notwithstanding not long before and I think then also he refused to subscribe the 39 Articles and so consequently did not desert the Religion of Rome out of desire of preferment or for temporal ends which the Author of The direction to N. N. objected to him by reason that this his refusal did incapacitate him for all places of benefit in England a previous subscription of the said 39 Articles being the only common door that here leads to any such This refusal was grounded on his scrupling the truth only of one or two Propositions contained in them and these his small doubts too were afterwards fully satisfied and removed before his advancement in the Church otherwise he could not have conscientiously subscribed the 39 Articles which is indispensibly required of all persons upon any ecclesiastical promotion But to return so it was that he finding not that satisfaction from the Jesuits concerning various points of Religion or as some say not that respect which he expected for the common report among his Contemporaries in Trin. Coll. was that the Jesuits to try his temper and exercise his obedience did put him upon servile duties far below him he left them in the year 1631 returned to the Church of England tho the Presbyterians said not but that he was always a Papist in his heart or as we now say in masquerade and was kindly received by his Godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London So that fixing himself for a time in his beloved Oxford he did in testimony of his reconcilement make a Recantation and afterwards wrot a book against the Papists as I shall anon tell you For which his service he was rewarded with the Chancellourship of the Church of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. Br. Duppa to the See of Chichester in the month of July 1638 and about the same time with the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital in the antient Borough of Leycester Both which and perhaps other preferments he kept to his dying day He was a most noted Philosopher and Orator and without doubt a Poet also otherwise Sir Joh. Suckling would not have brought him into his Poem called The session of Poets and had such an admirable faculty in reclaiming Schismaticks and confuting Papists that none in his time went beyond him He had also very great skill in Mathematicks and his aid and counsel was often used in making Fortifications for the Kings Garrisons especially those of the City of Glocester and Arundell Castle in Sussex He was a subtile and quick Disputant and would several times put the Kings Professor to a push Hobbes of Malmsbury would often say that he was like a lusty fighting fellow that did drive his Enemies before him but would often give his own party smart back-blows And 't was the current Opinion in this University that he and Lucius Lord Falkland had such extraordinary clear reason that if the great Turk or Devil were to be converted they were able to do it He was a man of little stature but of great soul which if times had been serene and life spared might have done incomparable service to the Church of England He wrot and published The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation or an answer to a book entit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholicks which pretends to prove the contrary Oxon. 1636. 38. Lond. 1664. 74. c. All which impressions were in fol. In which book the Author made very much use of Joh. Daillé a learned French Divine as about the same time the L. Falkland did in his Writings who was wont to say it was worth a Voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him He calls him our Protestant Perron c. The book that The Religion of Protestants c. answer'd was written by Edw. Knott a Jesuit against Dr. Potters book entit Want of Charity c. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of him under the year 1645. Before the said Relig. of Protestants c. went to the press it was at the desire of Dr. Laud corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux who afterwards among his friends would liken it to an unwholsome Lamprey by having a poysonous sting of Socinianism throughout it and tending in some places to plain infidelity and atheisme After it was published the general character given of its Author was that he had better luck in pulling down buildings than raising new ones and that he has managed his sword much more dexterous than his buckler c. yet the very same Author who reports this doth in a manner vindicate him elsewhere from being a Socinian which may in some sort confute the Jesuit Edw. Knott before mention'd It must be now known that our Author being of intimate acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eaton he did use his assistance when he was in compiling his book of The Religion c. especially in that part wherein he vindicates the English Church from schism charged on her by Knott And that he might more clearly understand Hales he desired him that he would communicate his thoughts in writing concerning the nature of Schism Whereupon he wrot a Tract thereof as I shall tell you when I come to him out of which our Author Chillingworth urged some Arguments which as one thinks are the worst in all his book and so it is thought by many more However if not as some affirm yet they have caused ill reflections not only on the private reputation of Hales and Chillingworth but on the Church of England as if it did favour the Socinian Principles But as for an exact summary of the doctrines of his belief after what manner to be qualified and how little he favoured Socinianism which that he did in an high degree his adversaries of Rome and some of the sectarian party at home did constantly and malitiously suggest When the said book was in the press Dr. Potter of Qu. Coll. wrot to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. 15 Sept. 1637 that Knott the Jesuit was in Oxon and had the sheets thereof sent to him as they came from the press giving five shillings for every sheet but this doth otherwise appear from Knott's words elsewhere There was also another Jesuit called Will. Lacey then dwelling in Oxon who perusing the said book gave his opinion of it in a Treatise entit The judgment of an University-man on Mr. Chillingworth's book which I shall elsewhere mention Besides him were two or three more at least that answered it as J. H. in Christianity maintained or a discovery of sundry doctrines tending to the overthrow of Christian Religion contained in the answer to a book entit Mercy and truth c. printed 1638. qu the Author of The Church conquerant over humane wit c. printed the same year and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmask'd c. Our Author Chillingworth hath also written The apostolical institution of Episcopacy demonstrated Lond. 1660. qu. there again
the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
pleasant life this noble and beautiful Count paid his last debt to nature in the Rangers Lodge in Woodstock Park very early in the morn of the 26 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in a vault under the north Isle joyning to Spelsbury Church in Oxfordshire by the body of his Father Henry sometimes the generous loyal and valiant Earl of Rochester the same who had been Commissary General of the Army in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 under Thomas Earl of Arundel the General and had then a troop of horse under him and the same who had married Anne the Widow of Sir Harry Lee of Dichley before mention'd and Daughter of Sir John St. John of Wiltshire Which Henry Earl of Roch. dying beyond the Seas in his attendance on his Majesty on the 19 of Feb. 1657 aged 45 years was by leave obtained privately buried in the before mention'd Vault being the place of sepulture only for the family of Lee since honored with the title of Earl of Lichfield The said John E. of Rochester left behind him a son named Charles who dying on the 12 of Nov. 1681 was buried by his father on the 7 of Dec. following He also left behind him three daughters named Anne Elizabeth and Malet so that the male line ceasing his Majesty Ch. 2. confer'd the title of Rochester on Laurence Viscount Killingworth a younger son of Edward Earl of Clarendon STEPHEN CHARNOCK son of Rich. Charnock an Attorney or Solicitor descended from an antient family of his name living in Lancashire was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Creechurch in London educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge mostly under the tuition of Mr. Will. Sancroft spent afterwards some time in a private family and a little more in the exercise of his Ministry in Southwarke in the time of the Rebellion In 1649 or thereabouts he retired to Oxon purposely to obtain a Fellowship from the Visitors appointed by Parliament when they ejected scholars by whole shoales and in 1650 he obtained a Fellowship in New Coll. and thereby for several years did eat the bread of a worthy Loyallist In 1652 he was incorporated Master of Arts as he had stood in Cambridge and two years after he did undergo the office of Proctor of the University being then taken notice of by the godly Party for his singular gifts and had in reputation by the then most learned Presbyterians and therefore upon that account he was the more frequently put upon publick Works After he had discharged his office he received a call to go into Ireland where exercising his Ministry for about 4 or 5 years he was held in admiration by the Presbyterian and sometimes by the Independent and had the concurrent applause of some that were of different sentiments from him in matters of Religion and such also who did not love his opinion did notwithstanding commend him for his learning After the King was restored in 1660 he was ejected from his publick exercise being then as I conceive Bach. of Div. of Dublin returned into England and in and about London he did spend the greatest part of 15 years without any call to his own work whereby he took advantage to go now and then either into France or Holland In the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in private meetings in the great City gaining thereby infinite love and applause from the Brethren who held him to be a person of excellent parts strong reason great judgment and which do not often go together curious fancy They also esteemed him to be a man of high improvements and general learning that his chief talent was his preaching gift in which he had few equals that also he was good in the practice of physick in which he had arrived to a considerable measure of knowledge and lastly that he was a true son of the Church of England in that sound doctrine laid down in the articles of Religion and taught by our most famous antient Divines and Reformers c. As for his Writings they are many yet he published nothing while he lived However after his death his friends made extant these things following to prevent false copies which were then likely to creep abroad A Sermon of reconciliation to God in Christ on 2 Cor. 5.19 Lond. 1680. qu. Treatise of divine providence 1. In general 2. In particular as relating to the Church of God in the world Lond. 1680. oct Before which is an Epistle written by Rich. Adams and Edw. Veel who as I think published the said book This was afterwards involved in his Works His Works containing several discourses upon the excellence and attributes of God Lond. 1682. in a large fol. published by the said two persons R. Adams and E. Veele His Works vol. 2. containing several discourses upon various divine Subjects Lond. 1683. fol. with a Supplement He died in the house of one Rich. Tymms a Glazier in the Parish of White Chappel near London on the 27 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty aged 52 years or thereabouts whereupon his body being conveyed to Crosby house belonging to Sir Jo. Langham in which house Tho. Watson M. of A sometimes of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. Pastor of S. Stephens Church Walbrook in Lond. in the times of Usurpation and the author of The art of divine contemplation and of other things did hold forth by praying and preaching as our author Charnock did was thence accompanied by great numbers of the Brethren to S. Michaels Church on Cornhill in London where after John Johnson his contemporary in Emanuel and New Coll had held forth in a funeral Sermon wherein many things were spoken in praise of the defunct his body was committed to the earth on the 30 day of the same month at the bottom of the Tower under the Belfry I must now having a just opportunity laid before me tell the Reader that the name of Charnock is antient and in Lancashire is now or at least hath been lately Charnock of Charnock from whence was originally descended Thom. Charnock a noted Chymist and Rosacrucian of his time born at Feversham some say in the Isle of Thanet in Kent an 1526 and being very covetous of knowledge he travelled all England over to gain it fixed in Oxon for a considerable time where it hapned that he fell into such acquaintance that it proved his future comfort About that time he became known to Mr. James S. a spiritual man living in the Close at Salisbury who being a noted Chymist he entertained Charnock to be his Operator In 1554 he obtained the secret from his said Master Jam. S. who dying about that time left him inheritor of it but lost it by firing his Tabernacle on New years-day at noon an 1555. Soon after he learned the secret again but not of Will. Byrd sometimes Prior of Bathe who had bestowed a great deal of pains and money to obtain it but
