sixteen hundred forty and two was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625. was buried Dr. Crisp left behind him many children begotten on the body of his wife the daughâ—er of Rowl Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London one of the Members of the Long Parliament and of the Council of State 1648-9 See more in Obad. Sedgwick THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells was born in that County became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry became at length after he was Master of Arts chief Master of Abendon School in Berks Where by his sedulous endeavours were many educated that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State In the year 1616 being then and some years before Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bathe and Wells he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1636 was licensed to proceed in Divinity Before which time he being as 't were broken or wearied out with the drudgery of a School had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect was a grace to his Profession was most learned also in Latin Greek and Hebrew antiquity and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy He hath transmitted to Posterity Romanae Historiae Anthologia An English exposition of the Roman antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel'd and divers obscure phrases explained In 3 books Oxon 1613 c. qu. Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells and Dean of his Majesties Chappel Moses and Aaron Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture in six books Printed 1625. in qu. Florilegium Phrasicon Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue When this book was first printed I know not for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith which coming in Ms into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin he made a Reply which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twisse The Presbyterian writers say that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews Greeks and Latines yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians than deal with Logicians and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon than as a Doctor of Divinity They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride and expos'd him to be derided by boyes Dr. Godwin after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose in requital of his many labours surrendred up his soul to God 20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell before-mention'd He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Tesdale of Abendon who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 201. a. JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term an 1586 7 aged 16 years made Demie of that house in 87 perpetual Fellow in 95 Mast of Arts in 98 one of the Proctors of the University in 1606 and three years after supplicated the ven congreg of Regents that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty but whether he was really admitted it appears not At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight afterwards Earl of Bristow and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embassadour into Spaine where remaining with him several years improved himself in various sorts of Learning and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries After his return into England he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells being then in orders was esteemed a learned man good Orator and a facetious conceited Wit He hath translated from Spanish into English under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be 1 The Spanish bawd represented in Celestina or the tragick comedy of Calisto and Melibea c. Lond. 1631. fol. 2 The Rogue or the life of Guzman de Alfarache Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman 3 Devout contemplations expressd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca 4 The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit Delight in several Shapes c. in six pleasant Histories Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies and dying about that time was buried in the Church belonging to that place as I have been informed by one of that name and family lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon. DAVID PRIMEROSE second Son of Gilb. Primerose a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Fasti an 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bordeaux made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library and conversation of protestant Theologists returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts and visited other places of learning Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity entred himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623 was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year and soon after performed the
Monuments c. in Staffordshire Shropshire and Chester which coming into the hands of John son of Augustine Vincent Windsore Herald were by him intit Chaloners Collections for Staffordshire Salop and Chester marked with J. C. What became of them after his death which hapned in Drewry-lane in January 1671 I know not In Mar. or Apr. in sixteen hundred and sixty were Messengers sent from the superior Power then in being to take into their custody the said James Chaloner and to secure his Castle for the use of his Majesty but he having received timely notice of their coming he dispatched away himself by poyson taken as 't is said in a Posset made by his Concubine whom he there for several years had kept leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of about 19 years of age begotten on the body of his lawful wife named Ursula daughter of Sir Will. Fairfax of Steeton in Yorkshire EDWARD GEE Son as I conceive of Edward Gee mentioned among the Writers in the first Vol. under the year 1618. p. 377 was born at a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Banbury an 1613 bred in Newton School in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire became a Communer of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1626 took one degree in Arts and left the University for a time At length entring into the sacred Function he proceeded Master in the said faculty 1636 being about that time Chaplain to Dr. R. Parr Bishop of the Isle of Man and a Minister in Lancashire Afterwards when the Rebellion broke out he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and for his great activity in prosecuting the holy cause he became Rector of the rich Church of Eccleston in the said County in the place of Dr. Parr before mentioned and an active man while he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 an 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written A Treatise of Prayer and of divine Providence Lond. 1653. 61. oct The divine right and original of the civil Magistrate from God grounded on Rom. 13.1 Lond. 1658. in a large oct Soon after was another part of this put out concerning the Oath of Allegiance which I have not yet seen He died 26 of May in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Parish Church of Eccleston before mentioned NICHOLAS GREY was born in London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell took the degrees in Arts and being noted for a pure Latinist and Greecian was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons Hospital School After he had taught there some years he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital so that thereby being made uncapable of the place the Governours thereof gave him a Benefice Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think where for some time he lived as 't were out of his Element On the 29 of January 1624 he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Taylors School where continuing till 1631 he was then or soon after made chief Master of the School at Eaton Coll and at length Fellow of that house but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Univ. of Oxon which degree was confer'd on him about that time I know not for it appears not so in the publick Register In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians was put to difficult shifts and with much ado rub'd out for some years At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent in or before the Reign of Oliver in the place of Tho. Horne made Master of Eaton School continued there till the Kings return and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship was in hopes to spend his old age in peace retiredness and plenty but he died soon after as I shall anon tell you His works are these Dictionary in English and Latine Lat. and English Several times printed at London but when first of all published I know not This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider had many additions put to it by Grey but a second or third edit of Holyok's Dict. coming out prevented as 't is said the publication of them He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem Lond. 1647. 