liv'd to a fair age spent all in celebacy and had done much good he surrendred up his soul to God in Farnham Castle about three of the clock in the morn of the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was conveyed to Winchester and buried in a little vault in the body of the Cathedral there betwixt two pillars just opposite to those between which Bishop Will. Edendon was buried at the foot of the steps ascending to the Choire on the north side Soon after was an altar-tombe erected over his body and the inscription put thereon which he the said Dr. Morley had made for himself in the eightieth year of his age The contents of which being too large for this place shall be now omitted and especially for this reason because there is nothing in it but what is mention'd before in his life BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE the Son of a Minister of Gods word by his Wife the Daughter of that noted Puritan called Rob. Parker author of the four books De descensu Christi ad inferos was born near Highworth in Wilts became either Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1638 aged 16 years where he continued for some time under the tuition of Will. Eyre But before the time came that he could be adorned with a degree the times changed and the Civil War thereupon began So that he removing to New England he answer'd in the University of Cambridge there several positions which were about that time printed for the taking the degree of Master of Arts. After his return thence he retired to Oxon and as a member of Magd. Hall he was admitted to the same degree an 1648 being about that time a Minister in Salisbury Afterwards setling at Newbury in Berks. where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian perswasion he was constituted one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom that party and the Independents then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he became one of his Chaplains and a Canonry of Windsore was offer'd to him but he bogling long with himself whether he should take that Dignity or not it was at length bestowed on a Son of the Ch. of England Soon after he being silenc'd by vertue of the act of conformity for he seemed then to hate a surplice and the Common-prayer he preached in private to the Brethren but being often disturbed and imprison'd once or twice he at length by the perswasion of some of his friends took holy Orders from the hands of Dr. Earl Bishop of Salisbury in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon in Octob. 1665 with a resolution to be conformable to the Church of England But finding not preferment sutable to his desire to be confer'd upon him and a grand neglect and scorn of the Brethren he return'd to his former opinion which some then call'd his rags and preached several times in Conventicles to the great disturbance of the government the peace of Newbury and the neighbourhood When the Proclamation for toleration or indulgence of Religion was issued out 15 of March 1671 he became so audacious that he did not only preach publickly in the Market place there to the Brethren but disturbed or caused to be disturbed the good people in their going to Church Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot an 1678 when then the Fanaticks took all advantages to promote their respective interests he did then appear more publick again to the disturbance of the peace preached every Sunday in a Conventicle at Highcleere in Hampshire and generally once in a week at Newbury before mention'd which is not far off that place At length upon the breaking out of the Presbyterian Plot in June 1683 he sculk'd and retired to Inglefield in Berks where as I have been informed he constantly if his health permitted him frequented the publick service of the Church of England and Sermons in the Church there to the time of his death He hath written Justification by faith or a confutation of that Antinomian errour that justification is before faith c. Lond. 1652. qu. 'T is the sum of a Sermon preached at Salisbury and is contained in 3. or 4. sh of paper It must be now known that one Tho. Warren Parson of Houghton in Hampshire preached at a Wednesdays Lecture in Salisbury in April 1651 and therein letting fall several passages which Will. Eyre a Minister in that City then present conceived to be very wide from the Orthodox faith did desire a conference with him after its conclusion Which being accordingly held with him they parted without any satisfaction to each other The next day Eyre preached in the same place and maintained what he had disputed upon the day before Whereupon our author Woodbridge being much concern'd at the matter for he was present at all these transactions took Warrens part preached the next Wednesday following on the same Subject that Warren had done before Afterwards he and Eyre at a conference about the matter in the publick meeting place after Sermon made it a publick quarrel and defied each other So that Woodbridge being much concern'd at it he published the aforesaid Sermon and entituled it Justification by faith c. in the body of which is contained the contents of the disputation with him by VV. Eyre before mention'd The famous Rich. Baxter saith that the sight of the said Sermon of Mr. VVoodbridge of so much worth in so narrow room did cause him to bless God that the Church had such a man and especially Newbury who had so excellently learned a pastor before meaning Dr. Twysse who had mistaken so much in this very point Also that the said Sermon is one of the best easiest and cheapest preservatives against the contagion of this part of Antinomianisme as any c. But by the way I must tell the Reader that as the said Mr. Baxter was enclining to Arminianisme so our author VVoodbridge was in some points who hath farther written The method of grace in the justification of sinners against Mr. Eyre his Vindiciae Justificationis gratuitae c. Lond. 1656. qu. The Apostolick Protestant doctrine of justification by faith asserted Printed with The method of Grace c. Church members set in joynt or a discovery of the unwarrantable and disorderly practice of private Christians in usurping the peculiar office and work of Christs own Pastors viz. publick preaching c. Lond. 1656. 57. qu. He also preached an excellent Sermon before K. Ch. 2. while he was his Chapl. on Acts 17.11 but whether printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that he published Moses and Aaron or the rights of the Church and State containing two disputations c. pen'd by James Noyes somtimes of Newbury in New England Lond. 1661. At length this Mr. VVoodbridge who was