Actress in the Dukes Play-house an 1680 and after Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life written by himself which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book and altogether unknown to him he could never gain a sight of it THOMAS PITTIS son of a father of both his names a Captain somtimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight was born at Knighton there became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652 took one degree in Arts and then translated himself to Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant Afterwards he took the degree of Master and was made one of the Terrae Filii but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times he was expel'd the University an 1658. Afterwards he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1665 became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord. proceeded in Div. in 1670 and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh bestowed on him by the King which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke somtimes of Linc. Coll. for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate London So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty Lecturer at Ch. Church and Rector of S. Botolph before mention'd His works are these A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar made public Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England Lond. 1670. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. before the Artillery Company on Luke 3.14 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 An old way of ending new Controversies preached to the Comptroller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple 8. Jan. 1681 on 1. John 2. former part of the 24. ver Lond. 1682. qu. c. A discourse of Prayer wherein this great duty is stated so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and Fanaticks as they are contrary to the publick Formes of the Church of England established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits wherein enquiry is made into mens pretences to inspiration for publishing doctrines in the name of God beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture in opposition to some Principles of Papists and Fanaticks as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England defined in her Articles of Religion established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parliament Lond. 1684 oct Dedic to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt Deput Gov. of the Isle of Wight This Dr. Pittis died on the 28. of Decemb. Innocents day in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentiond into the Isle of Wight and there buried at Westcowes as I have been informed CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks was born at Winchcombe in Glocestershire on S. Clements day 23. Nov. 1609 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks entred a Servitour in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent terme 1625 but making little stay there he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Whear the Principal where continuing a severe Student several years he took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplyed the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints commonly called Alhallowes in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford Vicar Choral there and in short time after Vicar of Alhallowes in that City In 1646 the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprized by the Parliam Forces he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power And after that he sheltred at Hawling in Coltswold where he taught a private School with good success After the Kings restauration he was by his Majesties gift setled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire which he kept to the time of his death He was a good Disputant a great admirer of Hugh Grotius a frequent preacher but very conceited and vain a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts most of which are meer Scribbles The titles follow Monumenta literaria sive â—obitus Elogia doctorum Virorum ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani Lond. 1640. qu and several times after with additions or corrections in oct A short Practical Catechisme out of Dr. Hammond with a paper monument Lond. 1649. oct Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti Selecta exposita ab Andr. Schotto Oxon. 1651. in tw They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale Nympha Libethris or the Coâ—swold Muse presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars In four parts Lond. 1651. oct I have a book in my Study entit Annalia Dubrensia Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills c. Lond. 1636 qu. This book which hath the running title on every page of Cotswold Games consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia but nothing of the Cotswold Muse of Barksdale relates to them which some that have only seen the title of it think it to be the same The said Games were begun and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire son of John Dover of Norfolk who being full of activity and of a generous free and publick Spirit did with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotswold Hills in Glocestershire whereon those Games should be acted Endimion Porter Esq a native of that County and a servant to that King a person also of a most generous spirit did to encourage Dover give him some of the said Kings old clothes with a Hat and Feather and Ruff purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games frequented by the Nobility and Gentry some of whom came 60 Miles to see them even till the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians which gave a stop to their proceedings and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets some of which were
such materials I have lying by me in every one of which I find his hand writing either in interlining adding or correcting and one of those four which is entituled Collectaneorum lib. secundus is mostly written by him collected from Parliament Rolls the Paper Office at Whitehall Vicar Generals Office books belonging to the Clerks of the Councill Mss in Cottons Library Books of Convocations of the Clergy c. printed Authors c. And there is no doubt that as he had an especial hand in composing the said Life of K. Hen. 8. which as some say he turned mostly into Latine but never printed so had he a hand in latinizing that Lords book De veritate or others At length being overtaken by a malignant feaver the same which I have mention'd in Dud. Digges and Will. Cartwright died thereof to the great reluctancy of those that well knew him in the Winter time either in Dec. or Jan. in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the north part of the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. His Epitaph is written in Latine by the said L. Herbert in his Occasional Verses p. 94. who hath also written a lat Poem in praise of his Mensa lubrica which may be there also seen But the said Epitaph must not be understood to have ever been put over his grave WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH son of Will. Chill Citizen afterwards Mayor of Oxford was born in S. Martins Parish there in a little house on the north side of the conduit at Quatervois in Octob. 1602 and on the last of that month received baptism there After he had been educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester a noted Latinist and Greecian who taught privately in Allsaints Parish or in the Free school joyning to Magd. Coll. or in both he became scholar of Trin. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Skinner on the second of June 1618 being then about two years standing in the University and going thro with ease the Classes of Logic and Philosophy was adm M. of A. in the latter end of 1623 and Fellow of the said Coll. 10 June 1628. He was then observed to be no drudg at his study but being a man of great parts would do much in a little time when he setled to it He would often walk in the College grove and contemplate but when he met with any scholar there he would enter into discourse and dispute with him purposely to facilitate and make the way of wrangling common with him which was a fashion used in those days especially among the disputing Theologists or among those that set themselves apart purposely for Divinity But upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Puritan that way forsooth was accounted boyish and pedagogical to the detriment in some respects of learning About the same time being much unsetled in his thoughts he became acquainted with one who went by the name of Joh. Fisher a learned Jesuit and sophistical Disputant who was often conversant in these parts At length by his perswasions and the satisfaction of some doubts which he could not find among our great men at home he went to the Jesuits Coll. at S. Omer forsook his Religion and by these motives following which he left among them under his own hand became a Rom. Catholick First because perpetual visible profession which could never be wanting to the Religion of Christ nor any part of it is apparently wanting to Protestant Religion so far as concern the points in contestation 2 Because Luther and his followers separating from the Church of Rome separated also from all Churches pure or impure true or untrue then being in the World upon which ground I conclude that either Gods promises did fail of performance if there were then no Church in the world which held all things necessary and nothing repugnant to salvation or else that Luther and his Sectaries separating from all Churches then in the world and so from the true if there were any true were damnable Schismaticks 3 Because if any credit might be given to as creditable Records as any are extant the doctrine of Catholiques hath been frequently confirmed and the opposite doctrine of Protestants confounded with supernatural and divine miracles 4 Because many points of protestant Doctrine are the damned opinions of Hereticks condemned by the primitive Church 5 Because the prophecies of the Old Test touching the conversion of Kings and Nations to the true Religion of Christ have been accomplished in and by the Catholique Rom. Religion and the Professours of it 6 Because the doctrine of the Church of Rome is conformable and the doctrine of the Protestants contrary to the doctrine of the Fathers of the primitive Church even by the confession of Protestants themselves I mean those Fathers who lived within the compass of the first 600 years to whom Protestants themselves do very frequently and confidently appeal 7 Because the first pretended Reformers had neither extraordinary commission from God nor ordinary mission from the Church to preach protestant doctrine 8 Because Luther to preach against the mass which contains the most material points now in controversie was perswaded by reasons suggested to him by the Devil himself disputing with him So himself professeth in his book De missa privata that all men might take heed of following him who professeth himself to follow the Devil 9 Because the protestant Cause is now and hath been from the beginning maintained with gross falsifications and calumnies whereof their prime controversie writers are notoriously and in high degree guilty 10 Because by denying all humane Authority either of Pope or Councils or Church to determine controversies of Faith they have abolished all possible means of suppressing heresie or restoring unity to the Church These were his motives as my Author tells me who adds that they were so strong that he Chillingw could never since frame his mind to Protestancy And the profession of Catholique Religion not suting with his desires and designs he fell upon Socinianism that is no Religion c. To these motives which are owned and reprinted by Mr. Chillingworth he made an Answer three years or better before the first edition of his book called The Religion of Protestants c. came out Which answer was not published for two reasons one because the motives were never publick until the author of The direction to N. N. made them so The other because he was loth to proclaim to all the world so much weakness as he shew'd in suffering himself to be abused by such silly sophismes All which proceeded upon mistakes and false suppositions which unadvisedly he took for granted as 't will quickly appear when the motives with his respective answers made to them and printed shall be impartially weighed in the ballance against each other Tho Mr. Chillingworth embraced Protestantism very sincerely as it seems when he wrot his book of The Religion of Protestants c. yet
