dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23 was buried at the upper end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Christian put up a monument over his grave which is yet remaining but defaced Mark Zeiglier a German was entred into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Jansonius Artopaeus Finsoendensis Civis Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Ernesti Erffurtoâ—Thuringus was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638 and continued in the College till July 1641. Besides these and many more which shall now be omitted have been several of the Scotch nation that have been received into the said House upon the same account among which have been 1 Joh. Balcanquall see in the Fasti 1612. among the Incorporations 2 .... Gilman who studied there 1613 and some time after 3 Sam. Balcanquall 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after See in the Fasti 1618 among the Incorporations 4 Rob. Spotswood M. of Arts of Glascow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours as his singular virtues did merit K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counsellour K. Charles advanced him to be Lord President of the Sessions and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland in the place of William Earl of Lanerick afterwards Duke of Hamilton when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom After James Marquess of Montross had gained great victories against the said Cov. the said Sir Rob. Spotswood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the said Montross letters pattents whereby he was made Vice-Roy of Scotland and General of the Army there But being soon after taken prisoner upon the defeat of Montross near Silkerke he was conveyed to S. Andrews where at length they found him guilty of High Treason lamented by many because he never bore arms against them for his eminency laid in the way of peace and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword His treason being for conveying the said let pat he was beheaded at S. Andrews in 1645 leaving then behind him the general character of a most excellent and good man He was a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and study of the law hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotswood the famous and orthodox Theologist of Scotland consecrated Archbishop of Glascow in the Archbishps Chappel at Lambeth near London according to the ceremonies of the Church of England on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was consecrated Bishop of Galloway and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin The said Dr. Spotswood was afterwards translated to St. Andrews and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an 1639. aged 74 years was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster 5 James Hamilton Earl of Arran Baron of Evenu in Scotland and of Ennerdale in Cumberland eldest Son of James Marquess of Hamilton was admitted a Noble man under the said Dr. Prideaux his tuition 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marquess and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge 6 James Baylie Governour to the said Count was admitted at the same time to the Fellows table with him See in the Fasti 1621. among the Creations It is farther also to be noted that as the said College did send out many eminent men into the Church and State that had been under the Government of Prideaux so also many that did great mischief and were enemies to them as you may see at large in this work in the lives and characters of several that had been educated in the said College Some also of the English Nobility having been sent thereunto have by the Principles that they have sucked in proved no great friends either to the Church or State Among such have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a severe predestinarian and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury of whom shall be large mention made elsewhere Philip the second Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who lived and died little better than a Quaker c. HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonshire entred into Exeter Coll. in 1619 and in the year of his age 17 took one degree in Arts and then was made Prob. Fellow of his House 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty took holy orders and became a useful and necessary Person in the society by moderating reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chappel At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div became an able and painful Preacher had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons and seem'd to be a most precise Puritan in his looks and life which was the true reason why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines but refused to sit among them choosing rather to exercise his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament or in his cures there than venture himself among rigid Calvinists In 1646 a little before the garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he was one of those noted Theologists who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majesty or at S. Maries before the Parliament that were nominated by the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of D. of D. bestowed upon them but that also he as others refused In 1647. and 48 he behav'd himself a stout Champion against the unreasonable proceedings of the Visitors appointed by Parliament For which being by them posted up for an expell'd Scholar revoked their sentence so far that by an order dated 2. Nov. 16â—8 they impower'd him to have liberty to use his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as also that he enjoy a Travellers allowance for three years Afterwards he went into Holland and became Minister to the worshipful company of English Merchants at Roterdam His works are these Directions for a godly life especially for communicating at the Lords table Oxon. 1628. oct There again the tenth time 1680. oct Several Sermons as 1 A Christian amendment Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17 Oxon. 1633. oct 2 Christian Wisdom or the excellency c. of true wisdom Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24 Oxon. 1639. oct 3 Sermon on Joh. 18.3 Ox. 1640. c. Dicta facta Christi ex quatuor Evangelistis collecta in ordme disposita Oxon. 1634. oct He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred and fifty old stile and was buried in the English Church at Roterdam appropriated to
these Several Sermons as 1 Sermon of Confirmation preached at the first Visitation of John Lord Bish of Oxon 27 Sept. 1619 on Acts 8.17 Lond. 1620. qu. 2 Serm. concerning decency and order on 1 Cor. 14.40 Lond. 1638. qu. and two or more other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. one on 1 Cor. 1.10 and another on 1 Joh. 4.1.2.3 Both printed at Lond. in qu. 1635. Treatise shewing the nullity and invalidity of the Presbyterians Ordination of Ministers according to the Parliaments Ordinance an 1644. This book I have not yet seen and therefore can say no more of it only that it stood unanswer'd by the Presbyterians either Scots or English Principles of Religion or a short exposition of the Catechism of the Church of England Oxon. 1646. and several times after at London oct One of which Editions bears this Title A short Exposition of the Catechism of the Church of Eng. with the Church Catechism it self and order of Confirmation in English and Lat. for the use of Scholars Mr. Geree's Case of Conscience sifted wherein is enquired whether the King can with a safe Conscience consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1648. qu. See in Joh. Geree p. 65. who made a Reply to this Two Letters to Mr. T. B. giving an account of the Church Catholique where it was before the Reformation and whether Rome were or be the Ch. Catholick Lond. 1653. Answer'd by R. T. Esq printed as 't is said at Paris 1654 in a little oct By which R. T. is meant as I have been informed by some Rom. Catholicks Thomas Read LL. D. sometimes Fellow of New Coll. in Oxon. This Dr. Boughen as I have been informed lived to see his Majesty restored and what before he had lost he did obtain ISAAC COLF a Kentish man born of gentile Extraction was educated in Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated an 1611. Afterwards entring into the sacred function he became at length Rector of S. Leonards Church in Eastcheap within the City of London where he was much reverenced by the Orthodox Party for his Religion and Learning In the beginning of the Civil Wars commenc'd by the Presb. he was forced by them to give up his rectory to one H. Roborough scribe to the Ass of Divines Whereupon retiring to Chaldwell in Essex the liberal man devised liberal things viz. an Almeshouse for poor People at Lewsham in Kent with a considerable maintenance He hath written Commentary on the eleven first verses of the fourth Chapt. of S. Mathew Lond. 1654 oct and other things which I have not seen When or where he died I cannot tell or where his reliques were lodg'd ALEXANDER GRIFFITH a Welsh man born was educated in Hart Hall took one degree in Arts an 1618 retired to his Country and there had a School or a small cure or both conferred upon him In 1631 he proceeded in his faculty being then or after beneficed in South Wales but after the Rebellion broke out he suffered for his Loyalty and at length was sequestred from his Spiritualities He hath written Strena Vavasoriensis or a New-years gift for the Welsh Itinerants Or an hue and crie after Mr. Vavasor Powell Metrapolitan of the Itinerants and one of the Executioners of the Gospel by colour of the late Act for the propagation thereof in Wales c. Lond. 1654. in 4 sh in qu. Therein is a true relation of the birth course of life and doctrine of the said Vav Powell A true and perfect relation of the whole transaction concerning the petition of the six Counties of South Wales and the County of Monmouth formerly presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for a supply of Godly Ministers and an account of Ecclesiastical revenues therein c. Lond. 1654. in 7. sh and half in qu. He is supposed also to be Author of or at least to have had a hand in a Pamphlet entit Mercurius Cambro-Britannicus or News from Wales touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel in those parts c. Lond. 1652. in 3 sh in qu. Of what other things he is the Author or promoter I know not nor whether he lived to be restored to his Spiritualities ROBERT GENTILIS Son of Aubrey Gentilis mention'd among these Writers under the year 1611. p. 314 was born in London matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 19. of Apr. 1599 in the ninth year of his age took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of Jesus Coll. in the beginning of July 1603 was translated to S. Johns Coll. soon after and became Collector in the Lent following for Proctor W. Laud of that House Thence he was elected Probationer Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1607 by the endeavours of his Father who got him sped into that house by an argument in Law as being under the statutable years In the said Coll. he continued for some time took a degree in the Civil Law but turned a Rake-hell became King of the beggars for a time and so much given up to sordid liberty if not downright wickedness that he not only spent all that he could get from his Father whom he would often abuse but also afterwards what he could get from his Mother to whom also he was very disobedient as she in her last will confesseth Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas took up and became a sober man and at his return was a retainer to the Royal Court and received a Pension from the King He hath translated from Ital. into English 1 The history of the inquisition Lond. 1639. qu. written by Paul Servita 2 Of the success and chief events of the Monarchy of Spayne and of the revolt of the Catalonians Lond 1639. in tw written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi 3 Considerations on the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus Lond. 1650. in tw written by the same Author Also from French into English Le Chemia abrege or a compendious method for the attaining of sciences in a short time together with the Statutes of the Academie founded by the Cardinal of Richelieu Lond. 1654. oct And lastly from Spanish as it seems into English The antipathy between the French and the Spaniard Lond. 1641. in tw Ded. by the translator to Sir Paul Pindar Kt to whom in his Epist he promiseth something that shall be his own invention that is to publish something of his own writing but whether he was as good as his word I know not One Robert Gentilis a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Pontfract in Yorkshire wrot a book of Homelies and therefore is numbred among our English Writers but Quaere whether he was not an Outlander HUGH ROBINSON born in S. Maries Parish in the County of Anglesie educated in Grammatical learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1605 took the
Nephew called John Kirton Doctor of the same faculty who is to be mentioned elsewhere JOHN GOUGHE commonly called Goffe Son of the Rector of Stanmer in Sussex was born in that County began to be conversant with the Muses in Merton Coll. an 1624 made Demie of that S. Mar. Magd. in 1627 aged 17 years or more perpetual Fellow 29. July 1630 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into Orders and became a Preacher in these parts In 1642. Sept. 26. he was inducted into the Vicaridge of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the City of Canterbury in the place of James Hirst deceased From whence being ejected soon after for refusing the Covenant was with other loyal Clergy men cast into the County Prison in S. Dunstans Parish in the Suburbs of the said City In 1652 he by the endeavours of his Brother William whom I shall anon mention was inducted into the rectory of Norton near Sittingbourne in Kent on the thirteenth day of March and in the year 1660 he being restored to his Vicaridge of S. Stephen was actually created Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of December the same year and inducted again according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England into the rectory of Norton on the 4. of March following which were all the spiritualities he enjoyed He hath written a book intit Ecclesiae Anglicanae ΘΡΗÎΩΔΙ'Α in qua perturbatissimus regni ecclesiae status sub Anabaptistica tyrannide lugetur Lond. 1661. oct Also a large latine Epistle written to Dr. Edw. Simson set before a book written by him intit Chronicon Catholicum c. Lond. 1652. fol. He concluded his last day in the Parish of Norton beforementioned and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26. day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and one This Person who was a zealous Son of the Church of England had an elder Brother named Steph. Goffe originally of Mert. Coll afterwards of S. Alb. Hall and a Bigot of the Church of Rome and another Brother named William whether elder or younger I know not who was originally a Trader in London afterwards a Presbyterian Independent one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and one of Olivers Lords who to save his neck from the Gallows did upon a foresight of the Kings return in 1660 leave the Nation and died obscurely in a strange Land The Father of the said Goffes was Steph. Goffe somtimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll a good Logician and Disputant but a very severe Puritan eminent for his training up while a Tutor several that proved afterwards very noted Scholars among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris D. of D. sometimes President of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. THOMAS LUSHINGTON a famous Scholar of his time was born at Sandwych in Kent matriculated in the University as a member of Broadgates Hall in Lent term 1606 7 aged 17 years but how long he stayed there it appears not Sure it is that he having had some publick employment in the Country or elsewhere did not take the degree of Bachelaur nor that of Master of Arts till 1618 in which year he was a Communer of Linc. Coll. Not long after he returned to Broadgates again and was there at the time when it was converted into the College of Pembroke where he spent some years in Theological studies took the degree of Bach. of Div. and soon after for the great respect that Corbet B. of Oxon had for made him one of his Chaplains In June 1631 he became Prebendary of Bemister Secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of the said Corbet to the See of Oxon and in the year following proceeding in his faculty the said Bishop took him with him when he was translated to Norwych bestowed on him the rectory of Burnham-Westgate in Norfolk and got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. When the grand rebellion broke out he lost his spiritualities and lived obscurely in several places publishing then divers books to gain money for his maintenance At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2 in 1660 he was restored to his spiritualities and had offers made to him of great dignities in the Church but being then aged and infirm he chose rather to keep what he had with quietness than be a Dean with riches He was esteemed a right reverend and learned Theologist yet in many matters imprudent and too much inclined to the opinions of Socinus His preaching also while he remained in the University was generally well esteemed and never gave distaste but in one Sermon which tho esteemed by some to be admirable yet by more blasphemous An account of which you shall have as it followeth In the year 1624 22. Jac. 1. nothing but War with Spain sounding in the ears of the vulgar upon the breaking off of the Spanish match with Prince Charles it pleased this our Author Lushington to utter in his Sermon on Matth. 28.13 at S. Maries on Easter Munday these words Now the Pesant thinks it comes to his turn under pretence of his priviledge in Parliament that he should dispose of Kings and Commonwealths c. Afterwards also thus Nothing now contents the Commonalty but war and contention c. For which as also for several other passages reflecting on the Spanish match he was called into question by Dr. Piers the Vicechancellour and by him was a time appointed for him to recant what he had said Which being done not without the consent of certain Doctors the Repetitioner was commanded to leave out divers passages of the said Sermon which he according to custome was to repeat the Sunday after commonly called Low Sunday His recantation Sermon on Acts 2.1 latter part which he preached the very next day after the Repetitioner had delivered his four Sermons I have seen and therein I find that his meaning for the first passage was only to reprehend the seditious doctrines of Knox Buchanan and others and the tumultuary practices of the common People formerly used both in town and country to affront their Prince because of their privilege to elect Parliamentarie Persons The word now hath the latitude of this age that in Parliament I intended not locally in relation to the vulgar who have a voice to elect Knights and Burgesses but at the present themselves hold no place personally in the Parliament c. As for other passages he said he had no intent to cross the present resolution for War but only to check the inordinate desire of it somwhat too frequent in most mens mouthes and it thought to him somewhat harsh to hear in the Chappel give peace in our time O Lord and presently in the Chambers God send us war again c. Besides this recantation which his friends caused to be put upon him least he should be called into question by the Parliament he was severely check'd by the Vicechancellour and Doctors for using
