Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsore castle then under the command of Collonel John Venn In which office he shewed him so violent against the King and his cause that he was usually stiled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsore This Venn by the way it must be known did while Governour of that Castle exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there but being dismist of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place he retired to London carried on the cause there with great zeal was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber as some say others that he died suddenly in his bed on the 7 of July at night or early next morning an 1650. In the year 1644 when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them on the first day of their meeting Jan. 30 being the Market-day In which his Sermon full of dire he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesties Person and derogatory to his honour stirring up the People against the Treatie and incensing them against the Kings Commissioners telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood and that there was as great distance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell or words to that effect with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster who thereupon tho they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love yet they did confine him and where should it be but to that very house where his Mistress then lived whom for two years going before he had wooed with prayers sermons and ugly faces After this he was made Minister of S. Anns Church near to Aldersgate a Recruiter of the Assemb of Divines and at length Minister of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it which was upon this account After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them and to that end corresponded with him and supplied him and his with money contrary to an Act of Parliament then lately made in that case provided These matters being discovered our Author Love Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Will. Jenkyns and other London Ministers as also one Dr. Roger Drake a Physician as it seems were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651 as being the chief Actors in the said treason as they then called it Soon after it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster that Mr. Love the Minister then Prisoner in the Tower should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651 not for any matter of doctrine as it was then given out but for high treason as they said and conspiracy against the common-wealth of England He and the rest as the Independent then said had outstript the Jesuit both in practice and project as having not only tamper'd with mens consciences in private beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial and one Jackson a Minister Arth. Jackson as it seems refusing then to give in evidence against him was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again and as 't was then said by his enemies in his carriage and behaviour he discover'd as much ridiculous impudence equivocation and hypocrisie as ever any Person did upon the like occasion adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June he appeared again and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale Mr. John Archer and Mr. Tho. Walter but the two last having not taken the Engagement were not suffer'd to plead for him At which time Mr. Love as the Independent said was full of malepert carriage matchless impudence obstinacy and impatiency On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf viz. one from divers Ministers another from himself and a third from his Wife he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following and thence to the 22. of the same month What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession you shall have it from his own mouth which he spoke When he was tried for his life thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilst I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to this day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King I gave my all and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war but unless my books and wearing apparrel I contributed all I had in the world and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away yet for all that I repent not of what I have done I have in my measure ventured my all in the same quarrel that you were engaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another I die cleaving to all those Oathes Vowes Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my judgment for them to the protestation the vow and the covenant the solemn league and covenant And this I tell you all that I had rather die a Covenant keeper than live a Covenant breaker c. As for his writings and works they are these The debauched Cavilier or
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
unicâ felicissime temperavit Infelices sui seculi errores non effugit modo sed strenuè fugavit c. JEREMY TAYLOR tumbled out of his mothers womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge was educated in Gonvill and Caius Coll. there till he was M. of A. Afterwards entring into holy orders he supplied for a time the Divinity Lecturers place in the Cath. of S. Paul in London where behaving himself with great credit and applause far above his years came to the cognisance of that great encourager of learning ingenuity and virtue Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. who thinking it for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course or constant preaching would allow of he caused him to be elected Fellow of All 's Coll. an 1636 Where being setled love and admiration still waited upon him while he improved himself much in Books But this the Reader is to know that tho he came in meerly by the paramount interest of the said Archb yet it was done against the statutes of the Coll in these two respects First because he had exceeded the age with in which the said statutes make Candidates capable of being elected and secondly that he had not been of three years standing in the University of Oxon only a week or two before he was put in However he being a Person of most wonderful parts and like to be an ornament thereunto he was dispenced with and thereby obtained in that house much of that learning wherewith he was enabled to write casuistically About the same time