an elder Brother called Robert who being puritanically educated sided with the rout against his Majesty in the beginning of the rebellion and being thorow-pac'd to Olivers interest was by him advanced to be a Colonel of Horse sometime before the Murther of K. Ch. 1. and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility than to requite him with having a hand in it Afterwards he was made Major General of the North of England and Commander in chief of all the Parliament Forces in Scotland After his Majesties restauration he surrendered himself upon Proclamation was attainted and committed Prisoner during life But his Father being then living the Estate at Thickley devolved upon the said Roberts Children begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret only Daughter of Hen. Beke of Hadenham in Bucks Gent. viz. 1 Robert born an 1650 2 Richard born 1652 3 Ephraim born about 1662 c. all which were living in 1688. This Col. Lilbourne spent the remainder of his days in close confinement in St. Nicholas Island called by some Plymouth Isle near Plymouth in Devonshire where dying in August an 1665. aged 52 years or thereabouts was buried as his Son Richard thinks at Plymouth ALEXANDER GROSSE was a Devonian born educated in Academicals in Gonvill and Caius Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became a Preacher at Plympton in his own Country But being desirous to receive instruction in matters pertaining to Divinity from Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of this University he entred himself a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. was incorporated M. of A. and in Feb. 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Soon after he obtained a License from the University to preach Gods word became Rector of Bridford near Exeter and at length of Ashberton in his own Country where he being a Presbyterian and a sider with the times was much frequented by People of that perswasion He hath extant Sweet and Soul-perswading inducements leading unto Christ c. Lond. 1632. qu. The happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ c. Lond. 1640. oct Several Sermons as 1 The Lord Jesus the Soules last refuge Serm. at the funeral of Mr. S. H on Rev. 22.20 2 Deaths deliverance and Eliahes fiery Chariot or the holy mans trial after death in two Sermons at Plymouth one on the 16. and the other on the 19 of Aug. 1631. The former at the funeral of Tho. Sherwill a pious Magistrate of that place on Isa 57.1.2 and the other Eliahes fierie chariot at the funeral of Mathias Nicolls Bac. of Div. Preacher to the Town of Plymouth on 2 Kings 2.11.12 All which Sermons were printed at Lond. 1640. oct The mysterie of self denial or the cessation of mans living to himself and the inchoations of Christs living in man Lond. 1642. qu. Mans misery without Christ opening the sinful perplexed dishonourable and Soul destroying condition of man without Christ c. Lond. 1642. qu. The way to a blessed life composed by way of Catechisme c. Lond. 1643. oct or tw This is sometimes called The fiery pillar c. Happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ setting forth 1. The fulness of Christ 2. Danger of neglecting Christ c. Lond. in qu. The Anatomy of the heart printed in oct This I have not seen nor his book On sacred things printed in tw Buddings and blossomings of old truths or several practical points of Divinity gathered out of the sacred Evangelist S. John chap. 3. from the 22 verse to the end Lond. 1656. oct Published by a Presbyterian Minister called John Welden then living at Stratcley in Armington in the County of Devon Whose Preface to it shews that A Gross was a zealous and mighty man in the Presbyterian way as by the character of him there appears At length after he had in a manner spent himself in carrying on the beloved Cause laid his head down and willingly died in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried at Ashberton beforemention'd He had a Son of both his names who became a Student in Exeter Coll. 1638 but whether he lived to publish any thing I know not WILLIAM ERBURY was born at or near Roath-Dagfield in Glamorganshire became a Student in Brasn Coll. in Lent term 1619. aged 15 years took one degree in Arts retired into Wales took Holy Orders and was there beneficed But being always schismatically affected he preached in Conventicles and denying to read the Kings Declaration for pastimes after Divine Service on the Lords day was summoned divers times to the High Commission Court at Lambeth where he suffered for his obstinacy In the beginning of the Long Parliament 1640 he shew'd himself openly preached against Bishops and Ceremonies and made early motions towards Independency Whereupon by the endeavours of those inclin'd that way he was made a Chaplain in the Earl of Essex his Army and therein he sometimes exercised himself in Military concerns but mostly in those relating to his function whereby he corrupted the Soldiers with strange opinions Antinomian Doctrines and other dangerous errours and by degrees fell to grosser opinions holding as a Presbyterian Writer saith Universal redemption c. and afterwards became a Seeker and I know not what At length he left that Army and lived about London and vented his Opinions there in 1645. Since which he betook himself to the Isle of Ely for his ordinary residence and thence took his progress into one County or another and there in private houses vented his opinions among the Godly under the habit of holiness At S. Edmundsbury he used to exercise in private and to declare himself for universal redemption that no man was punished for Adams sin that Christ died for all that the guilt of Adams sin should be imputed to no man c. Not long after he went into Northamptonshire where in a private Meeting the main scope of his exercise was to speak against the certainty and sufficiency of the Scriptures alledging there was no certainty to build upon them because there were so many several copies After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon in 1646 we find him there to be Chaplain to a Regiment of Parliamenteers to keep his Conventicles for them in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church wherein afterwards in the time of Oliver the Royal Party had their religious Meetings and to study all means to oppose the Doctrine of the Presbyterian Ministers sent by the Members of Parliament to preach the Scholars into obedience as I have elsewhere told you But being desir'd to depart thence where he had maintained several Socinian opinions he went soon after to London where venting his blasphemies in several places against the glorious divinity and blood of Jesus Christ especially in his Conventicle at Christ Church within Newgate where those of his opinion met once or more in a week was brought at length before the Committee
Earth one thousand years with his Saints c. Lond. 1655. qu. JOHN HALES a younger son of Joh. Hales Steward to the family of the Horners in Somersetshire eldest son of Edw. Hales of Highchurch in the said County son of Jo. Hales of the same place son of Rich. Hales by his wife the daughter of Beauchamp was born in the Parish of S. James within the City of Bathe and educated in Grammar Learning there At 13 years of age he was sent to the University in the beginning of the year 1597 and was for some time a Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. At length the prodigious pregnancy of his parts being discovered by the Hedge-beaters of Sir Hen. Savile he was encouraged by them to stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. Whereupon an Election being appointed and made in 1605 3 Jac. 1. and all the Candidates sifted and examined to the utmost he was the first that was chosen In which Election as he shew'd himself a person of Learning above his age and standing so thro the whole course of his Bachellourship there was never any one in the then memory of man so I have been informed by certain Seniors of that Coll. at my first coming thereunto that ever went beyond him for subtile Disputations in Philosophy for his eloquent Declamations and Orations as also for his exact knowledge in the Greek Tongue evidently demonstrated afterwards not only when he read the Greek Lecture in that Coll. but also the publick Lecture of that Tongue in the Schools His profound learning and natural endowments not that I shall take notice of his affability sweetness of nature and complaisance which seldom accompany hard Students and Criticks made him beloved of all good men particularly of Savile before mentioned who found him tho young serviceable in his Edition of S. Chrysostom's Works and therefore often-mention'd with honor by that noted Greecian Andrew Downes Greek Professor of Cambridge Afterwards he was made Fellow of Eaton Coll partly if I mistake not by the help of Savile and partly by Sir Dudley Carleton with whom he went in the quality of Chaplain when he was sent Embassador to the United Provinces at what time the Synod of Dort was celebrated an 1618 where our Author Hales did good service in several respects so far as his capacity did permit him From that time till about the year 1638 no great matters occur memorable of him only his acquaintance with Will. Chillingworth whom he assisted in his great work as I shall anon tell you which made him to be noted among the learned especially for certain opinions that were not thought fit to be by him entertained In that year I say Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury who had received cognisance of his great worth did send for him to Lambeth sifted and ferreted him about from one hole to another in certain matters of Religion that he partly then but more in his younger days maintained And finding him an absolute Master of Learning made him upon his complyance one of his Chaplains and procured a Canonry of Windsore for him installed therein 27 of June 1639. which with his Fellowship was all that this most incomparable person whom I may justly stile a walking Library enjoy'd He was a man highly esteemed by learned men beyond and within the Seas from whom he seldom fail'd to receive Letters every week wherein his judgment was desir'd as to several points of Learning He was a very hard Student to the last and a great Faster it being his constant custom to fast from Thursday dinner to Saturday And tho a person of wonderful knowledge yet he was so modest as to be patiently contented to hear the disputes of persons at table and those of small abilities without interposing or speaking a word till desir'd As for his justness and uprightness in his dealings all that knew have avouched him to be incomparable For when he was Bursar of his Coll. and had received bad money he would lay it aside and put good of his own in the room of it to pay to others Insomuch that sometimes he has thrown into the River 20 and 30 l. at a time All which he hath stood to to the loss of himself rather than others of the Society should be endamaged After the Civil War began occasion'd by the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians he was turn'd out of all and into his Fellowship was thrust in by the Authority of Parliament one Penwarden who being afterwards touch'd in conscience for the wrong he had done so worthy a person by eating his bread went and voluntarily would have resign'd up the place again to him but Mr. Hales refused telling him that the Parliament having put him out he was resolved never to be put in again by them As for his Canonry of Windsore it laid void till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then 't was bestowed on Anth. Hawles D. D. sometimes of Queens Coll. in Oxon. At length he being reduced to necessity was forced to sell the best part of his most admirable Library which cost him 2500 l. to Cornelius Bee of London Bookseller for 700 l. only as I have been informed by persons of unquestionable veracity 'T is true that one of the Sedleian Family of Kent did invite him to live in his Family with an Allowance of 100 l. per an the keeping of two Horses and a Servants diet but he being wedded to a retir'd and studious life refused to accept of that generous offer yet about that time he accepted of a quarter of that Salary with his diet in the family of one Madam Salter Sister if I mistake not to Dr. Duppa B. of Sarum who lived near Eaton purposely that he should instruct her son Will. Salter but he being blockish Hales could do nothing upon him Afterwards a Declaration issuing out prohibiting all persons from harbouring Malignants that is Royalists he left that Family notwithstanding rhe Lady desired him to the contrary telling him that she would undergo all danger that might ensue by harbouring him and retiring to Eaton he took up his quarters and sojourned in an house next to the Christopher Inn belonging then to Hannah the widow of John Dickenson a Servant from his youth to our Author Hales and afterwards the wife and widdow of one Sim. Powney which Hannah was very careful of and respectful to him as having formerly at her Marriage received of his bounty Other persons of the loyal party would have exhibited to had they not been equal sharers in affliction with him and therefore it was that he died in an obscure condition much pitied by many then in being but by more in the next generation particularly by such which you 'll say is a wonder that were no friends to the Church of England who did reckon it not one of the least ignominies of that age that so eminent a person of the Church of England as Hales was should have been by the iniquity of