work of Tithes to which he put a large Preface to the Reader also his Apologie of the Treatise De non temerandis Ecclesiis with four little Treatises annexed thereunto on the same subject by different hands At length Mr. Stephens surrendring up his pious Soul to God at Wotton before mention'd on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a comely Monument intended to be put in the year 1672 but whether yet performed I know not The inscription which was designed to be engraven thereon you may see a copy of it in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 224. a. SAMUEL EATON Son of Rich. Eat Vic. of Great Budworth in Cheshire was born in a little Village called Crowley in that Parish and educated in this University as his Relations have informed me but in what house they cannot tell In the publick register called the Matricula it appears that one Sam. Eaton a Cheshire man born and the Son of a Minister was matriculated or made a member of this University in Apr. 1602 44. Elizab. he being then a Student of Broadgates Hall and in the 17 year of his age But whether this Person who took the degrees in Arts be the same Sam. Eaton whom we are further to mention I cannot tell unless I could be certified that he was 80 years of age or more when he died which was in 1664 as I shall tell you anon After he had left the University I mean him whom I am now to speak of he entred into the sacred function took Orders according to the Church of England and was beneficed in his own Country but having been puritanically educated he did dissent in some particulars relating to the ceremonies thereof Whereupon finding his place too warm for him he revolted and went into New England where he studied in the University and preached among the brethren there Afterwards when a gap was made in the Church of England for the reception of all opinions upon the violent proceedings of the Puritans he returned to his native Country sided with them and took the Covenant kept pace afterwards with the Independents took the Engagement was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cheshire for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and became a most pestilent leading Person in the trade of Faction in the said County and in Lancashire In the time of the Rebellion he was Teacher of the Church at Duckenfield in the Parish of Stockport in Cheshire and afterwards of Stockport where he feather'd his neast and was held in wonderful esteem by the Faction At length after his Majesties restauration being silenced and forced thence yet he carried on the trade of Conventicling in private and was thereupon brought several times into trouble and imprison'd Among several things that he hath written take these following The mysterie of God incarnate or the word made flesh cleared up c. Lond. 1650 oct written against John Knowles a Socinian who had answered our Author Eaton's paper concerning the Godhead of Christ Vindication or farther confirmation of some other Scriptures produced to prove the divinity of Jesus Christ distorted and miserably wrested and abused by Mr. John Knowles c. Lond. 1651. oct The Doctrine of Christs satisfaction and of reconciliation of Gods part to the creature Printed with the Vindication Discourse concerning the springing and spreading of Errour and of the means of cure and of preservative against it Pr. also with the Vindic. Treatise of the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant shewing that they oblige not Lond. in qu. Answered by Anon. in his Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance Printed 1650. qu. The Quakers confuted c. Animadverted upon by that sometimes noted and leading Quaker called George Fox in his book entit The great mysterie of the great Whore unfolded And Antichrists Kingdom revealed unto destruction c. Lond. 1659. fol. pag. 1.2 c. See more of the works of this Sam. Eaton in John Murcot under the year 1654 and in Tim. Taylor under the year 1681. At length after a life spent in continual action for carrying on the cause he surrendred up his last breath at Denton in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire where he had sheltred himself among the Brethren after his ejection on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Chappel there on the thirteenth day of the same month Besides this Samuel I find one Nathaniel Eaton who published Inquisitio in variantes Theologorum quorundam sententias de Sabbato die Dominico c. sub praesidio D. Gul. Amesii SS J. P. Franak 1633. oct but this Nathaniel seems to have been bred in Cambridge and the same who was the first Master of the Coll. at Cambridge in New England whence being ejected for his immoralities he went to Virginia for a time and thence to England After the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. he conformed was beneficed at Biddiford in Devonshire and died in the Prison called the Kings-bench on the account of debt NATHANIEL CANON a Gentlemans Son was born at Reading in Berks entred a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in 1597 aged 16 years his Father then living in London took one degree in Arts entred into the sacred function became Minister of Wokingham or Okingham and afterwards Vicar of Hurley in his own Country being then or about that time Bach. of Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Cryer Sermon at Pauls cross 5. of Feb. 1609 on Esay 58.1 Lond. 1613. qu. 2 Three Sermons the first Discovering a double and false heart on 1. Kings 21.9 The second called The blessedsedness of the righteous on Psal 37. ver 37. and the third The Court of Guard or Watch of Angels on 1. Sam. 17.17.37 Lond. 1616. oct Besides these he hath at least four more Sermons extant the first of which is on Psal 119.136 Printed 1616. oct another on 1. Pet. 4.4 Pr. 1619. oct c. He concluded his last day at Hurley before mentioned after he had ran with and submitted to all mutations in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and four whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there on the 12 day of the same month He was 46 years Vicar of Hurley was a constant Preacher and much followed by the neighbourhood SAMUEL AUSTIN a Cornish man born was entred a Communer of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Gilb. Stokes Chapl. of that house in 1652. aged 16 years took one degree in Arts compleated it by Determination and then went to Cambridge for a time But such was the vanity of this Person that he being extremely conceited of his own worth and over-valuing his poetical fancy more than that of Cleveland who was then accounted by the Bravadoes the Hectoring
put an Introduction to the book He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in one of the Chappels joyning to the Cath. Church Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley a true and zealous son of the Church of England was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a non-conforming Minister and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow one or more of whose Sermons you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4 July 1682 aged 61 and was inter'd in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London in the presence of 500 Persons who accompanied him to his grave Of the same family tho remote was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark p. 153. JOHN WARNER received his first breath as 't is said in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an 1599 aged 16 years where being put under the tuition of a careful Person made a considerable progress in his studies took the degrees in Arts and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house being then esteemed a witty man a good Logician and Philosopher In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesties Chaplains Prebendary of Canterbury Governour of Sion Coll Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell promoted to the See of Peterborough an 1633 and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles was consecrated thereunto on the 14th and installed 21 of January the same year being then noted for a good School Divine and one well read in the Fathers In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury built one at his proper charge which whether more curious or more costly was difficult to judge and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishops votes in the H. of Parliament Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren by having the Lands of his See taken away but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable He hath written Church Lands not to be sold or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold Printed 1646. 48. qu. Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium Printed in the said Dr. Taylor 's Collection of Polemical discourses See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen and perhaps other things Quaere At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave with a large Epitaph thereon wherein 't is said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test he left his personal estate for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows tho himself had always led a single life the Relicts of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an always reserving so much out of their exhibition as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon and not out of any other House And the election of the said 20 Widows is to be made by his Executors for the time being and after their decease by such Trustees as they shall appoint In his life time and at his death he gave a 1000 l. for the encrease of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more To the repair of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To â—he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l to Bromley where his Bishops seat is 20 l and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an to issue out of his mannour of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of Gods word c. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them thoughts were had of making Glocester Hall a College for them and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter the Scholars for the present time were placed there At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol which was in 1672 he took order that they should be translated thither where they yet remain JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1604 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Chaplain as I conceive to Philip Lord Stanhop and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased which he kept to his dying day notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time In Nov. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof which also keeping till his
who was of antient and gentile extract had run out of his estate and being a Prisoner in the Kings-bench could give his Son but little education at School however the youth being very industrious obtained some knowledge in the latine Grammar and afterwards so much money as not only to relieve his Father and get him out of Prison but also to bind himself an Apprentice to one Draper a Dancing master living in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourn near London Soon after he being dextrous in that art and by insinuation into and complying with his Masters customers got so much money from them as to buy out the remaining paâ—t of his time and set up for himself But so it was that he being afterwards selected from the company of Masters to be one of those that should dance when the Duke of Buckinghams great Mask was to be represented it hapned that by his high dancing and cutting of Capers according to the then mode he did by a false step sprain a vein in the inside of his leg which ever after occasioned him to go lamish Afterwards he taught to dance the Sisters of Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton at Wytham in Somersetshire where at leisure hours he learned from that generous and accomplish'd Kt how to handle the pike and musquet and all postures belonging to them When Thomas Earl of Strafford became L. Lieutenant of Ireland he was entertained by him to teach his art in his family and having a command of his pen as to the writing a good hand was also employed sometimes to transcribe several matters for that most noble Count. In his family it was that he first of all gave proof of his inclinations to Poetry by translating some of Aesops Fables in verse which afterwards when he came to understand latin better and had communicated them to several Scholars he made publick And being then one of the Troop of Guard belonging to his Lord he composed in English verse a witty thing entit The character of a Trooper About that time he became by the favour of the said Lord Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland built a little Theater to act plays in in S. Warburghs-street in Dublin and was then and there valued by all ingenious men for his great industry in promoting morality and ingenuity But the rebellion breaking out soon after in that Kingdom he lost all and was several times in jeopardy of his life particularly when he had like to be blown up by gunpowder in the Castle of Refernam near Dublin Much about the time that the war was terminated in England he left Ireland and in his return being wreckt at Sea went to London in a poor condition Thence after some short stay he footed it to Cambridge where his great industry and greater love to learning being discovered was encouraged by several Scholars there who in compliance to his zeal resolved his many doubts put to them and in fine made him so great a Master of the Latine tongue that he translated The works of Pub. Virgil Maro which he published with his picture before them in a large oct Lond. 1649. 50. and dedicated them to his most noble Patron William Marquess of Hertford and thereupon obtained a considerable sum of money in his pocket At that time living in London Aesop the Prince of Mythologists became his quarry descanted on his plain song and paraphras'd his short and pithy sayings whereby he rais'd his voice to such an heigth that he took the degree among the Minor Poets after the publication of that author with this title Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse and adorn'd with sculptures Lond. 1651. qu. In commendation of which Sir Will. D'avenant then a Prisoner in the Tower and Jam. Shirley made verses Hitherto his translation of Virgil continuing in a mean oct he printed it in a royal folio with this title The works of Publius Virgilius Maro translated adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1654. It was the fairest Edition that till then the English Press ever produced and hath his picture before it also as most of the books which he published have The said sculpture and the very same cuts were also by him put into the bare Latin Edition of that author without annotations which was by him published at London in 1658 in a large fol. He also published the said author with sculpture and annotations in a large oct Lond. 1675. and 85. Which was much bought up by young Scholars and Gentlemen such who could not spare money to purchase the folio that being reserved for libraries and the Nobility By the publication with annotations of that most noble author Mr. Ogilby obtained the reputation of a good translator a faithful interpreter and of one that had dabled well in anothers Helicon About that time viz. 1654 he by his great and unwearied diligence accompanied with an unsatiable desire of obtaining knowledge did learn the Greek tongue of one of his Country-men called David Whitford at that time Usher to Jam. Shirley before mention'd And being in a manner Master of it he put out Homer his Iliads translated adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1660. fol. This author the King of Pernassus being by him performed with great cost and labour was by him dedicated to his most gracious Majesty K. Ch. 2. In the same year he put out The Holy Bible according to the translation set forth by special command of K. Jam. 1. with the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England with chorographical sculpture This was printed at Cambr. in a large fol. and on very large paper In the beginning of the year following he received orders from the Commissioners for the solemnity of his Maj. Coronation for the conduct of the poetical part thereof as Speeches Emblems Mottoes and Inscriptions and thereupon drew up for the present The relation of his Majesties entertainment passing through the City of London to his Coronation with a description of the triumphal Arches and solemnity Lond. 1661. in 10. sh in fol. This I say was put out for the present but by command from his Majesty the author did with most admirable sculpture and speeches at large publish it soon after in a royal folio and it hath been much made use of in succeeding coronations About the same time 1662 he went into Ireland being then by pattent made Master of the Revels there after Sir Will. D'avenant had made some strugling for that place And at Dublin he built a noble Theater which cost him about 2000 l the former being ruined in the troubles Afterwards he put out Homer his Odysses translated adorned with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1665. fol. dedicated to his most noble Lord James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of Ireland He then a second time betook himself to Aesop became a Mythologist and not only paraphrased it but was a designer of his own or new Fables therein This was called
he died on the 10. of March another by Anon. who tells us the 12. of the said month c. but both false HUGH CRESSEY or Cressy son of Hugh Cressey a Counsellour of Lincolns Inn by Margerie his wife dau of Dr. Tho. D'oylie a Physitian of London was born in a market Town in Yorksh called Wakefield descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living sometimes at Holme near Hodsack in Nottinghamshire and being educated in Grammar learning in his native country was at 14 years of age sent to the University of Oxon. in Lent term an 1619 but for want of a vigilant Tutor he lost much time yet having good natural parts did in the fourth year after his coming to the Univ. take the degree of Bach. of Arts and in 1625 being a candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. he was elected Probationer and the year after was made true and perpetual Fellow So that what time and learning he before had lost was by a strict and severe discipline then and there observed recovered and advanced After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had entred into holy Orders he became Chaplain to Thom. Lord Wentworth while he was President of the North and afterwards when he was Earl of Strafford but what he obtained from that most noble Lord while he enjoyed that honourable employment I know not In 1638 he went in the quality of a Chaplain as I conceive with his most honoured Lord Lucius Viscount Falkland when he went into Ireland and in the year after returned into England but had nothing then and there conser'd upon him In the latter end of 1642 he became by the favour and interest of the said Viscount then one of the Secretaries of State Canon of Windsore in the room of Dr. Gilb. Primerose deceased but was never installed in that Dignity and much about the same time had the Deanery of Laighlen in Ireland confer'd upon him In which year all things being in a confusion he received no profits from either Dignity So that being destitute of a comfortable subsistance especially in the next year when he lost his most beloved Lord Falkland at Newbury fight he travelled as a Tutor with Charles Berkley Esq afterwards Earl of Falmouth an 1644 and upon a foresight that the Church of England would terminate through the endeavours of the peevish and restless Presbyterians he began to think of setling himself in the Church of Rome At length after mature consideration he renounced his religion and made a publick recantation at Rome of his errours and heresie as they are there called before the Inquisition an 1646. Which being so done he returned to Paris and there published his Motives that induced him to change his religion not that he was so considerable a person that all the World should take notice of it but that he might give some proof both of the mature advice and also reasonableness of his change A certain author tells us that it was not devotion but necessity and want of a subsistence which drove him first out of the Church of England and then into a Monastery And another that he became a Roman Catholick and was insnared to that new choice by the hopes and promise of being to be admitted an idle Drone or Monk in the Charterhouse at Paris where he might live as warmly as lapt all over in Lambskins and like a Bee in a plentiful hive fed with the purest amber honey c. But how such a bait should allure him no man that understands the rules of that order can easily imagine it so to be considering that the Monks thereof spend most of their time whether early or late in prayer in fasting loneness and abstinence from all flesh whatsoever c. Of this I am sure that when he wrot and published his Motives his mind became so humble that it was his eager desire to be a Monk of the English Coll. of Carthusians at Neiuport in Flanders a poor place God wot and very slenderly endowed as the Prior thereof Peter Bilcliff a Yorkshire man born did once tell me But so it was that he being diswaded from that Order because he could never be in a capacity or Master of so much time as to vindicate himself or the Roman Catholick Church by writing he took upon him the habit of the Benedictine Order as I shall anon tell you As soon as his Motives called Exomologesis were made publick he sent a copy into England to his dear friend Dr. Henry Hammond who in a kind letter return'd him thanks for the book and without the least exception against the stile gave this judgment of it that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did privily run through the whole contexture of the book He did not interpret wherein the fallacy consisted but added we are friends and I do not purpose to be your Antagonist At the end of the letter he kindly invited him into England assuring him that he should be provided of a convenient place to dwell in and a sufficient subsistence to live comfortably and withal that not any one should molest him about his religion and conscience Our author Cressey had reason to believe that the said invitation was an effect of a cordial friendship and he was also inform'd that he was well enabled to make good his promise as having the disposal of great charities and being a very charitable man himself Yet rendring such thanks as gratitude required of him he told him that he could not accept of so very kind an offer being engaged almost by vow to leave all pretensions to the World and to embrace poverty for his portion Besides also such a friend as this he had many more several near his Majesty among whom one especially there was of the highest rank to whom formerly upon the rebellion in Ireland he being destitute of a present subsistance he did acknowledge all gratitude due for by his care alone he was provided of a condition both honorable and comfortable So that if he had lost all other friends he had reason to assure himself he would have freely contributed rather than extremity of want should have forced him to quit the world But to return while he continued at Paris Henrietta Maria the Queen of England was very civil to him and being about to leave that place she assign'd him an hundred crowns to furnish him in his journey towards a Monastery Afterwards upon an invitation he went to Doway took upon him the habit of the Benedictine order in the Coll of the English Monks of that Order there And being setled he changed his name from Hugh Paulin which he received at the Font in Wakefield Church to Serenus de Cressy lived according to their discipline for 7 years or more and afterwards became one of the Mission in England At length upon the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal he became one of her Servants
