Afterwards being invited by the people of Toxteth to take upon him the ministry there he returned into his own Country and preached the first Sermon among them on the 30. of Nov. following and about that time married Catherine daughter of Edward Holt of Bury in Lancashire For 15 years or more he preached every Sunday at Toxteth and on Tuesdays at Prescot and was much frequented at both places by the precise party But so it was that he being a severe Calvinist and little or no friend to the Church of England he was suspended for nonconformity to ceremonies an 1633 but quickly restored and soon after was suspended again by the Visitors when they visited Chester Diocess In 1635 he with his family left Lancashire and removed to New England where putting in at Boston in Aug. the same year the People of Dorchester in that County gave him a call to be their Minister Whereupon setling at that place he continued among them in the labourious work of the Gospel to his dying day He hath written Answer to 32 Questions Lond. 1643. qu. Discourse about the Church Covenant Lond. 1643. qu. These two things pass under the name of the Elders of New England but Mather was the author of them Answer to Mr. Charl. Herle and to Mr. Sam. Rutherford wherein is defended the congregational way of Church Government and how it differs from the Presbyterian Lond. 1646. qu. An heart-melting exhortation together with a cordial consolation presented in a letter from New England to his dear Country-men of Lancashire c. Lond. 1650. in tw Tho the name of Will. Tomson a Lancashire man born and Pastor of Braintry in N. Engl. is set to this book with that of Mather yet Mather was the sole author of it as his Son hath informed me A Catechisme or the grounds and principles of Christian religion set forth by way of question and answer c. Lond. 1650. oct Sermons on the second Epistle of S. Peter They were transcribed by him for the press but are not yet made publick Treatise of justification Cambr. in N. E. 1652. qu. He also prepared for the press A defence of the Churches in New England Written against W. Rathbond Minister of the Gospel And had a principal hand in drawing up The platform of Church discipline agreed unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E. an â—648 He also left behind him a Ms of his composition to prove that the power of rule and government in the Church belongs only to the Elders and not to the Fraternity At length after he had spent the greatest part of his time in the zealous Ministry of the Gospel surrendred up his pious Soul to him that first gave it on the 22. Apr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine whereupon his body was buried at Dâ—rchester in New England before mention'd He had several Sons that were Nonconforming Ministers as 1 Samuel whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1671. 2 Nathaniel sometimes Minister of Barnstaple in Devonsh afterwards at Rotterdam in Holland now Pastor of a congregation in London 3 Eleazer who died Pastor of the Church at Northampton in N. Engl. after he had been a preacher there eleven years 4 Increase or as he writes himself in his lat books Crescentius Matherus born at Dorchester in N. E. educated in Harwarden Coll. in Cambridge there and thence after six years standing removed to Ireland where in Trin. Coll. near Dublin he proceeded Mast of Arts 1658 aged 19 years or thereabouts In 1661 he returned to his native Country was elected President of the Coll. wherein he had been educated an 1681 and in May 1688 he came into England to acquaint K. Jam. 2. from the principal Gentlemen in N. Engl. the state of his Subjects in that territory whose civil liberties and properties were then invaded in an intolerable manner This person who is also now or at least was lately Pastor of a Church at Boston in his native Country hath written several things as 1 Discourse concerning the mystery of Israels salvation on Rom 11.26 Lond. 1669. oct 2 The first principles of N. Engl. concerning the subject of Baptisme and Communion of Churches Cambr. in N. E. 1675. qu. 3 A brief history of the war with the Indians in New England from the 24 of June 1675 when the first English man was murthered by the Indians to 12 of Aug. 1676 when Philip alias Metacomet was slain c. together with a serious exhortation to the Inhabitants of that land Boston in N. E. 1676 qu. Afterward reprinted at Lond. 4 Some important truths about conversion delivered in sundry Sermons Lond. 1674. oct 5 The divine right of Infant baptisme asserted and proved from scripture and antiquity Bost in N. E. 1680. qu. 6 Practical truths tending to promote godliness in the power of it Bost in N. E. 1682. 7 Diatriba de signo filii hominis de secundo Messiae adventu c. Amstel 1682. oct 8 An Essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned in this last age especially in N. England Boston in N. Engl. 1684. oct with his picture before it 9 Discourse concerning the person office and glory of Jesus Christ. Bost in N. E. 1686 oct 10 De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova Anglia Epistola ad cl virum D. Joh. Leusdenum Ling. Sanctae in Ultrajectanâ Academia professorem scripta Lond. 1688. in one sheet in oct 11 The wonders of free grace or a compleat History of all the remarkable Penitents that have been executed at Tyburn and elsewhere for these last thirty years To which is added a Sermon preached in the hearing of a condemned person immediatly before his execution Lond. 1690. in tw c. This Mr. Mather who is a person of learning candor and civility hath a son by his wife the daughter of the famous Mr. John Cotton of N. England named Cotton Mather now Pastor of a Church in Boston and in great reputation among the people in N. Engl author of Late memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions clearly manifesting not only that there are witches but that good men as well as others may possibly have their lives shortned by such evil instruments of Satan Lond. 1691. sec Edit HENRY BYAM son of Laur. Byam of Luckham alias East Luckham near Dunster in Somersetshire Clerk was born there on the last of Aug. 1580 and in Act term 1597 was sent to Exeter Coll. where he continued in the condition of a sojourner till he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. 21. Dec. 1599. In both which houses he by the advantage of an ingenious and liberal education joyned with his own diligence and industry soon became one of the greatest ornaments of this University and the most noted person there for his excellent and polite learning which
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
sixteen hundred forty and two was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625. was buried Dr. Crisp left behind him many children begotten on the body of his wife the daughâ—er of Rowl Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London one of the Members of the Long Parliament and of the Council of State 1648-9 See more in Obad. Sedgwick THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells was born in that County became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry became at length after he was Master of Arts chief Master of Abendon School in Berks Where by his sedulous endeavours were many educated that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State In the year 1616 being then and some years before Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bathe and Wells he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1636 was licensed to proceed in Divinity Before which time he being as 't were broken or wearied out with the drudgery of a School had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect was a grace to his Profession was most learned also in Latin Greek and Hebrew antiquity and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy He hath transmitted to Posterity Romanae Historiae Anthologia An English exposition of the Roman antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel'd and divers obscure phrases explained In 3 books Oxon 1613 c. qu. Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells and Dean of his Majesties Chappel Moses and Aaron Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture in six books Printed 1625. in qu. Florilegium Phrasicon Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue When this book was first printed I know not for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith which coming in Ms into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin he made a Reply which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twisse The Presbyterian writers say that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews Greeks and Latines yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians than deal with Logicians and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon than as a Doctor of Divinity They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride and expos'd him to be derided by boyes Dr. Godwin after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose in requital of his many labours surrendred up his soul to God 20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell before-mention'd He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Tesdale of Abendon who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 201. a. JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term an 1586 7 aged 16 years made Demie of that house in 87 perpetual Fellow in 95 Mast of Arts in 98 one of the Proctors of the University in 1606 and three years after supplicated the ven congreg of Regents that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty but whether he was really admitted it appears not At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight afterwards Earl of Bristow and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embassadour into Spaine where remaining with him several years improved himself in various sorts of Learning and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries After his return into England he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells being then in orders was esteemed a learned man good Orator and a facetious conceited Wit He hath translated from Spanish into English under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be 1 The Spanish bawd represented in Celestina or the tragick comedy of Calisto and Melibea c. Lond. 1631. fol. 2 The Rogue or the life of Guzman de Alfarache Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman 3 Devout contemplations expressd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca 4 The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit Delight in several Shapes c. in six pleasant Histories Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies and dying about that time was buried in the Church belonging to that place as I have been informed by one of that name and family lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon. DAVID PRIMEROSE second Son of Gilb. Primerose a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Fasti an 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bordeaux made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library and conversation of protestant Theologists returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts and visited other places of learning Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity entred himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623 was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year and soon after performed the
also written a seditious book intituled his Last Will and Testament was according to an order of the Committee of Estates in Scotland fetcht from the burial place and on a Market-day broke by the Common-hangman at the cross of Kirkadie where he had formerly been Minister THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted Schoolmaster of his time Son of Tho. Farn. of London Carpenter Son of ... Farnabie sometimes Mayor of Truro in Cornwall was born in London about 1575 became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of 1590 at which time being a youth of great hope he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a learned Fellow of that House who made him his Postmaster and so consequently his Servitour being the fashion then for Postmasters to serve those Fellows from whom they received their places But this youth being very wild tho of pregnant parts made no long stay there for being enticed to forsake his Religion and Country he left the Coll. very abruptly went into Spain and was for some time educated there in a certain Coll. belonging to the Jesuits At length being weary of their severe discipline he found a way to leave them and then being minded to take a ramble went with Sir Fr. Drake and Sir Joh. Hawkyns in their last voyage 1595 being in some esteem with the former Afterwards as 't is said he was a Soldier in the Low Countries being more addicted to that employment than to be a Scholar and that being reduced to poverty he made shift to be set on shoare in the Western part of England where after some wandring to an fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe the anagram of his sirname he setled at Martock in Sommersetshire and taught the Grammar School there for some time with good success For in the year 1646 when Mr. Charles Darby was called to teach that School he found in that Town and in the neighbourhood many that had been his Scholars ingenious Men and good Grammarians even in their grey hairs Among whom it was then reported that when he landed in Cornwall his distresses made him stoop so low as to be an Abcdarian and several were taught their hornbooks by him After he had gotten some feathers at Martock he took his flight to London and taught a long time in Goldsmiths-rents in Cripplegate Parish behind Redcross-street where were large gardens and handsome houses and great accommodations for the young Noblemen and other generous Youths who at one time made up the number of 300 or more The School-house was a large brick building divided into several partitions or apartments according to the distinctions of the Forms and Classes under the care and circumspection of the respective Ushers allotted to attend them In which time while he taught there he was made M. of A. of Cambridge and soon after incorporated at Oxon. At length upon occasion of some underhand dealing of his Landlords and frequent sicknesses in the City he removed about 1636 to Sevenock in Kent in the neighbourhood of which place at Otford he had purchased an estate taught there the Sons of several Noblemen and Gentlemen who boarded with him with great esteem grew rich purchased an estate there also and near Horsham in Sussex Upon a foresight of the Civil War he was esteemed ill affected to the cause for that when the protestation was urged in 1641 he then said it was better to have one King than five hundred Afterwards being suspected to have favoured the rising of the Country for the King about Tunbridge in 1643 he was thereupon imprisoned first in Newgate and thence removed on Shipboard it being then urged in the House of Commons whether he should be sent to America further'd by some of his good neighbours in Kent nay and by some that had been his Scholars as I have heard who sate in the two Houses but at length it being rejected he was removed to Ely-house in Holbourn where he remained for about an year before his death He was the chief Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Latinist and Grecian of his time and his School was so much frequented that more Churchmen and Statesmen issued thence than from any School taught by one Man in England The things that he hath written and published are these Notae ad Juvenalis Persii Satyras Lond. 1612. oct c. Notae ad Senecae tragoedias Lond. 1613. oct c. For which work he is commended by a certain Poet who was his friendly acquaintance Notae ad Martialis Epigrammata Lond. 1615. oct Genev. 1623. 