being seconded with judgment and experience when he began to serve at the altar made him like a burning and shining light and to be looked upon as the most acute and eminent preacher of his age Much about the time that he took the degree of Bach. of Div. an 1612 he was called home into his own Country and succeeded his Father in the rectory of Luckham before mention'd and Will. Fleet in that of Selworthy adjoyning From which time till the rebellion broke out nothing occurs memorable of him only that about the year 1636 he became Prebendary of Exeter and when a Parliament afterwards was conven'd he was by the unanimous consent of the Clergy of the Diocess wherein he liv'd elected to be their Clerk in convocation In the beginning of the Civil War he was the first person that was seised on in the parts where he lived by Rob. Blake then a Captain of Dragoons afterwards General at Sea under Oliver from whom after some time of imprisonment making an escape he fled to the King at Oxon where among many Loyalists he was actually created Doct. of Divinity Before that time he had raised both men and horse for his Majesty and then or after had engaged his five Sons in that just quarrel of which four were Captains exposing all his estate whether spiritual or temporal which was not inconsiderable to rapine plunder and sequestration his children to distress and danger and himself to many grievous shifts and exigencies His wife and daughter also that were left at home were so much troubled by the Rebels that they endeavouring to avoid their cruelties by flight over the Sea into Wales were both drowned All these sufferings our author Dr. Byam patiently endured that he might keep a good conscience not out of any base or greedy desire of reward but meerly out of generous and religious principles When the Prince of Wales afterwards K. Ch. 2. fled from England this our author went with him first to the Island of Scilly and afterwards to that of Jersey where the Prince left him as his Chaplain to preach in his Chappel in the Castle called Elizabeth and there he remained till that garrison was taken by the Parliament forces From which time till the Kings return he lived in a poor and obscure condition but as soon as that glorious star appeared in the British firmament he was made Canon of Exeter and Prebendary of Wells And then when he might have obtained what he would have asked he contented himself only with what his Majesty was pleased freely to bestow upon him However had not his own modesty stood in the way 't is well known his Maj. bounty towards him had not rested here but he must have died a Bishop Which honorable function he really deserved not only for sanctity of life but for learning charity and loyalty scarce to be equall'd by any in the age he lived His works are these Thirteen Sermons most of them preached before his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in his exile Lond. 1675. in oct They were deliver'd before the K. in the Island of Scilly and Jersey at which time this worthy Dr. was Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty who was his constant Auditour admiring equally his learning and his loyalty Among them are these two lat sermons Osculum pacis concio ad clerum habita Exoniae in trien visitat D. Jos Hall Episc Exon in S. Marc. cap. 9. ver ult And Nativitus Christi conc in ad S. Mar. Ox. habita pro gradu an 1612 in Matth. cap. 1. ver 18. Also if I mistake not is his Sermon entit A return from Argier preached at Minhead in Somers 16. Mar. 1627 at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Ch. on Rev. 2. part of the 5. vers Lond. 1628. qu. All which 13 Sermons were published by Hamnet Ward M. D. Vicar of Sturmister-Newton-Castle in Dorsetshire He the said Dr. Byam hath other elaborate pieces that were fairly written with his own hand and ready for the press if the Executor will oblige posterity so far as to publish them but these I have not yet seen At length after he had lived to a great age and had seen many changes in the world concluded his last day on the 16. of June and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Luckham on the 29 of the same month in sixteen hundred sixty and nine On the wall near to his grave is a comely monument fastned with this inscription thereon made by Dr. Ward before mention'd Non procul hinc sub marmore congenito sepultum jacet corpus Henrici Byam ex antiquiss Byamorum familiâ oriundi SS Theologiae Doctoris insignissimi hujus ecclesiae proximae Selworthianae Rectoris Pastorisque vigilantissimi ecclesiae Cath. Exon. Canonic◠ecclesiaeque Wellensis Prebendarii sereniss Majestatis Car. II. Regis Capellani Concionatoris ordinarii necnon ejusdem saeviente illâ tyrannide semper execrandâ Phanaticorum rebellione terrâ marique comitis exulisque simul Ex meliore luto ejus constructum corpus post annos tandem octoginta novem an sal Millesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo nono morti non triumphanti quam invitanti placide cessit Sed extat adhuc viri hujus optimi celebrius multo hoc ornatius monumentum non marmore perituro sed typis exaratum perpetuis scripta scilicet ejus plane divina ubi animi vires summum ejus ingenii acumen intueberis simul miraberis Lugubrem hunc lapidem honoris reverentiae indicem posuit filius ejus obsequentiss Franciscus Byam RICHARD SAMWAIES son of Ric. Sam. was born at Illminster in Somersetshire of which his Father was Vicar was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 26. Mar. 1630 aged 16 years was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and in holy Orders In 1648 he was ejected his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliament and afterwards being a shiftless person suffer'd great misery and hardship for his loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by the Kings Commissioners was actually created Bach. of Div and on the death of Hen. Jackson became Rector of Meisey-Hampton in Glocestershire He hath written Englands faithful reprover and monitor under 9 heads directed first to the Church of England 2 to the inferior Ministers of the Gospel 3 to the Nobility and Gentry c. with a postscript Lond. 1653. in oct Besides which he had one or more books fitted for the press but were lost He died 21. Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meisey-Hampton near to the grave of his predecessor H. Jackson before mention'd Whereupon Will. Fulman succeeded him in that rectory as I shall tell you hereafter One Peter Samwaies hath written An exposition on Catechistical principles but whether he was related to the former or was of this University I cannot yet tell HENRY KING the eldest Son of Dr. John King whom I
