all of them with great respect save only by Archb. Abbot and William Earl of Exeter the first of which disliked the argument and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar which he was after much asham'd of when it came to be known Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill which was as Heylyn saith full of most base and malicious calumniations both against the Person and Religion of the Author Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there Which command he accordingly obeying occasioned a second edition of the said History an 1633 as I have before told you wherein he answer'd all Hakewills allegations letting pass his slanders Upon the coming out of which Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature entit An Apol. or Declaration of the Power c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist of S. George in several letters sent abroad one of which speaketh thus In the second impression of his book The Hist of S. George where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he villifies them more than he did in his first edition But the matter is not much what he saith of the one or of the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander c. From the said Hist of S. George written by Heylyn is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln entit The Hist of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part intit The Hist of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also with due acknowledgment by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632 since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography History of the Sabbath in two books Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply entit A coal from the Altar or an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return'd an answer under this title The holy table name and thing c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons Can. 55. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636 and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636 and in the Apologie set before them Lond. 1637. qu. Antidotum Lincolniense or an answer to a book entit The holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table c. entit Two looks over Lincolne or a view of his holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh and an half written by Rich. Day who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar is sometimes animadverted upon An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations Lond. 1640 qu. De jure paritatis Episcoporum MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill under the year 1649. An help to English history containing a succession of all the Kings of England and the English Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales c. As also of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said dominions In three tables Lond. 1641 c. in oct Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book were made by Christop Wilkinson a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street London the first edition of which additions with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England in his succession of Archb. and Bishops and of Ralph Brook and August Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls c. 'T is said also that in the same year 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit Persecutio Undecima c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary which I have several times perused I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author History of Episcopacy in two parts Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata c. Lond. 1657. qu. Historical narration of Liturgies c. written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata c. Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642 3. in one sh in qu. Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland
was that he extracting thence several books did in some of them particularly in his two tomes of An exact chronological Vindication c. endeavour to bring an odium upon the Bishops and their function by giving an history in them of the Popes Usurpations upon the King and Subjects of England and Ireland In Aug. the same year he was appointed one of the six Commissioners for appeals and regulating the Excise and in the month of Apr. 1661 he was again elected a Burgess for Bathe to sit in that Parl. that began at Westm 8. of May the same year But in July following being discontented at some proceedings in the House he published a seditious paper against them intit Sundry reasons tendred to the most honorable House of Peers c. against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations This Pamphlet coming into the hands of several Members of Parliament who much complained against it the House appointed a Committee to examine and enquire after the Author the Printer and Publisher thereof The Committee met and soon found that Prynne was the Author of it And accordingly on the 15 of the said month of July the whole matter was reported to the House who thereupon being highly provok'd Prynne unable to conceal it any longer for 't was proved that he had sent that paper to the Printing-house and that he had corrected the Proof sheet and revise with his own hand he flew to the Printing-house and commanded the Compositors to distribute the form for they would be searched Which being done Prynne desired to be heard and unable to evade the evidence confessed himself to be the unhappy Author Then speaking largely setting forth what service he had done for the King formerly how kind and civil the King had been to him c. alledging that he had no mischievous intent but was sorry for what he had done and humbly craved their pardon the House then unanimously called upon him to withdraw and afterwards proceeded to debate it and resolved upon the question That the said printed paper intit Sundry reasons c. is an illegal false scandalous and seditious Pamphlet Prynne afterwards was called in again to receive the sense of the House which was as aforesaid Then Mr. Speaker Sir Edw. Turner worthily told him how sorry he was that a person of his years and experience should commit so foul an offence and one that had formerly much and yet now deserved to suffer all his punishments over again as imprisonment pillory c. But the House had considered his late services and hazards for his Majesty and in contemplation of them and his expressions of his sorrow which truly seemed very great the House shewed mercy unto him Prynne then did thankfully acknowledge the justice of the H. in their judgment of his great offence that the said paper was an illegal false scandalous and seditious pamphlet that he did humbly submit thereunto and did render most humble thanks to the H. and every Member thereof for their mercy and favour to him which words he spake with great sense of his own offence and the Houses goodness not offering to justifie the least line of his paper which his conscience told him he could not Whereupon the H. being satisfied with his confession and recantation they did remit his offence and Prynne sate down in his place From which time to the day of his death we heard of no more libels published by him The books and little pamphlets that he wrot were theological historical political controversial c. but very few of his own profession all which are in number near 200 as the titles following shew bound up in about 40 volumes in fol. and qu. in Linc. Inn Library To which an eminent Sage of the Law who had little respect for those published in his time promised to give the Works of John Taylor the Water-poet to accompany them 'T was not only he but many others afterwards especially Royalists that judged his books to be worth little or nothing his proofs for no arguments and affirmations for no testimonies having several forgeries made in them for his and the ends of his brethren They are all in the English Tongue and by the generality of Scholars are looked upon to be rather rapsodical and confus'd than any way polite or concise yet for Antiquaries Criticks and sometimes for Divines they are useful In most of them he shews great industry but little of judgment especially in his large folio's against the Popes Usurpations He may be well intituled Voluminous Prynne as Tostatus Abulensis was 200 years before his time called Voluminous Tostatus for I verily believe that if it rightly computed he wrot a sheet for every day of his life reckoning from the time when he came to the use of reason and the state of Man His custom when he studied was to put on a long quilted cap which came an inch over his eyes serving as an Umbrella to defend them from too much light and seldom eating a dinner would every 3 hours or more be maunching a roll of bread and now and then refresh his exhausted Spirits with Ale brought to him by his servant Thou that with Ale or viler liquors Did'st inspire Wythers Prynne and Vicars And teach though it were in despight Of nature and the stars to write c. Thus Hudibras part 1. He was a right sturdy and doughty Champion for the Cause a Puritan Beutifew an inveterate enemy against the hierarchy of Bishops especially upon his imprisonment and sufferings for his Hâ—strio mastix a busie pragmatical and medling man without end and one that had brought his body into an ill habit and so consequently had shortned his days by too much action and concernment day and night M. Nedham the Weather-cock tells us that he was one of the greatest paper worms that ever crept into a closet or library c. and others that he never intended an end in writing books and that his study or reading was not only a wearisomness to the flesh but to the ears Nay a printed Petition whereby some Wags under the name of the peaceable and well affected people of the three Nations did shew that whereas Will Prynne Bencher of Linc. Inn had for many years last past reckoning backward from 1659 in which year the said Petition was published been an indefatigable and impertinent Scribler and had almost nauseated the sober part of the said Nations with the stench of his carion pasquills and pamphlets for some whereof he had suffered under the hierarchy in the time of the late King c. that he might have an act of amnesty and pardon for all his Treasons Seditions Jesuitismes Contempts of Government misunderstanding of the Scripture Law and Reason Misquotations and misapplications of Authorities to his pasquills c. Which Petition I say being published and cried in Westm Hall and about London streets did so extreamly perplex Prynne for a time that
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
of Vitae Hobbianae auctarium Historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof Lond. 1680 in 4. sh and an half in fol. There again in 1682 oct It is mostly taken out of the second chapter De Haeresi of his Appendix to the Leviathan in latine and seems to have been wrot purposely to vindicate its author from all default in the publication of the Leviathan For after he hath deduced from our Saviours time the different punishments by way of History by laws enacted and inflicted on those who were declared Hereticks throughout the several ages of the Church having told what was done in other parts of the world relating to this point he proceeds to reckon up the many laws here in force against Hereticks from the first profession of Christianity down to the â—ate Civil Wars and saith that the Court of High Commission had the sole power of declaring what was heresie according to the mind of the first four general Councils that is according to the faith declared in the Nicene Creed as is manifest from the Councils themselves invested in them in all Qu. Elizabeths Raign that after this Court was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles thereby to satisfie the restless clamours of the Presbyterian party against it no body stood then empowered by lawful authority either to declare what was heresie or to punish any one proved to be this way obnoxious At this time he saith his Leviathan came forth for the writing of which he could not be deemed heretical And the reasons which moved him to compose and publish that book so much justly excepted against he there gives and then concludes So that 't is manifest he aimes and levels at this as his end in this narration viz. to vindicial himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace contrary to the known laws of the realm by his setting forth such monstrous and dangerous tenets and principles in his Leviathan He addeth also that at the first Parliament after the Kings restauration the Episcoparians and Presbyterians accused it of heresie and yet there was no law then which declared what it was The falsity of the said Historical narration of Heresie is shewn in a small treatise entit The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified c. written by John Dowell Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leycestershire Oxon. 1683. in tw In which book p. 137 the author saith that Oliver gaining ths Protectorship was so pleased with many of his principles laid down in the Leviathan which tended to justifie and support his usurpation that the great place of being Secretary was profer'd to him Vita Thomae Hobbes Written by himself in prose and printed at Caropolis alias London before Vitae Hobbianae auctarium an 1681. oct There again 1682. qu. A brief of the art of Rhetorick containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books of that subject Printed in tw but not said when Afterwards it was published in two books Lond. 1681. oct The first bearing the title of The Art of Rhetorick and the other of The Art of Rhetorick plainly set forth with pertinent examples for the more easie understanding and practice of the same To which is added A dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England He hath also written An answer to Archb. Bramhalls book called The catching of the Leviathan Lond. 1682. oct Seven philosophical problems and two propositions of Geometry Lond. 1682. oct Dedicated to the King in the year 1662. An apology for himself and his writings In which he sets forth that those things he delivered in the Leviathan were not his own opinions but submitted to the judgment of the Ecclesiastical power and that he never maintained any of them afterwards either in writing or discourse Adding also that what is in it of Theology contrary to the general warrant of Divines was not put in as his own opinion but propounded with submission to those who had the Ecclesiastical power Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata Aug. Trinob i. e. Lond. 1688. oct Besides all these he hath other things in Ms not yet printed among which is His defence in the matter relating to Dan. Scargil Bach. of Arts of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge written in one sheet a copy of which Sir John Birkenhead had in his possession which after his death came into the hands of Hen. Birkenhead See in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium p. 108.109 Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English 1 The History of the Greecian War in eight books Printed in 1628. and afterwards at Lond. in 1676. fol. Written originally by Thucidides 2 The Voyage of Ulysses or Homers Odysses book 9.10.11.12 Lond. 1674. oct in English verse 3 Homers Iliads and Odysses Lond. 1675. and 77. c. in tw in Engl. vers Before which is a preface concerning the virtues of heroick Poesie What other things go under his name I know not as yet sure it is if several persons of credit may be believed that a certain Scholar who was made a Bishop sometime after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 did say it openly in the time of Oliver he having been bred under Presbyterians and Independents that he had rather be author of one of Mr. Hobbes his books than to be King of England To conclude about two months before the death of this noted author he was seized with an acute pain in making water caused by a strangury or ulcer in the bladder which continuing for a considerable time he made use of some medicines by the advice of a Chirurgion yet the Physitian judged it incurable by reason of his great age and natural decay But he finding little benefit of the said medicines he asked the Chirurgion whether he thought his distemper curable to which being answered it would be very difficult to make a perfect cure and the best that could be expected was ease for the present he thereupon made this expression I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at seeming then to be more afraid of the pains he thought he should endure before he died than of death About the 20. of Nov. his Patron the Earl of Devons being to remove from Chatsworth to Hardwyke in Derbyshire Mr. Hobbes would not be left behind and therefore with a feather-bed laid in a coach upon which he lay warm clad he was safely conveyed to Hardwyke and was in appearance as well after that little journey being but 10. miles as before it But within few days after he was suddenly stricken with a dead Palsie which stupified his right side from head to foot and took away his speech and 't is thought his reason and sense too which continued about 7 days before he died So that being so suddenly seized he did not take the Sacrament nor seem to desire the company of any Minister which in charity may be imputed to his