in many rhetorical strains bitterly scolded against his quondam Fellow Covenantiers he hath this angry and uncharitable passage That the projects of Presbyterians have froth in their heads and blood in their bottom as the water of those men that labour with the Stone and Strangury and have their wounds from within It pleased God within a few days after the publishing of this book to smite the Bishop with that tormenting distemper which he there makes use of to set off his false and scandalous impeachment of so considerable a part of the most conscientious and peaceable people in the Land He lay in a very great extremity of torture and by reason of the stopping of his water his life was in great hazard and so was forced to send for a Chyrurgeon who by making use of his Probe did help him to make water which was froth at the top and blood at the bottom And that the Lord might make him more sensible of it he repeated the stroke a second time after the same manner as we have been credibly informed from very eminent and considerable persons We could heartily wish that there were now alive another Mr. Rogers of Wethersfield who would deal effectually with the conscience of this proud Prelate that he might be blessed with a more sanctified use of the hand of the Lord in the visitation of the Strangury then of his broken leg in the former times c. Thus the nameless Author in his Mirabilis annus secundus The first of which years was published in Aug. 1661 the second in Aug. 1662 and the third in Dec. the same year but whether any more followed I find not They were published purposely to breed in the vulgar an ill opinion of the change of Government and Religion after the Kings Restoration A just invective against those of the Army and their Abetters who murthered K. Ch. 1. on the 30 of Jan. 1648 with some other poetick pieces in Latin referring to those tragical times written 10 Feb. 1648. Lond. 1662. Discourse of artificial beauty in point of conscience between two Ladies Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning publick Oaths and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers Lond. 1649. Lat. ibid. 1662. English Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Lond. 1663. qu. Published then with other Prophecies of that subject written by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Cant. Rob. Sanderson Rich. Hooker c. The whole duty of a Communicant being rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1681. c. in tw He hath written other things which I have not yet seen particularly a Tract about Tender Consciences which is answer'd by Sam. Fisher He gave way to fate in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on the 20 of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 57 and was buried in the Chappel at the east end of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. there Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument containing his Effigies to the middle in his episcopal habit with an inscription under it a copy of which is printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 328. a. What the disease was which took him out of this mortal life I know not Neither dare I say says one for all the world that the disease that befell him and of which he died befell him for his fierceness against the Presbyterians and it was the very disease unto which he had compar'd the Presbyterians sermons and it befell him not long after he had made that odious comparison c. EDWARD BAGSHAW a younger Son of a Gentleman descended from those of his name living in Derbysh was born in London became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Bolton in Mich. term an 1604 took one degree in Arts four years after setled in the Middle Temple studied the municipal Law and at length became a Bencher and a knowing man in his Profession In 15 Car. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader for that Society and beginning to read 24 Feb. did select for the argument of his discourse the Statute of 35 Ed. 3. cap. 7. wherein he laboured to suppress Episcopacy by lopping off the branches first and afterwards by laying the axe to the root of the tree But after he had read once Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterb had notice of it who forthwith acquainting the King he commanded the Lord Keeper Finch to prohibit him from proceeding any farther which accordingly was done So that Bagshaw being looked upon as a discontented and seditious person was the year following chose with Joh. White another Lawyer known afterwards by the name of Century White a Burgess for the Borough of Southwark to serve in that most wicked Convention that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640. But soon after perceiving full well what mad courses the Members thereof took he left them after he had expressed his envy among them against the Bishops went to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there called by his Majesty where continuing for some time was taken by the Rebells in Oxfordshire and sent to London to the House of Commons who forthwith committed him Prisoner to the Kings-bench in Southwark 29 June 1644 where he had been with great Shoutings and Acclamations elected Burgess of that place by the fiery Zealots for the Cause Afterwards he suffered in his Estate in Northamptonshire but what his requital was after the return of his Maj. 1660 about which time he was Treasurer of the Mid. Temple I know not Sure I am that he hath these things following going under his name The life and death of Mr. Rob. Bolton Lond. 1633. qu. Wherein the Author shews himself a Calvinist commends Calvin and Luther much and speaks against the Innovations in the Church then used with reference I presume to Laud whom he had no affection for Several Speeches as 1 Sp. in Parliament 7 Nov. 1640. Lond. 1640. qu. 2 Sp. in Parl. concerning Episcopacy and London Petition Lond. 1640 1. qu. c. Two Arguments in Parliament The first concerning the Canons the second concerning the Praemunire upon those Canons Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise defending the Revenues of the Church in Tithes and Glebe Lond. 1646. qu. Treatise maintaining the Doctrine Liturgy and Discipline of the Church of England These two last were written by their Author during his long imprisonment Short censure of the book of Will Prynne intit The University of Oxfords plea refuted Printed 1648. in 2 sh in qu. Just Vindication of the questioned part of his reading had in the Middle Temple Hall 24 Feb. 1639. Lond. 1660. qu. True narrative of the cause of silencing him by the Archb. of Cant. Printed with the Just vindication See Joh. Rushworths third volume of Collections pag. 990. The Rights of the Crown of England as it is established by Law Lond. 1660. oct Written by him also during
the room of Gabr. Grant deceased But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan a Licenser of Popish books a purger of orthodox passages against Popery Papists Arminianisme a great creature of Dr. Laud and a practicer of Popish ceremonies he was in the beginning of the rebellion thrown out of his Vicaridge upon the Petition and Articles exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners â—as imprison'd in the Compter Ely house and in the Ships forced to fly and his Wife and Children turned out of doors At length being reduced to great want he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire under and in the name of his Son John afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicaridge Canonry and other preferments which he before had lost enjoying them in quietness to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13 and the other on Heb. 11.6 Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against charging him as guilty of Arminianisme 2 Sermon tending to Peace preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq at Calne in Wilts 13. Apr. 1659 on Rom. 6.5 Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5 Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5 Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen Others also go from hand to hand in Ms and as I remember I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. Johns Coll a general Scholar and a meek man in temper and conversation Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mention'd who died 22. of Feb. following buried WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed wan born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts made the Senior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts being then Fellow of that College Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty entred into the sacred function and became an eloquent Preacher In the beginning of the rebellion he adheer'd to the cause of his Majesty and in 1644 he was elected to and executed the procuratorial office of this University Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Div. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marie in Wiltshire In the month of June 1660 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored he was made the Kings Professor of Div. in this University in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times was a good Schoolman Divine and a noted Disputant He hath written The Refuter refuted or Dr. Hen. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1659-60 qu. Several Sermons as 1 Judah's purging of the melting pot an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Judah's return to their Allegiance c. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15 Lond. 1660. qu. c. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Div. on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joyning to the choire of the said Cathedral near to the reliques of Democritus Junior being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related if not Son to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum in the beginning of Aug. the same year and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch. GEORGE KENDALL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in Grammar learning in the said City where his Father George Kendall Gent mostly lived was entred a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626 and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any At the change of the times in 1642 being then Bach. of Div he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant notwithstanding the King that year to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall But being eagerly bent against that notorious Independent John Goodwin left that Rectory some years after and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662 at which time giving it up he retired to his House at Cofton where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition His works are these Collirium or an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ Lond. 1653. fol. Of Christs prerogative power prescience providence c. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit Redemption redeemed Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification c. These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine c.
