catechising Printed with many things expung'd since his death It was as 't is said written in answer to Dr. G. Burnet Bishop of Salisbury his Pastoral letters about Oathes an 1689. Roman Oracles silenced or the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Hen. Turbervil in his Manual of controversies Lond. 1691. Published in the beginning of Mar. 1690. This worthy Bishop Dr. Thomas died on the 25 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried according to his desire in the north east corner of the Cloyster belonging to the Cathedral Church of Worcester at the foot of the steps in the way from the Deanery to the Cathedral Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Depositum Gulielmi Thomas S. T. P. olim Decani Wigorniensis indigni postea Episcopi Menevensis indignioris tandem Episcopi Wigorniensis indignissimi meritis tamen Christi ad vitam aeternam resurrectionis candidati Sanctissimus doctiss Praesul pietatis erga Deum erga Regem fidelitatis charitatis erga Proximos illustre exemplum expiravit An. redemptionis MDCLXXXIX Aetatis LXXVI Junii XXV moribundus hoc quicquid supra est epitaphii pro modestia sua tumulo inscribi jussit THOMAS MANWARING a younger Son of Philip Manwaring Esq was born of an antient and gentile family in Cheshire either at Over-Peover or Baddily on the 7 of Apr. 1623 became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. 24. of Apr. 1637 where continuing about 3 years receeded without an Academical degree to his Fathers house and after the death of his elder Brother became Heir to the Lands of his Ancestors In the time of the grand rebellion he sided with the dominant party took the usual Oathes then prescribed was Sherriff of Chester in the reign of Oliver an 1657 and after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was created a Baronet 22. Nov. 1660. He hath written and published A Defence of Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester wherein is proved that she was not a Bastard Lond. 1673. oct Written against Sir Pet. Leycester A reply to an answer to The defence of Amicia wherein is proved that the reasons alledged by Sir Pet. Leycester concerning her illegitimacy are invalid c Lond. 1673. oct An answer to Sir Pet. Leycester's Addenda Lond. 1673 4. oct He died in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried by his Wife Father and Mother in a vault under a Chappel on the North side of the Chancel of the Church of Over-Peover before mentioned See more in Peter Leycester under the year 1678 p. 463. SAMUEL DERHAM son of Will. Derham of Weston called by some Weston Subter Wethele near Camden in Glocestershire was born in that County entred a Student in Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1672 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line took one degree in Physick and published Hydrologia Philosophica Or an account of Ilmington waters in Warwickshire with directions for drinking of the same Oxon. 1685. oct Experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies Printed with Hydr. Philos Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty had then and before some practice in it and dying of the small pox on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine in his house in S. Michaels parish within the City of Oxon was buried at the upper end of the north Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Parish OBADIAH GREW was born at Atherston in the Parish of Manceter in Warwickshire in Nov. 1607 partly educated in Grammaticals under Mr. Joh. Denison his Uncle admitted a Student in Ball. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Trimnell an 1624 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders at 28 years of age from the hands of Dr. Rob. Wright Bishop of Cov. and Lichfield and had some cure I presume bestowed on him in his own Country In the beginning of the Civil War he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and about that time became upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and principal Citizens of Coventry Minister of the great Parish of S. Michael in that City In which place The soundness of his doctrine as those of his perswasion have told me the sanctity and prudence of his conversation the vigilancy and tenderness of his care were of that constant tenor that he seemed to do all that which S.
a Bishop and one promoted by Laud much about the time of whose death this Dr. Owen died also By his Will dated 14 Dec. 1644 and proved 12 of Dec. 1645 it appears that he was rich and possessed of several Lands which went I presume to Morgan Owen his brothers son He endowed the Free-school at Caermerthen where in his younger years he had taught with 30 l. per an charged upon the Impropriation of St. Ismaels in the said County about which time the present Fabrick of the said School was erected THOMAS HOWELL elder brother to Jam. Howell mention'd among the Writers under the year 1666 was born in Caermerthenshire admitted into Jesus Coll. of which he was Scholar and afterwards Fellow an 1604 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a painful Preacher in these parts for a time and soon after elsewhere Afterwards he was made Chaplain in ord to K. Ch. 1 Rector of VVest Horsley in Surrey of S. Stephens in VValbroke near London D. of D. and Canon of VVindsore an 1636 in the place of Dr. Tho. Horne deceased But in the beginning of the Troubles he being forced thro vexation to leave S. Stephens tho by many accounted a puritannical Preacher and afterwards VVest Horseley his Maj. thereupon nominated him to the See of Bristow on the death of Dr. Tho. VVestfield in July 1644 and soon after was consecrated at Oxon Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland assisting then at the Ceremony This worthy person who was accounted a meek man and a good Preacher died in sixteen hundred forty and six whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Bristow near to the entrance out of the south isle into the Choire Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave but no inscription thereon only Expergiscar One Mr. Thom. Howell published A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Rob. Butler an 1622 3. Whether the same with him who was afterwards Bishop of Bristow I know not LEWES JONES was born in Merionithshire became a Student in this University in 15â—2 or thereabouts but in what house I cannot tell In 1569 he being then Bach. of Arts he was elected Fellow of Allsoules Coll. and about that time taking holy Orders went without the taking of any other degree in this University into Ireland where he was made Dean of Casshels and afterwards being nominated to the See of Killaloa in that Country was consecrated thereunto on the 23 of Apr. 1633. In 1641 when the rebellion broke out there and great miseries followed thereupon he retired to Dublin where dying on the second of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and six aged 104 years was buried in the Church of S. Werburgh commonly called S. Warborough in the said City In the See of Killoloa succeeded Dr. Edw. Parry Father to John and Benjamin successively Bishops of Ossory and after him succeeded Dr. Edward Worth who dying at Hackney near London in the beginning of Aug. 1669 was buried on the sixth day of the same month in the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet in London GEORGE ANDREW received his first breath in a Market Town called Daventry commonly Daintry in Northamptonshire became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1588 aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts as a member of that Hall and about that time holy Orders Afterwards journying into Ireland he was made Dean of Limerick and thence being advanced to the See of Ferns and Laighlin was consecrated thereunto in S. Patricks Church of which he was Chauntor near Dublin on the 14 of May 1635. In the beginning of the rebellion he was forced thence and retiring to London lived for some time there in an obscure condition At length he giving way to fate in the month of Octob in sixteen hundred forty and eight was buried in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple bar within the liberty of the City of Westminster In his Bishoprick succeeded Robert Price in the latter end of 1660 of whom mention shall be made hereafter LANCELOT BULKLEY the eleventh Son of Sir Rich. Bulk was born at Beaumarish in the Isle of Anglesie entred a Communer of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1587 aged 18 years where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts translated himself to S. Edm. Hall and as a member thereof he took the degree of Master in the same faculty an 1593. Afterwards he went into Ireland became Archdeacon of Dublin Doctor of Divinity there and at length Archb. of the said City to which being consecrated in the Church of S. Peter at Tredagh on the 3. of Oct. 1619 was soon after made by K. Jam. 1. Privy Counsellour of that Kingdom He lived to be spectator of the miseries that befell that Realm occasion'd by the rebellion that broke out in 1641 at which time securing himself in the City of Dublin escaped the malice of the Rebels and lived in a disconsolate condition several years after At length arriving to 82 years of age departed this mortal life at Taulaughta on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred and fifty whereupon his body being conveyed to Dublin was buried in S. Patricks Church there In his Archbishoprick succeeded Dr. Jam. Margetson sometimes of Peter House in Cambridge in the latter end of 1660 after the said See had laid void 10 years JOHN PRIDEAUX Rector of Exeter Coll and the Kings Professor of Divinity of the Univ. of Oxon was consecrated Bishop of Worcester in the month of Decemb. 1641 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred and fifty under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 68.69 c. After his death the See lay void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then Dr. George Morley succeeded as I have told you among the said Writers NATHANIEL CONOPIUS a Cretan born trained up in the Greek Church and became Primore to Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople who for his religious life and conversation had a respect for him When the said Cyrill was strangled by the Visier the Grand Signior of the Turks being not then returned from the Siege of Babylon Conopius to avoid the like barbarity fled thence and went into England and addressing himself with credentials from the English Agent at Constantinople to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant that worthy person sent him to Balliol Coll and allowed him a comfortable subsistance during his abode there Afterwards he became one of the Chaplains or Petty Canons of Ch. Church but whether he took a degree in this University I know not In the beginning of Nov. 1648 he was expelled the University by the Barbarians I mean the Parliamentarian Visitors and had nothing left to maintain him as a Scholar and Divine So that because of the barbarity of such who called themselves Saints he returned into his own Country among the Barbarians and was made Bishop of Smyrna commonly called Le
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.