then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsore castle then under the command of Collonel John Venn In which office he shewed him so violent against the King and his cause that he was usually stiled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsore This Venn by the way it must be known did while Governour of that Castle exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there but being dismist of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place he retired to London carried on the cause there with great zeal was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber as some say others that he died suddenly in his bed on the 7 of July at night or early next morning an 1650. In the year 1644 when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them on the first day of their meeting Jan. 30 being the Market-day In which his Sermon full of dire he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesties Person and derogatory to his honour stirring up the People against the Treatie and incensing them against the Kings Commissioners telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood and that there was as great distance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell or words to that effect with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster who thereupon tho they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love yet they did confine him and where should it be but to that very house where his Mistress then lived whom for two years going before he had wooed with prayers sermons and ugly faces After this he was made Minister of S. Anns Church near to Aldersgate a Recruiter of the Assemb of Divines and at length Minister of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it which was upon this account After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them and to that end corresponded with him and supplied him and his with money contrary to an Act of Parliament then lately made in that case provided These matters being discovered our Author Love Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Will. Jenkyns and other London Ministers as also one Dr. Roger Drake a Physician as it seems were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651 as being the chief Actors in the said treason as they then called it Soon after it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster that Mr. Love the Minister then Prisoner in the Tower should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651 not for any matter of doctrine as it was then given out but for high treason as they said and conspiracy against the common-wealth of England He and the rest as the Independent then said had outstript the Jesuit both in practice and project as having not only tamper'd with mens consciences in private beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial and one Jackson a Minister Arth. Jackson as it seems refusing then to give in evidence against him was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again and as 't was then said by his enemies in his carriage and behaviour he discover'd as much ridiculous impudence equivocation and hypocrisie as ever any Person did upon the like occasion adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June he appeared again and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale Mr. John Archer and Mr. Tho. Walter but the two last having not taken the Engagement were not suffer'd to plead for him At which time Mr. Love as the Independent said was full of malepert carriage matchless impudence obstinacy and impatiency On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf viz. one from divers Ministers another from himself and a third from his Wife he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following and thence to the 22. of the same month What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession you shall have it from his own mouth which he spoke When he was tried for his life thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilst I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to this day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King I gave my all and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war but unless my books and wearing apparrel I contributed all I had in the world and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away yet for all that I repent not of what I have done I have in my measure ventured my all in the same quarrel that you were engaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another I die cleaving to all those Oathes Vowes Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my judgment for them to the protestation the vow and the covenant the solemn league and covenant And this I tell you all that I had rather die a Covenant keeper than live a Covenant breaker c. As for his writings and works they are these The debauched Cavilier or
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
what he had done and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire On Ap. 10. an 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne W. Prynne and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford By the first because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College By the second because he had furnished the Lords of the Council with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears c. and by the last because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle to the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service In the year 1642 leaving his Preb. of Westminster and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come he followed the King to Oxon where having little to live upon did by the Kings command write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus which had been begun by John Birkenhead who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries far more than Heylyn In the beginning of the year following 1643 he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm because of his retirement to the King and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate and seize upon his Goods Which Order being put in execution his incomparable Libâ—ary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth In 1644 hâ—s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded his hopes of rising higher in the Church were totally blasted So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate he stuck to his temporal for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall and to the earning of money by writing books In 1645 he left Oxon and shifted from place to place like the old travels of the Patriarchs and in pity to his necessity some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies he left them in a disguise and being entertained by several Loyalists removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647 where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books the publishing of which especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio was a great relief to him Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court which being but five miles from Oxon he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure either from Shops the Libraries of acquaintance there particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll. or by his repair to Bodlies Library and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England and the true genuine sense thereof Afterwards he suffer'd in his Estate by Decimation which trick being brought up by Oliver while Protector many Families thereby especially such that had before compounded were thereby undone In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his spiritualities but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster which was a wonder to many and a great discontent to him and his but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther He was a Person endowed with singular gifts of a sharp and pregnant wit solid and clear judgment In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet but very conceited and pragmatical in his elder a better Historian a noted Preacher and a ready or extemporanean Speaker He had a tenacious memory to a miracle whereunto he added an incredible patience in study in which he persisted when his Eye-sight failed him He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes tho of very mean port and presence and therefore by some of them he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative either in their afflicted or prosperous estate a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks a despiser of envy and in mind not at all discouraged He writ many books upon various Subjects containing in them many things that are not vulgar either for stile or argument and wrot also History pleasant enough but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme His works which are very many are these Spurius a Tragedie Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed Theomachia a Com. Made in the year 1618 but not printed Microcosmus A description of the great World Oxon. 1622. 24 c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio entit Cosmography in four books Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand 1651 for after it was finished his eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church and opposition of the present Lond. 1631. and 33. qu. The institution of the most noble Order of S. George named the Garter Printed with the former Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging Printed also with the Hist of St. George 1631. and 33. In which last edition is at the end A review of the whole work consisting of additions and emendations On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day the Author of the said History and its adjuncts was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London a great incourager of learning and industry to his Majesty being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall to whom he did present them Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book he did graciously accept of it and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster and was used by
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
by his wife daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire Esq younger brother to John Lord Harrington sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. by Lucie his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sydney Kt. son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Rogers before mention'd whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit c. as 't is before told you his Christian name was John a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist living in Aldersgatestreet in London and the title of his book which was answered runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busie pragmatical man and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands and then to leave them with scorn He with Christop Feake as impudent and forward as himself were the Coryphaei of their party as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure Oliver caused them to be imprison'd at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark After they had remained there for some time Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address which he himself had drawn up to the said Oliver for his enlargment Whereupon on the 7 of Feb. the same year Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall who told him what a high charge there was against him and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ but suffered as a busie body and an evil-doer c. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself it was with his Highness his consent granted Whereupon in the evening of the said day Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness's presence where being told of an high charge exhibited against him Rogers charged them that brought it in to be Drunkards and Swearers The Protector asked him which of them was so that brought it in but he could name none of them that he knew The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings He said the Scripture was positive and privative And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mention'd that God destroyed he would parallel to this present State he gave no positive but privitive answer Whereupon the Protector shewed what a disproportion there was those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God but his work speaking of himself was to preserve them from destroying one another and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians they would force all to their way and they the Fifth Monarchy men would do the like and so the re-baptized persons also And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgments in peace c. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church mention'd to be antichristian the Protector told him that it was not so for that was to force all to one form that was national which was then done as he said in this Commonwealth c. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him Feake and others or to try them The Protector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of mercy because if they were tried the Law would take away their lives So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue On the 30 of March 1655 Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle whereupon the next day he was carried there and his wife rode after him RICHARD ATKYNS whose birth was neither glorious nor contemtible as having been descended from Gentry on his fathers side and Nobility on that of his mother His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq at which place this our author as I conceive was born chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeths Council of the Marches of Wales and brother to Sir Edward Atkyns of Lincolns Inn one of the Barons of the Exchecquer His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks Baronet by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau and heir of Will Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire descended from the Bray's Barons After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters he was sent to the College School at Glocester where being compleated for the University he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll an 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner studying the Zegardines Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus Thence he went to Lincolns Inn and soon after travelled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture but that son dying there before they went farther he returned improv'd himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier and then married which towards his latte◠end proved his ruin Afterwards upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King and did him good service for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate After his Majesties restauration he was made being then a Colonel one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire where and in that capacity he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions but an affectionate son of the Church of England He was an ingenious and observing man and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others tho of elder years which fitted him the better for another He hath written and published The original and growth of Printing c. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh in qu. His Vindication Lond. 1669. qu. Relation of several passages in the western War of England wherein he was concerned Sighs and Ejaculations These two last were printed with the Vindication At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and two days after was buried without any publick solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr within the said Borough of Southwark by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Edw. Atkyns Esq afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer both nearly related to the defunct WILLIAM LUCY descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire was
Apostles by their most macerated bodies and countenances and were indeed in that respect pitied by many comforted and bless'd by true Hearts as they passed the streets After his Majesties restauration he did not read the English Liturgy in his Church in Covent garden neither did the Parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another till the latter end of 1661 at which time they petitioned the Bishop of London to have it read unto them In the interim this fat Doctor had a fat Deanery design'd him by his Majesty upon a supposal that he would conform and 't was verily thought that he would have taken it as Reynolds had the Bishoprick of Norwych could he have been ascertain'd that the Kings declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs published at his restauration would have indulged him while he was a Dean as then while he was a parochial Minister or as 't is said had not a female Saint who had read many of his books and wrot much of his Sermons extracted from them every sentence that made for the Covenant for the government by presbytery for the honor of Smectymnus or that made against the Bishops and Liturgy of the Church all put in a Letter and sent by her to him Which of these two was the reason I am not certain Sure it is that while these things were agitating and after he had taken a great deal of pains as a commission'd person by his Majesty in the Savoy conference about the Liturgy the Act of uniformity was published and rather than he would conform he not only refused the Deanery but left his rectory at Barthelmew day an 1662. Afterwards he did set up a Conventicle in Covent-garden and tho imprison'd for it for some time in the Gate-house yet as 't was thought he got more from the Brethren than if he had been a Dean or had continued in his rectory His works are these Many Sermons as 1 Meat out of the Eater or hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times Fast sermon before the House of Commons 30. June 1647 on Zech. 14.9 latter part Lond. 1647 qu. 2 Englands spiritual languishing with the causes and cure Fast serm before the H. of Com. 28. June 1648 on Rev. 2.3 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord on Rev. 14 13. 4 Sermon before the L. Protector and Parl. on a publick day of humiliation 24. Sept. 1656. on Amos 4.12 5 The Saints triumph over death Fun serm on Ch. Love 25. Aug. 1651. on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1658 oct 6 Sermon on Matth. 15.7.8 Printed in the book called The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Farewel sermon at Barthelmew-tyde on Heb. 12.2 Lond. 1662. oct This sermon tho put out under his name yet it was disclaimed by him under his hand in the common News of Sept. 24. an 1663. published by Roger L'estrange 8 How we ought to improve baptisme on Acts 2.38 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 9 Serm. on 2. Thes 2.15 Published in the Morning exercise against popery in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 10 Serm. on Rom. 5.12 Published in The morning exercise methodized c. Lond. 1676. qu. 11 Twenty sermons on the Psalms Acts c. Lond. 1678. qu. with his picture before them published by Dr. Will. Bates 12 Eighteen sermons on the second Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Thess containing the description use growth and fall of Antichrist c. Lond. 1679 oct 13 Sermons on the 119 Psal Lond. 1681. fol. They are in number 190 and have his picture before them This is called The first vol. of Sermons 14 A second Volume of sermons in two parts The first containing 27 sermons on the 25 of S. Matthew forty and five on the 17 of S. John and twenty and four on the sixth to the Romans The second part containing 45 sermons on the eighth to the Romans and 40 on the fifth Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Corinthians c. Lond. 1684. 85. fol. 15 The third Vol. of sermons in two parts The first containing sixty six sermons on the eleventh Chapt. to the Hebrews To which is annex'd A Treatise of the life of faith The second part contains A Treatise of self denial with several sermons on the sacrament of the Lords Supper and other occasions c. Lond. 1689. fol. Besides these there is now May 1691 prepared for the press a fourth Vol. in fol. of select sermons on several Texts A practical commentary or exposition on the Epistle of S. James Lond. 1651. 