50. 55. c. oct Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latine Verse turned into Gr. Verse by Christ Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys Inn Esq This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eaton Coll. by Dr. Grey who hath also published Parabolae Evangelicae lat redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis Lond. in oct when printed I know not for 't is not put down in the tit or at the end He gave way to fate in a poor condition at Eaton in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Choire of the Church or Chappel there near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft on the fifth day of October as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards School-master of Eaton Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton College EDWARD TERRY was born at Leigh near Penshurst in Kent educated in Grammar in the Free School at Rochester entred into Ch. Church in 1607 and in the year after was elected Student thereof where with incredible industry going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1614. In the year following he took a Voyage with certain Merchants into East India where after his arrival he was sent for by Sir Tho. Roe Embassador from the King of England to the Great Mogul with whom he lived as Chaplain in the Court of that mighty Emperor for more than two years At his return he retired to his College and having some small Cure bestowed on him became at length Rector of Great Greenford in Middlesex which he enjoyed about 30 years and submitted to the men that bore sway in the time of Rebellion He was an ingenious and polite man of a pious and exemplary conversation a good Preacher and much respected by the Neighbourhood where he lived He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Lawless liberty preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. in the Cath. of S. Paul on Psal 2.3 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving preached 6 Sept. 1649 to the East India Company upon a late return of their Ships on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1649. qu. and other Sermons published in
come within the compass of a remedy in a short time and likewise the Tooth-ach infallibly Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants Lond. 1661. oct and 69. qu. Spoken on the 23 of Jan. 1660 in a large meeting of the Royal Society in Gresham Coll. Printed in Lat. at Amsterd 1663. and 69. in tw under this title Dissert de plantarum vegitatione Choice and experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery Cordial and distilled Waters and Spirits Perfumes and other Curiosities These two last things were translated out of several Languages for so they were collected and written by George Hartman sometimes Steward to Sir Kenelme the Collector and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct The first was printed afterwards under this title Medicina experimentalis Franc. 1677. oct His Closet opened whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin Sider Cherry-wine c. Lond. 1669. 77. oct Excellent directions for Cookery c. Lond. 1669. 77. octavo Choice collection of rare chymical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy As also rare and unheard of medicines Menstruums and Alkahests with the true secret of volatizing the fixt salt of Tartar c. Lond. 1682. oct c. Published by Hartman before mention'd who had operated for Sir Kenelme for many years These are all the things which he hath written that I yet know of except as some are pleased to say which I scarce believe the Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and the Revenues thereof Lond. 1646. 47 which he published at the request of the Earl of Dorset See more in Rich. Steuart under the year 1651. He also translated into English A Treatise of adheering to God Lond. 1654. oct Written by Albert the great Bishop of Ratisbon To conclude he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Covent Garden on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in a Vault built at his own charge under the east end of the south Isle or Alley joyning the Choire of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London by the body of Venetia his sometimes wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Edw. Stanley of Tongue-Castle in Shropshire to whose memory he had some years before his death erected over the said Vault a stately altar monument of black marble and thereon had caused her bust made of Copper gilt to be fastned with four inscriptions of Copper gilt to be affixed to the said monument Which being done he caused the draught or picture of the said monument with the several inscriptions to be entred in a large folio book of Vellam containing the history of the family of Digby which our Author caused to be made of all matters relating thereunto that could be found from record either remaining in the custody of his family or in the Tower or any office in London together with the pictures of their monuments that could be found in any Church whatsoever in which they had been buried Which book as his son John hath said did cost his father about 1000 l. The next year after our Author Sir Kenelme was buried the said monument with bust was spoiled and defaced when the Church it self was burnt in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London His study of books being a most admirable collection which he had conveyed into France in the time of the Rebellion fell after his death for want of his being naturalized into the French Kings hands of whom being beg'd by a certain Gentleman it was sold as the report then went for ten thousand Crowns Sir Everard Digby father to Sir Kenelme was a most goodly Gentleman and the handsomest man of his time but much pitied for that it was his ill fate to suffer for the Powder-plot in 1605 aged 24 at which time when the Executioner pluck'd out his heart when his body was to be quartered and according to the manner held it up saying Here is the heart of a Traytor Sir Everard made answer Thou liest This a most famous Author mentions but tells us not his name in his Historia vitae mortis The said Sir Everard was son of Everard Digby of Dry stoke before mention'd sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge an 1579 a Publisher then and after of several books as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you among which is A Dissuasive from taking away the Goods and Livings of the Churchy c. Printed at Lond. in qu. This Everard the Writer died at Dry-stoke in 1592. or thereabouts Sir Ken. Digby had a younger brother called Sir Joh. Digby who very readily serv'd his Majesty K. Ch. 1. when his Parliament took up Arms against him was a Colonel and afterwards a Major Gen. in the western parts of England while Mr. Joh. Digby a younger son of John Earl of Bristow was a Gen. there for his Maj. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN LEWGAR was born of gentile parents in London admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 and in that of his age 14 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time beneficed in Essex After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion wherein Chillingworth shewing himself a person of great dexterity Lewgar was at length meerly by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church and that the Protestants were all in the wrong as he used often to tell his friends and withall to add that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit but high and conceited and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience c. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert called Lord Baltimore who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. travelled into Maryland belonging to the said Lord where after he had spent several years and had buried his wife he returned into England some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore where he wrot Erastus junior a solid Demonstration by Principles forms of Ordination Common Laws Acts of Parliament that no Bishop Minister nor Presbyter hath any Authority to preach c. from Christ but from the Parliament Lond. 1659. 60. Erastus senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that admitting Lambeth Records to be true those called Bishops here in England are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction or so much as legal c. Lond. 1662. oct He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London in sixteen hundred sixty and five by too much exposing