he was in a ready way to be confirmed a member of the Church of Rome as many of that perswasion have said but upon a Sermon delivered in S. Maries Church in Oxon on the 5. of Nov. Gun-powder-treason day an 1638 wherein several things were put in against the Papists by the then Vicechanc he was afterwards rejected with scorn by those of that party particularly by Fr. à S. Clara his intimate acquaintance to whom afterwards he expressed some sorrow for those things he had said against them as the said S. Clara hath several times told me About that time he became one of the Chaplains to the said Archb. of Cant who bestowed upon him the rectory of Uppingham in Rutlandshire and other matters he would have done for him in order to his advance in the Church had not the rebellion unluckily broke out In the year 1642 he was with others by virtue of his Maj. letters sent to this University actually created D. of D. in that noted Convocation held on the first day of Nov. the same year he being then Chaplain in Ord. to his said Majesty and a frequent Preacher before him and the Court in Oxon. Afterwards he attended in his Majesties Army in the condition of a Chaplain where tho he had not a command of his time and books yet he laid the foundation of several Treatises in defence of Episcopacy the Liturgy Ministry and Church of England Upon the declining of the Kings cause he retired into Wales where he was suffer'd under the Loyal Earl of Carbury of the Golden Grove in Caermerthenshire to officiat and keep School to maintain him and his Children From which tho it continued but a few years were several youths most loyally educated and afterwards sent to the Universities In this solitude he began to write his excellent discourses which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library and will be famous to all succeeding generations for the exactness of wit profoundness of judgment richness of fancy clearness of expression copiousness of invention and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian By which he soon after got a great reputation among all Persons of judgment and indifferences and his name grew greater still as the world grew better and wiser When he had spent some years in this retirement in a private corner as 't were of the world his family was visited with sickness and thereby lost the dear pledges or Gods favour three sons of great hopes within the space of two or three months And tho he had learned a quiet submission unto the divine will yet the affliction touched him so sensibly that it made him desirous to leave the Country And going to London he there for a time officiated in a private Congregation of Loyalists to his great hazard and danger At length meeting with Edward Lord Conway a Person of great honour and generosity that Lord after he had understood his condition made him a kind profer which our author Taylor embracing it carried him over into Ireland and setled him at Portmore a place made for study and contemplation which he therefore dearly loved And there he wrot his Cases of conscience a book that is able alone to give its author immortality By this time the wheel of providence brought about the Kings happy restauration and out of a confused Chaos beauty and order began to appear Whereupon our loyal Author went over to congratulate the Prince and Peoples happiness and bear a part in the universal triumph It was not long after his sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church and Dr. Taylor being resolved upon for the Bishoprick of Downe and Connor was consecrated thereunto at Dublin on the 27. of January 1660 and on the 21. of June 1661 he had the administration of the See of Dromore granted to him by his Majesty in consideration that he had been the Churches Champion and that he had suffer'd much in defence of its cause With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office all upon the place knew well and what good rules and directions he gave to his Clergy and how he taught them the practice of them by his own example Upon his being made Bishop he was constituted a Privy Counsellor and the University of Dublin gave him their testimony by recommending him for their Vicechancellor which honorable office he kept to his dying day He was esteemed by the generality of persons a compleat Artist accurate Logician exquisite quick and acute in his reasonings a Person of great fluency in his language and of prodigious readiness in his learning A noted Presbyterian also his Antagonist doth ingeniously confess that Dr. Taylor is a man of admirable wit great parts hath a quick and elegant pen is of abilities in critical learning and of profound skill in antiquity c. and another who knew him well tells us that he was a rare Humanist and hugely vers'd in all the polite parts of learning and had throughly concocted all the antient Moralists Greek and Roman Poets and Orators and was not unacquainted with the refined wits of the later ages whether French or Italian c. But he had not only the accomplishments of a Gentleman but so universal were his parts that they were proportion'd to every thing And tho his spirit and humour were
so general approbation that several impressions of them were made in qu. and oct This Disswasive from popery was answered first by a book bearing this title Truth will out or a discovery of some untruths smoothly told by Dr. Jer. Taylor in his Disswasive from popery c. Printed 1665. qu. written by his friendly Adversary Edward Worsely a Jesuit of the Family of Worseley in Lancashire And secondly by John Sargeant a Sec. Priest in one of his Appendices to Sure footing in Christianity as I shall elsewhere tell you 2 Unum necessarium or the doctrine and practice of repentance rescued from popular errors c. Lond. 1655. oct 3 Two answers to the Bishop of Rochesters Warner two letters concerning the chapter of original sin in the Unum necessarium Lond. 1656. in tw 4 A discourse of confirmation 5 Two letters to Persons changed in their religion This was first Pr. at Lond. 1657 in tw and put at the end of the second edit of Measures and offices of friendship 6 Three letters to a Gentlewoman that was tempted to the communion of the Romish Church The said edit containing the said six Treatises or Books bears this general title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or a collection of Polemical discourses wherein the Church of England is defended in many material points c. Lond. 1674. in a large fol. The