53. qu. Exposition on the Epistle of S. Jude Lond. 1652. qu. Smectymnus redivivus being an answer to a book entit An humble remonstrance c. Lond. 1653. 60. 61. This book called Smectymnus was written as I have elsewhere told you by Steph. Marshall Edm. Calamy Thom. Young Matth. Newcommen and Will. Spurstow and first of all published in 1641 being the year after the said Humble remonstrance was published Practical exposition of the Lords Prayer Lond. 1684. oct with his picture before it He also made some additions to the second edition of The life and death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of Exeter written by Ferdinando Nicolls Minister of S. Mary Arches in Exeter Lond. 1655. in tw Also an Epistle commendatory before A Commendatory or Exposition on the second Epist to the Corinth Lond. 1655. fol. Written by Dr. Rich. Sibbs was one of the three that collected and published Thirty and one select sermons written by Will. Strong and wrot the Epistle to the reader before the second edit of The larger and lesser Catechismes of the Assemb of Div. Lond. 1658. qu. with several other little things of the like stamp He paid his last debt to nature after he had ran through many changes on the 18. of Oct. S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was accompanied to his grave in the Church at Stoke-Newington near London before-mention'd by hundreds of the brethren At which time Dr. Will. Bates one of his perswasion the same who also had been offered a Deanery with our author if he would conform preached his funeral Sermon Which being published the Reader if curious may see therein the character and encomiums of him the said Dr. Manton JOHN PARRY son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland was born in the City of Dublin educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650 was incorporated there in the same degree and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesties restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquess afterwards Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm took the degree of Bach. of Div. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660 and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time was incorporated in
Oliver the Protector which with the Academy there being soon after dissolved he retired to Westbury and continued at that place till 1662 at which time being ejected for Nonconformity held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived He hath written A treatise of Monarchy containing two parts 1. Concerning Monarchy in general 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer'd by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct This Sir Robert by the way must be known was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq and was as I conceive educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our author Hunton hath also written A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles was reprinted when the Press was open in 1680 when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch as 't is said therein that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation held 21. July 1683 and the book it self wherein it is was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle Afterwards as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England at which time the Nation was in a hurry it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it Under our authors name goes also a book entit Jus Regum c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen and therefore I can say nothing of it Nor no more of the author who was a man of parts only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture which maintained him and kept up his port THOMAS JONES son of John Williams was born and brought up in juvenile learning at Oswestrie in Shropshire entred into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion left it soon after returned when Oxford garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parl an 1646 became fellow of Univ. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament in 1648 to whom he then submitted and acknowledg'd the use of the Covenant and in the year following he took a degree in Arts being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause In 1652 he being then Master of his faculty he wrot Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654 he took holy orders as 't is said from a Bishop About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc of S. Asaph and learned the Welsh tongue purposely to serve those parts when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation From that place being ejected upon one Wynns's discovery of a dormant title he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle an 1661 and thence to be domestick and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York in 1663 In whose service continuing till 1666 or after was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function dismiss'd thence So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc of Bangor which he some time before had obtained found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan being as our author saith set on by the B. of Winchester In 1670 Winchester call'd him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestred for the payment of it Which fine Winchester offer'd to remit wholly if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness But when he would not the sequestration continued and 20 l. of it was sent to our author and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor and the rest for other pious uses About the same time he was condemn'd and censur'd ab officio beneficio by his Diocesan occasioned by some controversie that hapned between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog the particulars of which you may read at large elsewhere So that being in a manner undone did much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot publish Of the heart and its right Soveraigne and Rome no Mother-Church to England Or an historical account of the title of an English Church and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County Lond. 1678 oct A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above in the great question where is the true Mother Church of Christians Printed with the former book At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue Steph. Colledge c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot he wrote and published Elymas the Sorcerer or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottome of this Popish Plot c. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion Lond. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester grounded upon a passage in The Historie of Calvinisme written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh a French Jesuit wherein he resolves the Dutchess of Yorks declaration for Popery into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand tho he nameth him not to be Winchester Notice of this book therefore comming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publickly burnt and the author to the further punished But before he could compass his design the author died However Winchester that he might not sit silent published his own vindication as to M. Maimburghs words in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this