he return'd again and told him that the Lieu. Gen. intended his good and advancement and that his particular errand was that he would make use of his Pen to write the History of the late War desiring withal that nothing but matters of fact be impartially set down c. To which he returned answer that he desired his humble service and hearty thanks be returned for that great honour done unto him and withal that he was uncapable in several respects for such an employment and could not so impartially engage in it but that his subject would force him to make such reflections as would be ungrateful if not injurious to his Lordship Notwithshanding this answer Cromwell seemed so sensible of his worth that tho he could not win him over to his desires yet he acknowledged a great respect for him and as a testimony thereof he ordered that upon the first demand there should be delivered three or four hundred pounds by a certain Bookseller in London whose name was Cromwell whensoever his occasions should require without acknowledging any benefactor at the receipt of it But this offer as I have been informed by our authors Son John Casaubon a Chirurgion of Canterbury he scorned to accept tho his condition was then mean At the same time it was proposed by the said Greaves who belonged to the library at S. James that if our author would gratifie him in the foregoing request Cromwell would restore unto him all his Fathers books which were then in the Royal Library there given by K. James who had invited him into England and withal a Patent for 300 l. per an to be paid to the family so long as the youngest Son of Dr. Is Casaubon should live but this also was refused Not long after there was a proposal made by the then Sweedish Ambassador in England from Christina Qu. of Sweedland to our author M. Casaubon whereby he was invited by the said Queen into her Country to have the government of one or inspection of all her Universities and for an encouragement she proposed not only an honorable Salary for himself but offered to settle 300 l. per an upon his eldest Son during life But this also was waved with full design to spend the remainder of his days in England After the Kings return he was restored to his Spiritualities and went on in writing books which he continued almost to his last He was a general Scholar but not extraordinary in any one sort unless in criticisms wherein his Fathers notes might probably have set him up He was also a religious man loyal to his Prince exemplary in his life and conversation and very charitable to the poor The Writings and Translations which he published were many as the Catalogue following will tell you Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis religionis hostes Lond. 1621. oct Vindicatio patris adversus impostores qui librum ineptum impium De origine idolatriae nuper sub Isaaci Casauboni nomine publicavit Lond. 1624. 25. in 8. sh in qu. Which book Of the original of idolatry was translated out of a French copy by Abr. Darcy Isaac Casaubon having been dead about 10 years before and was dedicated to Prince Charles and presented to K. James and all the Lords of the Council It is said to have been written before Isaac Casaubon was born but his name being fraudently inserted in the title page Meric the Son who was then a Student of Ch. Ch. informed his Majesty by Letters of the wrong done to his Father by making him the author of such a book contrary to his Genius and constant profession being full of impertinent allegations out of obscure and late authors whom his Father never thought worthy the reading much less the using their authority After his Majesties perusal of that letter he was much incensed at the matter and Dr. Mountaigne Bishop of Lond. had much ado to make his Chaplains peace for licensing it the printer and translator being for some time kept in prison Yet after all this the same translation was printed at Amsterdam with a justificatory preface of the former edition to make the book more vendible for their own profit tho discredit to the memory of others He the said Mer. Casaubon hath also written Notae emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani Episcopum de schismate Donatistarum Lond. 1631. oct Translation out of Gr. into English of and notes upon Marc. Aurel. Antoninus his meditations concerning himself Lond. 1634. 35. qu. Revised and corrected Lond. 1664. oct 3d. edit c. Treatise of use and custome in things natural civil and divine Lond. 1638. qu. The use of dayly publick prayers in three positions Lond. 1641. qu. Notae emendationes in Marci Antonini Imperatoris de seipso ad seipsum libros XII Lond. 1643. oct Guil. Xylander did first of all make the said book publick in Gr. and Lat Which version our author did mend in many places and made it new c. The original cause of temporal evils Lond. 1645. qu. Discourse concerning Christ his incarnation and exinanition Lond. 1646. qu. Before which is an introduction Concerning the principles of Christianity and Divinity De verborum usu accuratae eorum cognitionis utilitate Diatriba Lond. 1647. in tw De quatuor linguis commentationis pars prior quae de lingua Hebraica de lingua Saxonica Lond. 1650 oct The author had not opportunity of finishing the other two tongues Gr. and Lat. Some annotations on the Psalmes and Proverbs Done at the earnest request of certain Booksellers whereof our author hath given a farther account in the first part of Credulity p. 106. Which Annotations were in the last edit of the Assemblies Annotations on the Bible reprinted with some additions Notae in Hieroclem de providentia fato Lond. 1655. octavo Treatise concerning Enthusiasme as it is an effect of nature but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration or diabolical possession Lond. 1655. 56. oct Translation into Engl. of and notes on Luc. Florus Hist of the Romans Lond. 1658. 59. oct Notae in Epicteti Enchiridion Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Cebetis tabulam Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Paraphrasin Enchiridii Lond. 1659. oct De nupera Homeri Editione Lugdunâ-Batavicâ Hackiana dissertatio Lond. 1659. oct Dissertatiuncula super loco Homerico quo Dei in hominem tam mentes quam fortunas imperium asseritur Printed with the former book 1659. Vindication of the Lords prayer as a formal prayer and by Christs institution to be used by Christians as a prayer Lond. 1660. oct The first occasion of writing this treatise was the relation of a strange affront done publickly unto Christ or if you will more punctually to the Lords Prayer in the chief Church of Oxon by one Dr. John Owen that had under the usurping powers the chief â—â—vernment of that famous University from 1652 to 1657. Concerning the heinousness of which affront viz. by putting
his orders and pleaded that he was a meer Layman notwithstanding he had been actually created D. of Div. in the year before But his election being question'd by the Committee of Elections he sate only for a little time in the said Parliament While he was Vicechanc. he preached frequently blasphemed God with bold and sensless effusions and in his Sermons and Prayers he did often confound the Royal Family He had a wonderful knack of entitling all the proceeding of his own party however villainous and inhuman nay any the least revolutions or turn of affairs which hapned to be in favour of his own cause to an especial Providence to the peculiar and plainly legible conduct of heaven which he zealously preached up as sufficient to unty the strictest bonds of faith allegiance and all other Oaths to overlure all the obligations of conscience and religion He could easily make the transactions of the three kingdoms to be the fulfilling of many old prophetical predictions and to be a clear edifying comment on the Revelations still teâ—ching as most of the Brethren did that to persue a success in villany and rebellion was to follow the guidant of providential dispensations He was also then while he was Vicechancellour so great an enemy to the Lords Prayer that when some Preachers concluded their own with it which was very seldom done by any especially the Presbiterians and Independents because it was looked upon forsooth as formal and prelatical so to do he would with great snearing and scorn turn aside or sit down and put on his hat Which act of his being looked upon as diabolical especially by the Royal party it gave occasion to Dr. Mer. Casaubon to write and publish A vindication of the Lords Prayer c. as I have told you elsewhere In 1657 when Rich. Cromwell son of Oliver was elected Chancellour of this University our author Owen was removed from his Vicechancellourship and the year after when he was made Protector he was by the endeavours of the Presbyterians removed also from his favour and St. Maries Pulpit cleansed of him and