other books that our author Dr. Taylor hath written and go under his name are these New and easie institution of Grammar for the use of the youth of Wales Lond. 1647. oct This is commonly said to be his yet there have not been wanting some that have said that it was written by Dr. Taylors Usher or Assistant named Will. Wyatt See more in the Fasti an 1661. among the created Bachelaurs of Div. Twenty five Sermons preached at Golden Grove being for the Winter half year beginning on Advent Sunday and continuing till Whitsunday Lond. 1678. fol. the fifth edit with his picture before them as before many of his other books Twenty seven sermons preached at Golden Grove being for the Summer half year beginning on Whitsunday and ending on the 25 Sunday after Trinity Lond. 1678 fol. sixth edit A supplement of eleven Sermons preached since his Maj. restauration Lond. 1678. fol. seven of them were before printed at Lond. 1664. fol. To which three more being added were printed again at the same place an 1667. fol. The ninth Sermon of the said eleven is that preached at S. Maries in Oxon before mention'd The general title set before the said twenty five twenty seven and the supplement of eleven Sermons with other things contained in the said Vol. runs thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the year c. with a supplement of eleven Sermons preached since his Maj. restauration Whereunto is adjoyned A discourse of the divine institution necessity sacredness and separation of the office Ministerial c. written by the special command of K. Ch. 1. with Rules and advices to the Clergy c. This great vol. is closed with a Sermon on 1. Joh. 3.2 preached at the authors Dr. Taylor funeral by George Rust who succeeded him in the See of Dromore as I shall anon tell you A short Catechisme for the institution of young persons in the christian religion Lond. 1652. oct or tw An explication of the Apostolical Creed Printed with the Short Cat. and both composed for the use of the Schools in Wales A discourse of Baptisme its institution and efficacy upon all believers Lond. 1652. qu. A consideration of the practice of the Church in baptizing infants of believing parents and the practice justified Printed with the former Discourse The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the christian institution described in the life and death of Jesus Christ In three parts Lond. 1653. fol. sec edit Lond. 1667. fol. 4th edit The sixth edit of which book bearing the title of Antiquitates Christianae c. is printed together with another book entit Antiquitates Apostolicae Or the Lives Acts and Martyrdoms of the holy Apostles of our Saviour c. Written by Will. Cave D. D. Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 2. sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. since Minister of Islington near Lond Canon of Windsore and author of several books Clerus Domini or a discourse of the divine institution necessity sacredness and separation of the office Ministerial c. Lond. 1655 in a thin fol. This is mention'd before but not so full A farther explication of the doctrine of original sin Lond. 1656. oct The first explication is in his Unum necessarium before mention'd cap. 7. Both which explications being very heterodox were generally condemned A collection of Offices or forms of Prayer in cases ordinary and extraordinary c. Lond. 1658. oct The Psalter or Psalmes of David after the Kings translation with arguments to every psalme Pr. with the Collection of Offices See before in the first Vol. in Christoph Hatton an 1591. p. 223. The Ephesian Matron Lond. 1659. in tw Certain letters to Hen. Jeanes concerning a passage of his Jeanes in the explication of original sin Oxon. 1660. published by the said H. Jeanes The worthy Communicant or a discourse of the nature effects and blessings subsequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1660. 67. c. octavo Cases of conscience occurring in the duty of him that ministers and him that communicates Pr. with the Worthy Com. Letter concerning praying with the spirit c. Lond. 1660. qu. set before Hen. Leslie B. of Downe and Connor his Discourse of praying with the spirit and with understanding in two serm preached at Hillsborough an 1659 on 1 Cor. 14. ver 15. Lond. 1660. qu. Rule and exercise of holy living c. together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian c. Lond. 1668 eighth edit The twelfth edit came out in 1680. and all printed in tw and oct Rule and exercise of holy dying c. Lond. 1668. eighth edit The twelfth came out in 1680 and all printed in tw and oct Ductor Dubitantium or the rule of conscience in all her general measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience In four books Lond. 1660. fol. which was the first edit I think There again 1676. third edit Rules and advices to the Clergy of the dioc of Downe and Connor c. Dubl 1661. oct Lond. 1663 c. See before Discourse of artificial beauty in point of Conscience between two Ladies Pr. 1662. oct A disswasive from Popery to the people of Ireland Lond. 1664. qu. This seems to be different from the two parts of the Disswasive before mention'd Qu. Succinct narrative of the life of Dr. Jo. Bramhall Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland This is in or at the end of the Sermon preached at his funeral 16 Jul. 1663 by our Author Dr. Jer. Taylor Which
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
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
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
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
publicè in Academiâ Oxon professus est dignissimus etiam qui Theologiam in eodem loco profiteretur Poeta insuper Orator insignis atque in Mathematicis profundè doctus Reipublicae Literariae Ecclesiae Christianae flebilis obiit Maii 22. an 1676. aet suae 65. I find one Thom. Greaves a Minister to have written A brief summ of Christian Religion c. Lond. 1656. oct whether by the former or another Thomas Greaves I cannot yet tell JOHN TOMBES was born in a Market Town called Beaudley in Worcestershire became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Lent term an 1617 aged 15 years where in short time after he shewed himself a most excellent Disputant a person of incomparable parts and well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages In 1623 he was appointed Catechisme Lecturer of the said Hall in the place of Will. Pemble deceased whose Pupil he had been and the next year proceeding M. of A he became a noted Tutor there About that time he entred into holy Orders and shortly after was esteem'd so famous for his preaching that he was much courted to be one of the Lecturers at S. Martins Ch. commonly called Carfax in Oxon which cure he at length taking was much followed for his excellent Sermons especially by the puritanical party who held him in great admiration In 1630 he left the University and became a Preacher in the City of Worcester and the next year after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But he continuing at Worcester not long he went by vertue of a call to Leonminster commonly called Lemster a Market Town in Herefordshire of which place he became Vicar beloved of the Parishioners and Neighbourhood and resorted to far and near for his familiar and practical way of preaching As it was suspected while he was in Oxon so was it at Lemster and elsewhere confidently believed that he would in time having no preferment given to him sutable to his merits do a great deal of mischief to the Church of England as most great Scholars have done for want of it In the year 1641 when the restless fury of the Presbyterians vented out into a dismal rebellion this our author sided with them and in the following year when Nath. Fiennes managed Bristow for the Parliament and made mad work there in ejecting loyal Citizens from the Corporation and Orthodox Ministers from the Church he upon invitation came in to him and thereupon he and his followers made him Minister of Allsaints Church in the place of one Williamson an Orthodox man then ejected While he continued there which was till Aug. 1643 at which time the City was surrendred to the Kings party he did a great deal of hurt by his schismatical preaching Afterwards going to London he became Master of the Temple where he preached against the errors of the Antinomians ex male intellectâ doctrina as he says de justificatione peccatoris c. But being supplanted of that place by Rich. Johnson sometimes of Bras Coll. an 1647 he went to Beaudley at what time Mr. Rich. Baxter preached at Kidderminster another Market Town about three miles distant from that place And 't is verily thought that he was put upon the project of going there purposely to tame Baxter and his party who then carried all the Country before them They preached against one anothers doctrines Tombes being then a Preacher at Beaudley which he kept with Lemster newly restored to him being before forced thence by the royal party and published books against each other Tombes was the Coryphaeus of the Anabaptists and Baxter of the Presbyterians Both had a very great company of auditors who came many miles on foot round about to admire them Once I think oftner they disputed face to face and their followers were like two Armies And at last it came so to pass that they fell together by the ears whereby hurt was done and the Civil Magistrate had much ado to quiet them All Scholars there and then present who knew the way of disputing and managing arguments did conclude that Tombes got the better of Baxter by far In the year 1653 he being then as before frequently in London he was by ordinance appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of publick Ministers but what preferment he got by that employment which most of them had obtained I find not unless it was the Parsonage of Rosse and the Mastership of the Hospital at Ledbury both in Herefordshire which he kept with Lemster and Beaudley About the year 1658 he married Elizabeth the Widow of Wolstan Abbot of the City of Salisbury by whom enjoying an Estate lived mostly there to the time of his death At the Kings restauration in 1660 when he then saw to what a woful condition this poor Nation of England had been brought unto by restless men and their several opinions as to religion he willingly submitted sided with the Royal party but yet would never accept of either Benefice or Dignity which was offer'd to him Set aside his Anabaptistical Positions he was conformable enough to the Church of England would frequently go to Common prayers and receive the Sacrament at Salisbury and often visit Dr. Ward Bishop of that place who respected Tombes for his learning Dr. Sanderson sometimes the learned Bishop of Linc. had a great esteem for him and so had one of his successors Dr. Barlow but the same respect that the last bore to our author the same he paid to all of what sect soever that were learned In 1664 he was present at the Oxford Act and there in the Vespers he did modestly challenge to maintain against any person certain Anabaptistical Tenents but none there did think it then convenient to grapple with him and the rather for this reason that he had made those matters his study for more than 30 years and that none ever before went beyond him He seemed to many to be a very pious and zealous Christian and would never be violent especially in his latter days against any party that was opposite to his opinion but be charitable and complesant His body was little and neat limb'd he had a quick searching eye and was so exceeding apprehensive that he would find out the end upon the first entry of the Disputes He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Vae Scandalizantium or a treatise of scandalizing c. preached at Lemster in Herefordsh on Luke 17.1.2 Oxon. 1641. oct 2 Jehovah Jireth or Gods providence in delivering the godly in two Sermons in Bristol on a Thanksgiving day 14. March 1642 for the deliverance of that City from invasion and plot by the Malignants on 2. Pet. 2.9 Lond. 1643. qu. Before which is set by the author A short narrative of the said bloody and damnable plot 3 The Leaven of pharisaical Will-worship preached at Lemster 24. Nov. 1641 on Matth. 5.9 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Anthropolatria The sin of glorying in