to a friend Printed in qu. He had a chief hand also in Celeusma which I shall anon mention and wrot other things He died in the Prison called Newgate in Lond. on the 19 of January 1684 at which time were 80 Dissenters or more then and there remaining and on the 24 of the same month his corps being attended by at least 150 Coaches was inter'd in the burying place called by some the Phanatical and by others Tyndales Burying place joyning on the north side to the New Artillery Garden or Yard near London Soon after was printed and published An Elegy on that reverend and learned Minister of the Gospel Mr. Will. Jenkyns who finished his Testimony c. A comment on which with many things concerning Mr. Jenkyns himself you may see in the 2 vol. of The Observator num 209.210 written by Rog. L'estrange Esq wherein also you 'll find his Petition to the Supreme Authority the Parliam of the Commonwealth of England for the pardon of his life and estate for being engaged in the Plot before mention'd in which Petition being asserted by him that Possession and strength give a right to govern and success in a cause or enterprise proclaims it to be lawful and just c. it was by the decree and judgment of the Univ. of Oxon past in their Convocation 21 July 1683 burnt with certain books in the School Quadrangle as destructive to the sacred person of Princes their state and government c. Our author Dr. Durell hath also written against the aforesaid two Apologies a book intit Sanctae Ecclesiae Anglicanae adversus iniquas atque inverecundas schismaticorum criminationes Vindiciae c. Lond. 1669. qu. In which Vindiciae the author doth only by the by sometimes take notice of the former or first Apologist as thinking him unworthy of any larger confutation but the other Hickman he answers more fully and designedly in his citations following his second edition As for the character given of the said Vindiciae hear what Mathew Scrivner saith in the place before cited in relation to his answer to Hen. Hickman Justo volumine contemptissimi istius capitis veternos nuper obtrivit Durellus fecitque vanissimum autorem inter pueros immodestiae amicitiae suae infelicissimum deplorare exitum And what Lew. du Moulin delivers of it is that it is more offensive to the Puritans than the other book intit A view of the Government c. And therefore against it came out soon after a small piece intit Bonasus vapulans or some Castigations given to Mr. Joh. Durell for fowling himself and others in his English and Lat. book Lond. 1672. in a small oct said to be written by a Country Scholar yet generally believed to have been pen'd by Hickman before mentioned Which book with some additions and alterations came out again with this new title The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by Mr. Durell and Mr. Scrivner Lond. 1679. oct Of which edition and notorious falsities expressed in the title I shall give you an account when I come to H. Hickman Dr. L. du Moulin published also another book against it without his name set to it bearing this title Patronus bonae fidei in causa Puritanorum contra Hierarchas Anglos ut disceptatur in specimene confutationis Vindiciarum clariss viri Joh. Durelli cujus periculum fit cum passim in ejus opere tum Maxime in capite primo in quo agitur de authoribus nuperorum motuum in Anglia Lond. 1672. oct This book hath five distinct running titles all differently paged to the end that the sheets so printed might the better by that means escape the Searchers of the Press The titles are 1. Epistola 2 Specimen 3. Prodromus 4. Defensor and 5. Patronus c. This Patronus bonae fidei tho fraught with scurrilities and the utmost malice and bitterness in which the author whose excellency laid in ill natur'd Satyr could possibly express himself against the Ch. of England and some of her most eminent as well dead as living Propugners yet it is cited more than once as a piece of notable authority in Will Jenkyns's Celeusma seu clamor ad caelum c. Lond. 1677. qu. In which book when the author refers you to the said Patronus bonae fidei the Writer thereof Moulin is characterized as doctissimus clariss and eruditiss possibly as we may justly conceive for his performance in that work Nay 't is not only quoted as a very authentick piece by the said Jenkyns but is cited by Dr. Tho. Godden the great and eminent Rom. Cath. Writer against the Church of England in his Dialogues wrot in defence of Catholicks no Idolaters against Dr. Stillingfleet as a Treatise to be credited in its account of some practices and usuages in the Ch. of England but chiefly of bowing towards the Altar To which citation from Du Moulin Dr. Stillingfleet replies in his book intit Several Conferences between a Romish Priest a fanatic Chaplain and a Divine of the Ch. of England being a full answer to the late Dialogues of T. G. In the pages here quoted in the margin you 'll find an account of the great Knight-service which L. du Moulin did for the Papists and what wonderful good use they made of him besides the sharp character given of his performance in Patronus bonae fidei which I presume could not be over pleasing to that proud and haughty French-man A farther account of him and his Writings is in Dr. Rob. Grove his Defensio suae responsionis ad nuperum libellum qui inscribitur Celeusma c. adversus reputationem ab authore Celeusmatis editum but more particularly from the said Groves former piece called Responsio ad Celeusma c. In the 15 page of this last mention'd book you have this close and smart character of some of this French Doctors most considerable performances thus Erat aliquando tempus cum tu excusatius peccares cum esses olim Irenaeus Philadelphus an 1641 qui à te laesi erant temeritati tuae veniam dabant cum Paraenesin scriberes an 1656 te opus viribus tuis majus aggredi putabant cum Causae jugulum peteres anno 1671 delirare credebant cum Bonae fidei Patronum ederes 1672 insanire videberis nunc autem postquam Ecclesiae Anglicanae progressus ad Papismum emisisti omnes te jam furore arbitrantur c. Altho these Vindiciae of Dr. Durell are well known to be written in good Latin yet Dr. Du Moulin makes such a boasting fulsome comparison between the goodness of Dr. Durell's stile in this book and that of his own in his Patr. bon fidei c. by a strange kind of modesty giving himself the preeminence in such unbecoming extravagant Language that Mr. Mat. Scrivener could not but take particular notice of and reflect on this notable piece of self flattery among other passages