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
on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before mention'd At which time Mr. Tho. Manton one of the chief Presbyterians in London preached his Funeral Sermon which was afterwards made publick It was observed by many and looked upon as miraculous by the Brethren that when the members of the Rump Parliament had passed their votes for his death did happen one of the most terrible thunder claps that was ever heard Also that that day on which he suffer'd was seen a most clear sky but soon after his death which was about two of the clock in the afternoon the sky began to thicken and at last was envelop'd in a black and dismal Cloud and all that night and till the next morning such thunder lightning and tempest hapned as if the machine of the world had been dissolving This was the observation of the Presbyterian who stuck not to say thereupon that God was angry at these things that had passed c. Yet the Independent Anabaptist and others made another construction of the matter which was published soon after in the common Mercury called Politicus viz. That on the 22 of Aug. the old Tyrant Ch. 1. did first erect his Standard at Nottingham and then Mr. Love and his Brethren did well to cry it down But it being down and themselves not set up as they expected then they deserted their first principles and cryed up his son whose interest however disguised is the same with his fathers and he by their instigation making way into England entred and erected his Standard at Worcester also upon the 22 of Aug. 1651 upon which very day likewise it was that Mr. Love who having help'd to beat down the old malignant Standard and then turning Apostate to set up the new one lost his head upon Tower-hill as a just judgment of God for his implacable Apostacy and Enmity and for a terror to all the men of his Confederacy c. At the same time and upon the same Scaffold was beheaded Mr. Jo. Gibbons engaged in the same plot but as for others engaged therein and to be brought to their tryal viz. Col. Joseph Vaughan sometimes a Leather-seller in London Lieut. Col. ..... Jackson Capt. Hugh Massey brother to Maj. Gen. Edw. Massey Dr. Drake Mr. Th. Case Mr. Arthur Jackson Mr. W. Jenkyns Minister of Ch. Church in London Mr. Th. Watson Mr. Ralph Robinson Mr. Rich. Heyrick c. were upon the motion of a certain noble person pardoned for Life and Estate and freed both from Sequestration and Imprisonment CLEMENT WALKER was born at Cliffe in Dorsetshire educated in Acad. learning in Ch. Church as I have been informed by his son Joh. Walker sometimes a Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll. but in what year or years of the Lord I know not for his name occurs not in the Matricula either under Ch. Church or Broadgates Hall adjoyning a receptacle mostly in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for Dorsetshire men Afterwards leaving the University without a degree he retired to an Estate he had at Charterhouse near Wells in Somersetshire where living in good repute was esteem'd among the Gentry in those parts for his knowledge in secular affairs and always taken to be as really he was an enemy to the Puritans as making it his frequent theme to declaim against them Before the Civil War commenc'd he was made Usher of the Exchequer but when the Puritans or Presbyterians were like to carry all before he closed with them was elected one of the Burgesses for the City of Wells upon the retreat to his Maj. of Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Edw. Rodney who were elected to serve for that City in the Parliament began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640. Afterwards he became a zealous Covenantier and was Advocate to that Congregation of Murderers that adjudged Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher Citizens of Bristow to death having had as 't is said his hands stayned with his own Wives blood before he dipped them so deep in those Martyrs at Bristow About that time he and W Prynne inseparable Brethren became great Enemies to Col. Nath. Fiennes for his cowardly surrendring up the City of Bristow and were the chief men that brought him to a tryal for his life for the same During the time that our Author Walker sate in the Parliament he was a curious Observer and diligent Enquirer after not only the Actions but the Counsels of those times He was well read also and notably vers'd in the Liberties and Privileges of Parliaments and in the Statute Law of this Kingdom as those that knew him well have often affirmed it And when he saw how the Independent Faction began to sway and govern all things then did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax the General for his folly to be led by the nose by O. Cromwell and to Cromwell for his devilish hypocrisie falsness tyranny c. and an indefatigable enemy in his Writings and Prayers against the said Independents that were then the Saints militant But so it was that tho he shew'd himself a zealous Presbyterian yet he was very serviceable in many things to the Parliament and did not at all get as others did as his own words which I believe are true averr it thus I have served you the Parliament faithfully from the beginning and have taken as much pains and run as many hazards as most men in your service wherein I have lost my health and above seven thousand pounds of my estate without any penny of compensation as other men have had Nor have I laid my hands upon any mans money or goods or had any gainful Imployments from you I was contented to serve my Country gratis and some little honor I had gotten thereby whereof you have now rob'd me c. by a roaving Accusation shot at random at me c. Thus our Author which service of his was performed till 1647 when he saw the Independent Faction to grow mighty he being then an elderly man and of a low stature His works that are published are these An Answer to Col. Nathan Fiennes relation concerning his surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow printed 1643 in 2 sheets in qu. But for some misconstruction made of a clause in the said answer the Author was suddenly seiz'd and sent Prisoner to the Tower of Lond. by the Parliament where he continued for some time Articles of impeachment and accusation exhibited in Parliament against Col. Nath. Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. W. Prynne had a hand also in drawing up of the said articles at the end of which is his letter to the said Fiennes True and full relation of the prosecution arraignment tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City and Castle of Brist before a Counsel of War held at S. Albans during 9 days space in