return in 1665 he lived for some time in and near London and thence going to Stratford before mentioned and afterwards to Warwick setled in the last of the said places practised Physick and in the Summer-time retired to Bathe at both which places he gained repute and many Patients by the diligence and care he took in his Profession As for his Writings they are many and of various subjects some of which that he published before the Kings restauration were against Monarchy Ministers Universities Churches c. provoking all men to whom those interests were dear He then trampled as one that wrote against him saith on the ashes of his martyr'd Sovereign defended and adored his murtherers stiled all our Kings a succession of Usurpers endeavoured the extirpation of Monarchy and planting a Democracy of Independents Anabaptists Fifth-monarchy men and Quakers in its room He hath represented the meekest justest and best of Kings as an hateful Tyrant and called our now Soveraign Ch. 2. an Usurper He then did write malitiously against Ministry Universities c. and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks c. But why our Author Stubbe did write so he 'll tell you 't was to serve his Patron Sir Hen. Vane and to express his gratitude to him who relieved him when he was a child and after and that because the quarrels and animosities grew high betwixt the Presbyterians and Sir H. Vane's Friends he sided therefore with him My youth saith he and other circumstances incapacited me from rendring him any great services but all that I did and all that I wrot had no other aim nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings as long as that they were subservient to him c. The truth is all that knew him here in Oxon knew this of him for certain that he was no frequenter of Conventicles no taker of the Covenant or Engagement no contracter of acquaintance with notorious Sectaries that he neither enriched or otherwise advanced himself during the late troubles or shared the common odium and dangers or prosperity of his Benefactor Some years after the Kings restauration he took pet against the Royal Society for which before he had a great veneration and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell no admirer of that Society became in his Writings an inveterate Enemy against it for several pretended reasons among which were first that the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon antient and solid Learning upon Aristotle to undermine the Universities and reduce them to nothing or at least to be very inconsiderable Secondly that at long running to destroy the established Religion and involve the Nation in Popery and I know not what c. So dextrous was his pen whether pro or con that few or none could equal answer or come near him He was a person of most admirable parts had a most prodigious memory tho his enemies would not acknowledge it but said he read Indexes was the most noted Latinist and Greecian of his age and after he had been put upon it was so great an enemy to the Virtuosi of his time I mean those of the R. Society that as he saith they alarm'd him with dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and fortunes He was a singular Mathematician and thoroughly read in all political matters Councils ecclesiastical and profane Histories He had a voluble tongue and was very seldom known to hesitate either in publick disputes or common discourse His Voice was big and magisterial and his mind was equal to it He was of a high generous nature scorn'd money and riches and the adorers of them which being natural to him was one of the chief reasons why he hated the Presbyterians whom he always found to be false undermining poor spirited void of generous souls sneaking sniveling c. He was accounted a very good Physitian and excellent for those matters that compleat it as Simpling Anatomy and Chymistry and in the times of Usurpation that is while Oliver and Richard ruled when then he thought it the Nations interest to subvert the true Monarchy of England he was passionately addicted to the new Philosophy and motion'd several ways for the introducing it amongst the Gentry and Youth of this Nation and the reason was as he l saith that it would render all the Clergy contemptible lessen the esteem and reverence in the Church and make them seem egregious Fools in matters of common discourse But as he was so admirably well qualified with several sorts of Learning and a generous Spirit so he was very unhappy in this that he was extream rash and imprudent and wanted common discretion to manage his parts He was a very bold man utter'd any thing that came into his mind not only among his Companions but in publick Coffey-houses of which he was a great frequenter and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present without examining the company he was in for which he was often repremanded and several times threatned to be kick'd and beaten He had a hot and restless head his hair being carret-colour'd and was ever ready to undergo any enterprize which was the chief reason that macerated his body almost to a Skeleton He was also a person of no fix'd Principles and whether he believed those things which every good Christian doth 't is not for me to resolve Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant Fellow he would have been admired by all and might have pick'd and choos'd his Preferment But all these things being wanting he became a ridicule and undervalued by sober and knowing Scholars and others too His Writings and Translations are these Horae subsecivae seu Prophetiae Jonae Historiae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis Lond. 1651. oct To which are added his Translation into Greek of Miscellanea quaedam Epigrammata à Th. Randolpho W. Chrashavio c. Epistola Lat. cum Poematibus Lat. Graec. ad D. Hen. Vane Domini Hen. Vane de Raby Eq. aur fil promogen Ox. 1656. printed on one side of a sheet The said Hen. Vane was then a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. of Oxon. but wore not a gown and soon after died Otium literarum Sive Miscellanea quaedam poemata Ox. 1656. oct They are printed with the Poems of Hen. Birchead of All 's Coll. In the said vol. are our Author Stubbe his Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum translatae which were printed again at Oxon. 1658. in oct and had at the end added to them by him Elogiae Romae Venetiarum A severe enquiry into the late Oneirocrita or an exact account of the grammatical part of the Controversie between Mr. Thom. Hobbes and John Wallis D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. In the said book the Author Stubbe
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
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
