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A71277	Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 2. an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690 representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings : to which are added, the Fasti, or, Annals, of the said university, for the same time ...	Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.	1692 (1692)	Wing W3383A; ESTC R200957	1,495,232	926

at Court had a high value for him and so continued for several years after He was highly valued by the most noble Tho. Earl of Strafford with whom he went into Ireland and continued there for some time to the end that his advice and counsel might be used which tho advantageous in several respects to that generous Count yet it was disliked by many especially those of the precise party after they had understood Tob. Mathew's character from one Andr. ab Habernfield in a pretended discovery of a plot of treason against the King sent in a Letter from Sir Will. Boswell his Majesties Agent at the Hague to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury in the month of Octob. 1640 which runs thus Sir Tob. Mathew a Jesuited Priest of the order of Politicians a most vigilant man of the chief Heads to whom a bed was never so dear that he would rest his head thereon refreshing his body with sleep in a chair for an hour or two neither day nor night spared he his machinations a man principally noxious and himself the plague of the King and Kingdom of England a most impudent man who flies to all banquets and feasts called or not called never quiet always in action and perpetual motion thrusting himself into all conversations of superiors He urgeth conferences familiarly that he might fish out the minds of men Whatever he observeth thence which may bring any commodity or discommodity to the part of the conspirators he communicates to the Popes Legat and the more secret things he himself writes to the Pope or to Cardinal Barbarino In sum he adjoins himself to any mans company no word can be spoken that he will not lay hold on and communicate to his Party In the mean time whatever he hath fished out he reduceth into a Catalogue and every Summer carrieth it to the general consistory of the Politician Jesuits which secretly meet together in Wales where he is an acceptable guest c. He was a Person extremely hated by the Presbyterians and more especially by Prynne who spared not to say because he was acquainted with Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. that he was sent into England by the Pope Urban the 8. with whom he was in great esteem to reconcile England to the Church of Rome in which work also he as they further say received a Pension from the said Card. Barbarino the Protector of the English Nation at Rome But letting these bare reports pass I shall only tell you that he had all his Fathers name and many of his natural parts was also one of considerable learning good memory and sharp wit mixed with a pleasant affability in behaviour and a seeming sweetness of mind though sometimes according to the company he was in pragmatical and a little too forward He hath written and translated several things but all that I have yet either seen or heard of are only these A rich Cabinet of precious Jewells When printed unless in 1623 or where I know not A collection of Letters Lond. 1660. oct Character of the most excellent Lady Lucy Countess of Carlile Printed with the collection She being the Goddess that he adored was the reason why Sir John Suckling brought him into the Poem called The Session or Court of Poets thus Toby Mathews Pox on him what made him there Was whispering something in some-bodies eare When he had the honor to be named in court But Sir you may thank my Lady Carleil for't The said Lucy was Daughter of Hen. Percy Earl of Northumberland who dying issuless in Nov. 1660 was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex by her Ancestors Letters to several Persons Lond. 1660. oct printed with the collection and character with his picture before them Among which letters are perhaps those of his writing in the Cabala Mysteries of state published in 1654 and in the Cabala or Scrinia Sacra printed at Lond. 1663. He also wrot a book to shew the benefit that proceeds from washing the head every morning in cold water which I have not yet seen and had gone far in the History of the late times but leaving it imperfect it never yet saw light He translated into English 1 S. Austins confessions printed in oct sold in 1624 about which time it was printed for sixteen shillings a Copy tho as one saith it might have been afforded for 2 s. 6 d. 2 The Life of S. Teresa pr. about 1623. in oct 3 The penitent Bandito or the history of the conversion and death of the most illustrious Lord Signor Troilo Savelli a Baron of Rome printed about the same time The second edit of it came forth in 1663 in oct He also translated into the Italian tongue The Essaies of Francis Lord Bacon printed at Lond. in oct He concluded his last day at Gaunt in Flanders on the 13. of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and five according to the accompt they there follow in the house of the third probation of the English FF of the society of Jesus and was buried in a Vault under the Church belonging to them without any kind of pomp or splendor in funeral according to his will On his Coffin of wood was a leaden plate fastned with this