when he was at Worcester which he did with so much vigour and confidence that Tichbourne the next day durst throw the Kings declaration into the fire made at the Exchange c. with other passages which for brevity sake I now omit At length he dying of the stone in his house at Chilton Park on the 28. of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five was buried in an isle joyning to the Church of Falley or Fawley near Marlow in Bucks which he had built for a burying place for his family Among the sons that he had by Rebecca his wife daughter of Thom. Benet Alderman of London was James Whitlock first a Captain afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll then a Colonel in the parliament Army one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. of Sept. 1654 knighted by Oliver 6. Jan. 1656 Burgess for Aylesbury in Bucks to serve in the Parl. which began at West 27 Jan. 1658 c. THOMAS TOMKINS son of Joh. Tomk somtimes Organist of S. Pauls Cathedral was born in Aldersgate-street in the Parish of S. Botolph in London educated in Virtue and Learning from his cradle by the care of his Uncle Nathan Tomkins Prebendary of Worcester became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Act term 1651 probat Fellow of All 's in 1657 and taking the degree of M. of A. was elected one of the Proctors of the University for year 1663. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Rector of Lambeth in Surrey Monks-Risborow in Bucks and at length Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and D. of D. The Archb. valued him so much that he kept him many years Chaplain in his house and resolving never to part with made him Rector of Lambeth before mention'd which he kept to his dying day The books that he hath published are these The Rebells plea examined or Mr. Baxters judgment concerning the late warr c. Lond. 1660. qu. Short Strictures or animadversions on so much of Mr. Zach. Croftons Fastning of S. Peters bounds as concern the reasons of the Univers of Oxon concerning the Covenant Lond. 1661. oct The inconveniencies of toleration or an answer to a book called A proposition made to the K. and parl c. Lond. 1667. qu. The modern pleas for toleration comprehension c. considered and discussed Lond. 1675. oct This book came out the second time with this title The new distemper or the Dissenters usual pleas for comprehension toleration and renouncing the Covenant considered and discussed Lond. 1680. oct To which is a large Preface written by Sam. Thomas Chantour of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. now Vicar of Chard in Sommersetsh The first edition of this book 1675 is reflected upon by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists ministry c. from p. 147. to p. 154. This Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter in sixteen hundred seventy and five and his body being carried into Wocestershire was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Marton near Droitwych Soon after was a marble table fastned to the wall over his grave with this inscripton thereon Thomas Tomkins SS Theologiae Professor Coll. Om. An. Oxon. olim Socius reverendiss Archi-Episcopo Cantuariensi à sacris Ecclesiae cathedralis Exon. Cancellarius Lambethanae c Rector Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Schismaticos assertor exiimius Vir ingenio judicio memoriâ literaturâ eloquentiâ clarus Exoniae morbo correptus obiit Augusti 20 an Dom. 1675 aetat 37. Cujus corpus huc translatum hic subtus quiescit Over his grave is laid a flat stone with an inscription thereon containing his name dignity and death which for brevity sake I now omit In his Rectory of Lambeth succeeded Dr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch in Monks-Risborow John Wolley M. A. of Trin. Coll. and in his Chancellourship Dr. Joh. Copleston of Cambridge Canon of Exeter the same who was elected Provost of Kings Coll. in that University 24. Aug. 1681. THOMAS WILLIS the most famous Physitian of his time was born at Great Bedwyn in Wilts 27. Janu. 1621. His father was Tho. Willis of North Henxsey near Abendon in Berks somtimes a retainer to S. Johns Coll but no Graduat afterwards Baillive or Steward to Sir Walt. Smith of Bedwyn and in his last days a constant inhabitant of N. Henxsey before mention'd Which last Thomas was son of another Thomas a Taylor as I have been informed who mostly lived at Kennington near Abendon also As for Thomas our author he was bred in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester who taught a private School in Allsaints parish in Oxon to whom he went every day from N. Henxsey In 1636 he became a retainer to the family of Dr. Tho. Iles Canon of Ch. Ch. and was his Batler there where applying himself very severely to his studies took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1642. About that time Oxford being garrison'd for the King he among the Scholars that were then remaining bore arms in his defence and all the time that he could obtain he bestowed on his beloved study of Physick In 1646 the Garrison being then surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took the degree of Bachelaur of that faculty fell to the practice of it and every Munday kept Abendon Market So that by his great care and industry he in short time became famous in these parts setled in S. John Baptists parish in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church and was sent for far and near for his help while in the mean time Mr. John Fell whose sister he had married Mr. Joh. Dolben and somtimes Mr. Rich. Allistry did constantly exercise in his house as they had partly before done in his lodgings in Canterbury quadrangle the Liturgy and Sacraments according to the Church of England to which most of the Loyallists in Oxon especially Scholars that had been ejected in 1648 did daily resort In 1660 after his Majesties restauration he became Sedlies professor of Natural Philosophy in the place of Dr. Josh Cross then ejected and shortly after he was created Doctor of his faculty and upon the foundation of the Royal Society was made fellow of it In 1666 after the dismal conflagration at London he upon the invitation of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Câ—nt went to the City of Westminster took a tenement in S. Martins Lane and in very short time after he became so noted and so infinitely resorted to for his practice that never any Physitian before went beyond him or got more mony yearly than he About that time he was made one of the Coll. of Physitians who for the most part had him in great esteem The truth is tho he was a plain man a man of no carriage little discourse complesance or society yet for his deep insight happy researches in natural and experimented Philosophy Anatomy and Chymistry for his wonderful success and repute in his practice the natural smoothness
one that would give it to him died with meat in his mouth that is suddenly in Chepstow Castle before mention'd in Sept. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the ninth day of the same month buried in the Church of Chepstow Some time before he died he made this Epitaph by way of Acrostick on himself which runs thus Here or elswhere all 's one to you to me Earth aire or water gripes my ghostless dust None knowing when brave fire shall set it free Reader if you an oft tryed rule will trust You 'l gladly doe and suffer what you must My life was worn with serving you and you And now death's my pay it seems and welcom too Revenge destroying but it self while I To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly Examples preach to the eye care then mine sayes Not how you end but how you spend your dayes Aged 78. Another Epitaph was made by his daughter who usually attended him which for brevity sake I now omit JOSEPH GLANVILL was born at a Sea-port Town in Devons called Plymouth became a Batler of and entred into Commons in Exeter Coll 19 Apr. 1652 aged 16 years where being put under a good Tutor Sam. Conant M. A. and severely disciplin'd in religion Logick and Philosophy makes me wonder considering that that House was then one of the chief nurseries for youth in the University why he should afterwards lament that his friends did not first send him to Cambridge because as he used to say that new Philosophy and the art of Philosophizing were there more than here in Oxon and that his first studies in this University did not qualifie him for the world of action and business After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of July 1656 where taking the degree of M. of Arts in the beginning of 1658 was about that time made Chaplain to old Franc. Rous one of Olivers Lords and Provost of Eaton Coll. But he dying soon after Glanvill return'd to Oxon continued in Linc. Coll. for a time and became a great admirer of Mr. Rich. Baxter and a zealous person for a Commonwealth After his Majesties restauration he turned about became a Latitudinarian a great pretender to the new Philosophy wrot and published The vanity of Dogmatizing to gain himself a name among the Virtuosi was made a member of the Royal Society entred into holy orders according to the Church of England and by the favour of Sir James Thynne was presented to the Vicaridge of a Mercate Town in Somersetshire called Frome-Selwood in the beginning of Nov. 1662 in the place of John Humphrey a Non-conformist In 1666 Jun. 23 he was inducted Rector of the great Church in Bathe dedicated to S. Pet. and S. Paul and in July 1672 he changed Frome for the rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton annex'd in Somersetshire with Rich. Jenkins M. A. So that by vertue of the presentation to those two Churches by Tho. Thynne Esq Jenkins was instituted to Frome and Glanvill to Streat and Walton on one and the same day viz. 26. July 1672. About that time he was made one of the Chaplains in ordinary to K. Ch. 2. and at length by the endeavours of Henry Marquess of Worcester to whom our authors Wife pretended some alliance he became one of the Prebendaries of Worcester in the place of Hen. Greisley deceased in which dignity he was installed 22. June 1678. A certain author named Hen. Stubbe who wrot much against and did not care for him saith that Mr. Glanvill was the most impudent Lyer in the world that he would prove him a lyer and so ignorant and illiterate a fellow that he was not fit to come into any learned company or to open his mouth among them He tells us also that he did not understand Greek only to read it he could not construe Aristotle he knew not Logick either in the practice or notion that he was an ignorant and inconsiderate fellow that as much as he pretends to have studied Aristotle and the peripatetick Philosophy yet he did not know that Aristotle held the gravity of the air and was therefore followed by the Avicennists and Averroists c. that he was against the fertility of the way of notion and dispute concerning which he affirmed that it produced no practical useful knowledg He charged him with impiety and indiscretion with decrying the learning of the Lord Bacon yet to excuse his errour and insolence he made use of his great name and thought it a sufficient apology that he could shew that the subject of his most obnoxious periods and passages were to be found largely and often insisted on by so great and learned a man He tells us also that he was a renegado Presbyter Latitudinarian a proud and conceited person c. But all these things with many more having been spoken by a rash person and one that was well known not to abound with good nature and seldome to have spoken well of any body I shall take the liberty to give this character of him Glanvill with which those that knew him as I did partly will without doubt concur viz. that he was a person of more than ordinary parts of a quick warm spruce and gay-fancy and was more lucky at least in his own judgment in his first hints and thoughts of things than in his after-notions examined and disgested by longer and more mature deliberation He had a very tenacious memory and was a great Master of the English Language expressing himself therein with easie fluency and in a manly yet withal a smooth stile He catcht at all occasions as well in his discourse as in his writings of depreciating that renowned Master of reason and celebrated advancer of knowledge Aristotle and of undervaluing his philosophy altho it hath been received in the Schools for many ages as if great authority with general approbation and advantage and in the place of it he substituted many pretty new fangled and fantastical Hypotheses of that Philosophy which bidding defyance to the old boasts it self in the winning and glorious title of being new This also must be said that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sloath of elder dijudicants from whom a more generous temper might be expected than to sit down in a contended despair of any farther progress into Science than hath been made by their idolized Sophy as he is pleased to term it and depriving themselves and all this world of their liberty in Philosophy by making a Sacramental adherence to an heathen authority And this it was together with the pedantry and boyishness of humour that drew from him those reflections he directed against Aristotle in the Letter which I shall anon mention He did more especially applaud and recommend that more free and generous
leading into Whitehall he passed along thro the Galleries to his Bed-chamber where after a little repose the Bishop went to Prayer which being done his Maj. bid Mr. Herbert bring him some bread and wine which being brought the K. broke the manchet and eat a mouthful of it and drank a small glass full of Claret and then was sometime in private with the Bishop expecting when Hacker would the third and last time give warning In the mean time his Maj. told Mr. Herbert what sattin cap he would use which being provided Mr. Herbert after prayer addrest himself to the Bishop and told him the K. had ordered him to have a white sattin night-cap ready but he being not able to endure the sight of the violence that they would offer to the K. on the Scaffold he could not be there to give it to the K. when he should call for it The good Bishop bid him then give him the cap and that he should wait at the end of the Banquetting house near to the Scaffold to take care of the Kings body for said he that and his interment will be our last office Colonel Hacker came soon after to the Bed-chamber door and gave his last signal The Bishop and Mr. Herbert weeping they both fell upon their knees The K. thereupon gave them his hand to kiss and help'd the Bishop up for he was aged Col. Hacker attending still at the chamber door the K. took notice of it and said Open the door and bid Hacker go he would follow him A Guard was made all along the Galleries and the Banquetting house but behind the Soldiers abundance of men and women crowded in tho with some peril to their persons to behold the saddest sight that England ever saw And as his Maj. passed by with a cheerful look he heard them pray for him The Soldiers did not rebuke any of them for by their silence and dejected faces they seemed rather afflicted than insulting There was a passage broke thro the wall of the Banquetting house by which the K. passed unto the Scaffold where after his Maj. had spoken and declared publickly that he died a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England the Contents of which have been several times printed the fatal stroke was given by a disguised person Mr. Herbert during this time was at the door leading to the Scaffold much lamenting and the Bishop coming from the Scaffold with the royal corps which was immediately coffin'd and covered with a velvet Pall he and Mr. Herbert went with it to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with the Lord Fairfax the General that person asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert being something astonished at that question told him the King was beheaded at which he seemed much surpriz'd See more in the said Gen. Fairfax in the Fasti following among the Creations of Doctors of Civil Law under the year 1649. The royal Corps being embalmed and well coffin'd and all afterwards wrapt up in lead and covered with a new velvet Pall it was removed to S. James's where was great pressing by all sorts of people to see the King a doleful spectacle but few had leave to enter or behold it Where to bury the K. was the last duty remaining By some Historians 't is said the K. spoke something to the Bishop concerning his burial Mr. Herbert both before and after the Kings death was frequently in the company with the Bishop and affirmed that he never mentioned any thing to him of the Kings naming any place where he would be buried Nor did Mr. Herbert who constantly attended his Maj. and after his coming from Hurst Castle was the only person in his Bed-chamber hear him at any time declare his mind concerning it Nor was it in his life time a proper question for either of them to ask notwithstanding they had oftentimes the opportunity especially when his Maj. was bequeathing to his royal children and friends what is formerly related Nor did the Bishop declare any thing concerning the place to Mr. Herbert which doubtless he would upon Mr. Herbert's pious care about it which being duly considered they thought no place more fit to interr the Corps than in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at the end of the Church of Westm Abbey out of whose Loyns K. Ch. 1. was lineally extracted c. Whereupon Mr. Herbert made his application to such as were then in power for leave to bury the Kings body in the said Chap. among his Ancestors but his request was denied for this reason that his burying there would attract infinite numbers of all sorts thither to see where the K. was buried which as the times then were was judged unsafe and inconvenient Mr. Herbert acquainting the Bishop with this they then resolved to bury the Kings body in the royal Chap. of S. George within the Castle of Windsore both in regard that his Maj. was Soveraign of the most noble Order of the Garter and that several Kings had been there inter'd namely King Hen. 6. K. Ed. 4. and K. Hen. 8. c. Upon which consideration Mr. Herbert made his second address to the Committee of Parliament who after some deliberation gave him an Order bearing date 6 Feb. 1648 authorizing him and Mr. Anth. Mildmay to bury the Kings body there which the Governour was to observe Accordingly the Corps was carried thither from S. James Feb. 7. in a Hearse covered with black Velvet drawn by six Horses covered with black cloth in which were about a dozen Gentlemen most of them being such that had waited upon his Maj. at Carisbrook Castle and other places since his Majesties going from Newcastle Mr. Herbert shew'd the Governour Col. Witchcot the Committees Order for permitting Mr. Herbert and Mr. Mildmay to bury him the late King in any place within Windsore Castle that they should think fit and meet In the first place in order thereunto they carried the Kings body into the Deans House which was hung with black and after to his usual Bed-chamber within the Pallace After which they went to S. George's Chap. to take a view thereof and of the most fit and honorable place for the royal Corps to rest in Having taken a view they at first thought that the Tomb-house built by Card. Wolsey would be a fit place for his interment but that place tho adjoyning yet being not within the royal Chappel they waved it For if K. Hen. 8. was buried there albeit to that day the particular place of his burial was unknown to any yet in regard his Maj. K. Ch. 1. who was a real Defender of the Faith and as far from censuring any that might be would upon occasional discourse express some dislike in K. Henry's proceedings in misemploying those vast Revenews the suppressed Abbeys Monasteries and other religious Houses were endowed with and by demolishing those many beautiful and stately Structures which