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 Mossâ—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
Parliament called by the faction the blessed Parliament he lived retiredly on a considerable estate of his own sometimes at Cudesden near Oxon and married a second Wife which is well known to all the neighbourhood there yet the said Mr. Prynne would needs perswade us that he was reduced to such extremity that in November 1655 he went to an honorable Knight of his acquaintance in Westminster and complained to him that he had not bread for him and his to put in their mouthes intreating his favour to procure any Lect. or Curates place for him tho never so mean which he by all the friends he had could no where obtain to keep him from starving Whereupon the Knight minded him of his former speeches and cruelty towards other Lecturers and Ministers whom as he added he reduced to extreme poverty wishing him to take special notice how God had justly requited him in his own kind so as himself would now turn Lecturer or the meanest Curate under others in his old age to get but a meer subsistence and yet none would entertain him as himself confessed in any place So as the judgment threatned against Ely his posterity 1. Sam. 2.36 was then actually fallen on that great Prelate c. In 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick and by the great fines and renewings that then came in he was rewarded in some degree for his sufferings but his said second Wife too young and cunning for him got what she could from the children he had by his first Wife and wheedling him to Walthamstow in Essex got thousands of pounds and his plate from him as the common report at Wells is which of right should have gone to his said Children He died at that place in the month of Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was privately buried in the Parochial Church there by the care of his said Wife He hath two Sermons in print preached during his restraint in the Tower with other Bishops that were committed thither by the Parliament an 1641 both on 2. Cor. 12.8.9 Lond. 1642. qu. He left behind him a Son of both his names actually created D. of D. an 1661 tho of lesser merit than sufferings and another called John Piers who being a Lay-man had a Lay-prebendship in the Church of Wells bestowed on him by his Father He lived mostly at Denton in the Parish of Cudesden near Oxon where his Father had setled an estate on him and dying 28. Nov. 1670 was buried in the Church at Cudesden whereupon his Prebendship was converted to the use of a Clergy-man ROBERT SKINNER second Son of Edm. Skinner Rector of Pitchford or Pisford in Northamptonshire by Bridget his Wife Daughter of Humph. Radcliff of Warwickshire Son of Thomas Skinner of the Parish of Ledbury in Herefordshire and he the Son of Stephen was born at Pisford educated in Grammar learning in a School at Brixworth near to that place admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll an 1607 aged 16 years and six years after Fellow he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the Coll and some of his Pupils proved afterwards men of note as Will. Chillingworth Rich. Newdigale a Judge c. In 1621 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and afterwards going to London was unexpectedly chose Preacher of S. Gregories Church near S. Pauls Cathedral where preaching twice every Sunday for nine years obtained love honour and applause especially from the Puritans When Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he caused him to be sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and endeavoured to take him off from the principles that he then professed was made Rector of Launton near Bister in Oxfordshire and Minister of Greensnorton In the month of July or thereabouts an 1636 he being elected Bishop of Bristow was as Bishop elect of that place diplomated Doctor of Div. of this University on the 13 of August the same year and having the temporalities thereof given to him on the 20 of January following had liberty allowed to him to keep Launton and Greensnorton in Commendam with the said See In the beginning of 1641 he was translated to the See of Oxon on the death of Dr. Bancroft and soon after being one of the twelve Bishops that subscribed a Protestation in behalf of themselves against the immoderate Proceedings of the Parl. then sitting was impeached by the members thereof of High Treason and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where continuing 18 weeks to his great charge was upon bail released Whereupon retiring to his Rectory of Launton which he kept also in commendam with Oxon lived there retiredly and submitted so much to the men of those times that he kept the said Rectory when the rest of his Spiritualities were lost meerly as 't was supposed for the bare maintenance of himself and children in which time he did usually as 't is said read the Common Prayer and confer Orders according to the Ch. of Engl. After his Maj. return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick became one of his Maj. Commissioners of the Univ. of Ox. for the visiting and rectifying it then much out of order but was not translated to a richer See which he much expected occasion'd by a great and potent enemy at Court who maligned him because of his submission in some part to the Usurpers In the month of Oct. 1663 he was translated to the See of Worcester upon the removal of Dr. Earle to that of Sarum where he became esteemed more by his many Tenants than family or friends because of his goodness as a Landlord He died in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in a Chappel at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was soon after laid a flat marble stone with this inscription engraven thereon H. I. E. Rev. in Ch. Pater ac Dom. Robertus Skinner Coll. S. Trinitatis Oxon Socius Carolo primo Britanniarum Monarchae à sacris Doctoratum in SS Theologiâ almae Matris diplomate oblatum sine ambitu cepit A Rectoriâ Launton Dioeceseos Oxon ad Episcopatum Bristoliensem evocatus tantus ecclesiae filius meruit cito fieri parens mox ad sedem Oxoniensem translatus Turre Londinensi à Perduellibus diu incarceratus tam sine culpâ quam examine exivit A Carolo II. ad sedem Vigorniensem promotus postquam Presbyteris sanciendis assuetam dextram sufficiendis Praesulibus mutuam dedisset eorumque quinque à suo collegio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnibus ante sacrilegam usurpationem Episcopus superstes Junii 14. A. D. 1670 Octogenarius ad summam animarum Episcopum ascendit prius gratiâ nunc gloriâ consecratus While he lived in the times of Usurpation he was supposed to be the sole Bish that confer'd Orders and after his Majesties return an hundred and three persons did at once take holy Orders from
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tâ—â—ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
of 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
Army raised by the Parl. againâ—t the King one of the Proctors of the University and published 1 The Christian Soldiers great Engine Sermon before the Lord General Fairfax at S. Maries in Oxon 20 May 1649. qu. 2 A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monke containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of Government and Commonwealths c. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659 in one sh in qu. What other things he hath published I know not sure I am that after the restauration of K. Ch 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh to avoid Conformity and died soon after Adm. 112. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only created See among the Creations Bach. of Div. Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll. He was the only person that was admitted this year the others were created In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles Thorne and dying Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nov. 16â—4 ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations Doct. of Phys Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll. 8. Thom. Duke of S. Maries Hall ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you may see under the title of Creations Incorporations May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland He had that degree confer'd upon him in the said Univ. in the month of May 1636. Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden He had that degree confer'd upon him there in the month of Apr. 1638. This person or one of both his names was incorporated in 1660. Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Nov. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards King of England c. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then after his return from Edghill fight taken up his quarters in Oxon and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties as I shall tell you by and by Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Caies Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Padua and at his return into England of Cambridge was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578 sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he travelled into France and Italy and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Padua Eustac Radius Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend At 24 he became Doct. of Phys and Chirurgery and returning into England soon after he practised Phys in London and married At 25 or thereabouts he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and at 37 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery About which time which was in the year of our Lord 1615 he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion by which the anatomical part of Physick seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection At 54 years of age he was made Physitian to K. Ch. 1 having as 't is said by some been Physitian to K. Jam. 1. and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles he attended him at Edghill battel Thence going with him to Oxon was there incorporated as before 't is told you In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by vertue of the Kings letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose but in the year following when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he left that office and retired to London In 1654 he was chosen President of the Coll. of Physitians but refused to accept of that honorable place And after he had lived to see his doctrine the circulation of the blood with much ado established being the only man as one saith that did so he surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the 30 of June an 1657. Soon after his body being lap'd up in lead it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there Several monuments of his learning which have been and are received into the hands of all curious men as well abroad as at home are extant as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you besides his New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in general Metaphysicks c. but more in MS. he hath left behind him the titles of which you may see in the Epist dedicat before An historical account of the Colleges Coll. of Phys Proceedings against Empricks c. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr. Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr. The first who was of Pembr Hall was afterwards Doctor of Phys a practitioner in London and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver an 1656 and for that called by Richard 1658. Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Dublin Which degree was confer'd upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch afterwards of Pemb. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an 1627 being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess confer'd upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford whose Annales rerum Anglicarum c. he translated into English as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498 What other things he hath translated or what written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was incorporated M. of A. an 1628 as in the Fasti of that year in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you He wrot the Preface to Dr. Rich. Watsons book called Epistolaris Diatribe c. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658 which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians did now attend the King in Oxon and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists In 1660 after his Majesties return I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire Prebendary of Westminster and author of 1 The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Soveraigne Sermon preached 24 May 1660 being a day of Thanksgiving for the
all the Shires Cities Burrough-Towns Cinque ports in England specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports they do respectively elect to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments c. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq Son of Christopher L. Hatton Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein c. collected and written by the same hand and thirdly A true and pâ—rf Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland with a list of all the Shires Cities and Burroughs of Ireland which make returns of Parliament c. collected and written also by the same hand 15 A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3 to this present with Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives c. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman as I have before told you At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns died thereof in his Chair about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February S. Scholastica's day an 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mention'd was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin laying in a little vault which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent who died 18 Decemb. 1681 after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Free-stone in form of an altar joyning to the North wall with his Armes and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble bordered with the like Free-stone on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon who divers years before had married one of his Daughters where they remain and are of great use to curious and critical persons To conclude had this indefatigable person sequestred himself from worldly troubles and totally addicted himself to his studies and had minded the publick more than his private concerns the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations and those more true and accurate than such that are already published especially those in his latter days Yet however what he hath done is prodigious considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion Le ts now go on with the Creations Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the Kings Army and Brother to John Lord Byron Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards a noted Mathematician Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll. Thom. Tully of Queens Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops Edw. Walker Herald of Armes by the title of Chester This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh by Barbara his Wife Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland was born at Roobers bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundell Earl Marshall of England to whom afterwards being Secretary he gave him the Pursevants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Armes In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nov. 1640 forced from London in Jan. 1641 Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England and was with him at Edghâ—ll fight and afterwards at Oxon where he was actually created Master of Arts being then Chester Herald as I have before told you In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norrâ—y King of Armes in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter and in the year following upon the death of the said Sir Henry he was made Garter and on the 2. of Feb. the same year 1644 he received the honor of Knighthood This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament then Victors Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax who perusing it found one passage therein which was very observable to him viz. that whereas he Walker had taken occasion to speak of the Irish and call'd them Rebells his Majesty who before that time had perused the book did among several alterations made therein with his own hand put out the word Rebells with his pen and over it wrot Irish This book was after his Majesties restauration regain'd and is now or at least was lately in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. Georges feast at Windsore which is printed in quarto After his Majesties return he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council and dying suddenly in Whitehall 19. Febr. 1676 his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and buried in the Church there among the graves of the Cloptons of Clopton in that Parish In his office of Garter K. of Armes succeeded Will. Dugdale Norroy as I have before told you and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks. Nov. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield Ferdinando Marsham Esq He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critick Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire He had lately retired to his Majesty because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj.