Oliver the Protector which with the Academy there being soon after dissolved he retired to Westbury and continued at that place till 1662 at which time being ejected for Nonconformity held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived He hath written A treatise of Monarchy containing two parts 1. Concerning Monarchy in general 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer'd by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct This Sir Robert by the way must be known was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq and was as I conceive educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our author Hunton hath also written A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles was reprinted when the Press was open in 1680 when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch as 't is said therein that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation held 21. July 1683 and the book it self wherein it is was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle Afterwards as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England at which time the Nation was in a hurry it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it Under our authors name goes also a book entit Jus Regum c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen and therefore I can say nothing of it Nor no more of the author who was a man of parts only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture which maintained him and kept up his port THOMAS JONES son of John Williams was born and brought up in juvenile learning at Oswestrie in Shropshire entred into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion left it soon after returned when Oxford garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parl an 1646 became fellow of Univ. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament in 1648 to whom he then submitted and acknowledg'd the use of the Covenant and in the year following he took a degree in Arts being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause In 1652 he being then Master of his faculty he wrot Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654 he took holy orders as 't is said from a Bishop About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc of S. Asaph and learned the Welsh tongue purposely to serve those parts when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation From that place being ejected upon one Wynns's discovery of a dormant title he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle an 1661 and thence to be domestick and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York in 1663 In whose service continuing till 1666 or after was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function dismiss'd thence So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc of Bangor which he some time before had obtained found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan being as our author saith set on by the B. of Winchester In 1670 Winchester call'd him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestred for the payment of it Which fine Winchester offer'd to remit wholly if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness But when he would not the sequestration continued and 20 l. of it was sent to our author and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor and the rest for other pious uses About the same time he was condemn'd and censur'd ab officio beneficio by his Diocesan occasioned by some controversie that hapned between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog the particulars of which you may read at large elsewhere So that being in a manner undone did much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot publish Of the heart and its right Soveraigne and Rome no Mother-Church to England Or an historical account of the title of an English Church and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County Lond. 1678 oct A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above in the great question where is the true Mother Church of Christians Printed with the former book At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue Steph. Colledge c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot he wrote and published Elymas the Sorcerer or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottome of this Popish Plot c. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion Lond. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester grounded upon a passage in The Historie of Calvinisme written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh a French Jesuit wherein he resolves the Dutchess of Yorks declaration for Popery into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand tho he nameth him not to be Winchester Notice of this book therefore comming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publickly burnt and the author to the further punished But before he could compass his design the author died However Winchester that he might not sit silent published his own vindication as to M. Maimburghs words in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this
which was shortly after as I shall tell you anon So that whereas he was first a Presbyterian and afterwards a true Son of the Church of England he was then esteemed by the generallity especially when his Reasons for abrogating the Test were published very popishly enclined It was about that time said that he seemed very much to favour the Cath. Cause that he proposed in Council whether it was not expedient that at least one College in Oxford should be allowed Catholicks that they might not be forced to be at so much charges by going beyond the Seas to study The same Bishop inviting two Noblemen R. Cath. to a banquet drank the Kings health to an heretical Baron there wishing a happy success to all his affairs and he added that the Faith of the Protestants in England seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken and that they were for the most part meer Atheists that defended it c. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg in a letter dat 2. Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the Privy Council to K. Jam. 2. tells us in the same month that the Bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly the great obstacle is his wife whom he cannot rid himself of his design being to continue Bishop and only change Communion as it is not doubted but the King will permit and our holy father confirm tho I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the Religion in which he is because he is suspected and of no esteem among the Hereticks of the English Church nor do I see that the example of his Conversion is like to draw many others after him because he declared himself so suddenly If he had believ'd my counsel which was to temporize for some longer time he would have done better but it is his temper or rather zeal that hurried him on c. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party the Roman Catholicks I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings which are these Tentamina Physico-Theologica de Deo sive Theologia Scholastica c. lib. 2. Lond. 1665. qu. This book an account of which is in the Philosoph Transactions numb 18. is answer'd by N. Fairfax M. D. in his book entit Of the bulk and selvedge of the world These Tentamina are much enlarged in a book in a large quarto entit Disputationes de Deo c. as I shall tell you by and by A free and impartial censure of the Platonick Philosophy Lond. 1666. qu. Ox. 1667. oct At which time as his Adversary tells us he was proclaimed under the hand of another mascarade Divine The wonder of his age An account of the nature and extent of the divine dominion and goodness as they refer to the origenian hypothesis concerning the preexistence of soules c. This book which is printed with the Free and impartial censure is briefly reflected on by Anon. in a book entit Deus justificatus or the divine Goodness vindicated c. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct A discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of subjects in matters of external Religion is asserted c. Lond. 1669. 79. oct Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter says I can shew you a Manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious even the late Judge Hale expressing so great dislike of that Debate The Friendly Debate and Ecclesiastical Policy as tending to the injury of Religion it self that he wisheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves and no more so abusively pretend it is for Religion c. A defence and continuation of the Eccles Politie c. against Dr. Owen Together with a Letter from the author of The Friendly Debate Lond. 1671. oct On the said book Ecclesiast Politie and Reproof to the Rehearsal a certain Scotchman named Rohert Ferguson a Divine of some note hath written reflections in a book entit A sober enquiry into the nature measure and principle of moral virtue c. Lond. 1673 oct A discourse in vindication of Bishop John Bramhall and the Clergy of the Church of England from the Fanatick charge of Popery together with some reflections upon the present state of affairs c. This discourse was published by way of Preface to a Treatise of the said Bishop Lond. 1672. and by it self in oct Lond. 1673. In the said Discourse or book is a great deal of rallery against Dr. Joh. Owen his doctrine and writings but more especially against some passages of his book of Evangelical Love Church peace c. and much said in defence of that sharper way which he took in his former answer to the Doctor and somewhat against Baxter's Grotian religion discovered Whereupon our author Parker being esteemed by the Nonconformists a forward proud ambitious and scornful person was taken to task purposely to clip his wings or take him shorter by their buffooning Champion Andr. Marvell somtimes one of John Miltons companions in a book which he published entit The Rehearsal transpros'd or animadversions upon a late book entit A Preface shewing c. Lond. 1672. oct Which title The Rehearsal c. was taken from a Comedy then lately published by George Duke of Buckingham called The Rehearsal wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part Afterwards our author Parker wrot an answer to Marvell who stiles him throughout his book Mr. Bayes entit A reproof to the Rehearsall transpros'd in a discourse to its author Lond. 1673 oct Besides which answer came out five more against Marvell viz. 1. Rosemary and Bayes or Animadversions upon a treatise called The Rehearsall transpros'd c. Lond. 1672 in 3. sh in qu. 2 The Transproser rehears'd or the fifth act of Mr. Bayes Play c. Oxon 1673 oct Written by Rich. Leigh somtimes Commoner of Qu. Coll. 3 Gregory Father-Greybeard with his vizard off or news from the Cabal in some reflections c. in a letter to our old friend R.L. from E.H. Lond. 1673. oct subscribed Edm. Hickeringhill 4 A common place book out of The Rehearsall transpros'd digested under these several heads c. Lond. 1673. oct 5 Stoo him Bayes or some animadversions upon the humour of writing Rehearsals transpros'd Oxon. 1673. oct All or most of which answers which were to the first part of The Rehearsall transpros'd were wrot in a buffooning burlesquing and ridiculing way and stile in which fashion of writing Marvell himself had led the way Besides Marvell's answer to the said Preface of Dr. Parker I find another small piece wrot against it partly entit The authority of the Magistrate about Religion discussed in a rebuke to the prefacer of the late book of Bish Bramhalls c. Lond. 1672. oct by J. H supposed to be Joh. Humphrey
temper great experience travels and modern Languages Our Author Warmstrey hath also written Various Poems And other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day on the 28 of May in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried among the Graves of the Warmstreys not far from the north door of and within the Cathedral Church of Worcester leaving then behind him a widdow named Isabell I shall make mention of his Brother Dr. Tho. Warmstrey under the year 1665. JOHN THORNBOROUGH Son of Giles Thornborough was born within the City of Salisbury became a Semi-Com or Demie of S. Mary Magd. Coll. in the year 1570 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke with whom continuing for some time that Count bestowed upon him the Rectory of Chilmark in Wilts and thereby became the first that planted him in the Church of Christ Soon after he became Chaplain in Ordinary to Qu. Elizabeth by the endeavours of the said Count and beneficed in Yorkshire so that being put into the road of Preferment he had the Deanery of York confer'd on him upon the promotion of Dr. Mathew Hutton to the See of Durham to which being elected 28 Oct. 1589 was soon after install'd In 1593 he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland where peâ—forming many signal services for the Crown of England he was translated to the See of Bristow in 1603 with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery of York in commendam But as for his Benefices in Yorkshire which were the Rectories of Brandesburton and Misperton alias Kirkby over Carr they were bestowed on Peter Rollocke Bishop of Dunkell in the month of Aug. the same year On the 17 Feb. 1616 was translated to Worcester whereupon his Deanery was given to Dr. George Meriton Dean of Peterborough elected thereunto 25 Mar. 1617 and his Bishoprick of Bristow to Dr. Nich. Felton Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge to which being consecrated 14 Dec. 1617 sate there till the 14 March 1618 on which day he was translated to Ely As for Thornborough he was a person well furnish'd with Learning Wisdom Courage and other as well episcopal as temporal Accomplishments beseeming a Gentleman a Dean and a Bishop But above all he was much commended for his great skill in Chymistry a study but seldom followed in his time And 't is thought that by some helps from it it was that he attained to so great an age A most learned Chymist of this mans time tells us that he knew a Bishop whose fame in Chymistry being celebrated of many he visited and after he had seen a little chymical tract written with his own hand he took him labouring in our gold whence he studied to extract Vitriol which he held his only secret whereupon he left him for that he knew that he had neither before him the proper matter nor the manner of working according to the doctrine of Philosophers c. But who this Bishop was unless our Author Thornborough or a Bishop in Germany whom he met in his Travels I know not nor doth it signifie much His writings are these The joyful and blessed reuniting the two mighty and famous Kingdoms of England and Scotland into their ancient name of Great Britain Oxon. 1605. qu. published under the name of John Bristoll But several things therein being conceived to be derogatory to the honor of both Houses of Parliament the Author was complained of only in the upper house which was soon after passed over In 1604 was printed at London A Treatise of Union of the two Realms of England and Scotland said in the title page to be written by J. H. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Nihil Aliquid Omnia in gratiam eorum qui artem auriferam physico-chymicè pie profitentur Oxon. 1621. qu. The last will and testament of Jesus Christ touching the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood c. Oxon. 1630. qu. A discourse shewing the great happiness that hath and may still accrue to his Maj. Kingdoms of Engl. and Scotland by reuniting them into one Great Britaine in two parts Lond. 1641. in tw published under the name of Joh. Bristoll but 't is not the same with the former 'T was afterwards printed at Edenburgh in the Latin Tongue Pax vobis concerning the Unity and Peace of the Church This I think is not printed nor other things that he had lying by him at the time of his death He departed this mortal life in the Castle called Hartilborough in Worcestershire after he had been twice married on the ninth day of July in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried on the north side of the Chappel behind the east end of the choire belonging to the Cath. Chur. of Worcester near to a fair alabaster monument which he had fourteen years before erected for himself with his Statua in his episcopal Robes curiously carved in stone lying thereon On the Canopy over his head I find this written on the side of it Denarius Philosophorum dum spiro spero And on the north side is this In uno 2 0 3 2 4 1 10. non spirans spero Over his head is this Qui dormis attolle caput quia in infirmitate virtus in morte vita in tenebris lux And over his feet mors nubecula transiens laborum finis vitae janua scala coeli mihi lucrum Besides these Sentences is a large Inscription painted on a table hanging above his feet which for brevity sake I now omit See more in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 200 b. He had issue by his first wife Sir Benj. Thornborough Kt. and Edw. Thornborough Archdeacon of Worcester who died in 1645 and by his second named Elizab. Bayles of Suffolk Sir Tho. Thornborough of Elmeley Lovet in Worcestershire Kt. c. He had also a Brother named Giles who was Subdean and one of the Canons of Sarum in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth as also Rector of Orcheston S. George in Wilts who died in 1637 leaving a Relict behind him named Jane He had also a nephew of the same name Preb. of Worcester in 1629 who dying in 1663 one Will. Owen M. A. was installed in his place 13 Feb. the same year A little before this Bishops death he told his Maj. K. Ch. 1. that he had outlived several that had expected to succeed him in the See of Worcester and now said he I am afraid I shall outlive my Bishoprick which almost had come to pass JOHN DAWSON a most eminent Preacher of his time was born in Oxfordshire particularly as it seems within the City of Oxon became first of all conversant with the Muses in Ch. Ch. in Mich. term 1620 aged about 15 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards entring into holy orders was made Vicar of Maydenhead in Berks where and in the neighbourhood he was much