Goodwin All which our author taking in great scorn he out of spite set up a lecture at another Church using these words I have built Seats at Maries but let the Doctors find Auditors for I will preach at Peters in the East and so he did for a time and many flocked to him In the latter end of 1659 he was outed of his Deanery of Ch. Ch and then retired to Stadham the place of his birth where a little before he had bought Land and a fair dwelling House There he lived for some time called together some of his party to preach and many of his Disciples went from Oxon to hear him and receive comfort from his doctrine but they being several times silenc'd by Soldiers of the Militia Troop belonging to the County of Oxon and sorely threatned that Congregation was broken After all this when our author for his rebellious actions blasphemies preachings lyings revilings perjuries c. was not excepted from the Act of Oblivion which was much wondred at and desired Sir E. Hyde then Lord Chancellour treated him with all kindness and respect and designed him if he could not Conform to employ his time and abilities in writing against the Papists and not to violate public Laws and endanger public Peace by keeping Conventicles Whereupon Owen gave his word that he would be obedient to his commands but being not long after found preaching to about 30 or 40 of the godly party in his house at Stadham by an officer of the Militia Troop he was complained of to the Lord Chancellour Soon after Owen having received intelligence that that great person was very angry upon information of the matter made to him while he was at Cornbury in Oxfordshire he wrote to Dr. Tho. Barlow whom he had obliged with the like kindness in the raign of Oliver and desired him to mediate on his behalf to the said person Whereupon Barlow went from Oxon to Cornbury where the L. Chanc. hearing his Errand he told him then that Dr. Owen was a perfidious person in that he had violated his engagements and therefore he would have nothing to do with him but leave him to the penalty of those laws he had transgressed c. Upon this our author resolved to go to New England but since that time the wind was never in a right point for a voyage After this he setled in London set up a Church preached and prayed having been encouraged thereunto as t is said by the Papists and at length burying his wife married after 60 years of age the young widdow of Thom. D' oyley his neighbour younger brother of Sir Joh. D' oyley of Chesilhampton near Stadham Baronet and took all occasions to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life A certain Nonconformist J. H. doth charactarize our author thus He is a reverend man a Doct. of Div. of much gravity and of long standing excellent in learning and all sorts of it for his profession of dignity in his time as much as any have been capable of a person of noted constant piety and a studious life of universal affability ready presence and discourse liberal graceful and courtious demeanour that speak him certainly whatsoever he be else one that is more a Gentleman than most in the Clergy and that he is accordingly favoured somtimes with the Princes converse and the general veneration of the people c. Thus the author here quoted whom I take to be Joh. Humphrey but another a great Loyallist several times before quoted saith that this our author Dr. Owen was the Prince the Oracle the Metropolitan of Independency the Achitophel of Oliver Cromwell Or which is more than all a servant of Jesus Christ in the the work of the Gospel and that as in the same sense as the innocent mâ—ek and devout Christian is the servant of the Devil in the work and vassalage of sin He also often stiles him a blasphemer and perjur'd person a libeller of authority after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 that he praised god for shedding the blood of Christian Kings and their loyal subjects that he was guilty of reiterated perjuries against that God whom he confidently affirmed to be inspirer of all his prayers and therefore as he further adds he ought in conscience before he departs this life to give satisfaction to the English Church and Nation for those mischiefs which his Councells Preachings Prayers and writings drew not only upon the Royal Family and Church but upon the lives liberties and fortunes of so many loyal Gentlemen who were either murthered in cold blood and imprisoned and banished c. Another high-flown Loyallist tells us of Dr. Owen that there is scarce a Principle of Blasphemy or Rebellion in the Alcoran that that wretch hath not vouched upon divine authority He is a person of such a rank complexion that
resolved not to submit to their new Masters Soon after he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon or elsewhere for not submitting to them tho he was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had without being put to say or do or subscribe any thing against his Conscience if he would but then give his word only that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. c. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight which proving ineffectual he resolved having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell as his confessor before his execution in the beginning of Mar. 1648 to quit his Country and find out the young King and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age and found him at the Hague where he was graciously received by him From thence he went first with him into France and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda and there preach'd the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland whither being not suffer'd to carry any of his own Divines with him he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague and after some short stay there he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antwerp where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies for the space of one year or thereabouts At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia and Dr. Earle to attend on his Higness James Duke of York then in France Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Embassador for the King in Spain and all the time he was there which was about 3. or 4 years he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day catechiz'd once a week and administred the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town who would come to it as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his comming to Breda he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous thought himself so much the rather oblig'd both in Conscience towards God and in duty to the Royal Family for she was Sister to K. Charles 1. to wait on her and accordingly he did and readily officiated both in her family and in the English Church there about two years and an half without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing There as in all other places where he lived especially at Breda he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church his Catechizing of young persons his administring the holy Sacraments and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private he visited the sick and buried the dead and relieved many whom their Loyalty had impoverished His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius whom he often visited to the last of which then abiding at Leyden the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyr'd Father but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent lyer reported But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart to whom he wrote a Latine Letter from Paris declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latine the year following And as he was zealous for the Church so he was also for his Royal Master wâ—tness the large Epistle he wrote in Latine to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery For his friends at home of whom he never lost any but by death only were eminent both for parts and quality the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire both long since dead and Edward Earl of Clarendon who died long after them Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. Payne Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson late B. of Linc. who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant Dr. Earl of Salisbury c. with the two last of which he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad which made his banishment less tedious to him After his Majesties return this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York whence after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648 c. and had filled up the vacant places he was called to be Bishop of Worcester to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm on the 28. of Octob. 1660 and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the Kings Coronation-Sermon and soon after made Dean of the Chappel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon In 1662 he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester confirmed therein 14. May the same year where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishoprick on him that he would never be the richer for it For besides his expences in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act which impowred him to lease out Waltham Park and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham before the year 1672 and afterwards spent more and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See which when he came to he found not an house to dwell in yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person and went into the Isle of Wight where had not been a Bishop before in the memory of man In July 1664 he came to Oxon
his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding audience in his name he was by bribes given delivered to some of the English Merchants there who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet was conveyed into England Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London he was brought before the High Court of Justice where he desired to plead in the Italian Language which he said was more common to him than the English But it being denied him he was at length condemned to die whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill on the fourth day of March an 1650. It was then said by the faction in England that he did by vertue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britaine act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company and the Parliaments interest not only in Constantinople but also in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchants goods for the use of Charles King of Scots For the effecting of which design he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassie being Leiger there for the state of England c. The said faction also reported and would needs perswade the People in England that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgment fell upon them This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations Another Brother younger than him was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall lived there several years studied frequently in Bodlies Library and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party till he was silenc'd by the Faction In 1658 he obtained of his exil'd Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mention'd his kinsman then tho in banishment Lord Chancellour of England Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsore in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased dated in July the same year but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was never installed in that Dignity He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of and perused by the Royal Party as 1 A Christian â—egacy consisting of two parts preparation for and consolation against death Lond. 1657. oct 2 Christ and his Church or Christianity explained under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. 3 Vindication of the Church of England Ibid. 1658. qu. 4 Christian vindication of truth against errour Printed 1659. in tw 5 The true Catholick tenure c. Cambr. 1662. oct and other things as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers an 1662. Another Brother the tenth in number was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight the Queens Serjeant an 1670 and one of the chief Justices of South Wales who dyed in 1676. Also another called Francis who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Embassador and died at Venice without issue And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all named James Hyde Dr. of Physick lately Principal of Magd. Hall HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts translated himself to Jesus Coll of which I think he became Fellow and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the Kings cause was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday of that month an 1660 by the Archb. of York Bishops of London Rochester Salisbury and Worcester at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated He died in June or July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was as I suppose buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the House or Pallace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies as I shall tell you elsewhere JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland an 166â— and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 282. GEORGE HALL sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased an 1662 and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297 was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Ch Church afterwards Dean of Rochester was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight by Anne his Wife eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset was born in the County of Surrey became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits was upon his Majesties restauration made Dean of Bristow in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Pauls Cath. in London where continuing till 1666 he was by the endeavours of Barbara Dutchess of Cleavland made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County To the said See of S. Asaph was translated Dr. Is Barrow Bishop of the Isle of
should choose provided he stirred not five miles from the place without leave from the Parliament During which time and other vacant hours he made several Translations and wrot divers Poems as I shall tell you by and by In Feb. 1659 he repaired to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. at Breda who there knighted him in Apr. 1660 and made him his Secretary of the Latin Tongue in which he did excell and Master of the Requests In 1661 he being then Burgess for the University of Cambridge he was sworn one of the privy Council of Ireland and sent Envoy to the Crown of Portugal with a dormant Commission to be Embassador which he was to make use of as occasion should require In 1662 he was again sent to that Crown with the title of Embassador and at his return thence in 1663 he was sworn one of his Majesties privy Council and took his place accordingly and in January the same year he was sent Embassador to both the Crowns of Spain and Portugal in which time the foundation of Peace betwixt those Crowns and England was laid by him His deportment during his former Employments in those Courts won him such high value and estimation with the Princes that his reception was most splendid and magnificent exceeding all that were before which those Kings declared was done as a particular respect to the person of the Embassador and was not to be a precedent for succeeding Embassadors He hath written 1 Divers Poems Lond. 1664. oct Printed with his Translation of Il pastor fido The first of the said Poems is An ode upon occasion of his Majesties proclamation an 1630 commanding the Gentry to reside upon their Estates in the Country 2 A summary discourse of the Civil Wars of Rome Lond. 1664. oct extracted out of the best Lat. Writers in prose and verse He hath translated from English into Lat. verse The faithful Shepherdess a Pastoral Lond. 1658. written originally by Joh. Fletcher Gent and from Lat. into English 1 The fourth book of Virgils Aeneis on the Loves of Dido and Aeneas Lond. 1664. oct 2 Two odes out of Horace relating to the Civil Wars of Rome against covetous rich men Ibid. 1664. oct He hath translated from Italian into English I l pastor fido The faithful Shepherd a Pastoral Lond. 1646. qu. 1664. oct Written originally by Guarini a Native of Ferrara in Italy And from Spanish into English an Historical Poem called Querer per solo querer To love only for Loves sake Lond. 1671. qu. 'T is a dramatick Romance was originally written by Anton. de Mendoza and translated and paraphrased by our author at Tankerley Park in Yorkshire 1654 when then he had obtained leave from the superior power to range beyond 5 miles within Lond. To this is joyned another Translation by the same hand intit Fiestus de Aranjuez Festivals represented at Aranjuez He also translated from Portuguese into English The Luciad or Portugals historical Poem Lond. 1655. 