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
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 Loyalâ—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
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kingsâ—Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
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
good Conscience suffer'd also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment and therefore retiring to Oxon was there actually created D. of D. He hath published 1 An adieu to the Duke of Glocester or a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church Turweston or Turveston near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660 on Eccles 3.20 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The Cripples Complaint c. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7 Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts and was I suppose buried at Turveston Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll. Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll. 23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll. He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire was first a Com. of Linc. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules M. of A. and beneficed but suffering for his Majesties Cause he retired to Oxon and was there created D. of D. as 't is here said After his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased in which being instal'd 7 Aug. 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapning on the 27 Jul. 1670 he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich His said Brother Will. Lord Croft died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677. Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West was actually created the same day June 23. Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire had been public Metaphysick Reader and Proctor of the University Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648 and suffer'd much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and dying on the 27 of January in the same year was buried in the Chappel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands that it is doubted whether ever they will see light Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch. Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester He resigned the said Mastership soon after was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt and died in 1659. This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven Convocation that Hen. Tozer Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll Rob. Barker of New Coll Rich. Washington of Vniv Coll Edm. Diggle of Magdalen and John Good of New Coll might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity but they all refused then and the next year to accept of that favour At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll Will. Haywood of S. Johns Coll c. who had fled to Oxon as an Asylum and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament had each a license given to them under the public Seal of the Univ. to preach the word of God throughout England This year Jun. 24 being Wednesday and Midsummer day the Garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers besides 500 or thereabouts northward and a little before and after them five hundred more mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege On Munday going before Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother with their attendants departed and those that followed them the next day were about 300 persons most of them of quality and their attendants When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entred who were all Presbyterians Independents or worse were among them their Chaplains of the same perswasion who forthwith upon all occasions thrust themselves into the pulpits purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselites or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants Among them were Hugh Peters that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon Will. Dell Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax John Saltmarsh Will. Erbury c. and what they did there besides during their stay is too large a story now to tell you In Sept. following were seven Presbyterian Ministers who had formerly their education in this University appointed by Parliament sent to Oxon to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles but Edw. Corbet one of them being about that time called thence the six carried on the work yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries of whom Will. Erbury was one yet all upon any occasion would joyn together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants that is Cavaliers and Royalists So that whereas before the surrender there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince orthodox and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers there appeared nothing but confusion darkness c. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant and they were over-run by Sectaries Blasphemers Hypocrites Exciters to Rebellion Censurers Covetous persons men of self-pride envy and what not So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons did either leave the University or abscond in their respective houses till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits and to thrust themselves into the public Schools and there in the places of Lecturers speak to the Scholars against humane learning and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ c. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed who to fill their coffers raise families please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else care not what mischief they do or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends An. Dom. 1647. An. 23 Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Marquess of Hertford c. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year as I shall tell you by and by Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors 8 Oct. this year because as they said he was neither nominated or lawfully admitted thereunto yet notwithstanding he took no
The other ... Harding was a most violent Presbyterian an indefatigable Preacher against the King and his cause and because he would not conform after his Majesties restauration tho courted to it he was turned out of his Rectory This year the generality of the Heads of Houses Professors and Lecturers Doctors and Bach. of Divinity Masters and Bachelaurs of Arts Undergraduats Beadles College Servants and sometimes Bedmakers and scrapers of Trenchers to the number of several hundreds were thrown out of their respective places and soon after banished the University by the Visitors for not submitting to their power from Parliament and acknowledging their Covenant c. An. Dom. 1649. An. 1. Car. 2. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who dying at the Cock-pit near Whitehall on the 23 of January this year was buried in the Cathedral Church at Salisbury among the graves of those of his family on the 8. of Febr. following From which time till Jan. ensuing the Chancellours place laid void Soon after the said Earls death came out against him several Satyrical prints among which were 1 His last Will and Testament Printed in one sheet in fol 2 Pembrokes Pass from Oxford to his grave 'T is a Poem printed on one side of a sheet of paper and hath this beginning Hence Mountebank of honour hence away c. At the end is his Epitaph 3 The life and death of Philip Herbert the late infamous Knight of Berkshire once Earl of Pembroke and Mountgom c. having by a degenerate baseness betrayed his Nobility and entred himself a Commoner amongst the very scum of the people Printed in one sheet in qu. by way of interlude with Poetry Vicechanc. Edw. Reynolds D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. was re-admitted Aug. 30 having been nominated a little before by the Chancellour Proct. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. Apr. 4. Hierome Zanchy of All 's Coll. Apr. 4. The last was elected contrary to the Caroline Cycle because it did appoint Queens Coll to joyn with the said Coll. of Exeter but so it was that that Coll. being not in a capacity of yielding a person zealous and sutable to the times the members of All 's therefore did choose by recommendations of the Committee and Visitors one of their number lately made Fellow thereof but whether incorporated M. of Arts as he had stood in another University it appears not in the publick register and therefore what I have to say of him shall be set down here This Hierome Zanchy who was born of a gentile family was bred in Cambridge but being more given to manlie exercises than Logick and Philosophy he was observed by his contemporaries to be a boisterous fellow at Cudgelling and Foot-ball-playing and indeed more fit in all respects to be a rude Soldier than a Scholar or man of polite parts In the beginning of the rebellion he threw off his gown and took up armes for the Parliament and soon after became a Captain a Presbyterian an Independent a Preacher and I know not what When the War was ceased and the Kings cause declined he obtained a Fellowship of All 's Coll. from the Committee and Visitors and was the first or senior of those many that were by them put into the said Coll in the places of Loyallists ejected by them an 1648 and 49. But before he had served the least part of his Proctorship about a month only he returned to his Military employment went in the quality of a Commander into Ireland to fight against those that were then called Rebels and doing good service in short time was made a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and as a Colonel he had 474 l. and 10 s. per an for his Salary besides other advantages In 1651 and 52 I find him Commander in chief of the Parliament forces in the County of Tipperary where as those of his party said he did excellent service for the cause being then a thorough-pac'd Anabaptist and in 1654 he with Joh. Reynolds Commissary General were elected Knights for the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford to serve in the Parliament that assembled at Dublin that year In 1658 he being then a Knight by the favour of Hen. Cromwell he was by the endeavours of Col. Charles Fleetwood a pitiful Anabaptist and Son-in-law to Ol. Cromwell chosen Burgess for Woodstock in Oxfordshire to serve in Richards Parliament that began at Westm 27. Jan. that year at which time living much as he had done some time before in the house of the said Fleetwood in Westminster did often hold forth in Conventicles among the Anabaptists It was observed then that he was a dull man as indeed he was ab origine for by his rebaptization when he went into Ireland and his herding among the Anabaptists he did improve it to the purpose otherwise had he continued among the Presbyterians or Independents who were accounted a more ingenious sort of people he might have improved himself perhaps in something of ingenuity Under this personâ— name was published 1 A Sermon on 1. of John 2.18 c. printed in oct but when I know not for I have not yet seen it 2 Speech in Parliament in Dublin printed in Sir Will. Petty's book intit Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland c. p. 70 71 c. It is a most rude and nonsensical thing and only fit to be read to make people laugh at the absurdity of the person See more in Sir Will. Petty among the Writers an 1687. p. 611. where you 'll find this Zanchy to concern himself much meerly out of envy against that curious and polite Gentleman What other things he hath extant I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about the latter end of K. Charles 2. as I have been informed by those that knew him Bach. of Arts. June 5. Joh. Rotheram of Linc. Coll. June 5. Charles Perot of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1652 and of the other among the Mast in 1653. June 11. Henry Hurst of Magd. Hall He was soon after made Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. by the Visitors 27. Charles Potter of Ch. Ch. 27. John Tickell of New Inn. The last who was afterwards made Student of Ch. Ch by the Visitors is said in the publick register of Convocation to be Vir provectioris aetatis firmatae eruditionis This person who is now or at least was lately living did afterwards publish several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers of this University July 6. Walter Pope of Wadh. Coll. See among the created Doct. of Phys 1661. Nov. 6. Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. Nov. 6. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1651. Dec. 17. Theophilus Gale of Magd. Coll. He is said in the pub reg of Convoc to be Vir provectioris aetatis uberioris spei juvenis Jan.
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