author It was printed at the end of a second Edition of the said Certain verses c. with Hero and Leander a mock Poem The first days entertainment at Rutland house by Declamations and Musick Lond. 1657. oct Published in Sept. 1656 notwithstanding the nicety of those times Play-house to be let containing the History of S. Franc. Drake and the cruelty of the Spaniards at Perue Com. News from Plymouth Com. Law against Lovers Co. The Distresses Tr. The Siege Co. or Tr. Co. Fair favourite Co. A Panegyrick to his excellency the Lord Gener. Monk Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of paper printed in the beginning of March the same year A Poem upon his Majesties most happy return to his dominions Lond. 1660 qu. The Siege of Rhodes Tr. Com. in two parts Lond. 1663 qu. c. Poem on the Kings most sacred Majestie Lond. 1663. qu. Man 's the Master Com. Lond. 1669. qu. Poems on several occasions The Tempest or the enchanted Island Com. Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakespears whom and his works D'avenant much admired as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may easily discern The seventh or last canto of the third book of Gondibert Lond. 1685. oct never before printed Most of which Comedies Tragedies Trag. Com. Masques and Poems were printed together in a large folio Lond. 1672. 3. with the authors picture before them adorned with a wreath of Lawrel and a notch in his nose as over the first letter of his sirname At length this noted and celebrated author having lived to about his grand climecterical year made his last exit in his house in Little Lincolns-inn Fields in the Parish of S. Clement Danes near London on the seventh day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was two days after buried in the s Cross Isle or south trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster without any Lawrel upon his Coffin which I presume was forgotten His body was deposited in the very place or near it where his Antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan had been buried of whom I shall speak more anon and in the mean time give you the Epitaph of Sir Will. D'avenant made on him soon after his death which runs thus Here lies a Subject of immortal praise Who did from Phoebus hand receive his bayes Admir'd by all envied alone by those Who for his glories made themselves his foes Such were his virtues that they could command A general applause from every hand His Exit then this on record shall have A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave In the office of Poet Laureat succeeded Joh. Driden Son of Erasmus Driden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire third Son of Erasm Driden of Canons Ashby in the same County Baronet which John was born at Oldwincle called by some Aldwincle near to Oundle in the same County being the very same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the Historian educated in Grammar learning in the College School in Westminster elected thence a Scholar of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1650 and is now highly celebrated among ingenious men for his poetry and other polite learning As for Tho. May before mentioned he was the Son of Tho. May of Mayfield in Sussex Knight by his Wife the Daughter of .... Rich of Hornden on the hill in Essex was educated in all kind of humane learning when he was a youth and in Academical in his manly years in Cambridge Afterwards his genie being chiefly enclined to Poetry he retired to and mostly lived in the City of Westminster where performing divers things for the honour of this nation never paralell'd by any English man before was graciously countenanced by K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort but he finding not that preferment from either which he expected grew discontented sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times became a Debauchee ad omnia entertained ill principles as to Religion spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinity kept beastly and atheistical company of whom Tho. Chaloner the Regecide was one and endeavour'd to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause Among several things that he hath written and translated some are these 1 The Trag. of Antigone the Theban Princess Lond. 1631. oct ◠The Heir a Com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu. 3 The victorious raign of K. Ed. 3. in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct Written in verse by the special command of K. Ch. 1. 4 The raign of Hen. 2. Lond. in oct Written also in verse and dedicated to K. Ch. 1. 5 Trag. of Cleopatra Qu. of Aegypt Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct Dedic to Sir Ken. Digby 6 Trag. of Julia Agrippina Empress of Rome Acted 1628. Lond. 1639. oct 7 Supplementum Lucani lib. vii Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct Written in so lofty and happy Lat. Hexameter that he hath attained to much more reputation abroad than he hath lost at home 8 The old couple Com. Lond. in qu. 9 Historiae Parliamenti Angliae Breviarium tribus partibus explicitum Lond. 1649 or thereabout in oct It was afterwards translated into English by the Author with this title Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England in three parts c. Lond. 1655. oct see edit Before which is the picture of the author in a cloak with a wreath of Laurel over his head He hath also translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 Lucans Pharsalia or the civil wars of Rome between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar In 10 books Lond. 1635. oct third edit with annotations made by Th. May on each book 2 A continuation of the subject of Lucans Historical poem till the death of Julius Caesar in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct sec edition with annotations made by Tho. May on each book 3 Virgils Georgicks four books Lond. 1622. oct with annotations on each book 4 Selected Epigrams of Martial Lond. 1629. oct At length this Person Tho. May who had been favoured by the rebellious Parliament so much as to be made their Historian going well to bed was therein found next morning dead an 1650 occasion'd as some say by tying his night-cap too close under his fat chin and cheeks which choak'd him when he turned on the other side Afterwards his body being conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster was buried on the west side of the large south Isle or transcept there And soon after had a large monument of white marble set in the w. Wall over his grave with this inscription thereon made by March Nedham Quem Anglicana Respub habuit vindicem ornamentum literaria secli sui Vatum celeberrimus deliciae futuri Lucanus alter plusquam Romanus Historicus fidus Equitis aurati filius primogenitus Thomas Maius h. s e. Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae specimen usque adeo superaddidit ut à supremo Anglorum senatu ad annales suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus Tandem fide
Davenports perswasion Whereupon Best came out with The Churches plea for her right or a reply to an answer c. Amst 1635. qu and soon after our author Davenport with An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill refused to joyn with the Ministers in their meetings took away many of their disciples such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts and preached and prayed to them in private houses In the beginning of the rebellion he returned into England as other Nonconformists did and had a cure bestowed on him but finding matters not to go current with his humour he by the perswasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there where he continued in great esteem with those of his perswasion to the time almost of his death His other writings are these Catechisme containing the chief heads of Christian religion Lond. 1659. oct Published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England In this Catechisme one Will. Hook a teacher there had a hand I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire author of 1 New Englands tears for old Englands fears c. Print 1640-1 qu. 2 The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven Pr. in oct 3 Sermon in New England in behalf of old England Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons He died in or near London 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden near to the said City See more of him in Jerom Turner an 1655. Several Sermons as 1 The Messiah is already come on Acts 2.36 Lond. 1653. qu. 2 Gods call to his people to turn unto him c. in two Sermons on two publick fasting days in N. England Lond. 1670. qu. 3 Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests on Lam. 3.26 Printed 1661 in tw and others among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18 Lond. 1629. qu. The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget entit The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods Lond. 1672. oct He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mention'd published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants or Saints portion in 14. sermons with four other added an 1629. qu. c. At length he having lived beyond the age of man surrendred up his Soul to God at Boston in New England to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668 on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was inter'd there in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton for whom in his life time he had an extraordinary respect He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing Which being esteemed very fit for the press was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely and Mr. Ed. Veal and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it to be sold for 7. sh in quires in Mich. term an 1687. But soon after the printing of it was stop'd and the merchant who design'd afterwards to publish it died so 't is question'd now whether ever it will see light JOHN MAYNARD esteemed by those of his perswasion an eminent and judicious Divine was born of a gentile family in Sussex at or near Riverfield became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall In 1622 he took the degree of Mast of Arts as a Compounder entred into holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country But when the rebellion broke out he shew'd himself more a Puritan and preached with more liberty than he did before whereupon being appointed one of the Ass of Divines he took the Covenant held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament had other preferments I presume bestowed upon him and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His writings are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1645. qu. 2 A shadow of the victory of Christ Fastâ—serm before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The young mans remembrancer and old mans monitor Lond. 1669 oct The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ or the harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded c. delivered in several sermons Lond. 1674. oct What became of this reverend author after his Majesties restauration I mean whether he conformed or was ejected I know not nor any thing else of him only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction several years after his death 13. June 1687. I find another John Maynard who published a book entit The XII wonders of the world set and composed for the Viol de Gambo the Lute and the voice to sing the verse c. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. Julians in Hertfordshire Another John Maynard who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter under the year 1690. WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term an 1624 aged 15 years Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Div. than Philosophy After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entred into the sacred function and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England but upon the turn of the times in 1â—41 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor put in a Curate into Farnham and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj.