56. c. fol. Written originally by Lewis de Camoens Besides these Translations he hath performed others as I have been enformed which continue partly in MS and hath written other Poems as well Lat. as English which for brevity sake I shall now pass by the mentioning At length this worthy person being overtaken with a violent Feaver at Madrid in Spain on the fourth of June 1666 during the time of his being there Embassador died thereof on the 16 of the same month old stile aged 59 years Whereupon his body being embalmed was after his funeral had been solemnized there 25 of the said month conveyed by his disconsolate Lady with all his Children then living by land thro France to Calais whence it was transported to England and landed near Tower-hill at London Thence it was removed to Lincolns Inn fields to the Pine Apples which was then his Ladies hired house The next day the corps was carried to Allhallowes Church in Hertford and there deposited in the Vault of his father in law Sir John Harrison until the 18 of May 1671 on which day it was removed into the Parish Church of Ware in the said County and there laid in a new Vault made and purchased on purpose for him and his family together with a fair Monument erected for him and his Lady near the old Vault where all his Ancestors of Ware Park lye interred Doct. of Phys May 1. Sir Arth. Aston Kt Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was created Doctor of Phys with great solemnity and admitted by the Vicechancellour with this clause Honoratiss Domine tu dabis fidem ad observand statuta libertates consuetudines hujus Vniversitatis This person who was of an antient and knightly family in Lancashire was a great Traveller had spent most of his time in Wars in several Countries beyond the Seas Whence coming in the beginning of the grand Rebellion into Engl with as many Soldiers of note that he could bring with him joyned himself and them to his Majesties Forces commanded the Dragoons at Edghill fight and with them did excellent service Afterwards his Majesty having a great opinion of his valour and conduct made him Governour of the Garrison of Reading in Berkshire where he beat the Earl of Essex General of the Parl. Forces thrice from that place till having received a dangerous Wound he was forced as 't is said to devolve his Command upon Col. Rich. Feilding called Lord Feilding of the family of those of his name at Newenham Padox in Warwickshire who afterwards surrendring that Garrison to the use of the Parliament upon quick and easie terms suffered much in his reputation for so doing yet recovered it afterwards in the battels at Newbury and Naseby As for Aston who was lately made Governour of the Garrison of Oxford and afterwards expressed himself very cruel and imperious while he executed that office broke his leg by a fall from his horse on Bullington Green near Oxon on the 19 of Sept. this year and on the 25 of Dec. following being discharg'd of his office to the great rejoycing of the Soldiers and others in Oxon Colonel Will. Legge was placed in his room and in his Sir Tho. Glemham 8 Oct. 1645 who kept the said Garrison till it was surrendred to the Parliament Sir A. Aston had at that time his broken leg cut off to save his life and in its place had one of Wood put So that being recovered and in a posture to do his Majesty farther service he went with the flower of the English Veterans into Ireland where he became Governour of Drogheda commonly called Tredagh about which time he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army But at length the said Garrison being overpower'd and soon after taken by Ol. Cromwell and his Forces in September 1649 all the Defendants were put to the sword and Aston the Governour a zealous R. Catholick was hewen in pieces and his brains beat out of his head with his wooden leg He
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
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
Scotch man born Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland Bishop of Brechen and of the house of Milneton was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch from Westm School an 1642 aged 16 years bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon and elsewhere took one degree in Arts after the surrender of that garrison and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament So that at present being out of all employ he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2 paid his obedience to him when in Scotland served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651 at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances then most unjustly usurped by Fanaticks was there wounded taken Prisoner brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London where by the importunity of friends he was released Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. Bysshe Esq K. of Arms and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the White-fryers near Fleetstreet in London After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Students place was actually created Master of Arts and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty as hundreds of Cavaliers had not because poor and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers he was taken into the service of John Earl afterwards Duke of Lauderdale and became his Chaplain I mean that Earl whose Sirname was Maitland who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews day 1682 his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family The said Dav. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Greecian and Philologist hath published with a translation in latin verse Musaei Moschi Bionis quae extant omnia London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat. Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to Bysshe before mention'd who is by Whitford stiled Asylum perfugium afflictis egenis He also translated into Latine the said Bysshe his notes an old authors that have written of Armes and Armory as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person under the year 1679. He also wrot an Appendix to The compleat History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquess of Montrose or Montross as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well which History was written by the learned and famous Geor. Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written published or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Ch Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four at which time his Bedmaker found him dead lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him was buried in the south trancept joyning to the Cathedral Church there near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother a stout and desperate man called Colonel Walter Whitford who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is Dorislaw as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 as a certain author tells us as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mention'd but is still Sept. 1691. living in Edenburgh and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells us also that about the same time June 1650 one Spotswood another Officer Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account at which time was an acknowledgment made as he farther adds that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde of Pyrton in Wilts by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an 1608 entred a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622 went after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. of Apr. the same year and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nov. following and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York and afterwards to Oxford where he continued most of the time that that place was in the Kings hands was made Chancellour of the Exchequer a Privy-counsellor and a Knight At length upon the declining of the Kings cause he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley then for Jersey and afterwards for France From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince and attending his motions in foreign parts he was by him when King sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders 29. Jan. 1657. After the Kings restauration he was elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon made Baron of Hindon in Wilts Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellour for seven years or more the Great Seal was taken from him 30. Aug. 1667 and about 4 months after retired into France where he remained seven years spending his time in several places there Under his name were these things following published Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North an 1640. 2 Sp. at a conference between both Houses 6. Jul. 1641 at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport Baron Trevor and Baron Weston Lond. 1641. qu. c. besides several arguments and debates See in John Rushworths book called Historical Collections in the first vol. of the second part an 1640 and in the Impartial Collection c. of Dr. John Nalson A full answer to an infamous and traiterous Pamphlet intit A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King Lond. 1648. qu.