S. Maries on Tuesday a Lecture day 25 July 1654 he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22 With God is terrible Majesty In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God particularly of that in the text took a hint from the word terribilis which might as he said signifie with some terrae bilis to say that God was a Melancholy God c. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash should gnash their gums c. For which Sermon he being call'd into question was in a fair way of expulsion but by the intercession of friends the business was compromised yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House Afterwards he was intrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey an 1656 where continuing for some time in preaching suffered soon after in his relations reputation salary c. by a new Governour placed there who forced him as it seems thence He hath published 1 Blood-thirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governour of Jersey 3. Nov. 1659 wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quarter-Master Will. Swan c. Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. 2 Satan in Samuels mantle or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason of a baptized Church commissionated to be a Colonel and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governour in July 1656 against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place c. Lond. 1659 in 4. sh in qu. After his Majesties restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire where he soon after finished his restless course Dec. 11. Christoph Wren of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum This person who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University I take to be the same Ed. Veel who is now or at least was lately a Nonconformist Minister in or near London and author of 1 What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 2 Sermon on Psalm 62.12 'T is the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwerk Lond. 1675. qu and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491. Adm. 63 or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll. 6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad Coll. The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys and Physitian in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. 15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch. Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was adm or licensed this year Incorporations May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys of Padua May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys of Padua The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and the second is the same I suppose with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctors Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672 but whether ever of Oxon I cannot yet tell See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians 15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in Wâ—st Freisen He was afterwards as I conceive one of the Coll. of Physitians and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Hoâ—bourne near London but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life or blood of the grape c. pr. in oct and perhaps other things Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744 and another a Nonconformist in this in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607. July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury See in Josh Childrey among the Writers p. 339. Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester author of 1 The degrees of Consanguinity and affinity described and delineated Lond. 1675. oct 2 The nature of the two Testaments or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind c. In two volumes The first of the Will of God the second of the Estate of God Lond. 1676. 77. fol and of other things as 't is probable Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day In the next year he took a long journey into several forreign Countries and returned a compleat Master of divers Languages In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge and two years after on the death of Laur. Rooke Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in the City of Westminster His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson an 1683 before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is Barrow to which I refer the Reader These three last Sherman Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2 and well beneficed if not dignified He hath written and published 1 The Christians map of the world drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq Chester-Herald at Armes inter'd 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct 'T is a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver 14. 2 Scintilla
brethren therefore did Hen. Stubbe write and publish The Savilian Professors case stated c. as I have told you in my discourse of him p. 415. July 4. George Kendall B. D. of Exet. Coll. Incorporations May 26. John Wybâ—rd Doct. of Phys of Franaker in West Friesen He was the Son of Walt. Wyberd of Tackley in Essex became a Commoner of Pemb. Coll. in the latter end of the year 1638 aged 24. years left it when the troubles began in England travelled and took the degree of Doct. at Franaker before mention'd in July an 1644 and at length became well vers'd in some parts of Geometry This person who in his certificate for his degree at Franaker is stiled Trinobans Anglus hath written Tactometria or Tetagmenometria Or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed Lond. 1650 oct Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys of Heidleberg was incorp the same day July 11. Joh. Mapletoft Bac. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge See among the Incorporations an 1669. Hezekiah Burton M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in the same University He was afterwards D of D Chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Rector of the Church of S. George in Southwark Prebend of Norwich in the place of John Rhodes deceased in Octob. 1667 and at length Rector of Bernes or Barnes in Surrey He died in Aug. or Sept. 1681 and afterwards had published under his name 1 Several discourses viz. first of piety and chastity secondly of repentance thirdly of seeking first the Kingdom of Christ Lond. 1684. oct 2 A second vol. of discourses Lond. 1685. oct the contents of which are in the next leaf following the title Both published by Joh. Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury and Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral afterwards Dean of the said Church upon Dr. Stillingfleets promotion to the See of Worcester in Sept. 1689 Clerk of the royal Closet and at length Archbishop of Canterbury to which See he was consecrated in the Church of S. Mary le Bow 31. May 1691 upon the deprivation of that most conscientious and religious Archprelate Will Sancroft D. D. July 11. John Bodington M. A. of Sidney Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Newton-Blossomvile in Bucks and author of The Mystical Solomons coronation and espousals on Cant. 5.11 Lond. 1662 oct and perhaps of other things Qu. These three last Mapletoft Burton and Bodington were of the number of 32 Cantabrigians who were incorporated just after the Act whereof two were Bach. and the rest Mast of Arts. Among the Masters Samuel Clarke of Pemb. Hall was one and John Smith of Qu. Coll. another several of both whose names have been Writers and one Joh. Smith who writes himself M. of A. wrot Grammatica quadrilinguis or brief instructions for the French Italian Spanish and English tongues with the Proverbs of each language c. Lond 1673 74. oct and another who writes himself C. M. Coll. Med is author of several books among which is A compleat discourse of the nature use and right managing of the wonderful instrument the Baroscope c. Lond. 1688. oct See in p. 475. Creations Apr. 5. Joh. Windebanke M. A. sometimes Fellow of New Coll Son of Sir Franc. Windebanke formerly Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1 was then actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters Ol. Cromwell which say that since he hath left the Vniversity he hath spent some time in forraign parts in the study of Phyâ—ick and hath been a practitioner in that faculty for some years with much credit and reputation c. He afterwards practised Physick at Guilford in Survey and became honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Apr. 20. Thom. Manton sometimes of Wadh. Coll. was created Bach. of Div. by vertue of a dispensation from the Doctors delegated by the Chanc. of the Univ. June 5. It was ordered by the Delegates that Nich. Lokyer sometimes of New Inn might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him which was confirmed by the Doctors delegated by the Chancellour yet it doth not appear that he was created or diplomated An. Dom. 1655. An. 7. Car. 2. An. 2 3 Ol. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Cromwell Vicechanc. Dr. Owen Sept. 18 Proct. Sam. Bruen of Bras Coll. Apr. 25. Edw. Ã Wood of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. But the junior Proctor dying 22. May Mr. Richard Franklin of the same Coll. was admitted into his place on the first of June following Bach. of Arts. Apr. 4. Job Roys of Mert. Coll. 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. He is living and a Writer and therefore to be remembred hereafter June 15. Tho. Branker of Ex. Coll. 28 Joh. Bridall of Queens Coll. 28 Rob. Southwell of Queens Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards a Common Lawyer and hath published several things of his profession The other was created Doctor of the Civ Law in 1677 under which year you may see more of him July 5. Tho. Tregosse of Exet. Coll. Oct. 11. Joseph Glanvill of Exet. Coll. The first of these two who did not compleat his degree by Determination was born of an antient and gentile family at S. Ives near to the Lands end in Cornwall bred in the said Coll. in the condition of a sojourner under the tuition of Francis Howell and after he had left the University took orders according to the Presbyterian way and was a constant Preacher at the place of his nativity for two years In Oct. 1659 he removed to the Vicaridge of Milar and Mabe in Cornwall where continuing till 1662 was silenc'd because he would not conform according to the Act of Uniformity then published Afterwards preaching in private and in Conventicles he was several times brought into trouble and imprison'd At length giving way to fate at Penryn on the 18. of Jan. 1670 was published the next year a little book entit The life and death of Thomas Tregosse late Minister of the Gospel at Milar and Mabe in Cornwall with his character Lond. in oct and at the end are The Letters of Thomas Tregosse All written according to the Presbyterian mode Oct. 11. Edw. West of Ch. Ch. afterwards of S. Maries Hall 16. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll. This person who is now living at Totness in Devon a Non-juror is to be remembred hereafter as a Writer because he hath written and published several books Dec. 14. John Williams of Magd. Hall He is now an eminent Minister in Lond. and a frequent Writer Jan. 16. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll. Jan. 30. John Fitwilliams of Magd. Coll. Jan. 30. Joh. Price of Vniv Coll. Jan. 30. Will. Annand of Vniv Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Doct. of Div. 1677 Of the second among the Masters an 1658 and of the last among the Writers an 1689. p. 632. Feb. 1. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards successively Bish
Coll. 23. Joshua Stopford of Magd. Coll. The first of these two hath published several ingenious books and is now living in Worcestershire The other was esteemed a good Greecian and would sometimes course in Greek in the publick Schools Mar. 9. Robert Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. In the beginning of the year 1692 he became Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland in the place of Dr. Will. Sherendon a Non-juror who had been consecrated B. of that City on the 19 of Febr. 1681. Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Jul. 4. Thomas Ireland of S. Maries Hall This ingenious person who was son of Will. Ireland Vergerer of the Church of Westminster was bred in the Coll. School there and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch but ejected in the time of Oliver by Dr. Owen his Dean Whereupon retiring to S. Maries Hall he entred upon the Law line and took a degree as a member of that house After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2. he obtained his Students place again but took no higher degree yet in the vacancy of the See of Durham between the death of Dr. Joh. Cosin and the translation thereunto of Dr. Crew he had confer'd on him the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Durham He hath extant besides several copies of verses occasionally printed in books Verses spoken at the appearance of the K. and Qu Duke and Dutchess of York in Christ Church Hall Oxford 29 Sept. 1663. Oxon. 1663. qu. They were also about the same time printed at Lond. with this title Speeches spoken to the K. and Qu Duke and c. pr. in qu. After dinner of the same day his Majesty with his royal Consort and their royal Highnesses went from their Lodgings with their respective Retinews purposely to see that spatious Refectory which had been built by the great Cardinal Wolsey where the Dean Canons and Students waiting their coming Mr. Ireland spoke the said Verses in number 116 on his knees Which being well done the K. thanked him for them gave him his hand to kiss and commanded a copy of them This Mr. Ireland who might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of Poets died at or near the Golden Lyon in the Strand within the Liberty of Westm during his attendance on his beloved Miss in the middle of Decemb. 1676. Whereupon Dr. Rich. Lloyd of All 's Coll. succeeded him in his Chancellourship Dec. 15. Hugh Davis of New Coll. He hath published an English book in fol intit De jure Vniformitatis Ecclesiasticae c. and therefore larger mention is to be made of him hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 9. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the Univ and Chaplain to Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury who while he was L. Chancellour of Engl. procured for him a Prebendship in the Church of Nerwich and Glocester Another of both his names is a Physitian now living and therefore this Nath. Hodges ought to be mention'd for distinction sake 21. Gabr. Towerson of Qu. afterwards of All 's Coll. May 29. George Castle of All 's Coll. June 11. Tho. Sprat of Wadh. Coll. June 11. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. June 11. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 12. Rob. South 15. Edw. West of S. Maries Hall 17. Thom. Owen of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of S. David Jul. 4. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. 