May 14. Jacob. Sartreus Mast of Arts of the Univ. of Puy-Laurence in Languedock He is now Prebendary of Westminster in which Dignity he succeeded if I mistake not Dr. George Stradling 21. Henry Dodwell M. of Arts of the Univ. of Dublin who had been generously elected by the University of Oxford Camden's Professor of History in his absence and without his privity after the death of Dr. Joh. Lamphire on the 2 Apr. this year was then May 21. incorporated in the same degree This learned person who was the Son of Will. Dodwell of Ireland Son of Hen. Dodwell of the City of Oxon Son of William supposed to be Brother to Alderman Hen. Dodwell Mayor of the said City in the 34. of Q. Eliz. dom 1592 was born in the Parish of S. Warburgh commonly called S. Warborough within the City of Dublin in the beginning of the grand rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom in Octob. 1641 educated in Grammar learning under Christopher Wallis in the Free-school situated in the Bederew within the City of York from 1649 to 1654 and afterwards for a years time in Dublin entred a Student in Trin. Coll. there an 1656 and when Bach. of Arts was made Fellow thereof After he had proceeded in that faculty he left his Fellowship to avoid entring into holy Orders and in 1666 I find him a Sojournour in Oxon purposely to advance himself in learning by the use of the publick Library Thence he return'd to his native Country for a time and published a posthumous book ent De obstinatione Opus posth pietatem Christiano-stoicam Scholastico more suadens Dubl 1672 oct Before which book written by his sometimes Tutor named Joh. Stearne M. D. and publ Professor in the University of Dublin Mr. Dodwell put of his own composition Prolegomena Apolegetica de usu Dogmatum Philosophicorum c. In the beginning of this book is Dr. Stearne's Epitaph without date insculp'd on a marble on the north side of the Altar in Trin. Coll. Chappel near Dublin part of which is this Philosophus Medicus summusque Theologus idem Sternius hic c. Afterwards Mr. Dodwell returned into England spent his time there in divers places in a most studious and retired condition and wrot and published these books following 1 Two letters of advice 1. For the susception of holy orders 2. For studies Theological c. Printed at Dubl first and afterwards twice at Lond. in oct At the end of the first letter is added A Catalogue of Christian Writers and genuine works that are extant of the first three Centuries And to both in the 2d and 3d edit is added A discourse concerning Sanchoniathans Phoenician History 2 Considerations of present concern how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Communion Lond. in oct 3 Two short discourses against the Romanists 1. An account of the fundamental principles of Popery and of the insufficiency of the proofs which they have for it 2. An answer to 6 Queries proposed to a Gentlewoman of the Ch. of England by an Emissary of the Church of Rome Lond. 1676. oct To another edition of this which came out at Lond. in 1689 in qu. was added by the author A preface relating to the Bishop of Meaux and other modern complaints of misrepresentation 4 Separation of Churches from Episcopal government as practiced by the present Non-conformists proved Schismatical from such principles as are least controverted and do withal most popularly explain the sinfulness and mischief of Schisme Lond. 1679. qu. In this Treatise the sin against the Holy Ghost the sin unto death and other difficult Scriptures are occasionally discoursed of and some useful rules are given for explication of Scripture 5 A reply to Mr. Baxters pretended confutation of a book entit Separation of Churches from Episcopal government c. Lond. 1681. oct To which are added Three Letters written to him in the year 1673 Concerning the possibility of discipline under a diocesan government which tho relating to the subject of most of his late books have never yet been answered 6 A discourse concerning the one Altar and the one Priesthood insisted on by the Ancients in their disputes against Schisme c. Being a just account concerning the true nature and principles of Schisme according to the Ancients Lond. 1682. 3. oct 7 Dissertationes Cypriniacâ—e There were two editions of these viz. one in fol. at the end of S. Cyprians works published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxon an 1682 and another in oct printed in Sheldons Theater 1684 purposely for the sake of such Scholars who could not spare money to buy those in fol. which were to go and were always bound with S. Cyprians works before mention'd 8 Dissertatio de Ripa Striga ad Lanctant de morte Persecutorum Printed at the end of Lanctantius Firm. his works with commentaries on them made by Thomas Spark M. A. of Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1684. oct 9 De jure Laicorum sacerdotali c. This book which is written against Hug. Grotius was printed at Lond. in oct at the end of a piece of that author entit De Caenae administratione ubi Pastores non sunt c. Much about which time was published Antidodwellisme being two curious tracts formerly written by Hug. Grotius concerning a solution of these two questions 1. Whether the Eucharist may be administred in the absence of or want of Pastors c. Made English by one who calls himself Philaratus 10 Additiones dissertatio singularis in the Opera posthuma chronologica of the famous Dr. Jo Pearson sometimes Bish of Chester Lond. 1687-8 in qu. 11 Dissertationes in Irenaeum Oxon. è Theat Sheldon 1689. oct To which is added a Fragment of Phil. Sideta de Catechistatum Alexandrinorum successione with notes Besides these books the author now in the prime of his years designs others which in good time may be made extant for the benefit of the Church of Engl. for which he hath a zealous respect and commonwealth of learning His universal knowledge and profound judgment in all sciences and books has rendred him famous amongst all the learned men of France and Italy and the great sanctity and severity of his life has gain'd him a veneration very peculiar and distinguishing among all sorts of people His greatest study has been to assert the honour and interest of religion and the Clergy and his writings in defence of the Church of England against Papists and Presbyterians have been esteemed perfect pieces in their kind But notwithstanding all this the Reader may be pleased to know that whereas he suffered much in his Estate in his native Country for not coming in and taking part with the Forces of K. Jam. 2 when they endeavoured to keep possession of Ireland against K. Will. 3. and his Forces an 1689 c. for which he was proclaimed Rebel Or had he been there as he was not they would have imprison'd him if not worse so soon after did