rest was to apply himself to God by Prayer to require his immediate direction and guidance After many of these religious Consults during the continuance of their being dissatisfied two persons professing themselves Anabaptists retired to Lydde and under the title of Messengers of God desired of our Author the libeâ—ty of using his Pulpit the next Lords day whâ—ch motion he seemed very inclinable to grant but the Church-Wardens strictly forbad it Whereupon the said Anabaptists on the Saturday following preached by turns in the open Market-place amongst a great concourse of people wherein our Author had placed himself so near as to have the conveniency of hearing their several Harangues In the conclusion our Author desired a conference with them and after some debate he publickly disowned his former Tenents revolted from the Ch. of England and was immediately re-baptized positively affirming that this opportunity was the return which God had made to his foregoing Fasts and Prayers and with this plausible pretence he gained several Proselites renounced his Cure and zealously propagated his opinions as well by keeping a constant Conventicle as by publick Challenges and Disputes with several of the neighbouring Ministers and writing several controversial Pamphlets all reprinted in fol. as I shall anon tell you About 8 or 9 years after his Apostacy he turned a very zealous Quaker and in the company of one of that Sect he undertook a Voyage to Rome whether under pretence of converting the Pope I cannot say it Upon their return thence about 1658 his companion was in a very poor miserable condition but our Author in a very gentile Equipage having been as 't was credibly supposed in Kent made in his absence a Rom. Priest In the year following he as a Quaker held a publick disputation at Sandwich with Mr. Tho. Danson as I shall tell you anon wherein several Proposals being made to him about his Religion he first denied not that he had been at Rome but that he received a pension from the Pope he utterly denied which then as 't was said was very probable if not true for it was reported from very good hands that in his late Travels to Constantinople and thence to Rome he had as good bills of Exchange as most Gentlemen that travel and yet it was well known then that he had no visible Estate and the Quakers that came to the Dispute did report that he did bear his witness against the Pope and Cardinals of Rome and yet they suffered him not to be medled with c. Secondly it was sworn by sufficient and credible men of Sandwich that had some discourse with him at Dunkirk that he told them that he looked upon the Jesuits and Friers there to be sounder in Doctrine than those we call the Reformed Churches And thirdly that on the first day of the Dispute he made very light of the charge of Popery against him when Amesius against Bellarmine was produced and with a gesture of derision he replied that Bellarmine held many truths which must not be rejected because he held them c. As for the books which he published the titles of them follow but the respective years when they were published I know not Anti-diabolisme or the true account of a true Counterfeit One word yet to the Disputers and Scribes of the Ashford disputation or an Epilogetical Postscript on the Apologetical Preface Anti-babism or the Babish disputation at Ashford for Baby-baptisme disproved The second part of Antiâ—babisme or a Review of their Review Anti-rantism or Christ'ndom unchristn'd Anti-sacerdotism Sacerdotale delirium diliatum The dotage of the Priests discovered Or a new Edition with no small addition in way of emendation c of the third part of that treble Treatise which is extant about the Ashford Disputation intit A pathetical exhortation to the Pastors to oppose the growth of Anabaptisme c. All which things being reprinted in fol. had this title set before them Christianismus redivivus Christ'ndom both unchristned and new-christned or that good old way of dipping and in Churching of Men and Women after faith and repentance professed commonly but not properly called Anabaptism vindicated from that two-edged sword of the Spirit the word of God from all kind of calumnies that are cast upon it c. Lond. 1655. fol. Rusticus ad Academicos in exercitationibus expostulatoriis Apologeticis quatuor The Rusticks alarum to the Rabbines or the Country correcting the University and Clergy and not without good cause contesting for the truth against the nursing mothers and their children In four Apologetical and expostulatory Exercitations Wherein is contained as well a general account of all Enquirers as a general Answer to all opposers of the most truly catholick and most truly Christ-like Christians called Quakers and of the true Divinity of their Doctrine By way of entire entercourse held in special with four of the Clergies Chieftains John Owen D. D. Tho. Danson M. A. Joh. Tombes B. D. and Rich. Baxter of Kederminster c. Lond. 1660 in a thick quarto with an additional appendix A positive true testimony according to the external letter to the internal and eternal light Printed with the former in Engl. and Lat. in two columes Busie Bishop besides the business or Dr. Gauden overseen c. Lond. 1662. qu. This which I have not yet seen is the same I suppose with the book about Tender consciences Three disputations at Sandwych with Tho. Danson an 1659. Lond. 1664. oct 3d. edit Published by the said Tho. Danson sometimes fellow of Magd. Coll. Baptisme before or after faith and repentance Lond. 1669. fol. The same I suppose for I have not yet seen it with the folio before mention'd Christianismus redivivus c only the title alter'd What else he or others under his name have published I know not nor any thing else of him save only that after his Majesties restoration he lived obscurely in London kept Conventicles and thereupon was imprison'd in Newgate and was accounted the Corypheus of the Quakers At length being at liberty he retired to a village called Dalston in the Parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex where he died of the plague as 't was said in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five This Person in his Disputes did always decline a direct answer to the question what University he was of which gave some of the neighbouring Ministers in Kent occasion to suspect that the said Fisher was bred in some forreign Popish University and the rather because he would often plead for popish Tenents tho when pressed to tell whether he did really believe them he would pretend he did it disputandi gratiâ to hold an argument for discourse sake One or two of both his names have published several matters and therefore they are to be remembred elsewhere FRANCIS CHEYNELL son of John Cheynell Doct. of Phys sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll by Bridget his Wife was born in Catstreet in
he became in a manner craz'd To conclude I must now let the Reader know that there was no Writer of his time nor ever before except Bale that was given more to calumny and railing in his Writings than he especially against the Bishops true Churchmen of England Episcoparians and Papists while in the mean time his Brethren that deserved justly to be chastised by his pen were omitted As for his railing at the Episcoparians all readers of his books pen'd against Dr. Laud and the Bishops may in a plentiful manner behold and what he says against the Papists let it be truth or not truth may also in them be easily discern'd But for these last the Papists let one of their number who is a grave Writer characterize our Author Prynne for an egregious lye that he hath committed against a red-letter'd-man and against the English Papists when he would have them all massacred in 1666. Yet of late this poysonous humour of calumniating Gods Saints is become the principal character of the new reformed Gospel I will add one example more of a Calumniator at least parallel to these viz. Mr. Will. Prynne a late stigmatized Presbyterian who in his not long since published censure of Archb. Whitgift charges S. Anselme that he induced Sir Walt. Tyrrell to murder K. Will. Rufus Now by the consent of all Historians Tyrrell himself was no murderer for it was by the unhappy casual glancing of an arrow that the King was slain However it hapned yet certain it is that at that time S. Anselme was an exil'd person in France and whereas at the Kings burial many noble men met but few mourn'd for his death yet saith a late Protestant Historian of all mourners Anselme expressed most cordial sorrow at the news That blasphemous tongue therefore must expect that such envenomed darts as these shot against heaven it self will if he repent not one day descend upon his own head and the wounds made by them never be cured But alas what repentance can be expected in such a person who is inveteratus dierum malorum when we see in his decrepit age his rancorous tongue against innocent Catholicks yet more violently set on fire of hell so far as to sollicite a general Massacre of them by publishing himself and tempting others to damn their souls also by publishing through the whole Kingdom that in the last fatal calamity by fire hapning to London 1666 they were the only Incendiaries This he did tho himself at the same time confessed that not the least proof could be produced against them But said he it concerns us that this report should be believed Complaints of this most execrable Attentate were made and several Oaths to confirm this were offer'd but in vain However surely there is a reward for the innocent oppressed And whatsoever Mr. Prynne may think doubtless there is a God who judges the World Let him therefore remember what the spirit of God says Quid detur What must be given to thee and what must be assigned to thee for thy portion O deceitful Tongue Sharp darts cast by an almighty arm with devouring coals of Juniper c. The books and pamphlets that this unwearied Writer hath published are these The perpetuity of a regenerate mans estate against the Saints total and final Apostacy Lond. 1627. qu. Healths sickness Or a compendious and brief discourse proving the drinking and pledging of healths to be sinful and utterly unlawful unto Christians c. Lond. 1628. qu. The un-loveliness of Love-locks and long womanish hair Ibid. 1628. qu. Brief survey and censure of Mr. Cozens his couzening devotions Ibid. 1628. qu. This was written against the Private devotions that were published by John Cosin afterwards Bishop of Durham as containing Arminianisme in them as Prynne says who adds that it was one of the reasons why Laud Archb. of Cant. did malign him and caused his Histrio-mastix to be called into question Anti-Arminianisme or the Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme c. Lond. 1630. It was twice pr. that year in qu. Appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus See more in Giles Widdowes under the year 1645 who by the strangeness of his parts was fitted as 't were on purpose to duell with Prynne as Don Quixot with the Wind-mill which no man else was Knight errant enough to encounter about the said matter God no impostor or deluder or an answer to a Popish and Arminian cavil in defence of free will and universal Grace wherein Gods tender of Grace c. Lond. 1629. 30. qu. Lame Giles his haultings together with an appendix concerning the popish original and progress of bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1631. qu. Written against Giles Widdowes before mention'd Histrio-mastix The playes scourge c. against the intollerable mischief and abuses of common playes and play-houses Ibid. 1633. qu. Books written during his imprisonment in the Tower of Lond. Appendix supplementum Epilogus ad Flagellum Pontificis touching the parity of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino An. 1635. This Flagellum was written by Joh. Bastwick Dr. of Phys of Padua sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Practitioner at Colchester in Essex in which County he was born A breviate of the Bishops intollerable usurpations and encroachments upon the Kings prerogative and Subjects liberties with an appendix to it An. 1635. Certain Queries propounded to the bowers at the name of Jesus and the Patrons thereof An. 1636. The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus proving them no diocesan Bishops of Ephesus and Crete and that Presbyters have a divine right to ordain Ministers as well as Bishops with a Postscript Print 1636 reprinted with additions at Lond. 1660. qu. the Bishops then being about to be restored by K. Ch. 2. Lookingâ—glass for all Lordly Prelates An. 1636. Certain Queries propounded to Bishops c. An. 1636. Instructions for Church Wardens concerning visitatation articles fees oathes c. An. 1636. News from Ipswich discovering certain late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our Church c. Printed as 't is said at Ipswich but false an 1636 in one sh in qu. Published under the name of Matthew White three times in that year and another time in 1641. He the said Prynne had also a special hand in the writing of a book intit A divine Tragedy lately acted or a collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgment upon Sabbath breakers c Printed by stealth an 1636. qu. At the end of which is an Appendix pr. in another character containing the sufferings of Prynne for his Histrio-mastix and the miserable end as 't is there said that befel Will. Noy the chief instrument of his sufferings Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence Bishops and Presbyters to be both one equal and the same in jurisdiction office c. by divine law and institution c.
Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made Perkinson desisted and Knight by the perswasions some say threatnings of Dr. Fell desisted So that then the Masters were left to Hobsons choice to choose Bennet and no body else Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in meerly by his Authority without any application to them and Bennet's little stirring for it only for form sake without applying himself according to the manner with cap in hand to gain votes they were resolved to cross the matter So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month a majority of the Masters joyned together headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person did in despight of Dr. Fell his Mandamus and Authority of the Heads of Houses Seniors and the sober party set up and choose a meer stranger who lived remotely from Oxon named Christop Wase sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell and something to the discredit of the University as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office Afterwards Wase came to Oxon was sworn and took possession of his place But Dr. Fell who had received a character of would never let him execute the Archityp place because as he usually said he was not fit for it as being not a person of sobriety c. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time the superior Beadleship of the Civ Law and the Architypographers place hath been joyned WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts was born in that County became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall an 1629 aged 16 years where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts was appointed a Tutor in that House and about the same time entred into the sacred function But being always schismatically enclined he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1 became a rigid Calvinist an enemy to Tithes and a purchaser of Church Revenues In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in the City of Salisbury where by his doctrine he advanced much the blessed Cause and in 1654 he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which office he shew'd himself very forward against those people of which some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching but in 1662 was silenced for Nonconformity and lived for a time at or near to Salisbury But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasie he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts where he had purchased an Estate and continued there to the time of his death His works are An Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Psal 45.6 Lond. 1652. qu. Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae Justification without conditions or a free justification of a sinner c. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification c. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge Mr. Jam. Cranford and Mr. Rich. Baxter Lond. 1654. qu. Answer'd the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels against Mr. B. VVoodbridge c. Sermon on Acts 20.9 Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine as the Register of that Church enforms me which I presume follows the English Accompt and not the common Another VVill. Eyre I find who was long before this mans time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus an 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said VVill. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex an 1617. 15 Jac. 1. EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London was born in that County admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an 1621. aged 12 years afterwards he was successively Clerk Scholar and Fellow of that House Bach. of Div. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire He hath written The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford 'T was printed and set before the said Dr. Jacksons Commentary on the Creed an 1653 and afterwards before the collection of his works an 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford after he had suffer'd much as a true son of the Church of England and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire applied his mind to Academical studies in S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he was made Minister of S. Botolphs Church without Aldgate there where for his ready and fluent way of preaching he was much frequented by the Orthodox party but in the beginning of the grand rebellion he being esteemed as one of Dr. Lauds creatures he was imprison'd in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate was sequestred plunder'd and his wife and children turn'd out of doors At length he with much ado getting loose but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured he retired to Oxon where he was created D. of Div. an 1646 about which time and after he taught School in several places meerly to gain bread and drink as in London and afterwards at Paddington c. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. Botolphs Church but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners he left it and in the year 1662 he was presented to the Vicaridge of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an he was at length being grown crazy and infirm presented unsought
after to the Rectory of Allhallows Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire by the favour of Edw. Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of England about 1664 which he kept to his dying day His works are these Sermons meditations and prayers upon the plague Lond. 1636. 37. oct The sermons are on 2. Chron. 7.13.14 on Matth. 6.2.5.16.33 c. The Soveraigns desire peace The subjects duty peace in 3. sermons the first on Psal 112.6 the second on Rom. 13.1 and the third on Rom. 15.2 Lond. 1643. qu. Which Sermons were preached in the Summer-time an 1642 at S. Pauls Cath. and S. Botolph near Aldgate but such offence was given to the nice and precise party for several passages in them tho they contained praying for peace and preaching for obedience to the King that he was as a Malignant imprison'd from the 29. Oct. to 26. Dec. 1642. In all which time being unseen and unheard he by his letter sent to the Lord Mayor for releasment was sent for to him But being there accused of several things by John Levet a Tallow chandler which were only praying for peace and preaching up obedience at an unseasonable time he was remitted back to prison not to Crosbie House where he was detained before but to Gresham Coll. where he continued a long time and afterwards in Newgate where he had scarce straw allow'd him to lie in whilst his Majesty was exclaimed against when he afforded the Rebels better usuage He hath also written and published The Scriptures vindicated from the unsound conclusions of Card. Bellarmine and the controverted points between the Church of Rome and the reformed Church stated according to the opinion of both sides Lond. 1643. qu. Manual of Devotions suiting each day with prayers and meditations answerable to the work of the day as also each mans calling viz. the Noble-man the Soldier the Lawyer Tradesman c. Lond. 1643. in tw The Soldiers Catechisme composed for the Kings Army c. Lond. 1645. oct the eighth edit The Jesuit the chief if not the only state-heretique in the world or a Venetian quarrel disgested into a dialogue Pr. 1647. qu. Mercurius Academicus communicating the intelligence and affairs of Oxford to the rest of the passive party thorowout the Kingdom Commencing from Munday in Easter-week 1648. Pr. in 1. sh in qu. How many sh or numbers followed I know not for I have only yet seen the first There was also a Merc. Academicus that began to come out at Oxon. in the beginning of Jan. 1645 but who wrot it I know not A Letter of an Independent to Mr. John Glynne Recorder of Lond. Pr. 1645 in tw sh in qu. His name is not set to it only common report makes him the Author To all Paupertatis ergò Nè peream fame To some Gratitudinis ergò Ne peream infamiâ Whether it be better to turn Presbyterian Roman or continue what I am Catholick in matter of religion Lond. 1658. in two sh in qu. Six and thirty questions propounded for resolution of unlearned Protestants c. Pr. 1659. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 136.26 Print 1639. qu. 2 Divinity no enemy to Astrology serm for the society of Astrologers in the year 1643 preached as it seems on Matth. 2.2 3 The hand of God or King Davids choice on 2. Sam. 24.14 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Twelve anniversary Sermons on the funeral of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. Among them is one on 1. Sam. 10.27 another on 1. Kings 21.19 a third on Ps 169.30 c. What other things he hath written and published I know not and therefore I can only say that he died on the ninth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried the next day in the Chancel of Allhallows Church in Stanford before-mention'd and that his last words were Hic vixit temporibus quibus Carolum primum magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regem farino more trucidarunt Rebelles Which he would have to be put over his grave JOHN DAVENPORT son of John Davenport and elder brother to Christopher Davenport commonly called Franc. à Sancta Clara whom I shall in his proper place mention was born in the City of Coventry in Warwickshire an 1597 and in Grammatical learning there educated In the beginning of the year 1613 he was by his Relations sent to Merton Coll where continuing about two years under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Lane was for a certain reason which I shall tell you in the life of the said Christop Dav. translated to Magd. Hall where continuing under a severe and puritanical discipline for some time he left it without a degree retired to London became a noted preacher among the Puritans and at length Minister of S. Stephens Church in Coleman-street In 1625 he retired to Magd. Hall for a time performed his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Div accumulated and took that degree and in short time after retired to London again where by the Brethren he was esteemed a person of excellent gifts in preaching and in other qualities belonging to a Divine About the year 1630 he was appointed by certain factious and discontented persons one of the Feoffees for the buying in of impropriations but that project tho seem'd good to some being quash'd he about the year 1633 left his pastoral charge under pretence of opposition by the Prelates because he scrupled at certain ceremonies but without a certificate or testimony to shew what he was or what he had been and forthwith went beyond the Seas to Amsterdam without a call or invitation At that place he endeavouring to be a Minister in the English congregation and to joyn with them in all duties he was much opposed by Mr. John Paget an Elder or one of the chief Ministers there and especially for this reason that he would not agree with him in all things relating to baptisme Whereupon our author Davenport taking these and other matters in great disdain he wrot in his own defence Letter to the Dutch classis containing a just complaint against an unjust doer wherein is declared the miserable slavery and bondage that the English Church at Amsterdam is now in by reason of the tyrannical government and corrupt doctrine of Mr. Jo. Paget their Minister Printed 1634. qu. Certain instructions delivered to the Elders of the English Church deputed which are to be propounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in Amsterdam Pr. the same year in a qu. paper About the same time he wrot 1 A report of some passages or proceedings about his calling to the English Ch. in Amsterdam against Joh. Paget 2 Allegations of Scripture against the baptizing of some kind of infants 3 Protestation about the publishing of his writings Which three things were pr. at Amsterd 1634. qu. In the year following most of the aforesaid little scripts were answered by Paget and at the same time were answer'd by him the complaints of one Will. Best a member of
restauration for want of conformity He was a conceited whimsical person and one very unsetled in his opinions sometimes he was a Presbyterian sometimes an Independent and at other times an Anabaptist Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people At other times having received revelations as he pretended he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses and upon pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire whose daughter Henry the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week At which the Gentlemen being well pleased they and others always after called him Doomesday Sedgwick and the rather for this reason that there were others of his sirname that pretended to prophecy also He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Zions deliverance and her friends duty or the grounds of expecting and means of procuring Jerusalems restauration Preached at a publick Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons on Isaiah 62.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man in eleven Sermons Lond. 1648. oct These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22 c. The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the nations opening all wounds of this Kingdom and of every party and applying a remedy to them c. Lond. 1648 qu. This book as soon as 't was published which was in the latter end of 1647 the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal which as he said if his Majesty would please to read might as he imagined be of much advantage to him and comfort in that his disconsolate condition The King thereupon came forth and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book After he had read some part thereof he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment By what I have read in this book I believe the author stands in some need of sleep These words being taken by the author in the best sense he departed with seeming satisfaction The next day came one John Harrington Esq Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account desired to have some discourse with his Majesty but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mention'd that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian thanked him likewise for his good intentions without discoursing with him upon any point Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness withdrew Justice upon the Army-remonstrance or a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways c. Lond. 1649 qu. A second view of the Army-remonstrance or justice done to the Army wherein their principles are new model'd brought out of obscurity into clearer light c. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former but in such a canting fashion that I know not what to make of it unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way Animadversions on a letter and paper first sent to his Highness Oliv. Cromwell by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers c. Lond. 1656 qu. Animadversions upon a book intit Inquisition for the blood of our Soveraign Lond. 1661. oct What other things this our author hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent but leaving that place about 1668 retired to London where he soon after died I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Baylie in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London on the 14 of Sept. 1618 became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632 where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline went thence to Hart Hall for a time and took the degree of Mast of Arts an 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders Afterwards he retired to the great City became a florid and very ready Preacher and at the turn of the times was insnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King and those by the Parliament to treat about Peace an 1644 he was present and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversie he was fully convinced of his error chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond So that then being in the 26 year of his age he immediately as 't is said upon his return to London preached a Recantation Sermon and ever after even in the worst of times he attested his loyalty to the King and conformity to the Church in discipline as well as in doctrine in his ministerial function Of these matters I have been informed by his friend but this must be known that in all or most of the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London and tho frequented by some Loyalists yet by more Presbyterians His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church which was called The Loyal Lecture whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2 he preached his funeral Sermon In the year 1660 he by his forward endeavours got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners appointed by the City of London to the Hague in order to his Majesties restauration And being there on a Sunday 20. May he with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly that there was not any one present but admired his elegancy and learning and