20. Richard Berry of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was afterwards made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. purely upon the account of his Voice and good Singing but being forced to leave that house upon no good account in the beginning of June 1670 he went into Ireland to seek his fortune but whether beneficed there I cannot tell He hath published A Sermon upon the Epiphany preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin 1672. printed in qu. and perhaps other things Qu. Dec. 15. Dan. Nicols of S. Joh. Coll. This person who had by the Visitors been made Scholar of his Coll of which he was afterwards Fellow conformed after his Majesties restauration and at length became Rector of Scotton in Lincolnshire He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of Lincolne 18 Jul. 1681 being Assize-Munday on 1 Sam. 12.14.15 Lond. 1681. qu. and perhaps other things Adm. 101. or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was adm this year Bach. of Div. Jun. 18. James Bedford of Queens Coll. This person a young forward Presbyterian who was one of the number of Cambridge men that came to Oxon in 1648 to obtain preferment from the Visitors was by them made Fellow of Queens Coll being then Bach of Arts. So that he and George Phillips another of the same gang afterwards Proctor of the Univ. being Juniors and wanting good chambers they did on the 21 of May 1649 make a motion to the Society of that House that forasmuch as the younger Fellows had bad Chambers they would allow that the outward Chappel which they said was useless might be converted into Chambers for them to lodge in c. Which motion being looked upon by the Seniors there men of the old stamp as a horrid and villanous thing they did not dare to express it so for fear of danger that might ensue but passed it over as a slight matter Afterwards this Mr. Bedford who was a forward and conceited person and presum'd to take his degree of Bac. of Div. before those who were much his Seniors in the House became Pastor of Blunsham and Erith in Huntingdonshire before this year and wrot and published The perusal of an old Statute concerning death and judgment Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. Francis Bedford dau of Sam. Bedford a member of Parliament and Justice of Peace for the County of Bedford who died 18 Jan. 1656 aged 12 years on Heb. 9.27 Lond. 1657. qu. The said Sam. was brother to James Bedford the author who perhaps hath published other things Qu. Jul. 23. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Lamplugh of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Tully of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Rich. Rallingson of Qu. Coll. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Will. Offley of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jun. 18. Pet. Fiott of Exet. Coll. 19. Edw. Stubbe of Pemb. Coll. 23. Will. Quaterman of Pemb. Coll. 30. Elisha Coysh of Pemb. Coll. The last was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May 14. Joh. Collins M. A. of Cambr. Whether he be the same Joh. Collins who was Doct. of Div. and author of Several discourses concerning the actual providence of God divided into three parts c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. and of other things as 't is probable I cannot yet tell He is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Collinges Bach. of Div. and sometimes Minister of S. Stephens Parish in Norwich a frequent Writer before this time because their names
Chaplain to his Majesty in his Exile was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury by Bishop Duppa in January 1657 in the place of Will. Buckner deceased and about the same time to a Prebendship in the same Church After his Majesties restoration he was installed Canon of Windsore 18. July 1660 in the place of Joh. Hales some years before dead and had two good rectories bestowed on him in Wilts He died on the 16 of Jan. 1663 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Josh Childrey and his Canonry on Joh. Durell Joh. Lloyd M. A. of All 's Coll. Chaplain also to his Majesty in his Exile who on the 18 of July going before had been installed Canon of Wind. in the place of Hugh Cressey who in the War time had changed his Religion This Dr. Lloyd died on the 9 of April 1671 and thereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Joh. Saumares M. A. of Pemb. Coll and Dean of Guernsey One Joh. Lloyd wrot A Treatise of Episcopacy Liturgies and Ecclesiastical Ceremonies Pr. in 1660. qu. but whence he was I cannot yet tell And Joh. Lloyd D. D. was of Hombleston in Kent and died about the beginning of the year 1679. Joseph Crowther Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll and Chaplain to James Duke of York He was about this time Chantor and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the diocese of Worcester On the 7. of March 1661 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Herbert Croft promoted to the See of Hereford and on the 26. of Dec. 1664 he was admitted Principal of S. Maries Hall In his last days he was committed Prisoner to the Prison call'd the Fleet in London by the endeavours of Sir Tho. Draper because he refused to renew a Corps belonging to S. Pauls Cath. then in the possession of Sir Thomas which the Doctor intended to wear out for the benefit of the said Cathedral He died in the Fleet on the 16 of Dec. 1689 and was buried in S. Pauls Cathedral Whereupon his Chantorship was bestowed on Dr. Tho. Turner President of C. C. Coll his Preb. of Worc. on Jonathan Blagrave of Magd. Hall Sub-Almoner to the Queen his rectory of Tredington on Tho. Kerry of Ch. Ch. and his principality on Will. Wyat M. A. of the same House George Benson M. A. of Qu. Coll and about this time Archdeacon of Hereford On the 16. of June 1671 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Dowdeswell deceased and in the year following he became Dean of Hereford on the death of Tho. Hodges Ralph Brideoake M. A. of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Chichester Edw. Fulham Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. This person who had been Rector of Hampton Poyle in Oxfordshire in the times of Usurpation was installed Canon of Windsore on the 12 of July this year in the place of Dr. Thomas Some some years before deceased who had been of Peter House in Cambridge and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and about the same time he became Preb. of Chichester George Hall of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester Nath. Hardy of Hart sometimes of Magd. Hall Joh. Townson of Magd. Coll. Joh. Lee M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Thom. Lee of London by Anne his Wife Daughter of Harman Warner and Sister and Heir of Dr. John Warner Bishop of Rochester was now Preb. of Rochester and Archdeacon thereof in the place of Elizeus Burges some years before deceased He afterwards wrot himself Joh. Lee alias Warner because he was heir to the said Bishop hath published one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen and dying about the beginning of June 1679 at which time he left behind him a Son named Hen. Lee Esq was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Thom. Plume D. of D. of Cambr installed therein on the 10 of the said month and in the same year Henry Bridgman M. A. of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he hath done his Majesty faithful service c. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Mich. Woodward B. D. Warden of New Coll. Tho. Barlow B. D. Provost of Qu. Coll. Rob. Say M. A. Provost of Oriel Coll. Walt. Blandford M. A. Warden of Wadham Coll. Thomas Yate B. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. The first of these five dying on the 16 of June 1675 was succeeded in his Wardenship by Joh. Nicholas M. A. and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester The second was afterwards B. of Linc and was succeeded in his Provostship by Tim. Halton D. D. The third dying on the 24 of Oct. 1691 was succeeded in his Provostship by George Royse D. D. The fourth was afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Worcester and was succeeded ih his Wardenship by Gilbert Ironside Bach. of Div and the last dying on the 22 of Apr. 1681 was succeeded in his principality by Joh. Meare M. A. But this the Reader is to know that tho all five were created as Loyalists yet none of them suffered for their Loyalty in the times of Rebellion and Usurpation only the last Rob. Davenant of S. Johns Coll Bach. of Div. of 28 years standing and now Preb. elect of Salisbury as 't is said in the publick register He was Brother to Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet. Ralph Cooke of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester Rich. Harwood B. D. of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in the City of Glocester educated in Grammar learning there became a Com. of the said Hall in Mich. term 1631. aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and being accounted a learned Preacher was appointed by the Delegacy of the Univ. to be one of those persons to preach before K. Ch. 1 at Ch. Ch. in the time of the rebellion Afterwards upon the death of that King he suffer'd as all Divines that adhered to him did but upon his Sons restauration he became Chaplain in Ord. to him was created Doctor as before 't is said made Preb. of Glocest and Rector of a Church near Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 King Davids Sanctuary Sermon before his Majesty at Ch. Ch. on Psal 73.25 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 The Royal Subjects retiring-room Serm. at S. Maries 13. July being Act Sunday on Esay 26.20.21 Oxon. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the year 1669 and was succeeded in his Preb. by Will. Washbourne M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. Rich. Hyde M. A. of S. Edm. Hall He was sometimes a Chaplain in the Kings Army was now Preb. of Warmister in the Church of Salisbury afterwards Sub-dean of the said Church by the resignation of
Chanc. of England and Chanc. of the Univ. was seated in the supreme Chair Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester of Wadh. Coll. Jam. Levingston Visc of Kimardin as 't is said in the Reg. and Earl of Newburgh in Scotland sometimes of Mert. Coll. Edw. Mâ—ntague eldest son of Edw. L Montague of Boughton Edw. Hyde of Ch. Ch. third son of Edw. Earl of Clarendon He died of the Small pox on the 10 of January an 1664 aged 19 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster leaving then this character behind him that he was the most hopeful youth and the best natur'd Creature in the world John Lovelace of Wadh. Coll. eldest son of John Lovelace He was after the death of his father Lord Lovelace but obtaining no great matter during the reigns of K. Ch. 2. and K. Jam. 2 which he expected because his father had been a great sufferer for the cause of K. Ch. 1 he was by the favour of K. Will. 3. to whom he adhered when he arrived in the West in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and for his sake was for some time imprison'd at Glocester made Captain of his Band of Gentlemen Pensioners in the beginning of March 1688. Edw Sebright of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets John Williams of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets The former was of Besford in Worcestershire the other of Dorsetshire Sir Alan Broderick Kt His Majesties Surveyour General for the Kingdom of Ireland This person who was endowed with a poetical wit and hath several Specimens thereof extant died at Wandesworth in Surrey 25 Nov. 1680 and was buried there 3 of Dec. following John Bulteel Secretary to Edw. Earl of Clarendon This person who was son of John Bulteel a Frenchman sometimes living at Dover died a Bachelaur in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster an 1669. One Joh. Bulteel Gent. translated from French into English A general chronological History of France before the raign of K. Pharamond and ending with the raign of K. Hen. 4. c. Lond. 1683. fol. Whether he be the same with the former who was created M. of A. I know not I have made mention of another Joh. Bulteel in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 849. Matthew Wren or Wrenn Secretary to the said Edw. Earl of Clar. This person who was the eldest son of Dr. Matthew Wren Bish of Ely was originally a Student in Cambridge and afterwards a Student for several years in the time of Usurpation in this University not in a Coll. or Hall but in a private House After his Majesties restauration he was taken into the service of the Earl of Clarendon was elected a Burgess for S. Michael in Cornwal to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 8 May 1661 became a Member of the Royal Society and of the Council thereof and after the fall of the said Clarendon he became Secretary to James Duke of York and continued in his service to the time of his death At length giving way to fate on the 14 of June or thereabouts an 1672 aged about 42 years his body was conveyed to Cambridge and there buried in Pemb. Hall Chappel in the same Vault wherein his father was five years before buried This ingenious person hath written 1 Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana restrained to the first part of the preliminaries Lond. 1657. oct Before these Considerations is a large Letter sent by the author to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll by whom the said author was desired to give his judgment concerning the Commonwealth of Oceana 2 Monarchy assâ—rted or the state of monarchical and popular Government in vindication of the Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Oceana Lond. 1659 and 1660. oct See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers p. 440. Joh. Dugdale chief Gent. in the Chamber of the said Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of Engl. This person who was the son of Sir Will. Dugdale mentioned in these Fasti an 1642 p. 643 c. was afterwards Windsore Herald upon the resignation of Elias Ashmole Esq and at length Norroy King of Arms upon the promotion of Sir Thom. St. George to the office of Garter in the place of the said Sir William deceased in the beginning of March 1685 about which time he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty This Sir Joh. Dugdale hath published A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their respective precedencies as it was presented to his Majesty on New-years day an 1684. To which is added The Blazon of their paternal Coates of Arms and a List of the present Bishops by permission of the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal This was printed at Lond. on a broad side of a large sh of paper an 1685 and came out again with additions in 1690. Thom. Agar Sam. Gabrie All which persons from Joh. Earl of Rochester to the said Sam. Gabrie were created Masters of Arts on the 9 of Sept. Sept. 12. Rich. Newporn of Ch. Ch. eldest son of Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall Sept. 12. Seymour Shirly of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stradling of Jes Coll. Baronets Sept. 12. Jam. Rushout of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stanley of Brasn Coll. Baronets All which were created by the favour of the said Chanc. Oct. 19. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Salisbury and a publisher of Several Sermons and therefore he ought hereafter to be mention'd more at large Nov. 6. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Besides all these were several others created among whom were Rich. Newborough of Ball. Coll May 28 who had served his Maj. in the late Wars and was this year Preb. of Hereford Bach. of Div. Thirteen Bach. of Div. were created by vertue of the Chancellours recommendations among whom were these Jul. 1. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. As for Wyatt who was born at Todenham in Glocestershire was not graduated in Arts because before the time came when he should take the degree of Bach the Civil War began Afterwards he was Assistant to Dr. Jer. Taylor when he taught School in Caermerthenshire and wrot as 't was usually said which he himself did also acknowledge A new and easie institution of Grammar c. which was published under Dr. Taylor 's name See more in the life of the said Doctor among the Writers p. 285. Afterwards Mr. Wyatt taught at Evesham in Worcestershire and at length assisted Mr. Will. Fuller while he taught a private School at Twittenham in Middlesex Afterwards when that person became Bishop of Linc he made him not only his Chapl but also Preb. and afterwards Chantor of the Church there Which Dignities he resigning in 1681 he retired to Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire where he died in the house of Sir Ric. Newdigate about 1686. What other things the said Mr. Wyatt hath
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 Horâ—â— 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
1677 he travelled with Joh. Norbourne of Caln in the same County Gent but before he had spent 12 months in France with him he was recalled and had the Church of Bedminster near Bristow confer'd on him and afterwards the Vicaridge of St. Mary Radcliff At both which places expressing himself a most zealous and orthodox man for the Church of England especially when the Popish Plot broke out the Faction aspers'd him with the name of Papist and more particularly for this reason when he said in his Prayer or Sermon in the Church of S. Thomas in Saâ—isbury 30. of Jan. 1679 that there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. About which time shewing himself a great stickler against petitions to his Majesty for the sitting of a Parliament which the Faction with all their might drove on he was brought into trouble for so doing and when the Parliament sate he was among those many that were against petitioning brought on his knees in the H. of Commons and blasted for a Papist whereupon to free himself from that imputation he wrot and published The Visor pluckt off from Rich. Thompson of of Bristol Clerk in a plain and true character of him Printed in one sh in fol. in 1681 wherein he takes occasion to shew that while he was in his travels he did not study at S. Omers or Doway as the Faction gave out but sojourned in Protestant Houses in Paris Glen Blois and frequented Protestant Chappels Company c. Afterwards in consideration of these his sufferings his Majesty gave him the Deanery of Bristow void by the death of Mr. Sam. Crossman in which being installed on Trinity Sunday 1684 had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him about that time at Cambridge He hath published besides the Visor before mention'd A Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow before Henry Duke of Beaufort L. Lieutenant of Glocestershire c. on Titus 3.1 Lond. 1685. qu. He died on the 29 of Nov. 1685 and was buried in the South Isle joyning to the said Cath. Ch whereupon Dr. Will. Levett of Oxon succeeded him in his Deanery Jan. 28. Henry Maurice of Jes Coll. Jan. 28. Joh. Garbrand of New Inn. Jan. 28. Joh. Graile of Exet. Coll. Jan. 28. Thom. Salmon of Trin. Coll. The first of these four was afterwards an author of note and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The others are Writers also have published several things and if living may more hereafter Adm. 193. Bach. of Law Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. May 2. Nathan Wilson of Magd. Hall May 2. Will. Harrison of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland as I have before told you The other Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester and Preb. of Winchester and well beneficed by the favour of B. Morley whose near Kinswoman he had married He is called Doctor but took no higher degree than Master of Arts in this University 7. Joh. Rainstropp of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son was afterwards Master of the City Free-school in Bristow and published Loyalty recommended in a Sermon preached before the Merchant Adventures at S. Stephens Ch. in Bristol 10. Nov. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15.21 Lond. 1684. qu. June 20. Tho. Wagstaff of New Inn. 27. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Rector of Newbury and Preb. of Sarum and published A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Newbury in Berks 26. July 1685 being a day of Thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the Rebels on 2. Sam. 18.28 Lond. 1685. qu. Oct. 31. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll. Mar. 10. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Mar. 14. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch He was Son of Dr. Edward Pocock Canon of Ch. Ch. and published Philosophus Autodidactus seu Epistola Abi Giaaphar fil Tophail de Hai fil Jokdhan Arab. Lat. Oxon 1671. qu. Adm. 89. ☞ Not one Each of Physick was admitted this year Bach. of Div. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jes Coll. Oct. 21. Joh. Rosewell of C. C. C. Oct. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. C. The first or these two who was at this time and after in great esteem for his Greek and Latin learning was afterwards made Master of Eaton School and continued there in a sedulous instruction of the youth for several years In 1678 Oct. 26 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. R Brideoake deceased and in Aug. or Sept. 1683. he became Fellow of Eaton Coll. on the death of Dr. Nathan Ingelo He died at Eaton 30. Oct. 1684 and was buried in the Chap. or Collegiat Church there leaving then most of his choice Library to C. C. Coll. Nov. 7. Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll. Dec. 12. Franc. Drope of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Narciss Marsh of Ex. Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Edw. Low of New Coll. Jun. 27. Will. Oldys of New Coll. July 4. Tho. Musprat of New Coll. The first of these three was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery and a Knight and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Saliâ—bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Elliot deceased an 1671. He died in the latter end of May 1684. The second Dr. Oldys was afterwards Advocate for the office of Lord high Admiral of England and to the Lords of the Prizes his Majesties Advocate in the Court Martial and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Lincolne and of the third I know nothing July 6. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. This person who was originally of that S. Johns Coll. was afterwards an Advocate in Doctors Commons Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and one of the Clerks of the Signet On the 21. Nov. 1684 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and in Nov. in the year following he was sent Envoy extraordinary into France In the beginning of 1687 he was sent Embassador to the Ottoman Port in the place of James L. Shandois where he continued till 1691. c. Doct. of Phys July 4. Edward Browne of Mert. Coll. This Gent who was Son of Sir Tho. Browne the famous Physitian of Norwych was afterwards a great Traveller and after his return became Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians of which he was censor 1683 and Physitian in ord to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. He hath written and published 1 A brief account of some travels in Hungaria Servia Bulgaria Macedonia Thessaly Austria Styria Carinthia Carniola and Friuli As also some observations on the gold silver c. Mines Baths and Mineral waters in those parts c. Lond. 1673. qu afterwards with additions in fol. An account of which is in the Phil. Transactions nu 95. 2 An account of several travels through a great part of Germany in four journeys 1. From Norwich to Colen 2. From Colen to Vienna with a particular description
whether he was of this or of the University of Cambridge I cannot yet tell This year were 28 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated after the Act on the 11 of July among whom were Thom. Lynford of Christs Coll. He had been lately the ingenious Prevaricator of Cambridge was afterwards Rector of S. Edm. Lumbardstreet in London D. of D Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary c. author of three or more Sermons and of four discourses against Popery in the time of K. Jam. 2. c. As for the rest that were then incorporated I cannot yet find one of them to be a Writer or Bishop Sim. Digby M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was incorporated the same day Jul. 11. He was son of Essex Digby Bish of Dromore See in the Creations under the year 1677. Besides these were two Bach. of Div. of Cambr. incorporated but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer or afterwards a Bishop Creations Apr. 5. Steph. Le Moine one of the ordinary Preachers to the reformed Congregation of Roan in Normandy lately advanced by the Prince of Orange to the supreme Chair of the Theological Faculty in the Univ. of Leyden was declared in Convocation Doct. of Div by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University and on the eleventh of the same month he was diplomated he being then in the University and well known to be one who had upon all occasions testified his great affections and zeal for the Ch. of England He hath written some things which I have not yet seen Jun. 22. Andrew Sall lately a Jesuit was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the County of Tipperary in Ireland educated from his Childhood in the Roman Faith and when he was in his riper years he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he became Professor of Divinity in the Colleges of Pamplona Polencia and Tudela in Spain Rector and Professor of Controversies in the Irish Coll. of the University of Salamanca Professor of Moral Theology in the Coll. of the Soc. of Jesus in the same University At length he being sent on the Mission into Ireland he was in his elder years by the unspeakable Constancy and indefatigable Charity as also solid Doctrine and Example of the pious and upright Life of Dr. Tho. Price Archb. of Cashells or Cashiels gained to the Church of England In testimony of which he made a public declaration on the 17 of May 1674 before the said Archbishop Hugh Bishop of Waterford and others in the Church of S. John in the City of Cashel On the 5 of Jul. following he preach'd a Sermon in Ch. Ch. in Dublin before Arthur Earl of Essex L. Lieutenant of Ireland and the Council there in detestation of the Church of Rome and its Doctrine and about the same time he became Chaplain to the said L. Lieut and had preferment there bestowed on him In the latter end of July or thereabouts an 1675 he came to Oxon and by Letters of Commendation was not only received into Wadh. Coll where he continued for some months but afterwards actually created not incorporated D. of D. as before I have told you and in the Act following as in that in 1677 he shew'd himself a smart Disputant in the Theological Vespers being then domestick Chaplain to his Majesty and dignified in Wales After he had remained in the said Coll. and in an House in Halywell adjoyning for some time in a weak and sickly condition he by the favour of Dr. Fell removed to convenient Lodgings in the Cloyster at Ch. Ch. near the Chaplains Quadrangle where he remained about two years In 1680 he went into Ireland to live upon his Preferments there which were a Prebendary of Swords the Rectory of Ard-Mulchan and the Chantorship of Cashels where he continued in a weak condition till the time of his death He hath writen and published 1 Declaration for the Church of England 2 Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dubl before the L. Lieu and Council 5 Jul. 1674 on Matth. 24.15.16.17.18 Dubl 1674 oct After these two things were published came out The doleful fall of Andr. Sall a Jesuit of the fourth vow print in oct 1674 and The un-erring and un-errable Church in answer to the said Sermon Pr. 1675. oct c. 3 The Catholic and Apostolic Faith maintained in the Church of England being a Reply to several books published under the names of J. E. N. N. and J. S. against his Declaration for the Church of England and against the Motives for the Separation from the Rom. Church declared in a printed Sermon which he preached in Dublin Oxon. 1676. oct c. 4 Votum pro pace Christianâ quâ exponuntur amoventur praecipua obstacula pacis per Romanae Ecclesiae Ministros objecta ostenditur quam immerito pacem respiciant cum reliquis Christianis Ecclesiis praecipue vero cum Anglicanâ Oxon 1678. qu. 5 Ethica sive moralis Philosophia ex veterum recentiorum sententiis ad disputationem juxta ac concionem totiusque vitae humanae usum congruo ordine rerum apparatu concinnata Oxon. 1680. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. an 1682 aged 70 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick near Dublin leaving then behind him A body of Philosophy which he designed if he had lived to publish July 11. Rob. Digby Baron of Geashill in Ireland lately of Magd. Coll now of Coleshull in Warwicksh was actually created M. of A. The Reader may be pleased now to know that whereas Francis Junius had spent much time in Oxon in his younger years for the sake of study Libraries and Conversation of learned men as also in his elderly years in 1658 and 59 he did retire to Oxon in the month of Octob. this year purposely to dye there give his MSS. and Collections to the publ Libr. where he had spent much time and to have his bones laid in some Church or Chappel in Oxon. He came for the sake of Dr. Thom. Marshall Rector of Linc. Coll. a great Critick in the Gothick and Saxon Languages as Junius was from whom Marshall had formerly received instruction as to those studies and taking up his Lodging against the said Coll. he began to put his Collections in order but being troubled by often Visits he removed his Quarters to an obscure house in Beefhall lane in S. Ebbes Parish where he digested some notes for the Press and made a deed of gift of his MSS. and Collections to the publ Libr. He continued there till Aug. 1677 at which time he went upon the earnest invitation of his Nephew Dr. Is Vossius to Windsore and continued for a time in good health and cheerfulness there and near it At length being overtaken with a Fever died of it in his said Nephews house near Windsore on Munday the 19 of Novemb. 1677 whereupon