the year 1592 aged 19 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602 and six years after leaving that House travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas whereby he obtained as well learning as experience At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois and by him respected and exhibited to After his death our Author with his Wife retired to Gloc. Hall where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen that by his endeavours the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall the which with his Lecture he kept to his dying day and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man and by others a Calvinist He hath written De ratione methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Oxon. 1625. oct printed there again in 1637. in oct with this title Relectiones hyemales de ratione methodo legendi utriusque historias civiles ecclesiasticas c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct and had at the end this Speech of our Author printed with it viz. Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica added thereunto and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia set before it They were rendred into English I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know these things following viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County being the only Son of Baxter Bohun who with his ancestors have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8. that in the year 1663 he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge and continued there till the latter end of 1666 when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there to his great hindrance in Learning In 1675 he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg'd In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary he was restored to that office upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting without his seeking and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation in three parts being the History of three Sessions of Parliament The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. 2 A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments printed with and added to the Address 3 A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there Lond. 1684. in 4. sh and an half in fol. 4 The Justice of Peace his calling a moral Essay Lond. 1684. oct 5 A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book entit Paetriarcha or the natural Law of Kings c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book Lond. 1685. oct 6 A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities c. of the whole world with a short historical account of the same and their present state Lond. 1688. oct 7 The history of the desertion or an account of all the publick affairs in England from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following Lond. 1689. oct 8 An answer to a piece called The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country Gentleman printed at the end of The Hist of desertion The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed was written by Jer◠Collier of Cambridge 10 The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern'd in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells which Mr. Bohun is satisfied is not true and therefore he desires that and the whole paragraph in which it is may be cancel'd 11 Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury as I shall tell you by and by He hath also translated into English several things among which is 1 The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus Lond. 1684. qu. 2 An Apologie of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent Lond. 1685. in oct written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell collected by Mr. Bohun from the large life of the said Person written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 3 The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories as I have told you before 4 The universal Historical Bibliotheque or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages wherein a short account is given of the design of almost every book and the quality of the author if known For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687 Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London 5 The 25. and 26 th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome began in Germany by Mart. Luther Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. 6 The present state of Germany or an account of the extent rise forme wealth c. of that Empire c. Lond. 1690. oct written in lat by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name What other things he hath written and translated I know not sure I am that our Author Whear hath besides the before-mentioned things published these following Parentatio Historica Sive commemoratio vitae mortis V. C. Guliel Camdeni Clarentii facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus Charisteria These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167â— fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
Aug. 1659. As for Hoyle he gave way to fate on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in that little old Chappel of University College which was pulled down in 1668 standing sometimes in that place which is now the middle part of the present Quadrangle in that College In his Mastership of that house succeeded Francis Johnson an Independent and in his Professorship Dr. Jo. Conant then a Presbyterian RICHARD SMITH was born in Lincolnshire 1566 became a Student of Trin. Coll. about 1583 went a course there but before he took a degree he left the Coll went to Rome ran another course in studies there not in Philosophy as he did at Trin. Coll. but in Divinity wherein making great proficiency was sent by his Superior to Valladolid in Spain where he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity Thence as I suppose he went into the Mission of England in which Employment he remained some years From thence he was sent for to Rome to be consulted with about the affairs of the English Popish Clergy Which being finished according to his mind he was remitted into England again and at length was by the Pope made Bishop titular only of Chalcedon in Greece and by him commissionated to exercise episcopal Jurisdiction in England over the Catholicks there The chief stage of his action was in Lancashire where he appeared in his Pontificalia with his horned Miter and Crosier conferring of Orders bestowing his Benediction and such like to the wonder of ignorant and poor people At length the King having received notice of these matters he renewed his Proclamation in 1628 one of a former date taking no effect for his apprehension promising an hundred pounds to be presently paid to him that did it besides all the profits which accrued to the Crown as legally due from the person that entertained him But the Bishop having timely notice of these matters convey'd himself over into France where he became a Confident of Armandus du Plessis Cardinal and Duke of Richlieu who confer'd upon him the Abbatship of Charroux in the diocess of Poitou which he kept and received the profits of it till 1647 and then Julius Cardinal Mazarine took it into his own hands The conveniency and validity of the episcopal power of the said Dr. Smith was made the subject of several books which were written thereon viz. in favour of him were 1 N. le Maistre a Sorbon Priest in a book intit De persecutione Episcoporum de illustrissimo Antistite Chalcedonense 2 The faculty of Paris which censur'd all such that opposed him In opposition to him or them were 1 Daniel a Jesuit or Dan. Ã Jesu i. e. Joh. Floyd a Jesuit 2 one Horucan 3 Lumley an English man and 4 Nich. Smith a Regular who with his Brethren did make so great a stir about this Bishops Authority and were heightned to that animosity against the secular Priests the Bishop being of that number that the Pope was forced to rouze and declare himself concern'd in so great a scandal to the Unity of the Rom. Church And because he would not proceed to cure this Schism until he rightly understood the original ground thereof over he dispatched into England Gregory Panzani a Civilian and Rom. Priest an 1634. with a Commission of Oyer and Terminer of hearing and determining the Quarrel if not to certifie to him the state of the cause and where the fault lay This was the upper Mantle of the Plot which had readily in it enough to overspread more secret designs so that they were not transparent to vulgar eyes But tho his Instructions would not own any other lading yet some especially the puritannical party held it for certain that they had taken in other contrivances of pernitious import to the Church and State of England He tarried here till 1636 having by that time procured an indifferent fair agreement between the Seculars and the Regulars What else was to be done in the matter was to be performed by Seignior George Con the Popes Agent sent into England the same year of Panzani his departure As for the Bishop of Chalcedon he was a general read Scholar in the Controversies between the Papists and Protestants in Histories whether civil or profane and did great service for the Cause he professed He hath written An Answer to the Challenge of Thom. Bell an Apostate Printed 1609. The prudential ballance of Religion wherein the Catholick and Protestant Religion are weighed together with the weight of Prudence and right Reason printed in a thick oct an 1609. This is the first part and is contained in two books Afterwards were two other parts composed by the said Author which I have not yet seen Collatio doctrinae Catholicorum Protestantium cum ipsis verbis S. Scripturae Par. 1622. qu. Flores ecclesiasticae Historiae Gentis Anglorum lib. 7. Par. 1654. fol. A survey of a late book intit The just Vindication of the Church of England from the unjust aspersion of criminal schism by John Bramhall Bishop of Derry printed 1654. Whereupon Bramhall came out with a Reply in 1656 but our Author being then dead the controversie ceased He also wrot The life and death of the illustrious Lady de Monte acuto which I have not yet seen At length after he had lived 88 years in this vain and transitory world gave way to fate at Paris on the eighth day of March in sixteen hundred fifty and four which according to the French accompt is the 18 of March 1655 and was buried near to the Altar in the Church of the English Nunnery of the Order of S. Austin situate and being in the Suburbs of S. Victor there Over his grave was a monument soon after put with an inscription thereon the contents of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 298. a. Before or after his death a MS. containing Several Letters and Epistles to the Pope to some Cardinals Bishops and Superiors written by the said Smith B. of Chalcedon came into the hands of Edw. Knott the Jesuit and afterwards into those of Dr. Seth Ward late Bishop of Salisbury See more of the said Bishop of Chalcedon in Will. Bishop an 1624. vol. 1. p. 415. EDWARD BOUGHEN a Buckinghamshire man born was elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1605 aged 18 years and after he had been some time standing in the degree of Master was made Chaplain to Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxford Afterwards he had some Cure at Bray in Berks and in 1636 became Rector of Woodchurch in Kent whence being ejected by the Presbyterians in the time of Rebellion he retired for a time to Oxon where he was actually created Doctor of Divinity a little before the surrender of the Garrison there to the Parliaments Forces an 1646. Afterwards he resided at Chartham in Kent but in what condition I know not as yet His works are
H. N. O. J. Oxon. which whether meant by Henry HickmaN I know not as yet Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol. Aërius redivivus or the Hist of the Presbyterians c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. Historical and miscellaneous Tracts Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention'd before as 1 Eccl. Vindicata 2 Hist of the Sabbath in 2 parts 3 Hist Quinqu articularis 4 Stumbling block c. 5 Tract de jure paritatis c. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire sometimes one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll. Which life being alter'd and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. T. Barlow and the Bookseller that printed it Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn made a protestation against it and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter'd and Vernon wrot another published in oct Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church Both which things the said Dr. Laud intended as materials towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit which came out the year following He also I mean Heylyn did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath as I have before told you and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an 1639 partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland that then before brake out had been raised At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day May 8. in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire a copy of the inscription on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205. JOHN LEY was born in the antient Borough of Warwick on the 4 of Feb. an 1583 but descended from the Leys of Cheshire educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601 where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicaridge of Great Budworth in Cheshire and there continued several years a constant Preacher Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester Sub-dean thereof 1605 a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peters Church in the said City and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice But he having always been puritanically inclined he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1641 took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines Examiner in Latine to the said Assembly Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers and of the Committee for Printing one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way c. President of Sion Coll. about 1645 and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee which if I mistake not he kept with other Benefices for a time In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of publick Ministers and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Soon after upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight before the year 1656 where he continued for some time At length breaking a vein within him by overstraining himself in speaking became very weak thereupon So that being not able to go on in the Ministry he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County where after he had lived privately for a short time gave up the ghost in a fair age He was esteemed in his time a man of note especially by those of the Presbyterian perswasion well vers'd in various Authors and a ready Preacher His works are these An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible which were in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon publickly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson When printed I know not 'T was written about 1612 and submitted to the judgment of Bish Usher who did well approve of it Pattern of piety or the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow and Citizen of Chester Lond. 1640. oct Several sermons as 1 Serm. on Ruth 3.11 Lond. 1640. oct 2 A monitor of mortality in two funeral sermons occasion'd by the death of Joh. Archer son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh Knight and of Mrs. Harper of Chester and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old The first on Jam. 4.14 and the other on Gen. 44.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Fury of war and folly of sin Fast serm before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22 Lond. 1643. qu. c. Sunday a sabbath or a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Usher The Christian Sabbath maintained in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no Sabbath Defensive doubts hopes and reasons for refusal of the Oath imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod Lond. 1641. qu. Letter against the erection of an Altar written 29 June 1635 to John Bishop of Chester Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper These two last things were printed and go with Defensive doubts Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath and the difference between them as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome c. Lond. 1641. quar Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed with the Comparison Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query and determination upon it published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose in his other and
before Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation is soon after as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times decryed and condemned by the same Persons as flat dull and insipid Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good yet Dr. Sandersons Sermons and indeed all his other genuine works have not by their age lost the least of their former repute For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings pen'd in such a manly and lasting a language that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judgings and censures as they do still so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers Two cases of conscience resolved Lond. 1628. oct Three more added Lond. 1667. 8. oct Another Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine and repr 1678 and 1685. in oct De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct This is the book which I have before hinted that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand and by him shew'd to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert commanding them then to examine it with the original which they did and found it accurately translated Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary but the particular time when I cannot tell Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur 26. oct 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct Censure of Mâ— A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon. De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae an 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct The same in English came out with this title Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct Published at the instant desire of Rob. Boyle Esq an encourager of Dr. Sandersons studies in the time of his affliction Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power c. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct His judgment for setling the Church in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit Reason and judgment or special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted I mean His judgment at Lond. 1678. oct Physicae scientiae compendium Oxon. 1671. oct Whether ever before printed I know not His judgment concerning submission to Usurpers Lond. 1678. oct Pax Ecclesiae Lond. 1678. oct in English These two with His judgment for setling c. before mention'd and the Oxford reasons are to be seen in his life printed in oct Discourse concerning the Church in these particulars 1 concerning the visibility of the true Church 2 concerning the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1688 in about 5 â—h in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn Coll. from a Ms copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon Domestick Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death He also had the chief hand in a book intit Reasonâ— of the University of Oxon against the Covenant c. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his yet notwithstanding tho Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part the whole goes under his name He also wrot 1 The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy entit The power communicated by God to the Prince and the obedience required of the Subjects Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh 2 The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of Clavi Trabales or nails fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies c published by Nich. Bernard D. D. Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Usher Mr. Ric. Hooker Lanc. Andrews Adr. Saravia c. 3 Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Printed in a book intit Fair warning the second part Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge Which challenge a certain Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry as was ever called Demonstration And tho the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed yet such is the pleasure of some men that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy an 1661 being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond in Dr. Hammonds works about those knotty points which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversie Several Treatises also he had laying by him which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication but a little before his death he caused them to be burnt least after they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mention'd in the 76 year of his age Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid with an Inscription engraven thereon made by himself a Copy of which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. shall be now omitted and in its room shall this be said that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation from his first book of Logick to his Divinity Lectures Sermons and other excellent discourses the vastness of his judgment the variety of his learning all laid out for publick benefit his unparallel'd meekness humility and constancy you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not loose a greater pillar a better man and more accomplish'd Divine Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincolne Lond. 1678. oct Written by Isaac Walton and in the book before mention'd entit Reason and judgment or special remarks c. ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time in the West parts of England Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City and educated there in Grammar