Sermons as 1 Christ exalted by the Father God the Father glorified and Mans redemption finished preached before the L. Mayor of Lond. Lond. 1649. qu. c. Christ and Moses excellency or Sion and Sinah's glory being a triplex treatise distinguishing and explaining the two Covenants of the Gospel and the Law c. Lond. 1650. oct Dialogue between Christ and a Publican and Christ and a doubting Christian Common-prayer book no divine service A small curb to the Bishops career c. Lond. 1660. in 5 sh in qu. The bird in the cage chirping c. Lond. 1661 2. oct Written while he was in Prison The Sufferers Catechisme Written also when he was in Prison Brief Narrative concerning the proceedings of the Commissioners in Wales against the ejected Clergy Written upon the spreading of a report that he was put in the Fleet Prison for a great part of the Revenew of the Tythes of Wales from which aspersion as the Brethren called it tho a friend of his had written a Pamphlet called Examen purgamen Vavasoris an 1653 yet not knowing how far such a report might influence to the reproach of the Gospel he did publish the said Pamphlet The young-mans conflict with the Devil Printed in oct This I have not yet seen Sinful and sinless swearing An Account of his Conversion and Ministry Lond. 1671. oct 'T is a canting and enthusiastical piece A confession of Faith concerning the holy Scriptures Printed with the said Account as also two little Appendices Some gracious experimental and very choice Sayings and Sentences Pr. also with the said Account Certain Hymns There also His death-bed Expressions A new and useful Concordance of the Bible with the chief acceptations and various significations contained therein Also marks to distinguish the commands promises and threatnings Lond. 1671 and 73. oct This was mostly done by V. Powell but finished by N. P. and J. F. c. Commended to the world by Edw. Bagshaw and J. Hardcastle and afterwards by Jo Owen D. D. Collection of those Scripture-Prophecies which relate to the call of the Jews and the glory that shall be in the latter days Printed at the end of the said Concordance to which was afterwards 1673 added near nine thousand Scriptures omitted in the former Edition with the addition of the Scripture Similies c. The most ingenious Mrs. Kath. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan hath among her Poetry a Poem upon the double murder of K. Ch. 1 in answer to a libellous copy of rimes made by V. Powel but in what book those rimes are or whether they were printed by themselves I cannot tell He died in the Fleet prison before mention'd on the 27 of Oct. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at the lower or west end of the fanatical burial place near to Bunhill and the New Artillery garden in the Suburb of London in the presence of innumerable Dissenters that then followed his corps Over his grave was soon after erected an altar-monument of free stone on the plank of which was engraven this epitaph made by his dear friend E. Bagshaw before mention'd Vavasor Powell a successful teacher of the past a sincere witness of the present and an useful example to the future age lies here interred who in the defection of so many obtained mercy to be found faithful for which being called to several prisons he was there tried and would not accept deliverance expecting a better resurrection In hope of which he finished this life and testimony together in the eleventh year of his imprisonment and in the 53 year of his age Octob. 27. an 1671. In vain Oppressors do themselves perplex To find out arts how they the Saints may vex Death spoils their plots and sets the oppressed free Thus Vavasor obtain'd true liberty Christ him releas'd and now he 's joyn'd among The martyr'd Souls with whom he cries How long Rev. 6.10 I have been informed by M. Ll who knew and was acquainted with V. Powell that he was wont to say that there were but two sorts of people that had Religion viz. the gathered Churches and the Rom. Catholicks and would not allow it to the Church of England men or to the Presbyterians He farther informed me that when he preached a mist or smoak would issue from his head so great an agitation of spirit he had c. and therefore 't was usually reported by some especially those that favoured him that he represented the Saints of old time that had rayes painted about their heads JOHN HARMAR an excellent Greecian of his time was born at Churchdowne commonly called Chursden near to and in the County of Glocester educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became a Semicommoner or Demie of Magd. Coll. 1611 aged 17 years or more being then about an years standing in the University took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1617 which was the highest Acad. degree he took tho afterwards he was always called by the name of Doctor Harmar About that time he entred into holy Orders was Usher of the School joyning to his College and a Preacher for some time in these parts At length he became the chief Master of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire and thro some petite and pedagogical employments of which the under-Mastership of the Coll. school at Westm was one the Kings Greek Professor of this University and Rector of the Donative of Ewhurst in Hampshire the Patron of which being a convicted Recusant the Vicechancellor and Masters did elect and present him thereunto 30 March 1659 by virtue of the Chancellours letters Rich. Cromwell whom he highly flatter'd written in his behalf But losing those two places after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 he retired to Steventon in Hampshire where he mostly lived on the Joynture of his wife He was a most excellent Philologist and a tolerable Latine Poet was happy in rendring Greek into Latine or Latine into English or English into Greek or Latine whether in prose or verse which we now call transversing and transprosing But as in these he did excell and therefore often made use of by Scholars so did he go beyond all that I knew of his condition that affected popular applause he being of so credulous a humour as to take all that was said or done to him to redound to his honour and credit much like the humour of Tom Coryate who was a Whetstone for the Wits of his time Besides all this he being also a meer Scholar and therefore mostly in a poor and shabbed condition whether in his way of living or habit he flatter'd all Men and Powers that were uppermost whether lawful or usurping and endeavoured to make himself known to all Patrons of Learning if it were only for a meals meat or gain applause He hath written and published these things following Praxis Grammatica verum genuinum declinationum conjugationum usum liquidò indicans c. cum
having received a call he went to New England where he finished his course This Person was composed of a strange hodg-podg of opinions not easily to be described was of a roving and rambling head spent much and I think died but in a mean condition And tho he was a great pretender to Saintship and had vowed an eternal love to his Wife before mention'd who died 22. Apr. 1655 yet before he had remained a Widower an year he married a religious Virgin named Frances the only Daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the scismatical Vicar of Bray near Windsore who dying also in the first year of her Marriage in Childbed I think aged 25 years he took soon after as I have been told a third Wife according to the fleshly custom of the Saints of that time He hath written A double Watchword or the duty of watching and watching to duty both echoed from Revel 16.5 and Jer. 50.4.5 Lond. 1661. oct and perhaps other things He died at Boston in New England in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried there In the Church or Chappel belonging to Eaton Coll. was a monument with a large canting inscription set up by this D. Oxenbridge for his first Wife Jane Butler wherein 't is said that while he preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in the House But the said inscript or Epitaph giving great offence to the Royallists at the restauration of K. Ch. 2 they caused it to be daub'd or covered over with paint There was also a Monument and Inscription set up for his second Wife the contents of which and the other I have but this last is not defaced JONATHAN GODDARD son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford was born at Greenwich in Kent became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he then left that House and went as I presume beyond the Seas On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Cambridge at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament and at length to Oliver Cromwell with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he by the said Olivers power became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an 1653 and made one of the Council of State in the same year About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London afterwards of the Royal Society and Professor of Physick in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. which was in 1660 he lived mostly in that of Gresham where being an admirable Chymist he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients besides what he operated for his own satisfaction He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledg among them and when any curious experiment was to be done they made him their Drudg till they could obtain to the bottom of it He hath written A discourse concerning Physick and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries Lond. 1668. oct An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 41. He is said to have written of this matter of the Abuse of Physick more warily and with greater prudence than Christ Merret Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in London c. Lond. 166. qu. Proposal for making wine See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Experiments of the Stone called Oculus mundi See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Some observations of a Camelion See in the Philosophical Transactions nu 137. p. 930. c. Experiments of refining gold with Antimony See there also nu 139. p. 953. c. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgeons Hall and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit as 't is said for the press He had also laying by him at his death Arcana medicinalia Published at the end of the second Edit of Pharmacopoeia Bateana by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary Lond. 1691. oct He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury where a club of Virtuosi sometimes met to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helens Church in London He was Master of a most curious Library of books well and richly bound which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society but he dying intestate it came into the hands of the next Heir viz. his Sisters Son a Scholar of Caies Coll. in Cambridge I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist dedic before Praelectio de Cometis inquisit in Bullialdi Astronom Philolaicae fundamenta and in the Epist ded before Delphi Phoenicizantes c. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him RICHARD SMITH the Son of a Clergy man named Richard Smith a Native of Abendon by Martha his Wife Daughter of Paul Darrel or Dayrell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks Esq Son of Richard Son of another Ric. Smith of Abendon in Berks. sometimes Gent. Usher to Qu. Elizabeth was born at Lillingston Darrel before mention'd an 1590 and after the beginning of the raign of King James 1. was sent to the Univ. of Oxon where his stay being short he was not matriculated and therefore I cannot positively tell you of what Coll. or Hall he was a member Thence he was taken away by his Parents and put a Clerk to an Attorney belonging to the City of London but his mind hanging after learning he spent all the time he could obtain from his employment in Books At riper years he became Secondary of the Poultry Compter within the City of London a place of good reputation and profit being in his time worth about 700 l. per an which he executed many years but upon the death of his Son an 1655 begotten on the body of his Wife Elizab. Daughter of George Deane of Stepney to whom he intended to resign his place he immediatly sold it and betook himself wholly to a private life two thirds of which at least he spent in his Library He was a person infinitely curious in and inquisitive after books and suffered nothing considerable to escape him that fell within the compass of