and the Epilogue by John late Earl of Rochester The Songs in this Trag. were printed by themselves in two sh in qu. In 1685 he was elected Burgess for S. Ives in Cornwall to sit in that Parl. that met at Westm 19. May the same year being the first of K. Jam. 2. c. July 5. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. July 5. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. The former of these two who is Son of Will. Williams who was adm M. of A. 1676 hath translated into the Welsh tongue Dr. W. Sherlocks book entit A practical discourse of death Oxon. 1691. oct The other who was Son of Joh. Walter of Percefield in Monmouthshire wrot The excommunicated Prince or the false Relique a Tragedy c. Lond. 1679 in a thin fol. To which Trag. tho the name of Capt. Will. Bedloe is put as author yet this Mr. Walter wrot all or the most part of it See more in a book entit An Account of the English Dramatick Poets c. Oxon. 1691. oct Written by Gerard Langbaine Son of the learned Dr. Ger. Langbaine sometimes Provost of Qu. Coll. lately a Com. of Vniv Coll. now superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon wherein p. 15. he ascribes it to the said Captain without any notice at all of Tho. Walter Oct. 27. Joh Howell of Trin. Coll. He hath written and published A discourse of persecution or suffering for Christs sake c. Lond. 1685. qu. and may other things hereafter Mar. 11. Thom. Sawyer of Magd. Coll. This person who was Nephew to Sir Rob. Sawyer Attorney General was Musick Reader in the Act 1681 and author of a Poem called Antigamus Or a Satyr against Marriage Oxon. 1681. in one sh in qu. Written upon the denial of a certain Gentlewoman to whom he was a suiter for Marriage c. Adm. 127. Bach of Phys Three were admitted of whom Francis Smith M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. was one I set him down here not that he was a Writer but upon this account following viz. that after the death of Dr. James Hyde Principal of Magd. Hall which hapned on the 7 of May 1681 the Fellows of Magd. Coll. calling into question the power of the Chanc. of the University of putting in a Principal of the said Hall did thereupon the President being then absent elect to be principal the said Francis Smith 21 May 1681 and did intend to seal up the Hall gates against the Vicechancellour in case he should come to admit a Principal of the Chancellours nomination But the President in the mean time returning and the Fellows desir'd by the B. of Winchester to desist from these their proceedings the matter came to nothing So that the Vicechancellour finding no opposition he did forthwith admit Dr. Will. Levet of the Chancellours nomination as I shall tell you among the D. of D. following This Mr. Smith was afterwards Dr. of his faculty and Physitian in the Army of K. Will. 3. in Ireland where he died about the beginning of June 1691. Bach. of Div. May 8. Sam. Master of Exeter Coll. July 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. Feb. 1. Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 8. Joh. Floyer of Queens Coll. a Compounder He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of certain matters in fol. and other vol. of his faculty and therefore he is to be hereafter numbred among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. May 8. Joh. Hammond of Ch. Ch. a Compounder On the 2 of May 1673 he was installed Preb. of Brampton in the Ch. of Lincolne and on the 23 of Sept. the same year Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Rich. Perincheif both which he obtained by the favour of Dr. Will. Fuller Bish of Linc. to whom he was Chaplain and on the 8. July 1679 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon on the death of Dr. Thom. Lockey The said Dr. Perincheif who had been Minister of S. Mary Colechurch in London Preb. of Westminster and Subalmoner to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was installed in the said Archdeaconry of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Henry Downhall 2 Apr. 1670. and died at Westminster on the 3. of Sept. 1673. See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. b and in Will. Fulman among the Writers in this vol. June 25. Will. Levett of Ch. Ch. a Comp. On the first of June 1681 he was admitted Principal of Magd. Hall after the death of Dr. James Hyde and on the 10 of January 1685 he was installed Dean of Bristow upon the death of Dr. Rich. Thompson Mar. 10. Alex. Pudsey a Comp. of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Hen. Fairfax of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Joh. Younger of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. In the middle of Sept. 1689 Dr. Fairfax had the Deanery of Norwich confer'd on him by the promotion of Dr. Joh. Sharp to the Deanery of Canterb. upon the account of his sufferings in the raign of K. Jam. 2 whereupon he was installed in that Dignity on S. Andrews day 30. of Nov. following As for Dr. Younger he was afterwards Preb. of Canterbury as I have told you in Sam. Parker among the Writers p. 617. March 10. George Reynell of C. C. Coll. Incorporations On the 13 of July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act were 23. Masters one Bach. of Div. one Doct. of Law and one Doct. of Physick of the University of Cambridge incorporated Among the Masters I find only one as yet a Writer viz. Steph. Kay of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Manton in Lincolnsh and author of A discourse teaching the excellency and usefulness of Christian Religion both in principles and practices chiefly designed by the author for the benefit of his Parishioners Printed at York 1686. qu. It is dedicated to Sir Joh. Kay of Woodsome Bt one of the Dep. Lieutenants of the West-Riding in Yorkshire who as it seems was a favourer of his studies The Bach. of Div. and Doctors were these following Nathan Shute Bach. of Div. of Kings Coll. He hath one or more Serm. extant Henry Hitch Doct. of Law of Jes Coll. Rob. Wittie Doct. of Phys of Kings Coll. This learned person hath written 1 Scarborough Spaw or a description of the nature and vertue of the Spaw at Scarborough in Yorkshire 2 Treatise of the nature and use of Water in general and the several sorts thereof as sea rain snow pond c. with their original causes and qualities c. 3 A short discourse concerning mineral waters especially that of the Spaw These three which go and are bound together were several times printed in oct and all or most of them which go under the general name of Scarborough Spaw were put into latine by the author with this tit Fons Scarburgensis sive tractatus de omnis aquarum generis origine usu c. Lond. 1678
oct Dedic to Sir Joh. Micklethwait President of the Coll. of Physitians a Yorkshire man born and bred in the same School with Dr. Wittie 4 Pyrologia Mimica or an answer to Hydrologia Chymica of Will Sympson in defence of Scarborough Spaw Wherein the five mineral principles of the said Spaw are defended against all his objections c. Lond. 1669. oct with which is printed 5 A vindication of the rational method and practice of Physick called Galenical and a reconciliation between that and Chimical As also 6 A further discourse about the original of Springs Besides the answer of Dr. Will. Sympson made to the aforesaid book called Scarborough Spaw came out another answer entit Scarborough Spaw spagirically anatomized together with a New years-gift for Dr. Wittie Lond. 1672. oct written by George Tonstall Doct. of Phys sometimes Bach. of Phys of Magd. Hall in Oxon as I have told you in these Fasti p. 741. Dr. Wittie hath also written 7 Gout raptures or an historical fiction of a War among the stars wherein are mention'd the 7 planets the 12 signs of the Zodiack and the 50 constellations of Heaven mention'd by the Antients c. Lond. 1677 oct written in vers 8 A survey of the Heavens a plain description of the admirable fabrick and motions of heavenly bodies as they are discovered to the eye by the Telescope and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby 1. The infinite wisdom c. of God in the Creation 2. The verifying c. Lond. 1680. 81. oct To which is added the Gout raptures in English Latine and Greek Lyrick verse by the author Dr. Wittie who hath also done another work mention'd in the first vol. of this book in the Fasti an 1628. p. 864. This Dr. Wittie who was always esteemed an ingenious and learned man was Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London had practised Physick for 18 years together with Dr. James Primerose at Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and after the said Primerose's death carried on his practice there and in the neighbourhood for several years after with good success At length retiring to Londâ—n in his old age died in Basingshaw-street about the latter end of Nov. 1684. The before mention'd Cambridge men viz. Steph. Kay N. Shute H. Hitch and R. Wittie were incorporated on the 13. of July Oct. 2. Adam Samuel Hartman Doct. of Div. of the University of Francfurt upon Oder Bishop of the reformed Churches through Great Poland and Prussia Oct. 19. Joh. Price Doct. of Div. of Cambr. This worthy Doctor was born in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Eaton School elected thence into Kings Coll. in Cambr. 1645 of which he was afterwards Fellow left it when he was Master of Arts and became Chaplain to George Monk when he was chief Governour or General of Scotland and afterwards was privy to all the secret passages and particularities in order to the restauration of K. Ch. 2 made by the said most noble and generous Monk At which time he came with him into England when he effected that matter and as a reward for his services done in that affair he had first confer'd upon him by the intercession of James Earl of Northampton a Fellowship in Eaton Coll. in the place of the learned Joh. Hales some years before dead a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury and the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex He hath published 1 A Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at S. Margarets in Westm 10. May 1660 on 1. Sam. 2. ver 9. Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The mystery and method of his Majesties happy restauration c Lond. 1680. oct and died in the beginning of the year in the month of May as it seems 1691. CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of certain noble Forreigners Bach. of Arts. May 21. Rich. Bulkley of Ch. Ch. Son of Sir Rich. Bulkley of the Kingdom of Ireland four years standing in the condition of Fellow Com. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin c. was actually created Bach. of Arts. Mast of Arts. Sept. 6. James Boteler Earl of Ossory of Ch. Ch. Son of Thom. late Earl of Ossory and Grandson to James Duke of Ormonde was presented by the Orator with a little speech to the Vicechancellour which done he was created M. A. He became after the death of his Grandfather Duke of Ormonde and Chancellour of this University Bach. of Div. June 14. Rich. Bravell of Exet. Coll Chaplain to the Garrison of Tangier within the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa where he had shew'd himself so useful to the publick that upon his desire of return the Bishop of Lond. and other eminent persons required his continuance there was diplomated Bach. of Div. Doct. of Law Charles the Electoral Prince Palatine being entertained at Oxon in Septemb. this year some of his retinue were created Doctors of Law viz. Sept. 9. Johan Philippus ab Adelsheim France-Germanus Master of the Horse to the Electoral Prince Fredericus Adolphus Hansen Lord in Grumbuy and Beulshubygard Gustavus Georgius D' Haleke of Brandeberg in Germany Paulus Hackenbergh of Westphalia in Germany Professor of Eloquence and Histories in the Univ. of Heidelberg The said four persons were created on the 9. of Sept. Feb. 25. George Lewes Duke of Brunswick and Lunenberg was then created with solemnity This person who was now commonly called Prince of Hannover and had come to Whitehall on the 16 of Decemb. going before purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Anne Daughter of James Duke of York was the day before he was created received in the University with solemnity at his coming thereunto and being lodg'd in Ch. Ch he with his retinue were conducted the next day by the Bishop Dr. Fell to the publick Schools and being habited in scarlet in the Apodyterium was thence conducted by three of the Beadles with the Kings professor of Law to the Theater where the Convocation was then held and coming near to the Vicechancellours seat the Professor presented him the Prince being then bare which done the Vicechancellour then standing bare as the Doctors and Masters did he created him Doctor of Law That also being done he went up to his chair of state provided for him on the right hand of the Vicechancellours seat and when three of his retinue were created Doctors as I am now about to tell you the Orator complemented him in a speech in the name of the University The next day he left the University at which time was presented to him in the name thereof Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon with the cuts belonging thereto The noble John free Baron of Reek of the retinue of the said Pr. of Hannover was created at the same time Doct. of Phys Sept. 9. The Electoral Prince Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine was with solemnity created Doctor of Phys This most noble person who was Son of Charles Lovys Count Pal. of the