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
put an Introduction to the book He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in one of the Chappels joyning to the Cath. Church Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley a true and zealous son of the Church of England was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a non-conforming Minister and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow one or more of whose Sermons you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4 July 1682 aged 61 and was inter'd in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London in the presence of 500 Persons who accompanied him to his grave Of the same family tho remote was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark p. 153. JOHN WARNER received his first breath as 't is said in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an 1599 aged 16 years where being put under the tuition of a careful Person made a considerable progress in his studies took the degrees in Arts and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house being then esteemed a witty man a good Logician and Philosopher In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesties Chaplains Prebendary of Canterbury Governour of Sion Coll Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell promoted to the See of Peterborough an 1633 and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles was consecrated thereunto on the 14th and installed 21 of January the same year being then noted for a good School Divine and one well read in the Fathers In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury built one at his proper charge which whether more curious or more costly was difficult to judge and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishops votes in the H. of Parliament Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren by having the Lands of his See taken away but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable He hath written Church Lands not to be sold or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold Printed 1646. 48. qu. Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium Printed in the said Dr. Taylor 's Collection of Polemical discourses See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen and perhaps other things Quaere At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave with a large Epitaph thereon wherein 't is said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test he left his personal estate for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows tho himself had always led a single life the Relicts of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an always reserving so much out of their exhibition as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon and not out of any other House And the election of the said 20 Widows is to be made by his Executors for the time being and after their decease by such Trustees as they shall appoint In his life time and at his death he gave a 1000 l. for the encrease of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more To the repair of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To â—he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l to Bromley where his Bishops seat is 20 l and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an to issue out of his mannour of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of Gods word c. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them thoughts were had of making Glocester Hall a College for them and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter the Scholars for the present time were placed there At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol which was in 1672 he took order that they should be translated thither where they yet remain JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1604 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Chaplain as I conceive to Philip Lord Stanhop and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased which he kept to his dying day notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time In Nov. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof which also keeping till his
he became in a manner craz'd To conclude I must now let the Reader know that there was no Writer of his time nor ever before except Bale that was given more to calumny and railing in his Writings than he especially against the Bishops true Churchmen of England Episcoparians and Papists while in the mean time his Brethren that deserved justly to be chastised by his pen were omitted As for his railing at the Episcoparians all readers of his books pen'd against Dr. Laud and the Bishops may in a plentiful manner behold and what he says against the Papists let it be truth or not truth may also in them be easily discern'd But for these last the Papists let one of their number who is a grave Writer characterize our Author Prynne for an egregious lye that he hath committed against a red-letter'd-man and against the English Papists when he would have them all massacred in 1666. Yet of late this poysonous humour of calumniating Gods Saints is become the principal character of the new reformed Gospel I will add one example more of a Calumniator at least parallel to these viz. Mr. Will. Prynne a late stigmatized Presbyterian who in his not long since published censure of Archb. Whitgift charges S. Anselme that he induced Sir Walt. Tyrrell to murder K. Will. Rufus Now by the consent of all Historians Tyrrell himself was no murderer for it was by the unhappy casual glancing of an arrow that the King was slain However it hapned yet certain it is that at that time S. Anselme was an exil'd person in France and whereas at the Kings burial many noble men met but few mourn'd for his death yet saith a late Protestant Historian of all mourners Anselme expressed most cordial sorrow at the news That blasphemous tongue therefore must expect that such envenomed darts as these shot against heaven it self will if he repent not one day descend upon his own head and the wounds made by them never be cured But alas what repentance can be expected in such a person who is inveteratus dierum malorum when we see in his decrepit age his rancorous tongue against innocent Catholicks yet more violently set on fire of hell so far as to sollicite a general Massacre of them by publishing himself and tempting others to damn their souls also by publishing through the whole Kingdom that in the last fatal calamity by fire hapning to London 1666 they were the only Incendiaries This he did tho himself at the same time confessed that not the least proof could be produced against them But said he it concerns us that this report should be believed Complaints of this most execrable Attentate were made and several Oaths to confirm this were offer'd but in vain However surely there is a reward for the innocent oppressed And whatsoever Mr. Prynne may think doubtless there is a God who judges the World Let him therefore remember what the spirit of God says Quid detur What must be given to thee and what must be assigned to thee for thy portion O deceitful Tongue Sharp darts cast by an almighty arm with devouring coals of Juniper c. The books and pamphlets that this unwearied Writer hath published are these The perpetuity of a regenerate mans estate against the Saints total and final Apostacy Lond. 1627. qu. Healths sickness Or a compendious and brief discourse proving the drinking and pledging of healths to be sinful and utterly unlawful unto Christians c. Lond. 1628. qu. The un-loveliness of Love-locks and long womanish hair Ibid. 1628. qu. Brief survey and censure of Mr. Cozens his couzening devotions Ibid. 1628. qu. This was written against the Private devotions that were published by John Cosin afterwards Bishop of Durham as containing Arminianisme in them as Prynne says who adds that it was one of the reasons why Laud Archb. of Cant. did malign him and caused his Histrio-mastix to be called into question Anti-Arminianisme or the Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme c. Lond. 1630. It was twice pr. that year in qu. Appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus See more in Giles Widdowes under the year 1645 who by the strangeness of his parts was fitted as 't were on purpose to duell with Prynne as Don Quixot with the Wind-mill which no man else was Knight errant enough to encounter about the said matter God no impostor or deluder or an answer to a Popish and Arminian cavil in defence of free will and universal Grace wherein Gods tender of Grace c. Lond. 1629. 30. qu. Lame Giles his haultings together with an appendix concerning the popish original and progress of bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1631. qu. Written against Giles Widdowes before mention'd Histrio-mastix The playes scourge c. against the intollerable mischief and abuses of common playes and play-houses Ibid. 1633. qu. Books written during his imprisonment in the Tower of Lond. Appendix supplementum Epilogus ad Flagellum Pontificis touching the parity of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino An. 1635. This Flagellum was written by Joh. Bastwick Dr. of Phys of Padua sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Practitioner at Colchester in Essex in which County he was born A breviate of the Bishops intollerable usurpations and encroachments upon the Kings prerogative and Subjects liberties with an appendix to it An. 1635. Certain Queries propounded to the bowers at the name of Jesus and the Patrons thereof An. 1636. The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus proving them no diocesan Bishops of Ephesus and Crete and that Presbyters have a divine right to ordain Ministers as well as Bishops with a Postscript Print 1636 reprinted with additions at Lond. 1660. qu. the Bishops then being about to be restored by K. Ch. 2. Lookingâ—glass for all Lordly Prelates An. 1636. Certain Queries propounded to Bishops c. An. 1636. Instructions for Church Wardens concerning visitatation articles fees oathes c. An. 1636. News from Ipswich discovering certain late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our Church c. Printed as 't is said at Ipswich but false an 1636 in one sh in qu. Published under the name of Matthew White three times in that year and another time in 1641. He the said Prynne had also a special hand in the writing of a book intit A divine Tragedy lately acted or a collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgment upon Sabbath breakers c Printed by stealth an 1636. qu. At the end of which is an Appendix pr. in another character containing the sufferings of Prynne for his Histrio-mastix and the miserable end as 't is there said that befel Will. Noy the chief instrument of his sufferings Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence Bishops and Presbyters to be both one equal and the same in jurisdiction office c. by divine law and institution c.
prospect of Qu. Cath. the Royal Consort of K. Ch. 2 she found means to have it pluck'd down Some time after his Majesties restauration he invented a new way of farthings of which he made demonstration to the King and Council so plainly that they were satisfied that they could not possibly be counterfeited and that one farthing could not be like another but that they should differ in some little thing And having then a design to get a patent for the making of them for England was put aside by Pr. Rupert and at length was content with one only for Ireland To which place taking a journey soon after died there before he could effect his design He hath written and published A design for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles in the Fields near London The benefits of it declared and the objections against it answerâ—d Lond. 1641. in 5. or 6. sh in qu. Experimental proposals how the K. may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets with ease to the people London may be rebuilt and all proprietors satisfied money may be lent at 6 l. per cent on pawns and the fishing trade set up and all without straining or thwarting any of our laws and customs Lond. 1666. qu. Defence of Bill-credit Printed at the end of the former pamphlet About the year 1663 he printed an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by bills of exchange which should pass current instead of money to prevent robbery but this I have not yet seen He died in Ireland on the 3. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and seventy and his body being brought into England was buried in the Church at Harting by its Ancestors He was a great Virtuoso of his time yet none of the Royal Society and might have done greater matters if that he had not been disincouraged for those things he had done before HENRY YELVERTON Baronet was born of an antient and gentile family at Easton Manduit or Mauduit in Northamptonshire baptized there 6 of July 1633 educated in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London admitted a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1650 where he made as great proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age was capable of and became so exact a Latinist and Greecian that none of his time went beyond him He hath written A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ Wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled the miracles done by our Saviour Apostles and Christians c. Lond. 1662. oct To which is added A disquisition touching the Sybils and Sybilline writings c. Written by John Twysden Broth. to Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent both the Uncles of Sir H. Yelverton who hath also written something in vindication of the Church of England against Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. which I have not yet seen and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish of Durham entit The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the authority of the Primitive Church c. Pr. in oct Which Bishop Sir Hen. had kept in his family several years in the time of that Bishops persecution and was as tender of him as of his parent shewing thereby as indeed he was a true Son of the Church of England He died in the flower of his age on the 3. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at Easton Manduit among the graves of his relations leaving then behind him by Susan his wife sole daughter and heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen Charles his eldest Son afterwards a Noble-man of Ch. Ch. and called up to the House of Lords where he took his place as Lord Grey of Ruthen He died of the small pox unmarried in his Lodgings in the Pall-mall within the liberty of Westm on the 17. of May 1679 and was as I suppose buried at Easton Manduit CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1621 where going through the servile offices was made Fellow when Master of Arts About which time entring into holy Orders according to the statutes of that House he became a Preacher was actually created Bac. of Div. in 1642 and afterwards made Vicar of Milford in Hampshire He hath written Fasciculus Praeceptorum Logicalium in gratiam juventutis Academiae Oxon compositus Oxon. 1660. sec edit in oct and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died on S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Milford before mention'd· Over his grave was soon after put this epitaph Memoriae sacrum Christopheri Airay S. T. Bac. olim Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii hujus ecclesiae Vicarii vigilantissimi viri summae integritatis judicii acerrimi ingenii literarum omnium capacis qui deficillimo seculo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit Mortalitati tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. c. SAMUEL KEME or Kem was born according to the Matricula in the City of London became a Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Act term 1621 aged 16 years but how long he continued there I know not Sure I am that a certain author tells us that for those few weeks he wore a gown in Magd. Hall he obtained the title of a most notorious lyer that ever wore long ears In 1624 he was elected Demie of Magd. Coll at which time he said that he was born in Surrey and that he was in the nineteenth year of his age In that House he continued till after he was Bach. of Arts and then taking holy Orders he had a cure bestowed on him In 1636 the King being then in Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Divinity about which time he became Rector of the Church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near Ricot in Oxfordshire and a retainer if I mistake not to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot Esq Patron of the said Church by virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth the dau and heir of Francis L. Norris Earl of Berks. At the turn of the times in 1641 he put a Curate into his Living sided with the Rebels took the Covenant was made Chaplain to and Captain of a Troop of Horse in the Regiment of Basil Earl of Denbigh prayed and preached often to encourage the Soldiers to fight laid open to them the righteousness of their cause preached against the K. and his followers and endeavoured to make them believe that all that were about him were Papists or at least popishly affected When any Officer of the Regiment was kill'd he was ready to preach his funeral Sermon particularly that of Major Pinkney slain in the beginning of July 1644 and was ready at all hours to do the like provided the party died not a natural death When he