Presbyterian Plot was discovered to bring into England K. Ch 2. an 1651 at which time Chr. Love who was the chief man in that Plot and our Author Case another were to be brought to their Trial. The Sermon is all for revenge of blood innocent blood spilt and 't is in a most high and desperate manner a downright provocation to do justice upon Delinquents that is Cavaliers or those that adhered to the King to spare not one of them living c. 5 The quarrel of the Covenant with the pacification of the quarrel in 3 Sermons on Lev. 26.25 and on Jer. 50.5 Lind. 1644. qu. 6 The vanity of vain glory funeral Sermon at the burial of Kingsmyll Lucy on 1 Cor. 1. ver 29. with 31. Lond. 1655. in tw 7 Sensuality dissected Serm. before divers Citizens of London born in Kent Lond. 1657. qu. 8 Eliahs abateman or corruption in the Saints Sermon at the funeral of Walt. Roswell M. A. at Chatham in Kent on Jam. 3.17 Lond. 1658. in tw 9 Serm. on Prov. 31.19 Lond. 1658 oct 19 Fun. Serm. on Malack 3.17 Lond. 1659. qu. 11 Farewell Sermon at Barthelmewtyde on Rev. 2.5 Lond. 1662. oct 12 How the Sabbath ought to be Sanctifyed on Isa 58.13.14 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate 13 Sermon on 2. Tim. 1.13 preached in the Morning Exercise at S. Giles in the feilds in May 1659 which Serm. is extant in a book entit The morning Exercise methodized published by our author Case with his Epistle before it Lond. 1676 qu. Besides these and other Sermons which I have not yet seen he hath published The Morning Exercise or some short notes taken out of the Morning Sermons which divers Ministers of the Gospel in the City of Lond. preached at S. Giles in the fields in the month of May 1655. Lond. 1655. in tw Imitation of the Saints opened in practical meditations Lond. 1666. qu. Mount Pisgah or a prospect of heaven Being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Thess from the 13 verse to the end of the chapt Lond. 1670. qu. Dedicated to Sir Rob. Booth L. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland whose Mother the author Case had married Correction instruction or a treatise of afflictions first conceived by way of privat meditations after digested into certain Sermons Lond. 1671. in tw At length after our author had lived in continual agitation for carrying on the cause he professed died in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Church called Christ Church within Newgate in London and had soon after laid over his grave a large white stone just below the steps going to the altar with this Inscription thereon Heic molliter dormit Thomas Case fideliss Jesu Christi Minister in hâc urbe alibi perquam plurimos annos egregius Concionator In Aede Christi Oxon educatus in hoc templo Christi tandem sepultus Obiit 30. Maii an aetatis 84. annoque Domini 1682. BENJAMIN NEEDLER son of Tho. Needl of Lanum in Middlesex was born in that County elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merch. Taylors School an 1642. aged 18 years afterwards fellow and a cringer to the Presbyterian Visitors of the University in 1648 by submitting to their power and accepting of by way of Creation the degree of Bach. of the Civ Law Whether he afterwards took orders from a Bishop I know not sure I am that he being a well gifted brother for praying and preaching he was some years after made Minister of Margaret Moses in Friday street within the City of London where continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity an 1662. He hath written Expository notes with practical observations towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Genesis delivered by way of Exposition in several Lords dayes Exercises Lond. 1655 in a large oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Math. 5.29.30 'T is the third Serm. in the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept. 1661. Lond. 1661. qu. 2 Serm. on Math. 4.10 'T is the thirteenth Serm. in the Morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark c. Lond. 1675. qu. 3 The Trinity proved by Scripture Serm. on 1. Joh. 5.7 in the Morning Exercise Methodized c. preached in S. Giles in the fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. What other things goe under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Northwarnborough in Hampshire where for some years he had exercis'd his function in privat in the month of May or June in sixteen hundred eighty and two was according to his will as I presume buried frugally in some Church yard I think in that of Northwarnborough before mention'd At which time he left behind him a son called Culverwell Needler another named Benjamin and a Brother in Law called Rich. Culverwell Minister of Grundesburgh HENRY MUNDY was born in a Market Town called Henley in Oxfordshire became one of the Portionists of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the rebellion took one degree in Arts in 1647 and kept pace with the interrupted times to enjoy some petit employment In 1656 May 20 he was elected Master of the Free-Grammar School at Henley before mention'd which being well endowed and replenish'd with Scholars was very beneficial to him At length following the practice of Physick it fell to decay and had not death prevented Justice he would have been ejected He hath written and published Commentarii de aere vitali 2 De esculentis 3 De potulentis cum corallario de perergis in victu Oxon. 1680. in a large oct He died by a fall from his horse in his return to Henley from the house of John Lord Lovelace at Hurley on the 28. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and two aged about 58 years and the next day his body was buried in the North Chancel of the Church at Henley In the said School succeeded Dan. Ashford M. A. and Vice-Pr of Hart Hall somtimes of Wadh. Coll. who by his industry and vigilancy made it flourish PHILIPP HUNTON son of Ph. Hunt of Andover in Hampshire was born in that County became either Batler or Servitour of Wadham Coll. in Lent terme 1622 of which House he was afterwards Scholar and Master of Arts. At length entring into the sacred function he became successively Schoolmaster of Aburie in Wilts Minister of Devises afterwards of Hatchbury and in fine of Westbury in the said County and as Minister of the last place he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654. In the beginning of the year 1657 he was appointed the first Provost of the new College at Durham erected by
Lieut. Gen. to Oxon when they were invited thither by the then Members of the University to see what a Godly Reformation the Committee and Visitors had made therein May 19. Sir Hardress Waller Kt was the first that was presented by Zanchy the junior Proctor which being done he was conducted up to Cromwell just before presented to the degree of Dr. of the Civ Law sitting on the left hand of him that then held the Chancellours chair Dr. Chr. Rogers Deput Vicechanc. and with due Ceremony was seated on his left side This person was son and heir of George Waller of Groombridge in Kent Esq by Mary his wife daugh of Rich. Hardâ—ess Esq Relict of Sir Will. Ashenden Kt which George was elder brother to Sir Thom. Waller father of Sir Will. Waller lately one of the Parl. Generals mention'd among the Writers an 1668. p. 297. and marrying with the daugh and co-heir of Sir Joh. Dowdall or Dovedall of Limerick in Ireland Kt enjoyed fair inheritances by her and spent most of his time there In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he was a Royalist in opinion but with the more gainfuller times he turn'd Presbytâ—â—ian and at length a strong Independent and thereupon was made a Committee-man and afterwards a Colonel of Horse He had been lately one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 and sate when Sentence past upon him for his decollation for which service he was afterwards made Major Gen. of the Army in Ireland Where continuing till the revolution of affairs brought Monarchy again into England he did upon the issuing out of the Kings Proclamation surrender himself to mercy Whereupon being brought to his trial for having a hand in the murther of his said Prince he shew'd very great reluctancy for what he had done and was thereupon conveyed from his prison in the Tower to the Isle of Wight there to continue during his life an 1660 aged 56 years Whither he was afterwards removed thence I cannot tell nor where he died May 19. Colonel Tho. Harrison was presented next by Zanchy and conducted by him on the other side This person who was the son of a Butcher or Grasier of Newcastle under Line in Staffordshire was after he had been educated in some Grammar Learning placed with one Hulke or Hulker an Attorney of Cliffords Inn and when out of his time became a kind of a Pettisogger as 't is said but finding little profit thence he betook himself from the pen to the sword in the Parliament Army when they first raised a Rebellion against their King and having a tongue well hung he did by his enthusiastical Preaching and great pretence to piety so far insinuate himself with the deluded Army that he pass'd from one Command to another till he attained to be a Major and a great Confident of Ol. Cromwell and so consequently his close friend in breaking the Presbyterian faction in both Houses in depriving them of their King and at length in bringing him to the block as by these particulars it doth appear First he was the person appointed by Oliver or at least the Adjutators of the Army to go to Hurst Castle where the King was Prisoner to the end that he should enform the Governour thereof that he deliver his Majesty up to a party of Horse that should be ready to receive him in order to his conveyance to Windsore Castle and so to Westminster to be tried This was by Harrison done about the 15 of Dec. 1648 for on the 21 following he was conveyed thence towards Windsore See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers an 1677. p. 438. Secondly that after his Majesty had left Hurst Castle and was conveyed from Milford three miles distant thence by a party of the Rebels Horse to Winchester and thence to Alton and so to Alresford this Major Harrison appeared in the head of another party between that place and Farnham to the end that he might bring up the rear His party was drawn up in good order by which his Maj. was to pass and the Major in the head of them gallantly mounted and armed with a Velvet Montier on his head and a new Buff-coat on his back with a Crimson silk Scarf about his waist richly fring'd The King as he passed by on horse-back with an easie pace as delighted to see men well hors'd and arm'd the Major gave the King a bow with his head Alla soldad which his Majesty requited This was the first time that the King saw the Major at which time Tho. Herbert Groom of the Bedchamber from whom I had this story riding a little behind the King his Majesty call'd him to come near and ask'd him who that Captain was and being by him told that it was Major Harrison the King viewed him more narrowly and fix'd his eyes so steadily upon him as made the Major abashed and fall back to his party sooner than probably he intended The K. said he looked like a Soldier and that his aspect was good and found him not such an one as was represented and that having judgment in faces if he had observed him so well before he should not have harbour'd that ill opinion of him for oft times the spirit and disposition may be discerned in the countenance That night the K. got to Farnham where he was lodged in a private Gentleman's house in the town the Castle there being then a Garrison for the Parliament and a little before supper his Majesty standing by the fire in a large wainscoted parlour and in discourse with the Mistress of the House the King notwithstanding the room was pretty full of Army Officers and Country People that crowded in to have a sight of him did at length see the Major at the farther end of the Parlour talking with another Officer Whereupon beckoning to him with his hand to come nearer he did so accordingly with due reverence And his Majesty taking him by the arm drew him aside towards the window where for half an hour or more they did discourse together Among other things the King minded him of the information that he had received concerning the murder that he intended on him in the Isle of Wight which if true rendred him an enemy in the worst sense to his person The Major in his vindication assured his Majesty that what was reported of him was not true yet he might report that the Law was equally obliging to great and small and that Justice had no respect to persons or words to that purpose which his Majesty finding affectedly spoken and to no good end he left off farther communication with him and went to supper being all the time very pleasant which was no small rejoycing to many there to see him so cheerful in that company and in such a dolorous condition Thirdly that when his Majesty went thence to Bagshot and there dined in the Lord Newburgh's house the said Major ordered Centries to be set at every door where he was and after