33. c. in tw Notae ad Lucani Pharsal Lond. 1618. oct Index Rhetoricus Scholis institutioni tenerioris aetatis ac commodatus Lond. 1625. oct Phrases Oratoriae elegantiores poeticae Lond. 1628. oct 5th edit Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum eorumque latina versu à variis redditorum Lond. 1629. in oct c. Notae ad Virgilium Lond. 1634. in oct Notae in Terentium Lond. in tw Notae in Ovidii Metamorph. libros 12. Lond. in tw c. Ib. 1677. c. Systema Grammaticum Lond. 1641. in oct Index Rhetoricus Oratorius cum formulis Oratoriis indice poetico Lond. 1646. oct Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat Lond. in oct Tabulae Grecae Linguae Lond. in qu. Syntaxis Ib. in oct Epistolae Variae ad doctiss viros Other things he hath written as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Sevenock commonly called Sennock be forementioned over whose grave was this Epitaph put P. M. viri ornatissimi Thomae Farnabii Armigeri causae olim Regiae reique publicae sed literariae vindicis acerrimi Obiit 12 Junii 1647. Vatibus hic sacris qui lux Farnabius olim Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet By his first Wife named Susan Dau. of Joh. Pierce of Launcells in Cornwall he had a Son named John who followed his Fathers martial humour being a Captain in the Kings Army to whom he left his estate in Sussex where he lived in good esteem and died about the beginning of 1673. By his second Wife Anne Daugh. of Dr. John Howson Bishop of Durham he had several children one of which was named Francis to whom he left his estate at Kippington in the Parish of Sennock where he was lately living a Justice of Peace in good esteem from whose mouth I formerly received several passages of his Fathers life which are remitted into the former discourse At which time he aver'd to me that the great Grandfather of his Father viz. the Father of him who was Mayor of Truro was an Italian Musician The memory of this eminent Schoolmaster is celebrated by several Authors among whom is John Dunbar a Scot who stiles himself Megalo-Britannus Rich. Bruch and others DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobstow in Cornwall retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates Hall in the beginning of
Physicâ Metaphysica inter authores celebriores repertae Oxon. 1680. qu. published by Joh. Lamphire Principal of Hart Hall Poemata Latina Gesta Vicecancellariatus sui 'T is a MS. containing the Acts and Gests of his Vicechancellourship of the University from 26. July 1634. to 22. Jul. 1636. It is written in a little thin fol. containing 80 pages and hath therein several of his speeches spoken in convocation Which book I had the liberty to peruse when I was composing the Hist Antiq. of Univ. of Oxon and may be useful to curious men in other respects if given to a publick place many things being therein that are not entred into the publick registers of the University He died much lamented by the members of his Coll. because he had been a vigilant faithful and publick spirited Governour by the poor of the City of Oxon because he had been a constant benefactor to them by the Orphans to whom he had been a Father and generally by all who knew the great vertues piety and learning of the Person on the second day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven Whereupon his body was buried in the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. between the pulpit and the screen leaving then behind him certain matters fit for the press In 1677 Dr. Ralph Bridoake Bishop of Chichester who had in his younger years been patroniz'd by the said Dr. Pink erected out of gratitude a comely monument for him on the W. wall of the outer Chappel at some distance from his grave WILLIAM SLATYER a Sommersetshire man born was matriculated as a Gentlemans Son of that County and a member of St. Maries Hall in Lent time an 1600. aged 13 years Whence translating himself to Brasn Coll. was entred there as a plebeians Son of the same County in July 1607. The next year he took a degree in Arts was made Fellow of the said Coll proceeded in that faculty 1611. entred into holy Orders was soon after beneficed and in 1623 took the degrees in Divinity being then in good esteem for his knowledge in English History and his excellent vein in Lat. and English Poetry His works are these Palae-Albion or the Historie of Great Britaine from the first peopling of this Island to the Raign of K. James Lond. 1621. fol. in Lat. and Engl. verse the Lat. on one side and the English on the other with various marginal notes on the English side relating to English History and Antiquity Psalmes or Songs of Sion turn'd into the language and set to the tunes of a strange land Printed at London but when I know not because not set down in the title Psalmes in four languages and in four parts set to the tunes of our Church Printed at Lond. in tw engraven on copper Genealogia Regis Jacobi Lond. 1630. 'T is in a thin fol. in lat and Engl. and the Genealogie is derived from Adam What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate at Otterden in Kent where he was then or before as I presume beneficed in the month of Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was there buried leaving behind him a Widow named Sarah The Reader may be pleased now to know that one Will. Sclater a Bedfordsh man born was elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1593 was afterwards Vicar of Pitminster in Sommersetshire and a publisher of several Sermons and Theological Tracts as you may see in Oxford or Bodleys Catalogue of books but this Person whose Sirname differs from him that was the Poet before-mention'd must not to be taken to be the same with him as some to my knowledge have done He died in 1626 and left behind him a Son of both his names who was born at Pitminster was Fellow of Kings Coll. also and afterwards Minister of Columpton in Devon Prebendary of Exeter and Doct. of Div. He hath several Sermons in print of which one is entit Papisto-Mastix or Deborahs prayer against Gods enemies on Judges 5.31 Lond. 1642. qu. and hath published An exposition with notes on the fourth chap. of the Rom. Lond. 1650. qu. written by his Father c. HENRY WILKINSON was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire 9. Octob. 1566 made his first entrie into the University in Lent term 1581 elected Probationer-fellow of Merton Coll. by the favour of his Kinsman Mr. H. Savile the Warden in the year 1586 proceeded in Arts applyed his mind to the sacred faculty of which he was Bachelaur and at length 1601 became Pastor of Waddesdon in Bucks He hath written and published A Catechisme for the use of the congregation of Waddesdon in Bucks This hath been several times printed in oct and the fourth impression came out at Lond. 1637. The Debt-book or a treatise upon 13 Rom. ver 8. wherein is handled the civil debt of money or goods Lond. 1625. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This Person being an old Puritan was elected one of the Assembly of Divines in 1643 and dying on the 19 of March in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried in the Church at Waddesdon before-mentioned having had issue by his Wife Sarah the only daughter of Arthur Wake of whom I have made mention in Isaac Wake an 1632. p. 491. three daughters and six sons of which number Henry Wilkinson Senior commonly called Long Harry was one of whom shall be large mention made hereafter MICHAEL HUDSON a Westmorland man born became a poor serving child of Queens Coll. in the year 1621. and in that of his age 16 afterwards Tabarder and in the year 1630 Fellow of that House he being then Master of Arts. About that time he took holy Orders married Capt ..... Pollards daughter of Newnham Courtney in Oxfordshire and was beneficed in Lincolnshire But when his Maj. K. Ch. 1. set up his standard he left his Benefice adhered to him and after Edghill battle retiring to Oxon was in Feb. 1642. actually created Doctor of Divinity and made Chaplain to his Majesty About that time he being esteemed an understanding and sober Person and of great fidelity was made Scoutmaster General to the Army in the north parts of England under the command of William Marquess of Newcastle whereby he did wonderfully advantage himself in the ways and passes of those parts In that employment he continued some years with very good success At length his Maj. who usually called him his plain dealing Chaplain because he told him his mind when others would or durst not having an especial respect for his signal loyalty and courage entrusted him and John Ashbournham one of the Groomes of his Bedchamber with his Person at what time he left Oxon in a disguise 27. Apr. 1646 in order to surrender himself into the hands of the Scots then besieging Newark on Trent Afterwards his Maj. being setled for a time in Newcastle a Serjeant at Arms or his
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.
Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh and Dr. Joh. Hewit Jun. 2. an 1658. 3 Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton Edm. Stacy Oliv. Allen Will. Carrent Joh. Betteley Hen. Fryer and Joh. Sumner July 2. 1658 c. Which Speeches I have seen printed Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others among whom are Rog. Boyle Baron of Broghill in Ireland Sir Charles Wolseley Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey c. all Oliver's Lords A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he with other Regicides fled beyond the seas and L'isle setling at Losanna he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellour of England being always vested with the robe of that dignity At length certain Irish-men taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him as they did Edm. Ludlow Will. Goffe Edward Whaley c. for a time and shew him so much respect and honour as they did one of them ventred upon him as he was going to Church accompanied with the chief Magistracy and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four Which done two more Irish men rode into the press and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there as I have been credibly informed leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Non-conformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutch-man born originally a Schoolmaster and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden Whence coming into England upon no good account was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge which he was about to found some years before his death But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy was upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cosin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. which afterwards came to his Majesties knowledge silenced and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex lived there for some time Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute their designs he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage in the beginning of May 1649 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging and finding him at supper stab'd him in several places and cut his throat whereupon one of them said Thus dyes one of the Kings Judges This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword Afterwards they quietly departed and 't was not known but privately for some time after who did the fact Within few days following this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note then in their custody and certainly they had done it had he not made a timely escape Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following where continuing till Sept. 1661 was then taken up with the bodies of other Cromwellians and buried in a hole in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning He hath published as 't is said several things but all that I have seen of his is De praelio Nuportano Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu. JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon 2 Febr. 1598 bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a Communer for a time of Brasn Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615 and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton and after the Kings restoration in 1660 he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing was a sententious and acute Preacher and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages He hath written Grammatica Arabica In 3. vol. in qu. Danielis Prophetiae Liber Syriace In one vol. qu. Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia formâ oblonga In 4. vol. oct Flexio Verborum Arabicorum In one octavo All which are written with his own hand and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton on the twentieth day of Octob. RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622 was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitour or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he left the University and through some petite employments of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause a reformer of his Church of Superstition as he called it by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel by denying his Parishioners particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton the Sacrament unless they would take it any way except kneeling c. He was one of the Assemb of Divines a great Covenantier an eager
Lat. by Count Michael Maierus and put in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honorable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers This English translation is dedicated to Elias Ashmole Esq by an Epistle subscribed by N. L. T. S. H. S. but who he is or they are he the said El. Ashmole hath utterly forgotten Euphrates A discourse of the Waters of the East or of that secret fountain whose water flows from fire and carries in it the beams of the Sun and Moon Lond. 1655. oct He hath also translated into English The Chymists key to open and shut or the true doctrine of Corruption and Generation Lond. 1655. Written by Hen. Nollius He hath also left several Lat. Poems behind him which are in the hands of his Brother Henry called by some Olor Iscanus esteemed by many fit to be published One Eugenius Philalethes hath written A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses upon the burning of Mount Aetna with refutations c. Lond. 1669. oct but by the language of it it seems not to be written by our Eug. Phil. but another and besides when Olor Iscanus sent me a Cat. of his Brothers works the title of that book was not put among them One who calls himself Eireneus Philalethes a Citizen of the World hath published Ripley redivivus c. and another who writes himself Eireneus Philoponos Philalethes hath published The marrow of Alchemy c. in two parts Lond. 1654. and 55. oct Both which parts the second containing two books are written in verse and so consequently the Author is to be numbred among the Poets As for our Author Eug. Phil. alias Thom. Vaughan he did accompany Sir Rob. Murrey before mention'd to Oxon at what time the great Plague at London drove their Majesties and their respective Courts to that place where he continued for a time Soon after taking up his quarters in the house of Sam. Kem Rector of Albury near to Thame and Ricot in Oxfordshire died there on the 27 of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried on the first of March following in the Church belonging to the said Village of Albury alias Oldbury about 8 miles distant from Oxon by the care and charge of the said Sir Robert Murrey Of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things viz. That he was born of an antient and noble family in or near the High-lands in Scotland that his youth was spent in good letters partly in the University of S. Andrew and partly in France where he had afterwards a military Employment in the service of Lewis 13 and was at length a Lieutenant-Colonel and an excellent Soldier That he was General of the Ordnance in Scotland against K. Ch. 1. when the Presbyterians of that Kingdom first set up and maintained their Covenant That at the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made one of the Privy Council of the said Kingdom and about the same time became one of the first Contrivers and Institutors of the Royal Society of which he was made the first President This person tho presbyterianly affected yet he had the Kings ear as much as any other person and was indefatigable in his undertakings He was a single man an abhorrer of Women a most renowned Chymist a great Patron of the Rosie-Crusians and an excellent Mathematician His several relations and matters of experiment which are in the Philosophical Transactions shew him to be a man well vers'd in experimental Philosophy He died suddenly in his Pavilion in the garden at Whitehall on the fourth day of July some hours after he had informed my friend of the death and burial of Eugen. Philalethes an 1673. 25 Car. 2. and was at the Kings charge buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the grave of Sir Will. D'avenant sometimes Laureat Poet to the said King I find another Rob. Moray son of a Scotchman to be Author of a little Pamphlet intit Composition-credit or a bank of credit made currant by common consent in Lond. more useful than money Lond. 1682. in one sh in qu. and Author of An advertisement for the more easie and speedy collecting of debts and of other things But this person who was born in the Strand near London was a Milliner and of the company of Cloath-workers afterwards Clerk to the general Commissioners for the Revenue of Ireland then Clerk to the Commissioners of the grand Excise of England and in the latter end of 1679 the first inventer of the Penny-Post in London which was carried on by one .... Docwray GEORGE HOPKINS Son of Will. Hopk was born at Beaudley in Worcestershire 15 Apr. 1620 educated partly there in School learning under Joh. Graile and partly at Kinfare in Staffordshire became a Batler of New Inn in Lent Term 1637 took one degree in Arts in 1641 and then left the University for a time being puritannically affected Afterwards he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant retired to Oxon after the Garrison thereof was surrendred for the use of the Parliament submitted to the Visitors appointed by them took the degr of Master and soon after became Minister of Allsaints Parish in Evesham in Worcestershire In 1654 he was by the then Parliament appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and soon after published Salvation from sin by Jesus Christ or the doctrine of Sanctification which is the greater part of our Salvation founded upon Christ who is both the meritorious and efficient cause of sanctifying grace c. Lond. 1655. oct This book which is levelled against Antinomianism was preached in seven sermons in a weekly lecture at Evesham on Math. 1.21 In the Authors dedication of the book to the Borough of Evesham he saith that to them he had dedicated himself to the work of the Gospel from his first beginning to be a constant Preacher of it and saith afterward that Dr. Bayly preached to them part of The practice of Piety before he publish'd it See among the Writers in the first Vol. p. 485 486. In 1662 our Author Hopkins left his Cure of Allsaints for want of Conformity and retiring to Dumbleton in Glocestershire died there at about one of the clock in the morning of the 25 of March Annunc day in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there During the time he lived in that Town he constantly with his whole family frequented the Parish Church and publick Prayers on Holydays and Sundays in the Afternoons when there was no Sermon He never failed to receive the Holy Communion as oft as it was celebrated and did all things required of a Lay-member of the Ch. of England Besides his knowledge in Divinity he was a very good