1971. On the plank of black marble which covers the monument are the Armes of Bagshaw impaling the pretended Armes of Peacock the said Bagshaw having some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous and superannuated maid but perfectly blind named Margaret the daugh of John Peacock of Chawley in the parish of Comnore near Abendon in Berks but had no issue by her WILLIAM NICOLSON son of Christop Nicolson a rich clothier was born at Stratford near to Hadleigh in Suffolk on the first day of Nov. 1591 educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Madg. Coll being then choirester of that House Afterwards having made an entrance into the Logical Class he was made one of the Clerks took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 at which time I conceive he was Chaplain to Henry Earl of Northumberland then a prisoner in the Tower of London and Tutor to his son the Lord Percy But his cheif delight being exercised in the fac of Grammar and therefore noted by many for it he was made Master of the Free-School at Croydon in Surrey to which office he was admitted 3 Jul. 1616 in the place of one Robert Davys Bach. of Arts of Oxon then displaced for his frequent hunting with dogs and neglecting the School From that time to the beginning of 1629 he continued there doing great benefit by his instruction and then being succeeded by one Joh. Webb M. of A. of Madg. Hall our author retired into Wales where having a little before obtained the rectory of LLandilo-vaour or LLandellovar in Caermerthenshire was made soon after Residentiary of S. David and Archdeacon of Brecknock in the place of one Isaac Singleton in the beginning as it seems of the rebellion In 1643 he was elected one of the Ass of Divines but never as I conceive sate among them and soon after loosing his spiritualities he taught a private School in Caermerthenshire and by his writings defended and maintained the Church of England then exceedingly clouded against its Adversaries After the Kings restauration he was by the endeavours of Edward Earl of Clarerdon L. Chanc. of England designed Bishop of Glocester by his Majesty by vertue of whose letters he was diplomated Doct. or Div. in the beginning of Dec. 1660. and on the sixth of Jan. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster after it had laid void several years by the death of Godfrey Goodman Which Bishoprick he kept without any translation to another See to his dying day keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of Brecknock and the Rectory of Bishops-Cleeve in Glocestershire He was a right learned Divine well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen but above all most excellent he was in the critical part of Grammar in which faculty none in his time or perhaps before went beyond him His writings which shew him to be a person of great erudition prudence modesty and of a moderate mind are these A plain but full exposition of the Catechisme of the Church of England enjoyned to be learned of every child before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop Lond. 1655. 61. 63. 71. qu. c. Apologie for the discipline of the antient Church intended especially for the Church of England Lond. 1659. qu. Exposition on the Apostles Creed delivered in several Sermons Lond. 1661. fol. An easie Analysis of the whole book of Psalmes Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the Bishops Pallace at Glocester on the fifth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried on the eigth day of the same month in a little isle joyning on the South side to the Virgin Maries Chappel in the Cathedral there Over his grave was afterwards a blew stone laid and on the wall near it a table of black marble erected with this inscription following in golden letters Aeternitati S. In spe beatae resurrectionis hîc reverendas exuvias deposuit Theologus insignis Episcopus verè primitivus Gulielm Nicolson in agro Suffolciano natus apud Magdalenenses educatus ob fidem Regi Ecclesiae affictae praestitam ad sedem Glocestrensem meritò promotus an 1660. In concionibus frequens in Scriptis nervosus legenda scribens faciens scribenda Gravitas Episcopalis in fronte emicuit pauperibus quotidianâ Charitate beneficus comitate erga Clerum literatos admirandus gloriae ac dierum satur in palatio suo ut vixit piè decessit Febr. 5. anno aetatis LXXXII Dom. MDCLXXI Elizabetha conjux praeivit in hoc sacello sepulta Apr. xx an Dom. MDCLXIII Owenus Brigstock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermerthen Armiger praedictae Elizabethae nepos hoc grati animi monumentum executore recusante propriis sumptibus erexit an MDCLXXIX The said Brigstock was Grandson to the said Elizabeth GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernarvonshire educated in a private School in Caernarvon applyed his muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church in the latter end of 1603. aged 16 years but before he was honoured with a degree he left that House and by the perswasions of John Williams afterwards B. of Lincoln he removed to Cambridg where he prefer'd him to a Tutor patroniz'd him further'd his entrance into the Ministry and after he had attained to the degree of M. of A. got him to be Chaplain to Philip Earl of Montgomery being about that time also 1614. Parson of S. Bennet Sherhogg in London About the time that he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences he was made Parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales where he received good encouragement in the Ministry from Sir John Wynne Baronet and Sir Rich. Wynne his son and was infinitely admired for his excellent way in preaching and for his religious life and conversation He was then accounted a person very well read in scholastical and historical Divinity as also in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councils and therefore it was that he was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1. he being then D. D. In 1628 he became Prebendary of the eighth Stall in the collegiate Church of Westminster in the room of Dr. Laud who till then had kept it in commendam with his Bishopricks and in 1633 he was made Dean of Banger installed therein 28 Mar. 1634. and Archdeacon of Anglesy which Deanery had before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith Afterwards he was designed to be Tutor to Pr. Charles but Archb. Laud commending to his Majesty Dr. Duppa for that Employment our Author Williams who had been Tutor to the Lord Charles Herbert Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery I mean that Charles who died at or near Florence an 1634. was then put aside to his great discontent In 1641 he was at the motion of his ever honored Lord the said Earl made to the King constituted Bishop of Ossory in Ireland to which See being consecrated
his employments and grew thereupon discontented In 1662 or thereabouts he had an impulse or a strange perswasion in his mind of which he was not able to give any rational account to another which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil which for the extraordinariness of he thought fit to conceal it for some time but at length he communicated it to his wife and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil for whether he were in private or publick sleeping or waking still he had the same impulse but her reply was to him that she conceived this was a strange imagination yet to prove the contrary a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house desiring his wife to cure him who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours according to her small skill in Chirurgery On which his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes cheek and throat whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again which he accordingly did and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg was suppurated and the throat strangely amended and in a month discharged it self quite and was perfectly healed Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore who had had the Evil seven years and upwards far worse than the former whom he cured to the wonder of all and soon after his fame increasing he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following not medling with any other distempers till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues all done by stroaking with his hands Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing which the morning following he told to his wife and brother but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day 2 Apr. 1665 early in the morning and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore where there came into the house to him a poor man that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black wherein were five ulcers who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him and do him what good he could Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank and immediately run the pains out of him so that he was released and could stand upright without the least trouble Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg which forthwith changed colour and became red and three of the five ulcers closed up and the rest within few hours afterwards so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in and in two days after he fell to his labour being a Mason by trade After this he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking and his name was wonderfully cried up But the Clergy being jealous of these matters he was cited to the Bishops court and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course In Jan. 1665 he went into England and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire to cure by stroaking his Lady who for many years had laboured under a most violent Head-ach but with all his endeavours he could not cure her yet continuing there three weeks he cured innumerable people in those parts which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County and was dayly at â—agley with the Lord and an eye-witness of the cures to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London but more mistakes as 't is said caused Dav. Lloyd a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles or Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking March 7. an 1665 at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation making him but little better than a Cheat that person therefore came out with his vindication intit A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related From this digression let 's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands and in Jamaica c. Remitted into the Philosoph Transact num 27 an 1667 and num 36. an 1668. Legends no Histories or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter pen'd by Mr. Tho. Henshaw Printed and bound with Legends no Histories c. Animad upon The Hist of making of Gunpowder written also by the said Mr. Henshaw Pr. and bound with Legends c. also and to it is added An additional review written by Hen. Stubbe The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos Glanvill c. with divers enquiries made about several matters Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society c. Oxon. 1670 in about seven sh in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe Campanella revived or an enquiry into The Hist of the Roy.
respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
should be performed in French according to the book of Common Prayer by Law established his Majesty providing for one Minister and they themselves allowed to add to him as many as by them should be thought convenient provided that the said Ministers be presented to the Bishop of London and by him instituted By vertue of the said Grant the Liturgie of the Church of England was first read in French in the Fr. Ch. at VVestm assembled by the Kings special favour in the Chappel of the Savoy in the Strand on Sunday 14 July 1661 and the same day in the morning our author Durell who had the chief hand in setting up this Church according to this new model did preach and in the afternoon Le Couteur then Dean of Jersey from which time he with others were constant Preachers for several years following and much resorted to and admired by all In the beginning of Apr. 1663 he Durell was made Preb. of North Aulton in the Church of Salisbury being then Chapl. in ord to his Maj. and in Feb. following he succeeded Dr. A. Hawles in his Prebendship of VVindsore and about that time was made Prebendary of Durham and had a rich Donative confer'd on him In the latter end of 1669 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity as a member of Merton Coll by vertue of the Chancellours Letters read in a full Convocation held on the 13 of Octob. going before whereby we are informed that his fame was so well known to them the Academians especially for the great pains he had taken in the Church that he could hardly propose any thing to them in his behalf in which they would not be willing to prevent him The most noble Chancellour farther adds that of his parts and learning they were better Judges than himself but had not so much experience of his Loyalty Fidelity and Service to his Majesty as himself c. In July 1677 he became Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Br. Ryves deceased and so consequently Dean of VVolverhampton and had he lived some years longer there is no doubt but he would have been promoted to a Bishoprick He was a person of unbyassed and fixed Principles untainted and steady Loyalty as constantly adhering to the sinking cause and interest of his Soveraign in the worst of times who dar'd with an unshaken and undaunted resolution to stand up and maintain the honour and dignity of the English Church when she was in her lowest and deplorable condition He was very well vers'd also in all the Controversies on foot between the Church and the disciplinarian Party the justness and reasonableness of the established Constitutions of the former no one of late years hath more plainly manifested or with greater learning more successfully defended against its most zealous modern oppugners than he hath done as by his Works following is manifest Several of his professed Adversaries do give him great commendations particularly Lewis du Moulin who saith that he is in familiari progressu vir civilis ingenio ore probo pectore niveo oratione profluente lenocinante c. And one of another perswasion named Father Simon Priest of the Congregation of the Oratory calls him a learned English Protestant But now let 's proceed to the Works of Learning by him published which are these Theoremata Philosophiae rationaâ—is moralis naturalis supernaturalis quorum veritatem tueri conabitur in Coll. Sylvano Acad. Cadomensis c. 8 Jul. 1644. Cadom 1644. quart The Liturgy of the Church of England asserted in a Serm. on 1 Cor. 11.16 Lond. 1661. 62. qu. ded to Jam. Duke of Ormonde It was preached in French at the first opening of the Savoy Chap. for the French 14 Jul. 1661. Translated into English by G. B. Doctor of Phys A view of the Government and public Worship of God in the reformed Churches beyond the Seas wherein is shewed their conformity and agreement with the Church of England as it is by Law established Lond. 1662. qu. Tho this book wherein the author speaks several things of himself was wrot in English yet the adverse party thought fit to rally up their scatter'd forces and appear against it in different languages One is in French intit An Apologie for English Puritans The Writer of which neither mentions Dr. Durell or any body else in the title and tho an Independent yet he pleads the cause of the Presbyterians The other Answer which is an Apologie also is said by a certain person to have been written by Hen. Hickman bearing this title Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia vulgo Nonconformists an 1662 Aug. 24 die Bartholomaeo dicto ejectis c. And tho this and others are stiled Apologies yet our author Durell saith they are Satyrs and no other but famosi adversus Ecclesiam Anglicanam libelli Dr. Lew. du Moulin designed once to translate the said View of the Government c. which is often quoted by many eminent Writers and highly commended into Latine for the sake and use of Foreigners but VVill. Jenkyns the noted Presbyterian Minister deter'd him from his purpose threatning him with no lesser punishment than that of eternal damnation if so pernicious a book as he was pleased to call it in which the concord of the Church of England with all the reformed Churches as to Church Government and divine Worship should be by his means communicated to Foreigners The Doctor himself hath told us this saying that for this reason he let fall the work after he had began it having proceeded no farther in it than the translation of the Preface which Dr. Durell had by him as wrot with Moulins own hand This and more concerning the whole matter may be seen in our Authors Responsio ad Apologistae prefationem going next before his Vindiciâ— c. As for Jenkins before mention'd a most rigid Presbyterian he had been Pastor of the Black Fryers and afterwards of Ch. Ch. in London had been engaged with the Presbyterian Ministers in their Plot to bring in K. Ch. 2. from Scotland 1651 for which he had like to have gone to the pot with his dear brother Love was ejected from Ch. Ch. for Nonconformity an 1662 and carrying on afterwards the trade of Conventicling was several times imprison'd and otherwise troubled He hath written many things not now to be mentioned among which is The busie Bishop or the Visitor visited c. Lond. 1648 written in answer to a Pamphlet published by J. G. called Sion Coll. visited He hath also several Sermons extant two or more were preached before the Long Parliament and a fun sermon also on 2 Pet. 1.15 was preached 12 Sept. 1675 by the occasion of the much lamented death of the learned Dr. Laz. Seaman But several passages therein giving offence came out soon after an Answer to some part of it intit A vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie c. in a letter