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
A letter to a friend in Wilts upon occasion of a late ridiculous pamphlet wherein was inserted a pretended prophecy of Thom. Becket Lond. 1666. in two sheets in qu. The said letter was written to Tho. Gore of Alderton Esq who gave Dr. Tully the rectory of Grigleton and the Prophecy was published by one W. Tinker alias Littleton a Minister who therein usurped Dr. Tully's name to his disparagement Praecipuorum Theologiae capitum Enchiridion didacticum Lond. 1665.68 c. oct Appendicula practica de coena Domini Printed with the Enchiridion Symboli Apostolici Expositio Ox. 1673. octavo Precationis Dominicae Expositio Ox. 1673. octavo Justificatio Paulina sine operibus ex mente Ecclesiae Anglicanae omniumque reliquorum quae reformatae audiunt asserta illustrata c. Oxon. 1674. qu. Dissertatiuncula de sententia Paulinâ c. Printed with Just Paulina written chiefly against Mr. George Bulls book entit Harmonia Apostolica and Mr. R. Baxters Aphorismes But Mr. Baxter sitting not still as he never yet hath done published an answer to it bearing this title A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books 1. A treatise of imputed righteousness c. with an answer to Dr. Tully's Letter which he calls angry 2. A friendly debate with the learned and worthy Mr. Christop Cartwright containing first his animadversions on his Aphorismes with my answer Secondly his exceptions against that answer thirdly my reply to the sum of the controversies agitated in those exceptions All published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults of Dr. Tully's Justificatio Paulina Lond. 1676. oct The Aphorismes of Mr. Baxter here defended against Dr. Tully were answer'd as to some passages 1 By Will. Eyre of Salisbury in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae c. 2 By John Crandon Minister of Fawley in Hampshire more largely in a just volume intit Mr. Baxters Aphorismes exoriz'd and authoriz'd c. Lond. 1654. qu. To both which Mr. Baxter quickly after publish'd distinct replies placed at the end of his Apol. Lond. 1654. qu. One called An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre c. and another An unsavoury volume of Mr. John Crandons anatomiz'd c. But Crandon died before this answer against him came out The said Aphorismes also were excepted against and animadverted upon at their first coming forth 1650 by many learned men some of whom wrot upon the motion and desire of their author himself among whom were Mr. George Lawson Dr. John Wallis Mr. John Warren and Mr. Christoph Cartwright were the chief which being as he himself confesseth then but crude and defective for want of time and use of writing this being his first some suspected it of errour in doctrine some of novelty some of divers undigested expressions and some overvaluing it received those imperfections with the rest Upon this he published his suspension of these Aphorismes then his fuller explication and defence of them in his Apologie c. Afterward his additional explication and defence both in his Confession of faith c. and in his Four Disputations of Justification c. And tho he hath in these three several pieces thus largely explain'd himself and his Aphorismes yet Dr. Tully as he complains fell notwithstanding upon him without taking notice of any of those following treatises which clear and illustrate his former doctrine in these points But whatever hath been the Doctors dealing towards him on this account at which he seems to be so much concern'd of this I am assured that his publishing the above named book consisting of two parts the far greater part of the former being by his own acknowledgment written 3 or 4 years before and nothing newly added and immediatly directed against the Doctor but barely the 6.7 and 8. Chapters with the answer to the Doctors letter and the latter part being wholly made up of papers which had passed so many years before between the learned Mr. Christ Cartwright and himself concerning his Aphorismes his publishing I say these in answer to the Doctors book which came out some time after was generally looked upon as a scornful slighting and very unfair way of his And tho he thinks fit to call the Doctor in the general Epistle to the Reader more than once a worthy Person yet for all this in the very entrance on the 6 Chapt. of the first part he sufficiently discovers his anger against him in liberally bestowing on a great part of his Justificatio Paulina this foul character viz. that it is defective in point of truth justice charity ingenuity and pertinency to the matter But his published papers wrot long before those books to which they are very improperly by him called answers is not unusual with him and the ingenious and learned Mr. Hen. Dodwell hath not long since complained of this his unjust usuage in relation to himself To conclude since the publishing of the said Justificatio Paulina the author thereof is charactarized by some Church men and Fanaticks to have been a main pillar of the Chur. in defence of her true doctrine Nay and long before it was published a certain hot headed Fanatick tells us in a book afterwards by him made extant that he Tully with Mr. Tho. Barlow did keep this University of Oxon from being poyson'd with Pelagianism Socinianisme Popery c. The other things that Dr. Tully hath written are these A Letter to Mr. Rich. Baxter occasion'd by several injurious reflections of his upon a treatise entit Justificatio Paulina Oxon. 1675. qu. Animadversions on Mr. Baxters pamphlet entit An appeal to the light Oxon. 1675. qu. Printed with the aforesaid letter At length our author Dr. Tully after he had spent his last years in a weakly and lingring condition surrendred up his pious Soul to God in the Parsonage house at Grigleton before mention'd on the fourteenth day of January in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery which he had not enjoyed an year succeeded Dr. Tho. Cartwright sometimes of Qu. College in his Principality of S. Edm. Hall Steph. Penton M. A sometimes Fellow of New Coll. who was elected thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Queens Coll. Proprietaries of the said Hall on the 15 of Feb. 1675 but with this condition that he resign his rectory of Tingwick in Bucks and that the society of New Coll. present a Fellow of that of Queens thereunto which was accordingly done and in his Rectory of Grigleton Rich. Hine M. of Arts of Merton Coll. EDWARD WEST son of Tho. West of the antient borough of Northampton Gent. became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the year 1651 and there received a severe discipline under a Presbyterian Tutor After he had taken one degree in Arts he translated himself to S. Maries Hall where continuing till he was Master of that faculty took the Ministry upon him according to the Presbyterian way and was benefic'd After his Majesties
Witchcraft vindicated Lond. 1670. oct written by R.T. and reflections made on it by Dr. Casaubon in his book of Credulity and Incredulity our Author Wagstaffe came out with a second edition and additions therein Lond. 1671. oct For the writing of which book he was also laughed at by wags of this University because as they said he himself look'd like a little Wizard It was also frequently reported that he was Author of a libellous Pamphlet intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the University of Oxford viz. 1 A petition from some well affected therein 2 A model for a Colledge reformation 3 Queries concerning the said University and several persons therein Lond. 1659 in one sheet and half in qu. But I think to the contrary that he was not the Author but rather one of the Students of Ch. Ch. that sedulously endeavoured to lay it at the door of Wagstaffe who dying in his Lodgings opposite to the end of Chancery-lane in Holbourn on the second day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 44 or thereabouts was buried in Guildhall Chappel within the City of London under the Seats on the left hand as you enter into that Chappel This person died in a manner distracted occasion'd by a deep conceit of his own parts and by a continual bibbing of strong and high tasted Liquors WILLIAM SQUIRE or Esquire whose Father was a Proctor in the Archbishops Court at York was born in Yorkshire entred a Student in Trin. Hall in Cambridge an 1647 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in that University 1650. went thence to Oxon for preferment and entring himself a Batler in Brasn Coll. was incorporated in this University in the same degree in 1652. Soon after obtaining a Chaplainship in All 's Coll and taking the degree of Master of Arts he was elected Fellow of Univ. Coll where continuing for some time after his Majesties Restauration was by the favour of Dr. Sheldon B. of London promoted to the Rectory of Raulaston or Rolleston in Derbyshire near Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire Afterwards being sensible of the increase of Popery in the Nation he published these two books The unreasonableness of the Romanists requiring our Communion with the present Romish Church or a discourse drawne from the perplexity and uncertainty of the Principles and from the contradictions betwixt the Prayers and Doctrine of the present Romish Church to prove that it is unreasonable to require us to joyne in Communion with it Lond. 1672. oct Some more considerations proving the unreasonableness of the Romanists in requiring us to return to the Communion of the present Romish Church Lond. 1674. in oct He died at Raulaston before mentioned in the beginning of September in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under a black marble stone which had been laid over the grave of one of his Predecessors on the fourth day of the same month In his Rectory succeeded Tho. Wickham Mast of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. JAMES HARRINGTON Esq was born at Upton in Northamptonshire on the first Friday in January an 1611 became Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. in 1629 left it before he took a degree travelled into France Germany and Italy learned the Languages of those Countries returned an accomplish'd Gentleman and afterwards for some years waited upon the Prince Elector Palatine in his Chamber In the beginning of the Civil War 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians and endeavoured to get into the H. of Commons to sit as a member there but could not In January 1646 he went as a Volunteire with the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to go to the King at Newcastle to treat for a Peace and Settlement and bring him nearer to London In the month of May 1647 he with Thom. Herbert were admitted Grooms of the Bed-chamber to the said King then at Holdenbie in Northamptonshire upon the dismissing first of some of his old Servants and secondly upon the desire of the Commissioners they being ordered so to do by the Parliament His Majesty it seems had taken notice that those two persons had followed the Court since his coming from Newcastle and being satisfied with the report he had received concerning them as to their sobriety and good education was willing to receive them into his service to wait upon his person in his Bed-chamber with Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patrick Maule afterwards Earl of Penmaure in Scotland who were then the only persons of the Bed-chamber that were remaining While our Author Harrington was in this capacity his Maj. loved his company and did choose rather finding him to be an ingenious man to discourse with him than with others of the chamber They had often discourses concerning Government but when they hapned to talk of a Commonwealth the K. seemed not to endure it At that time it was that Harrington finding his Maj. quite another person as to his parts religion morals c. than what were represented by the faction who gained their ends by lyes and scandals he became passionately affected with and took all occasions to vindicate him in what company soever he hapned to be but then again it being sometimes imprudently done he did suffer for it in those captious times as by this story 't will appear His Majesty being hurried away from Holdenby to the Head-quarters of the Army and from thence conveyed by slow paces to Hampton Court and thence jugled into the Isle of Wight where he treated with the Commissioners of Parliament for peace and from Newport there hurried away by Lieut. Coll. Ralph Cobbet to Hurst Castle in Hampshire on the last of Nov. 1648 it hapned that Harrington who was then with his Maj. as one of the Grooms of the Chamber did one morning fall into discourse with the Governour of that Castle and some other Officers of the Parl. Army concerning the late Treaty at Newport wherein he magnified the Kings wisdom in his arguments with the Commissioners upon the propositions for Peace and Satisfaction the Parliament had in his concessions and probability in a happy event if this force in removing him to Hurst Castle had not interven'd and made an unhappy fracture which created parties enlarging also upon his Majesties learned disputes with Mr. Rich. Vines and other Presbyterian Divines with such moderation as gained applause from all those that heard him argue Which discourse how inoffensive soever and without exception at any other time or place truth is not at all times seasonable nor safe to be spoken as by our Authors example was evidenced For those captious persons with whom he held discourse being full of jealousie and apt to wrest his words to the worst sense they withdrew a little and at their return they told him plainly they were dissatisfied with what he had said He desired them to instance wherein they replied in all particulars which when he began to repeat for his own satisfaction