written thereon Hic jacet D. Tobias Matthaei JEROM TURNER Son of George Turner was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there made his first entry into the University in Easter term 1633 aged 18 years and soon after being made Batler of S. Edmunds Hall took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member thereof in the year 1636 and compleated it by Determination Not long after he became Schoolmaster of Beer belonging to Seaton in Devon where also he preached as an Assistant to his very good Friend Hugh Gundrey his Fathers kinsman for the space of two years Thence he removed to Axmonth in the said County where he served as an Assistant also to Will. Hook then Minister of that place afterwards in New England and at length Master of the Savoy in the Strand near London with whom he continued about two years more From thence he removed to Compton two miles from the place of his nativity where he continued a while and thence removed to Sir Thom. Trenchard to be his Chaplain continuing there till 1641 about which time the Civ War breaking out he was forced to fly to Southampton for refuge where he continued during the heat of the Wars and preached with the great approbation of the Presbyterian Ministers and People there So much it seems they were taken with his Sermons that they earnestly perswaded him to print an exposition he had made on the first Chapter of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Ephesians but he could not be prevailed upon to do it The Wars being over and Neitherbury a great country Parish in Dorsetshire being void of a Minister he by the sollicitations of friends went thither and became their Pastor in the beginning of

should be performed in French according to the book of Common Prayer by Law established his Majesty providing for one Minister and they themselves allowed to add to him as many as by them should be thought convenient provided that the said Ministers be presented to the Bishop of London and by him instituted By vertue of the said Grant the Liturgie of the Church of England was first read in French in the Fr. Ch. at VVestm assembled by the Kings special favour in the Chappel of the Savoy in the Strand on Sunday 14 July 1661 and the same day in the morning our author Durell who had the chief hand in setting up this Church according to this new model did preach and in the afternoon Le Couteur then Dean of Jersey from which time he with others were constant Preachers for several years following and much resorted to and admired by all In the beginning of Apr. 1663 he Durell was made Preb. of North Aulton in the Church of Salisbury being then Chapl. in ord to his Maj. and in Feb. following he succeeded Dr. A. Hawles in his Prebendship of VVindsore and about that time was made Prebendary of Durham and had a rich Donative confer'd on him In the latter end of 1669 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity as a member of Merton Coll by vertue of the Chancellours Letters read in a full Convocation held on the 13 of Octob. going before whereby we are informed that his fame was so well known to them the Academians especially for the great pains he had taken in the Church that he could hardly propose any thing to them in his behalf in which they would not be willing to prevent him The most noble Chancellour farther adds that of his parts and learning they were better Judges than himself but had not so much experience of his Loyalty Fidelity and Service to his Majesty as himself c. In July 1677 he became Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Br. Ryves deceased and so consequently Dean of VVolverhampton and had he lived some years longer there is no doubt but he would have been promoted to a Bishoprick He was a person of unbyassed and fixed Principles untainted and steady Loyalty as constantly adhering to the sinking cause and interest of his Soveraign in the worst of times who dar'd with an unshaken and undaunted resolution to stand up and maintain the honour and dignity of the English Church when she was in her lowest and deplorable condition He was very well vers'd also in all the Controversies on foot between the Church and the disciplinarian Party the justness and reasonableness of the established Constitutions of the former no one of late years hath more plainly manifested or with greater learning more successfully defended against its most zealous modern oppugners than he hath done as by his Works following is manifest Several of his professed Adversaries do give him great commendations particularly Lewis du Moulin who saith that he is in familiari progressu vir civilis ingenio ore probo pectore niveo oratione profluente lenocinante c. And one of another perswasion named Father Simon Priest of the Congregation of the Oratory calls him a learned English Protestant But now let 's proceed to the Works of Learning by him published which are these Theoremata Philosophiae rationa●is moralis naturalis supernaturalis quorum veritatem tueri conabitur in Coll. Sylvano Acad. Cadomensis c. 8 Jul. 1644. Cadom 1644. quart The Liturgy of the Church of England asserted in a Serm. on 1 Cor. 11.16 Lond. 1661. 