the event proved to be known that he was the author Theologo-Historicus or the true life of the most rev Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Lond. 1683 oct Published as the author pretended to correct the errours supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire who had before published the said Doctors life Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn Printed with the Theologo-Historicus c. Catechisme for the use of his Parish This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you when or where 't was printed This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spaw on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mention'd as I have been enformed by his son of both his names lately Fellow of Brasn Coll who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianisme which is not yet printed JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington in Oxfordshire was born in the said Town of Stadham bred in Grammar learning mostly under Edw. Sylvester who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon entred a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628 instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being taken and compleated in 1635 at which time as the cumstom and statute is he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King his heirs and lawful successors Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have and shall mention in this Work About the same time he entred into holy Orders and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire where continuing till the turn of the times he sided then with the rebellious rout preached against Bishops and their Courts Common Prayer Book Ceremonies c. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex took the Covenant became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent he changed his mind adhered to them and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians He violated all Oathes as of canonical Obedience Solemne League and Covenant c. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them especially in preaching up Sectarisme as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell who had him ever after in great respect and in some things relied on his Council In the latter end of 1648 when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded he in his discourses and Sermons applauded the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwells victory over the Levellers at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen who had about that time taken the Engament preached to them out of the Politicks and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness On the 17. Sept. 1650 it was ordered by the Parliament according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland and on the 18 of March following it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after setled he with Tho. Goodwin President of Madg. Coll. the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency did with some others who were their admirers endeavour to setle Independency in the University according to Cromwells mind but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellour in which Office he being then also one of the Visitors for by that time several Independents had been added to them he endeavoured to put down Habits Formalities and all Ceremony notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians While he did undergo the said Office he instead of being a grave example to the University scorned all formality undervalued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar with powdred hair snake-bone bandstrings or bandstrings with very large tassels lawne band a large set of ribands pointed at his knees and spanish leather boots with large lawne tops and his hat mostly cockâ—d On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen Tho. Goodwin R. Fairclough the elder Nich. Lockyer Jos Caryl c. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for ejecting and setling Ministers according to the rules then prescrib'd but that project taking not effect there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of publick preachers whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest and in the year following Commissioners from the Layty and Assistants to them from the Clergy in every County for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon together with Thankful Owen Pres of S. Jo. Coll Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton Cristoph Rogers Ambr. Upton Pet. French Hen. Wilkinson Ralph Batton Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henley c. In 1654 Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon to sit in a Parliament then called and rather than he would be put aside because he was a Theologist he renounced
grave or jocose as also noted for one whose extraordinary parts and indefatigable industry and study promised great things After he was Master of Arts he took upon him the cure of Little S. Maries Church in Cambridge chosen to it by the Master and Fellows of Peter House all Colleges being ambitious some way or other to make him theirs When the grand rebellion began or at least about to begin he was very zealous in opposing the attempts of the then spreading Schism and troubles and did not forbear to protest publickly against the faction when it was most formidable In a Sermon also at S. Maries in Cambr. he vehemently and convincingly urged the University to publish a formal protestation against the rebellious League And being occasionally about that time in Kent upon a short visit to his mother lately then a widow he was hunted about and forced to lye in Woods and at length was imprison'd for having assisted some Forces belonging to the King at Tunbridge with the charity he had moved a neighbouring Congregation to by two Sermons Thence he was forced to his College to take the Covenant which he resolutely denying so to do was thrown out of his Fellowship and soon after one John T ... n who took it was put therein But before he left Cambridge he with Mr. Barrow afterwards B. of S. Asaph Mr. Ward afterwards B. of Salisbury and Mr. John Barwick with two or three others did write a resolute and well pen'd Treatise against the Covenant which was afterwards published In the beginning of the year 1644 if not before he with the said Mr. Barrow his great companion and fellow-sufferer journied to Oxon then his Majesties head-quarter and being forthwith made known to that most worthy patron of learning Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll he entred them Chaplains of that House where they had lodging and diet In July the same year Mr. Gunning was incorporated Master of Arts of this University but whether Mr. Barrow was or took any other degree it appears not in the publick register About the same time Mr. Gunning became Curat for Mr. Jasp Mayne at Cassington four Miles North-west distant from Oxon in which service continuing about two years he endured several affronts and abuses by the Parliamentarian Soldiers from Abendon and elsewhere either by interrupting him with base Language or by pulling him out of the Church Besides the constant duty at New Coll. and his reading Prayers and Preaching every Sunday at Cassington he somtimes preached either before the King or Parliament sitting at Oxon. In consideration of which he was one of those many that had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him and accordingly he was admitted on the day before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament So that he having been incorporated and afterwards admitted to a superior degree with us is the reason why I now put him among the Oxford Writers tho indeed Cambridge is more properly his Mother After the surrender of Oxon. he undertook the charge and tuition of Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton and Sir Franc. Compton in both whom he instill'd most excellent Principles of Loyalty Afterwards he was Chapl. to Sir Rob. Shirley father of Rob. which last was made Lord Ferrers of Chartley who setled on him about an 100 l per an for his life being more particularly moved thereunto for his great abilities and the learning which he shew'd in the silencing a Popish Priest with whom he held two or three set disputations for the satisfaction of his Patron and others that engaged him in them Not long after Sir Rob. Shirley dyed in the Tower having been committed to that place for his Loyalty so that thereupon Mr. Gunning betaking himself to the holding a constant Congregation in the Chappel at Exeter house in the Strand did by his reading the English Liturgy Preaching and administring assert the cause of the Church of England with great pains and courage when the Parliament was most predominant And his Sermons and Prayers being performed very regularly according to the antient usuage of the Church great numbers of well affected and honest people flocked to them as others did to other Loyal Preachers in several parts in and near the City of London whereby thousands being confirmed in the communion of the Church of England as in other parts of the Nation was thereby frustrated and taken away the groundless reproach cast upon the true Protestants by the Romanists that their Church was lost Besides these his Labours for which he was often sent for and reprov'd by the Usurper Oliver he would on the week days look out all sorts of Sectaries and dispute with them openly in their own Congregations Nor was there any considerable Sect whether Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist Quaker Brownist Socinian c. but that he held with them some time or other a set publick disputation in defence of the Church of England About the time of the Kings restauration he was posses'd of the Rectories of Cotesmore in the County of Rutland and of Stoke-Brewen in Northamptonshire which he long before had title to but kept out for his Loyalty The Vicaridge of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster was first design'd him and a Prebendship of Canterbury The last he had but the other not as being thought more for the service of the publick to fix him for a while in the University of Cambridge where being first made D. of D. and Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. and soon after of S. Johns he was for a little while Margaret Professor and as soon as Dr. Ant. Tuckney was removed he was made Reg. Professor of Divinity as the fittest man for that Chaire that could be then chosen to settle the University right in their Principles again after many corruptions had crept in there by means of the Rebellion I say that he did not only succeed the said Tuckney in the Divinity Chaire but also in the Mastership of S. Johns Coll who having been lawfully ejected from both as having had no right title to either yet such was the goodness of Dr. Gunning that he allowed him a very considerable annuity during his life Which act of his being excellent and singular is here remembred to his everlasting fame and the rather for this reason that no Presbyterian or Independent was ever known to allow any Loyallist whose places they had occupied for several years the least farthing but rather rejected and avoided them vilified scorn'd and exposed them to the Plebeians as empty formal and starch'd nothings These things I have known and do remember them as done in this University and the like without all doubt was used at Cambridge and yet so it is that some of the dreggs of these men that yet remain among us have not been content with the Kings clemency to keep their places to this day but take all occasions upon the least interruption in the Nation to breed faction
talking about these Papers that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write somthing relating to them for he himself saying that he believed no man then viz. 1671. living could give an account of them besides himself he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province Yet notwithstanding this together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesties Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth either of which they would as he saith have willingly allowed of he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven unconcocted roving often repeated and medley stuff will hardly perswade us to believe that he hath been so little conversant with books especially such as have been wrot against his own party and himself as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit The relapsed Apostate c. published not long after those three Papers above mention'd had fully and at large answered his Petition for peace animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty and that the Papers compriz'd in The great debate c. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement c. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit of The relapsed Apostate c. Lond. 1681. qu therein citing Baxters words to that purpose out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation c. Mr. Baxter indeed altho in some of his books he saith expresly that none of the above named Papers were ever answer'd by any confesseth that two small treatises one entit Pulpit conceptions popular deceptions or the grand debate resum'd in the point of Prayer viz in defence of prescribed forms c. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast had been wrot against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mention'd as also that L'estrange had said somthing against their Liturgy and that he had no more to say this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges answers to any of their other Papers But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings Epistola apologetica paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta Lond. 1663. in two sh and an half in qu written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our authors treatises which I shall anon mention under this title Epistola ad virum clariss D. Cornelium Triglandium unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta in quâ agitur de sereniss regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu c. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this as writing to a Protestant who was a favourer of his Masters interest and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his enclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile contrary to what some English men had reported either thro ignorance or hatred and which was by an easie credulity too greedily entertain'd by some foreigners After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like perswasion with the person to whom it was immediatly directed with strong reasons drawn from the several perswasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights The Summe of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit and Dr. Morley at Bruxells 23 June 1649. Stil Nov. Lond. 1683. qu. An argument drawne from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Vindication of the argument drawne from sense against Transubstantiation from a pretended answer to it by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholick faith and heresie Answer to Father Cressy's Letter This which is about religion and the Clergy of England was written in 1662. Sermon before the King at Whitehall 5. Nov. 1667 on 1. Cor. 14.33 Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest 1676. Letter to Anne Duchess of York some few months before her death written 24 Jan. 1670. This Duchess who was dau of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England afterwards E. of Clarendon was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae de invocatione Sanctorum Written on the first of July 1659. The aforesaid Summe of a short conference c. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland c. printed together in one vol. in qu. an 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgment in matters of religion or an answer to several treatises of his written on several occasions concerning the Church of Rome Which book was answer'd by another called The revision revised or a vindication of the right rev father in God George L. Bish of Winton against c. Lond. 1685. qu. Letter to the Earl of Anglesey of the meanes to keep out Popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof Lond. 1683 At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey Printed in fol. Vindication of himself from divers false scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published I know not unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written much about which time other Characters were published as that by Dr. Wall Charlton c. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an 1625 which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist of Scotland At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had
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.
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
were Joh. Goad Humph. Brook now one of the Coll. of Physitians Edm. Gayton Joh. Hyfield c. On the 24. of Sept. 1637. our author Wright took holy Orders from Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely in the Chappel at Ely House in Holbourn near London and on the 22. of Dec. 1639 he was ordained Priest by Dr. Bancroft B. of Oxon in Ch. Ch. Cathedral at which time he preached the Sermon which was afterwards printed with 4 more And it being then well approved and thereupon he accounted an elegant preacher was the reason why he did frequently appear in S. Maries Pulpit in Oxon before the City of Lond. at S. Pauls and before K. Ch. 1. when he resided in Oxon in the time of the grand Rebellion In 1643 he took to him a wife from Yarnton near Oxon and in Aug. 1645 he became Vicar of Okeham in Rutlandshire by the favour of Dr. Juxon B. of London and thereupon received Institution from Dr. Towers B. of Peterborough but as for Induction he altogether refused because he was then to have taken the Covenant so one Benj. King a Parliamenteer was put into that Vicaridge Afterwards Mr. Wright went to London and resided there in a retired condition till after the decollation of K. Ch. 1. About that time Sir Geo. Grime or Graham of Peckham near Camberwell in Surrey gave him entertainment in his House and because he would not be idle he instructed Sir George's son in Lat. and Gr. learning read the Common Prayer on all Sundays and Holydays and on principal Feasts he preached and administred the Sacraments About 1655 he was prevailed with to leave Peckham and to live in London where he was chosen by the Parishoners of S. Olave in Silverstreet to be their Minister and to receive the profits of that little Parish of which he was in effect the Relator tho formally to take actual possession of the Living he would not as his nearest Relation hath told me because he would avoid Oaths and Obligations This employment he kept 4 years and preached constantly twice every Sunday once there and once in some other Church baptized and buried according to the Common Prayer as the Relator adds and gave the Sacrament according to the Liturgy of the Church of England whereupon being esteemed one of the Cavalier Ministers of London as Dr. J. Hewit Dr. J. Pearson c. were had his share in troubles and was once or more examined for keeping intelligence with the Loyal party About our Lady day in 1659 he left S. Olaves Ch. to prevent new impositions and engagements then offer'd to such as were in any public Ministry and applyed himself to his private studies After his Majesties restauration Benj. King before mention'd did by his Hand and Seal 2. Aug. 1660 resign up all his title and pretensions to Okeham whereupon he returned in Oct. following and had peaceable possession delivered to him of the Church there A little before he had left London to go to Okeham he was offerd to be Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia only sister to K. Ch. 1. but he waved that honor and went to Okeham He was a person of open and profess'd affections for Conformity and no favourer of Sectaries and their Conventicles and therefore not belov'd by the Dissenters of his Parish which was always full of them His Life and Conversation was sober and reserv'd was a man very charitable to widdowes and fatherless children and gave money to them and others amounting to the twentieth part of the true value of his Living His works as to learning are these Delitiae delitiarum sive Epigrammatum ex optimis quibusque hujus novissimi seculi Poetis in amplissima illa Bib. Bodleiana pene omnino alibi extantibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in unum corollum connexa Oxon. 1637. in tw Five Sermons in five several stiles or waies of preaching The first in Bishop Andrews way before the late King upon the first day of Lent The second in B. Halls way before the Clergy at the authors own Ordination in Ch. Ch. in Oxon. The third in Dr. Maynes and Mr. Cartwrights way before the University at S. Maries in Oxford The fourth in the Presbyterian way before the City at S. Paules in Lond. and the fifth in the Independed way never preacht Lond. 1656. oct The first is on Matth. 9.15 2 On Deut. 33.8 3 On Cant. 2.2 4 On Luke 16.9 5 Luke 9.23 The chief end in printing these Sermons was first to shew the difference between the University and City breeding up of preachers and to let the people know that any one that hath been bred a Scholar is able to preach any way to the capacity and content of any auditory And secondly that none can do this but they only that have had such education yet notwithstanding ordinary capacities are more taken with Cloak and Lay mens preaching than that of the Gown A practical Commentary or Exposition upon the book of Psalmes wherein the text of every Psalme is practically expounded according to the doctrine of the Cath. Church in a way not usually trod by Commentators and wholly applyed to the life and salvation of Christians Lond. 1661. fol. c. Practical Commentary upon the Pentateuch or five books of Moses Lond. fol. He also made a collection of Poems which he intituled Pernassus biceps Or several choice pieces of Poetry composed by the best wits that were in both the Universities before their dissolution Lond. 1656 oct The Epistle before them in the behalf those then doubly secluded and sequestred members was written by the Collector Wright and those verses of his composition in the said book are in p. 1.54.121.122.126 and 128. He hath also compleated other books which are not yet printed as 1 A comical entertainment called The Reformation presented before the University at S. Johns Coll. Written while he was an Undergraduate 2 Novissima Straffordii sive quaestio Straffordiana prout à Parliamento exercebatur 'T is a Narrative of Tho. Earl of Strafford's tryal written in pure Latine and stile of Tacitus 3 Several Sermons besides an imperfect collection towards the compleating A practical Commentary on the other parts of the Bible besides what he had already done some books whereof are finished This Mr. Wright who refused for quietness and solitude sake several preferments in the Church after his Majesties restauration departed this mortal life in a good old age on Friday the ninth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety and was on the Sunday following buried in the Church at Okeham before mentioned He left behind him a son named James Wright born at Yarnton near to and in the County of Oxon in the house of James Stone father to his mother Jane entred in 1666 without being educated in any Univ into the Society of New Inn near London from whence he removed three years after to the Middle Temple where at the end of the usual time of study he was
c. Lond. 1677. oct c. 2 The common interest of King and people shewing the original antiquity and excellency of Monarchy compared with Aristocracy and Democracy and particularly of our English Monarchy and that absolute Papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative property and liberty Lond. 1678 oct 3 A true copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the trial of K. Ch. 1. as it was read in the H. of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps Clerk to that infamous court Lond. 1684. fol. With a large introduction by the said Nalson He hath also translated into Engl. The History of the Crusade or the expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land Lond. 1685 fol. Written originally in French by the fam'd Monsieur Maimbourgh What other things he hath written or translated I know not as yet or any thing else of him only that he died at or near the City of Ely on the 19. of March or thereabouts according to the English accompt an 1685. to the great loss of the true Sons of the Church of England of which he had been a zealous Member Our author Rushworth hath also written The History of the Civil War of England This which is the fift vol. is in MS and not yet published Several Letters to the Parliament and to particular Members thereof These he wrote while the War continued and were subscribed by himself and not by Gen. Fairfax as the printed copies shew What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he spent the six last years or thereabouts of his life in the Prison called the Kings bench in Southwark where being reduced to his second childship for his memory was quite decayed by taking too much Brandy to keep up his spirits he quietly gave up the Ghost in his lodging in a certain Alley there call'd Rules Court on Munday the twelfth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 83 years or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried on Wednesday following behind the Pulpit in the Church of S. George within the said Borough of Southwark He had no son only daughters virtuous women of which one was married to Sir Franc. Vane of the North. HENRY WILKINSON junior commonly called Dean Harry son of Will. Wilk of Adwick or Adwickstreet in the West Riding of Yorkshire Priest was born there an 1616 instructed mostly in Grammar learning in Edw. Sylvesters School in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon entred a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1631 took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in and moderator or Dean of his House At length upon the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 he left the University adher'd to the Parliament party took the Covenant and became a forward and frequent preacher among them After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament Forces he returned to the University and by the authority of the then dominant party he was created Bach of Divinity made Principal of his Hall and Moral Philosophy Reader of the University Afterwards we find him one of the most frequent and active preachers among the Presbyterians in the University whether at S. Maries S. Martin commonly called Carfax S. Pet. in the East c. being then Doct. of Divinity and took all the ways imaginable to make his House flourish with young Students At length the Act of Conformity being published in 1662 he rather than conform left his Principallity tho perswaded to the contrary by some of the Heads of the University purposely to keep him there because he was a good Disciplinarian and lived for some time in these parts Afterwards upon the receipt of a Call he lived by the help of the Brethren at Buckminster in Leycestershire where he exercised his gifts in Conventicles as he did afterwards at Gosfield in Essex and in 1673 and after at Sybill-Hennyngham near to that place and a length at Great Connard near Sudbury in Suffolke at which last place he finished this mortal life as I shall tell you by and by having before suffered by imprisonments mulcts and loss of his Goods and Books for preaching in Conventicles against the Act. He was a zealous person in the way he professed but oversway'd more by the Principles of education than reason He was very courteous in speech and carriage communicative of his knowledge generous and charitable to the poor and so publick spirited a rare thing in a Presbyterian that he alwaies minded the common good more than his own concerns His works as to learning are these Conciones tres apud Academicos Oxonii nuper habitae Oxon. 1654. oct The first is on Psal 119.9 The second on Eccles 2.1 and the third on 1. Pet. 4.11 Brevis tractatus de jure divino diei dominici Ibid. 1654. 58. oct Conciones sex ad Academicos Oxonienses Ib. 1658. oct Among which are the former three De impotentia liberi arbitrii ad bonum spiritale Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Epistolarum decas Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Oratio habita in schola moralis philosophiae Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Conc. duae ap Ox. nuper habitae Ibid. 1659. qu. Both on 1. Cor. 16.22 Concio de brevitate opportuni temporis Oxon habita ad Bac. die Cinerum 7. Mar. 1659. Ib. 1660. qu preached on 1. Cor. 7.29 Several English Sermons as 1 Sermon at Haseley in the County of Oxon at the funeral of Margaret late wife of Dr. Edw. Corbet Pastor of Hasely on Col. 1.27 Ox. 1657. oct 2 Three decads of Sermons lately preached to the University in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Ox. 1660. qu. 3 Several Sermons concerning Gods All-Sufficiency and Christs preciousness Lond. 1681. oct c. Catalogus librorum in Bibl. Aul. Madg. Oxon. Ox. 1661. oct The doctrine of contentment briefly explained and practically applied in a Treatise on 1. Tim. 6.8 Lond. 1671. oct Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the word of God Lond. 1674. oct Two treatises concerning 1 Gods All-Sufficiency 2 Christs Preciousness Being the substance of some Sermons long since preached in the Univ. of Ox. Lond. 1681. oct These two treatises are the same with the Several Sermons before mention'd with some alterations in and additions to them purposely to please his friend and favourer one of his perswasion called Joh. Clark of S. Edm. Bury Esq by a dedication to him set before them Praelectiones Morales MS. in Magd. Hall Libr. They are his Lectures that he read in the Moral Philosophy School while he was public Reader of that Lecture At length after the latter part of the life of this zealous Theologist had been spent in trouble and adversity for the cause he professed he very devoutly surrendred up his soul to God at Great Connard before mention'd on the 13 day
the Coll. of Edinburgh where he commenced Master of Arts afterwards he retired to Oxon to compleat his Learning especially his Divinity by the advice instruction and lectures of Dr. Prideaux an 1637. 38. c. Soon after he upon recommendations became one of the Chaplains to James Marquess of Hamilton at that time his Majesties High Commissioner for Scotland In which station he did acquit himself so well to the satisfaction of his noble Patron that upon his return to England he procured a Presentation for him from his Majesty to the Church of Birsa in the Stewartry of Orknay where Continuing some years his prudence diligence and faithfulness in the discharge of his Office did procure him much of veneration and respect from all persons especially from his Ordinary who confer'd upon him the dignity of Moderator to the Presbytery In the beginning of the year 1650 when the noble James Marq. of Montross landed in Orknay this Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery to draw up a Declaration in their names and his own which with their approbation and consent was published containing very great expressions of Loyalty and constant resolution firmly to adhere to their dutiful Allegiance For this the whole Presbytery being deposed by the general Assembly of the Kirk at that time sitting at Edinburgh the said Doctor was likewise excommunicated as one that conversed with the said Marquess against whom they had emitted the like Brutum Fulmen At that time the Scottish Council past an Act to apprehend him the said Doctor to the end that he might be tried for his life but upon private notice from his Kinsman Sir Archibald Primerose at that time Clerk to the said Council he fled into Holland where he sculked till 1653 and then returning into Scotland he transfer'd his family to Edinburgh where he resided quietly and obscurely till the year 1660. Upon the return then of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he attended Dr. Tho. Sydserf Bishop of Galloway the only Scottish Bishop who had the good fortune to survive the calamities of the Usurper's Government to London where the Bishop of Winchester presented him to the Rectory of Winfrith in Dorsetshire and continuing there till the year 1677 he was elected and consecrated Bish of Murray in Scotland to the great rejoycing of the Episcopal Party In 1680 he was translated to the See of Galloway with dispensation to reside at Edinburgh because it was thought unreasonable to oblige a reverend Prelate of his years to live among such a rebellious and turbulent People as those of that Diocess were the effects of whose fiery zeal hath too frequently appeared in affronting beating robbing wounding and sometimes murthering the Curates He had the oversight of the said Diocess for 7 years which he so carefully governed partly by his pastoral Letters to the Synod Presbyteries and Ministers and partly by his great pains in undertaking a very great journey for a man of his age and infirmities to visit his Diocess that had he resided on the place better order and discipline could scarce be expected He died at Edinburgh of an Apoplexy on the 28 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven aged 74 years Whereupon his body was decently inter'd in the Church of the Grey Friers there at which time John then Bish of Dunkeld since deceased preached his funeral Sermon His death was sadly regretted by all good and pious men who knew him to be a man of great reputation for his sincere piety constant Loyalty singular learning and true zeal for the Protestant Religion according to the Constitutions of the Church of England of which he lived and died a worthy Member Upon his Coffin was fastned this Epitaph Maximus Atkinsi pietate maximus annis Ante diem invitâ religione cadis Ni caderes nostris inferret forsitan oris Haud impune suos Roma superba Deos. He was very zealous and vigorous in opposing the taking off the Penal Laws in Scotland at which time notwithstanding he was so infirm by age and sickness that he could not walk yet he was daily conveyed to the Parliament where he declared publickly his aversion to the abolishing the said Penal Laws and to use his interest with the Nobility and Gentry of the Parl. in perswading them to a firm and constant adherence to the Protestant Religion and to oppose all the designs that might be prejudicial to the same SAMUEL PARKER sometimes of Wadh afterwards of Trin. Coll and Archd. of Canterbury became B. of Oxford on the death of Dr. Fell an 1686 and dying in the latter end of sixteen hundred eighty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 616 was succeeded in the same See by Timothy Hall as I shall tell by and by SETH WARD sometimes of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards of that of Wadh. in Oxon c. was first made B. of Exeter and afterwards of Salisbury who dying in the beginning of Jan. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was succeeded in that See by Gilb. Burnet D. D. sometimes Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane in London consecrated thereunto according to the form prescribed in the book of Common Prayer in the Chappel belonging to the B. of London's house at Fulham by the B. of London Winchester Lincoln Landaff S. Asaph and Carlile on Easter-day 31 of March 1689. The said Dr. Ward did about his Majesties restauration 1660 endeavour to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambr by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what but not a word of his cowardly wavering for lucre and honour sake of his putting in and out and occupying other mens places for several years c. See among the Writers p. 627. HUMPHREY LLOYD the third son of Rich. Lloyd D. D. and Vicar of Ruabon in Denbighshire by Jane his wife the daughter of Rudderch Hughes Clerk of the family of Maesâ—y Pandy was born at Bodâ—y Fudden in the Parish of Trawsfynydd in the County of Merioneth in Jul. or Aug. an 1610 became a Com. of Oriel Coll. for a time afterwards of Jesus where he was Scholar and thence again to Oriel Coll of which he became Fellow in 1631 and a great Tutor for many years When the K. and Court were setled in Oxon he became known to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York then there who made him his Chapl. and gave him the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York which he kept to his death After the decease of his father which was in the time of the Troubles he succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Ruabon but was soon deprived of it and his Prebendship by the Usurpers till restored again to both by the happy Revolution in 1660. On the 13 of Aug. 1661 he was made Canon of S Asaph and in the month following he was actually created D. of D. On the 14 of Dec. 1663
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of Nâ—rfolk Earl Marshal of England and Hâ—nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
He was of Trin. Coll. in that University was afterwards D. of D Chaplain to Dr. Pearson B. of Chester Archdeacon of Richmond in the place of Charles Bridgman mentioned under the year 1662 Minister of S. Brides Ch. in London and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. Jam. 2. K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He hath published five or more Sermons May 6. Rich. Wroâ— M. A. of Camb. He was of Jesus Coll. in that University was afterwards Chaplain to the said Dr. Pearson B. of Chester Warden of the College at Manchester in the place of Dr. Nich. Stratford in the beginning of the year 1684 and Doct. of Div. He hath three or more Sermons extant May. 11. Joh. Beveridge M. A. of Cambr. He was of S. Johns Coll. in that University and I know not yet to the contrary but that the publick Registrary might mistake him for Wiâ—l Beveridge M. A. of the said Coll afterwards D. of D Archdeacon of Colchester Rector of S. Peters Cornhill in Lond. Canon of Canterbury and Chaplain to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary This Dr. W. Beveridge who denied the Bishoprick of B. and Wells in the beginning of the year 1691 of which Dr. Ken had then lately been deprived for not taking the Oathes to the said K. W. 3. and Queen Mary is a right learned man and hath published several books and sermons which shew him so to be June 15. Joh. North M. A. of Cambr. This Gentleman who was Fellow of Jesus Coll. in the said University but now of Trinity Coll. in this where he continued for some time was a younger Son of Dudley Lord North of Kirtlyng was afterwards Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge D. of D Clerk of the Closet and Preb. of Westminster He hath published one Sermon and made a strict review of Platoes select Dialogues De rebus divinis in Greek and Latin purged many superfluous and cabalistical things thence about the fourth part of them which being done he published them in 1673. He died at Cambridge in the month of April about the 12 day an 1683 being then esteemed a good Grecian July 8. Theoph. Howerth Doct. of Phys of Cambr. He was of Magd. Coll. in that University and of the Coll. of Phys at London This year Sheldons Theater being opened and dedicated for a learned use was a most splendid Act celebrated therein on the 12 of July and very many Cambridge men coming to the solemnity were 84 Masters of Arts of that Univ. incorporated in a Congregation held in the House of Convocation the next day The names of some of which follow Will. Saywell Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Peter Gunning B. of Chichester and afterwards of Ely was installed Chancellour of the Church of Chichester 5. Dec. 1672 became Master of Jesus Coll. in the said University D. of D and Archdeacon of Ely in the place of Barnab Oley deceased He hath written several things among which are Evangelical and Cath. unity maintained in the Church of England or an apology for her government liturgy subscriptions c. with answers to the objections of Mr. Baxter Dr. Owen and others against conformity Also the L. Bishop of Ely's Gunning Vindication shewing his way of true and christian concord And a Postscript in answer to Mr. Baxters late objections against my self concerning general Councils c. Lond. 1682. oct The book of Mr. Baxter which he answers is his Apology for the Non-conformist Ministry c. Lond. 1681. qu. and that or Dr. Owen is An enquiry into the Original of Evangelical Churches c. He hath also written The reformation of the Church of England justified according to the Canons of the Council of Nice c. being an answer to a paper reprinted at Oxford entit The Schism of the Church of England demonstrated c. Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. c. Samuel Scattergood Fell. of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Blockley in Warwickshire an 1678 and is author of two or more Sermons Tho. Gale Fell. of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity In 1672 he became chief Master of S. Pauls School in London was afterwards D. of D Prebendary of Pauls Fellow of the Royal Society and much celebrated for his admirable knowledge in the Greek tongue for his great labour and industry in publishing Greek authors as well Mss as printed exemplars as also certain books of English antiquities He hath written Philosophia Generalis in duas partes disterminata c. Joh. Sharp of Christs Coll. He was made Archdeacon of Berks in the place of Dr. Peter Mews promoted to the See of B. and Wells an 1672 was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage Lord Finch Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Preb. of Norwich Rector of S. Giles in the Fields near London Dean of Norwich in which Dignity he was installed 8. June 1681 in the place of Herb. Astley deceased afterwards of Canterbury upon Dr. Jo. Tillotson's translation thence to that of S. Paul in London in Sept. 1689 and at length upon the death of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh Archbishop of York to which he was consecrated in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in London on Sunday the 5. of July 1691. He hath 10 Sermons or more extant Hen. Jenks Fellow of Gonvile and Caies Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and author of The Christian Tutor or a free and rational discourse of the Sovereign good and happiness of man c. in a Letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies Lond. 1683. oct Rob. Wensley of Sydney Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Chesthunt in Hertfordshire Chaplain to James Earl of Salisbury and author of two or more Sermons and of The forme of sound words or the Catechisme of the Ch. of Engl. proved to be most Apostolical c. Lond. 1679. in tw Joh. Newton Fellow of Clare Hall He hath one or more Sermons extant See in Joh. Newton among the Writers in this Vol. p. 472. Jam. Lowde Fell. of Clare Hall He was afterwards Rector of Esington in Yorkshire Chaplain to John Earl of Bridgwater and author of one or more Sermons He hath also translated from French into English A discourse concerning divine dreams mention'd in Scripture together with the marks and characters by which they might be distinguished from vain elusions Lond. 1676. oct Written originally in a Letter by Moses Amyraldus to Monsieur Gaches Thom. Bambridge of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards a Doctor and author of An answer to a book entit Reason and authority or the motives of a late Protestants reconciliation to the Cath. Church With a brief account of Augustine the Monk and conversion of England Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. Henry Anderson of Magd. Coll. He is the same I suppose who was afterwards Vicar of King sumburne in Hampshire and author of three or more Sermons All which Masters viz. Saywell Scattergood Gale Sharp Jenks
notwithstanding not long before and I think then also he refused to subscribe the 39 Articles and so consequently did not desert the Religion of Rome out of desire of preferment or for temporal ends which the Author of The direction to N. N. objected to him by reason that this his refusal did incapacitate him for all places of benefit in England a previous subscription of the said 39 Articles being the only common door that here leads to any such This refusal was grounded on his scrupling the truth only of one or two Propositions contained in them and these his small doubts too were afterwards fully satisfied and removed before his advancement in the Church otherwise he could not have conscientiously subscribed the 39 Articles which is indispensibly required of all persons upon any ecclesiastical promotion But to return so it was that he finding not that satisfaction from the Jesuits concerning various points of Religion or as some say not that respect which he expected for the common report among his Contemporaries in Trin. Coll. was that the Jesuits to try his temper and exercise his obedience did put him upon servile duties far below him he left them in the year 1631 returned to the Church of England tho the Presbyterians said not but that he was always a Papist in his heart or as we now say in masquerade and was kindly received by his Godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London So that fixing himself for a time in his beloved Oxford he did in testimony of his reconcilement make a Recantation and afterwards wrot a book against the Papists as I shall anon tell you For which his service he was rewarded with the Chancellourship of the Church of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. Br. Duppa to the See of Chichester in the month of July 1638 and about the same time with the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital in the antient Borough of Leycester Both which and perhaps other preferments he kept to his dying day He was a most noted Philosopher and Orator and without doubt a Poet also otherwise Sir Joh. Suckling would not have brought him into his Poem called The session of Poets and had such an admirable faculty in reclaiming Schismaticks and confuting Papists that none in his time went beyond him He had also very great skill in Mathematicks and his aid and counsel was often used in making Fortifications for the Kings Garrisons especially those of the City of Glocester and Arundell Castle in Sussex He was a subtile and quick Disputant and would several times put the Kings Professor to a push Hobbes of Malmsbury would often say that he was like a lusty fighting fellow that did drive his Enemies before him but would often give his own party smart back-blows And 't was the current Opinion in this University that he and Lucius Lord Falkland had such extraordinary clear reason that if the great Turk or Devil were to be converted they were able to do it He was a man of little stature but of great soul which if times had been serene and life spared might have done incomparable service to the Church of England He wrot and published The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation or an answer to a book entit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholicks which pretends to prove the contrary Oxon. 1636. 38. Lond. 1664. 74. c. All which impressions were in fol. In which book the Author made very much use of Joh. Daillé a learned French Divine as about the same time the L. Falkland did in his Writings who was wont to say it was worth a Voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him He calls him our Protestant Perron c. The book that The Religion of Protestants c. answer'd was written by Edw. Knott a Jesuit against Dr. Potters book entit Want of Charity c. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of him under the year 1645. Before the said Relig. of Protestants c. went to the press it was at the desire of Dr. Laud corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux who afterwards among his friends would liken it to an unwholsome Lamprey by having a poysonous sting of Socinianism throughout it and tending in some places to plain infidelity and atheisme After it was published the general character given of its Author was that he had better luck in pulling down buildings than raising new ones and that he has managed his sword much more dexterous than his buckler c. yet the very same Author who reports this doth in a manner vindicate him elsewhere from being a Socinian which may in some sort confute the Jesuit Edw. Knott before mention'd It must be now known that our Author being of intimate acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eaton he did use his assistance when he was in compiling his book of The Religion c. especially in that part wherein he vindicates the English Church from schism charged on her by Knott And that he might more clearly understand Hales he desired him that he would communicate his thoughts in writing concerning the nature of Schism Whereupon he wrot a Tract thereof as I shall tell you when I come to him out of which our Author Chillingworth urged some Arguments which as one thinks are the worst in all his book and so it is thought by many more However if not as some affirm yet they have caused ill reflections not only on the private reputation of Hales and Chillingworth but on the Church of England as if it did favour the Socinian Principles But as for an exact summary of the doctrines of his belief after what manner to be qualified and how little he favoured Socinianism which that he did in an high degree his adversaries of Rome and some of the sectarian party at home did constantly and malitiously suggest When the said book was in the press Dr. Potter of Qu. Coll. wrot to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. 15 Sept. 1637 that Knott the Jesuit was in Oxon and had the sheets thereof sent to him as they came from the press giving five shillings for every sheet but this doth otherwise appear from Knott's words elsewhere There was also another Jesuit called Will. Lacey then dwelling in Oxon who perusing the said book gave his opinion of it in a Treatise entit The judgment of an University-man on Mr. Chillingworth's book which I shall elsewhere mention Besides him were two or three more at least that answered it as J. H. in Christianity maintained or a discovery of sundry doctrines tending to the overthrow of Christian Religion contained in the answer to a book entit Mercy and truth c. printed 1638. qu the Author of The Church conquerant over humane wit c. printed the same year and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmask'd c. Our Author Chillingworth hath also written The apostolical institution of Episcopacy demonstrated Lond. 1660. qu. there again
Aug. 1659. As for Hoyle he gave way to fate on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in that little old Chappel of University College which was pulled down in 1668 standing sometimes in that place which is now the middle part of the present Quadrangle in that College In his Mastership of that house succeeded Francis Johnson an Independent and in his Professorship Dr. Jo. Conant then a Presbyterian RICHARD SMITH was born in Lincolnshire 1566 became a Student of Trin. Coll. about 1583 went a course there but before he took a degree he left the Coll went to Rome ran another course in studies there not in Philosophy as he did at Trin. Coll. but in Divinity wherein making great proficiency was sent by his Superior to Valladolid in Spain where he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity Thence as I suppose he went into the Mission of England in which Employment he remained some years From thence he was sent for to Rome to be consulted with about the affairs of the English Popish Clergy Which being finished according to his mind he was remitted into England again and at length was by the Pope made Bishop titular only of Chalcedon in Greece and by him commissionated to exercise episcopal Jurisdiction in England over the Catholicks there The chief stage of his action was in Lancashire where he appeared in his Pontificalia with his horned Miter and Crosier conferring of Orders bestowing his Benediction and such like to the wonder of ignorant and poor people At length the King having received notice of these matters he renewed his Proclamation in 1628 one of a former date taking no effect for his apprehension promising an hundred pounds to be presently paid to him that did it besides all the profits which accrued to the Crown as legally due from the person that entertained him But the Bishop having timely notice of these matters convey'd himself over into France where he became a Confident of Armandus du Plessis Cardinal and Duke of Richlieu who confer'd upon him the Abbatship of Charroux in the diocess of Poitou which he kept and received the profits of it till 1647 and then Julius Cardinal Mazarine took it into his own hands The conveniency and validity of the episcopal power of the said Dr. Smith was made the subject of several books which were written thereon viz. in favour of him were 1 N. le Maistre a Sorbon Priest in a book intit De persecutione Episcoporum de illustrissimo Antistite Chalcedonense 2 The faculty of Paris which censur'd all such that opposed him In opposition to him or them were 1 Daniel a Jesuit or Dan. Ã Jesu i. e. Joh. Floyd a Jesuit 2 one Horucan 3 Lumley an English man and 4 Nich. Smith a Regular who with his Brethren did make so great a stir about this Bishops Authority and were heightned to that animosity against the secular Priests the Bishop being of that number that the Pope was forced to rouze and declare himself concern'd in so great a scandal to the Unity of the Rom. Church And because he would not proceed to cure this Schism until he rightly understood the original ground thereof over he dispatched into England Gregory Panzani a Civilian and Rom. Priest an 1634. with a Commission of Oyer and Terminer of hearing and determining the Quarrel if not to certifie to him the state of the cause and where the fault lay This was the upper Mantle of the Plot which had readily in it enough to overspread more secret designs so that they were not transparent to vulgar eyes But tho his Instructions would not own any other lading yet some especially the puritannical party held it for certain that they had taken in other contrivances of pernitious import to the Church and State of England He tarried here till 1636 having by that time procured an indifferent fair agreement between the Seculars and the Regulars What else was to be done in the matter was to be performed by Seignior George Con the Popes Agent sent into England the same year of Panzani his departure As for the Bishop of Chalcedon he was a general read Scholar in the Controversies between the Papists and Protestants in Histories whether civil or profane and did great service for the Cause he professed He hath written An Answer to the Challenge of Thom. Bell an Apostate Printed 1609. The prudential ballance of Religion wherein the Catholick and Protestant Religion are weighed together with the weight of Prudence and right Reason printed in a thick oct an 1609. This is the first part and is contained in two books Afterwards were two other parts composed by the said Author which I have not yet seen Collatio doctrinae Catholicorum Protestantium cum ipsis verbis S. Scripturae Par. 1622. qu. Flores ecclesiasticae Historiae Gentis Anglorum lib. 7. Par. 1654. fol. A survey of a late book intit The just Vindication of the Church of England from the unjust aspersion of criminal schism by John Bramhall Bishop of Derry printed 1654. Whereupon Bramhall came out with a Reply in 1656 but our Author being then dead the controversie ceased He also wrot The life and death of the illustrious Lady de Monte acuto which I have not yet seen At length after he had lived 88 years in this vain and transitory world gave way to fate at Paris on the eighth day of March in sixteen hundred fifty and four which according to the French accompt is the 18 of March 1655 and was buried near to the Altar in the Church of the English Nunnery of the Order of S. Austin situate and being in the Suburbs of S. Victor there Over his grave was a monument soon after put with an inscription thereon the contents of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 298. a. Before or after his death a MS. containing Several Letters and Epistles to the Pope to some Cardinals Bishops and Superiors written by the said Smith B. of Chalcedon came into the hands of Edw. Knott the Jesuit and afterwards into those of Dr. Seth Ward late Bishop of Salisbury See more of the said Bishop of Chalcedon in Will. Bishop an 1624. vol. 1. p. 415. EDWARD BOUGHEN a Buckinghamshire man born was elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1605 aged 18 years and after he had been some time standing in the degree of Master was made Chaplain to Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxford Afterwards he had some Cure at Bray in Berks and in 1636 became Rector of Woodchurch in Kent whence being ejected by the Presbyterians in the time of Rebellion he retired for a time to Oxon where he was actually created Doctor of Divinity a little before the surrender of the Garrison there to the Parliaments Forces an 1646. Afterwards he resided at Chartham in Kent but in what condition I know not as yet His works are
the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
the same time was such a great party of that Faction present that Oliver being suspicious of some mischief that might arise sent Maj. General Joh. Bridges with eight Troops of Horse to those parts who taking up his quarters at Wallingford many of his men attended in and near Abendon during the time of Praying Preaching and Burying After the burial were tumults raised by Preaching which would have ended in blows had not the Soldiers intercepted and sent them home SIMON BIRCKBEK son of Tho. Birck Esq was born at Hornbie in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the year 1600 and that of his age 16 where he was successively a poor serving child Tabarder or poor child and at length Fellow being then Master of Arts. About which time viz. 1607. entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts was esteem'd a good Disputant and well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the year after became Vicar of the Church of Gilling and of the Chappel of Forcet near Richmond in Yorksh by the favour of his Kinsman Humph. Wharton Esq Receiver general of his Majesties Revenues within the Archd. of Richmond the Bishoprick of Durham and County of Northumberland In which place being setled he was much esteemed by the Clergy and Laity of the Neighbourhood for his exemplary life and conversation He hath written The Protestants evidence shewing that for 1500 years next after Christ divers guides of Gods Church have in sundry points of Religion taught as the Church of England now doth Lond. 1634. 35. qu. There again with many additions in fol. an 1657. This book was valued by Selden and other learned men because therein the Author had taken great and worthy pains in producing out of every Century Witnesses to attest the Doctrine of the Ch. of Engl. in the points by him produced against the contrary doctrine of the Trent Council and Church of Rome Answer to a Romish Antidotist Lond. 1657. at the end of the former book printed in fol. Treatise of Death Judgment Hell and Heaven He was buried in the Chappel of Forcet before mention'd on the 14 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six near to the Font there Over his grave was soon after a grey marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by and only tell you that this our Author Birckbek submitted to the men in power in the times of Usurpation and therefore kept his Benefice without fear of Sequestration RICHARD CAPEL was born of good Parentage within the City of Glocester educated in Grammar Learning there became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the beginning of the year 1601 and in that of his age 17 elected Demy of Magd. Coll. soon after and in the year 1609 he was made perpetual Fellow of that House being then Mast of Arts which was the highest degree he took in this University While he continued there his eminency was great was resorted to by noted men especially of the Calvinian Party had many Pupils put to his charge of whom divers became afterwards noted for their Learning as Accepted Frewen Archb. of York Will. Pemble c. Afterwards leaving the Coll. upon the obtaining of the Rectory of Eastington in his own Country became eminent there among the puritannical Party for his painful and practical way of preaching his exemplary life and conversation and in doing many good offices for those of his function When the book concerning Sports on the Lords day was ordered to be read in all Churches an 1633 he refused to do it and thereupon willingly resigning his Rectory obtained licence to practice Physick from the Bishop of Glocester so that setling at Pitchcomb near to Strowd in the said County where he had a temporal Estate was resorted to especially by those of his opinion for his success in that faculty In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians was made one of the Ass of Divines but refused to sit among them and was as I conceive restored to his Benefice or else had a better confer'd on him He was esteemed by those of his opinion an excellent Preacher and one that kept close to the footings of Jo. Dod Rob. Cleaver Arth. Hildersham and Jo. Rainolds of the last of whom he would often say that He was as learned a man as any in the world as godly also as learned and as humble as godly He hath written God's valuation of mans soul in two sermons on Mark 8.36 Lond. 1632. qu. Tentations their nature danger and cure in four parts Lond. 1650. oct c. Each part came out by it self before that time Brief dispute touching restitution in the case of usury Printed with the Tentations This Brief dispute with the Short discourse of Usury by Rob. Bolton and the Usurer cast by Chr. Jellinger M. A. are replyed upon by T. P. Lond. 1679. Apology in defence of some Exceptions against some particulars in the book of Tentations Lond. 1659. oct Remaines being an useful Appendix to his excellent Treatise of Tentations c. Lond. 1658. oct He paid his last debt to nature at Pitchcomb before mention'd on the 21 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried within the Precincts of the Church there His Fathers name was Christopher Capel a stout Alderman of the City of Glocester and a good friend to such Ministers that had suffer'd for Nonconformity He was born at Hoo-capel in Herefordshire and by Grace his Wife daughter of Rich. Hands had issue Rich. Capel before mention'd EDMUND WINGATE son of Roger Windg of Bornend and Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire Esq was born in 1593 became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in 1610 and took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he retired to Greys Inn where he had entred himself before that time a Student for the obtaining knowledge in the municipal Laws But his genie being more bent to the noble study of Mathematicks which had before been promoted and encouraged in Queens Coll. did at length arrive to great eminence in that faculty and was admired by those few in London that then professed it In 1624 he transported into France the Rule of Proportion having a little before been invented by Edm. Gunter of Gresham Coll and communicated it to most of the chiefest Mathematicians then residing in Paris who apprehending the great benefit that might accrue thereby importun'd him to express the use thereof in the French Tongue Which being performed accordingly he was advised by Mounsier Alleawne the Kings chief Engineer to dedicate his book to Mounsier the Kings only Brother since Duke of Orleance Nevertheless the said work coming forth as an Abortive the publishing thereof being somewhat hastned by reason an Advocate of Diion in Burgundy began to print some uses thereof which Wingate had in a friendly way communicated
mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Ch. yard there belonging to S. Maries Church aforesaid In his Rectory succeeded his Kinsman Tho. Ellis Bac. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll Son of Griffin Ellis of Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire who having been well vers'd in British Histories and a singular lover of Antiquities made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell as I have before told you which being so done the book was licensed and put into the Press at Oxon. But by that time he had printed 20 sheets or more out came Percie Enderbie with his book entit Cambria triumphans c. Or antient and modern British and Welsh Historie Lond. 1661. fol. In which book Tho. Ellis finding that Enderbie had seized upon those materials that he had collected for the fabrick of his work he did desist from going any further and caused what had been printed of his work to be sold for wast paper He died at Dolbehman in the beginning of the year in Apr. 1673 and was buried in the Church belonging to that town As for Enderbie who was an Author of no considerable note as having not had that just education which is requisite for a genuine Historian hath done his work but very meanly being mostly a scribble from late Authors and gives not that satisfaction which curious men desire to know And therefore I am perswaded that had Ellis finished his work 't would have been more acceptable to Scholars and intelligent Persons as having had more opportunities and advantages by reason of his birth and a continual succession of his family in Wales to know such matters than Enderbie who was a stranger for he was born at or near to the City of Lincoln and knew little or nothing of Wales till he setled there by a clandestine Marriage with the Daughter of Sir Edw. Morgan of Lantarnam in Monmouthshire Baronet but upon some encouragement received from certain Gentlemen and from the Library at Lantarnam he undertook it partly for fame but more for money sake This Person who translated into English The Astrologer anatomiz'd or the vanity of Star-gazing Art discovered written by Benedict Pererius died at or near Carleon in Apr. 1670 leaving some other things as 't was said fit for the press but if they be no better than his Cambria triumphans 't is no matter if they suffer the same fate as the papers of Tho. Ellis did Besides the before-mention'd John Ellis was another of both his names and a writer bred in Cambridge and afterwards Vicar of Waddesdon in Bucks Father to Philip Ellis bred in Westminster School but in no University in England because he had changed his Religion for that of Rome consecrated a titular Bishop in the Chappel belonging to S. James house in Westminster on Sunday 6. of May 1688. MATTHEW GRIFFITH was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of May 1615 aged 16 years or more took one degree in Arts as a member of Glouc. Hall then holy Orders and soon after became Lecturer of St. Dunstans Church in the West under the inspection as 't is said of Dr. John Donne whose favourite he was Afterwards he was made Rector of S. Mary Magd. near Old Fish-street in London by the presentation of the Dean and Chapt. of S. Paul where shewing himself a grand Episcoparian was in the beginning of the rebellion sequestred from his Rectory plundered and imprison'd in Newgate whence being let out he was forced to fly but taken and afterwards imprison'd in Peter-house At length getting loose thence he retired to the King at Oxon by virtue of whose letters he was actually created D. of D. in June 1643 and made one of his Chaplains Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and there by stealth read and continued prayers and other ordinances according to the Ch. of England to the poor Cavaliers during the Usurpation for which he suffer'd seven violent assaults as 't is said and five imprisonments the last of which was in Newgate in the beginning of the year 1660. After the Kings return he was restored to his Rectory was made Preacher to the honorable Societies of the Temples and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire but whether he was made a Prebend of a Church or a Dean which he much deserved I know not He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Sermon on Psal 37. ver 1. Lond. 1633. oct 2 Pathetical perswasion to pray for publick peace on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1642. qu. For several passages in which Sermon he suffered imprisonment 3 Sermon touching the power of the King on Eccles 8.4 Lond. 1643. qu. His name is not set to it but the general report then and after was that 't was his 4 The fear of God and the King pressed in a Serm. at Mercers Chappel 25. March 1660 on Prov. 24.21 Lond. 1660. qu. c. In which Serm. shewing himself too zealous for the Royal cause before Gen. George Monk durst own it was to please and blind the fanatical party imprison'd in Newgate but soon after released There was an answer made to this by John Milton entit Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God c. Whereupon came out a little thing called No blind guides c. addressed to the Author in two sheets in Rog. Lestrange his Apologie Lond. 1660. qu. 5 Communion Serm. preached at Serjeants inn before the Judges on Rom. 12.4.5 Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Catholic Doctor and his spiritual Catholicon on 1. John 1.7 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 The Kings life-guard an anniversary Sermon preached to the honorable society of both the Temples 30. Jan. 1664. on 1. Sam. 26.9 Lond. 1665. qu. Besides which he hath others that are extant but such I have not yet seen as The Samaritan revived another called The blessed birth c. He hath also written Bethel or a forme for families in which all sorts of both sexes are so squared and framed by the word as they may best serve in their several places for useful pieces in Gods building Lond. 1654. qu. Brief historical account of the causes of our unhappy distractions and the only way to heal them Lond. 1660. oct This is added to a second edition of the Sermon called The fear of God and the King c. This most zealous and loyal Person departed this mortal life at Bladon before mention'd on the 14. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there He had before broken a vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point study to be quiet and follow your own business In the said Rectory of Bladon Woodstock being a Chappel of ease to it succeeded Henry Savage D. D. Master of Balliol Coll. of whom I shall make mention among these writers under the year 1672. THOMAS WARMESTRY son
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
Several Speeches in Parl. during his office of L. Chancellour from his Majesties Restauration to 1667. They are in number at least 10 and were printed in fol. papers The difference and disparity between the Estates and Conditions of George Duke of Buckingham and Robert Earl of Essex See in Reliq Wottonianae c. Lond. 1672 octav Animadversions on a book intit Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted by Ser. Cressy Lond. 1674. oct It was printed twice in that year and once in 1685. oct Brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes book intit Leviathan Oxon. 1676. qu. Letter to his daughter Anne Duchess of York upon a report of her inclinations towards Popery and at the same time another to the Duke upon the same subject Written about 1670. It was printed at Lond. 1681. 82. He hath also written 1 A History or an Historical account of Ireland MS which Edm. Borlace made use of without acknowledgment in his book or books which he published of the affairs of that Kingdom so Dr. Jo. Nalson in his Pref. to his second vol. of his Impartial collection of Records c. 3 History from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. MS as also an account of his own life which being hereafter to be published you may be pleased to take this present discourse of him only as a Specimen of a larger to come He died of the terrible disease of the Gout at Roan in Normandy on the ninth day of Decemb. according to our accompt in sixteen hundred seventy and four whereupon his body being conveyed into England 't was buried on the north side of the Capella Regum in S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this Edw. Hyde have been two more of both his names and time that have been Writers as Edw. Hyde jun. an enthusiastical person who among several things that he hath written hath published A wonder and yet no wonder A great red Dragon in Heaven c. Lond. 1651 And Edw. Hyde first cosin to our Author Edw. E. of Clarendon as I shall tell you at large elsewhere JOHN VAUGHAN a most noted and learned Lawyer of his time was born at Trowscoed in the County of Cardigan educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School within the City of Worcester whence after he had remained there 5 years he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this Univ. in the 15th year of his age and thence at 18 he went to the Inner Temple where for some time he chose rather to follow his Academical Studies of Poetry and Mathematicks than the municipal Laws of England At length falling into the acquaintance of the learned Selden and others was instructed by them in the value of civil learning so that soon after he applied himself closely to the course of that Study particularly of the said laws which he after made his profession but when he began to become noted and admired in the Parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640. of which he was a Burgess for the Town of Cardigan the Civil War broke forth and gave a stop to his Proceedings Whereupon leaving London he retired to his own Country and mostly lived there till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Afterwards being elected Knight for the County of Cardigan to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 his Majesty was about that time pleased to take notice of his great worth and experience Afterwards he confer'd the honour of Knighthood upon him and in few days after viz. May 22. an 1668 he was solemnly sworn Serjeant at Law in the Court of Chancery in Westm Hall and the next day was sworn L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas. He hath written and collected Reports and Arguments being all of them special Cases and many wherein he pronounced the resolution of the whole Court of Common Pleas at the time he was L. Ch. Justice there Lond. 1677. fol. Published by his son Edw. Vaughan Esq and other things as 't is said fit to be printed He died in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Temple Church near the grave of Jo. Selden Over his grave was a large marble stone soon after put and over that was erected a marble Table in the south wall near the round walk with this Inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Vaughanus Eq. Aur. Capital Justiciar de Com. Banco filius Edwardi Vaughan de Trowscoed in agro Dimetarum Ar. Leticiae uxoris ejus filiae Johannis Stedman de Strata florida in eodem Com. Arm. unus è quatuor perdocti Seldeni Executoribus ei stabili amicitia studiorumque communione à tyrocinio intimus praecarus Natus erat xiiii die Sept. an Dom. 1608. denatus x. die Decemb. an Dom. 1674. qui juxta hoc marmor depositus adventum Christi propitium expectat Multum deploratus JOHN OXENBRIDGE son of Dan. Oxenb sometimes Doct. of Phys of Ch. Ch. in this University and a Practitioner of his faculty at Daventrey commonly called Daintrey in Northamptonshire and afterwards in London was born in that County became a Communer of Linc. Coll. in 1623 aged 18 years and thence translating himself to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts and soon after became a Tutor there but being found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of dealing with his Scholars by perswading and causing some of them to subscribe as Votaries to several articles framed by himself as he pretended for their better government as if the Statutes of the place wherein he lived and the authority of the then present government were not sufficient he was distutor'd in the month of May 1634. Afterward he left the Hall and shewing himself very scismatical abroad was forced to leave the Nation whereupon he with his beloved Wife called Jane Butler went to the Islands of Bermudas where he exercised his Ministry At length the Long Parliament making mad work in England in 1641. c. he as other Schismaticks did returned preached very enthusiastically in severally places in his travels to and fro while his dear Wife preached in the house among her Gossips and others So that he being looked upon as a zealous and forward brother for the cause he had some spirituality bestowed on him and at length was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore in the place of one Simonds deceased who had been thrust into the place of Dr. David Stokes in the time of the rebellion Upon his Majesties restauration Oxenbridge was outed of his Fellowship and afterwards retiring to Berwick upon Twede he held forth there till the Act of conformity silenced him an 1662. Afterwards he went to the West Indies and continued there at Syrenham for a time in preaching and praying At length
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
men especially in Ministers of the Gospel on 1. Cor. 3.21 Lond. 1643. 45. 47. qu. 5 True old light exalted above pretended new light or a treatise of Jesus Christ c. in nine Sermons Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also as it seems a Sermon extant on 1. Cor. 7.14 which I have not yet seen only mention of it in the title of a book written by Mr. Baxter running thus Plain Scripture proof of Infant-Church membership and baptisme Being the whole arguments at a publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Beaudley and answers to his Sermon upon 1. Cor. 7.14 with all his letters by Messengers and his calling for answers in pulpit and in point with many things relating to Mr. Thomas Bedford and Dr. Ward and others upon that subject Printed 1652 or thereabouts and in an 1656. Two Treatises and an appendix to them concerning Infant-baptisme c. Lond. 1645. qu. Written mostly against Steph. Marshall Minister of Finchingfield in Essex An examen of a Sermon of Mr. Steph. Marshall about Infant-baptisme in a Letter sent to him in 4. parts Lond. 1645. qu. An apologie for two treatises and an appendix to them concerning Infant-baptisme published 15. Dec. 1645. against the unjust charges and complaints of Dr. Nathan Homes Mr. John Geree Stephen Marshall John Ley and William Husley together with a Postscript by way of reply to Mr. Blakes answer to Mr. Tombes Letter c. Lond. 1646. qu. See in Tho. Blake under the year 1657. p. 133. Exercitation about Infant-baptism in 12 arguments c. Lond. 1646. qu. A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings Supremacy Lond. 1649. qu. Antidote against the venome of a passage in the first direction of the Epist ded to Mr. Baxters book of the Saints everlasting rest Lond. 1650. qu. Praecursor or a forerunner to a large view of a dispute concerning Infantâ—baptism c. Lond. 1652. qu. Anti paedobaptisme or no plain or obscure scripture proof of Infants baptisme or Church membership being the first part of the full review of the dispute about Infant-baptisme c. against St. Marshall John Geree Rich. Baxter Tho. Cobbet Tho. Blake Josias Church Nath. Stephens c. Lond. 1652. qu. Anti-paedob or the second part of a full review and dispute concerning Infant baptisme c. against the Writings of St. Marshall Dr. Nath. Homes Dr. Daniel Featley Dr. H. Hammond Th. Blake Tho. Cobbet Rob. Bailee Joh. Brinsley Cuthb Sydenham Tho. Fuller c. Lond. 1654. qu. Anti-paedob or the third part being a full review of a dispute concerning Infant-bapt c. against St. Marshall Rich. Baxter J. Geree Th. Blake Th. Cobbet Dr. N. Homes John Drew Jos Church Will. Lyford Dr. D. Featley Jo. Brinsley C. Sydenham Will. Carter Sam. Rutherford Joh. Cragge Dr. H. Hammond Joh. Cotton Th. Fuller Jo. Stallam Tho. Hall and others c. Lond. 1657. qu. Refutatio positionis ejusd confirmationis paedobaptismum esse licitum affirmantis ab Hen. Savage S S. Th. D. in comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. mense Jul. 1652 propositae Lond. 1653. quart Plea for Anti-paedobaptists against the vanity and falshood of scribled Papers intit The Anabaptists anatomized and silenced in a publick dispute at Abergavenny in Monmouthshire 5 Sept. 1653 betwixt Mr. Joh. Tombes Joh. Cragge and Hen. Vaughan touching Infant-baptisme Lond. 1654. qu. Relation of a conference had between Joh. Tombes B. D. and Hen. Vaugen M. A. at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-bapt Lond 1656. oct Relation of a dispute had between Joh. Tombes B. D. Respondent and Joh. Cragge M. A. Opponent at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-bapt Lond. 1656. octav Animadversiones quaedam in Aphorismos Richardi Baxter de justificatione Published by the said Baxter without the Authors knowledge an 1658. I never saw this book only the mention of it made in our Authors Epist ded before his Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli. Short Catechisme about Baptisme Lond. 1659 in one sh in oct Felo de se Or Mr. Rich. Baxters self-destroying manifested in 20 Arguments against Infant-baptisme c. Lond. 1659. qu. A discussion of Mr. Rich. Baxters ten reasons of his practice about Infant baptisme delivered in a serm at Beaudley on Colos 3.11 Lond. 1659. qu. Romanisme discussed or an answer to the nine first Articles of H. T. Turbervill his Manual of controversies Lond. 1660. qu. Sephersheba or the oath-book Being a treatise concerning swearing c. Lond. 1662. qu. Delivered in 20 catechistical lectures at Lemster an 1636. Saints no smiters c. a treatise shewing the doctrine and attempts of Quinto-Monarchians or fift Monarchy-men about smiting Powers to be damnable and antichristian Lond. 1664. qu. Theodulia or a just defence of hearing the sermons and other teaching of the present Ministers of the Ch. of England against a book unjustly intit in Greek A Christian testimony against them that serve the image of the beast c. Lond. 1667. oct Emanuel or God-man A treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon Councils concerning the two Nativities of Christ is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine Lond. 1669. oct Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bullii cui titulum fecit Harmonia Apostolica c. Lond. 1676. oct What other things our Author Tombes hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died at Salisbury in sixteen hundred seventy and six and that he was buried on the 25 day of May in St. Edmunds Ch. yard there over against the Steeple on the north side at a good distance And lastly that soon after was put over his grave a flat stone with this Inscription thereon Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Tombes Bachelour of Divinity a constant Preacher of Gods word who deceased the 22 of May an 1676. aged 73. GILBERT COLES Son of Edm. Coles of Winchester Priest was born at Burfield in Berks educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1637 took the degrees in Arts and in 1648 or thereabouts became Fellow of the Coll. near Winchester but soon after was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Afterwards he was elected Fellow again by the Society of New Coll for the great respect they had for him he being about that time Rector of East-Meon in Hampshire and accounted by many a learned man Afterwards he became Rector of Easton near Winchester Doct. of Divinity and Rector of Ash in Surrey He hath written Theophilus and Orthodoxus or several conferences between two friends the one a true son of the Church of England the other faln off to the Church of Rome Ox. 1674. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church of Easton before mentioned Over his grave his widow soon after caused a stone to be laid with this Inscription thereon Gilb. Coles S. T. P. hujus ecclesiae Rector
pleasant life this noble and beautiful Count paid his last debt to nature in the Rangers Lodge in Woodstock Park very early in the morn of the 26 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in a vault under the north Isle joyning to Spelsbury Church in Oxfordshire by the body of his Father Henry sometimes the generous loyal and valiant Earl of Rochester the same who had been Commissary General of the Army in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 under Thomas Earl of Arundel the General and had then a troop of horse under him and the same who had married Anne the Widow of Sir Harry Lee of Dichley before mention'd and Daughter of Sir John St. John of Wiltshire Which Henry Earl of Roch. dying beyond the Seas in his attendance on his Majesty on the 19 of Feb. 1657 aged 45 years was by leave obtained privately buried in the before mention'd Vault being the place of sepulture only for the family of Lee since honored with the title of Earl of Lichfield The said John E. of Rochester left behind him a son named Charles who dying on the 12 of Nov. 1681 was buried by his father on the 7 of Dec. following He also left behind him three daughters named Anne Elizabeth and Malet so that the male line ceasing his Majesty Ch. 2. confer'd the title of Rochester on Laurence Viscount Killingworth a younger son of Edward Earl of Clarendon STEPHEN CHARNOCK son of Rich. Charnock an Attorney or Solicitor descended from an antient family of his name living in Lancashire was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Creechurch in London educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge mostly under the tuition of Mr. Will. Sancroft spent afterwards some time in a private family and a little more in the exercise of his Ministry in Southwarke in the time of the Rebellion In 1649 or thereabouts he retired to Oxon purposely to obtain a Fellowship from the Visitors appointed by Parliament when they ejected scholars by whole shoales and in 1650 he obtained a Fellowship in New Coll. and thereby for several years did eat the bread of a worthy Loyallist In 1652 he was incorporated Master of Arts as he had stood in Cambridge and two years after he did undergo the office of Proctor of the University being then taken notice of by the godly Party for his singular gifts and had in reputation by the then most learned Presbyterians and therefore upon that account he was the more frequently put upon publick Works After he had discharged his office he received a call to go into Ireland where exercising his Ministry for about 4 or 5 years he was held in admiration by the Presbyterian and sometimes by the Independent and had the concurrent applause of some that were of different sentiments from him in matters of Religion and such also who did not love his opinion did notwithstanding commend him for his learning After the King was restored in 1660 he was ejected from his publick exercise being then as I conceive Bach. of Div. of Dublin returned into England and in and about London he did spend the greatest part of 15 years without any call to his own work whereby he took advantage to go now and then either into France or Holland In the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in private meetings in the great City gaining thereby infinite love and applause from the Brethren who held him to be a person of excellent parts strong reason great judgment and which do not often go together curious fancy They also esteemed him to be a man of high improvements and general learning that his chief talent was his preaching gift in which he had few equals that also he was good in the practice of physick in which he had arrived to a considerable measure of knowledge and lastly that he was a true son of the Church of England in that sound doctrine laid down in the articles of Religion and taught by our most famous antient Divines and Reformers c. As for his Writings they are many yet he published nothing while he lived However after his death his friends made extant these things following to prevent false copies which were then likely to creep abroad A Sermon of reconciliation to God in Christ on 2 Cor. 5.19 Lond. 1680. qu. Treatise of divine providence 1. In general 2. In particular as relating to the Church of God in the world Lond. 1680. oct Before which is an Epistle written by Rich. Adams and Edw. Veel who as I think published the said book This was afterwards involved in his Works His Works containing several discourses upon the excellence and attributes of God Lond. 1682. in a large fol. published by the said two persons R. Adams and E. Veele His Works vol. 2. containing several discourses upon various divine Subjects Lond. 1683. fol. with a Supplement He died in the house of one Rich. Tymms a Glazier in the Parish of White Chappel near London on the 27 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty aged 52 years or thereabouts whereupon his body being conveyed to Crosby house belonging to Sir Jo. Langham in which house Tho. Watson M. of A sometimes of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. Pastor of S. Stephens Church Walbrook in Lond. in the times of Usurpation and the author of The art of divine contemplation and of other things did hold forth by praying and preaching as our author Charnock did was thence accompanied by great numbers of the Brethren to S. Michaels Church on Cornhill in London where after John Johnson his contemporary in Emanuel and New Coll had held forth in a funeral Sermon wherein many things were spoken in praise of the defunct his body was committed to the earth on the 30 day of the same month at the bottom of the Tower under the Belfry I must now having a just opportunity laid before me tell the Reader that the name of Charnock is antient and in Lancashire is now or at least hath been lately Charnock of Charnock from whence was originally descended Thom. Charnock a noted Chymist and Rosacrucian of his time born at Feversham some say in the Isle of Thanet in Kent an 1526 and being very covetous of knowledge he travelled all England over to gain it fixed in Oxon for a considerable time where it hapned that he fell into such acquaintance that it proved his future comfort About that time he became known to Mr. James S. a spiritual man living in the Close at Salisbury who being a noted Chymist he entertained Charnock to be his Operator In 1554 he obtained the secret from his said Master Jam. S. who dying about that time left him inheritor of it but lost it by firing his Tabernacle on New years-day at noon an 1555. Soon after he learned the secret again but not of Will. Byrd sometimes Prior of Bathe who had bestowed a great deal of pains and money to obtain it but
of Com. 3. Aug. 1659 This I have not yet seen and therefore know not the Text. The summ of other Sermons do here follow A divine discovery of sincerity according to its proper and peculiar nature c. Lond. 1643. oct delivered in three Sermons on 2. Cor. 11.12 Baulme for bleeding England and Ireland or seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians c. Lond. 1643. 49. oct contained in the sum or substance of 20 Sermons on Colos 1.11.12 England faithfully watcht with in her wounds or Christ as a father sitting up with her Children in their sowning state Lond. 1646. qu painfully preached on Colos 1. Christ communion with his Church Militant Lond. 1647. oct and 1672 which is the fifth edition First preached and afterwards published for the good of Gods Church in general The said fifth edit which is in oct also hath the authors picture before it in a cloak with 4 verses engraven under it The two first of which run thus Note well the substance of this shade so bright Lo 't is a burning and a shining light An olive leaf or a bud of the spring viz. Christs resurrection and its end viz. the correction of sinners and a Christians compleat relief Lond. 1650 oct A Stone cut out of the mountain A lecture sermon preached at Edenburgh concerning the matter of visible Church Printed in tw Refuted by Jam. Wood a Scotch man in his Pamphlet published 1654. qu. I mean the same James Wood who was afterwards Professor of Div. and Provost of S. Salvators Coll. in the University of St. Andrew who died about the year 1664. Whether he be the same Jam. Wood who was Chaplain to and a constant companion with the most noble James Marquess of Montross when he made his first war against the Covenanteers in Scotland and accompanied him when he left that Nation after his Maj. K. Ch. 1 had commanded him to lay down his armes and disband I know not Quaere Spiritual inspection or a review of the heart needful for this loose and lascivious season Pr. in oct The young mans call and duty Pr. in a small oct Useful instructions for the People of God in these evil times Lond. 1656. oct Delivered in 22 Sermons A memorial of Gods judgments spiritual and temporal or sermons to call to remembrance c. Lond. 1671. oct First preached in six sermons and then published for publick use What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing else of him only that he spending his last days at Woodford in Essex where he kept or at least frequented Conventicles died a wealthy man on the 13. of March or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried some days after in the Church of S. Mary of Mountfallon commonly called Whitechappel near London leaving then behind him two Daughters called Abigail and Elizabeth NATHANAEL HEIGHMORE son of a Father of both his names sometimes Rector of Candel-purse or Cundel-purse in Dorsetshire was born in the Parish of Fordingbridge in Hampshire elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. in 1632 took the degrees in Arts studied Physick admitted Bach. of that fac in 1641 and in the latter end of the next year was actually created Doctor thereof Afterwards retiring into the Country setled at length at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire where and in the neighbourhood he became famous for the happy practice in his faculty and for the great love that he expressed to the Clergy of those parts from whom as 't is said he never took a fee tho much employed by that party This person whose memory is celebrated by divers authors hath written Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica Hag. Com. 1651. fol. To which he afterwards added an Appendix but before he could perfect it to his mind he died The History of generation with a general relation of the manner of generation as well in plants as Animals Lond. 1651. oct Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy Pr. with The Hist of Gen. De histerica passione de affectione hypochondriaca theses duae Oxon. Amstel 1660. oct De histerica hypochondrica passione responsio Epistolaris ad Doctorem Willis medicum Londinensem celeberrimum Lond. 1670. qu. He also discovered a new Ductus in the Testicles but whether published in a book by it self I know not He died on the 21. of March in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Candel purse before mentioned near the body as I suppose of his Father Afterwards was laid a plain marble stone over his grave with this inscription thereon Positae sunt hic reliquiae viri admodum docti Nathanaelis Heighmore in Med. Doctoris in spem resurrectionis ad vitam aeternam Qui obiit Martii 21. An. Dom. 1684. Aetatis suae 71. ROBERT WOOD was born in the Parish of Pepperharrow near Godalming in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in the School at Eaton near Windsore was made one of the Eaton Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1642 took the degree of Master of Arts seven years after having a little before submitted to the authority of the Parliamentarian Visitors elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. by their order dated 19. Sept. 1650 in the place of Thankful Owen made President of S. Johns Coll went afterwards with the leave of his Society into Ireland and became a Retainer to Henry Cromwell L. Lieutenant of that Kingdom who sent him as a spye into Scotland to give him an account how affairs stood there Afterwards he returned into England became one of the first Fellows of the Coll. at Durham founded by Oliver Protector an 1657 a great Commonwealths man and a frequenter of the Rota-Club of Jam. Harrington After his Majesties restauration he was turn'd out of his Fellowship of Linc. Coll by the Kings Commissioners and thereupon going into Ireland again he for lucre sake for he was a covetous Person expressed his Loyalty so much that he became Doctor of Phys there and of the Law as I have heard and Chancellour of two Diocesses whereof Meath was one So that purchasing an Estate in that Country which he afterwards sold to buy one at Sherwill in Essex he setled for a time in England and became Teacher of the Blew-coated-children in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London in the Art of Mathematicks and Navigation At length giving up that place he went again into Ireland and was made one of the Commissioners of his Majesties revenue and at length Accomptant-general to the Commissioners of the said revenue there which he held at the time of his death being then one of the Royal Society in England Will. Oughtred the famous Mathematician saith of this Dr. Wood who had been sometimes his Scholar that he is Philosophiae atque Medicinae studiosus vir optimus atque doctissimus qui non calamo solum scriptorum examinatione nâ—quid forte mihi in computationibus erroris exciderit amicum
Actress in the Dukes Play-house an 1680 and after Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life written by himself which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book and altogether unknown to him he could never gain a sight of it THOMAS PITTIS son of a father of both his names a Captain somtimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight was born at Knighton there became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652 took one degree in Arts and then translated himself to Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant Afterwards he took the degree of Master and was made one of the Terrae Filii but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times he was expel'd the University an 1658. Afterwards he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1665 became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord. proceeded in Div. in 1670 and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh bestowed on him by the King which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke somtimes of Linc. Coll. for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate London So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty Lecturer at Ch. Church and Rector of S. Botolph before mention'd His works are these A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar made public Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England Lond. 1670. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. before the Artillery Company on Luke 3.14 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 An old way of ending new Controversies preached to the Comptroller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple 8. Jan. 1681 on 1. John 2. former part of the 24. ver Lond. 1682. qu. c. A discourse of Prayer wherein this great duty is stated so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and Fanaticks as they are contrary to the publick Formes of the Church of England established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits wherein enquiry is made into mens pretences to inspiration for publishing doctrines in the name of God beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture in opposition to some Principles of Papists and Fanaticks as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England defined in her Articles of Religion established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parliament Lond. 1684 oct Dedic to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt Deput Gov. of the Isle of Wight This Dr. Pittis died on the 28. of Decemb. Innocents day in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentiond into the Isle of Wight and there buried at Westcowes as I have been informed CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks was born at Winchcombe in Glocestershire on S. Clements day 23. Nov. 1609 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks entred a Servitour in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent terme 1625 but making little stay there he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Whear the Principal where continuing a severe Student several years he took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplyed the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints commonly called Alhallowes in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford Vicar Choral there and in short time after Vicar of Alhallowes in that City In 1646 the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprized by the Parliam Forces he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power And after that he sheltred at Hawling in Coltswold where he taught a private School with good success After the Kings restauration he was by his Majesties gift setled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire which he kept to the time of his death He was a good Disputant a great admirer of Hugh Grotius a frequent preacher but very conceited and vain a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts most of which are meer Scribbles The titles follow Monumenta literaria sive â—obitus Elogia doctorum Virorum ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani Lond. 1640. qu and several times after with additions or corrections in oct A short Practical Catechisme out of Dr. Hammond with a paper monument Lond. 1649. oct Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti Selecta exposita ab Andr. Schotto Oxon. 1651. in tw They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale Nympha Libethris or the Coâ—swold Muse presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars In four parts Lond. 1651. oct I have a book in my Study entit Annalia Dubrensia Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills c. Lond. 1636 qu. This book which hath the running title on every page of Cotswold Games consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia but nothing of the Cotswold Muse of Barksdale relates to them which some that have only seen the title of it think it to be the same The said Games were begun and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire son of John Dover of Norfolk who being full of activity and of a generous free and publick Spirit did with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotswold Hills in Glocestershire whereon those Games should be acted Endimion Porter Esq a native of that County and a servant to that King a person also of a most generous spirit did to encourage Dover give him some of the said Kings old clothes with a Hat and Feather and Ruff purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games frequented by the Nobility and Gentry some of whom came 60 Miles to see them even till the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians which gave a stop to their proceedings and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets some of which were
of S. Patricks Church near Dublin and in August the same year he was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law as a member of S. Edm. Hall by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf which say that he is a worthy and learned person and hath suffered much for his Loyalty to his Majesty c. Afterwards he went into Ireland was installed Dean of the said Ch. on the 21 of Oct. following and continuing in that dignity till 1663 he was made Bish of Limerick and Ardfert in that Kingdom to which being consecrated on the 20 of March the same year according to the English accompt sate there tho much of his time was spent in England till 1667 and then upon Dr. B. Laney's removal to Ely on the death of Dr. Math. Wren he was translated to the See of Lincoln after he had taken a great deal of pains to obtain it on the 28 of Sept. the same year He paid his last debt to nature at Kensington near London on the 22 of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and five whereupon his body being carried to Lincoln was buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the afternoon of the very same day that he died Dr. Tho. Barlow Provost of Qu. Coll did by the endeavours of the two Secretaries of State both formerly of his Coll. kiss his Majesties hand for that See and accordingly was soon after consecrated The said Dr. Fuller did once design to have written the Life of Dr. Joh. Bramhall sometimes Primate of Ireland and had obtained many materials in his mind for so doing wherein as in many things he did he would without doubt have quitted himself well as much to the instruction of the living as honor of the dead And therefore it was lamented by some that any thing should divert him from doing so acceptable service But the providence of God having closed up his much desired life has deprived us of what he would have said of that most worthy Prelate See in the beginning of the said Dr. Bramhall's Life written by Joh. L. Bish of Limerick Lond. 1677. fol. WALTER BLANDFORD son of a father of both his names was born at Melbury Abbats in Dorsetshire became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Ch. Ch. an 1635 aged 19 years admitted Scholar of Wadh. Coll on the 1 of Oct. 1638 at which time he said he was born in 1619 took the degrees in Arts and in 1644 Jul. 2 he was admitted Fellow of the said Coll. In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament to eject all such from the Univ. that would not take the Covenant or submit to their power they did not eject him which shews that he did either take the Covenant or submit to them and about the same time obtaining leave to be absent he became Chapl. to John Lord Lovelace of Hurley in Berks and Tutor to his son John to whom also afterwards he was Tutor in Wadh. Coll. In 1659 he was elected and admitted Warden of that Coll and in the year after in Aug. he was among many actually created D. of D being about that time Chapl. to Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chanc. of Engl who obtained for him the same year a Prebendship in the Ch. of Glocester and a Chaplainship in ord to his Majesty In 1662 and 63 he did undergo the office of Vicechanc. of this Univ not without some pedantry and in 1665 he being nominated Bishop of Oxon on the death of Dr. Will. Paul was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. on the 7 of Nov confirmed in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon on the 28 of the said month and on the 3 of Dec. following in the same year of 1665 the K. and the Q. with their Courts being then in Oxon he was consecrated in New Coll. Chap. by the Bishops of London Glocester and Exeter Soon after he was made Dean of the Royal Chappel and upon the death of Dr. Skinner was translated to the See of Worcester in the Ch. of S. Mary Savoy in the Strand near London on the 13 of June 1671. This Dr. Blandford who lived a single man and never at all was inclined to Marriage died in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on Friday the 9 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Chappel next beyond the east end of the Choir belonging to the Cath. Ch. there commonly called Our Ladies Chappel Afterwards was set up in the Wall that parts the said Chap. and the east end of the Choire a monument of Northamptonshire marble and in the middle of it was fix'd a black marble table with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus H. S. I. Gualterus Blandford SS T. P. c. ad primorum Ecclesiae temporum exempla factus futurorum omnium natus summis honorum fastigiis ita admotus ut perpetuo super invidiam citra meritum consisteret non seculi artibus assentatione aut ambitu sed pietate modestia animi dimissione dignitatum fuga clarus Ab Academiae gubernaculo ad Ecclesiae clavum quaeque anceps magis procuratio ad conscientiae Principis regimen evocatus muneribus omnibus par quasi unico impenderetur Nimirum eruditione recondita Academiam sanctissima prudentia Dioecesim illibata pietate Aulam illustrabat Donec perpetuis laboribus morbo diutino quem invicta animi constantia tolleraverat confectus facultatibus suis Deo Ecclesiae Pauperibus distributis c. 'T is said in the Epitaph that he died in the year of his age 59 and on the 16 of July which should be the 9 as I have told you before In the See of Worcester succeeded him Dr. Jam. Fleetwood as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD REYNOLDS sometimes Fell. of Merton Coll. and afterwards Dean of Ch. Ch was consecrated B. of Norwych in the beginning of Jan. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred seventy and six under which year you may see more among the Writers p. 420. In the said See succeeded Anth. Sparrow D. D. Bish of Exeter who after his Translation was confirmed on the 18 of Sept. the same year where he sate to the time of his death This learned Doctor who was the son of a wealthy father named Sam. Sparrow was born at Depden in Suffolk educated in Queens Coll. in Cambr of which he was successively Scholar and Fellow but ejected thence with the rest of the Society for their Loyalty and refusing the Covenant an 1643. Soon after he was prevail'd upon to take the benefice of Hankdon in his native Country but by that time he had held it 5 weeks where he read the Common Prayer he was ejected thence by the Committee of Religion sitting at Westminster After the restauration of his Maj. he returned to his Living was elected one of the Preachers at S. Edmunds Bury and made Archd. of Sudbury as I have told you in the Fasti under the year 1577. Soon after he became