his proper talent viz. Politicks and political reflections Whereupon he wrot The Commonwealth of Oceana and caused it to be printed without his name by stealth at London At the appearance of which it was greedily bought up and coming into the hands of Hobbes of Malmsbury he would often say that H. Nevill had a finger in that pye and those that knew them both were of the same opinion And by that book and both their smart discourses and inculcations daily in Coffee houses they obtained many Proselytes In 1659 in the beginning of Mich. term they had every night a meeting at the then Turks head in the New Pallace yard at Westm the next house to the stairs where people take water called Miles Coffee house to which place their disciples and Vertuosi would commonly then repair and their discourses about Government and of ordering of a Commonwealth were the most ingenious and smart that ever were heard for the arguments in the Parl. house were but flat to those This Gang had a Balloting-box and balloted how things should be carried by way of Tentamens which being not used or known in England before upon this account the room every evening was very full Besides our Author and H. Nevill who were the prime men of this Club were Cyriack Skinner a Merchants son of London an ingenious young Gentleman and scholar to Jo. Milton which Skinner sometimes held the Chair Major John Wildman Charles Wolseley of Staffordshire Rog. Coke Will. Poultney afterwards a Knight who sometimes held the Chair Joh. Hoskyns Joh. Aubrey Maximilian Pettie of Tetsworth in Oxfordsh a very able man in these matters and who had more than once turn'd the Councilâ—board of Oliver Cromwell Mich. Mallet Ph. Carteret of the Isle of Guernsey Franc. Cradeck a Merchant Hen. Ford Major .... Venner Nephew to Dr. Tob. Venner the Physitian Tho. Marryot of Warwickshire Hen. Croone a Physitian Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. and sometimes Rob. Wood of Linc. Coll. and Jam. Arderne then or soon after a Divine with many others besides Antagonists and Auditors of note whom I cannot now name Dr. Will. Petty was a Rotaman and would sometimes trouble Ja. Harrington in his Club and one ... Stafford a Gent. of Northamptonshire who used to be an Auditor did with his Gang come among them one evening very mellow from the Tavern and did much affront the Junto and tore in pieces their Orders and Minutes The Soldiers who commonly were there as Auditors and Spectators would have kick'd them down stairs but Harrington's moderation and perswasion hindred them The doctrine was very taking and the more because as to humane foresight there was no possibility of the Kings return The greatest of the Parliament men hated this design of Rotation and Balloting as being against their power Eight or ten were for it of which number Hen. Nevill was one who proposed it to the House and made it out to the Members thereof that except they embraced that way of Government they would be ruined The modell of it was that the third part of the Senate or House should rote out by Ballot every year so that every ninth year the said Senate would be wholly alterâ—d No Magistrate was to continue above 3 years and all to be chosen by Ballot then which choice nothing could be invented more fair and impartial as 't was then thought tho opposed by many for several reasons This Club of Commonwealths men lasted till about the 21 of Feb. 1659 at which time the secluded members being restored by Gen. George Monke all their models vanished After the Kings restauration our Author Harrington retired and lived in private but being looked upon as a dangerous person he with Maj. Joh. Wildman and Prais-god Barbon a notorious Schismatick were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London 26 Nov. 1661 where continuing for some time Harrington was transmitted to Portsey Castle and kept there for several months Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Italy where talking of Models Common-wealths and Government he was reputed no better than a whimsical or crack'd-brain'd person 'T is true that his close restraint which did not agree with his high spirit and hot and rambling head was the protractick cause of his deliration or madness I do not mean outragiousness for he would discourse rationally enough and be facetious in company but a deep conceit and fancy that his perspiration turned into flies and sometimes into bees Which fancy possess'd him a whole year before he died his memory and discourse being then taken away by a disease So that he who had been before a brisk and lively Chevalier was then made a sad sample of Mortality to H. Nevill who did not leave him to his last and others of his intimate acquaintance who much lamented his loss He hath written and published these things following The Commonwealth of Oceana Lond. 1656. in a thin fol. dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector and the model therein admired by a noted author H. Stubbe who was ready to cry out as if it were the Pattern in the mount In the praise whereof he saith he would enlarge did he not think himself too inconsiderable to add any thing to those applauds which the understanding part of the world must bestow upon him and which though eloquence should turn Panegyrist he not only merits but transcends Yet the said authors mind being soon after changed he wrot Animadversions on Oceana as erroneous The said Oceana was answer'd by Matthew Wrenn son of Matthew B. of Ely in his Considerations as I shall elsewhere tell you Afterwards our Author came out with a reply wherein he reflects on the Club of Virtuosi which use to meet in Dr. Jo. Wilkins his lodgings in Wadham Coll. to make experiments and communicate their observations in order to carry on a discovery of nature in these words that the University wits or good company are good at two things a diminishing of a Commonwealth and the multiplying of a Lowse He also in several places insinuates as if the Considerations of the Commonwealth of Oceana were not wrot by Mr. Wrenn but composed by the University or at least by some eminent persons in it which is false Soon after Wrenn wrot a Rejoynder to Harrington's Reply intit Monarchy asserted c. and afterwards our Author with Politicaster as I shall anon tell you Mr. Rich. Baxter also wrot something against the said Oceana and Sir Hen. Vane's Modell in answer to which Harrington wrot a paper of Gibberish as Baxter calls it scorning at his ignorance in Politicks Whereupon he the said Baxter wrot his Political Aphorismes called A holy Commonwealth pleading in the beginning for the divine universal Soveraignty and next for Monarchy as under God and next seeing they were all for new modelling how piety might be secured and promoted by Monarchy This Holy Commonwealth said to be written upon the invitation of our Author Harrington to which is annexed a treatise of