put an Introduction to the book He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in one of the Chappels joyning to the Cath. Church Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley a true and zealous son of the Church of England was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a non-conforming Minister and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow one or more of whose Sermons you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4 July 1682 aged 61 and was inter'd in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London in the presence of 500 Persons who accompanied him to his grave Of the same family tho remote was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark p. 153. JOHN WARNER received his first breath as 't is said in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an 1599 aged 16 years where being put under the tuition of a careful Person made a considerable progress in his studies took the degrees in Arts and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house being then esteemed a witty man a good Logician and Philosopher In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesties Chaplains Prebendary of Canterbury Governour of Sion Coll Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell promoted to the See of Peterborough an 1633 and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles was consecrated thereunto on the 14th and installed 21 of January the same year being then noted for a good School Divine and one well read in the Fathers In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury built one at his proper charge which whether more curious or more costly was difficult to judge and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishops votes in the H. of Parliament Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren by having the Lands of his See taken away but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable He hath written Church Lands not to be sold or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold Printed 1646. 48. qu. Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium Printed in the said Dr. Taylor 's Collection of Polemical discourses See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen and perhaps other things Quaere At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave with a large Epitaph thereon wherein 't is said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test he left his personal estate for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows tho himself had always led a single life the Relicts of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an always reserving so much out of their exhibition as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon and not out of any other House And the election of the said 20 Widows is to be made by his Executors for the time being and after their decease by such Trustees as they shall appoint In his life time and at his death he gave a 1000 l. for the encrease of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more To the repair of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To â—he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l to Bromley where his Bishops seat is 20 l and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an to issue out of his mannour of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of Gods word c. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them thoughts were had of making Glocester Hall a College for them and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter the Scholars for the present time were placed there At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol which was in 1672 he took order that they should be translated thither where they yet remain JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1604 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Chaplain as I conceive to Philip Lord Stanhop and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased which he kept to his dying day notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time In Nov. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof which also keeping till his
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
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
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
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
Viaticum from the hands of Dr. Alex. Monro Principal of K. James's Coll. at Edinburgh and his colleague in S. Giles's Church named Dr. John Strachan Professor of Div. at Edinb did assist after the manner of the Church of England They and several other Ministers and Layicks communicating then with him he regretted with tears the overthrowing of their Church saying he never thought to have outlived the Church of Scotland yet hoped others should live to see it restored c. His Father Will. Annand before mentioned lived very obscurely divers years after he came into England But at length obtaining the Vicaridge of Throwley in Kent 1649 and afterwards the rectory of Leveland in the same County the Usurper then ruling he caused his Son to be educated in learning in a good condition RICHARD SHERLOCK was born at Oxton in Cheshire and originally as 't is said a Student in Magd. Hall where he obtained a part of Acad. learning Thence he was translated to Trin. Coll. near Dublin where he proceeded Master of Arts in 1633 entred into the sacred function and soon after became Minister of several small Parishes in Ireland united together and yeilding no more than 8O l. per an At length upon the breaking out of the rebellion in that Country he journied into England and became Chaplain to a Regiment of his Majesties forces at Namptwich in Cheshire But that place being taken by the Parliament forces in Jan. 1643 he retired to Oxon where he became Chaplain to the Governour of the Garrison there and at length by the favour of Dr. Pink Warden of New College he was made one of the Chaplains of that House much about the time that P. Gunning and Is Barrow were made Chaplains also In 1646 he had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him in consideration of several Sermons that he preached either at Court or before the Parliament in Oxon but in the year 1648 or thereabouts being thrown out of his Chaplains place by the Visitors he became Curat for Dr. Jasp Mayne in an obscure Village called Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire who allowing him 16 l. per an for his pains for the Vicaridge there is esteemed to be worth but 50 l. yearly he gave a good part thereof away to the poor of that place At length leaving that Cure upon the ejection of the Doctor about 1652 he went into Lancashire became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Bindlosse of Borwick hall in the Parish of Warton Bt where as long as he continued he was very much troubled with the People called Quakers against whom he wrot several things as I shall tell you anon After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he was made Doctor of Div. of the Univ. of Dublin and about that time by the favour of his honorable Patron Charles E. of Derby whose Chaplain he was Rector of Winwick in Lancashire a place among other fat benefices of England of greatest name He was a person of a most pious life exemplary conversation of great charity hospitality and so zealous a man for the Church of England that he was accounted by precise persons popishly affected and a Papist in Masquerade He hath written and published The Quakers wild questions objected against the Ministers of the Gospel c. briefly answered Lond. 1654. oct 1656. qu. Animadverted upon by a noted Quaker called Rich. Hubberthorne in a book entit A Reply to a book set forth by the Priest of Borwick-hall in Lancashire called Rich. Sherlock c. Lond. 1654. qu. and by another more noted than he named George Fox in his book called The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 242.243 c. A discourse of the holy spirit his workings and impressions on the souls of Men This is also against the Quakers Discourse of divine revelation mediat or immediat Discourse of error heresie and schisme These three last pieces are printed with The Quakers wild Questions c. The principles of holy Christian Religion or the Catechisme of the Church of England paraphras'd c. Lond. 1656. oct Written for the use of Borwick-hall The thirteenth impression of this book came out at Lond. 1677. oct Sermon preached at a visitation held at Warrington in Lanc. 11. May 1669 on Acts 20.28 Lond. 1669. qu. Mercurius Christianus The practical Christian A treatise explaining the duty of self-examination c. Lond. 1673. oct Confessions Meditations and Prayers in order to the receiving of the holy Communion of the body and blood of Christ Printed with Merc. Christ The second part of the practical Christian consisting of meditations and psalmes illustrated with notes or paraphrased relating to the hours of prayer c. Lond. 1675. oct The practical Christian or the devout Penitent A book of Devotion containing the whole duty of a Christian in all occasions and necessities c. in 4 parts 1. Of self examination confession of sins c. 2. Of the Communion of the holy body and blood of Christ 3. Of the hours of Prayer and occasional meditations 4. Of the four last things death judgment hell and heaven Lond. 1676. 77. c. Several short but seasonable discourses touching common and private prayer relating to the publick offices of the Church c. Oxon. 1684. oct c. This book contains 1. The irregularity of a private prayer in a publick congregation which was first printed 1674 in 4 sh in qu. 2. Dr. Steuarts judgment of a private prayer in publick c. 3. A discourse of the differences between long prayers prohibited and continuance in prayers commanded 4. Meditations upon our going to Church with short directions for our demeanour in the House of God c. 5. Sermon preached upon the Archbishop of Yorks provincial Visitation at Warrington At length this most holy zealous mortified and seraphical Dr. Sherlock having spent all his time in holy and chast celebacy surrendred up his most pious soul to God in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried on the 25 of June within the Chancel at the first entrance into it out of the body of the Church at Winwick before mention'd at which time his friend and acquaintance Tho. Crane M. A. preached his funeral Sermon which being extant you may see a full account therein of the great piety charity hospitality strictness of life c. of him the said Dr. Sherlock Some years before his death he caused his Grave-stone to be laid in that place where his body was afterwards buried and ordered for his epitaph to be engraved in brass and sixt upon his stone this following Exuviae Richardi Sherlock S. T. D. indignissimi hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris Obiit 20 die Junii anno aetatis 76. an dom 1689. Sal infatuum conculcate Whereupon a certain Person reflecting upon it and much honouring his pious memory did subjoyn and add this further inscription En viri sanctissimi modestia Qui Epitaphium se indignum inscribi
first acquaintance about the year 1618 and with whom he afterwards many times conversed After Mr. Dugdale was setled at Blythe commonly called Blythe Hall because situated on the River Blythe he read The Description of Leycestershire written and published by Will. Burton of Lindley in that County Esquire about 8 miles distant from Blythe Hall with which being much taken and thereby encouraged to do something of that nature for Warwickshire he was introduced into his acquaintance by one Mr. Fisher Dilke of Shustock a near Kinsman of the said Burton to the end that he might receive instructions for the management and promotion of his studies Mr. Burton being very much taken with the forwardness of the young man in his most early attempts he was resolved to encourage him in his labours to the utmost of his power Whereupon he brought him into the acquaintance of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the Parish of Tamworth in the said County of Warwick Knight who being much affected with the studies of Heraldry and Antiquities and having made very choice and considerable Collections out of divers antient Writings relating to the said County and the families thereof he did not only communicate to him what he had got together but brought him acquainted with most of the Gentlemen of note in the County These Gentlemen having perused the labours of Mr. Burton before mention'd were thereupon desirous thro Sir Sim. Archer's incitation to preserve the honor of their Families by such a work as the said Mr. Burton had done for Leycestershire and for that purpose they would as afterwards they did communicate to him the sight of their antient Deeds and Evidences Among the said Gentlemen he found none more knowing in and forward to encourage such a work than Sir Sim. Clarke of Brome Court in the Parish of Salford who with all freedom imparted to him not only divers antient Writings of consequence but also the Leiger-book of the Priory of Kenilworth from which he found copious matter as by his frequent quotation of it in The Antiquities of Warwicksh it appears The acquaintance of the said three persons Burton Clarke and Archer he endeavoured to continue with all observance imaginable especially with the last which began about 1630 but so it fell out that our Author Dugdale could not be more forward to continue than Sir S. Archer was to promote it and withall to encourage him in his great designs which did evidently afterwards appear as the sequel will tell you In Easter term 1638 Sir Simon with his Lady intended to go to London and thereupon importun'd Mr. Dugdale to accompany them in that Journey assuring him that it would be worth his labour if he could spare so much time from his beloved study This being easily assented to they had several discourses in their way for the promotion of his designs and when they were at their journeys â—nd the first matter that Sir Simon did he brought our Author Dugdale into the acquaintance of the learned Sir Hen. Spelman a person famous for his knowledge in Antiquities but then near 80 years of age This worthy Knight received him with great humanity and after some discourse and â—ight of several of his Collections relating to The Antiquities of Warwickshire he found that he was a great Proficient and had made a considerable progress in those studies and then told him that seeing he was a person so much inclined to that learning he thought him very fit to serve the King in the Office of Arms and that the most noble Thomas Earl of Arundel then Earl Marshal of England having by virtue of that great office the nomination of all such as were admitted into that Society would esteem it a good service to the publick to prefer such thereunto as were thus naturally qualified and found sedulous in those studies offering to recommend Mr. Dugdale to his Lordship for that purpose Soon after Sir Henry having acquainted his Lordship of him and his fitness for the office he was introduced into the presence of that honorable person by Sir George Gresâ—eley of Drakelow in Derbyshire Baronet who was then in London and well known to his Lordship During Mr. Dugdale's stay in London he repaired sometimes to the Lodging of Sir Hen. Spelman who among several discourses concerning their faculty he told him that one Roger Dodsworth a Gent. of Yorkshire had taken indefatigable pains in searching of Records and other antient Memorials relating to the Antiquities of that County but especially touching the foundations of Monasteries there and in the northern parts of the Realm which work he did not a little commend to the pains and care of some industrious and diligent searchers into hidden Antiquity affirming that out of his great affection thereto in his younger years he had got together the Transcripts of the foundation Charters of divers Monasteries in Norfolk and Suffolk himself being a Norfolk man much importuning Mr. Dugdale to joyn with Dodsworth in that most commendable work which by reason of his youth and forwardness to prosecute those studies might in time be brought to some perfection as Mr. Dugdale hath informed me by his Letters adding withall that he the said Mr. Dugd. did readily incline and within few days following casually meeting with Mr. Dodsworth in the Lodgings of Mr. Sam. Roper at Linc. Inn and acquainting each other what they were then in hand with as to their farther progress in those studies they readily engaged themselves to prosecute what Transcripts they could from any Leiger books publick Records original Charters or other Manuscripts of note in order thereto but still with this reservation that Mr. Dugdale should not neglect his Collections touching The Antiq. of Warwickshire wherein he had by that time made a considerable progress During his stay in London he became acquainted with one Rich. Gascoignâ— a Yorkshire Gentleman who also stood much affected to those studies especially as to matter of Pedigree wherein he had taken some pains for divers northern Families especially for that noble and antient Family of Wentworth And having great interest with Sir Christop Hatton of Kirby in the County of Northampton Knight of the Bath afterwards created Lord Hatton a person highly affected to Antiquities and who had not spared for any charge in obtaining sundry choice Collections from publick Records Leiger books and antient Charters and divers old MSS he brought him to that most worthy person then lodging in an Apothecaries housâ— without Temple-bar by whom he was welcomed with all expressions of kindness and readiness in furthering his studies In order thereunto he soon after brought him acquainted with his near Kinsman Sir Tho. Fanshaw at that time the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer By reason of which great Office he had the custody of divers Leiger-books and other choice Manuscripts especially that notable Record called the Red book as also Testa de Nevill Kerby's Quest Nomina Villarum and others to all which by his
security thereof So that Mr. Dugdale being bound by his place to attend his Majesty he setled for a time in Hart Hall and on the 1 of Nov. 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts as I have before told About that time he committed to writing the most memorable passages in the battel at Edghill and that the relation of all particulars might be the better understood he went to that place in Feb. following being accompanied with some Gentlemen of note At which time taking with him a skilful Surveyor he rode to Banbury the Castle there being then his Majesties Garrison and thence to the field where the battel was fought which he exactly surveyed and noted where each Army was drawn up where the Canons were placed and the graves where the slain persons were buried observing also from the relation of the neighbouring Inhabitants the certain number which lay buried in each pit or grave Which by a just computation did not amount to full one thousand tho the report of the Vulgar made them at least five thousand Returning thence to Oxford he continued there by his Majesties command until the surrender of that Garrison for the use of the Parliament 24 June 1646 which wanted not 4 months of 4 years his Estate in the Country being all that while sequestred in which time he notwithstanding got a subsistance by attending the Funerals of several noble persons and of others of great quality some of which were slain in the Wars according to the duty of his Office On the 16 of Apr. 1644 he was created Chester Herald upon the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to be Norrey and soon after he took a journey to Worcester within which Diocess the southern parts of Warwickshire lye where having perusal of the Registers both of the Bishop and Dean and Chapter he thence extracted several Collections in order to his historical work of Warwickshire as he before had done at Lichfield within which Diocess the rest of the said County lies as by the quotations in the elaborate work of The Antiq. of Warwicksh afterwards made public it appears While he continued in Oxon. where he had leisure enough to follow his studies he applied himself to the search of such Antiquities as were to be found in the famous Bodlelan Library as also in the Libraries of certain Colleges and in private hands as he thought any way conduceable to the furtherance of the work designed by Rog. Dodsworth and himself touching the Monastery-foundations before mention'd as also of whatsoever might relate to matter of History in reference to the Nobility of this Kingdom in which he found very much for that purpose whereof he made great use in his Volumes intit The Baronage of England since published After the surrender of Oxford Mr. Dugdale repaired to London and made his Composition in Goldsmiths Hall for at least 168 l. After which having proceeded very far in collecting materials in the Country for his designed work of Warwickshire he repaired again to London for the farther perusal of the Records in the Tower and other places and there perfected his Collection touching the Antiquities of that County where hapning to meet with Mr. Dodsworth he told him how he had bestowed his time in Oxon and elsewhere by gaining materials in order to that work of the Monasteries and Mr. Dodsworth did the like to him whereby Mr. Dugd. did understand that he had transcribed many Foundation-Charters and other Grants of consequence relating to the Monasteries of Yorkshire and some other northern Counties which he copied for the most part from the Originals remaining in sundry large chests deposited in S. Maries Tower at York This Tower with all such evidences therein was accidentally blown up in the War time so that had not Mr. Dodsworth made his Collections thence before that accident fell out the loss would have been irreparable Other matters that he collected thence are now in many volumes remaining in the Bodleian Library by the gift of Thomas Lord Fairfax who also to his great honour be it spoken shew'd himself very generous to all such Soldiers at York that could retrieve any of the said Charters that were so blown up After Mr. Dugdale's communication with Mr. Dodsworth concerning each others Collections he waited upon the Lady Eliz. Hatton to Calais in the month of May 1648 there to meet with the Lord Hatton her husband from Paris which being so done he went back with that Lord thither and making stay there about three months he thro the favour of Monsâ—er Franc. du Chesne son to the learned Andr. du Chesne deceased had a view of divers excellent Collections made by the said Andrew relating to divers Monasteries in France Normandy and other parts of that Kingdom Among which discovering divers things of note touching divers Religious Houses in England formerly called Priories Aliens which had been Cells to sundry great Abbies in foreign parts he took copies of them of which he made good use in those volumes called Monasticon Anglicanum afterwards published and then returned into England having Letters of safe conduct under the Sign manual and Signet of the then Queen of England Henrietta Maria bearing date at S. Germans in Lay upon the third of Aug. This so fair and industrious Collection being got together by Mr. Dodsworth as hath been observed as also that made by Mr. Dugdale gathered out of divers Leiger-books and other authentick MSS. at Oxon did encourage them to proceed in perfecting the work Whereupon they resolved to go to the Records in the Tower of London to which having free admission they made a perfect and thorough search and took copies of all that they deemed most material for their work Which being done they retired to the Cottonian Library making the like search there and left nothing omitted from the multitudes of Leiger-books there that might serve them in that most elaborate work Their business being there finished Mr. Dugdale discovered many bundles of papers of State which were original Letters and other choice memorials obtained by Sir Rob. Cotton from sundry hands some whereof were the Transactions between Cardinal Wolsey Thom. Cromwell afterwards Earl of Essex Secretary Will. Paget Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh Secretary Francis Walsingham and others relating as well to foreign as domestick affairs As also the Letters and Papers of Mary Qu. of Scots Thomas Duke of Norfolk c. All which Mr. Dugdale sorted methodically both as to time and otherwise and caus'd them to be bound up with clasps and Sir Tho. Cotton's Arms impressed on each side of every book with the Contents in the beginning what each book contained All which amounted to 80 volumes and were made useful to all lovers of historical learning The Collections of the two volumes of the Monastery Foundations intit Monast Anglic. being thus compleated and the publishing of them by the Press desired an offer was made to several Booksellers of the Copies upon such different terms
Luton-Hoe in Bedfordshire Bt was afterwards one of the first members of the Royal Society a great pretender to Vertue and Astrology made a great noise in the world yet did little or nothing towards the publick He died in the house of Sir John Lenthall at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks 17 Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church at Linford before mentioned the Mannour of which did belong to him but after his death his son Thom. sold it for 19500 l. or thereabouts The said Sir Richard drew up a book containing A collection of Nativities which is now in MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq Nov. 1. Francis Smith of Brasn Coll. Nov. 1. Thom. Smith of Linc. Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Hinton Nov. 1. George Roe The said Joh. Hinton was afterwards a Kt and Physitian to K Ch. 2. and his Queen Dec. 20. Will. Hunt Dec. 20. Andr. Pindar Jan. 16. Joh. Merret a Captain in Cornwall Jan. 16. Walt. Charlton of Magd. Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Baylie lately of Hart Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Hayes a Physitian in the Kings Army Jan. 31. Sir Hen. Manwaring Kt. The first of these last three was son of Dr. Ralph Baylie sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Physitian of note at Bathe which Thomas practising afterwards at Newbury in Berks died there of a high infection in the prime of his years As for the last Sir H. Manwaring I find one of both his Names and a Knight too author of The Seamens Dictionary or an exposition and demonstration of all the parts belonging to a ship Lond. 1670. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sir Joh. Terryngham Kt. High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was created the same day He died on the second day of May 1645 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon. Sir John Stawell Kt. of the Bath sometimes Gent. Com. of Queens Coll was also created the same day He was one of the Knights for Somersetshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it when the King was forced to leave Westminster he retired to him at Oxon and sate there for a time in the Parliament conven'd there That which is chiefly memorable of this most worthy person is that he being one of the most eminent men in Somersetshire for Estate Wisdom and Prudence did after he had undergone all the principal services and employments for his Country viz. High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenant and Knight for the Shire in several Parliaments most loyally and courageously take up arms with three of his sons raised three Regiments of Horse and two of Dragoons and of Foot upon his sole charge in defence of his Maj. K. Ch. 1 as also of the Laws of this Kingdom and Rights of the Subject invaded by wicked Conspirators under colouâ— of reformation an 1642. He was then a Colonel of Horse and soon after was made Governour of Taunton and continued there till remanded Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he was not admitted to his composition as others were tho comprized within the Articles of Exeter upon the surrender of that City to the Powers at that time prevailing and the reason was because they thirsted not only after his large Estate but conspired also to take away his life He endured in those times of affliction long and tedious Imprisonments in the Press-yard in Newgate and other Goales and after in the Tower of London And did with admirable Wisdom and Courage approve himself an eminent Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom by making such a defence in their several bloody Tribunals viz. at their Vpper Bench bar and High Court of Justice as that he put to silence those bold Judges who sate there with design to take away his life And tho he was reduced to the greatest want and misery which his severe opposers by sale of his Lands cutting down his Woods and demolishing the principal Seat of his family at Cotholstone could bring upon him yet by the subsistance which his aged Mother the Lady Elizabeth Griffin afforded him which was all he had he most chearfully underwent the same lived to see the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2 and to be again elected one of the Knights for the County of Somerset to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661. After he had continued there some months his urgent affairs drew him to his house at Ham three miles distant from Somerton in his own Country where dying 21 Feb. 1661 aged 62 years was buried on the 23 of Apr. following on the south side of the Chancel of the Church at Cotholstone five miles distant from Taunton There goes under the name of this most loyal person his Petition and Remonstrance to the Parliament and O. Cromwel as also his Vindication printed 1653 and 55. fol. In the latter end of Jan. 1682 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. was graciously pleased to create Ralph Stawell Esq a Baron of England by the name and stile of Lord Stawell of Somerton in consideration of the eminent Loyalty and Sufferings of his father before mention'd during all the time of the Troubles and the many good and acceptable Services performed by him Jan. 31. Sir Rob. Lee Knights Jan. 31. Sir Joh. Paulet Knights The last who had been sometimes of Exeter Coll as it seems was a younger son of the Lord Paulet James Young lately of Qu. Coll in Oxon eldest son of Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester was created the same day Jan. 31. Nathan Heighmore sometimes of Trin. Coll. Jan. 31. Christop Merret sometimes of Gloc. Hall Mar. 4. Rob. Bosworth of Brasn Coll. He was chose Burgess for the City of Hereford to sit in Richards-Parliament began at Wesâ—minster 27 of January 1658. Doct. of Div. From the 1 of Nov. to the 21 Feb. were between 40 and 50 Doctors of Divinity actually created most of whom follow Nov. 1. Rob. Payne Canons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. George Morley Canons of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester Barten Holyday sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Oxford was created the same day Nov. 1. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jer. Taylor of All 's Coll. The first of these last three had been Greek Professor of this University and was afterwards Warden of his Coll whence being ejected he retired to London where dying in Febr. 1657 was buried in the Church of the Black Fryers The second was now or about this time Fellow of Eaton Col and Master of Wigstons Hospital at Leycester from both which being ejected in the times of Usurpation he suffered equally with other Loyalists At length upon his Majesties return he was not only restored to his Fellowship and Hospital but elected Warden of All 's Coll. in the place of Dr. Sheldon promoted to the See of London and made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Dr. Nich. Monk
Coll. a Compounder He was now one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess obtained on the death of Mr. Tho. Cook the father of his wife an 1669. and Can. resid of Hereford He died 20 Aug. 1684 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Bampton In his Archdeaconry succeeded one .... Wheeler and him .... Oatley Jul. 3. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. Ant. Saunders of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The other who was Chapl. to the Archb. of Cant was now 1677 Chanc. of S. Paul in Lond. and Rector of Acton in Middlesex John Fitzwilliams of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of York Rector of Cotenham near Cambridge and Preb. of Windsore He hath published A Sermon preached at Cotenham near Cambridge on the 9 of Sept. 1683 being the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his sacred Majesty and the Government from the late treasonable Conspiracy on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1683. qu. He is now a Non-juror and therefore hath lost his Spiritualities Incorporations May 14. Walt. Leightonhouse Bac. of Art of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was soon after elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. See among the Masters in 1679. After the conclusion of the Act were 23 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated Jul. 10 among which was Aylett Sams of Christs Coll. This person published under his own name Britannia antiqua illustrata or the Antiquities of antient Britaine derivâ—d from the Phoenicians Wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered the names of Places Offices Dignities as likewise the Idolatry c. are clearly demonstrated from that Nation many old monuments illustrated c. Together with a chronological History of this Kingdom from the first traditional beginning until the year of our Lord 800 when the name of Britaine was changed into England c. Lond. 1676. vol. 1. fol. An account of this book is in the Philosophical Transactions num 124. p. 596 wherein tho the Author of them Mr. Oldenburg doth stile Mr. Sams the learned and curious Vndertaker of that great work yet the common report then was that not he but his quondam Uncle was the Author and to confirm it was his great ignorance in matters and books of Antiquity I was several times in his company when he spent some weeks this year in Oxon and found him to be an impertinent girning and pedantical Coxcomb and so ignorant of Authors that he never heard of before I mention'd it to him of the great Antiquary Joh. Leland or of his printed or manuscript Works nor any thing of Baleus nor could he give any account of Authors that are quoted in the said Britannia antiqua illustrata c. He died in the year 1679 or thereabouts perhaps in the Inner Temple where he had a Chamber but where buried I know not nor is it material to be informed I find one Rob. Aylett Mast of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated at Oxon an 1608. Quaere whether he was his Uncle Jul. 10. Will. Birstall D. D. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. Feb. 19. Patrick Dunn Physitian in ord to James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut. of Ireland Doct. of Phys of Aberdene in Scotland Valentia in Dauphiny and of Dublin in Ireland was declared he being then absent incorporated Doctor of the said faculty of this Univ. of Oxon and on the 23 of March following a Diploma of his Incorporation was sealed and sent to him Creations The most noble James Duke of Ormonde Chancellor of the University coming to Oxon in the beginning of Aug. this year where he was splendidly entertained by the Academians with Treats in several Colleges and Speeches in the Theater it was his desire that there should be a Creation of Doctors of the Civil Law and a Creation of two persons in Divinity Those that were created in the former faeulty which was on the sixth day of Aug. in the Theater were these Doct. of Law Richard Boteler Earl of Arran in Ireland and Baron Boteler of Weston in Huntingdonshire in England second son of James Duke of Ormonde This noble and courageous person who had done good service against the Rebels at Carickfergus in Ireland and in that perilous Sea-sight against the Dutch when James D. of York was General at Sea for which and other Services he was made Baron of Weston died on the 26 of Jan. 1685. Whereupon his body was deposited in the same Vault in the Abbey Church at Westminster where that of his elder brother Thom. E of Ossory and their mother Elizab. Dutchess of Ormonde had been laid which Dutchess died in her house in S. James's Square within the Liberty of Westminster on the 21 of July 1684. But whether their bodies were afterwards removed to Kilkenny in Ireland there to be deposited in the Vault among the bodies of the Ormondian family I know not as yet Pierce Boteler Visc Galmoy in Irel. of the Ormondian family Francis Aungier Viscount afterwards Earl of Longford in the same Kingdom Robert Fitz-Gerald son of the Earl of Kildare Sir Kingsmill Lucy Bt. Sir Thom. Erscott Kt. Sir James Boteler Kt. He was natural son of James Duke of Ormonde by Isabel daugh of Henry Earl of Holland and wife of Sir James Thynne of Langleate in Wilts This person who was bred up to the Common Law in Linc. Inn succeeded Will. Lord Brouncker in the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near the Tower of London c. Sir Edw. Scott Kt. Sir Rob. Southwell Kt. This most worthy and accomplish'd person who was son of Rob. Southwell of Kinsale in the County of Cork in Irel. Esq Vice-Admiral of Mounster and of the Privy Council there descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in Kinsale educated in Queens Coll. in this University where he was Bach. of Arts and afterwards became a Barrister of Linc. Inn On the 27 of Sept. 1664 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Majesties Privy Council and on the 20 of Nov. 1665 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty being then accounted a Gent. of known worth and abilities and fitted every way for the Service of his Majesty who then thought good to give him the character of his Envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal whether he was to go in few days after In the latter end of Octob. 1671 he was sent Envoy extraordinary to Count de Monterey Governour or Vice-Roy for his Catholick Maj. of the Spanish Netherlands and in the beginning of Decemb. 1679 the Presbyterians and Fanaticks being then rampant upon the account of the Popish Plot he resigned his Clerkship of the Council In Feb. following he was sent Envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandeberg and after his return he was much respected for the Services he had done for
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.