which he delivered with much boldness gained him the esteem of his Auditors who for the most part charm'd with his eloquence and full of compassion for his misery soon cast about to put him into a condition of appearing in a decent habit and subsisting After this he was much favoured by some and as much hated by the Roman Catholicks particularly by St. Germaine a Jesuit in London who pretending to assassinate him as Luzancy gave out was a Proclamation issued forth for his protection and the taking of S. Germaine to bring him to condign punishment After this Luzancy's advancement being powerfully carried on the B. of London took care to have him ordained with a design of putting him in a condition of becoming one day a great Defender of the Church of England All which being done in a hurry 't was to little purpose for the Pastors and several Masters of Families of the Church at the Savoy to cry out against But while these things were in doing a Minister of the Church of England belonging to the French Church at the Savâ—y named Rich. du Marescq full of zeal to the truth printed a Sermon which he had preached during these bustles and in the preface to it doth give a true and just character of Luzancy not for his goodness but baseness lying dissimulation c. Which Serm. and Pref. as soon as they appeared in publick the B. of London caused all the copies to be seized and the author to be cited to the Bish Court interdicted the function of his charge because he refused to ask God forgiveness his neighbour the Church his Superior and to sign and seal a Declaration and at length openly suspended him for reasons reserved to the Bishop and his Officers After he had continued in that condition for some time he was at the intreaties of Dr. Jo. Durell and Monsieur Ruvigny who had a mind to oblige the Bishop restored to the exercise of his charge upon a bare acknowledgment that he was in the wrong to print his preface without license from his Superior or any else in authority c. After the following Christmas our author Luzancy went to Oxford where by vertue of several Letters of commendation he was received into Ch. Ch. by the Dean there had a Chamber allowed to him and such diet that belongs to Master-students at the charge I think of the Bishop of London On the 26 of Jan. following there was a Convocation of Doctors and Masters celebrated wherein the Letters of the Duke of Ormonde Chanc. of the University dat 2. Dec. were publickly read in his behalf which partly run thus This Gentleman Monsieur Luzancy was bred in the University of Paris in the Romish religion but having lately professed himself a member of the Church of England and given some testimonies of his adherence thereunto has made it his humble request for his encouragement to be recommended to the University for their favour in conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts He has not his Testimonials from the University of Paris of the degree he took there but I doubt not when you shall discourse with him you 'll find him a person meriting that favour c. After the reading of that Letter Luzancy by the consent of the House was then actually created M. of A as I have before told you About the time of Easter in the beginning of Apr. 1676 was spread abroad by certain R. Catholicks a Pamphlet entit A Letter from a Gentleman at Lond. to his friend in the Country c. Printed at Lond in two sheets and an half in qu wherein are some of Luzancy's actions represented while he was in France but more while he was in England the Bishop of London and Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall Preb. of Westm and Rochester sometimes a Capuchin Fryer reflected on severely and many things said which doth invalidate the K. Proclamation before mention'd At length some of the dispersers of that Pamph. it being discovered particularly Will. Rogers of Linc. Inn a zealous Proselyte for the R. Cath. cause he was seized on by a Messenger and brought before the Kings Council in Aug. following from whom receiving several checks and threatnings was at length released In the latter end of 1679 Luzancy left the University having before borrowed a considerable sum of money of one of the Chapl. of Ch. Ch. P. B. for whom he pretended kindness but he minding not the payment of he was sued for it by Law At the same time he became by the favour of the Bishop of London Vicar of Dover-Court in Essex to the Church of which place the Town of Harwich belongs so that he was Vicar of that also as well as of Dover-Court Soon after to prevent an unchast life he married a Gentlewoman in those parts where he was lately perhaps still living He hath written and pub 1 Serm. on the day of his abjuration at the Savoy 11. July 1675 on Joh. 8.32 Lond. 1675 qu. in French Translated into English Lond. 1676. qu. 2 Reflections on the Council of Trent Oxon. 1677. oct 3 Treatise against irreligion Lond. 1678. oct Justus Christop Schomerus and M. Meno Reich both of Lubeck in Saxony were Sojournours and Students this year in the University and afterwards learned men in their own Country The first who was Professor and Superintendent at Lubeck wrot one or more books against the Socinians and other things Besides them were also Sojournours Paul Bauldrey a Frenchman of note and Joh. Wandalinus of Copenhagen in Denmark both learned men the first of which hath written notes on Lanctantius de morte Persecutorum and the other who was afterwards Professor of Div. at Copenhagen De esu sanguinis c. An. Dom. 1676. An. 28. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Henry Clerk Doct. of Physick and Priest President of Magd. Coll. Oct. 9. Proct. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. Apr. 5. Nathan Pelham of New Coll. Apr. 5. The Senior of these two Proctors was while Proctor elected and admitted moral Phil. Professor in the place of Mr. Abr. Campion 27. Mar. 1677 who enjoying it till the beginning of the year 1682 Will. Halton M. A. of Qu. Coll. was elected thereunto about the 7 of April the same year After his time was expir'd for he that is Professor enjoyeth the Lecture but for 5 years Joh. Barnard M.A. of Brasn Coll. was elected thereunto 28. Mar. 1687 by vertue of the Mandamus of K. Jam. 2 dated on the first of January going before After his removal thence for being a Papist tho since return'd to his former opinion which was after the said King left England Will. Christmas M. A. of New Coll. succeeded him in the latter end of Dec. 1688. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 6. Tho. Lyndesay of Wadh. Coll. See among the Masters in 1678. 29. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. He hath published two or more books May 27. Nathaniel Williams of Jes Coll. He was