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
resorted to for his edifying preaching After his death were published of his composition by one H. M. Eighteen Sermons preached upon the incarnation of the nativity of Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1642. qu. The five first are on John 1. ver 1. the four following on Joh. 1. ver 2. and the nine following those four are on Joh. 1. ver 6. to ver 14. Which learned Lucubrations promise no less than what they appear a compendious volumn of Divinity He died in the prime of his years in the beginning of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried in the Parish Church of Cookham near to Maydenhead before mentioned on the seventh day of the same month Contemporary with the said Jo. Dawson I find another of Ch. Ch. who after he had continued in the state of M. of A. about ten years was admitted Bach. of Div. 1634 but this person who was of gentile parents in London hath published nothing as I can yet learn I find also one Joh. Dawson Author of Paraphrasis metrica in Proverbia Salomonis Lond. 1639. oct but whether written by either of the former or by a third I cannot tell unless I can see the book HENRY MARTEN Son of Anth. Marten of London Son of Will. Marten of Okyngham in Berks by Margaret his second Wife daugh of John Yate of Lyford in the said County was born in the Parish of S. Michael of Basinghaugh within the said City of London educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1582 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1592 at which time he was an eminent Advocat at Doctors Commons as afterwards in the High Commission Court In 1595 he left his College and became successively Judge of the Admiralty twice Dean of the Arches a Knight and in 1624 Judge of the Prerogative in the place of Sir Will. Byrd deceased In all which Offices and Employments he shew'd himself a most excellent Civilian the best for ought that I know that ever appeared in our Horizon and therefore highly venerated by all good and learned men Towards his latter end he purchased a fair Estate mostly lying in Berks which his ungodly Son Harry squandred away His Writings were many and by some were thought very worthy of the press but in whose hands they are now or whether embezil'd with his Estate I know not All that I have seen are these Several speeches in Parliament As 1 Speech at a general Committee of both houses 22 May 1628. 2 Sp. as to the rational part of the matter of a Conference had by a Committee of both houses concerning Sovereigne Power an 1628. c. In which Parliament Sir Henry was a Burgess for the University of Oxon. Debates touching his Majesties Propositions and the Duke of Buckingham c. an 1628. See in Jo. Rushworths Collections vol. 1. p. 521.617 Several arguments and discourses in Parl. See in a book entit The Sovereigns prerogative and the Subjects privileges discussed c. 3 and 4 of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 140 c. p. 188. Besides other things among which is his Speech in Parl. concerning the petition of right He paid his last debt to nature on the 26 of Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and one aged 81 and was buried in a Chappel joyning on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of his mannour of Longworth near to Abendon in Berks. Over his grave and that of his Wife their son Harry Marten before mention'd erected a comely monument with an inscription thereon the Contents of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake ROBERT BURHILL or Burghill received his first breath at Dymock in Glocestershire but descended from those of his name as I conceive that lived at Thinghill in Herefordshire was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13 Jan. 1587 aged 15 years Probationer Fellow thereof 20 Mar. 1584 being then M. of A. and about that time in holy orders At length having a parsonage confer'd on him in Norfolk and a Residentiaryship in the Church of Hereford he proceeded D. of Divinity He was a person of great reading and profound judgment was well vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen right learned and well grounded in the Hebrew Tongue an exact Disputant and in his younger years a noted Latin Poet. He was much respected and valued by Sir Walt. Raleigh for his scholastical accomplishments who finding him a person of great learning had his assistance in Criticisms in the reading and opening of Greek and Hebrew Authors when he was composing the History of the World during his confinement in the Tower of London But let those things which he hath published that have been taken into the hands of very learned men speak his worth and excellency The titles of which follow Invitatorius panegyricus ad regem optimum de Elizabethae nuper reginae posteriore ad Oxoniam adventu c. Oxon. 1603. in two sh in qu. In controversiam inter Jo. Howsonum Thomam Pyum S. T. Doctores de novis post divortium ob adulterium nuptiis c. in sex commentationes Elenchum monitorium distinctus Ubi ad excusam D. Pyi ad D. Howsonum Epistolam quâ libri Howsoniani refutationem molitur ad ejusdem alteram manu scriptam Epistolam ejusd argumenti quâ contra Alb. Gentilem disputat diligenter respondetur Oxon. 1606. qu. In the general Title before the second Edit of Dr. Howson's Thesis printed herewith the aforesaid large Title is thus abbreviated Theseos defensio contra reprehensionem Thomae Pyi S. T. Doctoris The Elenchus Monitorius at the end contains 4 sheets Responsio pro Tortura Torti contra Mart. Becanum Jesuitam Lond. 1611. oct De potestate regiâ usurpatione papali pro Tortura Torti contra Parellum Andr. Eudaemon-Johannis Jesuitae Oxon. 1613. oct Assertio pro jure regio contra Martini Becani Jesuitae controversiam Anglicanam Lond. 1613. oct Defensio responsionis Jo. Buckridgii ad apologiam Roberti Card. Bellarmini printed with the Assertio c. Comment in difficiliora Job MS. in two folio's in Corpus Ch. Coll. Library Which book Elias Wrench of the said Coll. transcribed in a fair character and put the Hebrew into Hebrew letters which before were in Latin At the end of the said Commentary in the second Vol. was added Paraphrasis poetica on the said book of Job by E. Wrench before mention'd born in Glocestershire Son of Elias Wrench if I mistake not Prebendary of Glocester admitted scholar of C. C. Coll. 5 Jan. 1621 afterwards Fellow Bach. of Div. and in Apr. 1644 Rector of Trent in Somersetshire by the presentation of the President and Fellows of his house where he died and was buried in the month of June 1680. Our Author Burhill also wrot a book entit Tractatus contra Monarchomachos Hierarchomachos pro Regibus Episcopis MS.
Hen. Rose of Linc. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers Of the other you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1672. Mar. 15. Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. He was recommended to the Chanc. of the University by Dr. Barlow the Provost of his Coll for his progress in learning far beyond his age and standing and therefore would be capable of a place designed for him towards his subsistence if he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts for which he wanted a little time Whereupon the Chanc. desired that he might be dispensed with for the defect of two Terms which was accordingly done This person Th. Smith was afterwards D. of D and a Writer and Publisher of several books whereby he hath obtained the character of a learned Gent. and therefore ought hereafter to be remembred among the famous Writers of this University Adm. 125. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Two were admitted this year but neither of them was afterwards a man of note Mast of Arts. Apr. 10. Dan. Whitby of Trinity Coll. May 3. Jenkin Christopher of New Coll. The last of these two who was lately of Jesus but now one of the Chaplains of New Coll was afterwards a Minister in the dioc of Landaff and a Graduat in Div. at Sedan I think beyond the Seas He hath published Theses Theologicae de naturâ— justificationis constantiâ fidei Sedan 1665. qu. May 3. Rich. Griffith of Vniv Coll. This person who had been chosen into a Fellowship in Kings Coll. in Cambr was entred as a new Comer and Fellow of Vniv Coll. on one and the same day in the place of Ezr. Tongue an 1634. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts and intended to be a Preacher but being not minded to conform he left the Coll applied his mind to the study of Physick and went to Leyden in Holland where he took the degr of Doct. of that faculty Whence returning and setling at Richmond in Surrey became at length Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond of which he was lately Censor He hath written and published A-la-mode Phlebotomy no good fashion or the copy of a Letter to Dr. Hungerford Dr. Franc. Hungerford of Reading complaining of and instancing in the phantastical behaviour and unfair dealings of some London Physitians when they come to be consulted withal about sick persons living at a distance from them in the Country Whereupon a fit occasion is taken to discourse of the profuse way of blood-letting formerly unheard of tho now a days so mightily in request in England Lond. 1681. oct Jun. 21. Philip Marinel of Pemb. Coll. This person who was one of the Jersey or Guernsey Fellows of that House did translate from French into English The Hinge of Faith and Religion or a proof of the Deity against Atheists and profane persons by reason and the testimony of the holy Scriptures Lond. 1660. oct Written originally by Ludov. Cappel Doct. or Prof. of Div. of Samur Mr. Marinel died soon after and was buried in the yard of S. Aldates Church joyning to Pemb. College near the south door leading into the Church as the Parish Clerk of that place has told me Jul. 3. Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. 5. George Vernon of Brasn Coll. 13. Narcissus Marsh of Ex. Coll. 17. Franc. Vernon of Ch. Ch. 17. Nath. Bisbie of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Tim. Nourse of Vniv Coll. Adm. 81. Bach. of Phys In the Register it appears that only one person was admitted this year namely George Constable of Qu. Coll who had been a Tutor for three years in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England which is all I know of him Bach. of Div. Only two or more were admitted who having been neither Writers Dignitaries or Bishops their names are here omitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. George Wake of Magd. Coll. Feb. 12. Henr. Beeston of New Coll chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester He was afterwards Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Warden elected of New Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Nicholas 7 August 1679. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was adm this year only created Doct. of Div. Dec. 1. Lewis Atterbury M. A. of Ch. Ch. This person who had been lately Chaplain to Henry Duke of Glocester was afterwards Rector of Milton in Bucks and published several Sermons as 1 A good Subject or the right Test of Religion and Loyalty preached 17 Jul. the last Summer Assizes held at Buckingham c. on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1684. qu. 2 The ground of Christian Feasts with the right way of keeping them preached at a meeting of several Natives and Inhabitants of the County of Buckingham in the Parish Church of S. Mary le Bow 30 Nov. 1685. Lond. 1686. qu. 3 Babylons Downfall or Englands happy deliverance from popery and slavery preached at Guildhall Chappel before the L. Mayor and Aldernien 9 Jan. 1691. c. Lond. 1691. qu. c. Incorporations Mar. 27. Andrew Beech Doct. of Phys of Padua This Gent. who was a Londoner born and son of a father of both his names took the said degree at Pad in Dec. 1657. David Bruce a Scot of an honorable family Doctor of Phys of Valence was incorporated the same day He was the son of Andr. Bruce the youngest of 10 sons of the Laird of Fingask D. D. and Principal of S. Leonards Coll. in the University of S. Andrew had been educated there in Humanity and admitted M. of Arts c. Afterwards travelling into France he studied Physick at Mountâ—â—lâ—er and Paris several years with a design to be doctorated in that faculty at Padua but the Plague raging in Italy he went to Lyons for a time and afterwards going to Valence in Daupheny he took the degree of Doct. of Phys there an 1657. After his return into Engl. he was incorporated as before I have told you and soon after attended as Physitian on their Royal Highnesses James and Anne Duke and Dutchess of York with his great Uncle Sir Joh. Wedderbourne Doct. of Phys But after some years of attendance being wearied by the Court toll most of the service lying on him because of the said Sir Johns infirmity he retired from that Employment as the said Sir John had done a year before and at length after many peregrinations he setled in his own Country and is now living at Edenburgh in good repute for his practice June 20. Andrew Bruce younger brother to David before mention'd M. of A. of S. Leonards Coll. in the Univ. of S. Andrew He was lately Professor of Philosophy in the said Coll was now conversant in Studies in Ch. Ch. in this University and after his Incorporation in the degree of Master he returned to Scotland and became Minister of Newtyle in the Shire of Angus where he finished his course about 21 years since Jul. 17. Patrick Sherenden M. of A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was afterwards
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. Wâ—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 â—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