62. qu. ded to Jam. Duke of Ormonde It was preached in French at the first opening of the Savoy Chap. for the French 14 Jul. 1661. Translated into English by G. B. Doctor of Phys A view of the Government and public Worship of God in the reformed Churches beyond the Seas wherein is shewed their conformity and agreement with the Church of England as it is by Law established Lond. 1662. qu. Tho this book wherein the author speaks several things of himself was wrot in English yet the adverse party thought fit to rally up their scatter'd forces and appear against it in different languages One is in French intit An Apologie for English Puritans The Writer of which neither mentions Dr. Durell or any body else in the title and tho an Independent yet he pleads the cause of the Presbyterians The other Answer which is an Apologie also is said by a certain person to have been written by Hen. Hickman bearing this title Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia vulgo Nonconformists an 1662 Aug. 24 die Bartholomaeo dicto ejectis c. And tho this and others are stiled Apologies yet our author Durell saith they are Satyrs and no other but famosi adversus Ecclesiam Anglicanam libelli Dr. Lew. du Moulin designed once to translate the said View of the Government c. which is often quoted by many eminent Writers and highly commended into Latine for the sake and use of Foreigners but VVill. Jenkyns the noted Presbyterian Minister deter'd him from his purpose threatning him with no lesser punishment than that of eternal damnation if so pernicious a book as he was pleased to call it in which the concord of the Church of England with all the reformed Churches as to Church Government and divine Worship should be by his means communicated to Foreigners The Doctor himself hath told us this saying that for this reason he let fall the work after he had began it having proceeded no farther in it than the translation of the Preface which Dr. Durell had by him as wrot with Moulins own hand This and more concerning the whole matter may be seen in our Authors Responsio ad Apologistae prefationem going next before his Vindici● c. As for Jenkins before mention'd a most rigid Presbyterian he had been Pastor of the Black Fryers and afterwards of Ch. Ch. in London had been engaged with the Presbyterian Ministers in their Plot to bring in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland 1651 for which he had like to have gone to the pot with his dear brother Love was ejected from Ch. Ch. for Nonconformity an 1662 and carrying on afterwards the trade of Conventicling was several times imprison'd and otherwise troubled He hath written many things not now to be mentioned among which is The busie Bishop or the Visitor visited c. Lond. 1648 written in answer to a Pamphlet published by J. G. called Sion Coll. visited He hath also several Sermons extant two or more were preached before the Long Parliament and a fun sermon also on 2 Pet. 1.15 was preached 12 Sept. 1675 by the occasion of the much lamented death of the learned Dr. Laz. Seaman But several passages therein giving offence came out soon after an Answer to some part of it intit A vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie c. in a letter

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

5 of Aug. following being Sunday Mr. Edw. Reynolds preaching to the University in the Chappel of Mert. Coll of which he was Fellow touched upon the passages which had hapned between Prideaux and Heylyn impertinently to his text but pertinently enough unto his purpose which was to expose Heylyn to disgrace and censure But so it was that tho he was then present yet it did little trouble him as he himself acknowledgeth In Feb. 1627 he was by the letters of the Lord Danvers then Earl of Danby commended to Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells for his advancement in the Church By vertue of which he was received by him as our Author Heylyn tells you at large in the life of the said Bishop published 1668 at which time having several private discourses together Laud fell upon the business at Oxon. between Prideaux and him adding withal that he had read his supposition when he answered pro forma a copy of which Heylyn had given to him and found therein that it was so strongly grounded that all the Prideauxes were not able to overthrow it in a fair way that also he would not have him discouraged by noise and clamours telling him farther that he himself had in his younger days maintained the same positions in a disputation in S. Johns Coll. for which he was much clamoured at by Dr. Abbot then Vicechancellour afterwards Archb. of Cant. and made a by-word and reproach in the University but he thanked God he had overcome that difficulty and got the better of his Adversaries and so might he Finally he admonished him to hold in that moderate course he found him in and to apply his study to the making up of breaches in the walls of Christendome c. In the latter end of 1628 he went as Chaplain to the E. of Danby beforemention'd into the Isle of Guernsey of which the said Earl was Governour where continuing about 3 weeks returned into England drew up a discourse of that voyage and in the Month of June in the year following did present it to Laud then Bishop of London to whose patronage as it seems he had committed it The same year also 1629 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and nominated one of his Maj. Chaplains in Jan. the same year So that being Shipped and in hopes of a good wind he thought it did concern him to do somewhat to be known at Court especially by the great ones there Whereupon he fell into a resolution to effect the History of S. George Patron of the most noble Order of the Garter the studying and writing whereof took up all the spring time of 1630. He found it full of difficulties the whole world being against him and no path to follow but at length he overcame it Upon Act Sunday the same year he preached the University Sermon at S. Maries on this text But while men slept the Enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away Matth. 