the late Wars to satisfie Sir Franc. Nethersole by what reasons he was moved to engage himself in the Parliaments War contains very many most pernicious Principles and dangerous Tenets and therefore were afterwards retracted by the Author as having been unseasonably printed Many Principles are taken out thence by many of his Adversaries and thrown in his dish and objected against him And in 1683 Jul. 21 the book was publickly burnt in the School-Quadrangle at Oxon by a decree then passed in the Convocation-house as containing several matters therein destructive to the sacred persons of Princes their State and Government and of all humane society Our Author Harrington hath also written these things following The use and manner of the Ballot Pr. on one side of a sheet of paper In the middle of which is a fair cut representing the Session of Magistrates belonging to a Commonwealth The prerogative of popular Government A political discourse in two books the former containing the first preliminary of Oceana enlarged interpreted and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against under the notion of Objections The second concerning Ordination against Dr. Hen. Hammond Dr. Lazarus Seaman and the Authors they follow Lond 1658. qu. The said Lazarus Seaman had been one of the Ass of Divines was Master of Peterhouse in Cambridge and Minister of Allhallowes Breadstreet in London Which two last places he lost after his Majesties return lived afterwards a Nonconformist mostly in Warwick-Court near Warwick-Lane in London where he died about the 9 of Sept. 1675 much lamented by the Brethren in regard he was a learned man He hath two or more Sermons extant preached before the Long Parliament and A vindication of the judgment of the reformed Churches concerning Ordination and laying on of hands c. Lond. 1647. qu. and other things Aphorismes political Lond. 1659. sec edit in two sh and an half They are in number 120. Politicaster or a comical discourse in answer to Mr. Wrenns book intit Monarchy asserted against Mr. Harringtons Oceana Lond. 1659. Brief direction shewing how a fit and perfect model of popular Government may be made found or understood Lond. 1659. in two parts The first contains 10 models the second part proposeth a model of a Commonwealth fitted unto the present state of this nation under five propositions or heads Printed in 3 sh and a half The Art of Law-giving Lond. 1659 in a little oct Pour Enclouer le canon Ibid. 1659. in one sh in qu. Discourse upon this saying The Spirit of the nation is not yet to be trusted with liberty lest it introduce monarchy or invade the libertie of Conscience Ibid. 1659. in two sh in qu. A proposition in order to the proposing of a Common-wealth or Democracie Pr. on one side of a sh of paper Discourse shewing that the spirit of Parliaments with a Councill in the intervals is not be trusted for a settlement lest it introduce monarchy and persecution for conscience Lond. 1659 in one sh and an half At the end are Certain maxims calculated unto the present state of England by the same hand A parallel of the Spirit of the people with the Spirit of Mr. Rogers And an appeal thereupon unto the reader whether the Spirit of the people or the Spirit of men like Mr. Rogers be the fitter to be trusted with the Government Lond. 1659 in one sh in qu. Of this Mr. Rogers who was a noted Anabaptist of his time I shall speak more at large in the conclusion of our author Harrington Valerius and Publicola or the true forme of a popular Commonwealth extracted è puris naturalibus Lond. 1659. in 5. sh in qu. written by way of dialogue At the end of which is A sufficient answer to Mr. Stubbe his Letter to an officer concerning a select Senate These last seven things with his Aphorismes Politicall I have seen bound all together with this general title put to them Political discourses tending to the introduction of a free and equal Commonwealth in England Lond. 1660. qu. Before which is the authors picture which shews him to be an handsome man and of a delicate curl'd head of hair Letters between him and Dr. Pet. Heylyn containing a decertation about forms of Government the power of the Spartan Ephori and the Jewish Sanhedrim Lond. 1659 in oct These letters are printed in the third part of The Letter Combate published by the said Dr. Heylyn The Rota or a model of a free state or Equal Commonwealth once proposed and debated in brief and to be again more at large proposed to and debated by a free and open Societie of ingenious Gentlemen Lond. 1660 in 4. sh in qu. Published in the beginning of Feb. 1659. About which time John Milton published a Pamphlet called The readie and easie way to Establish a Free Commonwealth Lond. 1659 60 in two sh and an half In answer to which came out a waggish censure pretended to be made by the Rota Printed in two sh in the latter end of March 1660. And a little before was a sh in qu. printed intit Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of Oceana purposely to make the Junto of the Commonwealths men ridiculous it being then newly dispers'd upon Monks restitution of the Secluded Members of Parliament The Stumbling-block of disobedience cunningly imputed by P. H. unto Calvin removed in a Letter to the said P. H. Pet. Heylyn This Letter which hath J.H. set to it was printed in two sheets in qu. about 1659. The wayes and meanes whereby an equall and lasting Commonwealth may be suddenly introduced and perfectly founded c. Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. published in the beginning of Feb. 1659. He also translated from Lat. into English two of Virgils Eclogues and Aeneis which he thus entituled An Essay upon two of Virgils Eclogues and two of his Aeneis towards the translation of the whole Lond 1657. 58. oct and in 1659 was printed in 8o. his translation of the third fourth fifth and sixth books of the said Virgil's Aeneis This eminent author died within the City of Westminster in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Chancel of S. Margarets Church there next to the grave of Sir Walt. Raleigh under the south side of the Altar where the Priest stands Over his grave was this inscription soon after put Hic jacet Jacobus Harrington Armiger filius maximus natu Sapcoti Harrington de Rand in Com. Linc. Equitis Aurati Janae uxoris ejus filiae Gulielmi Samuel de Upton in Com. Northampton Militis qui obiit Septimo die Septembris aetatis suae sexagessimo sexto an Dom 1677. Nec Virtutes nec animi dotes Arrha licet aeterni in animam amoris dei coruptione eximere queant corpus c. The said Sir Sapcote Harrington was younger brother to Sir Jam. Harrington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire Baronet sons of Sir Edw. Harrington Baronet
of Oxon and Durham 14. Joh. Lock of Ch. Ch. He is now living in London and being a Writer he is to be remembred hereafter Mar. 13. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 18. Rich. Stretton Chap. of New Coll. These two last are now Nonconformist Divines living in London The first who is a frequent Writer is to be remembred among the Writers hereafter Of the other you may see among the Masters 1658. Adm. 122. ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted this year Mast of Arts. June 15. Will. Sprigge of Linc. Coll. 21. Thom. Cartwright of Qu. Coll. 22 Franc. Cross of Wadh. Coll. 22 Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. Franc. Cross who was of Stoke-Gomer in Somersetshire and had been Fellow of Wadh. Coll went after his Maj. restauration to Leyden in Holland where he had the degree of Doct. of Physick confer'd on him And afterwards retiring to the City of Bristow practised there with good success among the precise party He hath written and published Disputatio medica inauguralis de Febre intermittente hab in alm Lugd. Bat. Academiâ pro grad Doct. in Med. c. 19 May 1664. Oxon. 1668. oct He died in the Parish of S. Walburg in the said City of Bristow in the year 1675 and was I presume buried in the Church belonging to that Parish Jun. 28. Thom. Lawrence of S. Alb. Hall This person who was an Apothecaries son of London became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1649 and did for some time participate of the Exhibition of Joh. Willyot there But being forced to leave that House for some Extravagancies by him committed he retired to the said Hall of S. Alban where he continued two or three years after he had compleated the degree of Master and studied Physick Afterwards he practised that faculty in Norfolk and was of some eminence there especially upon his writing and publishing Mercurius Centralis Or a discourse of subterraneal Cockle Muscle and Oyster shells found in the digging of a Well at Sir Will. Dâ—ylies in Norfolk many foot under ground and at considerable distance from the sea sent in a Letter to Tho. Browne Doctor of Physick Lond. 1664. in 5 sh in oct He died in Norfolk some years after June 28. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. June 28. Tho. Frankland of Brasn Coll. June 28. Tho. Adams of Brasn Coll. The last of these three who was younger brother to Rich. Adams mention'd among the Masters under the year 1651 became a Student of the said Coll. of Brasn in Jul. 1649 and was made Fell. thereof on the 2 of June 1652. After he had taken the degree of Master he became a frequent Preacher in these parts was removed from his Fellowship in 1662 for Nonconformity went to London and carried on his Nonconformity by preaching in Conventicles He hath written The main principles of Christian Religion in 107 short articles or aphorismes generally received as being proved from Scripture now further cleared and confirmed by the consonant Doctrine recorded in the articles and homilies of the Church of England under four heads viz. of things to be 1. Believed c. Lond. 1675 and 77. oct much about which time the author died Jul. 4. Rob. Harrison of Ch. Ch. This person who was born at Doncaster in Yorkshire and uterine brother to Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall was made Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors in 1648 and being afterwards beneficed published two Sermons viz. one on Am. 5.23.24 and another on Prov. 13.34 c. George Boraston of Wadh. Coll. was admitted the same day He hath published The royal Law or the golden rule of justice and charity Sermon at the Anniversary Meeting of the Gentlemen Inhabitants of London and others born within the County of Worcester at S. Laurence Ch. 29 Nov. 1683. on Math. 7.12 Lond. 1684. qu. and perhaps other things His father was Minister of Beaudley in the same County at which place the Author of the said Sermon was born and some years after he had left the University he was presented to the Rectory of Hever in Kent by Dr. Gunning while he was B. of Chichester Jul. 6. Henr. Hallywell of Brasn Coll. I set him down here not that he was a Writer but to distinguish him from another of both his names who was one Master of Arts and sometimes Fell. of Chr. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards Minister of Ifeild in Sussex who among several things that he hath published hath written 1 An account of Familisme as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers c. Lond. 1673. oct Answer'd by Will. Pâ—nn a Quaker sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. â—h 2 A Vindication of the Account of Familisme from the impertinent cavils of Will Penn. Lond. in oct 3 The sacred method of saving humane souls by Jesus Christ Lond. 1677. oct 4 Melâ—mpronoea or a discourse of the policy and kingdom of darkness Together with a solution of the chiefest objections brought against the being of Witches Lond. 1682. oct He hath also collected and published The remaines of that rev and learned Prelate Dr. George Rust late L. Bishop of Dromore in Ireland Lond. 1686. qu. Mar. 22. Rowl Stedman of Vniv Coll. Admitted 8â— or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Physick was admitted this year Bach. of Div. Jul. 19. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was admitted to the said degree this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jul. 19. Rich. Nayler of Magd. Hall This Gent. who accumulated the degrees in Phys was originally of Caies Coll. in Cambridge into which he was admitted an 1639 and afterwards studied Physick for 9 years together Feb. 16. Philip Stephens Principal of Hart Hall This Physitian who was born at Devises in Wilts was originally of S. Albans Hall and afterwards made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and became half author William Browne being the other of a book of Simpling or Botany intit Catalogus horti botanici Oxoniensis alphabeticè digestus c. cui accessere plantae minimum sexaginta suis nominibus insignitae quae nullibi nisi in hoc opusculo memorantur Oxon. 1658. oct The foundation of the said book was taken from another intit Catalogus plantarum horti medici Oxoniensis scil Latino-Anglicus Anglico-Latinus Oxon. 1648. oct Written by Jacob Bobart of Brounswick in Germany Keeper of the Physick Garden belonging to the University of Oxon. Dr. Stephens died at London after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and J. Bobart in his Garden-house on the 4 of Febr. 1679 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. ☞ Not one was admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity this year Incorporations Jul. 11. Gasper Needham M. of A. of Peter House in Cambr. This person who was at this time and the year before a Student in this Univ. for the sake of the public Library was afterwards Doct. of
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.