the Popish Plot was discovered but also wrot and published divers books in vindication of the Church of Rome and thereby gained the character by the men of that party of the prime Champion of England to stand up for their Cause A noted Author of the English Church saith that the author of the Guide in Controversies Ab. Woodhead is a person most highly famed among the Roman Catholicks and that he is in his opinion the most ingenious and solid writer of the whole Rom. Party His Works plainly shew him to have been a person of sound and solid judgment well read in the Fathers and in the polemical Writings of the most eminent and renowned Defenders of the Church of England who have quite down from the Reformation successfully managed the Protestant Cause against Rome He was so wholly devoted to retirement and the prosecutions of his several studies that no worldly concerns shared any of his affections only satisfying himself with bare necessaries and so far from coveting applause or preferment tho perhaps the compleatness of his learning and great worth might have given him as just and fair a claim to both as any others of his perswasion that he used all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy and conceal his name And altho he obtained these his desires in great part yet his calm temperate and rational discussion of some of the most weighty and momentous Controversies under debate between the Protestants and Romanists rendred him an Author much fam'd and very considerable in the esteem of both He hath written very many things some of which were published in his life time and some after his death all without his own name or initial letters of it set to them The Catalogue of most of them follow A brief account of ancient Church Government with a reflection on several moderne Writings of the Presbyterians The Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum Ministerii Anglicani published 1654 and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi and others touching this subject Lond. 1662 and 85 in four parts in a thin quart This book was generally reported to have been written by him yet a certain R. Catholick who was originally of Univ. Coll and much pretended to know all the Works that Mr. VVoodhead had written which he had with great zeal bought and collected for the honour he had to the author hath several times told me that he was not the author of that book but Obad. VValker The Guide in Controversies or a rational account of the doctrine of the Romane Catholicks concerning the ecclesiastical Guides in Controversies of Religion reflecting on the later Writings of Protestants particularly of Archb. Laud and Dr. Stillingfleet on this subject This book is divided into four discourses the two first of which were printed at London 1666. in qu. But before they could appear in publick they were burnt in the grand conflagration at London except a very few copies that were saved and vended abroad The other two discourses were published at London 1667 qu. and there again altogether with additions and some alterations an 1673. qu. In the composition of this book The Guide I have been credibly informed by several R. Catholicks that one Perkins a learned man of that perswasion did assist the author Part of the third discourse is refuted in a book intit A second discourse in vindication of the protestant grounds of faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Rom. Church in answer to The Guide in Controversies by R. H. and against Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion c both written by E. W. I say refuted by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Lond. 1673. oct Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith against some exceptions Printed 1674. qu. These Exercitations are in vindication of some part of the third discourse from what was said against it by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second discourse just before named An appendix to the four discourses concerning The Guide in Controversies Further shewing the necessity and infallibility thereof against some contrary Protestant Principles Printed 1675. qu. Some copies of this book have this title A discourse of the necessity of Church Guides for directingâ—Christians in necessary faith c. The second part of the Appendix printed with the former containeth Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleet's answer to N. O's considerations of his Principles These two parts contain an Answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in a piece of his called An answer to several late Treatises occasion'd by a book intit A discourse concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome c. hath said against our author Woodhead his book named Dr. Stillingfleets Principles c. considered which I am now about to set down Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants considered Paris 1671. oct This is answer'd in Dr. Stillingfleets first part named An answer to several late treatises c. before mention'd Considerations on the Councill of Trent being the fifth discourse concerning The Guide in controversies Printed 1671. qu. 'T is said that there is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of Church lands but Quaere The Roman Churches devotions vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations Printed 1672. oct The Rom. doctrine of repentance and indulgence vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets mis-representations Printed 1672. oct These three last books were published under the initial Letters of N. O. or O. N And the two last are briefly replyed upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to his first above named wherein having only touched on Seren. Cressy's piece entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. wrot against him saith these things of our author N. O. Woodhead compared with Ser. Cressy whose book he affirms to be rayling and the author mad is a meer pattern of meekness and that he writes pertinently without the others bitterness and passion And elsewhere in the same Preface he stiles him a moderate man An historical narration of the life and death of our Saviour Jes Christ in two parts Oxon. 1685 qu. Published by Obad. Walker and then said not to be of his composition but of his Tutor Ab. Woodhead Before it went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane the Kings Professor of Divinity who made some deletions and corrections in it yet afterwards they were put in again by Mr. Walker when it was in the Press Several exceptions were made against divers passages therein and great clammoring there was in the University against the book particularly by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. Coll yet on the 13 of Oct. the same year when Mr. Nath. Boys of Univ. Coll. was introduced into his late Majesties K. Jam. 2. presence he his Majesty was not then only pleased to commend him for his Sermon as being an ingenious and well pen'd discourse I mean that Sermon which he had preached in S. Maries Church on 26. Jul. going before being
the holy Feast of Easter c. Written 1665. Apotelesma or the nativity of the World and revolution thereof Short discourse of yeares months and dayes of yeares Somthing touching the nature of Ecclipses and also of their effects Of the Crises in diseases c. Of the mutations inclinations and eversions of Empires Kingdomes c. Discourse of the names Genus Species c. of all Comets Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus c. Secret multiplication of the effects of the Starrs from Cardan Sundry rules shewing by what Laws the weather is governed and how to discover the various alterations of the same He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man c. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct This is sometimes called Whartons Chiromancy Most of which foregoing treatises were collected together and publishd an 1683 in oct by John Gadbury born at Wheatley near to and in the County of Oxon 31. Dec. 1627 Son of Will. Gadb of that place farmer by his stoln Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight bound an Apprentice to Tho. Nicholls a Taylor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon left him after the great fire hapned in that City 1644 and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacks improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making and Fortune-telling for himself in which he became eminent Our author Wharton hath also written Select and choice poems Composed during the Civil War which I have before mention'd At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried on the 25 day of the same month in the Chappel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan Trought a Clothier was born in the City of Coventry educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1655 afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 being ejected to make room for one who had been expel'd by the Visitors in 1648 he retired to a mercate town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister where living a moderate Nonconformist read Academical learning to young men and somtimes preached in private whereby he got a comfortable subsistence Upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for the toleration of religion dat 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four Dr. Hen. Langley and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Div. being the other three who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet without the north gate in an house which had been built a little before the Civil War began by Tom. Pun alias Tho. Aires where each person endeavouring to shew his parts this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars who came among them meerly out of novelty held â—he best and was by them most applauded The truth is tho the man had been blind occasion'd by the small pox ever since he was four years old yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are but very moderate And altho he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices too frequently practiced by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable ministry by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosome of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable correspondence with some of the conformable Clergy because of his great knowledg and moderation He hath written and published Lutherus redivivus or the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only vindicated And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianisme part 1. Lond. 1677. oct This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness c. Lond. 1678. oct Luther Rediv. or the Protest doctr of justif by Christs righteousness imputed to believers explained and vindicated part 2. Lond. 1678. oct Letter to a Friend touching Gods providence about sinful actions in answer to a Letter intit The reconcilableness of Gods prescience c. and to a postcript of that Letter Lod. 1678. oct Popery the grand Apostasie Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess 2. from ver 1. to 12 on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K Kingdome and Protestant religion To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4 preached 5. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct An Apologie for the Nonconformists shewing their reasons both for their not conforming and for their preaching publickly tho forbidden by Law Lond. 1681. quart An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching Printed with the Apologie This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren situat and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 44 years whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned alias Burchester and buried in the Church there At which time Abrah James a blind man Master of the Free-school at Woodstock sometimes of Magd. Hall preaching his funeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct but to make several glances on the government established by law So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister a zealous man for the Church of England complaining to the Diocesan of him James was glad to retract what he had said before him to prevent an ejection from his School which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton I cannot without the guilt of concealment but let the Reader know this story of one of that name which is this While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a
be created D. D. but he came not to take it nor was he diplomated Nov. 10. John Earle sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll. Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. ..... Staunton of Ch. Ch. ..... Hodges of Ch. Ch. These two last were created the same day or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with and attended the Kings Court lodging now in that house I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament one of the Ass of Divines and a Covenantier After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill London and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an 1661 which Deanery he holding to the time of his death was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer an 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant 1 A Glimps of Gods glory Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast 28 Sept. 1642 on Psal 113.5.6 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The growth and spreading of Heresie Fast-serm before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1 Lond. 1647. qu 3 Inaccessible glory or the impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20 Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesties return Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire and Bach. of Divinity not of this University but of that of Cambridge and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll in the time of Oliver which he kept with his Rectory This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire first admitted into Emanuel Coll and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mention'd When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor viz. one Will. Twyne Fellow of the said Coll and then Hodges leaving the place he retired to Okingham in Berks and became Chaplain to the Hospital there where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688 as I have been informed from Soulderne The said Mr. Hodges hath written 1 A Treatise concerning Prayer containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. in tw 2 A Scripture Catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours of the present times Lond. 1658. oct Besides which two things he hath also several Sermons extant as 1 The hoary head crowned a fun serm on Prov. 16.31 2 The creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hands and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures c in two sermons printed twice at least 3 A cordial against the fear of death preached before the University of Oxon on Heb. 2.15 Oxon. 1659. qu. and one two or more which I have not yet seen This Thomas Hodges tho he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated or took any degree in Divinity Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the antient borough of Shrewsbury educated in the Kings School there transplanted thence to St. Johns Coll. in the said University where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty retired to Oxon to attend and preached sometimes before him there When his Majesties cause declined he suffered as other Royallists did attended his Son in his adverse fortune while he himself endured great misery After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex Finchingfield I think to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Marshall had instil'd into them In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland to which being consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year sate there for some time and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation Among several things that he hath extant are these 1 Eulogia The Parents blessing their Children and the Children begging on their knees their Parents blessings are pious actions warrantable by the word of God and practiced by Gods saints and servants Lond. 1661. c. oct 2 Eudoxia A module of private prayers or occasional helps in retired devotions Printed with the former book 3 Loyalty amongst Rebels the true Royallist c. Lond. 1662. oct ... Edmonds M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. ... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. Both which were actually created the same day Jan. 16. Christoph Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll. On the 24 of Dec. 1641 he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph Rogers who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament This person who was always esteem'd a good Greecian and well furnish'd with other parts of learning dyed about half a year before his Majesties return and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the Kings cause but his promotion to higher Dignities Will. O' dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers without any provocation given on his part between Adderbury in Oxfordshire of which place he was Vicar and the Garrison of Oxon about 1644. Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll. Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr. Jan. 16. Edw. Hyde of Cambr. The last of these four I take to be the same Edward Hyde who is mention'd in Alexander Hyde among the Bishops nu 34. ... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1637 as I have in the Fasti of that year told you So that if the said Fowler be the
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