13.25 In which Sermon he discovered the great mystery of iniquity which lay hid under the specious project of the Feoffes for buying in of impropriations and was the first who ever gave publick notice of the danger of it to the undeceiving of the People It made much noise and brought to him more envy as he is pleased to say if I mistake not in his Historie of the life of Dr. Laud. The same year also on S. Mar. Magd. day he resigned his Fellowship having been married almost two years before In Oct. 1631 he was made Rector of Henningford in Huntingdonshire by the procurement of Dr. Laud and on the first of Nov. following the K. gave him a Prebendship of Westminster void by the death of Dr. George Darrell somtimes Fellow of All 's Coll. Which matter so soon as it came to the knowledge of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and then Dean of Westminster it put him to extreme vexation because this our Author Heylyn was beloved of Dr. Laud between which Bishops there was never a right understanding and that also there was likely to follow great discord between them because of several affronts that Williams had before given him for his forwardness high conceit of himself and confidence The next year the K. bestowed on him the rich Parsonage of Houghton in the Spring within the Bishoprick of Durham void by the preferment of Dr. Aug. Lindsell to the Bishoprick of Peterborough which for his own convenience the King gave way that he should change it with Dr. Marshall for the rectory of Ailresford in Hampshire In 1633 he proceeded D. of D. and in the Vespers then held had these 3 questions following to answer to 1 An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis Aff. 2 An Eccles habeat authoritatem decernendi ritus ceremonias Aff. 3 An Eccles habeat authoritatem interpretandi Scripturas sacras Aff. All which tho taken Verbatim out of the 20 Article of the Church of England were so displeasing to Prideaux the Professor that he fell into very great heats and passion in which he let fall certain matters very unworthy of the place where utter'd as also distastful to many of the auditory among whom were James du Perron the Queens Almoner afterwards Bishop of Angoulisme in France which after drew some censure on him The particulars were these 1 Ecclesia est m●ra chimera 2 Ecclesia nihil docet nec determinat 3 Controversiae omnes melius ad Academiam referri possunt quam ad Ecclesiam 4 Docti homines in Academiis possunt determinare omnes controversias etiam sepositis Episcopis c. Upon occasion also of mentioning the absolute decree he brake into a great and long discourse that his mouth was shut up by Authority else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis which fetcht a great hum from the Country Ministers then present What therefore followed upon this you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 440. a. But so netled was Prideaux that the K. by Heylyns means should take cognizance of that matter that when he put in his protestation against the utterance of those things alledged against him into the hands of the Chancellour of the University in Aug. following did at the same time the King being then at Woodstock cause a paper to be spread about the Court touching the business of the Vespers in the last Act very much tending to Heylyns disgrace Heylyn therefore being not able to brook it for he was of an high and audacious spirit it so fell out that when in Oct. following came out his Maj. declaration concerning lawful sports which raised much clamour against the King and more against Dr. Laud Heylyn for the appeasing it fell upon a course of translating Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath and putting a preface to the same which being published in print in Hilarie term an 1633 conduced much to his Majesties proceedings in

Oxonii 1624. Printed with Balliofergus c. This Dr. Savage died in Ball. Coll. on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chappel belonging thereunto next below the steps leading to the altar being the first that was ever known to have received sepulture therein In his Headship of Ball. Coll. succeeded Dr. Thom. Good whom I shall mention elsewhere ABIEZER COPPE the Son of Walt. Coppe was born in the antient Borough of Warwick in Warwickshire 20. May 1619 educated in Grammar learning there and at about 17 years of age was sent to All 's Coll. in the beginning of 1636 where continuing but for a short time in the condition of a Servitor I think he became one of the number of Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Mert. College at which time tho he was put under the tuition of a good Tutor Ralph Button I think yet being naturally vitious all lectures or examples could not reform or make him live like a Christian And it was then notoriously known that he would several times entertain for one night or more a wanton huswife in his Chamber under that called Oxoniam quare as I have heard in the little or old quadrangle to whom carrying several times meat at the hour of refection he would make