1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168â— should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kingsâ—Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
Altaris or a pious reflection on primitive devotion as to the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian Church orthodoxly revived Lond. 165. oct c. In other editions this title is contracted 3 Devotions on the 5. of Nov. 30. of Jan. and 29. of May c. Lond. 1666. oct These were afterwards added to some of the editions of Scintilla Altaris and consist of prose poems sculptures c. He hath other things extant as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen This person who was living at Totenham Highcross near Lond. in 1675 where I presume he was beneficed had a Son of both his names Bachelaur of the Laws and Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon who dying on the last day of Nov. 1675 was buried in the Chappel there and soon after had a comely mon. set over his grave by his Father Henry Maisterson D. D. and Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was then Jul. 12. incorporated He was afterwards beneficed at Namptwich in Cheshire and died in 1671. These two last were also incorporated just after the celebration of the Act. Feb. 9. Zurishaddeus Langius Doct. of Phys of Padua The said degree he took at Pad in the beginning of Oct. 1649 and was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London Creations Mar. 26. Edm. Lewis a Knights Son of Magd. Coll. was actually created Bach. of Arts as also was Rob. Simons a Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. Oct. 19. Thure Thureson Sweeds Oct. 19. Paul Kiefengeller Sweeds Oct. 19. Joh. Widechennius Sweeds These three who were actually created Masters of Arts were Retainers to the Embassador of Christina Queen of Sweedland to the Commonwealth of England Dec. 23. John Owen M. A Dean of Ch. Ch and Vicechancellour of the University was then he being at Lond. diplomated Doct. of Div. He is said in his Diploma to be in Palaestra Theologica exercitatissimus in concionando assiduus potens in disputando strenuus acutus c. His Dipl was dated 22. and read and sealed in Convocation 23 of Dec. this year Thom. Goodwin President of Magd. Coll and Bach. of Div. of several years standing was then also Dec. 23 diplomated D. of D. This person who is said in the common Register to be in scriptis in re Theologicâ quamplurimis orbi notus was born in the County of Norfolk educated for a time in Christs Coll. in Cambridge then in Catherine Hall of which he was Fellow Afterwards disliking conformity he removed as others did beyond the Seas into Holland to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories where remaining till the beginning of the Long Parliament he returned and became one of the Ass of Divines at Westminster but disliking their proceedings he left them and about the same time had preferment confer'd upon him At length upon the increasing of the Independents he being one himself struck in with Ol. Cromwell became his Favourite and by his power President of Magd. Coll. about the beginning of January 1649 purposely to promote the Independent cause in this University which he afterwards did to the purpose by his constant preaching at S. Maries by his sometimes preaching in his Coll. Chappel and by his setting up and continuing a weekly meeting in his Lodgings in the said Coll where all those that were to enter into that fraternity were openly to make a confession of their sins c. In 1653 he was one of the prime men appointed by ordinance to be a Trier or Commissioner for the approbation of publick preachers and in the year following he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints of that time called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines whom especially such that had rich benefices or well endowed Schools be sure they ejected and either took their benefices themselves or confer'd them on their confiding brethren or those of their Church In the beginning of the year 1660 he was removed from his Presidentship to make room for Dr. Joh. Oliver whereupon retiring to London lived mostly in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew where dying 23 Feb. 1679 aged 80 years was buried in a little vault towards the East end of the new burial place for Dissenters joyning on the North side of the New Artillery-yard or Garden by Bunhill fields near London Over the Vault was soon after erected an Altar-monument with a large inscription thereon engraven made by the common Epitaph-maker for Dissenters called Tho. Gilbert Bach. of Div. now a Nonconformist living in Oxon. After his death his works consisting of Expositions Sermons Theological discourses c. were gathered together and published in two volumes in fol. with his picture before them much resembling the author while living by Thankful Owen and Jam. Baron Lond. 1681 Before which is a canting preface written by the said two persons wherein many things are said of the author and his learning See in Phil. Nye among the Writers under the Year 1672. p. 370. Dec. 23. Peter French Bach. of Div. and Canon of Ch. Ch. was then diplomated Doct. of Div. He had before taken to Wife Robina Sister of Oliver Cromwell as I have before told you and dying 17. of June 1655 she was afterwards married to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. Mar. 18. Gasparus Tizabetzi of Transylvania was actually created Mast of Arts In the publick reg he is said to be humanâ Literaturâ bonarum Artium cognitione probe instructus An. Dom. 1654. An. 6. Car. 2. An. 1 2 Oliv. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Cromwell L. Protect Vicechanc. Dr. Owen again Dec. 13. Proct. Tho. Cracroft of Magd. Coll. Ap. 5. Steph. Charnock of New Coll. Ap. 5. Bach. of Arts. June 17. Gabr. Towerson of Queens afterwards of All 's Coll. 27. Edw. Pearse of S. Johns Coll. Both these are now living as I conceive and Writers The first a Divine of note the other a Luke-warm conformist July 6. John Franklin of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. an 1665. Oct. 12. Malachi Conant of Magd. Coll. Oct. 12. Rich. Berry of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1665 of the other among the Masters an 1657. 18. George Castle of Balliol afterwards of All 's Coll. Jan. 25. Tho. Turnor of Ball. Coll. This Gentleman who was Son of Sir Tim. Turnor of Shrewsbury Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Kings Council in ord for the Marches of Wales went afterwards to Greys Inn where he became a Barrester and wrot 1 The case of the Bankers and their Creditors stated and examined Lond. 1674. in 5 sh in qu. Printed there again in 1675 qu. with several additions in all making up 8. sh 2 The joyful news of opening the Exchecquer to the Goldsmiths of Lombard-street and their Creditors c. Lond. 1677. qu. Said in the title
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year