the event proved to be known that he was the author Theologo-Historicus or the true life of the most rev Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Lond. 1683 oct Published as the author pretended to correct the errours supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire who had before published the said Doctors life Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn Printed with the Theologo-Historicus c. Catechisme for the use of his Parish This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you when or where 't was printed This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spaw on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mention'd as I have been enformed by his son of both his names lately Fellow of Brasn Coll who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianisme which is not yet printed JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington in Oxfordshire was born in the said Town of Stadham bred in Grammar learning mostly under Edw. Sylvester who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon entred a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628 instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being taken and compleated in 1635 at which time as the cumstom and statute is he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King his heirs and lawful successors Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have and shall mention in this Work About the same time he entred into holy Orders and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire where continuing till the turn of the times he sided then with the rebellious rout preached against Bishops and their Courts Common Prayer Book Ceremonies c. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex took the Covenant became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent he changed his mind adhered to them and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians He violated all Oathes as of canonical Obedience Solemne League and Covenant c. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them especially in preaching up Sectarisme as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell who had him ever after in great respect and in some things relied on his Council In the latter end of 1648 when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded he in his discourses and Sermons applauded the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwells victory over the Levellers at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen who had about that time taken the Engament preached to them out of the Politicks and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness On the 17. Sept. 1650 it was ordered by the Parliament according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland and on the 18 of March following it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after setled he with Tho. Goodwin President of Madg. Coll. the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency did with some others who were their admirers endeavour to setle Independency in the University according to Cromwells mind but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellour in which Office he being then also one of the Visitors for by that time several Independents had been added to them he endeavoured to put down Habits Formalities and all Ceremony notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians While he did undergo the said Office he instead of being a grave example to the University scorned all formality undervalued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar with powdred hair snake-bone bandstrings or bandstrings with very large tassels lawne band a large set of ribands pointed at his knees and spanish leather boots with large lawne tops and his hat mostly cockâ—d On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen Tho. Goodwin R. Fairclough the elder Nich. Lockyer Jos Caryl c. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for ejecting and setling Ministers according to the rules then prescrib'd but that project taking not effect there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of publick preachers whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest and in the year following Commissioners from the Layty and Assistants to them from the Clergy in every County for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon together with Thankful Owen Pres of S. Jo. Coll Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton Cristoph Rogers Ambr. Upton Pet. French Hen. Wilkinson Ralph Batton Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henley c. In 1654 Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon to sit in a Parliament then called and rather than he would be put aside because he was a Theologist he renounced
liv'd to a fair age spent all in celebacy and had done much good he surrendred up his soul to God in Farnham Castle about three of the clock in the morn of the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was conveyed to Winchester and buried in a little vault in the body of the Cathedral there betwixt two pillars just opposite to those between which Bishop Will. Edendon was buried at the foot of the steps ascending to the Choire on the north side Soon after was an altar-tombe erected over his body and the inscription put thereon which he the said Dr. Morley had made for himself in the eightieth year of his age The contents of which being too large for this place shall be now omitted and especially for this reason because there is nothing in it but what is mention'd before in his life BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE the Son of a Minister of Gods word by his Wife the Daughter of that noted Puritan called Rob. Parker author of the four books De descensu Christi ad inferos was born near Highworth in Wilts became either Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1638 aged 16 years where he continued for some time under the tuition of Will. Eyre But before the time came that he could be adorned with a degree the times changed and the Civil War thereupon began So that he removing to New England he answer'd in the University of Cambridge there several positions which were about that time printed for the taking the degree of Master of Arts. After his return thence he retired to Oxon and as a member of Magd. Hall he was admitted to the same degree an 1648 being about that time a Minister in Salisbury Afterwards setling at Newbury in Berks. where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian perswasion he was constituted one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom that party and the Independents then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he became one of his Chaplains and a Canonry of Windsore was offer'd to him but he bogling long with himself whether he should take that Dignity or not it was at length bestowed on a Son of the Ch. of England Soon after he being silenc'd by vertue of the act of conformity for he seemed then to hate a surplice and the Common-prayer he preached in private to the Brethren but being often disturbed and imprison'd once or twice he at length by the perswasion of some of his friends took holy Orders from the hands of Dr. Earl Bishop of Salisbury in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon in Octob. 1665 with a resolution to be conformable to the Church of England But finding not preferment sutable to his desire to be confer'd upon him and a grand neglect and scorn of the Brethren he return'd to his former opinion which some then call'd his rags and preached several times in Conventicles to the great disturbance of the government the peace of Newbury and the neighbourhood When the Proclamation for toleration or indulgence of Religion was issued out 15 of March 1671 he became so audacious that he did not only preach publickly in the Market place there to the Brethren but disturbed or caused to be disturbed the good people in their going to Church Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot an 1678 when then the Fanaticks took all advantages to promote their respective interests he did then appear more publick again to the disturbance of the peace preached every Sunday in a Conventicle at Highcleere in Hampshire and generally once in a week at Newbury before mention'd which is not far off that place At length upon the breaking out of the Presbyterian Plot in June 1683 he sculk'd and retired to Inglefield in Berks where as I have been informed he constantly if his health permitted him frequented the publick service of the Church of England and Sermons in the Church there to the time of his death He hath written Justification by faith or a confutation of that Antinomian errour that justification is before faith c. Lond. 1652. qu. 'T is the sum of a Sermon preached at Salisbury and is contained in 3. or 4. sh of paper It must be now known that one Tho. Warren Parson of Houghton in Hampshire preached at a Wednesdays Lecture in Salisbury in April 1651 and therein letting fall several passages which Will. Eyre a Minister in that City then present conceived to be very wide from the Orthodox faith did desire a conference with him after its conclusion Which being accordingly held with him they parted without any satisfaction to each other The next day Eyre preached in the same place and maintained what he had disputed upon the day before Whereupon our author Woodbridge being much concern'd at the matter for he was present at all these transactions took Warrens part preached the next Wednesday following on the same Subject that Warren had done before Afterwards he and Eyre at a conference about the matter in the publick meeting place after Sermon made it a publick quarrel and defied each other So that Woodbridge being much concern'd at it he published the aforesaid Sermon and entituled it Justification by faith c. in the body of which is contained the contents of the disputation with him by VV. Eyre before mention'd The famous Rich. Baxter saith that the sight of the said Sermon of Mr. VVoodbridge of so much worth in so narrow room did cause him to bless God that the Church had such a man and especially Newbury who had so excellently learned a pastor before meaning Dr. Twysse who had mistaken so much in this very point Also that the said Sermon is one of the best easiest and cheapest preservatives against the contagion of this part of Antinomianisme as any c. But by the way I must tell the Reader that as the said Mr. Baxter was enclining to Arminianisme so our author VVoodbridge was in some points who hath farther written The method of grace in the justification of sinners against Mr. Eyre his Vindiciae Justificationis gratuitae c. Lond. 1656. qu. The Apostolick Protestant doctrine of justification by faith asserted Printed with The method of Grace c. Church members set in joynt or a discovery of the unwarrantable and disorderly practice of private Christians in usurping the peculiar office and work of Christs own Pastors viz. publick preaching c. Lond. 1656. 57. qu. He also preached an excellent Sermon before K. Ch. 2. while he was his Chapl. on Acts 17.11 but whether printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that he published Moses and Aaron or the rights of the Church and State containing two disputations c. pen'd by James Noyes somtimes of Newbury in New England Lond. 1661. At length this Mr. VVoodbridge who was
illegal proceedings against S. Mary Magd. Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1689. qu. sec edit collected by a Fellow of that Coll will at large tell you At that time this Bishop making it his sole endeavours to be gracious with the then great and leading men and to shew himself in all publick assemblies particularly in those wherein the Rom. Cath. Bishops were consecrated he gained the ill will so much of the Sons of the Church of that when the Pr. of Aurange made his expedition into England he out of fear of suffering for what he had acted and of the insults of the rabble then committing great disorders in London and most parts of the Nation did withdraw himself in private sculk and in a disguise fled into France where repairing to his royal Master K. Jam. 2 then lately come thither to avoid imminent danger in England had by him upon the news of Dr. Wards death the Bishoprick of Salisbury confer'd on him and while he abode at S. Germains he did usually read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his Lodgings to such Protestants that came thither to him Afterwards he went with his said Master towards Ireland landed there on Tuesday the 12 of Mar. 1688 and on Sunday following being at Cork he received the Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of that place On Palm Sunday Mar. 24 he went to Dublin with the King and on Easter-day and the Octaves of Easter 1689 he again received the Sacrament at Ch. Ch. there from the B. of Meath to which Ch. B. Cartwr went dayly to prayers Afterwards being overtaken with the Country disease called the Flux or Disentery he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Gods arraignment of Adam on Gen. 3.9 Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Serm. before the King at Whitehall on Jude 22.23 Lond. 1676. qu. 3 Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of S. Pet. in York before the Judges of Assize on Judges 17.6 Lond. 1677. qu. 4 Sermon preached at Holy-Rood house 30. Janu. 1681 before her highness the Lady Anne on Acts 7.60 Edinb and Lond. 1682 qu. The author was then with James Duke of York who with his Royal Consort and the Lady Anne his Daughter were retired to that place upon the command of his Majesty to put a stop to the fury of the Faction then driving on their designs upon prosecution of the Popish Plot. 5 Sermon preached to the Gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow Church Lond 24 June 1684 on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1684. qu. 6 Sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of K. Jam. 2 in the Collegiat Church of Rippon 6. Feb. 1685 on 1. Kings 8.66 Lond. 1686. qu. He hath also extant a Serm. on 2. Chron. 7.9.10 and another on Rev. 14.13 which I have not yet seen And there is also extant under his name A Sp. spoken to the Society of Magd. Coll 16. Nov. 1687 which much commended with several of his Discourses you may see in An impartial relation c. before mentioned At length after he had declared himself to be a member of the Communion of the Church of England in which he had always lived had taken the blessed Sacrament and the Churches absolution he surrendred up his Soul to God at Dublin on Munday morning 15 of April in sixteen hundred eighty and nine On the day before in the afternoon while the ven Minister that usually attended him was at Church the titular Bishop of Clogher and Dean of Ch. Ch. made his Lordship a visit and after the first civilities were past one of them in latine desired him to be mindful of eternity and to prepare for death His servant being present answer'd them that his Lordship had prepared himself already They afterwards told him in latine there was but one God one Faith one Church To which the Bishop replyed I believe so and hope that I have made my peace with God They again repeated There is but one God one Church intending as was supposed to enlarge upon that subject whereupon the Bishop answer'd somewhat short I know all this as well as you but I am not able to answer you for the failing of my spirits and therefore I desire you to forbear talking with me any more about this for I have done already what I hope is necessary for my salvation Hereupon they seeing they could not effect any thing with him nor engage him in a discourse took their leaves and they themselves gave out that the Bishop of Chester was dying and that he would dye a Protestant As soon as he was dead the said Bishops servant acquainted Will. Earl of Powis and Dr. Anth. Dopping Bishop of Meath with his death who with the Earl of Longford took care for his funeral after this manner On Tuesday Apr. 16 the body was carried early in ths morning from the house where he died to that of the B. of Meath which was near where several rooms were hung with black and that where the body lay was furnished with many Lights in sconces and eight large Tapers on stands about the Body which was covered with a fair Velvet Pall. In the afternoon all the Nobility Clergy Judges and Gentry of both Religions that were in Town among whom were the E. of Powis and the L. Chancellour came thither And about six in the evening his body was carried in a velvet Herse drawn with 6 horses cloathed in black and attended by the King at Armes the aforesaid company in near 30 Coaches and a multitude of common people to Christ Church in Dublin where the Sub-Dean and Choire met the Body at the Church door and sung it into the Choir which was very much crowded The Service was solemnly performed with several Anthems and the Body afterwards inter'd in the North-east end of the Choir by the Bishop of Meath in his Episcopal habit It was then commonly reported that K. Jam. 2. did nominate Dr. Jam. Arderne Dean of Chester to succeed Dr. Cartwright in his Bishoprick but how true I cannot tell Sure it is that K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne he nominated to that See Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph who thereupon was consecrated thereunto in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham near London on the 15 of Sept. 1689. JOHN SHAW a Ministers Son was born at Bedlington in the County Pal. of Durham educated in Grammar learning for the most part under Tho. Ingmethorp Rector of Great Stainton in the said County was at his first coming to the University entred a Student in Qu. Coll. but making little stay there he became a Batler of that of Brasnose 2. Apr. 1629 aged 15 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and retiring soon after to his native Country took holy Orders and exercised the Ministry for some years in the northern parts of England In 1645 he was instituted and inducted Rector of Whalton in Northumberland but not