answer when being asked by the way what he would do with it that it was a bit for his cat At length the Civil War breaking forth he left the University without a degree adhered to the blessed Cause and at first was a Presbyterian But the gap being widened for all heresies to come in he became an Anabaptist and after a Ranter Muggletonian and what not to satisfie his wandring head and filthy lusts The stage of most of his villanies was Warwickshire where and in the neighbourhood and in other of his rambles he had while he was an Anabaptist baptized seven thousand People as he brag'd to some Oxford Scholars while he was a Prisoner in Coventry After he had left that opinion and had turned Ranter 't was usual with him to preach stark naked many blasphemies and unheard of villanies in the day-time and in the night be drunk and lye with a Wench that had been also his hearer stark naked He was wont to say when he was reprehended for swearing that tho it was usual with him in common discourse and in his preachings yet 't was not formally but materially as thus By Gods wounds I shall be saved and the like But he said these things when he was imprison'd for his rogueries and not before When also he was check'd by the Brethren of the Anabaptistical party for leaving them he would swear that he would rather hear an Arch Angel blaspheme and curse God than hear a Presbyterian or Anabaptist preach About the time of his publishing the Fiery flying Roll he was for that and other rascallities imprison'd at Coventry where 't was usual with him after he had swore and cursed most of the day to be drunk at night And when he was to be removed thence to London a Brother of his Religion brought a collection of fifty pounds to pay his debts there This brother while he remained in that City preached twice in one day and towards night he preached in the Prison to Coppe and others of his gang Which being done they enjoyed the creature so much that they were all down-right drunk To omit many other of his pranks that he acted then and before I shall tell you what he hath written viz. A fiery flying roll c. Lond. 1649. This book I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give a full account of it In the month of January the same year he as a most notorious sectarist and author of that book was removed from Coventry to the Prison called Newgate in London where as before he did little else but swear and curse and obstinately held forth to all People that came to see him that God could not damn him and having smooth arguments for what he had said induced many to be of his Religion On the 2. of Feb. following it was voted by the members of Parliament who by their most imparallel'd actions had been and were then the occasion of all Englands woes and miseries and so let it stand upon eternal record to their eternal shame that the said book entit A fiery flying roll doth contain many horrid blasphemies and damnable and detestable opinions and that the said book and all the copies of it that could be found should be burnt by the hands of the common hangman c. which accordingly was done The errors that Coppe held which he afterwards recanted were these 1 That there is no sin 2 That there is no God 3 That man or the meer creature is very God 4 That God is in man or in the creature only and no where else 5 That cursing and swearing is no sin 6 That adultery fornication and uncleaness is no sin 7 That community of Wives is lawful c. Afterwards for fear of corporal punishment or perpetual exile in an obscure place Coppe recanted and published another book after he had been an year and an half in prison entit Copp's return to the way of truth in a zealous and sincere protestation against several errors and in a sincere and zealous testimony to several truths or truth asserted against and triumphing over error and the wings of the fiery flying roll clip't c. Lond. 1651. qu Before which is a large preface shewing what the author Coppe had been and was then to the Parliament Letter in answer to another of Mr. John Dury Printed with Copp's return as also another to March Nedham Afterwards Coppe was set at liberty was kindly entertained among those of his opinion and being at Burford in Oxfordshire preached there A recantation Sermon 23. Dec. 1651 but whether printed I cannot tell Sure it is that John Tickell a Minister of Abendon in Berks. somtimes of Ch. Ch. did write Animadversions on it which are printed at the end of his Bottomless pit smoaking in familisme Oxon. 1652. oct He the said Coppe published also a book written by J. F. entit John the Divines Divinity or the confession of the general assembly or Church of the first born in heaven Lond. 1649. Before which book Coppe hath put an Epistle dated at London 13 Jan. 1648 two or three days as he saith before the eternal God thundred at Great S. Ellens in Lond. This book is a silly thing full of blasphemies and more fit for a posterior use than to be read by any man of Reason or Sobriety Afterwards the Name of Coppe being odious he did upon the Kings restauration change it to Higham and practising Physick at Barnelms in Survey and sometimes preaching in Conventicles to maintain him and his went for divers years by the Name of Dr. Higham At length being brought low by certain Infirmities which he had contracted in

the holy Feast of Easter c. Written 1665. Apotelesma or the nativity of the World and revolution thereof Short discourse of yeares months and dayes of yeares Somthing touching the nature of Ecclipses and also of their effects Of the Crises in diseases c. Of the mutations inclinations and eversions of Empires Kingdomes c. Discourse of the names Genus Species c. of all Comets Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus c. Secret multiplication of the effects of the Starrs from Cardan Sundry rules shewing by what Laws the weather is governed and how to discover the various alterations of the same He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man c. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct This is sometimes called Whartons Chiromancy Most of which foregoing treatises were collected together and publishd an 1683 in oct by John Gadbury born at Wheatley near to and in the County of Oxon 31. Dec. 1627 Son of Will. Gadb of that place farmer by his stoln Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight bound an Apprentice to Tho. Nicholls a Taylor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon left him after the great fire hapned in that City 1644 and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacks improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making and Fortune-telling for himself in which he became eminent Our author Wharton hath also written Select and choice poems Composed during the Civil War which I have before mention'd At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried on the 25 day of the same month in the Chappel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan Trought a Clothier was born in the City of Coventry educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1655 afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 being ejected to make room for one who had been expel'd by the Visitors in 1648 he retired to a mercate town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister where living a moderate Nonconformist read Academical learning to young men and somtimes preached in private whereby he got a comfortable subsistence Upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for the toleration of religion dat 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four Dr. Hen. Langley and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Div. being the other three who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet without the north gate in an house which had been built a little before the Civil War began by Tom. Pun alias Tho. Aires where each person endeavouring to shew his parts this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars who came among them meerly out of novelty held ●he best and was by them most applauded The truth is tho the man had been blind occasion'd by the small pox ever since he was four years old yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are but very moderate And altho he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices too frequently practiced by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable ministry by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosome of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable correspondence with some of the conformable Clergy because of his great knowledg and moderation He hath written and published Lutherus redivivus or the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only vindicated And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianisme part 1. Lond. 1677. oct This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness c. Lond. 1678. oct Luther Rediv. or the Protest doctr of justif by Christs righteousness imputed to believers explained and vindicated part 2. Lond. 1678. oct Letter to a Friend touching Gods providence about sinful actions in answer to a Letter intit The reconcilableness of Gods prescience c. and to a postcript of that Letter Lod. 1678. oct Popery the grand Apostasie Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess 2. from ver 1. to 12 on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K Kingdome and Protestant religion To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4 preached 5. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct An Apologie for the Nonconformists shewing their reasons both for their not conforming and for their preaching publickly tho forbidden by Law Lond. 1681. quart An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching Printed with the Apologie This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren situat and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 44 years whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned alias Burchester and buried in the Church there At which time Abrah James a blind man Master of the Free-school at Woodstock sometimes of Magd. Hall preaching his funeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct but to make several glances on the government established by law So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister a zealous man for the Church of England complaining to the Diocesan of him James was glad to retract what he had said before him to prevent an ejection from his School which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton I cannot without the guilt of concealment but let the Reader know this story of one of that name which is this While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a

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 coel●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.