accounted among the Brethren a learned and mighty man and had brought upon himself a very ill habit of body by his too too much agitation for the cause gave up the Ghost at Inglefield before mention'd on the first day of November in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being attended by multitudes of Dissenters to Newbury was buried in the Church there on the fourth day of the same month As for Tho. VVarren before mention'd he also wrot against Mr. Eyre in a book entit Unbelievers no subjects of justification nor mystical union vindicated against Mr. Eyre's objections in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae with a refutation of that antifidean and antievangelical error asserted therein viz. The justification of a sinner before or without faith Printed in qu. He hath also two or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things JOHN DALE son of Anth. Dale of Gilfield in Yorkshire was born there or in that County became a Student in Qu. Coll. an 1634 aged 15 years or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was elected into a Yorkshire Fellowship of Magd. Coll. In 1648 he submitted to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament and in the year after he became Bach of Divinity and kept pace with the men then and afterwards in power that is with Presbyterians and Independents About the time of his Majesties restauration he was presented by the President and Fellows of his Coll. to the rectory of Stanlake in Oxfordshire and soon after upon an exchange for another in Yorkshire was inducted into the rectory of Longworth in Berks near Stanlake but deprived of it soon after for Simony He hath written and published The Analysis of all the Epistles of the New Testament c. Oxon. 1652. oct and had written another book as I have heard fit for the press but was never printed He died at Stanlake before mention'd on the 14 day of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was 3 days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after the Pres and Fell. of the said Coll. presented to the said rectory of Stanlake one of their society named Thomas Smith D. D who keeping it not long surrendred it up to the College SETH BUSHELL son of Adam Bushell was born at Kuerdin in the Parish of Leyland near Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in 1639 continued there till about the time that the Univ. and City of Oxon were garrison'd for the King and then retired to his own Country In 1654 he returned for a time and took both the degrees in Arts in that year being then as it seems Minister of VVhitley in Yorks and in 1665 he took the degree of Bach. of Div. at which time he was Minister of Euxton in his own County Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became Vicar of Preston and in the three last years of his life Vicar of Lancaster where he finished his course He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A warning piece for the unruly in two Serm. on 1. Thes 5.14 at the metrapolitical Visitation of the most rev Fath. in God Richard L. Archb. of York held at Preston in Lanc. and there preached Lond. 1673. qu. 2 The Believers groan for Heaven preached at the funeral of the right honorable Sir R. Houghton of Houghton Baronet at Preston in Amoundernes on 2. Cor. 5.2 Lond. 1678. qu. And another preached on the 25. day of the first month an 1658. which George Fox Quaker answers in his book entit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. Cosmo-meros The worldly portion or the best portion of the wicked and their misery in the enjoyment of it opened and applied Lond. 1682 in tw It is the substance of several Sermons under some abridgments on Luke 16.25 Directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion enforc'd with many useful and divine considerations Printed with Cosmo-meros c. At length giving up the Ghost at Lancaster in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there and soon after had this Epitaph put over his grave P. S. Exuvias en hic deposuit Seth Bushell SS Th. Pr. Deo Ecclesiae Anglicanae reformatae usquam devotissimus utrique Carolo angugustissimis temporibus piè fidelissimus familiae suae quibusque notus fuerat meritò charissimus postquam hanc suam ecclesiam vitâ inculpabili assiduis concionibus per triennium faeliciter rexisset quo tempore inter alia pietatis specimina Parochi domum modò corruituram instauravit auxit Immortalitati verò natus coelâ—que maturus spe resurrectionis terris valedixit anno salutis 1684 aetatis 63. die Novemb. sexto NICHOLAS LOCKYER son of VVill. Lock of Glastenbury in Somersetshire was born in that County entred either Batler or Commoner of New Inn in 1629 aged 17 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether that of Master it appears not And about the same time entring into holy Orders according to the Church of England had some Cure conferr'd on him but upon the change of the times occasion'd by the iniquity of the Presbyterians he closed with preached frequently among them took the Covenant and afterwards preaching among the Independents he took the Engagement On the 10 of Dec. 1653 he was one of the Independent Ministers that were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for the ejecting and setling of Ministers according to the rules then prescribed but that project taking not effect he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Oliver in the latter end of the said year for the approbation of publick Preachers In June 1654 he being then Fellow of Eaton Coll in great favour with Oliver to whom he was Chaplain and entrusted in several Commissions the then Delegates of the University ordered that he the said Mr. Lockyer sometimes of New Inn and Master of Arts of 12 years standing might have the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd on him but whether he was admitted to that degree or was ever Master of Arts of this University it appears not as it is told you before In the latter end of 1658 he became Provost of Eaton Coll in the place of Franc. Rouse deceased was deprived of it at his Majesties restauration and two years after when the act of Conformity was published he lost an Ecclesiastical Benefice So that carrying on the trade of conventicling and plotting he was shrewdly suspected with Ph. Nye to have had a hand in that stupendious Tragedy intended to be acted by the satanical saints on the King royal Family Court and Loyal party in Nov. 1662 for which George Phillips Tho. Tongue c. suffered death He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 28 Oct. 1646. on Isa 53.10 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Fast Serm. bef the H.