called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland collected from records antient Manuscripts Monuments on the place and other authorities illustrated with Sculpture Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition Lond. 1687 in 2 sh and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry meerly to get a little money which he will not own THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Wormes in the Palatinate on the day of S. James S. V. an 1605 educated in Grammar and in the Reform'd Religion in those parts travelled into England in 1625 retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning and afterwards at Cambridg as much Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas returned in 1629 became a Communer of Glocester Hall continued there near three years but took no degree and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter In the time of the German Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Diocesses in England to be transmitted into Germany which he usually said was a Deacons work and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament having been alwaies Calvinistically educated The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary but he loving Solitude declined that employment as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark c. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618 care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible and Annotations to be put thereunto In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum Dr. Hall B. of Exon Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. c. by whose great and assiduous Labours jointly for many years together the said Annotations were compleated and came forth in print first an 1637. These Annotations I say commonly called the Dutch Annotations being thought very fit and of great use by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak that he or whom he should assign should have the priviledge of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years which terme should begin from the time of the first impression So that none else under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole or any part thereof upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak c. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which is an exact narrative touching the work and the said translation Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity as 1 Of the deceitfulness of mans heart written by Dan. Dyke 2 The Christians daly walke c. written by Hen. Scudder 3 The old Pilgrim being the Hist of the Bible written by Anon. but not yet printed as other translations which he had made are not He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse half the Poem called Paradise lost written by Joh. Milton which comming into the hands of J. Secbald Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg he was so much taken with it that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili copia lectissimorum verborum c. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue and as many into the Germ from the Language of the Spaniard who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections which were published in the beginning of May 1682 and perhaps in the Transactions Quaere At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D situate and being in an Alley joyning to Fetter Lane on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German preached his Funeral Sermon wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life but that Sermon being not yet extant I cannot therefore refer you to it Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had were Prince Rupert Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dr. Williams Archb. of York Joh. Selden Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place Briggs and Pell Mathematicians Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him and kept it as a choice relique of his deceased friend to the time of his death Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus and others of later time JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Raign of K. Jam. 1 but left it soon after without being matriculated and retiring to London he entred himself a Student in Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years interval of Parliament in the Star-Chamber Court of Honour and Exchecquer Camber when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance he was
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Mossâ—m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
Man on the 21. of March 1669 to the great rejoycing of the true Sons of the Church in the Diocese thereof After he was setled he repaired several parts of the Cathedral Church especially the North and South Isles and new covered them with lead and caused the East part of the choir to be wainscoted He laid out a considerable sum of money in building and repairs about his Pallace at S. Asaph and the mill thereunto belonging In the year 1678 he built an Almes house for eight poor Widows and did endow it with twelve pounds per an for ever The same year he procured an Act of Parliament for the appropriating of the Rectories of Llaurhaiader and Mochnant in Denbighshire and Mountgomeryshire and of Skeiviog in the County of Flint for repairs of the Cathedral Church of S. Asaph and the better maintenance of the choire there and also for the uniting several Rectories that were Sinecures and the Vicaridges of the same Parishes within his said Diocese of S. Asaph He also intended to build a Free-school and to endow it but was prevented by death Yet since that time his successor Dr. Will Lloyd Bishop of S. Asaph did recover from Bishop Barrow's Executors 200 l. towards a Free-school at S. Asaph an 1687. This most worthy Bishop Dr. Barrow died at Shrewsbury about noon of the 24 of June Midsomer day an 1680 and on the 30 of the said month his Corps was lodged in his house called Argoed hall in Flintshire and from thence carried on the first of July to his Palace at S. Asaph and the same day to the Cathedral Church there where after Divine Service and a Sermon the said Corps was decently inter'd by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph on the South side of the West door in the Cathedral Church yard which was the place he appointed Over his grave was soon after laid a large flat stone and another over that supported by Pedestals On the last of which is this inscription engraven Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita Obiit dictus reverendus Pater festo Divi Johannis Baptistae anno Domini 1680 Aetatis 67 Translationis suae undecimo On the lower stone which is even with the ground is this inscription following engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which was made by the Bishop himself Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita O vos transeuntes in Domum Domini Domum orationis orate pro Conservo vestro ut inveniat miserecordiam in die Domini The said brass plate was fastned at first as 't is there reported over the said West door but afterwards taken down and fastned to the lower stone next the body But so it was that as soon as this last Epitaph was put up the contents thereof flew about the nation by the endeavours of the godly faction then plump'd up with hopes to carry on their diabolical designes upon account of the Popish Plot then in examination and prosecution to make the world believe that the said Bishop died a Papist and that the rest of the Bishops were Papists also or at least popishly affected and especially for this reason that they adhered to his Majesty and took part with him at that time against the said Faction who endeavoured to bring the Nation into confusion by their usual trade of lying and slandering which they have always hitherto done to carry on their ends such is the religion of the Saints But so it is let them say what they will that the said Bishop was a virtuous generous and godly man and a true Son of the Church of England And it is to be wished that those peering poor spirited and sneaking wretches would endeavour to follow his example and not to lye upon the catch under the notion of religion to obtain their temporal ends private endearments comfortable importances filthy lusts c. The said Bishop was Uncle to a most worthy religious and learned Doctor of both his names as I have elsewhere told you who dying 4. May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the great or south cross Isle of Westm Abbey near to the monument of the learned Camden sometimes Clarenceaux K. of Armes WILLIAM PIERS son of William Piers a Haberdasher of Hats Nephew or near of kin to Dr. John Piers sometimes Archb. of York and a Native of South Hinxsey near Abendon in Berks was born in the Parish of Allsaints within the City of Oxon in Aug and baptized there on the 3. of Sept. an 1580. In 1596 he was made Student of Ch. Church and taking the degrees in Arts fell to the study of Divinity and was for a time a Preacher in and near Oxon. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Dr. King Bishop of London he was prefer'd to the Rectory of S. Christophers Church near to the Old Exchange in London and Vicaridge of Northall in Middles In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Divinity Reader in S. Pauls Cathedral and in 1618 he was made Canon of Ch. Church and soon after Dean of Chester In 1621. 22. 23. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University wherein behaving himself very forward and too officious against such that were then called Anti-Arminians he gained the good will of Dr. Laud then a rising star in the Court and so consequently preferment In 1622 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Hen. Beaumont promoted to that of Windsore and in 1630 had the Bishoprick thereof confer'd on him by the death of Dr. Tho. Dove to which being elected he had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 30 of Oct and installation on the 14 of Nov. the same year While he sate there which was but for a short time he was esteemed a man of parts knowing in Divinity and the Laws was very vigilant and active for the good both for the ecclesiastical and civil estate In Oct. 1632 he was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Curle to Winchester the temporalities of which See being given to him on the 20 of December the same year he continued there without any other translation to the time of his death As for his actions done in his Diocese of Bath and Wells before the grand rebellion broke out which were very offensive to the puritanical party who often attested that he brought innovations therein and into his Church suppressed Preaching Lectures and persecuted such who refused to rail in the Lords Table c. in his Diocese let one of them named William Prynne a great enemy to the Hierarchy speak yet the reader may be pleased to suspend his judgment and not to believe all what that partial cropear'd and stigmatized person saith When the Bishops were silenc'd and their Lands sold by that
authors Son Doct. of Phys July 14. Lewis du Moulin Doct. of Physick of the University of Leyden incorporated in the same degree at Cambridge 10. Oct. 1634 was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon This person who was a French man born and Son of the famous Peter du Moulin a French Protestant was lately establish'd Camdens Professor of History in this University by the Committee of Parliament for the reformation thereof After the restauration of his Majesty he was turned out of his Professorship by his Majesties Commissioners for the regulating of the University Whereupon retiring to the City of Westminster lived there a most violent Nonconformist The books that he hath written are these 1 Epistola ad Renatum Veridaeum i. e. Andream Rivetum in qua aperitur Mysterium iniquitatis novissimè in Angliâ redivivum excutitur liber Josephi Hall quo asseritur episcopatum esse juris divini Eleutheropoli alias Lond. 1641. qu. Published under the name of Irenaeus Philadelphus An answer to this book written by the said Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter came out soon after entit Theophili Iscani ad calumniosam Ir. Philadelphi Epistolam responsio Quâ Anglicanae Ecclesiae sana fides pietasque episcopalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 institutio Apostolico-divina à D. Jos Hallo Exon. Episcopo pridem defensa asseritur Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Apologia pro Epistola ad Renat Veridaeum Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The power of the Christian Magistrate in sacred things c. Lond. 1650. oct 4 Oratio auspicalis cui subjuncta est Laudatio Clariss Viri Guil. Camdeni Oxon. 1652. qu. Dedicated to Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. 5 Paraenesis ad Aedificatores imperii in imperio in qua defenduntur jura Magistratus adversus Moseum Amyraldum caeteros Vindices potestatis ecclesiasticae Presbyterianae In praefatione excurritur in Joh. Dallaei Apologiam pro duabus Synodis Lond. 1656. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell It was the opinion then of some eminent and judicious persons that the said book did give a notable blow to those severe ones of the Presbyterian way who build a jurisdiction within a jurisdiction And also that it did conduce to the uniting of all interests rendring the Magistrate his due and stating the right of Churches 6 Corollarium ad Paraenesim suam ad Aedificatores imp in imp c. Lond 1657. oct 7 Epistola ad Amicum in qua gratiam divinam seque defendit adversus objecta clariss Viri Johan Dallaei in prefatione libri in Epicritam Ibid. 1658. in tw 8 Of the right of Churches and of the Magistrates Power over them Wherein it further made out first the nullity and vanity of ecclesiastical power c. secondly the absurdity of the distinctions of power and laws in ecclesiastical and civil c. Ibid. 1658. oct Dedicated to the Parliament of England 9 Proposals and reasons whereon some of them are grounded humbly presented to the Parliament towards the setling of a religious and godly government in a Commonwealth with a short account of the compatibility of the congregational way with the Magistrates ordering all-matters of religion in a national publick way c. Lond. 1659. qu. 10 Morum exemplar seu characteres c. Hag. Com. 1662 in tw 11 Patronus bonae fidei in causa Puritanorum contra Hierarchos Anglos ut disceptatur in specimine confutationis vindiciarum clariss Viri Joh. Durelli c. Lond. 1672 oct See in Joh. Durell among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 553. That this book Patronus c. might escape the searchers of the Press as the author saith in his Admonitio he was forced five times to change the running title of the book and the number of pages each new title beginning with a new number The titles are after two Admonitions to the Reader 1. Praefatio sive epistola ad rev Pastores Ecclesiarum reformat in Gallia c. 2. Specimen confutationis Vindiciarum Durellianarum 3. Prodromus 4. Defensor Veritatis and then Patronus bonae fidei For the writing and publishing of this book he was committed to Custody 12 Jugulum causae seu nova unica compendiaria unâ propemodum periodo comprehensa ratio per quam totus doctrinarum Romanensium complexus de quibus lis est inter protestantes Pontificios c. Lond. 1671. oct To this are prefix'd about 60 Epistles to several persons 13 Papa Vltrajectinus 14 Fascieulus 15 A short and true account of the several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome or a model of the grounds upon which the Papists for these 100 years have built their hopes and expectations that England would ere long return to Popery Lond. 1680. qu. Soon after came out an answer to this book entit A lively picture of Lewis du Moulin drawn by the incomparable hand of Monsieur D'aille late Minister of Charenton c. Lond. 1680. qu. 16 The conformity of the discipline and government of those who are commonly called Independents to that of the antient Primitive Christians Ibid. 1680. qu. 17 Moral reflections upon the number of the Elect proving plainly from Scripture evidence c. that not one in a hundred thousand nay probably not one in a Million from Adam down to our times shall be saved Ibid. 1680. qu. To this one Edw. Lane mention'd in the Fâ—sti 1639 made a quick answer entit Mercy triumphant c. 18 His last words being his retraction of all the personal reflections he had made on the Divines of the Church of England in several of his signed by himself on the 5 and 17 of Oct. 1680. Lond. 1680. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Published after his death by Dr. Gilb. Burnet as it seems The chief Divines that he had abused were Dr. Edward Stillingfleet Dean of S. Pauls now Bishop of Worcester Dr. Joh. Durell Dean of Windsor and Dr. Simon Patrick Dean of Peterborough now Bishop of Ely 19 An additional account of the Church of Englands advances towards Porery This was published by a Fanatick after the authors death without the knowledge of his Wife or other Relations See His last words p. 15.16 20 An Appeal to all the Nonconformists in England to God and all the Protestants in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King Lond. 1681. qu. 21 A sober and unpassionate Reply to the Author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin Printed with the Appeal 22 An Ecclesiastical History The design of this being known to several of his perswasion before his death the book it self came afterwards into the hands of a Nonconformist which whether published I know not See more in His last words p. 17. He also fil'd smooth'd and polished a book entit Celeusma c. written mostly by Will. Jenkins of whom I have made mention in John Durell among the Writers an 1683. What other books this Lew. du Moulin hath written I know not nor
Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated on the same day This person who was younger Brother to the said Joh. Still was born near Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire was first Rector of Sutton in Bedfordshire by the favour of Sir Rog. Burgoyne then of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London D. of D Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Canterbury Can. resid of S. Pauls Cathedral Dean thereof upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Sancroft to the See of Canterbury and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See he was consecrated in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham on Sunday the 13 of Oct. 1689 with Dr. Sim. Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilbert Ironside to Bristow by the Bishops of London S. Asaph and Rochester by vertue of a Commission directed to them in that behalf He hath published divers books too many to have their titles set down here in defence of the Church of England which shew him to be an orthodox and learned man The first book which made him known to the world was his Irenicum A weapon salve for the Churches wounds Lond. 1661. Tho. White of Peter House I find one Thom. White a Minister of London of Allhallows the Great as it seems to be author of 1 Method and instructions for the art of divine meditation c. Lond. 1655. c. in tw 2 Observations on the fourth 5 and 6 Chapters of S. Matthew c. Lond. 1654. oct 3 Treatise of the power of godliness in three parts c. Lond. 1658 in tw 4 A manual for Parents wherein is set down very particular directions in reference to baptizing correcting c. Lond. 1660. c. and of other things Whether this author who was dead before 1671 be the same with the former Tho. White of Peter House I know not Rich. Cumberland M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div. and published 1 De Legibus naturae disquisitio Philosophica in qua â—arum forma summa capita ordo promulgatio obligatio è rerum natura investigantur quinetiam elementa Philosophiae Hobbianae cum moralis tum civilis considerantur refutantur Lond. 167â— qu. 2 An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures and weights comprehending their moneys by help of an antient standard compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans and Eastern Nations Lond. 1686. oct c. This Dr. Cumberland was consecrated Bish of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Tho. White deprived for not taking the Oathes to K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary in the Church of S. Mary Le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691 at which time other Bishops were consecrated Mathew Pole or Poole M. of A. of Emanuel Coll. He was Minister of S. Michaels in Le Querne in London from whence being ejected for Nonconformity an 1662 he set himself to the writing of those admirable and useful books entit Synopsis Criticorum Bibliorum c. The two first Volumes of which were printed at Lond. 1669 and three more afterwards besides one in English all in fol. He hath also written 1 The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the spirit or a plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost wherein the Deity of the spirit is proved against the Cavils of Joh. Biddle Lond. 1654. in tw 2 A model for the maintaining of Students of choice abilities in the Vniversity and principally in order to the Ministry c. Printed 1658 in 3. sh and an half in qu. 3 Letter to the Lord Charles Fleetwood Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. It was delivered to that person one of Olivers Lords 13. of Dec. the same Year in reference to the then juncture of affairs 4 Quo Warranto A moderate debate about the preaching of unordained persons election ordination and the extent of the Ministerial relation in vindication of the Jus Divinum Ministerii from the exceptions of that late piece entit The Preacher sent Lond. 1659. qu. Written by the appointment of the Provincial Assembly at London 5 Evangelical Worship serm before the L. Mayor 26. Aug. 1660. c. Lond. 1660. qu. 6 The nullity of the Romish faith c. Oxon. 1666. oct 7 Dialogue between a Popish Priest and English Protestant wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed and fully examined Lond. 1667 and several times after in tw 8 Seasonable Apologie for religion on Matth. 11.19 Lond. 1673. qu besides other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died at Amsterdam in Holland to which place he had retired for the free exercise of his religion in the middle of Octob. 1679 leaving then behind him the character of Clarissimus Criticus Casuista whereupon his body was buried in a certain Vault under the Church which belongs to the English Merchants trading there He left behind him certain English Annotations on the Holy Scripture which being imperfect were finished by other hands in two volumes in fol. an 1685. See more among the Writers in Joh. Owen p. 564. Joh. Meriton M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was before his Majesties restauration the Sunday's Lecturer at S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster afterward D. D. Rector of S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lecturer at S. Mary Hill c. in London He hath published several Sermons as 1 Curse not the King preached at S. Mart. in the Fields 30. Jan. 1660 on Eccles 10.20 Lond. 1660. 61. qu. 2 Religio Militis on Josh 1.7 preached to the Attillery Company 24. Oct. 1672 at S. Mich. in Cornhill Lond. 1673 qu. c. I find another Joh. Meriton who was M. of A Vicar of S. Ives in Huntingdonshire Rector of St. Mary Bothaw in London c. and Chaplain to Henry Earl of Arlington a publisher also of several Sermons as of 1 The obligation of a good conscience to civil obedience preached before the Judges at an Assize held at Huntingdon 24. Aug. 1670 on Rom. 13.5 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall 30. July 1676. Lond. 1676 qu. c. Will. Williams M. A. of Trin. Coll. Several of both his names have been Writers but whether this hath published any thing I know not Anthony Walker M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div Rector of Fyfield in Essex Chaplain to his Majesty and a publisher of several Sermons as 1 Planctus Unigeniti spes resuscitandi Or the bitter sorrows for a first born c. funeral Serm. on Luke 7.12 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Leez lachrymans sive Comitis Warwici justa Serm. at the funeral of Charles Earl of Warwick Baron Rich of Leez who being the fourth Earl of the Family and last of the direct line died at his house of Leez le Rich in the County of Essex 24. August 1673 aged 55 and was inter'd among his Ancestors in
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of Noâ—wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le Bâ—w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of Wâ—nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 â— Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
as yet Bach. of Div. May 22. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. Jul. 9. Joh. Hinckley of S. Alb. Hall Nov. 29. Henr. Maurice of Jes Coll. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law July 2. Rich. Jones of Jes Coll. Dec. 17. Hen. Davies of S. Joh. Coll. Both these were Compounders Doct. of Phys July 10. Edw. Wrigglesworth of S. Joh. Coll. Dec. 17. Joshua Lasher of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Div. June 30. Thom. Ken of New Coll. July 4. Will. Jane Can. of Ch. Ch. Compounder On the 19 of May 1680 he was admitted in Convocation the Kings Professor of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Allestree 9. Joh. Hinckley of S. Albans Hall He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations After the conclusion of the Act were 17 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among whom were Rich. Holland of Eman. College mentioned as a Writer of both his names among the Writers in this vol. p. 433. and Tho. Wright another one of both whose names of S. Peters Coll. in Cambr. hath published The glory of Gods revenge against the bloody and detestable sin of murder and adultery c. print in 1685 and other things Creations Dec. 17. George Hickes Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc which say that he hath been several years attendant upon the Duke of Lauderdale in his Majesties service in the Kingdom of Scotland as well as in England that he hath done remarkable service to the Church of England during his abode in that other Kingdom and hath received several marks of honour from the late Archb. of S. Andrew and the Clergy of Scotland c. Joh. Snell born at Comonell in Carrick in the Sherriffdome of Ayre in Scotland bred in the University of Glascow under Jam. Darumpley Prof. of Philosophy of which he was afterwards diplomated Mast of Arts died in the house of Mr. Benj. Cooper in Halywell in the suburb of Oxon on the sixth day of Aug. this year aged 50 years after he had spent some time there and was buried at the upper end of the Chancel under the north wall of the Chap. or Church of S. Cross of Halywell This I mention because that in his last Will and Testament he bequeathed the Mannour of Vffeton alias Olufeton alias Vlveton in the County of Warwick worth about 450 l. per an to be employed after certain years spent and moneys rais'd and paid thence for the maintenance of certain Scotch Scholars in such Coll. or Hall in Oxon that the Vicechancellour of the Univ. of Oxon Provost of Qu. Coll Master of Ball. Coll. and President of S. Johns Coll for the time being shall think fit Their number is not to be above twelve or under five to be chosen from Glascow Coll. from the number of such that had spent 3 years or two at the least there or one or two in some other Coll. in Scotland c. They are to enjoy the said exhibition about ten or eleven years and then they are to return into their own Country to get preferment there c. This estate Mr. Snell got by being first a Clerk under Sir Orlando Bridgman while he had Chamber-practice in the time of Usurpation Secondly by being Cryer of the Court of Exchecquer while the said Sir Orl. was L. Chief Baron thereof and of the Common-pleas when Sir Orl. was Ch. Justice of that Court and lastly by being Seal-bearer when he was Lord Keeper Afterwards being much esteemed for his great diligence and understanding he was employed sometimes into Scotland for James Duke of Monmouth and bore the Seal again when Anth. E. of Shaftesbury was L. Chancellour of England c. An. Dom. 1680. An. 32. Car. 2. Chanc. James D. of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton nominated by the Chancellours Letters dat at Kilkenny 19. Aug confirmed by Convoc 2. Oct. Proct. Charles Hawles of Magd. Coll. Apr. 21. Robert Balche of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. May 12. Thomas Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. 12. Henry Hellier of C. C. Coll. June 15. Joh. Norris of Exeter Coll. The last of these three was afterwards of All 's Coll. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Linc afterwards of Brasn Coll. He hath published several things but such is his modesty that he 'll acknowledge none June 15. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch. Oct. 27. Thom. Creech of Wadh. afterwards of All 's Coll. c. Adm. 224. Bach. of Law Four were admitted whereof one was a Compounder Mast of Arts. June 23. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. This Divine who is Son of Will. Talbot of the City of Lichfield Gent became Dean of Worcester in the place of the most worthy and learned Dr. G. Hickes deprived for not taking the Oathes of Alleg. and Supremacy to King W. 3. and Qu. Mary in Apr. 1691. and was afterwards author of 1 A Serm. in the Cathedral Ch. of Worcester upon the monthly fast day 16. Sept. 1691 on Amos 4.21 Lond. 1691. qu. 2 A Serm. pr. before the Qu. at Whitehall 26. Feb. 1691. on Haback 1.13 Lond. 1692. qu. c. June 23. Will. Hayley or Healey of All 's Coll. He was afterward Chaplain to Sir Will. Trumbull Embass to Constantinople or to the Ottoman Port and author of A Serm. preached before the right hon George E. of Berkley Governour of the Company of Merchants trading to the Levant Seas at S. Peters Ch. in Bâ—oadstreet Lond. Jan. 30. 1686. on Prov. 8.18 Lond. 1687. qu. June 25. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall He was afterwards Minister of Peterborough and author of An answer to the Bishop of Condom now of Meaux his Exposition of the Cath. Faith c. Wherein the doctrine of the Church of Rome is detected and that of the Church of England expressed c. Lond. 1686. qu. To which are added Reflections on his pastoral Letter Both these are contained in 17. printed sheets July 5. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall This Gent. was the fourth Son of Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet and taking holy Orders about the time he was Master was presented to a Living in Surrey by Rob. Wymondsold of Putney Esq with whom travelling into France in the quality of a Tutor was drown'd in the Summer time in the presence of his Pupil as he was recreating himself by swimming in a River near the City of Paris an 1681. He translated from French into English with some additions Notitia Historicorum selectorum Or animadversions upon the famous Greek and Latine Historians c. Oxon. 1678. oct Written by Franc. La Mothe Le Vayer Counsellour of State to the present King of France The eldest Brother of this Will. Davenant is Charles who became a Gent. Com. of Ball. Coll. in 1671 but receding without the taking a degree here had the degree of Doct. of the Civ Law confer'd upon him elsewhere He is author of Circe a Tragedy Lond. 1677. qu. The Prologue to it was written by Mr. Jo. Dryden
Treasurer to the King of Poland by his Wife Catherine Gordon Daughter of the Marquess of Huntley in Scotland was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This noble person was entit in his presentation thus Illustriss Dom. Michael Morstin Comes Castrovillanus Tucoliensis Radziminensis Marchio Aquensis Baro Giensis Orgensis Curcelotensis Dominus Montis rubri aliorum Locorum He was now Envoy from Poland to the Crown of England Sept. 9. James Le Prez lately one of the Professors of Divinity in the University of Samur and Warden of the Coll. there before it was suppress'd was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent in his behalf This learned Theologist was one of those eminent Divines that were forced to leave their native Country upon account of religion by the present King of France And his worth and eminence being well known to the Marquess of Ruvigney he was by that most noble person recommended to the Chancellour of this University to have the degree of Doctor confer'd on him Oct. 10. Thom. Musgrave of Qu. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Div. This Divine who was Son of Sir Philip Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmorland Bt a person of known Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. the Martyr became Archdeacon of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Peachell of Cambridge resigning an 1669 was installed Prebendary of Durham 12 of July 1675 Preb. of Chichester 10. Nov. 1681 and at length Dean of Carlile upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Smith to the Episcopal See thereof in July an 1684. He died in the beginning of Apr. 1686 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Will. Graham M. A. of Ch. Ch. as I shall tell you among the Creations an 1686. Oct. 26. Sir Jonathan Trelawny Bt M. of A. of Ch. Ch. the nominated Bishop of Bristow was diplomated Doct. of Div. He was consecrated B. of Bristow on the 8 of Nov. following Philip Bennet of Exet. Coll. was diplomated Bach. of Div. the same day being then in his Majesties Service at Jamaica Dec. 29 Joh. Haslewood M. A. of Oriel Coll. Chapl. to Henry Earl of Clarendon L. Lieutenant of Ireland was diplomated or as 't is said in the register created Simpliciter Doct. of Div. Mar. 9. Nathan Wilson M. A. of Magd. Hall Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Dean of Raphoe in Ireland was diplomated or as 't is said in the reg created Simpliciter Doct. of Div. He was afterwards Bish of Limerick c. An. Dom. 1686. An. 2. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. John Venn D. D. Master of Ball. Coll. Sept. 30. Proct. Edw. Hopkins of Linc. Coll. Apr. 14. Joh. Walrond of All 's Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 15. George Smalridge of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Edw. Hannes of Ch. Ch. Adm. 178. Bach. of Law Eight were admitted among whom Will. Beaw of Magd. Coll. was one Oct. 20 who a little before was made Chanc. of the Dioc. of Landaff by his Father the Bishop thereof on the death of Sir Rich. Lloyd Mast of Arts. Apr. 28. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards author of A Dialogue between two Friends wherein the Church of England is vindicated in joyning with the Prince of Orange in his descent into England Printed in A ninth collection of Papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England c. published in the beginning of March at Lond. 1688 with the date at the bottom of the title of 1689. June 15. Joh. Smyth of Magd. Coll. He hath written and published a Comedy called Win her and take her c. Lond. 1691. qu. Dedic by the author to Peregrine Earl of Danby under the name of Cave Vnderhill an Actor of playes Mr. Smyth hath published one or more things besides and therefore he is her easter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers July 7. Peter Lancaster of Ball. Coll. He hath translated from Greek into English A discourse of envy and hatred in the first vol. of Plutarchs Morals Lond. 1684. oct As also How a man may praise himself without envy which is in the second vol. of the said Morals Mar. 19. Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll. He is author of Horologium Christianum and other things Adm. 96. Bach. of Phys Apr. 27. Thom. Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. Beside him were four more admitted Bach. of Div. Mar. 10. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Preb. of Worcester Besides him were six more admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop Doct. of Law July 8. Thomas Lane of Mert. Coll. 12. Charles Aldworth of Magd. Coll. Both these were Accumulators and the last was elected Camdens Professor of History in the place of the learned Mr. Henry Dodwell a Non-Juror on the 19 of Nov. 1691. Oct. 29. Brian Broughton of All 's Coll. Nov. 23. Laurence Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Phys Jan. 18. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall Doct. of Div. June 8. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. July 7. Ralph Tayler of Trin. Coll. 10. George Bull of Exeter Coll. This learned Divine who is not yet mention'd in these Fasti because he took no degree in Arts or in any other faculty hath published several books of Div. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Dec. 1. Jonathan Edwards of Jesus Coll. On the 2 of Nov. going before he was elected Principal of his Coll. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Lloyd to the See of S. David Mar. 4. Joh. Hearne of Exet. Coll. Incorporations The Act being put off this year no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only one in the degree of Bac. of Arts Jul. 5. Creations June 14. William Graham M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Chaplain to her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Denmark was diplomated Doct. of Div. or as 't is said in the reg was created Simpliciter This Divine who is younger Brother to Richard Visc Preston was installed Preb. of Durham 26. Aug. 1684 and Dean of Carlile on the death of Dr. Tho. Musgrave in Apr. or May 1686. Nov. 18. Rene Bertheau late Minister of the reformed Church in the University of Montpelier in France was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University who had a little before received Letters of recommendation in his behalf from the L. High Treasurer of England as a man of great reputation in his own Country and very eminent both for learning and piety c. Mar. 8. James D' Allemagne a French Minister of the Protestant Church lately retired into England upon account of religion was actually created D. of D. without the paying of fees An. Dom. 1687. An. 3. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Gilbert Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. Aug. 16. Proct. Tho. Benet of Vniv Coll. Apr. 6. Joh. Harris of Exet. Coll. Apr. 6. Bach. of Arts. May 28. Jam. Harrington of
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born aâ— Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated