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

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University He was another Tully and Virgil as being most excellent for Oratory and Poetry in which faculties as also in the Greek tongue he was so full and absolute that those that best knew him knew not in which he most excell'd So admirably well vers'd also was he in Metaphysicks that when he was Reader of them in the University the exposition of them was never better performed than by him and his Predecessor Th. Barlow of Qu. Coll. His preaching also was so graceful and profound withal that none of his time or age went beyond him So that if the Wits read his Poems Divines his Sermons and Philosophers his Lectures on Aristotles Metaphysicks they would scarce believe that he died at a little above thirty years of age But that which is most remarkable is that these his high parts and abilities were accompanied with so much candour and sweetness that they made him equally beloved and admired of all persons especially those of the Gown and Court who esteemed also his life a fair copy of practick piety a rare example of heroick worth and in whom Arts Learning and Language made up the true complement of perfection He hath written The Lady-errant Trag. Com. Royal Slave Trag. Com. Oxon. 1640. second edit Acted before the K. and Q. by the Students of Ch. Ch. 30 Aug. 1636. See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 344. b. 345. a. The Ordinary Com. Siedge or Love's convert Trag. Com. Poems All which were gathered into one Vol. and printed at Lond. 1651. oct usher'd then into the world by many copies of Verses mostly written by Oxf. men among whom were Jasper Mayne D. D. Joh. Castilion B. D. afterwards Dean of Rochester Robert Waring Mart. Lluellin Joh. Fell Franc. Palmer Rich. Goodridge Tho. Severne c. all of Ch. Church Hen. Earl of Monmouth Sir Rob. Stapylton Edw. Sherbourn afterwards a Knight Jam. Howell Franc. Finch Joh. Finch of Ball. Coll. Brethren to Sir Heneage Finch sometimes Lord Chanc. of England Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. Joh. Birkenhead of All 's Coll. Hen. Vaughan the Silurist and Eugenius Philalethes his brother both of Jesus Coll. Josias How and Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. Mathew Smallwood of Brasnose Hen. Bold of New and Will. Bell of S. Johns Coll. c. Our Author Cartwright also wrot Poemata Graeca Latina An Off-spring of mercy issuing out of the womb of crueltie Or a passion serm preached at Ch. Ch. in Oxon on Acts 2.23 Lond. 1652. oct Of the signal days in the month of Nov. in relation to the Crown and Royal Family A poem Lond. 1671. in one sh in qu. besides Poems and Verses which have Ayres for several Voices set to them by the incomparable Henry Lawes servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private musick who outliving the tribulations which he endured for the royal cause was restored to his places after the return of K. Ch. 2. and for a short time lived happy and venerated by all lovers of musick He was buried by the title of Gentleman of his Majesties Chappel in the Cloister belonging to S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster 25 Octob. 1662. As for Cartwright who had the Succentors place in the Church of Salisbury confer'd on him by Bishop Duppa in the month of Octob. 1642 was untimely snatch'd away by a malignant fever call'd the Camp-disease that raged in Oxon. he being then one of the Proctors of the University to the great grief of all learned and vertuous men and to the resentment of the K. and Qu. then there who very anxiously enquired of his health in the time of his sickness on the 29 of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried on the first day of Dec. towards the upper end of the south isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church In his Proctorship succeeded Joh. Maplet M. A. of the same house who served out the remaining part of the year and in his Succentorship Rob. Joyner of Oxford THOMAS MASTER son of Will. Master Rector of Cote near to a mercate town call'd Cirencester in Glocestershire was born at Cote but descended from the gentile family of the Masters living in the said town of Cirencester initiated in Grammar learning by Mr. Henry Topp a noted Master of that place afterward ripened for the University in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1624 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1629 holy orders and at length in 1640 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At which time he was arrived to great Learning was esteemed a vast scholar a general Artist and Linguist a noted Poet and a most florid preacher He hath written Mensa lubrica Montgom illustriss Domino D. Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury Oxon. 1658. qu. second edit the first having been printed on one side of a large sheet of paper 'T is a poem written in Lat. and Engl. describing the game call'd Shovel-board play published with Sir Henry Saviles Oration to Qu. Elizab. by Mr. Tho. Ba●low of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. an 1658. printed there again in Dec. 1690. in half a sh in qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Greek Poem which is printed with Mensa lubrica was made by him on the Passion of Christ 19 Apr. 1633. rendred into excellent Lat. verse by Hen. Jacob of Merton Coll. and into English by Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets of his time which Lat. and Engl. copies are printed with the Greek Oxon. 1●58 qu. Monarchia Britannica sub auspiciis Elizabethae Jacobi in oratione quam pro more habuit in capella Coll. Novi 6 Kal. Apr. 1642. Oxon. 1661. qu. 1681. oct published by his friend and acquaintance Joh. Lamphire Doct. of Phys sometimes Fellow of New Coll afterwards Comdens Prof. of History Iter boreale Oxon. 1675 in two sheets and an half in qu. written in prose and verse and dedicated to his Father Will. Master beforemention'd 25 Sept. 1637. published by George Ent of the Middle Temple son and heir of Sir George Ent Kt. then a sojourner and student in Oxon being about that time entred a Member of Wadh. Coll. Which George Ent. the son wrot and published The grounds of Unity in religion or an expedient for a general conformity and pacification printed in 1679 in one sheet in qu. In which year in Aug. or thereabouts he departing this mortal life was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London Our Author Master also hath written other Poems as 1 Carolas redux 1623. 2 Ad regem Carolum 1625. 3 On Bish Lake 1626. 4 On Ben. Johnson 1637. and 5 On Vaulx but these I think are not printed He was a drudge to and assisted much Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury when he was obtaining materials for the writing the Life of K. Hen. 8. Four thick Volumes in fol. of
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
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
as might have defrayed the charge of those Transcripts so made from Records and otherwise as hath been observed But the Booksellers not willing to adventure on them Mr. Dodsworth and Mr. Dugdale joined together and hired several sums of money to defray the cost and expence of them The care of which work as to the Printing lay totally on Mr. Dugdale because Mr. Dodsworth died in Lancashire about the midst of August an 1654 before the tenth part of the first vol. came off from the Press The first vol. being finished an 1655 a stop was made for some years of bringing the second to the Press until the greatest part of the impression was sold whereby money might be had to go on therewith Mr. Dugdale therefore having with no small pains and charge finished his Collections in order to his designed historical work of Warwicksh Antiquities and at length perfected the frame thereof was at the whole charge of Printing and Paper for publishing the same and continued in London to correct the Press himself by reason that the ordinary Correctors were not skil'd at all in the Pedigrees Which book was finished and expos'd to sale an 1656. In the time of his continuance in London he casually met with one Mr. Reading a Northamptonshire Gent who had been Clerk of the Nisi prius for the midland-Circuit and with whom he had been formerly acquainted This Mr. Reading knowing Mr. Dugdale to be an indefatigable searcher into Records he friendly invited him to his house at Scrivners Hall near Silverstreet promising to shew him divers old MSS original Charters and other ancient Writings So that he going thither accordingly he brought forth five antient MSS. in folio which were Chartularies of the Lordships and Lands first given to the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London All which he freely lent to carry with him to his house in Warwickshire till Mich. term ensuing and then upon the restoration of them he should have use of as many more But in the said Term when he went to London to restore them whence he had extracted what he thought fit as to any historical use he found that Mr. Reading was dead and had constituted one Mr. Williams a Barrister of the Temple his Executor Whereupon Mr. Dugd. addressing himself to that person to desire a sight of the rest he brought him to Scrivners Hall and there shew'd him many other Manuscript-books original Charters old Rolls and other very antient Writings in bags and hampers relating to the said Cathedral of S. Paul All which he freely lent to Mr. Dugdale amounting to no less than ten Porters burthens to be carried to his lodgings Being thus in his private custody he first bestowed pains to sort them into order and afterwards made extracts from them of what he found historical in reference to that Cath. Ch. And to the end that the memory of those many antient monuments therein which were afterwards utterly destroyed the Church also being made a Horse-garrison by the Usurpers might be continued to posterity Mr. Dugdale did by the help and favour of sundry worthy persons who voluntarily offered to be at the charge of the plates in which the Representations were cut in brass as also the prospects of that whole Fabrick inside and outside accomplish the same Further also having succinctly framed an historical narration of the first foundation and endowment of the said Church as also of all the Chantries and what else was most memorable therein or relating thereto made it publick by the Press an 1658. But as the longest day hath its evening so did it at last please the omnipotent to put a period to the tyrannous actions of the said Usurpers by the most miraculous Restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 which was about ●● years after the most execrable murder of his royal Father At which time to prevent the importunity of others who aimed at the Office of Norroy King of Arms void by the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to the Office of Garter whom I shall mention by and by Sir Edw. Hyde Kt then Lord Chancellor and afterwards Earl of Clarendon having seen the Antiquities of Warwickshire and the first vol. of Monasticon did move the King on the behalf of Mr. Dugdale for the said place Whereupon it being readily granted there was a special Warrant made under the royal Signet to prepare a Patent for the same Which Patent after his Majesties return passed the Great Seal accordingly on the 18 of June 1660. At the same time the second vol. of Mon. Angl. was in the Press and the next year 't was published During the printing of which he laboured about his historical work of Imbanking and drayning the Fens and Marshes deduced out of public Records and antient MSS at the instance of the Lord Gorges and others who were the principal Adventurers in that costly and laudable Undertaking for drayning the great Level extending into a considerable part of the Counties of Cambridge Huntingdon Northampton Norfolk and Suffolk This book was adorned with several exact Maps of the parts and places so drayned and was published in 1662. Further also having been much importun'd by Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury and the Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour to perfect that Collection began by the learned Sir Hen. Spelman for his intended second vol. of the Provincial Councils in England Mr. Dugdale did in order thereunto make diligent search for all such materials that might be got either out of the Cottonian Library or otherwise Which being done he made Transcripts of them and methodized the same for the Press So that the whole vol. amounting to 200 sheets in folio all of it except 57 were totally of Mr. Dugdale's Collection It was printed in 1664 but very full of faults occasion'd if I am not mistaken by the absence of the said Mr. Dugdale Will. Somnore the Antiquary of Canterbury took a great deal of pains to correct a printed copy of it with his pen in the margin which copy is yet remaining in the Library belonging to the Ch. of Canterbury At the same time also the second part of Sir Hen. Spelmans Glossary which begins with the letter M was brought to Mr. Dugdale to have it fitted for the Press for so it was that Sir Henry having lest it very imperfect much of it being loosly written and in sundry bits of paper he took pains to dispose thereof into proper order by transcribing many of those loose papers and afterwards by marking such parts of it for differencing the character as needed The first part also that had been published by Sir Henry an 1626 was afterwards considerably augmented and corrected by its Author Which also being brought to Mr. Dugdale and by him review'd and made fit for the Press were both printed together an 1664. But the second part which Sir H. Spelman le●t imperfect as is before told you comes far short of the first After this Mr. Dugdale having in many years
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the ●ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
was esteemed by those thereof a learned man as were his contemporaries Jam. Birch Philip Flower and Dan. Evans all three Bachelaurs of Div. and fellows of the said Coll. No. 1. Jaspar Mayne of Ch. Ch. No. 1. Rob. Joyner of Pemb. Coll. The last succeeded Will. Cartwright in the Succentorship of Salisbury Jan. 16. Aylmer Lynch of Cambridge Jan. 16. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Henry Myriell of Cambr. Jan. 16. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. The first of these four was after his Majesties restauration made Prebend of Stratford in the Church of Salisbury and of Welton-Westhall in the Church of Linc. The third Hen. Myriell died 22. Apr. 1643 aged 33 years and was buried in Allsaints Church in Oxon. As for Fulham and Gurgany there will be mention made of them in these Fasti an 1660. Tho 't is said that Nath. Conopius a Greecian and about this time one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch. was actually created Bach. of Div yet no thing appears in the University register of that matter Doct. of Law From the first of Nov. to the 21. of Febr. were actually created 60 or more Doctors of the Civil Law the names of most of which do follow Nov. 1. Rob. Lord Pierpont Vicount Newark and Earl of Kingston upon Hull sometimes a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. was actually created Doct. of the said faculty He was now Lieutenant General of all his Majesties forces within the Counties of Lincolne Rutland Huntingdon Cambridge and Norfolk and lost his life in his service near to Gaynsborough in Lincolnshire 30 of July 1643. The most Loyal Sir Franc. Wortley hath an Elegy on him in his Characters and Elegies which being just and deservedly spoken of him I shall refer the Reader to it but the book I doubt is scarce to be seen or had This most noble Count Pierpont was Father to Henry Marq. of Dorchester born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire an 1606 educated for some time in Eman. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards was a hard Student for 10 or 12 hours every day Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty was with him at Oxon after the battel at Edghill and had a degree confer'd on him or at least was incorporated tho neglected to be registred by the common scribe of the University He was then esteemed a learned man as being well read in the Fathers Schoolmen Casuists the Civil and Can. Law and reasonably well vers'd in the common Law having about that time been admitted a Bencher of Greys Inn. In 1649 he applyed his study to Medicine and Anatomy and in 1658 he was admitted Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond and became their pride and glory He hath published 1 Two speeches spoken in the House of Lords One Concerning the rights of Bishops to sit in Parliament 21 of May and the other Concerning the lawfulness and conveniency of their intermedling in temporal affairs on the 24 of the same month Lond. 1641. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to the Trained-bands of Nottinghamshire at Newark 13 July 1642 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Letter to John Lord Roos written the 13 and printed on one side of a sheet of paper on the 25 of Feb. 1659. It was written upon occasion of some differences between the said Lord Roos and his Wife Anne Daughter of the said Marquess From which Lord the said Anne was afterwards for her whorishness lawfully divorced by sentence of the Court-Christian and then commonly known by the name of the Lady Anne Vaughan As soon as the said Letter was received by the Lord Roos he wrot another in answer to it in a buffooning stile 25 Feb. 1659 assisted therein by Sam. Butler afterwards known by the name of Hudibras which being printed also on one side of a sh of paper the Marq. made a reply with another paper entit 4 The reasons why the Marq. of Dorchester printed his letter 25. Feb. 1659 together with his answer to a printed paper called A true and perfect copy of the Lord Roos his answer to the Marquess of Dorchesters Letter written 25. Februar 1659. Printed 20. of March 1659 on one side of a sh of paper He the said Marquess hath as 't is probable other things extant or at least fit to be printed which I have not yet seen He died in his house in Charterhouse yard near London 8. Decemb. 1680 whereupon his body after it had laid in state for some time was conveyed to his antient Seat called Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire where it was buried in the Church of that place among the sepulchers of his name and family Soon after was published an Elegy on this noble and generous Marquess by John Crouch sometimes his domestick servant which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Rob. Dormer Earl of Caernarvan was actually created at the same time Nov. 1 This most loyal Count who was Mercurio magnus sed Marti major was kill'd the next year at Newbury fight and soon after had an Elegy made on him by Sir Francis Wortley before mention'd which is printed among his Characters and Elegies His body was for the present deposited in Jesus Coll. Chappel but soon after removed to his seat in Bucks James Lord Compton He was afterwards Earl of Northampton Lieutenant of the County of Warwick as also of the City of Coventry Recorder likewise of the said City as also of Northampton and of Tamworth and did excellent service for his Majesty in the time of the Rebellion especially by his routing the Parliament Forces near Banbury 6 of May 1643. He died at Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire 15 Dec. 1681 and was buried in a Vault by his Ancestors under the Church of Compton Winniate commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire He had a younger brother named Sir Charles Compton a most valiant person and one that had done his Maj. great service in the said Rebellion He died in the latter end of Nov. 1661 being then a Parl. man for the Town of Northampton and was buried at Sywell in Northamptonshire Robert Lord Rich. The same if I mistake not that was afterwards Earl of Holland Colonel Sir John Byron Knight of the Bath lately Lieutenant of the Tower of London He was about this time made Field-Marshal of all his Majesties Forces in the County of Worcester Salop Chester and North-Wales and in the 19 of Car. 1. was advanced to the title of Lord Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire Sir Will. Le Neve Kt Clarenceaux King of Arms. This person was of the antient family of his name living at Aslacton in Norfolk received some Academ education in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards by the favour of the Earl Marshal of England was created Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray 29 June 1624. Soon after he was made York Herald was imployed into France in the first of Car. 1 and from thence attended Qu. Henrietta Maria into
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
of Exemplars he had the assistance of several learned persons of whom Edm. Castle or Castell Bach. of Div. was the chiefest Vir in quo eruditio summa magnaque animi modestia convenere c. as he doth characterize him yet if you 'll believe that learned person who was afterwards Doctor of Div Arabick Professor of Cambridge and Preb. of Canterbury he 'll tell you in his Preface to his Lexic●n Heptaglotton printed in Lond. 1669 that he had more than an ordinary hand in that Work as indeed he had and therefore deserved more matter to be said of him than in the said Pref. to Bib. Polyglot is The other persons were Alex. Huish of Wadh. Coll. Sam. Clarke Clericus of Mert. Coll. of both whom I have spoken already and Thom. Hyde since of Qu. Coll. in this University He had also some assistance from Dr. D. Stokes Abr. Wheelock Herb Thorndyke Edw. Pocock Tho Greaves Dudly Loftus c. men most learned in their time Towards the printing also of the said great and elaborate work he had the contribution of moneys from many noble persons and Gentlemen of quality which were put into the hands of Sir Will. Humble Treasurer for the said Work as Charles Lod●wick Prince Elector William Marq. of Hertford Will. Earl of Strafford Will. E. of Bedford Will. Lord Petre Will. L. Maynard Arth. L. Capell John Ashburnham of his Maj. Bedchamber Sir Rob. Sherley Bt Will. Lenthall Mast of the Rolls Joh. Selden of the Inner Temple Esq Joh. Sadler of Linc. Inn Esq Joh. He le Esq Tho. Wendy Esq afterwards Kr. of the Bath and others as Mountague Earl of Lindsey L. Chamb. of England George E. of Rutland Mildmay E. of Westmorland John E. of Exeter Tho. L. Fairfax Bapt. L. Noel Visc Camden Sir Will. Courtney Sir Anth. Chester and Sir Will. Farmer Baronets Sir Franc. Burdet Kt. and Joh. Wall D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. After his Majesties restauration the Author Dr. Walton presented his said six vol. of Bib. Polyg to which being well received by him he not only made him his Chaplain in ordinary but for his great Vertues Learning Loyalty Sufferings and indefatigable industry for the public benefit of Learning did advance him to the See of Chester to which being consecrated in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the second day of December an 1660 sate there tho a little while to the time of his death In Sept. 1661 he with a good retinue went to take possession of his See and when he came to Lichfield many persons of very good worth who had ridden from Chester to that City which is 50 miles did meet and congratulate him there and very many others in his way thence to Chester On the tenth day of the said month all the Gentry almost of the whole County of Chester and the Militia both of Country and City went out to meet him and the day following the spiritual Militia the true Sons of the Church of England went to their reverend Diocesan upon the road All which and others having brought him to his Pallace with the loud acclamations of thousands of people blessing God for so happy a sight he forthwith put on his Episcopal robes and hasted to the performance of his devotions in the Choire When he entred the body of the Cathedral Church Dr. Hen. Bridgman the Dean and all the members of the Cathedral habited in their Albes received a blessing from his Lordship sung Te Deum and so compassing the Choir in manner of procession conveyed him to his chair This was on the eleventh of the said month of Sept. a day not to be forgotten by all the true Sons of the Church of England tho curs'd then in private by the most rascally faction and crop-ear'd whelps of those parts who did their endeavours to make it a maygame and a piece of foppery After his Lordship had made some continuance there and was highly caress'd and entertained by noble and generous spirits he return'd to London fell sick and died in his house in Aldersgate-street on the 29 of Nov. an 1661 to the great reluctancy of all learned and loyal persons On the 5 of Dec. following he was buried in the south side of the Cathedral Church of S. Paul of which he was Prebend opposite to the monument of Sir Christopher Hatton sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being then attended to his grave by three Heralds of Armes in their formalities Soon after was a noble monument put over his grave with a large inscription thereon running thus Manet heic novissimam c. Here awaiteth the sound of the last trump Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester Reader look for no farther epitaph on him whose very name was epitaph enough Nevertheless if thou lookest for a larger and louder one consult the vocal oracles of his fame and not of this dumb marble For let me inform thee if it be not a shame to be ignorant this was he that with the first brought succour and assistance to the true Church sick and fainting under the sad pressure of persecution This was he that fairly wiped of those foul and contumelious aspersions cast upon her pure and spotless innocence by those illiterate and Clergy-trampling Schismaticks This was he that brought more light and lustre to the true reformed Church here establish'd whilst maugre the malice of those hellish Machinators he with more earnest zeal and indefatigable labour than any carried on and promoted the printing of that great Bible in so many Languages So that the Old and New Testament may well be his monument which he erected with no small expence of his own Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles emblazoned or displayed in Heralds books whose name is written in the book of life He died on S. Andrews Eve in the 62 year of his age in the first year of his consecration and in the year of our Lord God 1661. This worthy person Dr. Walton hath written besides Bibl. Polyg these two books 1 Introductio ad Lectionem Linguarum Orientalium Lond. 1655. oct 2 The considerator considered or a brief view of certain considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof c. Ibid. 1659 oct See in Jo. Owen among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 561. Aug. 12. Richard Dukeson D. of D. of Cambr. He was Minister of the Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster of which being sequestred by the violent and restless Presbyterians because of his Orthodox principles as also plundered of his goods and forced to fly for his own security retired at length to Oxon where for a time he exercised his function After his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost and lived several years after in a quiet repose Aug. 26. William Brough D. of D. of the said University He had been educated in Christs Coll. there was afterwards Rector of
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of N●rfolk Earl Marshal of England and H●nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
Pauls Cathedral and the question Whether Jesus Christ be the most High or Almighty God The time being come they appeared but Griffin being put to it for want of the true way of argumentizing the disputation was deferr'd to another day Whereupon Griffin being conscious to himself that he was not able to grapple with Biddle he and his party brought it so to pass that upon report of more blasphemies utter'd by Biddle he was by command from Oliver the Protector seized on the 3. of July being the day before they were to make an end of the Disputation an 1655 and forthwith committed Prisoner to the Poultry Compter Soon after being translated to Newgate Prison he suffered more misery was brought to a publick trial for his life at the Sessions house in the Old Baylie upon the obsolete and abrogated Ordinance called the Draconick Ordinance against blasphemy and heresie of May 2. an 1648. To the indictment hereupon he prays counsel might be allowed to him to plead the illegality of it which being denied him by the Judges and the sentence of a Mute threatned he at length gave into Court his exceptions ingrossed in parchment and with much strugling had counsel allowed him But Oliver the Protector well knowing it was not for the interest of his government either to have him condemned or absolv'd took him out of the hands of the law caused him to be detain'd in Prison with intentions to bestow him elsewhere At length several prime Persons of the Anabaptistical party remaining in London some of whom as 't is said had entertained his opinions drawing up a petition in his behalf in the month of Sept. an 1655 presented it to Oliver to obtain his mercy towards him under pretence of liberty of conscience On the 28. of the same month they were to receive an answer to it but before the said Oliver gave one the Petition was read in the hearing of divers of them under whose hands it had been presented which being done many of them did disown it as being alter'd both in the matter and title of since they signed it and so looked upon it as a forged thing They then desired that the original which they had signed might be produced but Jerem. Ives and some other of the contrivers and presenters of it were not able to do nor had any thing to say in excuse of so foul a miscarriage However his Highness Oliver did then open before them the great evil of such a practice and also how inconsistent it was for them who professed to be members of the Church of Christ and to worship him with the worship due to God to give any countenance to one who reproached themselves and all the Christian Churches in the World as being guilty of Idolatry shewing also that if it be true which Biddle holds viz. that Jesus Christ is but a creature then all those that worship him with the worship due to God are Idolaters and that the maintainers of that opinion of Biddle are guilty of great blasphemy against Christ who is God equal with the Father c. Afterwards the Petitioners being dismiss'd and Biddle understanding his doom he wrot a Letter to Oliver that he would be pleased to admit him into his presence for the hearing of his case But being denied and Oliver continually baited by Presb. and Indep Ministers to have him banished he the said Biddle as a reviver of the blasphemous opinion owned by Arrius was removed from Newgate to Plymouth 10. Oct. 1655 in order to his transportation to ths isle of Scilly beyond the lands end in Cornwall there to remain in S. Maries Castle in close custody during life where for the present we 'll leave him and in the mean time tell you that his Twofold Catechisme was answered by Dr. John Owen then Dean of Ch. Church and animadverted upon by Maresius before mention'd in his Preface to the Reader before his second tome of Hydra Socinianismi and by Nich. Arnoldus Professor of Divinity in Franeker in West-Frisen in the latter end of his Preface to the Reader before his book entit Religio Sociniana seu Catethesis Rucoviana major c. As for Maresius he is very large against him and deplores the sad condition of England that after all the contests that it hath had against the Hierarchy Arminianisme Popery and I know not what should at length be overwhelm'd with Socinianisme all sort of Sectaries Atheisme c. Which character as falling from the Pen of a Person well known to be no friend to Episcopacy seems to be a considerable argument to prove even in his perswasion that the pretended strictness and severity of the then established Church Government was not so an effectual remedy against all Libertisme in opinions and practice as was the Episcoparian Government then lately thrown out of doors After Biddle had continued Prisoner not without improvement as to and in his opinion to the beginning of the year 1658 he by the intercession of many friends was conveyed from S. Maries Castle by Habeas Corpus to the Upper Bench at Westm where appearing without any thing laid to his charge was set at liberty by the L. Ch. Justice Jo. Glynn While he was in Prison where the Protector allowed him a hundred Crowns per an for his subsistance he solely gave himself up to the studying of several intricate matters and of the various opinions concerning the Beast in the Apocalyps Antichrist and the personal raign of Christ on Earth which being digested according to his mind he explain'd them after his return in Conventicles held every Sunday in the afternoon before his Disciples Which being done he published them with this or the like title Learned notes on some of the Chapters of the Apocolyps Or thus An Essay to the explaining of the Revelation When or where printed or in what Vol. I know not for I have not yet seen them or it After Olivers death and Richard set in the Throne a Parliament was called mostly consisting of Presbyterians whom of all men he most dreaded Whereupon by the advice of a noble friend then in Authority he caused Biddle for whom he had a respect to be conveyed away privately into the Country where remaining till that Parliament was dissolved which was soon after he returned to the City and carried on his Conventicles and Disputes for some time without contradiction At length his Majest Ch. 2. being restored to his Dominions and with him the Church of England he took other measures held his meetings more private and but seldom However his waters being narrowly watch'd he was taken in the house of a certain Citizen while he was conventicling in the beginning of July 1662 whereupon being carried before Sir Rich. Browne then lately Lord Mayor was by him imprison'd and used as his party saith with great cruelty especially in this respect that he hindred all Sureties or Bail to be given for him So that by the filth of a
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUE● FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
on the ●● of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
he died on the 10. of March another by Anon. who tells us the 12. of the said month c. but both false HUGH CRESSEY or Cressy son of Hugh Cressey a Counsellour of Lincolns Inn by Margerie his wife dau of Dr. Tho. D'oylie a Physitian of London was born in a market Town in Yorksh called Wakefield descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living sometimes at Holme near Hodsack in Nottinghamshire and being educated in Grammar learning in his native country was at 14 years of age sent to the University of Oxon. in Lent term an 1619 but for want of a vigilant Tutor he lost much time yet having good natural parts did in the fourth year after his coming to the Univ. take the degree of Bach. of Arts and in 1625 being a candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. he was elected Probationer and the year after was made true and perpetual Fellow So that what time and learning he before had lost was by a strict and severe discipline then and there observed recovered and advanced After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had entred into holy Orders he became Chaplain to Thom. Lord Wentworth while he was President of the North and afterwards when he was Earl of Strafford but what he obtained from that most noble Lord while he enjoyed that honourable employment I know not In 1638 he went in the quality of a Chaplain as I conceive with his most honoured Lord Lucius Viscount Falkland when he went into Ireland and in the year after returned into England but had nothing then and there conser'd upon him In the latter end of 1642 he became by the favour and interest of the said Viscount then one of the Secretaries of State Canon of Windsore in the room of Dr. Gilb. Primerose deceased but was never installed in that Dignity and much about the same time had the Deanery of Laighlen in Ireland confer'd upon him In which year all things being in a confusion he received no profits from either Dignity So that being destitute of a comfortable subsistance especially in the next year when he lost his most beloved Lord Falkland at Newbury fight he travelled as a Tutor with Charles Berkley Esq afterwards Earl of Falmouth an 1644 and upon a foresight that the Church of England would terminate through the endeavours of the peevish and restless Presbyterians he began to think of setling himself in the Church of Rome At length after mature consideration he renounced his religion and made a publick recantation at Rome of his errours and heresie as they are there called before the Inquisition an 1646. Which being so done he returned to Paris and there published his Motives that induced him to change his religion not that he was so considerable a person that all the World should take notice of it but that he might give some proof both of the mature advice and also reasonableness of his change A certain author tells us that it was not devotion but necessity and want of a subsistence which drove him first out of the Church of England and then into a Monastery And another that he became a Roman Catholick and was insnared to that new choice by the hopes and promise of being to be admitted an idle Drone or Monk in the Charterhouse at Paris where he might live as warmly as lapt all over in Lambskins and like a Bee in a plentiful hive fed with the purest amber honey c. But how such a bait should allure him no man that understands the rules of that order can easily imagine it so to be considering that the Monks thereof spend most of their time whether early or late in prayer in fasting loneness and abstinence from all flesh whatsoever c. Of this I am sure that when he wrot and published his Motives his mind became so humble that it was his eager desire to be a Monk of the English Coll. of Carthusians at Neiuport in Flanders a poor place God wot and very slenderly endowed as the Prior thereof Peter Bilcliff a Yorkshire man born did once tell me But so it was that he being diswaded from that Order because he could never be in a capacity or Master of so much time as to vindicate himself or the Roman Catholick Church by writing he took upon him the habit of the Benedictine Order as I shall anon tell you As soon as his Motives called Exomologesis were made publick he sent a copy into England to his dear friend Dr. Henry Hammond who in a kind letter return'd him thanks for the book and without the least exception against the stile gave this judgment of it that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did privily run through the whole contexture of the book He did not interpret wherein the fallacy consisted but added we are friends and I do not purpose to be your Antagonist At the end of the letter he kindly invited him into England assuring him that he should be provided of a convenient place to dwell in and a sufficient subsistence to live comfortably and withal that not any one should molest him about his religion and conscience Our author Cressey had reason to believe that the said invitation was an effect of a cordial friendship and he was also inform'd that he was well enabled to make good his promise as having the disposal of great charities and being a very charitable man himself Yet rendring such thanks as gratitude required of him he told him that he could not accept of so very kind an offer being engaged almost by vow to leave all pretensions to the World and to embrace poverty for his portion Besides also such a friend as this he had many more several near his Majesty among whom one especially there was of the highest rank to whom formerly upon the rebellion in Ireland he being destitute of a present subsistance he did acknowledge all gratitude due for by his care alone he was provided of a condition both honorable and comfortable So that if he had lost all other friends he had reason to assure himself he would have freely contributed rather than extremity of want should have forced him to quit the world But to return while he continued at Paris Henrietta Maria the Queen of England was very civil to him and being about to leave that place she assign'd him an hundred crowns to furnish him in his journey towards a Monastery Afterwards upon an invitation he went to Doway took upon him the habit of the Benedictine order in the Coll of the English Monks of that Order there And being setled he changed his name from Hugh Paulin which he received at the Font in Wakefield Church to Serenus de Cressy lived according to their discipline for 7 years or more and afterwards became one of the Mission in England At length upon the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal he became one of her Servants
wealth and gaining credit thereby he became one of the number of those that gave Sentence against Arthur Lord Capell Rob. Earl of Holland and James Duke of Hamilton who were all beheaded In 1650 he published a remarkable book called The government of the people of England precedent and present c. and by vertue of a return dated 21. June 1655 he by the name of Joh. Parker of the Temple one of the Commissioners for the removing obstructions at Worcester House in the the Strand near London was the next day sworn Serjeant at Law Oliver being then Lord Protector On the 18. of Jan. or thereabouts an 1659 he was appointed by the Parliament one of the Barons of the Court of Exchecquer but being soon after removed thence before or at the restauration of K. Ch. 2 we heard no more of him afterwards As for Samuel whom we are farther to mention he was by the care of his Parents severe Puritans and Schismaticks puritanically educated in Grammar learning at Northampton and being made full ripe for the University he was by them sent to Wadham Coll. in Midsomer or Act term 1656 and being by them committed to the tuition of a Presbyterian Tutour he did according to his former breeding lead a strict and religious life fasted prayed with other Students weekly together and for their refection feeding on thin broth made of Oatmeal and and water only they were commonly called Grewellers He and they did also usually go every week or oftner to an house in the Parish of Halywell near their College possessed by Bess Hampton an old and crooked Maid that drove the trade of Laundrey who being from her youth very much given to the Presbyterian Religion had frequent meetings for the Godly party especially for those that were her Customers To this house I say which is commonly called the ninth house belonging to Mert. Coll. they did often resort and our author Parker was so zealous and constant a hearer of the Prayers and Sermons there held forth a receiver of the Sacraments and such like that he was esteemed one of the preciousest young men in the University Upon the Kings return in 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts he was for some time at a stand what to do yet notwithstanding he did Pray Cabal and Discourse to obstruct Episcopal Government Revenews and Authority but being discountenanc'd in his doings by the then Warden of his Coll Dr. Blandford who as 't is said did expel him but false he went to Trin. Coll and by the prevailing advice of Dr. Ralph Bathurst a Senior Fellow thereof he was rescued from the chains and fetters of an unhappy education which he afterwards publickly avouched in print So that ever after being a zealous Anti-puritan and strong Assertor of the Ch. of England did cause an abusive and foul-mouthd author to say that he was worse than his Contemporary Foullis meaning Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll. the original of whose name tho stinking and foul as he saith and in nature foul yet he was alwaies the same person in Principles that is a bitter enemy against the Presbyterians In 1663 our author Parker proceeded Master of Arts as a Grand-Compounder and a member of Trin. Coll and afterwards entring into holy Orders he was frequently in London and became as 't is said Chaplain to a Nobleman and a great Droller on the Puritans c. In 1665 he published his Tentamina and dedicating them to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Cant. made himself thereupon known to that great person About that time he became Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1667 just after Easter leaving Oxford for altogether he was summoned to Lambeth the Michaelmas after and being made one of the Chaplains to the said Archbishop was thereby put into the road of preferment In June 1670 he was install'd Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place as it seems of Dr. W. Sancroft and on the 26 of Nov. following he had the degree of Doctor of Div. confer'd on him at Cambridg at which time William Prince of Aurange or Orange was entertained there On the 18. of Nov. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Canterb. as he himself hath told me and about that time had the Rectories of Ickham and Chartham in Kent bestowed on him In the beginning of 1685 he resigned his Prebendship purposely to please his friend Dr. Joh. Bradford but that person dying about 6 weeks after his instalment Dr. Joh. Younger of Magd. Coll. in Oxon did succeed him by the favour of Josepha Maria the Royal Consort of K. Jam. 2 to whom he had spoken an Italian Oration in the said Coll. when she was entertain'd at Oxon 1683. On the 17 of Octob. 1686 he was Consecrated Bishop of Oxon at Lambeth in the place of Dr. Fell deceased and had liberty then allow'd him to keep his Archdeaconry in Commendam with it Before I go any further with his person the Reader is to understand these brief things following viz. that after the death of Dr. Hen. Clerk President of Magd. Coll. a Citation was stuck up to warn the Fellows to an election of new Governour but before the time was come to do it came a Mandamus from K. Jam. 2. to the Society to elect to that Office a junior Master of Arts named Anth. Farmer formerly of Cambridge then Demy of the said Coll but the Society taking little or no notice of it they elected according to their Statutes one of their Society named Joh. Hough Bac. of Div. on the 15. of Apr. 1687 whereupon his Majesty resenting the matter it was tried and discussed before his Ecclesiastical Commissioners newly erected by him Before whom there were then attested such vile things relating to the Life and Conversation of Farmer that he was thereupon laid aside On the 22. of June following the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners removed Mr. Hough from his place which was notified by a paper stuck up on the West door of the Chappel on the 2. of Aug. following subscribed by the said Commissioners whereupon his Majesty sent his Mandate of the 14. of the said month to elect Dr. Sam. Parker B. of Oxon to be their President but they being not in capacity to elect him because of their Oaths and Statutes his Maj. sent to Oxon three Commissioners to examine matters and put his Mandate in execution So that after they had sate in the College two days examined affairs and had commanded Dr. Hough thrice to deliver up the Keys of the Presidents Lodgings which he refused they thereupon installed in the Chappel the Proxy of Dr. Parker Will. Wiggins Clerk President with the usual Oaths which being done they conducted him to the Presidents Lodgings broke open the doors after thrice knocking and gave him possession 25. of Octob. 1687. On the 2. of Nov. following Dr. Parker took possession of them in his own person being then in a sickly condition where he continued to the time of his death
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28●5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Moss●m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
all the Shires Cities Burrough-Towns Cinque ports in England specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports they do respectively elect to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments c. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq Son of Christopher L. Hatton Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein c. collected and written by the same hand and thirdly A true and p●rf Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland with a list of all the Shires Cities and Burroughs of Ireland which make returns of Parliament c. collected and written also by the same hand 15 A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3 to this present with Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives c. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman as I have before told you At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns died thereof in his Chair about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February S. Scholastica's day an 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mention'd was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin laying in a little vault which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent who died 18 Decemb. 1681 after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Free-stone in form of an altar joyning to the North wall with his Armes and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble bordered with the like Free-stone on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon who divers years before had married one of his Daughters where they remain and are of great use to curious and critical persons To conclude had this indefatigable person sequestred himself from worldly troubles and totally addicted himself to his studies and had minded the publick more than his private concerns the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations and those more true and accurate than such that are already published especially those in his latter days Yet however what he hath done is prodigious considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion Le ts now go on with the Creations Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the Kings Army and Brother to John Lord Byron Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards a noted Mathematician Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll. Thom. Tully of Queens Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops Edw. Walker Herald of Armes by the title of Chester This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh by Barbara his Wife Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland was born at Roobers bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundell Earl Marshall of England to whom afterwards being Secretary he gave him the Pursevants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Armes In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nov. 1640 forced from London in Jan. 1641 Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England and was with him at Edgh●ll fight and afterwards at Oxon where he was actually created Master of Arts being then Chester Herald as I have before told you In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norr●y King of Armes in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter and in the year following upon the death of the said Sir Henry he was made Garter and on the 2. of Feb. the same year 1644 he received the honor of Knighthood This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament then Victors Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax who perusing it found one passage therein which was very observable to him viz. that whereas he Walker had taken occasion to speak of the Irish and call'd them Rebells his Majesty who before that time had perused the book did among several alterations made therein with his own hand put out the word Rebells with his pen and over it wrot Irish This book was after his Majesties restauration regain'd and is now or at least was lately in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. Georges feast at Windsore which is printed in quarto After his Majesties return he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council and dying suddenly in Whitehall 19. Febr. 1676 his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and buried in the Church there among the graves of the Cloptons of Clopton in that Parish In his office of Garter K. of Armes succeeded Will. Dugdale Norroy as I have before told you and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks. Nov. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield Ferdinando Marsham Esq He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critick Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire He had lately retired to his Majesty because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj.
Luton-Hoe in Bedfordshire Bt was afterwards one of the first members of the Royal Society a great pretender to Vertue and Astrology made a great noise in the world yet did little or nothing towards the publick He died in the house of Sir John Lenthall at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks 17 Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church at Linford before mentioned the Mannour of which did belong to him but after his death his son Thom. sold it for 19500 l. or thereabouts The said Sir Richard drew up a book containing A collection of Nativities which is now in MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq Nov. 1. Francis Smith of Brasn Coll. Nov. 1. Thom. Smith of Linc. Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Hinton Nov. 1. George Roe The said Joh. Hinton was afterwards a Kt and Physitian to K Ch. 2. and his Queen Dec. 20. Will. Hunt Dec. 20. Andr. Pindar Jan. 16. Joh. Merret a Captain in Cornwall Jan. 16. Walt. Charlton of Magd. Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Baylie lately of Hart Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Hayes a Physitian in the Kings Army Jan. 31. Sir Hen. Manwaring Kt. The first of these last three was son of Dr. Ralph Baylie sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Physitian of note at Bathe which Thomas practising afterwards at Newbury in Berks died there of a high infection in the prime of his years As for the last Sir H. Manwaring I find one of both his Names and a Knight too author of The Seamens Dictionary or an exposition and demonstration of all the parts belonging to a ship Lond. 1670. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sir Joh. Terryngham Kt. High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was created the same day He died on the second day of May 1645 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon. Sir John Stawell Kt. of the Bath sometimes Gent. Com. of Queens Coll was also created the same day He was one of the Knights for Somersetshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it when the King was forced to leave Westminster he retired to him at Oxon and sate there for a time in the Parliament conven'd there That which is chiefly memorable of this most worthy person is that he being one of the most eminent men in Somersetshire for Estate Wisdom and Prudence did after he had undergone all the principal services and employments for his Country viz. High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenant and Knight for the Shire in several Parliaments most loyally and courageously take up arms with three of his sons raised three Regiments of Horse and two of Dragoons and of Foot upon his sole charge in defence of his Maj. K. Ch. 1 as also of the Laws of this Kingdom and Rights of the Subject invaded by wicked Conspirators under colou● of reformation an 1642. He was then a Colonel of Horse and soon after was made Governour of Taunton and continued there till remanded Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he was not admitted to his composition as others were tho comprized within the Articles of Exeter upon the surrender of that City to the Powers at that time prevailing and the reason was because they thirsted not only after his large Estate but conspired also to take away his life He endured in those times of affliction long and tedious Imprisonments in the Press-yard in Newgate and other Goales and after in the Tower of London And did with admirable Wisdom and Courage approve himself an eminent Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom by making such a defence in their several bloody Tribunals viz. at their Vpper Bench bar and High Court of Justice as that he put to silence those bold Judges who sate there with design to take away his life And tho he was reduced to the greatest want and misery which his severe opposers by sale of his Lands cutting down his Woods and demolishing the principal Seat of his family at Cotholstone could bring upon him yet by the subsistance which his aged Mother the Lady Elizabeth Griffin afforded him which was all he had he most chearfully underwent the same lived to see the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2 and to be again elected one of the Knights for the County of Somerset to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661. After he had continued there some months his urgent affairs drew him to his house at Ham three miles distant from Somerton in his own Country where dying 21 Feb. 1661 aged 62 years was buried on the 23 of Apr. following on the south side of the Chancel of the Church at Cotholstone five miles distant from Taunton There goes under the name of this most loyal person his Petition and Remonstrance to the Parliament and O. Cromwel as also his Vindication printed 1653 and 55. fol. In the latter end of Jan. 1682 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. was graciously pleased to create Ralph Stawell Esq a Baron of England by the name and stile of Lord Stawell of Somerton in consideration of the eminent Loyalty and Sufferings of his father before mention'd during all the time of the Troubles and the many good and acceptable Services performed by him Jan. 31. Sir Rob. Lee Knights Jan. 31. Sir Joh. Paulet Knights The last who had been sometimes of Exeter Coll as it seems was a younger son of the Lord Paulet James Young lately of Qu. Coll in Oxon eldest son of Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester was created the same day Jan. 31. Nathan Heighmore sometimes of Trin. Coll. Jan. 31. Christop Merret sometimes of Gloc. Hall Mar. 4. Rob. Bosworth of Brasn Coll. He was chose Burgess for the City of Hereford to sit in Richards-Parliament began at Wes●minster 27 of January 1658. Doct. of Div. From the 1 of Nov. to the 21 Feb. were between 40 and 50 Doctors of Divinity actually created most of whom follow Nov. 1. Rob. Payne Canons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. George Morley Canons of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester Barten Holyday sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Oxford was created the same day Nov. 1. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jer. Taylor of All 's Coll. The first of these last three had been Greek Professor of this University and was afterwards Warden of his Coll whence being ejected he retired to London where dying in Febr. 1657 was buried in the Church of the Black Fryers The second was now or about this time Fellow of Eaton Col and Master of Wigstons Hospital at Leycester from both which being ejected in the times of Usurpation he suffered equally with other Loyalists At length upon his Majesties return he was not only restored to his Fellowship and Hospital but elected Warden of All 's Coll. in the place of Dr. Sheldon promoted to the See of London and made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Dr. Nich. Monk
authority do when he is possest by knaves Miserable man His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his bable Elsewhere he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness of his being a Cypher or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army while Cromwell was Head-master and Ireton Vsher c. that he was a stalking horse a Brute c. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once at least in his works stile him the brutish General as being a person not fit to hearken to reason When the War was terminated and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left he went to London in Nov. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth and nothing was thought too good or great for him After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley Newmarket c. he expressed himself civil to him as he did afterwards at Hampton-court but then having no pious frauds in him or dissimulation for a good end he did not or could not endeavour as being no politician to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew He did not endeavour to repell or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members the Agreement of the People c. but was lull'd on in a kind of stupidity 'T is true that before the King was beheaded in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit he did use his power and interest to have the execution defer'd for some days forbearing his coming among the Officers and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution or have it defer'd till he could make a party in the Army to second his design But behold his policy all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded and the time when he was beheaded he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse or both in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden and knew nothing of it as it doth appear by this passage When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joyning to the Banquetting-house at Whitehall and his Corps thereupon immediatly coffin'd and covered with a black velvet Pall Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left did go with the said Corps to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with Fairfax the General Fairfax asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him he told him that the King was beheaded at which he seem'd much surpriz'd Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell who knew what had lately past for he told them unasked that they should have orders for the Kings burial speedily as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert In little more than a fortnight after viz. Feb. 14. an 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State consisting of 30 persons and soon after when K. Ch. 2. ship'd himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right he laid down his Commission as General being influenc'd thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers because he would not engage against him whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place and how he afterwards acted against that King especially when he went into England to obtain his right all Histories will tell you Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver was ready to rise with the people of his County to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire if any ways successful and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him when they were about to fight Gen. Monke at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot. to restore the Rump but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659 against illegal taxes and free-quarter as also for the freedom of a Parliament as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659 the Rump Parliament then sitting he was by them appointed one of the Council of State and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland for the greater solemnity and luster of his Court there On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eye● of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army And when the first ceremony was past he desired as 't is said to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences which accordingly he did with all submission After the said Parliament was dissolv'd he retired to his seat lived retiredly and dying there was buried in an Isle joyning on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York Over his grave was soon after pur this Epitaph Here lye the bodies of the right honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton Baron of Camerone who died Novemb. the 12 an 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore armes for the Parliament especially when General Many Letters of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons some Relations concerning skirmishes battles taking of Castles Towns c. As also Remonstrances Declarations Speeches Messages c. He was a great lover of learning religious in the way he professed and when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took great care for the preservation of the publick Library which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possest by the Royal Party And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you May 19. Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ Law He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation the members thereof then standing bare and was presented by
Edward Rogers of Magd. Coll. The first of these two a most celebrated Lat. Poet of his time hath published several things of his profession and therefore he ought to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Incorporations Jul. 5. John Boord Doct. of the Laws of Cambr. He was of Trin. Hall in that University Sept. 8. Edward Montague Earl of Mancester Baron of Kimbolton c. Master of Arts and Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge which University he had ruin'd in the time of the grand and unparallel'd Rebellion was incorporated in the same degree as he had stood at Cambridge After he had been conducted into the House of Convocation in his Masters Gown and Hood by the Beadles and seated on the right hand of the Vicechancellour the Orator of the University who then stood on the other side near and above the Registraries desk did then speak directing his voice to him an eloquent Oration which being done the said Orato● went from his place and going to he took him by the hand and led him to the middle of the Area where he presented him to the Vicechancellour and ven Convocation which being done and he incorporated by the Vicechancellours Sentence he re-took his place This is that Kimbolton who with 5 members of the House of Commons were demanded by his Majesty on the 4 of Jan. 1641 for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government and to deprive the King of his legal power c. and the same who after he had sedulously endeavoured to promote did carry on a Rebellion and continued his course till the Wars were ceased Afterwards striking in with Oliver he became one of his Lords that is one of the Lords of the other house and was a great man a thorough-pac'd Dissembler c. and never a looser for his high actings against the Royal Family After his Majesties restauration towards which he pretended to be a great helper when it could not otherwise be avoided he was made L. Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold and in that quality did he with Edw. Earl of Clarendon Chanc. of the Univ come this year to Oxon from Salisbury where they left their Majesties in order to have Lodgings provided for them about to come hither to take up their Winter-Quarters to avoid the Plague then raging in Lond. and Westminster This Edw. Earl of Manchester had a younger brother named Walter Montague born in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate in London educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambr afterwards travelled beyond the Seas and returning with an unsetled mind did at length after he had been sent once or more into France about public concerns give a farewel to his own Country and Religion wherein he had been born and baptized and going beyond the Sea he setled himself in a Monastery for a time and wrot A Letter in justification of his change which was afterwards answer'd by Lucius Lord Falkland Afterwards being received with great love into the favour of the Qu. Mother of France she made him Abbat of Nantveil of the Benedictine order in the dioc of Mets and afterwards Abbat of the Benedictines of S. Martins Abbey near Pontois in the dioc of Roan in the place of Job Franc. de G●ndy deceased He was also one of her Cabinet Council and a promoter of Mazarine into her favour who when fix'd shew'd himself in many respects ungrateful to Montague and his friends And whereas Mazarine made it one of his chief endeavours to raise a family and to do such things that might perpetuate his name so Montague who was of a most generous and noble spirit and a person of great piety did act to the contrary by spending all that he could obtain for public and pious uses In his younger years before he left the Ch. of England he wrot The Sheppards paradise Com. Lond. 1629. oct And after he had left it Miscellanea spiritualia Or devout Essayes in two parts The first was printed at Lond. 1648 the other at the same place in 1654 and both in qu. I have seen a book intit Manchester al Mundo Contemplations on death and immortality Lond. 1635. oct and several times after the fifteenth impression of which was made at Lond. in 1690. in tw Which book was written by one of the family of the Earl of Manchester but whether by this Walter Montague who was a younger son to Henry Montague the first Earl of Manchester of his name I cannot tell because his name is not set to it This person who was commonly called Abbat Montague and sometimes Lord Abbat of Pontois died after Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England who concluding her last day on the last of Aug. 1669 he soon after followed as I have been informed by one of his domestick Servants who told me further that he was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the Hospital of Incurables at Paris You may read much of him in a book called Legenda lignea c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 137.138 c. but that book being full of Satyr persons of moderate Principles believe little or nothing therein As for the other persons who were incorporated besides the said Earl of Manchester were these Dec. 8. Joh. Logan M. A. of Glascow with liberty to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg which is all I know of him Mar. 8. Henr. Montague M. A. of Cambridge a younger son to the said Edward Earl of Manchester and others CREATIONS The Creations this year were mostly made on the 8 of Septemb. when the said Edward Earl of Manchester was incorporated M. A. at which time the Chancellour of the University was then in Oxon. Mast of Arts. Rob. Montague Visc Mandevile eldest son to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was presented by the Orator of the University with a little Speech and afterwards was seated on the left hand of the Vicechancellour After his fathers death in 1671 he became Earl of Manchester and died at Paris about the latter end of Decemb according to the English Accompt an 1682. Charles Dormer Visc Ascot of Mert. Coll eldest son of Charles Earl of Caernarvan Edward Capell of Wadh. Coll. a younger son of Arthur Lord Capell Vere Bertie a younger son of Montague Earl of Lindsey He was made Serjeant at Law in 1675 and afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer Charles Bertie his brother He is now Treasurer of the Ordnance Nich. Pelham Bt. of Ch. Ch. Scrope How Kt. of Ch. Ch. Will. Dolben a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and brother to Dr. John Dolben He was afterwards Recorder of London a Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench. Rich. Cooling or Coling Secretary to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was afterwards Secretary to Hen. Earl of Arlington while he was L. Chamberlain and on the 21 of Feb. 1688 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Maj. Privy Council in ordinary at which time were sworn with
a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll. in 1664 and on the 16 of January 1666 he was created a Baronet He hath translated into English The Epistle of Sapho to Phaon which is in a book entit Ovids Epistles translated by several hands c. Lond. 1681. sec edit in oct And in another book called Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684 oct Sir Carr hath translated The fourth Elegy of Ovids first book of Elegies which is in the 110 page of the said Miscellany Poems as also The parling of Sireno and Diana out of the 3 book of Ovids Elegies which is in the 173 page of that Miscellany He wrot also the Prologue to The Rival Queens or the death of Alexander Trag. Lond. 1677 qu. made by Nath. Lee And as divers Satyrical copies of verses were made on him by other persons so he hath divers made by himself on them which to this day go from hand to hand He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster in Nov or thereabouts 1680. All which persons from Jam. Russell to Sir Carr Scrope were created on the fourth of Feb. Feb. 5. John Scudamore a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. Grandson and Heir of Visc Scudamore of Slego in Ireland He was to be created the day before with the rest but was absent Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Thom. Boteler Earl of Ossory in Ireland and Lord Roteler of More-Park in England the eldest Son of James Duke of Ormonde and General of all the Forces in Ireland under his Father now Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom was created Doct. of the Civil Law with more than ordinary solemnity He was afterwards made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and in 1673 May 17 he was made Reer-Admiral of the Blew-Squadron of his Majesties Fleet in order to the great Sea-fight against the Dutch which shortly after hapned In which fight as also in others he gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a Romance Afterwards he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and on the 16 of Apr. 1680 he was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Council At length this brave Gent of whom enough can never be spoken died of a violent Feaver in Whitehall on Friday 30. July 1680 whereupon his body was in the next evening carried privately and deposited in a vault in the Chap. of Hen. 7 joyning to the Abbey Church at Westminster there to remain till his Father the Duke of Ormonde should order the farther disposal of it Afterwards it was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland as I have been informed and there laid in the Vault belonging to the Ormondian Family under part of the Cath. Church His eminent Loyalty and forward zeal on all occasions to serve his Majesty and Country were manifested by many brave and generous actions which as they made him to be honoured and esteemed by all when living made him also when dead generally lamented There were several Elegies made on his death deploring much the untimely loss of so great and valiant a Commander as he was the chiefest and best of which was made by Thomas Flatman which being his Master-piece he was nobly rewarded for his pains as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 626. George Douglas Son of the Marquess of Douglas in Scotland lately an Officer of note in the Army under the K. of France now an Officer or Captain under the K. of Poland was created next after the Earl of Ossory Sir Nich. Armorer Kt Governour of Duncannon Castle with the territory adjoyning in Ireland The said three persons were presented by Dr. Hen. Deane of New Coll and created by the Vicechanc. with a little complemental Speech which being done and they conducted to their respective Seats among the Doctors Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. the Dep. Orator did congratulate them with an accurate Speech in the name of the University Afterwards were created Masters of Arts certain Noblemen and persons of quality of this University as I have before told you among these Creations In the latter end of this year Joh. Jacob. Buxtorfius Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Basil became a Sojournour in this University for the sake of the Bodleian Vatican and continued there some months He was a learned man as by the things that he hath published appears An. Dom. 1667. An. 19. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. E. of Clar c. but he being accused of divers crimes in Parl which made him withdraw beyond the Seas he resigned his Chancellourship of the University by his Letter bearing date at Calis Dec. 7. Which being read in Convocation on the 20 of the same month the right reverend Father on God Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury was then elected into his place Vicechanc. the same viz. Joh. Fell D. D. Aug. 16. by the nomination of the E. of Clar. Proct. George Roberts of Mert. Coll. Apr. 17. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. May 21. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch. May 21. George Walls of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682. Jun. 27. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. Jun. 27. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1670. July 4. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. July 4. Thom. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. Oct. 17. Tho. Crane of Brasn Coll. Of the first and last of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1684 and among the Masters 1670. As for Thomas Jekyll he hath published several Sermons and other things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 17. Maurice Wheeler of New Inn afterwards Chaplain or Petty Canon of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1670. Oct. 17. William Pindar of Vniv Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Thompson of Vniv Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1670. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ I must mention here He was the Son of Rob. Thomps of Wakefield in Yorkshire was bred in Grammar learning there and thence sent to Vniv Coll. where he became a Scholar of the old foundation took one degree in Arts left it upon pretence of being unjustly put aside from a Fellowship there went to Cambridge took the degree of Master of Arts had Deacons orders confer'd on him and afterwards those of Priest which last he received from Dr. Fuller B. of Linc. in Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm 14 of March 1670. Being thus qualified he became Curat of Brington in Northamptonshire for Dr. Thomas Pierce who when made Dean of Salisbury an 1675 left that Living and took his Curat with him to that City and in 1676 he gave him a Prebend there and afterwards a Presentation to S. Maries in Marlborough in Wilts In
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atk●ns Kt. of the Bath then late
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Bruc● These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Oss●ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depo●ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was
of the Univ. to whom he was Chaplain Incorporations From the 5 of May to the 26 of Feb. was one Bach. of Laws and 19 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated The Bach. of Laws was Jul. 14. George Oxinden of Trin. Hall in the said Univ. He was afterwards Doct. of his Faculty Dean of the Arches Vicar-General to the Archb. of Canterbury and Chanc. to the Bishop of London Among the Masters that were incorporated were these following May 5. Matthew Smallwood of Qu. Coll senior Proctor of the Univ. of Cambridge Jul. 15. Nathan Resbury of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Minister of Wandsworth and Putney in Surrey Chaplain to Arthur Earl of Anglesey and after his death to James his son and at length Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary c. He hath published 4 or more Sermons and two little things against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. Jul. 15. Rich. Pearson of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of S. Michaels Crooked-lane in Lond. and author of three or more Sermons Steph. Vpman of Kings Coll was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Secretary to Rob. Earl of Aylesbury Fellow of Eaton Coll. an 1677 Preb. of Westminster c. Joh. Moore of Catherine Hall was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage E. of Nottingham Lord Chanc. of England D. D Minister of S. Ann's Church built in and taken from the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond afterwards Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne and Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Q. Mary He hath 4 or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things Quaere On the 5 of Jul. 1691 he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in Lond with other-Bishops in the place of Dr. Will. Lloyd deprived for not taking the Oaths to King Will. 3. and Qu. Mary Besides the said Masters were two Bach. of Div. of the said Univ. of Cambr. incorporated of which one was Richard Richardson of Eman. Coll Jul. 15. I have made mention of him and his Translation of A Treatise of Bees which he intit Caroli Butleri foeminia Monarchia sive Apum Historia c. in Ch. Butler among the Writers of this vol. p. 51. The other Bach. of Div. who was incorp was John Balderston of the said Coll. of Eman. There were also two Doctors of the Laws of the said Univ. incorporated viz. May 5. Jonas Docwra of Christs Coll and July 15. Rob. Thompson of Trin. Hall This last who was if I mistake not Secretary to the Archb. of Canterb wrot and published Sponsa nondum uxor Or the marriage between the Lady Kath. Fitz-Gerald and Edw. Villiers Esq asserted Being an answer to Dr. Dudl Loftus his book intit ΔΙΓΑΜΙΑΣ ΑΔΙΚΙΑ c. Lond. 1678. in 5 sh and half in qu. July 15. Henr. Atherton Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was of Christs Coll. in that Univ. and afterwards Author of The christian Physitian Lond. 1683. oct and perhaps of other books Qu. July 15. James Arderne D. D. of Cambr. This person who was a Cheshire man born was educated in Christs Coll. in that University and this year 1673 and in the year after he was Fellow Commoner of Brasn Coll partly for the sake of the public Library and partly for the conversation of the Divines and others in this University He was also about that time Minister of S. Botolph Aldgate in Lond afterwards Chapl. in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 who bestowing on him the Deanery of Chester upon the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman B. of the Isle of Man who had kept it in commendam with his Bishoprick was installed therein in July 1682. He hath written 1 Directions concerning matter and stile of Sermons Printed 1671. in tw 2 Conjectura circa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D. Clementis Romani Cui subjiciuntur castigationes in Epiphantum Petavium de Eucharistia de Coelibatu Clericorum de orationibus pro vitâ functis Lond. 1683. in 4 sh in qu. In the title of this book he writes himself Jacobus de Ardenna He hath also published two or more Sermons as The true Christians character and crown c. on Rev. 1.10 Lond. 1671. qu. As also A Sermon at the Visitation of John Bishop of Chester at Chester on 2 Tim. 4. ver 5. latter part Lond. 1677. qu. c. At length after this Doctor had run with the humour of K. Jam. 2 and therefore did suffer several Indignities and Affronts from the Vulgar of and near Chester when that King withdrew himself into France in Decemb. 1688 he gave way to fate on the 18 of Sept. 1691 whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of Chester on the 22 of the said month By his Will he bequeathed his books and chief part of his estate to provide and maintain a publick Library in the Cath. Church of Chester for the use of the City and Clergy Creations Aug. 10. James Alban Ghibbes or Gibbes or as he writes himself in his books Ghibbesius Poet Laureat to the Emperor was diplomated Doct. of Physick This most celebrated Poet who was too well known in Rome had to his Father Will. Gibbes a Native of the City of Bristow sometimes educated in Brasn Coll and afterwards taking to wife a zealous Catholick named Mary Stoner of the Family of Stoner near Watlington in Oxfordsh was by her endeavours as I have heard drawn over to her Religion Soon after they setled in London but finding not that quiet enjoyment relating to their opinion which they expected they went to the City of Roan in Normandy where this our Poet Laureat was born an 1616 or thereabouts and had the Christian name at the Font given him of James Alban in memory of the great Protomartyr of Engl. S. Alban Thence at 9 years of age he was conveyed into Engl and spent some time in trivial Literature there his Father being then Physitian to Hen. Maria Queen of Engl. Afterwards he was sent to the English Coll. at S. Omer where he spent some years with great advantage in Academical Learning And after he had laid a good Foundation there he travelled thro several parts of the Low Countries Germany Spain Italy c. and spent some time at Padua under the famous Anatomist Joh. Veslingius In the latter end of 1644 he setled in Rome in which year Pope Vrban 8. died and was there received especially among the English with great humanity Soon after upon the discovery of the worth of the person he was entertained by Franc. Atestinus Duke of Modena to be Tutor to Almeric his son with whom continuing about two years in which time he was mostly at Modena he was taken into the Patronage and Family of Bernardin Cardinal Spada Bishop of Fraschatie called by some Tusculan with whom living in the quality of Physitian till that Cardinal died he was taken
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. Wa●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. 169● 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
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born a● Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated
sixteen hundred forty and two was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625. was buried Dr. Crisp left behind him many children begotten on the body of his wife the daugh●er of Rowl Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London one of the Members of the Long Parliament and of the Council of State 1648-9 See more in Obad. Sedgwick THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells was born in that County became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry became at length after he was Master of Arts chief Master of Abendon School in Berks Where by his sedulous endeavours were many educated that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State In the year 1616 being then and some years before Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bathe and Wells he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1636 was licensed to proceed in Divinity Before which time he being as 't were broken or wearied out with the drudgery of a School had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect was a grace to his Profession was most learned also in Latin Greek and Hebrew antiquity and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy He hath transmitted to Posterity Romanae Historiae Anthologia An English exposition of the Roman antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel'd and divers obscure phrases explained In 3 books Oxon 1613 c. qu. Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells and Dean of his Majesties Chappel Moses and Aaron Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture in six books Printed 1625. in qu. Florilegium Phrasicon Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue When this book was first printed I know not for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith which coming in Ms into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin he made a Reply which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twisse The Presbyterian writers say that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews Greeks and Latines yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians than deal with Logicians and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon than as a Doctor of Divinity They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride and expos'd him to be derided by boyes Dr. Godwin after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose in requital of his many labours surrendred up his soul to God 20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell before-mention'd He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Tesdale of Abendon who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 201. a. JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term an 1586 7 aged 16 years made Demie of that house in 87 perpetual Fellow in 95 Mast of Arts in 98 one of the Proctors of the University in 1606 and three years after supplicated the ven congreg of Regents that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty but whether he was really admitted it appears not At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight afterwards Earl of Bristow and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embassadour into Spaine where remaining with him several years improved himself in various sorts of Learning and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries After his return into England he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells being then in orders was esteemed a learned man good Orator and a facetious conceited Wit He hath translated from Spanish into English under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be 1 The Spanish bawd represented in Celestina or the tragick comedy of Calisto and Melibea c. Lond. 1631. fol. 2 The Rogue or the life of Guzman de Alfarache Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman 3 Devout contemplations expressd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca 4 The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit Delight in several Shapes c. in six pleasant Histories Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies and dying about that time was buried in the Church belonging to that place as I have been informed by one of that name and family lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon. DAVID PRIMEROSE second Son of Gilb. Primerose a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Fasti an 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bordeaux made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library and conversation of protestant Theologists returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts and visited other places of learning Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity entred himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623 was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year and soon after performed the
1621 which was printed that year In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I yet know of him CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire near to Banbury in Oxfordshire Gent. Lord of the mannors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts compleated it by determination and then went as it seems to Cambridge or beyond the Seas where taking another degree he entred into orders was made Rector of Hickford in Bucks Doctor of the Laws and had as I have been informed by one that well knew him the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks bestowed on him About that time he being a competitor for the Wardenship of All 's Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected but lost it did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop And whilst he had hopes of that preferment he writ stoutly in justification of that calling and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him did upon some discontent watch an opportunity to gain preferment let it come what way soever At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London While therefore discontents did rise high in the North the Scots having in an hostile manner entred the Kingdom the people every where especially in London stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament which began 3. Nov. 1640 our Author Downing did then viz. on the first of Sept. 1640 preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church it was lawful to take up arms against the King He having thus kindled the fire in the City did for fear of being questioned for then it was not lawful to preach Treason retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex the house of Robert Earl of Warwick and common rendezvouze of all schismatical preachers in those parts while in the mean time his Sermon which did administer in every place matter of discourse was censur'd as people stood affected and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience And it seems that they consulting with the Jesuits on the one side and the rigid Puritan on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtful no longer but closed with these two contrary parties yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing as an evangelical truth Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause In 1643 he shewed himself a grand Covenanter and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines but leaving them soon after he sided with the Independents and preached so seditiously that he was commonly called Young Peters or Hugh Peters the second and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that shew'd themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament But behold while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions he was suddenly and as I may say most justly cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen His Works are these A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil considered under three conclusions c. Oxon. 1633. c. A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers To these two discourses tho his name is put yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them Discourse of the false grounds the Bavarian party have laid to settle their own Faction and shake the peace of the Empire c. Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse upon the interest of England considered in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions printed with the former book next going before A discoursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britaine different from those of Lower Germany c. Lond. 1641. qu. c. Divers Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1●40 on Deut. 25.17 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642 on 2. Thes 3. ver 2. whether printed I know not and others which I have not yet seen This person who had a hot and rambling Head laid it down very unwillingly and gave up the Ghost at Hackney about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four to the great grief of his aged Father who died in Nov. following This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George a sider with all times and changes well skil'd in the common Cant and a Preacher sometimes to boot a man of note in Olivers days as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces a Soldier in Scotland and at length Scout Master General there and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about took all opportunities to shew his Loyalty was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm 8. May 1661 was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland where to shew his zeal and love for his Majesty he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesties Commissioners of the Customs was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight created a Baronet on the first of July 1603. BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne mentioned before under the year 1613 p. 329 was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Esti●nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
c. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War in Luc. Florus which are now about to be published At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel His study of books and collections in MS. came after his death into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library He left also behind him a Widow and Children who soon after became poor and whether the Females lived honestly 't is not for me to dispute it HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancashire called Wygan or Wiggin became a Servitour of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1592 elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nov. 1593 took one degree in Arts two years after entred into Holy Orders and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts and seven years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours as I suppose made Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft in that City where by his exemplary life edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England His writings are these The new art of lying covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw Christian humiliation or a treatise of Fasting with a brief discourse of Lent Lond. 1625. qu. Epicures Fast or a short discourse discovering the licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Fasts Lond. 1626. in qu. Tribunal of the conscience or a treatise of examination Lond. 1626. 27. qu. Short discourse declaring the condition of Worldly cares with some remedies appointed for them Lond. 1628. Certain passages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit Gods love to mankind c. Answer'd by Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions in his Riches of Gods love to the vessells of mercy c. as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse Hearing and doing the ready way to blessedness Lond. 1635. in tw Rules for right hearing of Gods word printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 The Christians fast c. on Matth. 4.2 Lond. 1627. qu. 2 Contentment in Gods gifts or some Sermon notes leading to equanimitie and contentation on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6 Lond. 1630. in tw 3 Sermon on Luke 11.28 This I have not seen nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Bish of Roch. afterwards of York in whose possession it was when he died At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641 our Author Mason through vexation occasion'd by that Party was forced soon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd purposely to make room for a godly brother Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place where living in obscurity for some years not without vexation by the Rebels surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to him that first gave it in his house situate and being in a street there called Scoles in the beginning of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in the yard or cemeterie close to the ground-work of the pillar or buttress at the east end of the Church at Wygan He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an to bind poor children apprentices his librarie of books to the School and a considerable number of Bibles to the poorer sort of people for their children there JOHN VERNEUIL Vernulius was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France educated in the University of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts flew from his country for religion sake being a Protestant and went into England where he had his wants supplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh Afterwards he retired to the University of Oxon. in 1608 and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same year being then 25 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which House as from others he received relief In 1625 he was incorporated Master of Arts being then second-keeper of Bodleys Library where he performed good service for that place and wrot for the use of the Students there these things following Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae juxta numerorum ordinem quo extant in bibl Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. sec Edition The first was began by Dr. Tho. James Elenchus authorum tum recentium quam antiquorum qui in 4 libros sententiarum Thomae Aquinatis summas item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni de casibus conscientiae nec non in orationem Dominicam Symbolum Apostolorum Decalogum scripserunt This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum c. an 1635. Nomenclator of such tracts and sermons as have been printed and translated into English upon any place or book of the Holy Scripture now to be had in Bodleys Library Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw He also translated from French into English A Tract of the Soveraign Judge of controversies in matters of religion Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur Divinity Professor in the Academy of Mountalban afterwards Principal of Glascow in Scotland And from English into Latine a book entit Of the deceitfulness of mans heart Genev. 1634. oct written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge The said Joh. Verneuil died in his house within and near the East-gate of the City of Oxon in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried on the last day of the same month in the Church of St. Peter in the East within the said City at which time our publick Library lost an honest and useful servant and his children a good Father ROBERT PINK Son of Hen. Pink of Kempshot in the Parish of Winslade in Hampshire was born there educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612 afterward studied Divinity was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617 proceeded in Divinity and was much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in disputing as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty He was a zealous defender of the University privileges and liberties especially when he performed the office of Vicechancellour and esteemed by all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity He hath written Quaestiones selectiores in Logicâ Ethicâ
studies had brought his body into great indisposition did some weeks before his end retire with the advice of friends to the City of Canterbury in the month of Sept. an 1652 where being kindly entertained by Dr. Will. Jacob a noted Physician of that place but of no kin to did from him receive a cure of a gangreen in his foot But soon after a tumour breaking out from one of his Legs his radical moisture did as from a flood-gate violently run forth and so ended his life on the 5 of Nov. following about the year of his age 44. The next day the said Doctor buried him answerable to his quality in the midst of the Parish Church of Allsaints in that City Soon after in a bright Moon-shining night the resemblance of Hon. Jacob came into the bed-chamber of the Doctor who being asleep the resemblance laid his cold hand upon his face Whereupon the Doctor awaking looked up and saw H. Jacob staring upon him with his beard turned up as he used to wear it living whereat being strangely surprised stirred himself thinking that it might be a dream but still the resemblance stood still so that the Doctor having not courage to speak to it turned on the other side and laid in a cold sweat After some time he looked again and saw him sitting on a little table near to his bed but before morning he vanished Another night the Maid going out of the house saw the said resemblance standing on a Wood-pile and was thereupon much affrighted These stories the Doctor did confidently aver to be true not only to Dr. Pet. Moulin Preb. of Canterbury but to others of note among whom if I am not mistaken Dr. Meric Casaubon was one They were sent to me by a second hand from Dr. Jacob and whether true or not you may judge I shall not NATHANIEL BRENT Son of Anchor Brent of Little Wolford in Warwickshire a younger Son of Rich. Brent Gentleman eldest Son of John Brent of the House of Brent of Cosington in Sommersetshire was born at Little Wolford beforemention'd became Portionist commonly called Postmaster of Merton Coll in 1589 admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said Coll. in 94. being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty four years after entred himself on the Law Line became Proctor of the University in 1607 travelled into several parts of the learned World in 1613. 14. c. and underwent dangerous adventures in Italy to procure the History of the Council of Trent which he translated into English as I shall anon tell you and therefore to be remembred by posterity with an honorable mention After his return he married Martha Dau. and Heir of Dr. Rob. Abbot Bish of Salisbury and neice to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury by the favour of which last he had the Wardenship of Merton Coll. conferr'd on him was made Commissary to him Vicar general of England being then Doctor of the Civ Law and at length judge of the Prerogative on the death of Sir Henry Marten by another hand In 1629 Aug. 23 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Woodstock he being then and after accounted a zealous man for the Church and Prelacy But when he saw the Presbyterians begin to be dominant he sided with them and because of a Pique that had been between the Abbots and Bishop Laud he therefore became a frequent witness against the last at his trial deserted Oxon and his College when K. Ch. 1. garrisoned that place for his use took the Covenant and ran altogether with the rebellious rout About the same time he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. by his Majesties command but restored again when Oxford Garison was surrendred for the Parliaments use an 1646. In the years 1647. and 48. he was appointed Arch-visitor of this University and what he did there to promote the Presbyterian cause the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. will tell you under those years When an order was made against pluralities he was forced to leave Mert. Coll. in 1650 at which time if I mistake not he refused also the oath called the Engagement He translated into English as I have intimated before The History of the Council of Trent containing eight books In which besides the ordinary Acts of Council are declared many notable occurrences which hapned in Christendom during the space of 40 years and more c. Lond. 1616. there again 1619. 1677. fol. Sir Nath. Brent did also review Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae examine the quotations and compare them with the originals as I have told you before in Fr. Mason under the year 1621 And what else he hath translated and written is yet if any in Ms At length after he had lived 79 years he gave way to fate in his house in Little Britaine in the City of London on the sixth day of November in sixteen hundred fifty and two Whereupon his body was buried with great solemnity on the 17. of the same month in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew within the said City I have seen a printed Epitaph made on him by John Sictor a Bohemian Exile who if I mistake not had for some time before been exhibited to by Brent The contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by I find one William Brent a writer whose Great Grandfather William Brent of Stoke-lark in Glocestershire was younger Brother to Richard Brent Grandfather to Sir Nathaniel Of which William Brent the Writer I shall make some mention in Hen. Carey Earl of Monmouth under the year 1661. CHRISTOPHER ELDERFIELD son of Will. Elderf by Margaret his Wife was born at Harwell near to Wantage in Berks baptized there on the eleventh of Apr. 1607 educated in School learning under Hugh Lloyd M. A. of Oxon Vicar of Harwell and sometimes Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor which Hugh built a considerable part of the Vicaridge-house standing near the Churchyard and was buried in the Chancel of Harwell on the 17 of May 1654. As for our Author Elderfield he was entred a Batler in S. Maries Hall in Mich. term 1621 and being naturally inclin'd to good letters made great proficiency in them took the degrees in Arts entred into Orders and through several petit Employments became Chaplain to Sir Will. Goring Baronet and Rector of a depopulated Town near to Petworth in Sussex called Burton having then only the House of the said Goring standing there In the said House he spent his time in great retiredness and wrot these books following which shew him to have been well read in the Civil Canon and Common Law in School Divinity and other profound matters The civil right of Tithes c. Lond. 1650. qu. Of Regeneration and Baptism Lond. 1654. qu. The Author of these was a man of a single life only wedded to his book and so had only a spiritual issue to keep up his name He was left both Father and Mother to the two
Axe-yard joyning to Kingstreet within the City of Westminster where he died in the very beginning of the year about 25 of March sixteen hundred fifty and four but where he was buried I cannot tell for the register of S. Margarets Church wherein Axe-yard is situated mentions him not to have been buried in that Parish Now as for John Lilbourne before-mention'd he having been very famous for his infamy I shall say these things of him He was born of a good Family at Thickley-Punchardon in the County Pal. of Durham and when very young was sent to London and bound an Apprentice to a packer of Cloth in S. Swithins-lane At which time and before he was esteemed a youth of an high and undaunted spirit of a quick and pregnant apprehension and of an excellent memory yet always after much addicted to contention novelties opposition of Government and to violent and bitter expressions About the year 1632 he upon the dislike of his trade had a mind to study the common Law and therefore upon his and the desire of his friends he was taken into the service of Mr. Will Prynne of Linc. Inn who shortly after suffering for his Histrio-Mastix as I shall tell you at large when I come to him his Servant Lilbourne took his Masters part imprinted and vended a book or books against the Bishops for which being committed Prisoner to the Fleet was afterwards whipped at a Carts tail from the said Fleet to Westminster the indignity of which he being not able to endure railed all the way against his Persecutors When he came to the Pallace yard he stood in the Pillory two hours and talking there to the People against the State was gagg'd In 1640 he was released from his Prison by the Members of the Long Parliament and soon after took upon him the place of a Captain in their Service and after the battle of Edghill being taken Prisoner at Brainford in the year 1642 was carried to Oxon and there arraigned for a Traytor for levying War against the Person of the King Afterwards he being released he was made a Lieutenant Colonel and became for a time the Idol of the factious party But he being naturally a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments became a hodg-podg of Religion the chief ringleader of the Levellers a great proposal maker and modeller of state and publisher of several seditious Pamphlets among which were 1 A Salva Libertate 2 Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his Son in Law Hen. Ireton Esq 3 The outcry of the young men and the Apprentices of Lond. or an inquisition after the loss of the fundamental Laws and Liberties of England c. 4 The legal fundamental Liberties of the People of England revived 5 Preparation to an hue and crie after Sir Arth. Haselrig c. For which and for his endeavors to disturb the peace and subvert the Government of this Nation he was committed Prisoner to Newgate in Aug. 1645 where continuing a considerable while several Petitions subscribed by hundreds of Citizens and others as also by his Wife and many Women were put up to the Parliament for his releasment Afterwards he was transmitted to the Tower where having too much liberty allowed him he and his party spake very disgracefully of the two Houses of Parliament to whom it appeared that there was a design of many thousands intended under a colour of Petition to dishonour the Parliament and their proceedings whereupon his liberty was restrained and he was ordered to appear at the bar of the H. of Commons This was in Jan. 1647 and accordingly appearing he made a large answer to the information against him at which time the reading of proofs and examination of the business held till six of the Clock at night and then the House ordered that he be remanded to the Tower and tried by the Law of the Land for seditious and scandalous practices against the State Which order being not obeyed for his party withheld him under a pretence of a great meeting to be at Deptford in Kent about their Petition that is The Petition of many thousands of the free-born People of England c. it was ordered that the Officers of the Guards do assist the Sergeant in carrying him and Maj. Jo. Wildman to Prison which was done and that the Committee of Kent take care to suppress all meetings upon that Petition and to prevent all tumults and that the Militia of London c. take care to suppress such meetings and to prevent inconveniencies which may arise thereby and upon the said Petition Afterwards he seems to have been not only set at liberty but to have had reparations made for his sentence in the Star Chamber and sufferings before the Civil War began But he being of a restless spirit as I have told you published a Pamphlet entit Englands new Chains discovered c. which was the bottom and foundation of the Levellers design of whom he was the Corypheus Whereupon being committed again about the beginning of 1649 was brought to his trial in the Guild-hall where after great pleadings to and fro he was quitted by his Jury to the great rejoycing of his party Afterwards he went into the Netherlands and there as 't is said became acquainted with the Duke of Buckingham Lord Hopton Captain Titus c. At length being desirous to see his native Country he returned into England where after he had continued some time in his projects to disturb the Government he was apprehended and committed to Newgate and at length brought to his trial at the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie 20. Aug. 1653. but quitted again by his Jury Soon after he was conducted to Portsmouth in order to his conveyance beyond the Seas but by putting in for his peaceable deportment for the future he return'd fell into the acquaintance of the Quakers became one of them setled at Eltham in Kent where somtimes he preached and at other times at Wollidge and was in great esteem among that party At length departing this mortal life at Eltham on Saturday 29. of Aug. 1657 his body was two days after conveyed to the house called The Mouth near Aldersgate in London which was then the usual meeting place of Quakers Whence after a great controversie among a strange medley of People there mostly Quakers whether the Ceremony of a Hearse-cloth should be cast over his Coffin which was carried in the negative it was conveyed to the then new burial place in Morefields near to the place called now Old Bedlam where it was interred This is the Person of whom the magnanimous Judge Jenkins used to say that if the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne Lilbourne would quarrel with John and John with Lilbourne This Jo. Lilbourne who was second Son of Rich. Lilbourne Esq by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Thom. Hixon of Greenwich in the County of Kent Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Qu. Elizabeth had
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167● fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
at Court had a high value for him and so continued for several years after He was highly valued by the most noble Tho. Earl of Strafford with whom he went into Ireland and continued there for some time to the end that his advice and counsel might be used which tho advantageous in several respects to that generous Count yet it was disliked by many especially those of the precise party after they had understood Tob. Mathew's character from one Andr. ab Habernfield in a pretended discovery of a plot of treason against the King sent in a Letter from Sir Will. Boswell his Majesties Agent at the Hague to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury in the month of Octob. 1640 which runs thus Sir Tob. Mathew a Jesuited Priest of the order of Politicians a most vigilant man of the chief Heads to whom a bed was never so dear that he would rest his head thereon refreshing his body with sleep in a chair for an hour or two neither day nor night spared he his machinations a man principally noxious and himself the plague of the King and Kingdom of England a most impudent man who flies to all banquets and feasts called or not called never quiet always in action and perpetual motion thrusting himself into all conversations of superiors He urgeth conferences familiarly that he might fish out the minds of men Whatever he observeth thence which may bring any commodity or discommodity to the part of the conspirators he communicates to the Popes Legat and the more secret things he himself writes to the Pope or to Cardinal Barbarino In sum he adjoins himself to any mans company no word can be spoken that he will not lay hold on and communicate to his Party In the mean time whatever he hath fished out he reduceth into a Catalogue and every Summer carrieth it to the general consistory of the Politician Jesuits which secretly meet together in Wales where he is an acceptable guest c. He was a Person extremely hated by the Presbyterians and more especially by Prynne who spared not to say because he was acquainted with Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. that he was sent into England by the Pope Urban the 8. with whom he was in great esteem to reconcile England to the Church of Rome in which work also he as they further say received a Pension from the said Card. Barbarino the Protector of the English Nation at Rome But letting these bare reports pass I shall only tell you that he had all his Fathers name and many of his natural parts was also one of considerable learning good memory and sharp wit mixed with a pleasant affability in behaviour and a seeming sweetness of mind though sometimes according to the company he was in pragmatical and a little too forward He hath written and translated several things but all that I have yet either seen or heard of are only these A rich Cabinet of precious Jewells When printed unless in 1623 or where I know not A collection of Letters Lond. 1660. oct Character of the most excellent Lady Lucy Countess of Carlile Printed with the collection She being the Goddess that he adored was the reason why Sir John Suckling brought him into the Poem called The Session or Court of Poets thus Toby Mathews Pox on him what made him there Was whispering something in some-bodies eare When he had the honor to be named in court But Sir you may thank my Lady Carleil for't The said Lucy was Daughter of Hen. Percy Earl of Northumberland who dying issuless in Nov. 1660 was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex by her Ancestors Letters to several Persons Lond. 1660. oct printed with the collection and character with his picture before them Among which letters are perhaps those of his writing in the Cabala Mysteries of state published in 1654 and in the Cabala or Scrinia Sacra printed at Lond. 1663. He also wrot a book to shew the benefit that proceeds from washing the head every morning in cold water which I have not yet seen and had gone far in the History of the late times but leaving it imperfect it never yet saw light He translated into English 1 S. Austins confessions printed in oct sold in 1624 about which time it was printed for sixteen shillings a Copy tho as one saith it might have been afforded for 2 s. 6 d. 2 The Life of S. Teresa pr. about 1623. in oct 3 The penitent Bandito or the history of the conversion and death of the most illustrious Lord Signor Troilo Savelli a Baron of Rome printed about the same time The second edit of it came forth in 1663 in oct He also translated into the Italian tongue The Essaies of Francis Lord Bacon printed at Lond. in oct He concluded his last day at Gaunt in Flanders on the 13. of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and five according to the accompt they there follow in the house of the third probation of the English FF of the society of Jesus and was buried in a Vault under the Church belonging to them without any kind of pomp or splendor in funeral according to his will On his Coffin of wood was a leaden plate fastned with this written thereon Hic jacet D. Tobias Matthaei JEROM TURNER Son of George Turner was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there made his first entry into the University in Easter term 1633 aged 18 years and soon after being made Batler of S. Edmunds Hall took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member thereof in the year 1636 and compleated it by Determination Not long after he became Schoolmaster of Beer belonging to Seaton in Devon where also he preached as an Assistant to his very good Friend Hugh Gundrey his Fathers kinsman for the space of two years Thence he removed to Axmonth in the said County where he served as an Assistant also to Will. Hook then Minister of that place afterwards in New England and at length Master of the Savoy in the Strand near London with whom he continued about two years more From thence he removed to Compton two miles from the place of his nativity where he continued a while and thence removed to Sir Thom. Trenchard to be his Chaplain continuing there till 1641 about which time the Civ War breaking out he was forced to fly to Southampton for refuge where he continued during the heat of the Wars and preached with the great approbation of the Presbyterian Ministers and People there So much it seems they were taken with his Sermons that they earnestly perswaded him to print an exposition he had made on the first Chapter of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Ephesians but he could not be prevailed upon to do it The Wars being over and Neitherbury a great country Parish in Dorsetshire being void of a Minister he by the sollicitations of friends went thither and became their Pastor in the beginning of
of Faith and Works Oxon. 1665. oct Answer to Mr. Rich. Smiths Letter concerning the sense of that Article in the Creed He descended into Hell dated 29 Apr. 1659. Lond. 1684. oct The said R. Smiths letter was dated from Little More-fields near Lond. in the said month 1659. This R. Smith being a curious person in matters of that nature did make A Collection of several Expositions and Opinions of Christs descent into Hell and had several Conferences with the learned Selden upon that Argument which he left in writing behind him as I shall elsewhere tell you Paraphrase and Annotations upon the ten first Chapters of the Proverbs Lond. 1683. fol. All or most of which books here set down were by the care of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. published in four volumes in fol. at Lond. 1684. and at the latter end of the fourth Vol. was put an Appendix to the second vol. At length after this most famous and celebrated Author had spent his life in great retiredness lucubration and devotion he surrendred up his most pious soul to God in the house of Sir John Packington before mention'd on the 25 day of April in sixteen hundred and sixty aged 55 years whereupon his body was on the morrow in the evening buried in the Chancel of Hampton Church near to Westwood before mention'd with the whole office and usual rites of the Church of England not at that time restored or practised by publick command Over his grave was soon after a comely Monument erected with an inscription thereon composed by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of London a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 203. a. But a larger than that was made by the affectionate pen of Mr. Tho. Pierce afterwards President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon a copy of which you may see in the beginning of the first vol. of Dr. Hammonds works published by W. Fulman before mentioned The Reader is to know that one Hen. Hammond wrote a book intit Ouragraphy or Speculations on the excrements of Urine c. Lond. 1655. oct c. But this Hen. Hammond who seems to have been a Physician is not to be understood to be the same with our most celebrated Author before mention'd who was brother to Tho. Hammond sometimes a Colonel and afterwards a Lieutenant General in the Army that the Long Parliament raised against K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Judges of that blessed Prince but died before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and so escaped the halter or at least perpetual imprisonment and confiscation of estate The said Dr. Hen. Hammond was also Uncle to Robert Hammond a Colonel of Foot in the said Army made Governour of the Isle of Wight in the beginning of Sept. 1647 and about the 14 of Nov. following his Majesty put his person in trust under the protection of him in the said Isle after he was frighted away from Hampton Court In the middle of July 1648 his Majesty declared to divers of his party about him that the said Colonel was a man of honour and had carried himself civilly and respectively to him Afterwards it was believed that he forfeited the Kings good opinion of him by that uncomely act of looking into his Majesties scrutore of letters with a design to discover something but did not At that time his Majesties servants Mr. Ja. Harrington and Mr. Th. Herbert were in the Bowling●green at Carisbrook waiting upon the King who finding the weather somewhat cold bid Herbert go for his Cloak Herbert therefore entring the Bed-chamber found Hammond the Governour ready to come forth with an Officer in his company and Mr. Humph. Rogers who waited as Page at the Back-stairs and by insinuation had let the said Governour come in Herbert being informed of their designs was afraid to reprove the Governour but as he return'd to the Green with his Maj. Cloak he gave the Page a sharp rebuke with which the Governour being acquainted threatned Herbert with a dismiss for censuring that act of his and had doubtless expel'd him the Castle if his Maj. out of his goodness had not past it by without reproaching the Governour or taking notice thereof as I have been informed by letters from the said Tho. Herbert created a Baronet after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. JAMES CHALONER a younger son of Sir Tho. Chaloner mention'd before under the year 1615 was born in London and at 13 years of age 1616 became a Communer of Brasnose Coll where continuing 3 or 4 years went afterwards either to travel or to the Inns of Court Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he sided with the Parliament and being a person of a mean fortune and ready to run with all Parties he was chosen a Recruiter for Auldborough or Oldburg in Yorksh to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 upon the receeding of two loyal persons who had been elected by the Members of that Borough to his Majesty at Oxon. About the same time he took the Covenant and afterwards siding with the Independents was by the power of Fairfax the Generalissimo appointed Secretary to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon in 1647 and in the year following upon Cromwells Invitation one of the Judges of King Ch. 1. Afterwards he was appointed one of the three Commissioners by the said Fairfax to survey and take an account of the Isle of Man an 1652. which Isle had been given to him the said Fairfax by the Parliament for the great service he did them against the King and at length was made Governour of one of the Castles there known if I mistake not by the name of Peel Castle He hath written A short Treatise of the Isle of Man Lond. 1656. fol. divided in six Chapters Illustrated with Cuts and published by Daniel King of Cheshire at the end of the survey of Cheshire intit The Vale Royal of England written by Will. Smith and Will. Webb Gentlemen This Dan. King who was a pitiful pretender to Antiquities was a most ignorant silly Fellow as Sir Will. Dugdale hath informed me by letters an errant Knave and not able to write one line of true English Afterwards he married a light Huswife who stealing that money from him which for many years before he had been scraping together by his progging and necessitous tricks and shifts died heart-broken for his loss near York house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster about 1664. As for Chaloner who was esteemed by some an ingenious man and a singular lover of Antiquities he had made divers Collections of Arms Genealogies Seals Monuments c. from antient Evidences which being so done were fairly written by him in paper books and afterwards perused by the learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson an eminent Antiquary as some of his Collections from the said books inform me The said Chaloner also had made Collections of Arms
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161● 1● aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
5 of Aug. following being Sunday Mr. Edw. Reynolds preaching to the University in the Chappel of Mert. Coll of which he was Fellow touched upon the passages which had hapned between Prideaux and Heylyn impertinently to his text but pertinently enough unto his purpose which was to expose Heylyn to disgrace and censure But so it was that tho he was then present yet it did little trouble him as he himself acknowledgeth In Feb. 1627 he was by the letters of the Lord Danvers then Earl of Danby commended to Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells for his advancement in the Church By vertue of which he was received by him as our Author Heylyn tells you at large in the life of the said Bishop published 1668 at which time having several private discourses together Laud fell upon the business at Oxon. between Prideaux and him adding withal that he had read his supposition when he answered pro forma a copy of which Heylyn had given to him and found therein that it was so strongly grounded that all the Prideauxes were not able to overthrow it in a fair way that also he would not have him discouraged by noise and clamours telling him farther that he himself had in his younger days maintained the same positions in a disputation in S. Johns Coll. for which he was much clamoured at by Dr. Abbot then Vicechancellour afterwards Archb. of Cant. and made a by-word and reproach in the University but he thanked God he had overcome that difficulty and got the better of his Adversaries and so might he Finally he admonished him to hold in that moderate course he found him in and to apply his study to the making up of breaches in the walls of Christendome c. In the latter end of 1628 he went as Chaplain to the E. of Danby beforemention'd into the Isle of Guernsey of which the said Earl was Governour where continuing about 3 weeks returned into England drew up a discourse of that voyage and in the Month of June in the year following did present it to Laud then Bishop of London to whose patronage as it seems he had committed it The same year also 1629 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and nominated one of his Maj. Chaplains in Jan. the same year So that being Shipped and in hopes of a good wind he thought it did concern him to do somewhat to be known at Court especially by the great ones there Whereupon he fell into a resolution to effect the History of S. George Patron of the most noble Order of the Garter the studying and writing whereof took up all the spring time of 1630. He found it full of difficulties the whole world being against him and no path to follow but at length he overcame it Upon Act Sunday the same year he preached the University Sermon at S. Maries on this text But while men slept the Enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went away Matth. 13.25 In which Sermon he discovered the great mystery of iniquity which lay hid under the specious project of the Feoffes for buying in of impropriations and was the first who ever gave publick notice of the danger of it to the undeceiving of the People It made much noise and brought to him more envy as he is pleased to say if I mistake not in his Historie of the life of Dr. Laud. The same year also on S. Mar. Magd. day he resigned his Fellowship having been married almost two years before In Oct. 1631 he was made Rector of Henningford in Huntingdonshire by the procurement of Dr. Laud and on the first of Nov. following the K. gave him a Prebendship of Westminster void by the death of Dr. George Darrell somtimes Fellow of All 's Coll. Which matter so soon as it came to the knowledge of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and then Dean of Westminster it put him to extreme vexation because this our Author Heylyn was beloved of Dr. Laud between which Bishops there was never a right understanding and that also there was likely to follow great discord between them because of several affronts that Williams had before given him for his forwardness high conceit of himself and confidence The next year the K. bestowed on him the rich Parsonage of Houghton in the Spring within the Bishoprick of Durham void by the preferment of Dr. Aug. Lindsell to the Bishoprick of Peterborough which for his own convenience the King gave way that he should change it with Dr. Marshall for the rectory of Ailresford in Hampshire In 1633 he proceeded D. of D. and in the Vespers then held had these 3 questions following to answer to 1 An Ecclesia habeat authoritatem in determinandis fidei controversiis Aff. 2 An Eccles habeat authoritatem decernendi ritus ceremonias Aff. 3 An Eccles habeat authoritatem interpretandi Scripturas sacras Aff. All which tho taken Verbatim out of the 20 Article of the Church of England were so displeasing to Prideaux the Professor that he fell into very great heats and passion in which he let fall certain matters very unworthy of the place where utter'd as also distastful to many of the auditory among whom were James du Perron the Queens Almoner afterwards Bishop of Angoulisme in France which after drew some censure on him The particulars were these 1 Ecclesia est m●ra chimera 2 Ecclesia nihil docet nec determinat 3 Controversiae omnes melius ad Academiam referri possunt quam ad Ecclesiam 4 Docti homines in Academiis possunt determinare omnes controversias etiam sepositis Episcopis c. Upon occasion also of mentioning the absolute decree he brake into a great and long discourse that his mouth was shut up by Authority else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis which fetcht a great hum from the Country Ministers then present What therefore followed upon this you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 440. a. But so netled was Prideaux that the K. by Heylyns means should take cognizance of that matter that when he put in his protestation against the utterance of those things alledged against him into the hands of the Chancellour of the University in Aug. following did at the same time the King being then at Woodstock cause a paper to be spread about the Court touching the business of the Vespers in the last Act very much tending to Heylyns disgrace Heylyn therefore being not able to brook it for he was of an high and audacious spirit it so fell out that when in Oct. following came out his Maj. declaration concerning lawful sports which raised much clamour against the King and more against Dr. Laud Heylyn for the appeasing it fell upon a course of translating Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath and putting a preface to the same which being published in print in Hilarie term an 1633 conduced much to his Majesties proceedings in
in the quality of a Gent. Com. for more than two years he went beyond the seas for a time and at his return received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty then at Hinchingbrook who before had restored to this our Author Digby his estate forfeited by his father on the 28 of Octob. 1623. In the year 1628 being then Admiral of a Fleet going to the Levant about which time I find him written è secretiori conclavi ad Carol. 1. in rebus maritimis Administrator praecipuus he acquired great honour by his gallant comportment at Algier in reescating many English Slaves and by bearing up so bravely in the resolute Onset on the Venetian Fleet in the Bay of Scanderoon and making the Pantolini to know themselves and him better This Onset was made as 't is reported on the eleventh of June his birth-day as Ben. Joh. will have it yet a Pamphlet that was publish'd the same year giving an account of all the Transactions of that Fight tells us it was on the 16 of the same month which if true then the fortune of that day is again mar'd For this his Valour and by his Travels into several Countries and converse with the Virtuosi of most civilized Nations he became The ages wonder for his noble parts Skill'd in six Tongues and learn'd in all the Arts. He was not only Master of a good graceful and judicious stile but also wrot an admirable hand both fast and Roman His person was handsome and gigantick and nothing was wanting to make him a compleat Chevalier He had so graceful elocution and noble address that had he been dropt out of the Clouds in any part of the World he would have made himself respected but the Jesuits who cared not for him spoke spitefully and said 't was true but then he must have stayed there above six weeks He had a great faculty which proceeded from abundance of wit and invention of proposing and reporting matters to the Virtuosi especially to the philosophical Assembly at Montpelier and Royal Society at home Which is the reason why many say that as he was most exactly accomplish'd with all sorts of Learning so was he guilty withall of extravagant Vanities Nay one a most noted Author doth not stick to say that this our eminent Virtuoso was the Pliny of our age for lying having been provoked to say so not only from the said Reports but from another which put men to a very great wonder viz. of a City in Barbary under the King of Tripoli that was turned into stone in a very few hours by a petrifying Vapor that fell upon the place that is Men Beasts Trees Houses Utensels c. every thing remaining in the same posture as Children at their Mothers breasts c. But this report the Reader is to understand that Sir Kenelme had from an Englishman Mr. Fitton residing in Florence Library-keeper to the great Duke there by Letter dated 2 Jul. 1656 and he from the great Duke who a little before had written to the Bassa of Tripoly to know the truth Which strange accident being look'd upon as the great wonder of the world was put into the common News-book of that time called Mercurius Politicus as having been received from Sir Kenelme then residing at Tholouse in France who sent a full account of it to a friend of his in England in Sept. following But as no man knew better than Sir Ken. how to abound and how to live like a Philosopher for both were indifferent to him so none of his time knew better how to take and pocket up Abuses which indeed belongs to a true Philosopher In the beginning of the Civil Wars he shew'd himself active for the Kings Cause and thereupon was forced to compound for his estate in 1649. Which being done the Parliament then sitting voted that he should depart the Commonwealth and not return without leave from the House under pain of death and confiscation of his estate Notwithstanding which he did afterwards return for a time and as 't is said cringed to Oliver but in what sense whether in order for the good of the Rom. Catholicks or for the carrying on of some publick design I cannot now tell About the same time he being Chancellour to Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England she sent him as her Envoy from France to the Pope was at his first coming to Rome highly venerated by all people as being a person not only of a majestick port and carriage but of extraordinary Parts and Learning At length growing high and huffing his Holiness he was in a manner neglected and especially for this reason that having made a collection of money for the afflicted Catholicks in England was found to be no faithful Steward in that matter As for his Works they are these Letter giving an account of the fight with the Venetians at the bay of Scandaroon Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Par. 1638. c. Lond. 1654. oct Answer'd by Will. Twisse but never published Observations upon Religio Medici Lond. 1643. 44. oct c. They were the conceptions of one night and of an hasty birth The said Rel. Medici was pen'd by Dr. Tho. Browne as I shall elsewhere tell you Treatise of the nature of Bodies Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1658. 1665. and 69. all three in qu. Answer'd by Alex. Rosse in a book intit The philosophical Touchstone or observations on Sir Ken. Digby's Discourses of nature of Bodies and of the reasonable Soul c. in which his erroneous Paradoxes are refuted c. Lond. 1645. qu. Treatise of the nature of Mans Soul Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1645. 58. 69. qu. This which was answer'd by Rosse also with the Treatise of the nature of Bodies were translated into Latin by J. L. and had a Preface put to them by Tho. White who writes himself Thomas Anglus ex Albiis East-saxonum Par. 1651. folio Observations on the 22 d Stanza in the ninth Canto of the second book of Spencers Fairy Queen Lond. 1644. octavo Institutionum peripateticarum libri quinque cum appendice Theologica de origine mundi Par. 1651. fol. set at the end of the two Translations made by J. L. before mention'd Translated into English by the said Tho. White Lond. 1656. oct Letters to the Lord George Digby concerning Religion Lond. 1651. oct Of the cure of Wounds by the powder of Sympathy Lond. 1658. oct Spoken in French in a solemn Assembly at Montpelier in France 1657. and translated into English by Rich. White Lond. 1660. Reprinted at Lond. with the Treatise of bodies an 1669. and translated into Lat. by Laur. Stransius of Darmstad in Hassia It is also printed in the book intit Theatrum sympatheticum published by Joh. Andreas Endter at Norimberg 1662. in qu. and is also printed in the German Language This is the so much approved sympathetical powder said to be prepared by Promethean fire curing all green wounds that
beneficial employment he wrot books to his last He had a singular command of his pen whether in verse or prose and was well read in modern Histories especially in those of the Countries wherein he had travelled had a parabolical and allusive fancy according to his motto Senesco non Segnesco But the reader is to know that his writings having been only to gain a livelyhood and by their dedications to flatter great and noble persons are very trite and empty stoln from other authors without acknowledgment and fitted only to please the humours of Novices His works are these Dodena's Grove or the vocal Forest Lond. 1640. 44. qu. Much cried up and taken into the hands of curious People at its first publication The second part of it was printed at Lond. in 1650 oct and tho not so much admired as the first which was translated into French and printed several times yet there was a translation made of it into the new refined French by one of the prime wits in the Academy of Breux Esprits of Paris Par. 1652. qu. Ou le Parler des Arbres Par. 1648. qu. The English copy I have not yet seen this being different from the Vocal Forest which bears another title in the French edit The vote or a Poem-Royal presented to his Majesty for a New-years gift by way of discourse 'twixt the Poet and his Muse cal Jan. 1641. Lond. 1642 in two sh in qu. 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Vindication of some passages reflecting upon him in a book called The Popish Royal Favorite pen'd by Mr. Prynne Lond. 1644 in tw Printed with the very next pamphlet before mentioned A clearing of some occurrences in Spain at his Majesties being there cited by the said Mr. Prynne out of the Vocal Forest This is also printed with the former Epistolae Ho-Elianae Familiar letters domestic and forreign divided into sundry sections partly historical political and philosophical Lond. 1645. 47. qu. Lond. 1650. oct There again 1655 and 73 in oct All which impressions contained two vol. and had to the last added a third and fourth volume Many of the said letters were never written before the Author of them was in the Fleet as he pretends they were only feigned no time being kept with their dates and purposely published to gain money to relieve his necessities A nocturnal progress or a perambulation of most Countries in Christendome performed in one night by strength of imagination Written in the Fleet 1645. Lustra Ludovici or the life of Lewis 13 K. of France and of his Cardinal de Richelieu Lond. 1646. fol. Divided into 7 lusters and dedicated to Pr. Charles at his Court in the Isle of Jersey An account of the deplorable and desperate condition that England stands in an 1647. in a letter to Francis Cardinal Barberini Written from the Fleet 1647. Letter to the Earl of Pembr concerning the times and the sad condition both of Prince and People Printed 1647 in two sh in qu. 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Discourse of the Interests of the Reipublick of Venice with the rest of the states of Italy Printed with the Survay Some sober inspections made into the carriage and consults of the late Long Parliament c. Lond. 1653. oct Dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector whom he compares to Charles Martel and complements him in smooth language The fourth edition of this book came out in 1660 with several additions containing reflections upon government in general with some prophetick paragraphs and a supplement of divers signal passages which the other three additions had not Hist of the Wars of Jerusalem Epitomiz'd Printed in oct Ah Ha Tumulus Thalamus Two counter poems the first an Elegy upon Edward late Earl of Dorset The second an Epithalamium to the L. Marquess of Dorchester with an Hymeneum or Bridal-sonet of 4 stanzas according to a choice Aire set thereunto by Mr. Will. Webb Lond. 1653 in two sh in qu. A Dialogue Published and couched under the name of Polyander Written about the time that Oliver began to be Protector In this Dialogue he gives his opinion for a single Person against all other governments The German diet or the ballance of Europe wherein the power and weakness glory and reproach virtues and vices c. of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are impartially poysed Lond. 1653 fol. The authors picture from head to foot is set before the title leaning under a British oak Parthonopoeia or the history of the most renowned Kingdom of Naples with a list of their Kings c. Lond. 1654 fol. The first part of it was written by Scipio Mazzella englished from Ital. by Samson Lennard Herald of Arms. The second part was compiled by our Authors Jam. Howell who besides some supplements to the first part draws the thread of the story to these present times Collected and translated from several modern Ital. authors Londinopolis An historical discourse or perlustration of the City of London and Westminster with the Courts of Justice Antiquities and new buildings Lond. 1657. fol. 'T is a short discourse mostly taken from
but such I have not yet seen But all this by the by as for Jam. Howell he published Cottoni posthuma Divers choice pieces of that renowned Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton c. Lond. in oct and the late Kings Declaration in lat Fr. and Engl. an 1649. At length after he had taken many rambles in this world in his younger years and had suffered confinement in his last gave way to fate in the beginning of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried on the north side of the Temple Church in London near the round walk Soon after was a monument set up in the wall over his grave with this inscription thereon Jacobus Howell Cambro-Britannus Regius Historiographus in Anglia primus qui post varias peregrinationes tandem naturae cursum peregit satur annorum famae domi forisque huc usque erraticus hic fixus 1666. This monument was pulled down in 1683 when the said Temple Church was beautified and repaired JOHN GLYNNE third Son of Will. Glynne Esq was born at Glyn-Llyvon in Caernarvanshire the antient seat of his Ancestors bred in the Coll. school at Westminster went full ripe in Grammar learning to Hart Hall in Mich. term 1621 aged 18 years where continuing about 3 years he retired to Lincolns Inn became Barrister a Counsellor of note and Bencher Afterwards he was made Steward of Westminster Recorder of London and in 1640 was elected twice a Burgess for Westminster to serve in those two Parliaments called that year In the last of which commencing 3. of Nov. he was appointed one of those doughty Champions to bait the most noble and worthy Thomas Earl of Strafford in order to bring him to the Block which being done he shewed himself a great enemy to the Bishops and their function a zealous Covenantier a busie man in the Assembly of Divines among whom he sometimes sate and what not to promote his interest and gain wealth So that being then well known to be an useful member for carrying on the blessed cause he was made Clerk of the Petty bag in Sir Edw. Wardour's place a known Royalist esteemed to be then worth 1000 l. per an and what other places he could not take because of his profession he got them to be confer'd on his creatures and kindred In 1647 he with other Parliament men took a Pique against the Army and would needs have them disbanded whereupon they impeached him and ten more of high treason on the 16 of June the same year and forthwith by order of Parliament they were sent Prisoners to the Tower In January following he was deprived of his Recorders place but then wheeling about and flattering the Independents he was made Serjeant at Law in Oct. 1648 and in July following Will. Steel Esq was elected Recorder in his place not as 't is supposed without consideration given to Glynne In the beginning of the year 1655 he was sent into the West Hen. Rolls Ch. Justice refusing to arraign that brave and valiant Gent. Col. John Penruddock and others his Associats taken at South Moulton after the rising of the Cavaliers at Salisbury by Article-breaking Unton Croke For which good service as 't was then called and his complying principles to advance the Protectors interest he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Upper Bench To which office he was sworn 15 June 1655 by Fiennes and L'isle Commissioners of the Great Seal The last of which did then make a learned speech wherein he spoke much in commendation of the good government as he term'd it that they then lived under About that time our Author Glynne was made one of Olivers other House that is House of Lords and so long as that Person lived he was much favoured by him After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made his eldest Serjeant at Law by the corrupt dealing of the then L. Chancellor and on the 16. of Novemb 1660 he by the name of John Glynne of Henley Park in Surrey c. received the honour of Knighthood Under his name are these things following extant Divers discourses in the managing of the evidence against Tho. E. of Strafford See Joh. Rushworth's Trial of the said Earl Replication in the name of all the Commons of England to the general Answer of Tho. Earl of Strafford c. 13 July 1641. Lond. 1641. in 2 sh and half in qu. Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the presenting the Sheriffs of London in Octob. 1644. 2 Speech to the point of Jus divinum and the Presbyterian Government This was spoken for an whole hour together in Nov. 1644 upon the advice of the Ass of Divines that the Presbyterian Government was jure divino c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most ancient and legal form of Government in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1658 and made good by several arguments Lond. 1660. oct besides other things which I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life in his house situated in Portugal Row in Linc. Inn Fields near London on the 15 of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried with great solemnity being accompanied to his grave by three Heralds of Arms in his own Vault under the Altar in the chancel of the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster as I have been informed by his son Sir Will. Glynne of Bisseter alias Burncester in Oxfordshire Baronet who dying 28 of Aug. 1690 was buried also in the same Vault See more of Sir Jo. Glynne in Sir Will. Jones in the first Vol. under the year 1640. p. 544. I have seen a book intit A true accompt given of the proceedings of the right honorable Lord Glyn the Lord Ch. Justice of England and the honorable Baron Rog. Hill one of the Barons of the Exchequer in their Summer Circuit in the Counties of Berks Oxon c. Lond. 1658. qu. But the Reader must know that this being writ in drolling verse by one that called himself Joh. Lineall the L. Glynne was so far from having any knowledge of it or consenting to its writing that there was great enquiry after the Author to have him punished for his Abuses of and smart Reflections on him GEORGE GRIFFITH was born at Penrhyn in Caernarvanshire 30 Sept. 1601 educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1619 took the degrees in Arts became an eminent Tutor in his house and a Preacher in these parts Afterwards Dr. John Owen Bishop of S. Asaph to whom he was Chaplain conferr'd on him the Rectory of Llanvechen in Montgomeryshire which he changed for Llanymynech situated partly in Shropshire and partly in Montgomeryshire In 1635 he proceeded D. D. being then or about that time Canon and as some say Archdeacon of S. Asaph and Minister of Llanchinio in the said County of Montgom In the time of the Rebellion he lost all or most of his
assisted by some papers lent to him by Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chanc. of England was printed at Lond. in Lat. 1661 and at Amsterdam in the year following in oct and reprinted with the first part at Lond. 1663 in oct c. Of which two parts and their author hear what a learned writer says after he had condemned George Hornius Honorius Reggus a Scotch Anonymus and Salmonetus Scoto-Britannus who have written very falsly concerning our English affairs thus Eorum omnium qui hactenus de rebus apud nos nuper gestis scripserunt latino idiomate unus Bateus dignus est qui legatur quanquam etiam ab Anonymo scriptore propensi nimium in Puritanos animi nuper est accusatus c. A third part of Elenchus motuum was slightly composed and continued from Newer books to the year 1669 by Tho. Skinner a Doctor of Phys of this University published in Latine with the former parts at Lond. 1676 which would have been far better performed by our author Bate if he had lived but one year longer At length after the impressions had all in a manner been vended one A. Lovel M. A. of Cambridge gave us a translation of all the Elenchi but not well done Pr. at Lond. 1685 oct In which year he had two translations of other mens works extant the mentioning of which as being not pertinent is now to be omitted But the two parts published by Dr. Bate having several passages in them that gave offence not only to the Papists but Cavaliers for the reason before given one Robert Pugh who had been one Officer in the Kings Army wrot an answer to them entit Elenchus Elenchi c. Par. 1664. oct To which Bate made a reply but as his Son hath told me he did not publish it only put it in Ms in the Cottonian Library and upon that report did I in my Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. say as much in the life of Dr. Bate Whereupon Pugh having had notice of or else had read it he made a search after it in the said Library as he himself hath told me several times but could not find it otherwise he would have made a Rejoynder Now here by the way I must let the Reader know that this Rob. Pugh was born at Penrhyn in the Parish of Eglos-Rosse in Caernarvansh and educated in the Jesuits Coll. at S. Omers Afterwards coming into England he bore Arms for the King and was a Captain in that War that began 1642 Which being done without the consent of the Superiors of his Order he himself being then a Jesuit he was ejected from among them Afterwards he entred himself among the secular Priests became confessor to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England and by P. Innocent the 10. was created Protonotarius Publicus Apostolicus an 1653. Besides the former book he wrot Bathoniensium Aquis granensium Thermarum comparatio variis adjunctis illustrata Lond. 1676. oct Written by way of Epistle to his patron Roger Palmer Earl of Castlemaine dated at Bathe 7. Kal. Aug. 1675 Also another book Of the several states and governments that have been in England since 1642. Which is in Ms in the said Earls hands I have seen also a Lat. Ode of his composition made on the immature death of Sidney Mountague who either died of a wound or in the flames or waters in the Sea fight between the Engl. and Dutch on the 5 of the Kal. of Jun. 1672 being then in the Ship of his kinsman Edw. Earl of Sandwich 'T is printed on one side of a broad sh of paper At length upon the breaking out of the plot called by some The Popish Plot and by others Oats's Plot he was with other Priests committed to Newgate Prison in London where being not able to undergo hardship and coldness of weather he surrendred up his last breath about 12 of the Clock at night on the 22 of January 1678 aged 69 years or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried the next day in the yard or burying place belonging to the parish of Christ-church situate north west at some distance from the said Church within Newgate London where I remember I saw his grave soon after under the middle part of a brick wall on the north side of the said yard He was a person of a most comely port well favour'd and of excellent parts and therefore he deserved a better end Our author Dr. Bate also with Franc. Glisson and Ahasuerus Regemorter Doctors of Physick and Fellows of the Coll. of Physitians did compile a book entit De Rachitide sive morbo puerili qui vulgo the Rickets dicitur Lond. 1650. oct Chiefly composed by Glisson which book was afterwards translated into English by Philip Armin. Lond. 1651. oct and about that time also by Nich. Culpeper as I conceive who writes himself a Student in Physick and Astrology author of divers Physical Books and Almanacks Dr. Bate died in his house in Hatton Garden in Holbourn near London 19. April in sixteen hundred sixty and nine Whereupon his body was carried to Kingston upon Thames in Surrey and was buried by that of his wife Elizabeth who died 17 Apr. 1667 in an isle or rather a vestry joyning on the north side of the Church there Over his grave is a monument fastned to the east wall of the said vestry between the two east windows with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now omit and only tell you 1 That after his death was published Pharmacopoeia Bateana In qua octingenta circiter pharmaca pleraque omnia è praxi Georgii Batei Regi Car. 2o. Proto-medici excerpta c. Lond. 1688 and 1691. oct by the care of J. Shipton an Apothecary and 2 That whereas there hath been one George Bate who hath published The lives actions and execution of the prime actors and principal contrivers of that horrid murder of our late pious and sacred soveraign K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1661. oct he is not to be understood to be the same with the Doctor but another far inferior to him in all respects one that had ran with the mutable times and had after his Majesties restauration endeavoured by scribling to gain the favour of the Royalists RICHARD MATHER son of Tho. Mather by Margaret his wife was born at Lowton in the parish of Winwick in Lancashire an 1596 educated in Grammar learning in the School at Winwick distant about 4 miles from Lowton and thence was called to teach a publick School at Toxteth Park near to Leverpool in the said County an 1612 where pretending to receive a new light within him was converted to godliness an 1614. Thence he went to Oxon and was admitted a Student in Brasn Coll. 9. May 1618 being then about 22 years of age where he met with some that had been his Scholars and became acquainted with a most zealous and godly Divine from whom he gained much in his studies
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
after to the Rectory of Allhallows Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire by the favour of Edw. Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of England about 1664 which he kept to his dying day His works are these Sermons meditations and prayers upon the plague Lond. 1636. 37. oct The sermons are on 2. Chron. 7.13.14 on Matth. 6.2.5.16.33 c. The Soveraigns desire peace The subjects duty peace in 3. sermons the first on Psal 112.6 the second on Rom. 13.1 and the third on Rom. 15.2 Lond. 1643. qu. Which Sermons were preached in the Summer-time an 1642 at S. Pauls Cath. and S. Botolph near Aldgate but such offence was given to the nice and precise party for several passages in them tho they contained praying for peace and preaching for obedience to the King that he was as a Malignant imprison'd from the 29. Oct. to 26. Dec. 1642. In all which time being unseen and unheard he by his letter sent to the Lord Mayor for releasment was sent for to him But being there accused of several things by John Levet a Tallow chandler which were only praying for peace and preaching up obedience at an unseasonable time he was remitted back to prison not to Crosbie House where he was detained before but to Gresham Coll. where he continued a long time and afterwards in Newgate where he had scarce straw allow'd him to lie in whilst his Majesty was exclaimed against when he afforded the Rebels better usuage He hath also written and published The Scriptures vindicated from the unsound conclusions of Card. Bellarmine and the controverted points between the Church of Rome and the reformed Church stated according to the opinion of both sides Lond. 1643. qu. Manual of Devotions suiting each day with prayers and meditations answerable to the work of the day as also each mans calling viz. the Noble-man the Soldier the Lawyer Tradesman c. Lond. 1643. in tw The Soldiers Catechisme composed for the Kings Army c. Lond. 1645. oct the eighth edit The Jesuit the chief if not the only state-heretique in the world or a Venetian quarrel disgested into a dialogue Pr. 1647. qu. Mercurius Academicus communicating the intelligence and affairs of Oxford to the rest of the passive party thorowout the Kingdom Commencing from Munday in Easter-week 1648. Pr. in 1. sh in qu. How many sh or numbers followed I know not for I have only yet seen the first There was also a Merc. Academicus that began to come out at Oxon. in the beginning of Jan. 1645 but who wrot it I know not A Letter of an Independent to Mr. John Glynne Recorder of Lond. Pr. 1645 in tw sh in qu. His name is not set to it only common report makes him the Author To all Paupertatis ergò Nè peream fame To some Gratitudinis ergò Ne peream infamiâ Whether it be better to turn Presbyterian Roman or continue what I am Catholick in matter of religion Lond. 1658. in two sh in qu. Six and thirty questions propounded for resolution of unlearned Protestants c. Pr. 1659. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 136.26 Print 1639. qu. 2 Divinity no enemy to Astrology serm for the society of Astrologers in the year 1643 preached as it seems on Matth. 2.2 3 The hand of God or King Davids choice on 2. Sam. 24.14 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Twelve anniversary Sermons on the funeral of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. Among them is one on 1. Sam. 10.27 another on 1. Kings 21.19 a third on Ps 169.30 c. What other things he hath written and published I know not and therefore I can only say that he died on the ninth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried the next day in the Chancel of Allhallows Church in Stanford before-mention'd and that his last words were Hic vixit temporibus quibus Carolum primum magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regem farino more trucidarunt Rebelles Which he would have to be put over his grave JOHN DAVENPORT son of John Davenport and elder brother to Christopher Davenport commonly called Franc. à Sancta Clara whom I shall in his proper place mention was born in the City of Coventry in Warwickshire an 1597 and in Grammatical learning there educated In the beginning of the year 1613 he was by his Relations sent to Merton Coll where continuing about two years under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Lane was for a certain reason which I shall tell you in the life of the said Christop Dav. translated to Magd. Hall where continuing under a severe and puritanical discipline for some time he left it without a degree retired to London became a noted preacher among the Puritans and at length Minister of S. Stephens Church in Coleman-street In 1625 he retired to Magd. Hall for a time performed his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Div accumulated and took that degree and in short time after retired to London again where by the Brethren he was esteemed a person of excellent gifts in preaching and in other qualities belonging to a Divine About the year 1630 he was appointed by certain factious and discontented persons one of the Feoffees for the buying in of impropriations but that project tho seem'd good to some being quash'd he about the year 1633 left his pastoral charge under pretence of opposition by the Prelates because he scrupled at certain ceremonies but without a certificate or testimony to shew what he was or what he had been and forthwith went beyond the Seas to Amsterdam without a call or invitation At that place he endeavouring to be a Minister in the English congregation and to joyn with them in all duties he was much opposed by Mr. John Paget an Elder or one of the chief Ministers there and especially for this reason that he would not agree with him in all things relating to baptisme Whereupon our author Davenport taking these and other matters in great disdain he wrot in his own defence Letter to the Dutch classis containing a just complaint against an unjust doer wherein is declared the miserable slavery and bondage that the English Church at Amsterdam is now in by reason of the tyrannical government and corrupt doctrine of Mr. Jo. Paget their Minister Printed 1634. qu. Certain instructions delivered to the Elders of the English Church deputed which are to be propounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in Amsterdam Pr. the same year in a qu. paper About the same time he wrot 1 A report of some passages or proceedings about his calling to the English Ch. in Amsterdam against Joh. Paget 2 Allegations of Scripture against the baptizing of some kind of infants 3 Protestation about the publishing of his writings Which three things were pr. at Amsterd 1634. qu. In the year following most of the aforesaid little scripts were answered by Paget and at the same time were answer'd by him the complaints of one Will. Best a member of
Davenports perswasion Whereupon Best came out with The Churches plea for her right or a reply to an answer c. Amst 1635. qu and soon after our author Davenport with An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill refused to joyn with the Ministers in their meetings took away many of their disciples such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts and preached and prayed to them in private houses In the beginning of the rebellion he returned into England as other Nonconformists did and had a cure bestowed on him but finding matters not to go current with his humour he by the perswasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there where he continued in great esteem with those of his perswasion to the time almost of his death His other writings are these Catechisme containing the chief heads of Christian religion Lond. 1659. oct Published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England In this Catechisme one Will. Hook a teacher there had a hand I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire author of 1 New Englands tears for old Englands fears c. Print 1640-1 qu. 2 The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven Pr. in oct 3 Sermon in New England in behalf of old England Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons He died in or near London 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden near to the said City See more of him in Jerom Turner an 1655. Several Sermons as 1 The Messiah is already come on Acts 2.36 Lond. 1653. qu. 2 Gods call to his people to turn unto him c. in two Sermons on two publick fasting days in N. England Lond. 1670. qu. 3 Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests on Lam. 3.26 Printed 1661 in tw and others among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18 Lond. 1629. qu. The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget entit The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods Lond. 1672. oct He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mention'd published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants or Saints portion in 14. sermons with four other added an 1629. qu. c. At length he having lived beyond the age of man surrendred up his Soul to God at Boston in New England to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668 on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was inter'd there in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton for whom in his life time he had an extraordinary respect He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing Which being esteemed very fit for the press was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely and Mr. Ed. Veal and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it to be sold for 7. sh in quires in Mich. term an 1687. But soon after the printing of it was stop'd and the merchant who design'd afterwards to publish it died so 't is question'd now whether ever it will see light JOHN MAYNARD esteemed by those of his perswasion an eminent and judicious Divine was born of a gentile family in Sussex at or near Riverfield became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall In 1622 he took the degree of Mast of Arts as a Compounder entred into holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country But when the rebellion broke out he shew'd himself more a Puritan and preached with more liberty than he did before whereupon being appointed one of the Ass of Divines he took the Covenant held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament had other preferments I presume bestowed upon him and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His writings are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1645. qu. 2 A shadow of the victory of Christ Fast●serm before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The young mans remembrancer and old mans monitor Lond. 1669 oct The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ or the harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded c. delivered in several sermons Lond. 1674. oct What became of this reverend author after his Majesties restauration I mean whether he conformed or was ejected I know not nor any thing else of him only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction several years after his death 13. June 1687. I find another John Maynard who published a book entit The XII wonders of the world set and composed for the Viol de Gambo the Lute and the voice to sing the verse c. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. Julians in Hertfordshire Another John Maynard who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter under the year 1690. WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term an 1624 aged 15 years Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Div. than Philosophy After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entred into the sacred function and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England but upon the turn of the times in 1●41 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor put in a Curate into Farnham and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj.
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 answer●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
THURMAN the Son if I mistake not of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest an 1643 was educated in Westminster School and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex He hath written A defence of humane learning in the Ministry Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister or Preacher should be skill'd in humane learning Oxon. 1660. oct Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it for which he was then rewarded but not altogether to his mind This book being published in Mich. term 1659 was look'd upon as a seasonable piece of service because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake and had certainly gone to the pot had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief This Mr. Thurman died about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch have informed me but where buried they could not further add CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister was born at Hinton in that County an 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints where he profited very much and more might he have done had not his friends sent him into France and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exil'd King for the cure of the Kings Evil of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School and in the year following he was elected one of the Kings Scholars there where 't was usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore in little more than half an hour In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed subtilities of Philosophy After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physick in which he made so wonderful a progress that had he lived he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleance he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity and thereby would as 't is probable have shew'd himself as excellent for Oratory as he had the year before done for his poetry He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning He was enriched with a great and happy memory a most accurate judgment and with a clear and quick wit He hath written Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh in qu. Divers poems MS. with translations of Poetry particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille often acted on the French stage which he rendred into English vers He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire Soon after was a large epitaph made for by one that intirely loved him but whether it was put over his grave I know not The beginning is this Siste viator irrita naturae virtutisque molimina vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere c. JOHN MENNES the third Son of Andr. Mennes Esq by Jane his second Wife Daughter of John Blechendon Esq Son of Matthew Mennes was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent on the eleventh of May 1598 and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there In the 17th year of his age or thereabouts he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years did advance himself much in several sort● of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
Westm School London 1659 in 4 sh in qu. and in the preface to it doth give himself ease upon Pierce by answering the calumnies as he calls them in he said Reflections that were thrown upon him Whereupon Pierce finding a grand mistake in the matter came out with a reply soon after written by way of Letter to Dr. Pet. Heylyn to vindicate himself as being not the author of those Reflections c. Saintship no ground of Soveraignity or a treatise tending to prove that the saints barely considered as such ought not to govern Oxon. 1660. oct The great question concerning things indifferent in religious worship c. Lond. 1660. qu. The second part of the great question concernig things indifferent in religious worship c. Lond. 1661. qu. The necessity and use of heresies or a third and last part of the great question about indifferent things in religious worship c. pr. 1662. qu. Discourse about Christ and Antichrist or a demonstration that Jesus is the Christ c. on Joh. 13.17 and Acts 26.8 Lond. 1661. qu. Treatise about the resurrection pr. with the Discourse about c. Exercitationes duae altera Theologica de presbyteris et episcopis altera Academica de philosophiâ veteri ejusque usu unâ cum duabus rationibus ejusd argumenti c. Lond. 1661. qu. Letter unto a person of honour and quality containing some animadversions upon the Bishop of Worcester Dr. G. Morley letter London 1662 in one sh and an half in qu. The said Bishops letter was written to Mr. Baxter in Vindication of himself from his misreports But to this letter of our author which was subscribed by D. E came out the same year three answers one by S. H. Sam. Holden Bach. of Arts of Ball Coll. A second called A letter with animadversions upon the animadverter on the B. of Worcesters Letter by J. C. M. D. in two sh in qu. And the third by Rog. L'estrange entit A whip for the Schismatical animadver upon the Bish of Worcesters Letter Lond. in qu. But whilst the said Whip was in the press came out The second part of animadversions with an answer to all that R. L'estrange intends to write Lond. 1662 qu. subscribed by D. E. The soberest excesses of which L'estrange took notice of in his pamphlet called A memento being chiefly a paraphrase on Sir Fr. Bacons Essayes But our author Bagshaw not returning any thing to the particulars therein charged upon him tho challenged by L'estrange both before and afterwards to call him to make a particular proof of what he had said concerning him he came out at length in print against L'estrange with a pamphlet Entit A Letter to Edw. Earl of Clarendon L. high Chanc. of England c. Lond. 1661. qu. wherein he not only endeavours to vindicate himself as to his former actions in relation to Church and State but also to use all means possible by little and false stories to vilifie and calumniate L'estrange Whereupon the same year the said L'estrange published an answer thereunto entit Truth and Loyaltie vindicated from the reproaches and clamours of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw c. Lond. 1662. And tho our author Bagshaw in these three foregoing papers was so forward as to appear in public for Mr. Baxter yet afterwards he had no thanks from him for his Labour saying that it troubled him that Mr. Bagshaw had wrot so unskilfully for him against the then Bish of Worcester Treatise about the spiritual nature of God and his worship grounded on Joh. 4.24 Lond. 1662. qu. Brief enquiry into the grounds and reasons whereupon the infallibility of the Pope and Church of Rome is said to be founded Lond. 1662 qu. Answered by Ser. Cressy in a book entit A non est inventus See in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. Antidote against Mr. Baxters treatise of Love and Unity viz. the cure of Church devision London 1671. qu. Which being answer'd by Mr. Baxter in his Defence of the Principles of Love c. Lond. 1671. oct our author came out with a Reply in 5. or 6. sh in qu. which I have not yet seen Mr. Baxter calls it a Libell as he doth the Antidote in his book entit A Second admonition to Mr. Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines crimes and especially fourscore palpable untruths in matters of fact published by him in two small Libells c. Lond. 1671. oct To this Sec. adm of Mr. Baxter our author published a third answer intit in part A review or all Mr. Baxters calumnies confuted This was soon replyed upon by Baxter in a small piece bearing this title The Church told of Mr. Edw. Bagshawes scandall and warn'd of the dangerous snares of Satan c. now layd for them in his Love-killing principles c. Lond. 1672. qu. Ready way to prevent sin Lond. 1671. oct This I have not yet seen nor his Discourse of Conscience Pr. in qu. nor his Letter to Sir Jo. Robinson Lieut. of the Tower Written I suppose when he was a prisoner there Mr. Baxter tells us that E. Bagshaw wrote and published The life and death of Mr. Vav Powell that faithfull Minister and Confessor of Jesus Christ c. Printed 1681. in oct But how true his report is I cannot tell because there are such silly things and such canting and impertinent stuff in it that no generous Scholar or a Scholar of Academical breeding as Bagshaw was would or could be author of it T is true that he did finish and compleat Vav Powells little thing called A Collection of those Scripture prophecies which relate to the call of the Jews c. added to his Concordance of the Bible yet I cannot beleive that he was author of the said life At length after his time had been spent in a continued agitation in opposition to all that was in relation to the Church setled by Law he unwillingly laid down his head and died in an house in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried on the first of Jan. following about the middle of the yard called the Fanatical burial place near Bunhill and on the north side of the New Artillery garden near London being then accompanied to that place by near a 1000 of Protestant Dissenters Over his grave was soon after built an altar monument on which was this inscription made by Dr. Jo. Owen engraven Here lies interred the body of Mr. Edward Bagshaw minister of the Gospell who received from God faith to embrace it courage to defend it and patience to suffer for it which by the most despised and by many persecuted esteeming the advantage of birth education and learning as things of worth to be accounted loss for the knowledge of Christ. From the reproaches of pretended friends and persecutions of professed Adversaries he took Sanctuary by the will of God in eternal rest the 28. Dec.
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
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
one that would give it to him died with meat in his mouth that is suddenly in Chepstow Castle before mention'd in Sept. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the ninth day of the same month buried in the Church of Chepstow Some time before he died he made this Epitaph by way of Acrostick on himself which runs thus Here or elswhere all 's one to you to me Earth aire or water gripes my ghostless dust None knowing when brave fire shall set it free Reader if you an oft tryed rule will trust You 'l gladly doe and suffer what you must My life was worn with serving you and you And now death's my pay it seems and welcom too Revenge destroying but it self while I To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly Examples preach to the eye care then mine sayes Not how you end but how you spend your dayes Aged 78. Another Epitaph was made by his daughter who usually attended him which for brevity sake I now omit JOSEPH GLANVILL was born at a Sea-port Town in Devons called Plymouth became a Batler of and entred into Commons in Exeter Coll 19 Apr. 1652 aged 16 years where being put under a good Tutor Sam. Conant M. A. and severely disciplin'd in religion Logick and Philosophy makes me wonder considering that that House was then one of the chief nurseries for youth in the University why he should afterwards lament that his friends did not first send him to Cambridge because as he used to say that new Philosophy and the art of Philosophizing were there more than here in Oxon and that his first studies in this University did not qualifie him for the world of action and business After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of July 1656 where taking the degree of M. of Arts in the beginning of 1658 was about that time made Chaplain to old Franc. Rous one of Olivers Lords and Provost of Eaton Coll. But he dying soon after Glanvill return'd to Oxon continued in Linc. Coll. for a time and became a great admirer of Mr. Rich. Baxter and a zealous person for a Commonwealth After his Majesties restauration he turned about became a Latitudinarian a great pretender to the new Philosophy wrot and published The vanity of Dogmatizing to gain himself a name among the Virtuosi was made a member of the Royal Society entred into holy orders according to the Church of England and by the favour of Sir James Thynne was presented to the Vicaridge of a Mercate Town in Somersetshire called Frome-Selwood in the beginning of Nov. 1662 in the place of John Humphrey a Non-conformist In 1666 Jun. 23 he was inducted Rector of the great Church in Bathe dedicated to S. Pet. and S. Paul and in July 1672 he changed Frome for the rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton annex'd in Somersetshire with Rich. Jenkins M. A. So that by vertue of the presentation to those two Churches by Tho. Thynne Esq Jenkins was instituted to Frome and Glanvill to Streat and Walton on one and the same day viz. 26. July 1672. About that time he was made one of the Chaplains in ordinary to K. Ch. 2. and at length by the endeavours of Henry Marquess of Worcester to whom our authors Wife pretended some alliance he became one of the Prebendaries of Worcester in the place of Hen. Greisley deceased in which dignity he was installed 22. June 1678. A certain author named Hen. Stubbe who wrot much against and did not care for him saith that Mr. Glanvill was the most impudent Lyer in the world that he would prove him a lyer and so ignorant and illiterate a fellow that he was not fit to come into any learned company or to open his mouth among them He tells us also that he did not understand Greek only to read it he could not construe Aristotle he knew not Logick either in the practice or notion that he was an ignorant and inconsiderate fellow that as much as he pretends to have studied Aristotle and the peripatetick Philosophy yet he did not know that Aristotle held the gravity of the air and was therefore followed by the Avicennists and Averroists c. that he was against the fertility of the way of notion and dispute concerning which he affirmed that it produced no practical useful knowledg He charged him with impiety and indiscretion with decrying the learning of the Lord Bacon yet to excuse his errour and insolence he made use of his great name and thought it a sufficient apology that he could shew that the subject of his most obnoxious periods and passages were to be found largely and often insisted on by so great and learned a man He tells us also that he was a renegado Presbyter Latitudinarian a proud and conceited person c. But all these things with many more having been spoken by a rash person and one that was well known not to abound with good nature and seldome to have spoken well of any body I shall take the liberty to give this character of him Glanvill with which those that knew him as I did partly will without doubt concur viz. that he was a person of more than ordinary parts of a quick warm spruce and gay-fancy and was more lucky at least in his own judgment in his first hints and thoughts of things than in his after-notions examined and disgested by longer and more mature deliberation He had a very tenacious memory and was a great Master of the English Language expressing himself therein with easie fluency and in a manly yet withal a smooth stile He catcht at all occasions as well in his discourse as in his writings of depreciating that renowned Master of reason and celebrated advancer of knowledge Aristotle and of undervaluing his philosophy altho it hath been received in the Schools for many ages as if great authority with general approbation and advantage and in the place of it he substituted many pretty new fangled and fantastical Hypotheses of that Philosophy which bidding defyance to the old boasts it self in the winning and glorious title of being new This also must be said that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sloath of elder dijudicants from whom a more generous temper might be expected than to sit down in a contended despair of any farther progress into Science than hath been made by their idolized Sophy as he is pleased to term it and depriving themselves and all this world of their liberty in Philosophy by making a Sacramental adherence to an heathen authority And this it was together with the pedantry and boyishness of humour that drew from him those reflections he directed against Aristotle in the Letter which I shall anon mention He did more especially applaud and recommend that more free and generous
before the said Epistle congratulatory c. Printed at Oxon 1684. qu. Which Epistle was written as I have been informed by a Scottish Writer since I wrot these things by John Maxwell Bishop of Ross in Scotland who therein compares the Presbyterians to the Jesuits Sed qu. ANTHONY SADLER son of Tho. Sadl of Chilton in Wilts was born in that County entred in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler in Lent term 1627 admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders an 1631 being then 21 years of age Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire and in the beginning of the Civil War Curat of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire was refused to pass by the Triers an 1654 and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey where I find him in much trouble an 1664 occasion'd by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place and afterwards to be Doctor of Div. and Chapl. extraord to his Majesty He hath written and published Inquisitio Anglicana or the disguise discovered shewing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers c. Lond. 1654. in three sh in qu. Several Sermons as 1 Benedictio Valedictio or the remembrance of thy friend and thy end being a farewell serm preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased on 2 Cor. 13.11 Lond. 1655. oct 2 Mercy in a miracle shewing the deliverance and duty of the King and People on Matth. 8.25 Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660 in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne c. A divine Masque Lond. 1660. qu ded to the Lord Gen. Monke Strange news indeed from Mitcham and Surrey of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham c. Lond. 1664. in one sh in qu. Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper written in English partly in verse and partly in prose This is the second or third edition but when the first came out I know not nor any thing else of the author only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty or thereabouts leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit RICHARD ALLESTRY or Allestree son of Robert son of Will. Allestry of Alveston in Derbyshire was born at Uppington near to Wreken in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning mostly in the Free-school at Coventry where Philem. Holland taught became a Commoner of Ch. Ch. in Lent term an 1636 aged 15 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Busby and about half an year after was made Student of that House In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for his Maj. under Sir Joh. Byron and when Oxford was garrison'd for the King he bore a musket among the Scholars for his service In 1643 he proceeded Master of Arts and the same year had like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon after he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the House but when the Parliament Visitors came under pretence of reforming the University he with hundreds more were ejected So that being put to his shifts he was soon after entertained as Chaplain to Francis Newport of Shropshire Esq afterward L. Newport of High-Arcal with whom continuing till Worcester fight he did after the Kings miraculous escape from the Rebells there attend him at Roan in Normandy and received his dispatches to the managers of his Affairs in England Soon after coming to Oxon where he found his friends Mr. Joh. Dolben and Mr. Jo. Fell living privately and performing the Offices of the Church of England to the loyal party there he joyned with them and continued there till Sir Anth. Cope of Hanwell near Banbury prevailed with him to live in his family which for several years he did having liberty allowed him to go or stay as his occasions required By which advantage he was enabled to step aside upon Messages from the Kings friends which he managed with courage and dexterity But in the Winter of 1659 being snapt at Dover in his return from his Majesty in Flanders he was examined by the Committee of the Council of Safety and committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he continued till things moved towards his Maj. restauration In 1660 he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and soon after actually created D. of Div and about that time made one of the Lecturers of the City of Oxon to instill principles of Loyalty among the Citizens who before had been led aside by schismatical Teachers In 1663 he being then one of the Kings Chaplains in ordinary became Reg. Prof. of Div. upon the death of Dr. Creed and two years after he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore upon the death of Dr. Joh. Miredith which was all the preferment he enjoyed being little enough for such a sufferer as he had been and one that had often ventured his neck to do his Majesty service He was a good and most affectionate Preacher and for many years by his prudent presiding in the Professors chair he did discover perhaps as much learning as any and much more moderation as to the five controverted points than most of his Predecessors He was also a person richly furnished with all variety of choice solid learning requisite to recommend him with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent Divines of our age He hath written and transmitted to posterity The privileges of the Univ. of Oxford in point of Visitation in a letter to an honorable personage Pr. in one sh and an half in qu. 1647. Whereupon W. Prynne came out with his University of Oxfords plea refuted c. and in answer to that R. Waryng wrot An account of Mr. Prynns refutation c. and Ed. Bagshaw sen with his Short censure c. Eighteen Sermons whereof 15 were preached before the King and the rest upon public occasions Lond. 1669. fol most of which had been before published singly Of the authority and usefulness of the Scripture serm on 2 Tim. 3.15 Oxon. 1673. qu. Forty Sermons whereof twenty one are now first published the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions Oxon. 1684. fol. These were published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxford and had the 19 sermons before mention'd added to with his picture before them He died in January in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in Eaton Coll. Chappel on the north side of the high Altar or Com. table Over his grave was
among us jealousies in the people of the violent comming in of Popery make continual clamours after preferment as if they had deserv'd it as well as sufferers and I know not what But now to return to the worthy person whom we are further to mention Be it remembred therefore that upon the death of Dr. Hen. King he was promoted to the See of Chichester to which being Consecrated on the sixth day of March the third Sunday in Lent an 1669 sate there till the death of Dr. Benj. Lan●y Bishop of Ely which hapning towards the latter end of 1674 he was translated to that See on the fourth day of March the same year with a particular acknowledgement from his Majesty of his steaddiness to the Church having kept up the face thereof in the worst of times In all the several preferments that he went thro from the first to the last he was first thought of by his Prince or Patron before he himself made any application whatsoever While he continued in Cambridge he was a constant Preacher and looked upon as so umblameable in his life and practice that his schismatical and factious Adversaries were sorry that they could not possibly fasten the least spot on him He was admired by great Scholars as well abroad as at home for his profund Divinity was noted much also in England for his diffusive Charity for what he had not spent in his life time by supplying Scholars at Cambridge by his large endowments and bountiful benefactions in that place by his great summs laid out on his Sees as well as formerly on his Livings by his dayly relieving at his door from his Table all sorts of indigent and distressed persons and by privately supplying others with a plentiful hand he disposed the remainder by his last Will and Test to be laid out for the augmentation of poor Vicariges Under his name go these things following A contention for truth in two several publick disputations before thousands of people in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple Bar on the 19. and 26. of Nov. 1657 between Mr. Gunning on the one part and Mr. Hen. Denn on the other concerning the baptisme of Infants whether lawfull or unlawfull Lond. 1658. qu. Schisme unmasked or a late conference betwixt Mr. Pet. Gunning and Mr. John Pierson Ministers on the one part and two Disputants of the Rom. perswasion on the other Wherein is defin'd both what Schisme is and to whom it belongs c. Paris 1658. in tw This conference is said to have been began in May 1657. The large Preface to it was written by two Catholick Disputants who published the whole and 't is presum'd not so fairly on the Protestants side as in truth and justice they ought to have done View and corrections of the Common Prayer an 1662 At which Mr. Baxter if I mistake not carped The Paschall or Lent-Fast Apostolical and perpetuall Lond. 1662. qu. This at first was but a Sermon preached before the King who forced it into the Press by his repeated commands and thereupon he added so much to it as to make it a compleat Treatise on that subject Appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the Fast of Lent Printed with the former book See in the Fasti 1669 among the incorporations in Will. Saywell At length this worthy Bishop who continued single all his days wholly addicted to his studies and the service of God and had made preaching and doing all the good offices proper to a Bishop so much his delight that according to the usual saying he died in his calling did surrender up his pious soul to God on Sunday the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried with due solemnity in the Cathedral Church of Ely As Dr. Fr. Turner somtimes Fellow of New Coll succeeded him in the Mastership of that of S. Johns chiefly by his means so did he likewise in the Bishoprick of Ely between whom there passed many affectionate endearments Much more may be said of this most pious and learned Bishop but he being not totally ours I shall omit it and commend you to his large character given of him in a book entit A discourse delivered in two Sermons preached in the Cathedral at Ely in Sept. 1684 c. p. 4.5 c. Written spoken and published by Humph. Gower D. D. Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Turner before mention'd and one of the Prebendaries of Ely printed 1685. in qu. WILLIAM DURHAM son of Joh. Durh. of Willersley near Camden in Glocestershire was born there educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Sturby who kept a private School at Broadway in the same County became a Student of New Inn in 1626 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and when about an years standing in the degree of Master he was made Curat to Dr. Thom. Bunbury Rector of S. Maries Church in Reading In the beinning of the Civil War he left that place retired to London and there after some short stay was chosen preacher of the Rolls in Chancery Lane at which time he took the Covenant From thence by a presentation he went into Berks and became Rector of Burfield being about that time Bach. of Divinity and thence was translated to the rich Rectory of Tredington in Worcestershire which before I cannot say immediatly had been enjoyed by Dr. Will. Smith somtimes Warden of Wadham Coll. After his Majesties restauration he was ejected thence to make room for Dr. Joseph Crowther of S. Johns Coll. who before had obtained a presentation thereunto whereupon our author Durham retiring to London lived there for some time without a cure A length upon his Conformity to the Church of England Sir Nich. Crispe presented him to the Rectory of S. Mildred in Breadstreet within the City of London to which Parish that of S. Margaret Moses was joyned after the dreadful fire in the said City where he finished his course He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Maran-Atha The second Advent or Christs comming to jugdment an Assize Serm. at Warwick 25. of July 1651. on Jam. 5.9 Lond. 1652. qu. 2 Serm. before the Artillery Company at S. Andrews Undershaft 30 Aug. 1670. on 1. Cor. 16.13 Lond. 1671. qu. 3 Serm. before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at at S. Mary le Bow 21. Nov. 1675. on Prov 29.1 Lond. 1676. qu. A serious exhortation to the necessary duties of families and personal instruction for the use of Tredington Parish Printed in 1659 in tw The life and death of that judicious Divine and accomplished preacher Rob. Harris D. D. lately President of Trinity Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1660. oct He died on the seventh day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancell of the Church of S. Mildred before mentioned in a vault belonging to the
liv'd to a fair age spent all in celebacy and had done much good he surrendred up his soul to God in Farnham Castle about three of the clock in the morn of the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was conveyed to Winchester and buried in a little vault in the body of the Cathedral there betwixt two pillars just opposite to those between which Bishop Will. Edendon was buried at the foot of the steps ascending to the Choire on the north side Soon after was an altar-tombe erected over his body and the inscription put thereon which he the said Dr. Morley had made for himself in the eightieth year of his age The contents of which being too large for this place shall be now omitted and especially for this reason because there is nothing in it but what is mention'd before in his life BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE the Son of a Minister of Gods word by his Wife the Daughter of that noted Puritan called Rob. Parker author of the four books De descensu Christi ad inferos was born near Highworth in Wilts became either Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1638 aged 16 years where he continued for some time under the tuition of Will. Eyre But before the time came that he could be adorned with a degree the times changed and the Civil War thereupon began So that he removing to New England he answer'd in the University of Cambridge there several positions which were about that time printed for the taking the degree of Master of Arts. After his return thence he retired to Oxon and as a member of Magd. Hall he was admitted to the same degree an 1648 being about that time a Minister in Salisbury Afterwards setling at Newbury in Berks. where he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian perswasion he was constituted one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom that party and the Independents then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he became one of his Chaplains and a Canonry of Windsore was offer'd to him but he bogling long with himself whether he should take that Dignity or not it was at length bestowed on a Son of the Ch. of England Soon after he being silenc'd by vertue of the act of conformity for he seemed then to hate a surplice and the Common-prayer he preached in private to the Brethren but being often disturbed and imprison'd once or twice he at length by the perswasion of some of his friends took holy Orders from the hands of Dr. Earl Bishop of Salisbury in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon in Octob. 1665 with a resolution to be conformable to the Church of England But finding not preferment sutable to his desire to be confer'd upon him and a grand neglect and scorn of the Brethren he return'd to his former opinion which some then call'd his rags and preached several times in Conventicles to the great disturbance of the government the peace of Newbury and the neighbourhood When the Proclamation for toleration or indulgence of Religion was issued out 15 of March 1671 he became so audacious that he did not only preach publickly in the Market place there to the Brethren but disturbed or caused to be disturbed the good people in their going to Church Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot an 1678 when then the Fanaticks took all advantages to promote their respective interests he did then appear more publick again to the disturbance of the peace preached every Sunday in a Conventicle at Highcleere in Hampshire and generally once in a week at Newbury before mention'd which is not far off that place At length upon the breaking out of the Presbyterian Plot in June 1683 he sculk'd and retired to Inglefield in Berks where as I have been informed he constantly if his health permitted him frequented the publick service of the Church of England and Sermons in the Church there to the time of his death He hath written Justification by faith or a confutation of that Antinomian errour that justification is before faith c. Lond. 1652. qu. 'T is the sum of a Sermon preached at Salisbury and is contained in 3. or 4. sh of paper It must be now known that one Tho. Warren Parson of Houghton in Hampshire preached at a Wednesdays Lecture in Salisbury in April 1651 and therein letting fall several passages which Will. Eyre a Minister in that City then present conceived to be very wide from the Orthodox faith did desire a conference with him after its conclusion Which being accordingly held with him they parted without any satisfaction to each other The next day Eyre preached in the same place and maintained what he had disputed upon the day before Whereupon our author Woodbridge being much concern'd at the matter for he was present at all these transactions took Warrens part preached the next Wednesday following on the same Subject that Warren had done before Afterwards he and Eyre at a conference about the matter in the publick meeting place after Sermon made it a publick quarrel and defied each other So that Woodbridge being much concern'd at it he published the aforesaid Sermon and entituled it Justification by faith c. in the body of which is contained the contents of the disputation with him by VV. Eyre before mention'd The famous Rich. Baxter saith that the sight of the said Sermon of Mr. VVoodbridge of so much worth in so narrow room did cause him to bless God that the Church had such a man and especially Newbury who had so excellently learned a pastor before meaning Dr. Twysse who had mistaken so much in this very point Also that the said Sermon is one of the best easiest and cheapest preservatives against the contagion of this part of Antinomianisme as any c. But by the way I must tell the Reader that as the said Mr. Baxter was enclining to Arminianisme so our author VVoodbridge was in some points who hath farther written The method of grace in the justification of sinners against Mr. Eyre his Vindiciae Justificationis gratuitae c. Lond. 1656. qu. The Apostolick Protestant doctrine of justification by faith asserted Printed with The method of Grace c. Church members set in joynt or a discovery of the unwarrantable and disorderly practice of private Christians in usurping the peculiar office and work of Christs own Pastors viz. publick preaching c. Lond. 1656. 57. qu. He also preached an excellent Sermon before K. Ch. 2. while he was his Chapl. on Acts 17.11 but whether printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that he published Moses and Aaron or the rights of the Church and State containing two disputations c. pen'd by James Noyes somtimes of Newbury in New England Lond. 1661. At length this Mr. VVoodbridge who was
party He also left behind him at his death unfinished 1 Canonis Chronici liber quintus sive Imperium Persicum 2 De Provinciis Legionibus Romanis 3 De re nummaria c. At length departing this mortal life at Bushy hall in Hertfordshire on the 25. of May in sixteen hundred eighty and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Cuxton near Rochester in Kent where he had an Estate and buried in the Church there He left issue behind him begotten on the body of Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Hammond of S. Albans in East Kent two Sons viz. Sir John Marsham now of Cuxton Baronet who is writing The History of England much more exact as 't is said than any yet extant and Sir Robert of Bushy hall Knight who succeeded his Father in the place of Six Clerk In the possession of the first of these two is Sir Johns Library which tho diminished by the fire that hapned in London 1666 yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exquisite remarks in the margin of most of the books and in the possession of the other is his Cabinet of Greek Medals as curious as any private collection whatsoever ANDREW ALLAM the son of a sufficient Plebeian of both his names by Bridget Derling his Wife was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon in Apr. 1655 and baptized there on the 23 of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School at Denton in the Parish of Cudesdon near to his native place under a noted Master named Will. Wildgoose M. of Arts of Brasn Coll. much fam'd for his dexterity in Pedagogy became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall in Easter term 1671 where had it not been his misfortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person he might have prov'd a prodigy in several sorts of learning After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a Tutor Moderator a Lecturer in the Chappel and at length Vice-principal of his House In all which offices he behaved himself much to the credit honor and flourishing thereof In 1680 at Whitsontide he entred into holy Orders and in 83 he was one of the Masters of the Schools which last place he executed with very great judgment and prudence He was a person of eminent virtues was sober temperate moderate and modest even to example He understood the controversial writings between Conform●sts and Nonconformists Protestants and Papists far beyond his years which was advanc'd by a great and happy memory And I am perswaded had he not been taken off by the said Offices he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters and might have proved an useful and signal member to the Church of England for which he had most zealous respect He understood the world of men well authors better and nothing but years and experience were wanting in to make him a compleat walking Library His works that are extant are 1 The learned Preface or Epistle to the Reader with a dedicatory Epist in the Printers name set before The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor c. to the Covenanters of Scotland c. Oxon. 1684. 2 The Epistle with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins's life set before the said Cosins's book entit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in tabulas digesta Oxon 1684. in a thin fol. The ded Epist to Sir Leolin Jenkins in the Printers name was written by Christoph Wase superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon. 3 The Epistle before with a review and correction of the book entit Some plain discourses on the Lords Supper c. Written by Dr. George Griffith B. of S. Asaph Oxon. 1684. oct 4 Five or six sheets of his own hand writing and composure containing corrections in and addit to a book entit Angliae Notitia or the present state of England c. written by one who had been also of S. Edm. Hall They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit of that book printed at Lond. 1684. and were all as I presume inserted in that edition which came out at that place in 1687 but without any acknowledgment with shame be it spoken from the author of that Notitia who neither returned those thanks that he ought out of common civility to have done or granted him his company or acquaintance when he went to Lond to desire it purposely to communicate such things by word of mouth which he could not without great trouble by his Pen concerning various matters in that book 5 He also began and made divers additions in Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Theatre as occasion required and would have quite finished the supplement at the end from 1660 to 1685 had he not been cut off by cruel death These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687 fol But the Reader is to understand that whereas there was a colom in that book of the said editi-of 1687 made to contain the names of the famous Jesuits from the first foundation of their order to the year 1685 which was not in any of the Latine editions 't was not done by Allam but by a busie body nor that passage under the year 1678 which runs thus Titus Oates discovers a pretended Popish Plot. 6 He had laid the foundation of a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae wherein he would have spoken of the foundation of all Cathedrals with a touch of their Statutes and Customs Which done to set down the names of the present Bishop Dean Archdeacon Cannons and Officers of each Cathedral but death also prevented the finishing this He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers of our Nation while the said author was day and night drudging after those more antient For the truth is which hath been a wonder to him since his death he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work which none else in the University could as he and the author knew full well to their great reluctancy or would give any assistance or encouragement Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English The Life of Iphicrates written in Lat. by Corn. Nepos and remitted into the book of Lives of that author translated by several Oxford hands Oxon. 1684. oct p. 99 c. At length after a great deal of fear of and avoidance from the disease called the Small pox he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it so that being not able to overcome its encounters he did surrender up his spotless soul being too worthy for this world and the people he lived with and was wedded to his Saviour Jesus Ch. on the 17. of June about noon in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was buried the same day late at night at the west end of the Church of S.
great effects if ever it shall be retrieved upon the publick stock of the Nation c. A model of it tho lost was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society made with his own hand and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College To conclude he was a person of an admirable inventive head of a prodigious working wit and of so great worth and learning that he was both fit for and an honour to the highest preferment He hath written Advice concerning the education of youth c. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P. Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning Lond 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib This title which I have received from a second hand may be for I have not yet seen it the same with the Advice before mentioned A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him with the state of the controversie between them Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland were 1 That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes 2 That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute 3 That he had gotten vast summs of money and scopes of land by fraud 4 That he had used many foul practices as Surveyor and Commissioner for setting out lands 5 That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim denying right to others 6 That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies security the debt still remaining chargeable on the state All which were according to the said Brief of proceedings cleared by Petty what the event of the matter was I cannot have Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland by letters to and from him Doct. Petty with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament Lond. 1660. oct written mostly against his busie and envious Antagonist Zanchy of whom I shall speak elsewhere A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of Crown-lands assessments customs poll-moneys lotteries benevolence c. Lond. 1662 and 67. in about 10. sh in qu. Discourse made before the Royal society 26. Nov. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars Lond. 1674 in tw See in the Philosoph Transact nu 109. p. 209. A new Hypothesis of springing or elastique motions Printed at the end of the said Discourse An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying See in The Hist of the Royal Society written by Tho. Sprat Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. c. Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships It was presented by the author in MS to the R. Society about 1665 contained in about a quire of paper of his own writing but William Lord Brounker President of the Council pertaining to that Society took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after perhaps to the time of his death saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused The author tho he had no copy of it by him yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum de magnalibus dei Lond. 1679 in two sh in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter was composed by the author 25 of March 1678 under the name of Cassid Aureus Minutius Political Arithmetick or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land people buildings husbandry manufacture commerce fishery artizans seamen soldiers publick revenues c. as the same relates to every County in general and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain and his neighbours of Holland and France This was presented in MS by the author to his Majesty Ch. 2 and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it but was not printed till Mich. term 1690 'T is in oct as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are Another Essay in political Arithmetick concerning the growth of the City of London with the measures periods causes and consequences thereof an 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh in oct Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality 1681. and the state of that City Lond. 1683 in 3. sh in oct He had also long before assisted or put into a way John Graunt in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond. Maps of Ireland being his actual survey of that whole kingdom These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind Lond. 1686. oct With this was printed the second edit of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. c. Further observations upon the Dublin bills or accompts of the houses hearths baptismes and burials of the City Lond. 1686. oct Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the people housing hospitals of London and Paris with observations on the Cities of London and Rome Lond. 1686. 7. oct Five Essays in political Arithmetick viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia and from Monsieur Aurout against two former Essays answer'd and that London hath as many people as Paris Rome and Rouen put together 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars 3. Proofs that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People 4. An estimate of the people c. Lond. 1687. oct A treatise of taxes and contributions particularly fitted for the state of Ireland Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit A Collection of three state Tracts c. Treatise of naval philosophy c. Lond. 1691 oct Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc about building of Ships before mention'd The Political Anatomy of Ireland c. Lond. 1691. oct Verbum Sapienti or an account of the wealth and expence of England c. Ibid. 1691. oct This is animadverted upon in a pamph intit A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City c. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street almost opposite to S. James's Church within the liberty of Westminster of a Gangreen in his foot occasion'd by the swelling of the Gout on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey the place of his nativity and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton he had issue two sons viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his fathers death and Henry and a daughter named Anne He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children who was an
Actress in the Dukes Play-house an 1680 and after Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life written by himself which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book and altogether unknown to him he could never gain a sight of it THOMAS PITTIS son of a father of both his names a Captain somtimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight was born at Knighton there became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652 took one degree in Arts and then translated himself to Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant Afterwards he took the degree of Master and was made one of the Terrae Filii but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times he was expel'd the University an 1658. Afterwards he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1665 became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord. proceeded in Div. in 1670 and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh bestowed on him by the King which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke somtimes of Linc. Coll. for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate London So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty Lecturer at Ch. Church and Rector of S. Botolph before mention'd His works are these A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar made public Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England Lond. 1670. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. before the Artillery Company on Luke 3.14 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 An old way of ending new Controversies preached to the Comptroller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple 8. Jan. 1681 on 1. John 2. former part of the 24. ver Lond. 1682. qu. c. A discourse of Prayer wherein this great duty is stated so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and Fanaticks as they are contrary to the publick Formes of the Church of England established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits wherein enquiry is made into mens pretences to inspiration for publishing doctrines in the name of God beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture in opposition to some Principles of Papists and Fanaticks as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England defined in her Articles of Religion established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parliament Lond. 1684 oct Dedic to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt Deput Gov. of the Isle of Wight This Dr. Pittis died on the 28. of Decemb. Innocents day in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentiond into the Isle of Wight and there buried at Westcowes as I have been informed CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks was born at Winchcombe in Glocestershire on S. Clements day 23. Nov. 1609 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks entred a Servitour in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent terme 1625 but making little stay there he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Whear the Principal where continuing a severe Student several years he took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplyed the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints commonly called Alhallowes in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford Vicar Choral there and in short time after Vicar of Alhallowes in that City In 1646 the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprized by the Parliam Forces he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power And after that he sheltred at Hawling in Coltswold where he taught a private School with good success After the Kings restauration he was by his Majesties gift setled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire which he kept to the time of his death He was a good Disputant a great admirer of Hugh Grotius a frequent preacher but very conceited and vain a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts most of which are meer Scribbles The titles follow Monumenta literaria sive ●obitus Elogia doctorum Virorum ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani Lond. 1640. qu and several times after with additions or corrections in oct A short Practical Catechisme out of Dr. Hammond with a paper monument Lond. 1649. oct Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti Selecta exposita ab Andr. Schotto Oxon. 1651. in tw They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale Nympha Libethris or the Co●swold Muse presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars In four parts Lond. 1651. oct I have a book in my Study entit Annalia Dubrensia Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills c. Lond. 1636 qu. This book which hath the running title on every page of Cotswold Games consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia but nothing of the Cotswold Muse of Barksdale relates to them which some that have only seen the title of it think it to be the same The said Games were begun and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire son of John Dover of Norfolk who being full of activity and of a generous free and publick Spirit did with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotswold Hills in Glocestershire whereon those Games should be acted Endimion Porter Esq a native of that County and a servant to that King a person also of a most generous spirit did to encourage Dover give him some of the said Kings old clothes with a Hat and Feather and Ruff purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games frequented by the Nobility and Gentry some of whom came 60 Miles to see them even till the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians which gave a stop to their proceedings and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets some of which were
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
of May in sixteen hundred and ninety Whereupon his body being conveyed to Mildin or Milding near Lavenham in Suffolk by very many persons of his perswasion and by some others too was buried in the Church there on the 15 day of the same month Soon after was a stone laid over his grave with a short inscription thereon EZEKIEL HOPKINS son of the Curat of Sandford a Chappel of ease to Crediton in Devonshire was born there became a Choirister of Magd. Coll. 1649. aged 16 years or thereabouts Usher of the School adjoyning when Bach. of Arts Chaplain of the said Coll. when Master and would have been elected Fellow had his County been elegible in all which time he lived and was educated under Presbyterian and Independent discipline About the time of his Majesties restauration he became Assistant to Dr. Will. Spurstow Minister of Hackney near London with whom he continued till the Act of Conformity was published in which time being noted for his fluent and ready preaching some of the parishioners of S. Mattew Fridaystreet in London would have chosen him to be their Rector but Mr. Henr. Hurst another Candidate carried that place away from him by a majority Afterwards the parishioners of Allhallows or else of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet did elect him to be their Preacher but the Bishop of London would not admit him because he was a popular preacher among the Fanaticks Afterwards he went to the City of Exeter where he became Minister of S. Maries Church there and much approved and applauded for his elegant and dexterous preaching by Seth Bishop of that City At length John Lord Roberts hearing him accidentally preach to his very great delight he did afterwards freely offer to him the place of Chaplain when he went in the quality of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland an 1669. Which Office he very freely accepting went accordingly with him and in the latter end of that year or in the beginning of the next he was by that Lord made Dean of Raphoe Soon after the said Lord being recalled into England he recommended his Chaplain to his Successor who also taking especial notice of confer'd on him the Bishoprick of Raphoe an 1671 so that by vertue of Letters Pat. dat 27. of Oct. the same year he was Consecrated thereunto 29. of the same month In the latter end of Octob. 1681 he was translated to London Derry in the place of Dr. Mich. Ward deceased where continuing till the Forces in Ireland under the Earl of Tirconnel stood up in the defence of K. Jam. 2. against K. William 3 he retired into England in 1688 and in Sept. 1689 he was by the parishioners of S. Mary Aldermanbury in London elected to be their Minister upon the removal of Dr. Stratford to the See of Chester He hath written Several Sermons as 1 The Vanity of the World on Eccles 1.2 Lond. 1661. oct 2 Serm. at the funeral of Algernon Grevill Esq second brother to the right hon Rob. Lord Brook who departed this life Jul. 21. at Magd. Coll. in Oxon and was buried at Warwick on the 6. of Aug. 1662 on Ecles 9.5 Lond. 1663. qu. 3 Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin Jan. 31. an 1669. on 1. Pet. 2.13.14 Dubl 1671. qu. All which were reprinted at Lond. 1685. oct 4 Serm. on John 7.19 5 Serm. on Gal. 3.10 These two last were printed at the end of the Exposition f●llowing An Exposition on the 10 Commandments Lond. 1692. qu. Published in the beginning of Aug. 1691. with his picture before it by the care of Dr. Edw. Wetenhall Bishop of Cork and Ross author of the Epistle before it dated at Peckham place 3. Jul. 1671. This Bishop Hopkins died on the 19. day of June in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried on the 24. of the said month in the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury before mention'd He had an elder brother named John Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll who died before he took the degree of Master and a younger called James Bach. of Arts of Corp. Ch. Coll. who dying also before he was Master of Arts in Octob. or thereabouts an 1663 was buried at Hackney near London They were all three comly and ingenious persons and beloved of their Contemporaries in their respective Colleges THOMAS FRANKLAND a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose Coll. on the first of May an 1649 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and in 1654 was made Fellow thereof Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he became a preacher tho not in Episcopal Orders in these parts In 1662 he was admitted one of the Proctors of the University and in the year after being then in holy Orders he was with much adoe his Grace being denied three times as I shall till you elsewhere admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards he applied his studies to the Faculty of Physick setled in London and pretended to be a Doctor of that Faculty of Oxon when he was in the company of Cambridg men and to be Doctor of Cambridg when in the company of Oxford men At length being a Candidate to be Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians which he could not be without being Doctor he produced a forged Certificate or Diploma to attest that he was Doctor of that Faculty and thereupon he was at length admitted Fellow of the said Coll and afterwards was Censor thereof But he being of an haughty turbulent and huffing spirit and therefore much dislik'd by the Society especially the Juniors some of them whom he had much displeased were resolv'd to take him shorter and humble him Whereupon they having received a hint that he was no Doctor they sent privately to Dr. Jam. Hyde the Kings Professor of Physick and Mr. Ben. Cooper the public Registrary of the Univ. of Oxon that they would search the Registers thereof and certifie them whether he the said Tho. Frankland ever took the degree of Doctor of Phys among them whereupon they upon their search finding no such matter did accordingly certifie them of it Afterwards they sent a Latine Letter to the Vice-chancellour Doctors Proctors and Masters of the University to acquaint them with the forgery of the said Thom. Frankland desiring them withall that they would certifie the President and Community of the Coll. of Physitians that he was no Doctor of Phys of their University which they accordingly did in Nov. 1677. However this being a just reason for his ejection yet notwithstanding by the connivance of the Seniors of the said College he did continue afterwards among them but lost much of his Credit and Practice too as I have heard This person who was esteemed a good Scholar while he continued in Oxon hath written and published The Annals of K. James and K. Charles the first containing a faithful History and impartial account of the great affairs of State and transactions of Parliament in England from the tenth of K. James 1612 to the eighteenth of K. Charles
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding audience in his name he was by bribes given delivered to some of the English Merchants there who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet was conveyed into England Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London he was brought before the High Court of Justice where he desired to plead in the Italian Language which he said was more common to him than the English But it being denied him he was at length condemned to die whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill on the fourth day of March an 1650. It was then said by the faction in England that he did by vertue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britaine act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company and the Parliaments interest not only in Constantinople but also in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchants goods for the use of Charles King of Scots For the effecting of which design he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassie being Leiger there for the state of England c. The said faction also reported and would needs perswade the People in England that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgment fell upon them This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations Another Brother younger than him was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall lived there several years studied frequently in Bodlies Library and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party till he was silenc'd by the Faction In 1658 he obtained of his exil'd Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mention'd his kinsman then tho in banishment Lord Chancellour of England Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsore in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased dated in July the same year but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was never installed in that Dignity He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of and perused by the Royal Party as 1 A Christian ●egacy consisting of two parts preparation for and consolation against death Lond. 1657. oct 2 Christ and his Church or Christianity explained under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. 3 Vindication of the Church of England Ibid. 1658. qu. 4 Christian vindication of truth against errour Printed 1659. in tw 5 The true Catholick tenure c. Cambr. 1662. oct and other things as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers an 1662. Another Brother the tenth in number was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight the Queens Serjeant an 1670 and one of the chief Justices of South Wales who dyed in 1676. Also another called Francis who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Embassador and died at Venice without issue And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all named James Hyde Dr. of Physick lately Principal of Magd. Hall HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts translated himself to Jesus Coll of which I think he became Fellow and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the Kings cause was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday of that month an 1660 by the Archb. of York Bishops of London Rochester Salisbury and Worcester at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated He died in June or July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was as I suppose buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the House or Pallace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies as I shall tell you elsewhere JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland an 166● and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 282. GEORGE HALL sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased an 1662 and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297 was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Ch Church afterwards Dean of Rochester was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight by Anne his Wife eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset was born in the County of Surrey became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits was upon his Majesties restauration made Dean of Bristow in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Pauls Cath. in London where continuing till 1666 he was by the endeavours of Barbara Dutchess of Cleavland made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County To the said See of S. Asaph was translated Dr. Is Barrow Bishop of the Isle of
first acquaintance about the year 1618 and with whom he afterwards many times conversed After Mr. Dugdale was setled at Blythe commonly called Blythe Hall because situated on the River Blythe he read The Description of Leycestershire written and published by Will. Burton of Lindley in that County Esquire about 8 miles distant from Blythe Hall with which being much taken and thereby encouraged to do something of that nature for Warwickshire he was introduced into his acquaintance by one Mr. Fisher Dilke of Shustock a near Kinsman of the said Burton to the end that he might receive instructions for the management and promotion of his studies Mr. Burton being very much taken with the forwardness of the young man in his most early attempts he was resolved to encourage him in his labours to the utmost of his power Whereupon he brought him into the acquaintance of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the Parish of Tamworth in the said County of Warwick Knight who being much affected with the studies of Heraldry and Antiquities and having made very choice and considerable Collections out of divers antient Writings relating to the said County and the families thereof he did not only communicate to him what he had got together but brought him acquainted with most of the Gentlemen of note in the County These Gentlemen having perused the labours of Mr. Burton before mention'd were thereupon desirous thro Sir Sim. Archer's incitation to preserve the honor of their Families by such a work as the said Mr. Burton had done for Leycestershire and for that purpose they would as afterwards they did communicate to him the sight of their antient Deeds and Evidences Among the said Gentlemen he found none more knowing in and forward to encourage such a work than Sir Sim. Clarke of Brome Court in the Parish of Salford who with all freedom imparted to him not only divers antient Writings of consequence but also the Leiger-book of the Priory of Kenilworth from which he found copious matter as by his frequent quotation of it in The Antiquities of Warwicksh it appears The acquaintance of the said three persons Burton Clarke and Archer he endeavoured to continue with all observance imaginable especially with the last which began about 1630 but so it fell out that our Author Dugdale could not be more forward to continue than Sir S. Archer was to promote it and withall to encourage him in his great designs which did evidently afterwards appear as the sequel will tell you In Easter term 1638 Sir Simon with his Lady intended to go to London and thereupon importun'd Mr. Dugdale to accompany them in that Journey assuring him that it would be worth his labour if he could spare so much time from his beloved study This being easily assented to they had several discourses in their way for the promotion of his designs and when they were at their journeys ●nd the first matter that Sir Simon did he brought our Author Dugdale into the acquaintance of the learned Sir Hen. Spelman a person famous for his knowledge in Antiquities but then near 80 years of age This worthy Knight received him with great humanity and after some discourse and ●ight of several of his Collections relating to The Antiquities of Warwickshire he found that he was a great Proficient and had made a considerable progress in those studies and then told him that seeing he was a person so much inclined to that learning he thought him very fit to serve the King in the Office of Arms and that the most noble Thomas Earl of Arundel then Earl Marshal of England having by virtue of that great office the nomination of all such as were admitted into that Society would esteem it a good service to the publick to prefer such thereunto as were thus naturally qualified and found sedulous in those studies offering to recommend Mr. Dugdale to his Lordship for that purpose Soon after Sir Henry having acquainted his Lordship of him and his fitness for the office he was introduced into the presence of that honorable person by Sir George Gres●eley of Drakelow in Derbyshire Baronet who was then in London and well known to his Lordship During Mr. Dugdale's stay in London he repaired sometimes to the Lodging of Sir Hen. Spelman who among several discourses concerning their faculty he told him that one Roger Dodsworth a Gent. of Yorkshire had taken indefatigable pains in searching of Records and other antient Memorials relating to the Antiquities of that County but especially touching the foundations of Monasteries there and in the northern parts of the Realm which work he did not a little commend to the pains and care of some industrious and diligent searchers into hidden Antiquity affirming that out of his great affection thereto in his younger years he had got together the Transcripts of the foundation Charters of divers Monasteries in Norfolk and Suffolk himself being a Norfolk man much importuning Mr. Dugdale to joyn with Dodsworth in that most commendable work which by reason of his youth and forwardness to prosecute those studies might in time be brought to some perfection as Mr. Dugdale hath informed me by his Letters adding withall that he the said Mr. Dugd. did readily incline and within few days following casually meeting with Mr. Dodsworth in the Lodgings of Mr. Sam. Roper at Linc. Inn and acquainting each other what they were then in hand with as to their farther progress in those studies they readily engaged themselves to prosecute what Transcripts they could from any Leiger books publick Records original Charters or other Manuscripts of note in order thereto but still with this reservation that Mr. Dugdale should not neglect his Collections touching The Antiq. of Warwickshire wherein he had by that time made a considerable progress During his stay in London he became acquainted with one Rich. Gascoign● a Yorkshire Gentleman who also stood much affected to those studies especially as to matter of Pedigree wherein he had taken some pains for divers northern Families especially for that noble and antient Family of Wentworth And having great interest with Sir Christop Hatton of Kirby in the County of Northampton Knight of the Bath afterwards created Lord Hatton a person highly affected to Antiquities and who had not spared for any charge in obtaining sundry choice Collections from publick Records Leiger books and antient Charters and divers old MSS he brought him to that most worthy person then lodging in an Apothecaries hous● without Temple-bar by whom he was welcomed with all expressions of kindness and readiness in furthering his studies In order thereunto he soon after brought him acquainted with his near Kinsman Sir Tho. Fanshaw at that time the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer By reason of which great Office he had the custody of divers Leiger-books and other choice Manuscripts especially that notable Record called the Red book as also Testa de Nevill Kerby's Quest Nomina Villarum and others to all which by his
labours in the search of Records for those works already published perused the notes that he had taken of the Lord Chancellours L. Treasurers Masters of Rolls Judges of all the Courts in Westminster Hall Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors as also of the Serjeants at Law Courts of ●us●ice and Inns of Court and Chancery for Students in that excellent Profession he compiled that historical work intit Origines Juridiciales adorned with exact cuts in copper plates of the Arms in the windows throughout all the Inns of Court and Serjeants Inns which was first made public by the Press an 1666 but the grand Conflagration soon after hapning many of the copies were burnt Further also he having in the course of his Collections formerly made at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion extracted from sundry choice MSS. divers special notes relating to antient Nobility of this Kingdom and being not ignorant that those Volumes of Monasticon would yield many excellent materials of that kind he then became encouraged to go to the Tower of London Exchequer Office of the Rolls in Chancery lane which were the chief treasures of Records as also to the Archbishops principal Registers and Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of Wills and Testaments Dispensations for Marriages c. Whence and out of sundry MSS. in private hands monumental inscriptions and other Authorities which after the greater part of 30 years labour he had got together he at length compiled that large work intit The Baronage of England In making which Collections he omitted nothing of consequence which related to the Foundations and Endowments of the Cathedral and Collegiat Churches in England and Wales consisting of secular Canons as also of what else he could observe concerning those Monasteries that were already published to the end that use might be made of them as Additaments to those volumes And in the year 1673 he published all those Additaments together with what he had so gathered for those cathedral and collegiate Churches before specified But the said Volumes of the Baronage hanging long at the Press came not out till the year 1675 and 1676 being then and soon after taken into the hands not only of his Majesty and royal issue but also by the prime Nobility of the Nation Towards the end of the said year 1676 Sir Edw. Walker Garter Principal K. of Arms departing this mortal life at Whitehall Mr. Dugd. being then in Warwick●hire much dispute grew between Henry then Earl of Norwich afterwards Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal of England and the King for the nomination of a person unto whom his Majesty should by his Letters Patents make a grant of that Office the Chancellour of the Garter on the Kings behalf as Soveraign of that most noble Order strenuously insisting upon his Majesties right to nominate by reason that the said Office of Garter was an employment meerly belonging to that Order and chiefly for attending at all Installations and Festivals and performing other services unto the Soveraign and Knights Companions thereof The Earl on his part as Earl Marshal and chief Superintendent of the Office and Officers of Arms pleading the usage of his Predecessors in that honorable Office of Earl Marshal to nominate and recommend to the King upon the death and vacancy of any King of Arms Herald or Pursevant such person or persons to supply the place as he shall think most fit and most properly qualified for that service In which contest one Sir Will. Haward Knight a person well accomplish'd with learning especially in point of Honour and Arms having obtained the favour of divers great men to move his Majesty on his behalf the K. did thereupon much incline to to have that office confer'd upon him The Earl of Norwych on the other part accounting it no little derogation to his Office of Earl Marshal to be refused the like privilege as his Predecessors in that great place had been permitted to enjoy for which he produced some late Presidents acknowledging tho he had nothing to do as to any superintendency over him as an Officer of the Garter yet as Garter was Principal K. of Arms he was subordinate to his authority did obtain the favour of the Duke of York upon this great dispute to speak to his Majesty on his behalf The King therefore asked the said Count Earl Marshal whom he had a design to nominate and recommend he answer'd Mr. Dugdale tho 't is well known he had another person Th. Leigh Chest Her in his eye against whom such objections might have been justly taken as that he would have failed of his aim had he stuck to him whereupon his Maj. immediately replied Nay then I am content So that the matter being thus ended the Earl Marshal caused his Secretary to advise Mr. Dugdale thereof by the Post that night and earnestly to press his speedy coming up to London he then being at Blythe Hall in Warwickshire This news did not a little surprize him because he was so far from any thoughts of that Office that upon some Letters from certain honorable persons ensuing Sir E. Walkers death earnestly desiring his speedy repair to London in order to his obtaining that Office he excused himself in respect of his age he being then above 20 years older than any other Officer in the Coll. of Arms then living as he then told me being then with him at Blythe Hall when those Letters came to him After serious consideration what to resolve on therein having a far greater desire to wave it than otherwise as he then said he grew fearful that his Majesty so readily assenting to the Earl Marshal's nomination of him should not take it well in case he did refuse what was so intended him as a favour And doubting also the Earl Marshal's displeasure for not complying with him therein did at length conclude with himself that it was by God Almighties disposal thus cast upon him and therefore he resolved to accept of it So that within few days after repairing to London he was welcom'd by the Earl Marshal with many noble Expressions for his ready acceptance of his Lordships favour herein On the 26 of Apr. 1677 was passed the Patent for his Office of Garter and on Thursday 24 of May following being then Holy Thursday he was solemnly created Garter in the College of Arms by Henry Earl of Peterborough who then exercised the Office of Earl Marshal as Deputy to the Earl of Norwych by vertue of his Majesties immediate Warrant for that purpose And the day following 25 May Mr Dugd. being brought before the King in the old Bed-chamber at Whitehall by the Earl Marshall he then received the honor of Knighthood much against his will because of his small estate at which time his Majesty put the badge of his office hung in a gold chain usually worn by Garter K. of Armes about his neck On the first of June following he took his oath of Garter Principal K. of Armes
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotati●ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
should choose provided he stirred not five miles from the place without leave from the Parliament During which time and other vacant hours he made several Translations and wrot divers Poems as I shall tell you by and by In Feb. 1659 he repaired to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. at Breda who there knighted him in Apr. 1660 and made him his Secretary of the Latin Tongue in which he did excell and Master of the Requests In 1661 he being then Burgess for the University of Cambridge he was sworn one of the privy Council of Ireland and sent Envoy to the Crown of Portugal with a dormant Commission to be Embassador which he was to make use of as occasion should require In 1662 he was again sent to that Crown with the title of Embassador and at his return thence in 1663 he was sworn one of his Majesties privy Council and took his place accordingly and in January the same year he was sent Embassador to both the Crowns of Spain and Portugal in which time the foundation of Peace betwixt those Crowns and England was laid by him His deportment during his former Employments in those Courts won him such high value and estimation with the Princes that his reception was most splendid and magnificent exceeding all that were before which those Kings declared was done as a particular respect to the person of the Embassador and was not to be a precedent for succeeding Embassadors He hath written 1 Divers Poems Lond. 1664. oct Printed with his Translation of Il pastor fido The first of the said Poems is An ode upon occasion of his Majesties proclamation an 1630 commanding the Gentry to reside upon their Estates in the Country 2 A summary discourse of the Civil Wars of Rome Lond. 1664. oct extracted out of the best Lat. Writers in prose and verse He hath translated from English into Lat. verse The faithful Shepherdess a Pastoral Lond. 1658. written originally by Joh. Fletcher Gent and from Lat. into English 1 The fourth book of Virgils Aeneis on the Loves of Dido and Aeneas Lond. 1664. oct 2 Two odes out of Horace relating to the Civil Wars of Rome against covetous rich men Ibid. 1664. oct He hath translated from Italian into English I l pastor fido The faithful Shepherd a Pastoral Lond. 1646. qu. 1664. oct Written originally by Guarini a Native of Ferrara in Italy And from Spanish into English an Historical Poem called Querer per solo querer To love only for Loves sake Lond. 1671. qu. 'T is a dramatick Romance was originally written by Anton. de Mendoza and translated and paraphrased by our author at Tankerley Park in Yorkshire 1654 when then he had obtained leave from the superior power to range beyond 5 miles within Lond. To this is joyned another Translation by the same hand intit Fiestus de Aranjuez Festivals represented at Aranjuez He also translated from Portuguese into English The Luciad or Portugals historical Poem Lond. 1655. 56. c. fol. Written originally by Lewis de Camoens Besides these Translations he hath performed others as I have been enformed which continue partly in MS and hath written other Poems as well Lat. as English which for brevity sake I shall now pass by the mentioning At length this worthy person being overtaken with a violent Feaver at Madrid in Spain on the fourth of June 1666 during the time of his being there Embassador died thereof on the 16 of the same month old stile aged 59 years Whereupon his body being embalmed was after his funeral had been solemnized there 25 of the said month conveyed by his disconsolate Lady with all his Children then living by land thro France to Calais whence it was transported to England and landed near Tower-hill at London Thence it was removed to Lincolns Inn fields to the Pine Apples which was then his Ladies hired house The next day the corps was carried to Allhallowes Church in Hertford and there deposited in the Vault of his father in law Sir John Harrison until the 18 of May 1671 on which day it was removed into the Parish Church of Ware in the said County and there laid in a new Vault made and purchased on purpose for him and his family together with a fair Monument erected for him and his Lady near the old Vault where all his Ancestors of Ware Park lye interred Doct. of Phys May 1. Sir Arth. Aston Kt Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was created Doctor of Phys with great solemnity and admitted by the Vicechancellour with this clause Honoratiss Domine tu dabis fidem ad observand statuta libertates consuetudines hujus Vniversitatis This person who was of an antient and knightly family in Lancashire was a great Traveller had spent most of his time in Wars in several Countries beyond the Seas Whence coming in the beginning of the grand Rebellion into Engl with as many Soldiers of note that he could bring with him joyned himself and them to his Majesties Forces commanded the Dragoons at Edghill fight and with them did excellent service Afterwards his Majesty having a great opinion of his valour and conduct made him Governour of the Garrison of Reading in Berkshire where he beat the Earl of Essex General of the Parl. Forces thrice from that place till having received a dangerous Wound he was forced as 't is said to devolve his Command upon Col. Rich. Feilding called Lord Feilding of the family of those of his name at Newenham Padox in Warwickshire who afterwards surrendring that Garrison to the use of the Parliament upon quick and easie terms suffered much in his reputation for so doing yet recovered it afterwards in the battels at Newbury and Naseby As for Aston who was lately made Governour of the Garrison of Oxford and afterwards expressed himself very cruel and imperious while he executed that office broke his leg by a fall from his horse on Bullington Green near Oxon on the 19 of Sept. this year and on the 25 of Dec. following being discharg'd of his office to the great rejoycing of the Soldiers and others in Oxon Colonel Will. Legge was placed in his room and in his Sir Tho. Glemham 8 Oct. 1645 who kept the said Garrison till it was surrendred to the Parliament Sir A. Aston had at that time his broken leg cut off to save his life and in its place had one of Wood put So that being recovered and in a posture to do his Majesty farther service he went with the flower of the English Veterans into Ireland where he became Governour of Drogheda commonly called Tredagh about which time he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army But at length the said Garrison being overpower'd and soon after taken by Ol. Cromwell and his Forces in September 1649 all the Defendants were put to the sword and Aston the Governour a zealous R. Catholick was hewen in pieces and his brains beat out of his head with his wooden leg He
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kings●Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
thus Mr. Waterhouse went over into Ireland as Physitian to the Army there of whose diligence fidelity and abilities I had much experience while I was there He constantly attended the Army and had to my knowledge done very much good to the Officers and Soldiers by his skill and industry Whether this Joh. Waterhouse hath published any-thing I know not sure I am that Edw. Waterhouse Esq of the same family hath in order to which he had spent some time as a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library in the time of Oliver He hath written A discourse and defence of Arms and Armory shewing the natures and rises of Arms and Honour in England from the Camp the Court the City c. Lond. 1660. oct and wholly composed as Sir Will. Dugdale hath enformed me a book intit The Sphere of Gentry deduced from the principles of nature An historical and genealogical work of Arms and Blazon in 4 books Lond. 1661. fol published under the name of a busie and pragmatical person called Sylvanus Morgan an Arms-Painter living sometimes near the Old Exchange in London 'T is a rapsodical indigested and whimsical work and not in the least to be taken into the hands of any sober Scholar unless it be to make him either laugh or wonder at the simplicity of some people This Edw. Waterhouse Esq one of the Royal Society and a cock-brain'd man who hath published other things as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you did afterwards by the perswasion of the Archb. of Canterbury take holy orders on him and became a fantastical Preacher He died near London an 1671. An. Dom. 1651. An. 3 Car. 2. Chanc. Oliv. Cromwell Gen. of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England Vicech Dr. Greenwood again Nov. 6 nominated and recommended to his Office by the Chancellours Letters dat 2. Octob. this year Proct. Matth. Vnit of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9. Sam. Lee of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9. The junior Proctor being not of sufficient standing in the degr of Master for the taking on him the Procuratorial Office at which time he was elected by the Society of his Coll the Visitors dispensed with it by their order dat 22 Mar. 1650. Bach. of Arts. Oct. 16. Rowl Stedman lately of Bal● now of Vniv Coll. Feb. 10. Benj. Parry of Jes Coll. The last of these two was afterward● of C. C. Coll. and at l●●gth Bishop of Ossory Feb. 13. Nathan Hodges of Ch. Ch. Feb. 13. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 13. Edw. Veel of Ch. Ch. The first of these three was afterwards an eminent Physitian in London and the last whom I shall mention among the Masters 1653 a Nonconformist and both as I presume now living Feb. 28. Joh. Cawley lately of Magd. Coll now 1651 Fellow of that of All 's See among the Doctors of Div. in 1666. Mar. 2. Tho. Wo●lnough of Magd. Hall 16. Thom. Vincent of Ch. Ch. Adm. 112. ☞ But one Bach. of Law was admitted this year Mast of Arts. May 29. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. This person who was son of Joh. Greenwood was born at Sowerby in the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorksh became Scholar of Christs Coll. in Cambr. an 1645 or thereabouts where spending as much time as made him capable for the degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Principal of Brasn Coll was made Fellow of that House in 1648 in which year several of the antient Fellows thereof were ejected for their Loyalty In 1653 he became Rector of Steeple Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire by the presentation thereunto of the Princ. and Fellows of his Coll. and wrot and published 1 Sermon at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funeral of Mr. Franc. Croke of that place 2 Aug. 1672 on Isay 57.1.2 Oxon. 1680. qu. 2 Serm. at the funeral of Alex. Croke of Studley in Oxfordsh Esq buried at Chilton in Bucks 24 Oct. 1672 on 2 Cor. 6. ver 7.8 Oxon. 1680. qu. He the said Dan. Greenwood died suddenly of an apoplexy at Woodstock an 1679 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Steeple-Aston before mention'd near to the body of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Over his grave is a table of marble fix'd to the north wall of the said Chancel containing an Epitaph for the said Doctor and another for this his Nephew Which last runs thus Heic etiam deponuntur reliquiae rev viri Danielis Greenwood hujus Ecclesiae per anno xxv Rectoris qui singulari erga Deum pietate pauperes munificentia omnibus quibus innotuit humanitate feliciter decurso hujus vitae stadio in caelest Patriam festinans tristi sui desiderium moriens reliquit Octob. xiv an Dom. MDCLXXIX aet suae LI. May 29. Rich. Adams of Brasn Coll. He was a Ministers son in Worral in Chesh and originally of Cambridge where he was examined and admitted in Arts 26 Mar. 1644. Afterwards he went to Oxon when the Garrison thereof was surrendred to the Parliament was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. 24 Mar. 1646 aged 20 years and soon after made Fellow thereof In 1655 he left his Fellowship being about that time beneficed in Breadstreet in London and in 1662 he was removed for Nonconformity from which time to this he hath continued a Nonconformist Preacher and now liveth if I mistake not in Southwark Under his name hath been published several Sermons as 1 The duties of Parents and Children on Col. 3.20.21 'T is in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Of Hell on Mat. 24.41 'T is in The Morning exercise methodized c. preached at S. Giles in the Fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. 3 The earthly and heavenly building on 2 Cor. 5.1 at the funeral of Hen. Hurst M. A. c. Lond. 1690. qu. c. He also and Edw. Veel or Veale did publish Steph. Charnock's book intit A treatise of divine providence c. Before which they put an Epist to the Reader giving a short but imperfect account of the said Charnock's life See among the Writers in Steph. Charnock an 1680. p. 491. Jun. 18. Edw. Ba●shaw of Ch. Ch. Jun. 18. Hen. Eedes of Linc. Coll. Of the last of these two is large mention made among the Writers The other was originally of Cambridge where he performed his exercise for Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he entred himself into Magd. Hall where continuing till the ejection of loyal Fellows of Linc. Coll was made by the Visitors in 1648 he was by them put in Fellow there where he behaved himself very factious and turbulent On the first of May 1660 he resign'd his Fellowship otherwise had he tarried there a little longer he had been expell'd About which time by money and friends he obtained one or two rich Parsonages and in 1662 became Canon residentiary of Chichester and afterwards Doctor of Div. at Cambridge This is the person
535. Jul. 5. Rich. Steel M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. This person who was living a Nonconformist Minister in 1684 hath written several things among which are 1 The Husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies temptations graces duties of the christian husbandman in eleven Sermons Lond. 1668. 72. c. oct 2 A plain discourse of uprighteousness shewing the properties and privileges of an upright man Lond. 1671. c. oct 3 An antidote against distractions or an endeavour to serve the Church in the daily case of wandrings in the worship of God Printed thrice at least in oct The third edit was printed in 1673. 4 The Tradesmans calling Being a discourse concerning the nature necessity choice c. of a calling in general and directions for the right managing of the Tradesmans calling in particular Lond. 1684. oct Jul. 5. Edw. Fowler now or lately Chapl. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon was incorporated Mast of Arts as a member of Trin. Coll in Cambridge He is the same who took the degree of B. of A. an 1653 and the same who was afterwards B. of Gloc. He retired as it seems for a time to Cambr. and taking the degree of Master there return'd to his Coll. again in Oxon. Oct. 10. Pet. du Moulin D. of D. of Leyden in Holland afterwards confirmed or incorporated at Cambr was then incorporated in this Univ. in the same degree He was the son of Pet. du Moulin the famous Protestant Writer of France came into England in his elder years but whether he had preferment before the grand or Presbyterian Rebellion broke forth I know not After Ireland was reduced by the Parl. Forces he lived there sometimes at Lismore Yoghal and Dublin under the Patronage of Richard Earl of Cork Afterwards going into England he setled in Oxon where he was Tutor or Governour to Charles Visc Dungarvan and Mr. Rich. Boyle his brother Canon Commoners of Ch. Ch. lived there two or more years and preached constantly for a considerable time in the Church of S. Peter in the East After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Chaplain in ordinary to him and Prebendary of Canterb where he spent the remaining part of his days He hath written 1 Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum Hag. Com. 1652. qu. See more in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 883. 2 Treatise of peace and contentment of mind Lond. 1657. c. in a thick oct The third edition of this book which came out in 1678 was revised and much amended by the author 3 A week of Soliloquies and Prayers with a preparation to the holy Communion Printed there the same year and again in 1678. 79. in tw In which edition are added other Devotions in two parts 4 Vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Religion in point of obedience to Soveraignes c. in answer to a Jesuitical libel intit Philanax Anglicus Lond. 1667. qu. and 1679 which is the 4 edit 5 Poematum Libelli tres Cambr. 1670. oct In which book p. 128 is an Epicedium on Dr. Will. Juxon Archb. of Cant. In another edition of these Poems in 1671 was added Mantissa aliquot poematum 6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Incrementum Psal XCII ver 14. Lond. 1671. oct 7 Serm. at the Funeral of Dr. Thomas Turner Dean of Canterb. 17 Oct. 1672 on Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1672. qu. 8 Addition to a book written by his father intit The papal Tyranny as it was exercised over England for some ages Lond. 1674. qu. 9 Papal Tyranny two Sermons on Rev. 18. 4.5 Ibid. 1674. qu. 10 Reply to a person of honour his pretended answer to the Vindication of the Protestant Religion in point of obedience to Soveraignes and to the book of Papal Tyranny Lond. 1675. qu. 11 Ten Sermons preached on several occasions Lond. 1684. oct Among which are those I presume before mention'd He hath written as I conceive other things but such I have not yet seen and also translated from French into English 1 Faith in the just victorious over the World Serm. preached at the Savoy in the Fr. Church 10 Oct. 1669. Lond. 1670. qu. Which Serm. was preached by Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall heretofore Preacher to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother installed Preb. of Westminster in May 1671. 2 The ruin of Papacy or a clear display of the Simony of the Romish Clergy With a circulatory Letter to the Fathers of those Virgins that desert their families to turn Nuns Lond. 1679. oct c. This Dr. du Moulin who was an honest and zealous Calvinist died in the 84 year of his age and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury 10 Oct. 1684. The last words which he utter'd on his death-bed were Since Calvinism is cried down actum est de religione Christi apud Anglos c. In his Prebendship succeeded the learned and pious Will. Beveridge a Native of Leicestershire D. of D. of Cambr. and Archdeacon of Colchester installed therein 5 Nov. 1684. Feb. 16. Joseph Teate Mast of Arts of Dublin He was originally Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. in this Univ. Whence going into Ireland he took the degree of Master at Dublin 17 Aug. 1655. I find A Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of S. Canier Kilkenny 27 Feb. 1669. Lond. 1670. qu preached by Joseph Teat Dean thereof which Joseph is to be understood to be the same with the former Feb. 19. Joh. Packer Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Mar. 10. The most famous and learned Theophilus de Garencieres of Paris made Doct. of Phys at Caen in Normandy 20 years before this time was then Mar. 10. incorporated here in the same degree not only upon sight of his testimonial Letters which abundantly speak of his worth subscrib'd by the K. of France his Embassador in Engl. to whom he was domestick Physitian but upon sufficient knowledge had of his great merits his late relinquishing the Rom. Church and zeal for that of the Reformed This person who was one of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. hath written 1 Angliae flagellum seu Tabes Anglica Lond. 1647. in twenty fours 2 The admirable vertues and wonderful effects of the true and genuine tincture of Coral in Physick grounded by reason established by experience and confirmed by authentical authors in all ages Lond. 1676. in oct and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He also translated into English The true prophecies or prognostications of Mich Nostradamus Physitian to K. Hen. 2 Francis 2 and Charles 9. Kings of France c. Lond. 1672. fol. He died poor and in an obscure condition in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westm occasion'd by the unworthy dealings of a certain Knight which in a manner broke his heart but the particular time when I cannot tell 19. Walt. James Doct. of Phys of Padua The said degree he took at Padua in October 1655. Creations Apr.
D. of D. and Bish of Cloyne in Irel. 1679 on the death of Dr. Edw. Singe who being Bish of Cloyne Cork and Ross the two last Sees were then the same year confer'd on Dr. Edw. W●tenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll. Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys of Leyden 7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these two who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mention'd among the Writers p. 195 was Fellow of New Coll and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys of Leyden was incorporated the same day Aug. 7. This person who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643 Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other was educated in the Coll. near Dubl and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr of Doct. of Phys confer'd on him there 1650. Afterwards he setled in the City of Chester where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these 1 Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1670. oct dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby 2 The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England With the Governours since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2 an 1172 with some passages in their Government A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also the original of the Vniv of Dublin and the Coll. of Physitians Lond. 1675. in a large oct 3 The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion traced from many preceeding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit The Irish Rebellion or the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland 23 Oct. 1641 c. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties honorable privy Council in Irel. 4 Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are vindicated from aspersions cast on both Lond. 1682. oct In the third p. of the Epist to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit A short view of the late Troubles in England as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend upon notice of a book entit A short view c. Wherein in the eigth Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken This Letter which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681 was printed at Lond. in 1 sh in fol. the same year What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Chester after the year 1682. Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys of Padua was ●hen incorporated This person who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl first for Non-submission and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers This last reason was mention'd in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mention'd which is under the ninth But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty he upon the perusal of that passage did falsly unknowing to the author acquaint by another hand the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it Whereupon Bidgood a covetous person fearing that such a passage as that might when made public hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History to have it taken out Whereupon Dr. Fell wondring that he should scruple at such a passage which made much for his Loyalty the sheet wherein it was was reprinted and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a was made the tenth in its place This Health tho said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers yet the author of the aforesaid History finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions but as it is word by word before mention'd therefore did he set it so down without any invention of his own as some did surmise This Dr. Bidgood who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690 after he had cashier'd and disinherited his nat son call'd Joh. Sommers sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman and some to pious uses And having been a person of a surley and proud nature and offensive in word and action he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys of Padua Oct. 17. Christop Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two who was son of Onuphrius Henchman had the degree of Doct. confer'd on him at Pad an 1654 the other in 1659 and afterwards practised his fac in Lincolnshire Nov. 19. Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr One of both his names and Mast of Arts hath written and published The wicked Petition or Israels sinfulness in asking a King explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments CREATIONS After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 it was his and the pleasure of the Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox and of Sir E. Hyde who succeeded him in that Office this year that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffer'd for his Majesties Cause and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an 1648. 49. c. Mast of Arts. Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created among whom some that had not been Sufferers thrust themselves into the crowd for their money Others yet few were Gentlemen and were created by the favour of the Chancellours Letters only Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created I shall mention these following Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely
26. of Feb. 1675 aged 54 years and was buried in Ball. Coll. Chappel There was an epitaph made for him but not put over his grave part of which runs thus Hic jacet Johannes Good ● T B. Coll. Ball XXX plus minus annos socius meritissimus omnigenâ o●natus eruditione neutiquam inflatus Sic excultus ipse alios pariter excoluit sedulitate usus adeò indefessâ ut celebriori Tutoris quam Johannis prenomine diu innotuerit c. Octob. 17. Thomas Ellis M. A. of Jesus Coll. He is at large mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 248. Adm. 4. Doct. of Law May 14. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. He was then licensed to proceed but did not stand in the Act following to complete that degree ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was licensed this year only created Doct. of Div. July 3. George Escourt of Trin. Coll. a Compounder Incorporations May 21. George Smith Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who was lately of Qu. Coll. in this Univ took the said degree at Pad in Mar. 1651 8. He was afterwards of the Coll. of Phys June 18. Edw. Wetenhall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge In the next month he was admitted M. of A. as I have before told you 25. Joh. Parry Fellow of Jesus Coll. and M. of A. of 8 years standing who having performed all his exercise for Bach. of Div. in Trin. Coll. Chap. near Dublin on the 26. of January 1660 and the same day declared Bach. of Div. there was incorporated Bach. of Div. of this Univ. He was afterwards B. of Ossory as I have among the Writers told you p. 448. Ralph Whitfield B. A. of Dublin was incorporated the same day He took that degree at Dub. 7. Aug. 1655 which is all I know of him July 9. Tim. Puller M. A. and Fellow of Jes Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Sawcombe in Hertfordshire D. of D. of Cambr. an 1675 Rector of the Church of S. Mary de la Bow in London and author of The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted Lond 1679 oct c. At the same time when this worthy person Mr. Puller was incorporated which was just after the Act time nine Mast of Cambr. were incorporated also among whom Joh. Ellis of Caies Coll. was one Will. Williams of Emanuel another of both whose names have been several Writers and Tho. Leigh of the said Coll a third One Thom. Leigh Bach. of Div. and Vicar of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordsh hath published The keeping of Holydays Serm. preached at Hadham before Henry B. of London at his Lordships conference with the Clergy there Lond. 1684. 85. qu. Whether he be the same with the former Tho. Leigh I know not Quaere Hamnet Ward Doctor of Physick of Anger 's in France was incorporated on the same day July 9. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born had the said degree confer'd on him at Anger 's an 1646 and was now Vicar of Stourminster-Newton-Castle in his own Country and one of the Minor Preb. of Wells He hath published 1 The Protestant Soldier fighting under truths banner printed 1642. 2 Sermon preached at Shaftesbury in the primary visitation of Guy B. of Bristow on Ephes 3.8 Lond. 1674. qu and other things which I have not yet seen See more in Hen. Byam among the Writers p. 307. July 9. Tobias Dickson Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 11. Will. Bright Doct. of the same fac at Padua The same degree was confer'd on him at Pad an 1658. He was afterwards Hon. Fell. of the Coll. of Phys Sept. 9. Rob. Wishart M. of A. of S. Andrew in Scotland He was Son of the learned and famous George Wishart D. D of whom the Reader may be pleased to know that he was a Scotch man born and a Minister in the Church of S. Andrew in the same University that he had suffered in the time of the Covenant a long and tedious imprisonment in the nastiest part of the Tolbooth at Edinburgh called the Thiefs hole and afterwards did accompany the most victorious and noble James Marquess of Montross in his conquest of Scotland But upon the much lamented declension of that immortal person he became Chaplain to the Sister of K. Ch. 1. called the Queen of Bohemia and about the time of his Majesties restauration a Minister in Newcastle upon Tyne where he was held in great veneration for his unspotted Loyalty In 1662 Jun. 1 he was consecrated at S. Andrews Bishop of Edinburgh with Dr. Dav. Michell to Aberdene and dying at Edinburgh in Jul. or Aug. 1671 was buried in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house He was a person of great religion and very charitable to the poor and having been a Prisoner he was always careful at each dinner that he made to send the first dish from his table to the Prisoners He hath written The compleat Hist of the Wars of Scotland under the conduct of the illustrious and truly valiant James Marquess of Montross c. Printed several times in Lat. and English The first edit came out at the Hague in 1647. oct See in Dav. Whitford among the Writers pag. 389. Nov. 12. Rich. Trevor of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Phys of Padua This well-bred Gent. who was son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt and younger brother to Sir Joh. Trevor who was made Secretary of State in the latter end of Oct. 1668 after his return from his Embassy in France died near the Temple Gate on the 17 of July 1676 and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. 21. Levin Fludd Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Rob. Stap●ey Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Aug. 1639 and the other in May 1648. Dec. 7. John Downes Doct. of Phys of Leyden Mar. 4. Joh. Atfield Doct. of Phys of Caen. 13. Thom. Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these three was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. The second who was a Londoner born and had taken his degree at Caen in 1657 was also afterwards Fellow of the said Coll and the third who took his degree at Leyden in 1659 was afterwards a Knight and I think Fell. also CREATIONS Creations were made in all Faculties either by the favour of his Majesty or of Clarendon the Chancellour of the University when he was entertained by the Univ. in Sept. 1661. Bach. of Law About five were created but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them were Tho. Wilkins of Jes Coll a Sufferer for his Majesties Cause Sept. 12 Edm. Arnold of Mert. Coll. belonging to the Court of Arches Oct. 10. c. Mast of Arts. The Creations of Masters were mostly made in a Convocation held in the morn of the 9 of Sept at which time Edw. Earl of Clarendon Lord
there and I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same Franc. Fuller M. A. who published 1 A treatise of faith and repentance Lond 1684. 85. oct 2 Words to give to the young man knowledg and discretion or the law of kindness in the tongue of a Father to his Son Lond. 1685. oct c. These six last Masters were of the number of 31 Masters of Cambr. who were incorporated the next day after the conclusion of the Act July 14. Sept. 28. James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Visc Doncaster c. was incorporated M. A. as he had stood at Cambridge at which time the King Queen and their respective Courts were in Oxon He was presented by the University Orator with a flattering speech and in the plague year 1665 when the said King and Queen were at Oxon he was entred as a member in C. C. Coll. there This person who was the eldest natural Son of K. Ch. 2 was begotten on the body Mrs. Lucy Walters alias Barlow of Pembrokeshire as I have heard who as a spy was by Oliver imprisoned in the Tower of London in the beginning of 1656 but released thence in July the same year He was born at Roterdam in 1649 and for some time nurs'd there but when his Father K. Ch. 2. went into Scotland to be there crown'd by the Presbyterians he was being then known by the name of James Crofts committed to the care of his Grandmother Hen. Maria the Queen Mother of England then in France And what became of him afterwards a book written by S. T. a Novice and an unskilful author will tell you in his book entit An Historical Account of the heroick life and magnanimous actions of James Duke of Monmouth c. Lond. 1683. oct Which book c●ming out in his life time I shall only add this that for raising a rebellion in the West parts of England in the beginning of K. Jam. 2 against whom he had acted several times very unworthily while he was Duke of York in order to the disinheriting him of the imperial Crown was taken carried to London committed to the Tower and at length on the 15 of July 1685 was beheaded on Tower-hill whereupon his body was buried in the Church or Chappel there dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula Having now this just opportunity laid before me I shall give you the names of all or most of the natural Children of the said K. Ch. 2. but before I begin with them you are to know that the said Mrs. Walters gave out that the said King did beget on her body a Daughter but because he would not own her I shall not number her among the Children She was first married to a Gentleman of Ireland and afterwards to Will. Fanshaw one of the Masters of the Requests The second was Charlott begotten on the body of ... Boyle Vicountess Shannon Sister to Tho. Killigrew Groom of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2 who was first married to .... Howard the only Son of Tho. Howard a younger Brother to the Earl of Suffolk and after his death to Will. Paston Son and Heir to Robert Vicount Yarmouth She died in her house in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westm 28. July 1684 and was buried without any Armes of her own because the King had not assign'd her any in the Abbey Church at Westminster 3 Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth begotten on the body of Mrs. Catherine Pegge of Leycestershire afterwards the Wife of Sir Edw. Green of Essex Bt. This Ch. Fitz-Ch who had married one of the Daughters of Tho. Earl of Danby died of a Bloody-flux at Tangier a City in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa which had been given to K. Ch. 2. when he took to Wife Catherine the Infanta of Portugal on the 17 of Octob. 1680 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried as I presume in the Abbey Ch. of Westminster Qu. 4 Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton begotten on the body of Barbara Wife of Roger Palmer Esq afterwards Earl of Castlemaine and Daughter of Will. Villiers Lord Grandison which Lord dying of his wounds received at Edghill Battle in 1642 was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon over whose grave a stately monument was erected some years after his Majesties restauration by his said Daughter Barbara This Charles Fitz-Roy who was born in Kingstreet in Westm and was for some time a Nobleman or Canon Commoner of Ch. Ch married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Wood sometimes one of the Clerks of the Spicery in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth by his second Wife the Daughter of Sir Tho. Gardiner sometimes Recorder of London This Dutchess of Southampton died without Issue near Whitehall in Nov. or Dec. 1680 and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster 5 Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewsion and Duke of Grafton begotten on the body of the said Barbara Wife of Rog. Palmer This Henry whom the K. for a considerable time would not own to be his Son and therefore the titles of Charles Fitz-Roy were in case he die without heirs male of his body to descend to George Fitz Roy whom I shall anon mention married Isabel the only Child of Henry Earl of Arlington He died at Cork in Ireland of a wound received while that place was besieged by the Forces of K. Will. 3 on the ninth of Octob. 1690 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried at Ewston in Suffolk near the body of the said Earl of Arlington 6 Geor. Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland begotten on the body of the said Barbara He was born in a Fellows Chamber in Merton Coll 28. Decemb. 1665 at which time the Queen and her Court lodged in that Coll as the King did at Ch. Ch to avoid the plague then raging in Lond. and Westm In the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1685 there was committed a clandestine marriage between him and a Woman of ordinary extract Widow of one Captain Lucy of Charlecot in Warwickshire a Captain in the Earl of Oxfords Regiment but were as it seems soon after parted 7 Charles begotten on the body of Eleanor Quinn or Gwinn a Comedian in the Kings Play-house c. was born in Lincolns-Inn-Fields about the 14 or 15 of May 1670 had the Sirname of Beauclere given to him 27. of Dec. 28 of K. Ch. 2 being then created Earl of Burford c. He is now Duke of S. Albans 8 Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond begotten on the body of Lovisa de Querovall a Lady of French extraction and an attendant on Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans when she came into England to give a visit to the K. her Brother an 1670. She was afterwards made Duchess of Portsmouth 9 Charlot a Daughter begotten on the body of Barbara before mention'd then Countess of Castlemaine afterwards Duchess of Cleveland The said Charlot was
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae F●issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae d●tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii ●landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
Coll. a Compounder He was now one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess obtained on the death of Mr. Tho. Cook the father of his wife an 1669. and Can. resid of Hereford He died 20 Aug. 1684 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Bampton In his Archdeaconry succeeded one .... Wheeler and him .... Oatley Jul. 3. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. Ant. Saunders of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The other who was Chapl. to the Archb. of Cant was now 1677 Chanc. of S. Paul in Lond. and Rector of Acton in Middlesex John Fitzwilliams of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of York Rector of Cotenham near Cambridge and Preb. of Windsore He hath published A Sermon preached at Cotenham near Cambridge on the 9 of Sept. 1683 being the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his sacred Majesty and the Government from the late treasonable Conspiracy on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1683. qu. He is now a Non-juror and therefore hath lost his Spiritualities Incorporations May 14. Walt. Leightonhouse Bac. of Art of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was soon after elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. See among the Masters in 1679. After the conclusion of the Act were 23 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated Jul. 10 among which was Aylett Sams of Christs Coll. This person published under his own name Britannia antiqua illustrata or the Antiquities of antient Britaine deriv●d from the Phoenicians Wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered the names of Places Offices Dignities as likewise the Idolatry c. are clearly demonstrated from that Nation many old monuments illustrated c. Together with a chronological History of this Kingdom from the first traditional beginning until the year of our Lord 800 when the name of Britaine was changed into England c. Lond. 1676. vol. 1. fol. An account of this book is in the Philosophical Transactions num 124. p. 596 wherein tho the Author of them Mr. Oldenburg doth stile Mr. Sams the learned and curious Vndertaker of that great work yet the common report then was that not he but his quondam Uncle was the Author and to confirm it was his great ignorance in matters and books of Antiquity I was several times in his company when he spent some weeks this year in Oxon and found him to be an impertinent girning and pedantical Coxcomb and so ignorant of Authors that he never heard of before I mention'd it to him of the great Antiquary Joh. Leland or of his printed or manuscript Works nor any thing of Baleus nor could he give any account of Authors that are quoted in the said Britannia antiqua illustrata c. He died in the year 1679 or thereabouts perhaps in the Inner Temple where he had a Chamber but where buried I know not nor is it material to be informed I find one Rob. Aylett Mast of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated at Oxon an 1608. Quaere whether he was his Uncle Jul. 10. Will. Birstall D. D. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. Feb. 19. Patrick Dunn Physitian in ord to James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut. of Ireland Doct. of Phys of Aberdene in Scotland Valentia in Dauphiny and of Dublin in Ireland was declared he being then absent incorporated Doctor of the said faculty of this Univ. of Oxon and on the 23 of March following a Diploma of his Incorporation was sealed and sent to him Creations The most noble James Duke of Ormonde Chancellor of the University coming to Oxon in the beginning of Aug. this year where he was splendidly entertained by the Academians with Treats in several Colleges and Speeches in the Theater it was his desire that there should be a Creation of Doctors of the Civil Law and a Creation of two persons in Divinity Those that were created in the former faeulty which was on the sixth day of Aug. in the Theater were these Doct. of Law Richard Boteler Earl of Arran in Ireland and Baron Boteler of Weston in Huntingdonshire in England second son of James Duke of Ormonde This noble and courageous person who had done good service against the Rebels at Carickfergus in Ireland and in that perilous Sea-sight against the Dutch when James D. of York was General at Sea for which and other Services he was made Baron of Weston died on the 26 of Jan. 1685. Whereupon his body was deposited in the same Vault in the Abbey Church at Westminster where that of his elder brother Thom. E of Ossory and their mother Elizab. Dutchess of Ormonde had been laid which Dutchess died in her house in S. James's Square within the Liberty of Westminster on the 21 of July 1684. But whether their bodies were afterwards removed to Kilkenny in Ireland there to be deposited in the Vault among the bodies of the Ormondian family I know not as yet Pierce Boteler Visc Galmoy in Irel. of the Ormondian family Francis Aungier Viscount afterwards Earl of Longford in the same Kingdom Robert Fitz-Gerald son of the Earl of Kildare Sir Kingsmill Lucy Bt. Sir Thom. Erscott Kt. Sir James Boteler Kt. He was natural son of James Duke of Ormonde by Isabel daugh of Henry Earl of Holland and wife of Sir James Thynne of Langleate in Wilts This person who was bred up to the Common Law in Linc. Inn succeeded Will. Lord Brouncker in the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near the Tower of London c. Sir Edw. Scott Kt. Sir Rob. Southwell Kt. This most worthy and accomplish'd person who was son of Rob. Southwell of Kinsale in the County of Cork in Irel. Esq Vice-Admiral of Mounster and of the Privy Council there descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in Kinsale educated in Queens Coll. in this University where he was Bach. of Arts and afterwards became a Barrister of Linc. Inn On the 27 of Sept. 1664 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Majesties Privy Council and on the 20 of Nov. 1665 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty being then accounted a Gent. of known worth and abilities and fitted every way for the Service of his Majesty who then thought good to give him the character of his Envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal whether he was to go in few days after In the latter end of Octob. 1671 he was sent Envoy extraordinary to Count de Monterey Governour or Vice-Roy for his Catholick Maj. of the Spanish Netherlands and in the beginning of Decemb. 1679 the Presbyterians and Fanaticks being then rampant upon the account of the Popish Plot he resigned his Clerkship of the Council In Feb. following he was sent Envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandeberg and after his return he was much respected for the Services he had done for
as yet Bach. of Div. May 22. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. Jul. 9. Joh. Hinckley of S. Alb. Hall Nov. 29. Henr. Maurice of Jes Coll. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law July 2. Rich. Jones of Jes Coll. Dec. 17. Hen. Davies of S. Joh. Coll. Both these were Compounders Doct. of Phys July 10. Edw. Wrigglesworth of S. Joh. Coll. Dec. 17. Joshua Lasher of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Div. June 30. Thom. Ken of New Coll. July 4. Will. Jane Can. of Ch. Ch. Compounder On the 19 of May 1680 he was admitted in Convocation the Kings Professor of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Allestree 9. Joh. Hinckley of S. Albans Hall He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations After the conclusion of the Act were 17 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among whom were Rich. Holland of Eman. College mentioned as a Writer of both his names among the Writers in this vol. p. 433. and Tho. Wright another one of both whose names of S. Peters Coll. in Cambr. hath published The glory of Gods revenge against the bloody and detestable sin of murder and adultery c. print in 1685 and other things Creations Dec. 17. George Hickes Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc which say that he hath been several years attendant upon the Duke of Lauderdale in his Majesties service in the Kingdom of Scotland as well as in England that he hath done remarkable service to the Church of England during his abode in that other Kingdom and hath received several marks of honour from the late Archb. of S. Andrew and the Clergy of Scotland c. Joh. Snell born at Comonell in Carrick in the Sherriffdome of Ayre in Scotland bred in the University of Glascow under Jam. Darumpley Prof. of Philosophy of which he was afterwards diplomated Mast of Arts died in the house of Mr. Benj. Cooper in Halywell in the suburb of Oxon on the sixth day of Aug. this year aged 50 years after he had spent some time there and was buried at the upper end of the Chancel under the north wall of the Chap. or Church of S. Cross of Halywell This I mention because that in his last Will and Testament he bequeathed the Mannour of Vffeton alias Olufeton alias Vlveton in the County of Warwick worth about 450 l. per an to be employed after certain years spent and moneys rais'd and paid thence for the maintenance of certain Scotch Scholars in such Coll. or Hall in Oxon that the Vicechancellour of the Univ. of Oxon Provost of Qu. Coll Master of Ball. Coll. and President of S. Johns Coll for the time being shall think fit Their number is not to be above twelve or under five to be chosen from Glascow Coll. from the number of such that had spent 3 years or two at the least there or one or two in some other Coll. in Scotland c. They are to enjoy the said exhibition about ten or eleven years and then they are to return into their own Country to get preferment there c. This estate Mr. Snell got by being first a Clerk under Sir Orlando Bridgman while he had Chamber-practice in the time of Usurpation Secondly by being Cryer of the Court of Exchecquer while the said Sir Orl. was L. Chief Baron thereof and of the Common-pleas when Sir Orl. was Ch. Justice of that Court and lastly by being Seal-bearer when he was Lord Keeper Afterwards being much esteemed for his great diligence and understanding he was employed sometimes into Scotland for James Duke of Monmouth and bore the Seal again when Anth. E. of Shaftesbury was L. Chancellour of England c. An. Dom. 1680. An. 32. Car. 2. Chanc. James D. of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton nominated by the Chancellours Letters dat at Kilkenny 19. Aug confirmed by Convoc 2. Oct. Proct. Charles Hawles of Magd. Coll. Apr. 21. Robert Balche of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. May 12. Thomas Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. 12. Henry Hellier of C. C. Coll. June 15. Joh. Norris of Exeter Coll. The last of these three was afterwards of All 's Coll. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Linc afterwards of Brasn Coll. He hath published several things but such is his modesty that he 'll acknowledge none June 15. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch. Oct. 27. Thom. Creech of Wadh. afterwards of All 's Coll. c. Adm. 224. Bach. of Law Four were admitted whereof one was a Compounder Mast of Arts. June 23. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. This Divine who is Son of Will. Talbot of the City of Lichfield Gent became Dean of Worcester in the place of the most worthy and learned Dr. G. Hickes deprived for not taking the Oathes of Alleg. and Supremacy to King W. 3. and Qu. Mary in Apr. 1691. and was afterwards author of 1 A Serm. in the Cathedral Ch. of Worcester upon the monthly fast day 16. Sept. 1691 on Amos 4.21 Lond. 1691. qu. 2 A Serm. pr. before the Qu. at Whitehall 26. Feb. 1691. on Haback 1.13 Lond. 1692. qu. c. June 23. Will. Hayley or Healey of All 's Coll. He was afterward Chaplain to Sir Will. Trumbull Embass to Constantinople or to the Ottoman Port and author of A Serm. preached before the right hon George E. of Berkley Governour of the Company of Merchants trading to the Levant Seas at S. Peters Ch. in B●oadstreet Lond. Jan. 30. 1686. on Prov. 8.18 Lond. 1687. qu. June 25. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall He was afterwards Minister of Peterborough and author of An answer to the Bishop of Condom now of Meaux his Exposition of the Cath. Faith c. Wherein the doctrine of the Church of Rome is detected and that of the Church of England expressed c. Lond. 1686. qu. To which are added Reflections on his pastoral Letter Both these are contained in 17. printed sheets July 5. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall This Gent. was the fourth Son of Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet and taking holy Orders about the time he was Master was presented to a Living in Surrey by Rob. Wymondsold of Putney Esq with whom travelling into France in the quality of a Tutor was drown'd in the Summer time in the presence of his Pupil as he was recreating himself by swimming in a River near the City of Paris an 1681. He translated from French into English with some additions Notitia Historicorum selectorum Or animadversions upon the famous Greek and Latine Historians c. Oxon. 1678. oct Written by Franc. La Mothe Le Vayer Counsellour of State to the present King of France The eldest Brother of this Will. Davenant is Charles who became a Gent. Com. of Ball. Coll. in 1671 but receding without the taking a degree here had the degree of Doct. of the Civ Law confer'd upon him elsewhere He is author of Circe a Tragedy Lond. 1677. qu. The Prologue to it was written by Mr. Jo. Dryden
of what he farther intends c. On the eleventh of the said month of March the Diploma for his Creation was sealed c. This learned Doctor who is a Yorkshire man born and had been bred up under Sir Matthew Lister mentioned in the Fasti of the first vol. of this Work p. 793. was educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards of the Royal Society and after when Doctor Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Among several things that he hath written are 1 Historiae Animalium Angliae tres tractatus c. Lond. 1678. qu. An account of which is in the Philos Transactions numb 139. pag. 2 De Fontibus medicatis Angliae exercitat nov prior Ebor. 1682. c. oct An account of which is also in the said Phil. Trans nu 144. This was reprinted at Lond. with additions 1684 oct and to it was added De Fontibus medicatis Angliae exercitatio altera dedicated to the Univ. of Oxon 3 Historiae Conchyliorum liber primus qui est de cochleis terrestibus Lond. 1685. fol. All represented in cuts c. There be also several of his Letters Enquiries c. in the said Transactions nu 70.72.73.75.76.77.79.83 c. 87.89.95.105.117.144.145.147.149 c. Also in Philosophical Collections numb 4. c. Doct. of Div. June 4. Thom. White Mast of Arts and Chapl. to James Duke of York or rather to the Lady Anne was declared Doct. of Div. and two days after was diplomated On the 13 of Aug. following he was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Vere Harcourt deceased who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Will. Robinson in Sept. 1660 and being nominated Bishop of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Lloyd to the See of Norwych in the latter end of July 1685 was consecrated thereunto in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Oct. following at which time Rich. Blechynden Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon preached the Consecration Sermon This worthy person who was born in Kent and educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge was one of the six Bishops that were with the most religious and conscientious William Archb. of Canterbury committed Prisoners to the Tower of London on the 8 of June 1688 for subscribing and delivering a Petition to his Maj. King James 2 wherein they shewed their great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience c. which was then esteemed libellous and seditious Afterwards coming to their Trial in Westminster Hall on the 25 of the same month they were quitted to the great rejoycing of the generality of people After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown and setled he was one of those Bishops together with the said Archb that were deprived of their respective Sees for not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and the Qu Whereupon Dr. Rich. Cumberland of Cambridge being nominated to the said See of Peterborough by their Majesties he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691. An. Dom. 1684. An. 36 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Joh. Lloyd again Sept. 1. Proct. Joh. Massey of Mert. Coll. Apr. 9. Philip Clerk of Magd. Coll. Apr. 9. Bach. of Arts. May 15. Peter Lancaster of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters an 1686. Jun. 13. Francis Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Jun. 13. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. See more of the last of these two among the Masters 1687. Adm. 153. Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one yet is a Writer Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joh. Norris of All 's Coll. Jun. 13. Rob. Boothe of Ch. Ch. a younger son of George Lord Delamere and brother to the Earl of Warrington Feb. 12. Joh. Hudson of Qu. afterwards of Vniv Coll. The last of these three is Author of Introductio ad Chronologiam sive Art Chronologica in Epitome redacta Oxon. 1691. oct c. Adm. 100. Bach. of Phys Only three were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 3. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch. Nov. 17. Joh. Hughes of Ball. Coll. While he was Master of Arts he published A Sermon on Psal 107.23.24 preached before George Earl of Berkley Governour and the company of Merchants of England trading in the Levant Seas c. It was preached in S. Peters Ch. in Broadstreet 18 Nov. 1683 the author being then Fellow of Ball. Coll. and Chapl. to James Lord Chandois Ambassador at Constantinople Dec. 17. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. This Divine who is now Rector of Kiddington near Wodstock in Oxfordshire hath published Fides Ecclesiae Anglicanae vindicata ab incertitudine Sive concio coram Academia Oxoniensi habita ineunte Termino Octob. 9. an 1688 in S. Matth. 6.23 Oxon. 1688. quart Adm. 17. Doct. of Phys Jul. 1● Rob. Smith of Wadh. Coll. 9. Richard Adams of All 's Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder Doct. of Div. May 6. Barnab Long of Magd. Coll. a Compounder On the 6 of Feb. 1681 he was installed Prebend of Boterant in the Church of York and on the 24 of May 1682 of Stillington in the said Church on the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman who had kept it in commendam with the See of Man On the 10 of Jan. 1682 he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake and dying in the house of Dr. Will. Beaw B. of Landaff at Adderbury in Oxfordshire he being then dignified in the Church of Landaff about the eleventh of Apr. 1685 was buried in the Church there In his Archdeaconry was installed Joh. Burton M. A. 29 Jul. 1685. Jul. 3. Charles James of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity 9. Thom. Bayley of Magd. Coll. Oct. 21. Joh. Meare of Brasn Coll. This person who accumulated the degrees in Div was elected Principal of his Coll. on the death of Dr. Thom. Yate 7 May 1681. 30. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. On the ninth of Apr. 1673 he was admitted Savilian Professor of Astronomy on the resignation of Sir Christoph Wren which place he leaving for the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks David Gregory M. A. of the Univ. of Edenburgh was admitted to it after he had been incorporated in the same degree 6 Feb. 1691. On the 18 of the said month and in the same year he accumulated the degrees in Physick and is now a Master Com. of Ball. Coll. This Gent who was born at Aberdene and mostly educated there hath extant Exercitatio Geometrica de dimensione Figurarum Sive specimen methodi generalis dimetiendi quasdam figuras Edenb 1684. qu at which time he was Mathematick Professor there Dec. 2. Thom. Crosthwait of Qu. Coll. Dec. 2. Beaumont Percival of New Coll. The first of these two was elected Principal of S. Edm. Hall on the
resignation of Mr. Steph. Penton 15 Mar. 1683 and admitted thereunto on the 4 of Apr. following but he being outed thence for several reasons notwithstanding he had been re-elected by the majority of the Fellows of his Coll Dr. John Mill of the said Coll. was elected and adm in his place 5 May 1685. These things I set down purposely to carry on the succession of the Principals of S. Edm. Hall a printed Cat. of which to Dr. Thom. Tully you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. Feb. 6. Rob. Harsnett of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Charl. Hickman of Ch. Ch. 23. John Willes of Trin. Coll. Incorporations Thirteen Masters of the University of Cambridge were incorporated after the Act time but not one of them is a Writer as I can yet find Jun. 9. Joh. Chrysostom du Charoll M. A. of Avignion who had taken that degree there in 1669 was incorporated by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he had served in his Maj. Chap. royal as one of the daily Chaplains for 7 or eight years past c. Jul. 9. Bartholdus Holtzfus a Native of Pomerania and a Master of Arts of Frankfurt upon the Order in the Marquisate of Brandeburg was incorporated also by vertue of the said Letters which tell us that he was sent to the Vniversity of Oxon to study by his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandeburg c. 14. Thom. Fryer Doct. of Phys of Pemb. Hall in Cambr. was incorporated as he had stood there after the Act time He was as it seems honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Creations Sept. 1. Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of Engl. c. was with solemnity created Doctor of the Civil Law after he had been presented with an encomiastical Speech by Dr. Rob. Plot Professor of Nat. History and Chymistry This person who was afterwards Knight of the most honorable Order of the Garter and L. Lieutenant of Berks Norfolk Surrey and the City of Norwich I have mentioned among the Creations under the year 1668. An. Dom. 1685. An. 1 Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Timothy Halton Provost of Queens Coll. Oct. 6. Proct. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Tho. Smith of Brasn Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Francis Willis of New Coll. Jul. 9. Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. a Compounder Oct. 27. Philip Bertie of Trin. Coll. Oct. 27. Dav. Jones of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last is a younger son to Robert E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlaine of England c. The other is a frequent Preacher in London and a Publisher of several Sermons Dec. 8. Will. King of Ch. Ch. a Comp. Adm. 167. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Matthew Bryan of Magd. Hall was one Jul. 10. See among the Doctors of Law following Mast of Arts. Novemb. 24. John Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 17. Leop. William Finch of All 's Coll. The last of these two was elected Warden of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased by vertue of a Mandamus from King Jam. 2 on the 21 of January 1686. Adm. 90. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one Dec. 8. lately admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Bach. of Div. July 7. Luke Beaulieu of Ch. Ch. This Divine was born in France educated for a time in the Univ. of Samur there came into England upon account of Religion 18 years or more before this time exercised his ministerial function was naturaliz'd made Divinity Reader in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore was a Student in this University for the sake of the public Library 1680 and after became Chaplain to Sir George Jeffreys L. Ch. Justice of England Rector of Whitchurch in the dioc of Oxon an 1685 and by his published Writings did usefully assert the Rights of his Majesty and Church of England This person who is called by some Dean Beaulieu who hath written several things in French and English chiefly against Popery is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers July 9. John Scot of New Inn. This learned Divine who is not yet mentioned in these Fasti because he took no degree in Arts or in any other faculty hath published divers books of Divinity some of which were against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. and therefore he is hereafter to crave a place among the Oxford Writers 11. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. a Comp. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law May 5. John Rudston of S. Joh. Coll. a Comp. Jul. 7. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Traffles of New Coll. The first of these two who was a Compounder became Archdeacon of Wilts upon the resignation of Mr. Seth Ward in Nov. 1681 Chanc. of the Dioc. of Salisbury upon the death of Sir Edw. Low in June 1684 Rector of Pewsie in Wilts on the death of Dr. Rich. Watson in Jan. the same year Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of the said Mr. S. Ward in Jan. 1686 Dean of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Pierce in Apr. 1691. c. July 7. Joh. Gibbs of All 's Coll. July 7. Steph. Waller of New Coll. July 7. Matth. Tindall of All 's Coll. July 7. Matth. Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. 10 Edm. Evans of Jes Coll. 10 Matth. Bryan of Magd. Hall The last of these two is a Divine and Non-Juror hath one or more Sermons and A perswasive to the stricter observance of the Lords day c. extant See in the first vol. of Athenae Oxon. p. 513. July 11. Ralph Bohun of New Coll. He hath written A discourse concerning the origine and properties of wind c. and may hereafter publish other books Doct. of Phys July 7. Steph. Fry of Trin. Coll. 9. Robert Conny of Magd. Coll. 10. Sam. Kimberley of Pemb. Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Phys Doct. of Div. Jun. 26. Joh. Venn of Ball. Coll. Jun. 26. Thom. Dixon of Qu. Coll. The first of these two had been elected Master of his Coll on the death of Dr. Tho. Good 24 Apr. 1678. July 3. Fitzherbert Adams of Linc. Coll. July 3. Will. Johnson of Queens Coll. The first of these two was elected Rector of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Thom. Marshall deceased May 2. this year and was afterwards Prebendary of Durham July 4. Constant Jessop of Magd. Coll. a Comp. 9. Joh. Scott of New Inn He accumulated the degrees in Div. 11 Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Comp. 11 Henry Godolphin of All 's Coll. Comp. The first of these two who hath published one or more books is now a Non-Juror The other Fell. of Eaton and can resid of S. Pauls c. Nov. 3. Will. Bernard of Merton Coll. Incorporations The Act being put off this year no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only one in the degree of Master July 9. Creations Apr. 29. Michael Morstin a Polonian Son of John Andr. Morstin
Lel. p. 8. (h) Ibid. p. 7. (i) Ib. p. 8. (*) Printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. p 17 (*) It is to be observed that when with some difficulty he obtained leave to kiss the Kings hand after his return from exile he out of guilt fell backward as he was kneeling 1662. (*) 'T is said that one Mrs. Catherine Johnson a pretender to Prophecy did some time before tell Will. Lenthall that the Oath of Abjuration against the Royal Family should be endeavoured to pass in Parliament which if he would deny he should afterwards be forgiven for what he had done against the King So that upon her warning he upon the proposal of that Oath absented himself from the House for about ten days under pretence of the Gout See more in a book intit The mystery and method of his Majesties happy Restauration c. by Joh. Price D. D. Lond. 1680. oct p. 40. 1662. (a) In his Anti-Baal-Berith p. 275.276 (b) Farther continuation of the Friendly Debate Lond. 1670. in oct p. 147.148 (c) The Author of The fourth Plea of the Conformists for the Non-Conformists Lond. 1683. qu. in a Postscript at the end (d) In Mr. Hooker's life written by Isaac Walton (e) In a book intit Mirabilis annus secundus or the second year of prodigies Being a true and partial Collection of many strange signes c. printed 1662. num 21. p. 86.87 (f) Tim. Rogers (g) Wethersfield in Essex 1662. (a) The Author of The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by Durell and Scrivner c. Lond. 1679. p. 70. (b) See the Life of Archb. Laud written by P. Heylyn part 2. an 1639 1662. 1662. (*) Dr. Joh. Williams 166● 3. (a) Reg Matric P. pag. 395 (*) Will. Assheton in his Epistle before Bish Sandersons Discourse of the Church c. before mention'd 1662 3. 166● 3. 1663. 1663. (*) See in a book intit Canterburies Doome c. published by Will. Prynne (†) The said Articles were answer'd by R. M. 1663. 1663. (*) Joh. Horne 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. 1663. (a) In Gestis Cancellariatus Vniv Oxon. Gul. Laud MS. p. 28. (b) Ibid. p. 27. 1663 4. Clar. 1663. Clar. 1663. Clar. 1663. 1664. (a) See the Acts in the book called The Looking-glass pag. 43.44 1664. 1664. 1664. 1664 5. 1664 5. 1664 5. Clar. 1664. Clar. 1664. Clar. 1664. (a) See in a book entit A Pearl in an Oyster-shel or pretious treasure put in perishing vessels c. Lond. 1675. oct pen'd by Richard Moore sometimes Rector of Aldchurch in Worcestersh ejected thence for Nonconformity and now 1682 lives at Wetherock-hill near Kings Norton in the said County 1665. (*) Pet. Heylyn in his letter Combate Lond. 1659. p. 82. (a) Sober sadness or historical observations upon the proceedings c. Oxon. 1643. p. 32. (b) See Canterb. Doome p. 173. (c) Letter from Mer. Civic to Mer Rustic printed 1643. p. 9. (*) In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's Fascic literarum Lond. 1680. oct pag. 34. (†) See in Is Basire in his Sacriledge arraigned Lond. 1668. sec Edit in the Preface 1665. (a) It should be 2 Ed. 6. Dom. 1649. (b) 'T is in oct H. 138. Th. in bib Bod. pr. at Lond. 1663. (c) The book is interleaved and therein as in the Margin he hath noted many things with his own hand (d) Edw. Leigh in his Treatise of Religion and Learning c. lib. 3. cap. 15. (e) As in the book of Nativities collected by Dr. Rich. Napier of Buckinghams MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq and in an Almanack for 1673 published by Joh. Gadbury (f) In his Vnderwoods pag. 243. (g) So in Sir Ken. Digby's Epitaph made by R. Ferrar. (h) Hen. Stubbe in his Animadversions upon the Plus Ultra of Mr. Glanvill p. 161. 1665. (†) Franc. Lord Bacon 1665. 1665. 1665. 1665. (a) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. p. 367. b. 368. b. 369. a. b. 370. a. 386. a. 389. a. 391. a. b. 394. a. 398. b. 400. a. b. 402. a. b. 403. b. 404. a. 405. a. 407. a. 408. a. 410. b. 411. a. b. 413. b. lib. 2. p. 34. b. 305. a. (b) Reg. Convocat Univ. Oxon. T. p. 97. 1665. 1665. (*) In the Memoires of noble and reverend Personages written by Dav. Lloyd Lond. 1668. fol. p. 521. 1665. 1665. 1665. (a) Ser. Cressy in his Epist Apologetical p. 46.47 (b) See in The life of Mr. Rich. Hooker Lond. 1670. p. 95. written by Is Walton 1665. 1665. (c) In Anthropos Theomag p. 53.54 (d) Ibid. p. 63. (e) In his Man-Mouse p. 114. 1665 6. 1666. 1666. 1666. (a) In the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Vsher's Life fol. p. 261.270 c. 1666. (b) In Offic. Armorum H. 8. fol. 32. b. 1666. 1666. 1666. (c) Sebast Smith D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rich. Croke Recorder of the City of Oxon. 1666. (*) So I have been informed by his Son the Butler of Furnivals inn in Holbourn near London 1666. (a) Lib. matric P. pag. 473. (b) In his Epist or familiar Letters vol. 1. §. 6. nu 60. 1666. (a) See in the Mysterie of the good old Cause c. Lond. 1660. oct p. 11. 1666. (*) D. Lloyd in his Memoires c. p. 600. 1666. 1666. 1666 7. Clar. 1666. 1667. (a) See in the beginning of our Authors book intit Abuses whipt and stript and there you 'll find an account of himself while he studied in the Univ. of Oxon. 1667. 1667. 1667. (a) Lib. matric PP fol. 78. b. (b) Dr. Lazarus Seaman 1667. 1667. (a) See Dr. Geo. Rusts Sermon at Bish Taylors funeral (b) Hen. Jeanes in his Epist to the reader before Certain letters between him and Jer. Taylor Lond. 1660. (c) G. Rust ut sup (*) Ibid. (d) Tho. Long in his Preface to the book entit Mr. Hales his Treatise of Schisme c. (e) Ibid. See also in Responsio Roberti Grovii ad lib. qui inscrib Celeusma c. Lond. 1680. qu. p. 80. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1667. (a) In his Poems called Fragmenta aurea Lond. 1648. oct p. 8. (†) The said Sir Joh. Suckling was made one of the principal Secretaries of State 30 of March 1622. So Camden in his Annals of K. James 1. an 1622. (†) Thomas Walkley in his New Catalogue of the Dukes Marques Earls Viscounts Barons of England c. also Baronets Kts c. Lond. 1658. oct p. 163. 1668. 1668. 1668. 1668. 1668. (a) The marriage was consummated 4. Oct. 1655. So Theodosia his Widow in The narrative of his life from his silencing to his death p. 91. (b) In the Introduction before Jos Alleines life p. 17. 1668. (c) Printed at Lond. 1672 and 1677 in a large octavo 1668. (a) So have I been informed by the Letters of James Webb of Butleigh in Somersetsh Gent. Son of John Webb who married the Cosin German of the said Inigo Jones 166● (b) John Durell in his S. Ecclesiae Anglicanae
c. Vindiciae Lond. 1669. cap. 28. p. 332. (c) Qui scripsit Historiam motuum nuperorum in Scotia (d) Qui Gallicè scripsit De rebus Anglicis (e) Lib. 2. p. 354. 1669. 1669. 1669. 1669. (a) In reg Pile in the Will. Office near S. Pauls Cath. Lond Qu. 52. (b) Francis Rous or Will. Barton (c) See in the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Vshers life printed 1686. nu 265. 1669. 1669. (a) In his Life of William Archb. of Cant. part 1. lib. 3. an 1632. (b) Bulst Whit●ock in his Memorials of English Affairs under the year 1632. (c) In the Life of William c. as before part 1. lib. 4. (d) See Prynne's book intit A new discovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 141. and elsewhere (*) Will. Noy of Linc. Inn Attorn Gen. (a) In Merc. Pol. nu 7. (b) Ser. Cressy in his Church Hist of Britanny book 14. chap. 4. p. 321. (c) See also in Prynne's Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. part 1. p. 10. (d) Th●m Fuller in his Ch. Hist lib. 3. sect 40. (e) In A new discovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 1. (*) George Gillespie as it seems 1669. (a) Clem. Walker in his Hist of Independency pr. 1649. sect 12. p. 32. 1669. (b) Lud. Molinaeus in Patron bonae fidei in cap. cui tit est Specimen contra Durelium p. 19. alii 1669. (c) Reg. Convoc T. ad finem p. 7. 1669. 166● 70. 1669 70. 1669 70. Clar. 1669. (*) See in the second part of Hudibras Lond. 1674. Cant. 3. p. 352. and in the annotations at the end p. 408. Clar. 1669. (a) Lewis Burnet a Scot M. A. of Aberdene lately a Reader in S. Mart. Ch. in the Fields within the liberty of Westm 1670. 1670. (*) In a Journal-book of the Royal Society MS. 1670. 1670. 1670. 1670. (a) Lib. vel reg Matric PP fol. 295. a. (b) Merc. Aul. in the 33 week an 1644. p. 1123. (c) The same author in the thirtieth week ending July 27. an 1644. p. 1095. 1670. (*) See in a book intit A short view of the late troubles in England Oxon. 1681. fol. Written by Sir Will. Dugdale p. 567. (†) Fred. Lossius Medic. Dorchest in Observat medicinalib Lond. 1672 oct lib. 1. observat 8. 1670. (a) Edw. Bagshaw as 't is reported pag. 106. (b) Alex. Griffith p. 1.2 (c) Ib. in E. Bagshaw (d) pag. 2. (d) In the Account of his Conversion and Ministry p. 11. (e) Strena Vav p. 3. (f) Ibid. See also in Merc. Cambro-Britannus or News from Wales touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel there c. Lond. 1652. (g) So in his Life before quoted p. 107. (h) Strena p. 5. (i) Hen. Jessey in his book intit The Lords loud Call to England c. printed 1660. p. 13. 1670. 1670. 1670. 1670. 1671. 167● 1671. 1671. (a) Tho. Fuller in his Church Hist Lib. 10. Sect. 17.18 c. (b) See in Dr. Jo. Durells book entit Vindiciae Eccles Angl. Cap. 3. p. 33. 1671. 1671. 1671. 1671. 1671 1671. (a) Rich. Baxter in his Apology for Nonconformist Ministers p. 162. (b) In his Second admonition to Mr. Bagshaw Printed 1671. in oct p. 151. (c) See Mr. Baxters pref to his Second admonition to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw Pr. 1671. oct p. 11. 1671. 1671 2. 1671 2. 1672. (a) In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's book entit Fasciculus Literarum c. Lond. 1680. oct p. 34. 1672. 1672. 1672. (b) Merc. Aul. in Oct. 1643. p. 610. 1672. (a) See in The Hist of the Royal Society c. Lond. 1667. qu. Written by Tho. Sprat part 2. (b) In The life and death of Sir Mat. Hale Knight c. Lond. 1682. in a large oct p. 69. 1672. 1672. (a) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. p. 335. 1672. 1672. 1672 3. 167● 3. 1673. (a) James Wadsworth in his book called The English Spanish Pilgr●m printed at Lond. the sec time 1630 qu. p. 13. (b) In his Pref. to Infidelity unmask'd 1673. (c) Reg. Convoc Un. Ox. S. p. 33. 1673. 1673. 1673. (d) Dr. Charles Goodall in his second pref in his Historical account of the Colleges proceeding against Empricks added to The Royal Coll. of Physitians of London founded and established by Law c. Lond. 1684. qu. (e) Ibid. 1673. 1673. (f) Mirabilis annus secundus or the second part of the second years p●●digies c. Printed 1662. in qu. pag. 49. 1673 1673 4. (a) Pref. to his Exomologesis (b) Edw. E. of Clar. in his book entit Animadversions on a book entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. (c) The author of Legenda Lignea with an answer to the Moderator chap. 36. (d) Ser. Cressy in his Epistle Apologet. to a person of honour c. Sect. 5. p. 47. (e) Dan. Whitby in his Pref. to A reply to what S.C. hath returned to Dr. Pierces Sermon Lond. 1664. (*) The Christian Moderator Lond. 1652. sec edit pen'd by John Austen sometimes of Cambr. 1674. 1674. 1674. (a) Bulst Whitlock in his Memorials of English affairs in the month of June 1650 p. 444. a. (b) Ibid. p. 442. b. in June 1650. (c) Wiltshire Visitation book in the Heralds Office fol. 118. 1674. 1674. (*) Gesta cancellariatus Un. Ox. Gul. Laud p. 76. 1674. (a) Hen. Stubbe in his Campanella revived p. 21. 1674 5. (b) Edit Oxon. 1653. qu. (c) Ed. Ox. 1655. oct (d) See in the Epist to the reader set before Bibliotheca Smithiana c. Pr. at Lond. 1682. qu. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. (a) Reg. Matric PP fol. 127. a. 1675. (a) Edit Lond. 1655. qu. (b) Ibid. 1658. qu. (*) Lew. du Moul●n in his Account of several advances the Ch. of Engl. hath made towards Rome p. 31. 1675 6. 1675 6. (c) Reg. Matric P P. fol. 93. a. (d) See in a book entit Mirabilis annus secundus c. the first part Printed 1662. qu. p. 7. 167● 6. 1676. (*) In his Epist ded before Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli de Harm Apost 1676. 1676. (a) So have I been enformed by letters from his Mother (b) Mercurius pragmaticus numb 1. Dec. 19. an 1659. (c) Praef. of Hen. Stubbe to his Epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy pag. 8. (d) Ibid. (e) Ibid. (f) In the Pref. beforemention'd p. 12. (g) Jos Glanvill in his pref to his Prefatory answer (h) In his pref to Legends no Histories (i) In his pref to his Epist discourse concerning Phlebotomy p. 8. (k) Pref. to Legends c. as before (m) In the said Severe Enquiry pag. 7. (n) In his Prefatory answer before mention'd (o) Printed the second time at Lond. 1630. qu. (p) Will. Sanderson in The reign and death of King James Lond. 1655. fol. under the year 1620. p. 491. (q) In the Brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. quart pag. 17. 1676. (a) Dr. Tho. Pierce
1690 1690. 1690. 1690. 1690. (*) See also in An impartial Collection of the great affairs of S●ate c. published by Jio. Nalson LL. D. (a) In The Ghost of the la●e House of Commons to the new one appointed to meet at published about the 19. of March 1680. 1690. (b) See more in a book entit The Lawes subversion or Sir Jo. Maynards case truly stated c. Lond. 1648. qu. written by Joh. Howldin Gent. 169● 1. 1641. 1641 2. 1641 2 (a) Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 27. (b) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 12. 1643. 1644 5. (c) Pat. 15. Car. 1. p. 15. (d) Pat. 16. Car. 1. p. 19. 1644 5. (e) Reg. Matriculat Univ. Oxon. P. p. 473. 1646. (f) Jac. Waraeus in Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae edit 1665. p. 232. (g) Ibid. p. 138. 1648. (h) Ib. p. 121. 1650. 1650. Clar. 1651. (i) See in Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation c. of Ball. Coll. c. Oxon. 1668. p. 121. Clar. 1652. 1653. 1653. (*) Jac. War ut supr p. 219. (a) Gul. Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS sub an 1622. (b) Dr. John Gauden in his Suspiria Eccles Anglicanae c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 614. 1654 1654 5. (c) Jac. War ut supra p. 260. 1655. (d) Mystery and method of his Majesties happy restauration Lond. 1680. oct p. 20. Written by John Price D. D. 1661. 1662. 1662. 1662 3. (f) Dr. Laud in the Breviat of his life or Diary sub an 1632. p 17. (g) Ibid. p. 20. 1663. (h) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 2. p. 304. b. (i) Jac. War ut supra in Com. de Praes Heb. p. 273. 1663. (k) Reg. Electionum soc semicom Coll. Magd. 1664. (l) Ibid in Jac. War p. 268. 1664. 1665. (*) Ibid. p 138. 1665. 1665. 1665. (m) Pat. 13. Car. 1. p. 15. 1666. 1666. (n) Wiltshire visitation book in the Heralds Office an 1623. fol. 118. 1667. 1667. 1667. 1668. 1669. (a) Reg. Matric Univ. Oxon. P. fol. 124. b. 1669. (b) Pat. 6. Car. 1. p. 24. (c) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 14. (d) In his book called Canterburies Doome (e) In his book entit A new discovery of some Romish Emissaries Quakers c. Lond. 1656. qu. p. 32. 1670. (f) Pat. 12. Car. 1. p. 5. 1670. (g) Jac. War in Com. de Praesul Hibern p. 273.279 1671. 1671. (*) Edit Dubl 1665. p. 77. 1671. 1671 2. 1671 2. 1672. 1674 5. (*) Jac. War ut supra p. 190. (†) Hen. Coventry Esq originally of Qu. Coll afterwards Fell. of All 's and Sir Jos VVilliamson (a) Reg. Matric PP fol. 28. b. 1675. 1676. 1677. 1677. 1677. 1678. 1678. 1678 9. 168● ● (*) Jac. Waraeus in Com. de Praesuiib Hibern p. 260. 1681 2. 1682. 1684 1684. 1684. 1685. 1686. 1686. 1666 7. 1687. 1687 8. 168● 9. 1688 9. 1689. 1689. 1690. 1690. (a) Hen. K●epe in his Monum Westmonast p. 361. (b) So 't is said among the names of the English Popish Converts set before Dr. Ben. Cariers M●ssive to his Majesty of Gr Britaine K. Jam. 1. c. printed 1640 oct (c) In the preface to Steps to the Temple Lond. 164● oct second edit (a) Tho. H●bbes in praefat ad Element Philos sect 1. de corpo●e (*) Englands Recovery c. written by Josh Sprigg Lond. 1647. p. 45. (a) Joh. W●e●er in his Ancient funeral Monuments c. Lond. 1631. p. 678. (*) Sir Robert Byron was Master of the Ordnance of the Kingdom of Ireland 1664 65. (a) Will. Dugd. in Chron. Scrii an 1640. (b) Ibid. (*) So in the Baronage of England tom 3. p. 419. b. (†) Jac. Waraus in Com. de Prasul Hi. Dab 1665. p. 26● (a) Reg. Convoc S. p. 40. (b) Ibid. (*) Reg. Convoc S. p. 33. (*) At the end of a book of his entit Rationes sereniss Caroli contra effectatam curiae 〈◊〉 dicibatur Justitia jurisdictionem c. Printed in qu. about 1674. (a) Mystery of the good old cause printed 1660. p. 33. (b) James Hea●h in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. ●r●n●ed at Lond. 1663 in a thick octavo under the year 1650 p. 496. (c) In the Book o● Register of Administrations in the Will Office near S. Pauls C h. Ch. in London beginning in Jan. 1650. fol. 54. ● (*) Book of Certificates in the Coll. of Arms indorsed J. 30. pag. 53. 54. c. (†) Ibid. (*) In The Walkley's New Cat. of Du●kes Marquesses Earles Visc c. Printed at Lond. 16●● in oct p. 167. (a) Dr. Charles Goodall in his Royal Coll. of Physitians at London c. with a brief Hist of the lives and works of several of the Members of that Royal foundation c. Lond. 1684. qu. (b) In his pr●f to Clavis Mathemat Oxon. 1652. third edit in oct (*) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1647. (*) See in Will. Prynn's book entit Canterburies Doome c. printed at Lond. 1646. p. 73. c. (a) Reg. Convoc T. p. 43. (b) Ibid. p. 26. (*) An exact and impartial Account of the Indictment Arraignment Tryal and Iudg●●●● of 29 R●g●e●des c. Lond. 1660. qu. p. 46. (‖) Jam. Heath in his Brief 〈…〉 pr. a● Lond. 1663. under the year 1648. p. 355. (†) Exact and impartial 〈…〉 as before p. 44. (‡) Ibid. (*) In A seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England to petition for a Parliament c. Printed 1677. qu. (a) Josh Sprigge in his Englands recovery being the Hist of the mo●ions actions c. of Sir T●● Fairfax Kt. c. Lond. 1647. fol. pag. 8. (*) Idem (b) Clem. Walker in his Hist of Independency c. part 1. §. 3. (c) Ibid. §. 34. (d) Ib. part 2. §. 22. (e) Ib. §. 23. (f) Ib. §. 146. 162. c. (a) Collection of Nativities by Sir Rich. Napiers MS. in the hands of El. Ashmole Esq (b) Flagellum or the life death c. of Ol. Cromwell c. Lond. 1665. third Edit in oct p. 4. (c) Collect. Joh. Vincent MS. nuper in bib R●d Sheld nunc in Coll●●trm (d) Ibid. (*) Sam. Austin in his Naps upon pernastus c. Lond. 1658. oct (*) See in A seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England to petiti●● 〈◊〉 a new Parliament Or a list of the principal Labourers in the great design of Popery and 〈…〉 c. Pr●nted 1677 qu p. 22. (†) Ibid. (a) So in the Preface of Joh. Ray Esq to The Ornithology of Franc. Willoughly Esq Lond. 1678. fol. (*) Edw. Sherburne Esq in his Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of M. Manilius made an English Poem Lond. 675. p. 113. (*) Anth. Walker in his Virtuous Woman found Fun Serm. of Mary Countess Dow●ger of Warwick c. Lond. 1678. oct (*) Baronage of England Tom. 3. p. 1●8 (*) Joh. Seawen as it seems M. A. of Ch. Ch. (†) He presented a copy of the said Lyricks to Mr. Sheldon when he was at Rome an 1669. (a) Letter from a Gent. in London to his friend in the Country Printed at Lond. in the beginning of Apr. 1676 in two sh● and a half in qu. pag. 3. (b) Ibid. p. 13. (c) Ibid. (d) Ibid. p. 1.
thereof He died about the beginning of Sept. 1666 whereupon his Prebendship of Teynton with Yalmeton was confer'd on Gab. Thistlethwayt sometimes Fellow of New Coll on the 10 of the same month and his Chauntorship on Dr. Joh. South on the 24. John Allibond of Magd. Coll was created the same day Oct. 17. This worthy Doctor who was a Buckinghamshire man born and lately the chief Master of the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a most excellent Lat. Poet and Philologist and hath published Rustica Academia Oxoniensis nuper reformatae descriptio una cum comitiis ibidem 1648 habitis 'T is a Latin Poem and was twice printed in 1648. He died at Bradwell in Glocestershire of which place he was Rector an 1658. Joh. Hewit of Cambridge was actually created also the same day This is the person who was Minister of S. Gregories Church near S. Pauls in London and who suffer'd death by the axe on Tower-hill 8 June 1658 for conspiring against the then Power and Authority He hath extant several Sermons among which are Nine select Sermons preached at S. Gregories Lond. 1658. oct as also A Speech and two Prayers on the Scaffold when he was to be beheaded Lond. 1658. qu. and A letter to Dr. George Wild written the day before his Execution printed with his Speech and Prayers Oct. 19. Rob. Hall of Exeter Coll. This worthy person who was the eldest son of Dr. Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter was now Canon residentiary and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. there suffered for his Majesties Cause lost all but restored upon his Majesties return He was a learned man a constant Preacher very hospitable and pious He died on the 29 of May 1667 aged 61 years and was buried in the north side of the Choire of the said Cath. Ch. at Exeter Nov. 16. Walt. Hungerford of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Wells and Rector of Buscot in Berks where dying 18 Nov. 1681 was buried in the Church there Feb. 22. George Edgeley of Cambridge In the Letters of the Chancellour of the University written in his behalf and read in Convocation I find these things of him He is Prebend of Chichester and Rector of Nuthurst a grave and orthodox Divine He is a person that hath expressed his Loyalty by his active services and passive sufferings in these times of hostility for the defence of his Majesties Person Religion and the Laws He is so deserving this honour D. of D. that he is beyond all manner of exception He is a Senior of the University of Cambr. c. In the same Congregation wherein Dr. Edgeley was created were Letters from the Chanc. read in behalf of Tho. Edwards formerly of this University now Vicar of Keinton in Hertfordshire to be Doctor of Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not On the 29 of Dec. also were letters read in behalf of Joh. Bury Bach. of Div. and Can. resid of Exeter to be created Doctor of the said faculty who being then absent in the Kings Service was to have the said degree confer'd on him when he should desire it An. Dom. 1644. An. 20 Car. 1. Chanc. William Marquess of Hertford Vicechanc. Dr. Rob. Pinke again Aug. 24. Proct. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. May 1. Franc. Broad of Mert. Coll. May 1. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 5. Rich. Watkins of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1647. 6. Edw. Littleton of S. Maries Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Masters in 1648. Edw. Sclater of S. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day This person who is now living hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred at large Nov. 2. Mathias Prideaux of Exet. Coll. Feb. 15. Thomas Carles of Ball. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters 〈◊〉 1649. Adm. 53. ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was this year admitted nor created Mast of Arts. Jun. 4. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll. 21. Thom. Pierce of Madg. Coll. Adm. 29. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was this year admitted nor one Bach. of Div only one by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which was properly a Creation ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year only incorporated and created as I am now about to tell you Incorporations Divers worthy persons who had been formerly of Cambridge or lately ejected thence retiring now to Oxon for safety were incorporated as they had stood in their own University Among such I find these following Mar. 26. Thom. Westfield D. D. now Bishop of Bristow and a Sufferer for his own and his Majesties Cause See among the Incorporations in the Fasti of the first vol. an 1611. Apr. 4. Tho. Yardley M. A. of Trin. Coll. All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation Jun. 4. Joh. Boteler M. A. of S. Joh. Coll. All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation Jul. 10. Pet. Gunning M. A. of Clare Hall All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation Aug. 7. Tho. Bayly M. A. and Sub-dean of Wells All which were admitted into the house of Congregation and Convocation As for Joh. Boteler several of both his names have been Writers and one Joh. Butler hath written against Joh. Selden as in the pag. 110. of this work you may see And as for Tho. Bayly I have made mention of him in the first vol. p. 486. 487 but as for Isaac Barrow who as 't is said was also incorporated this year appears not in the Register as incorporated Master of Arts or created Bach. of Div otherwise I should have made a Chapter or Number of him among the Bishops as I have done of Pet. Gunning among the Writers who was incorporated and took a degree here Creations This year were no Creations in Arts only of one in Musick The rest were in the three great faculties and of them only Doctors Doct. of Musick Mar. 10. John Wilson now the most noted Musitian of England omnibus titulis honoribus Academicis in professione Musicae par in Theoria praxi Musicae maxime peritus as it is said in the publick Register of Convocation was then presented and actually created Doctor of Musick This eminent person who was much admired by all that understood that faculty especially by his Maj. K. Ch. 1 an exact judge therein was born at Feversham in Kent and being naturally inclin'd in his youth to vocal and instrumental Musick became at mans estate so famous for it that he was first made a Gent. of his Maj. Chappel and afterwards his Servant in ordinary in that faculty So that ever after giving his Majesty constant attendance had oftentimes just opportunities to exercise his hand on the Lute being the best at it in all England before him to his great delight and wonder who while he played did usually lean or lay his hand on his shoulder After the surrender of the Garrison
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse se● for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenk●ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
Chanc. of England and Chanc. of the Univ. was seated in the supreme Chair Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester of Wadh. Coll. Jam. Levingston Visc of Kimardin as 't is said in the Reg. and Earl of Newburgh in Scotland sometimes of Mert. Coll. Edw. M●ntague eldest son of Edw. L Montague of Boughton Edw. Hyde of Ch. Ch. third son of Edw. Earl of Clarendon He died of the Small pox on the 10 of January an 1664 aged 19 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster leaving then this character behind him that he was the most hopeful youth and the best natur'd Creature in the world John Lovelace of Wadh. Coll. eldest son of John Lovelace He was after the death of his father Lord Lovelace but obtaining no great matter during the reigns of K. Ch. 2. and K. Jam. 2 which he expected because his father had been a great sufferer for the cause of K. Ch. 1 he was by the favour of K. Will. 3. to whom he adhered when he arrived in the West in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and for his sake was for some time imprison'd at Glocester made Captain of his Band of Gentlemen Pensioners in the beginning of March 1688. Edw Sebright of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets John Williams of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets The former was of Besford in Worcestershire the other of Dorsetshire Sir Alan Broderick Kt His Majesties Surveyour General for the Kingdom of Ireland This person who was endowed with a poetical wit and hath several Specimens thereof extant died at Wandesworth in Surrey 25 Nov. 1680 and was buried there 3 of Dec. following John Bulteel Secretary to Edw. Earl of Clarendon This person who was son of John Bulteel a Frenchman sometimes living at Dover died a Bachelaur in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster an 1669. One Joh. Bulteel Gent. translated from French into English A general chronological History of France before the raign of K. Pharamond and ending with the raign of K. Hen. 4. c. Lond. 1683. fol. Whether he be the same with the former who was created M. of A. I know not I have made mention of another Joh. Bulteel in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 849. Matthew Wren or Wrenn Secretary to the said Edw. Earl of Clar. This person who was the eldest son of Dr. Matthew Wren Bish of Ely was originally a Student in Cambridge and afterwards a Student for several years in the time of Usurpation in this University not in a Coll. or Hall but in a private House After his Majesties restauration he was taken into the service of the Earl of Clarendon was elected a Burgess for S. Michael in Cornwal to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 8 May 1661 became a Member of the Royal Society and of the Council thereof and after the fall of the said Clarendon he became Secretary to James Duke of York and continued in his service to the time of his death At length giving way to fate on the 14 of June or thereabouts an 1672 aged about 42 years his body was conveyed to Cambridge and there buried in Pemb. Hall Chappel in the same Vault wherein his father was five years before buried This ingenious person hath written 1 Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana restrained to the first part of the preliminaries Lond. 1657. oct Before these Considerations is a large Letter sent by the author to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll by whom the said author was desired to give his judgment concerning the Commonwealth of Oceana 2 Monarchy ass●rted or the state of monarchical and popular Government in vindication of the Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Oceana Lond. 1659 and 1660. oct See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers p. 440. Joh. Dugdale chief Gent. in the Chamber of the said Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of Engl. This person who was the son of Sir Will. Dugdale mentioned in these Fasti an 1642 p. 643 c. was afterwards Windsore Herald upon the resignation of Elias Ashmole Esq and at length Norroy King of Arms upon the promotion of Sir Thom. St. George to the office of Garter in the place of the said Sir William deceased in the beginning of March 1685 about which time he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty This Sir Joh. Dugdale hath published A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their respective precedencies as it was presented to his Majesty on New-years day an 1684. To which is added The Blazon of their paternal Coates of Arms and a List of the present Bishops by permission of the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal This was printed at Lond. on a broad side of a large sh of paper an 1685 and came out again with additions in 1690. Thom. Agar Sam. Gabrie All which persons from Joh. Earl of Rochester to the said Sam. Gabrie were created Masters of Arts on the 9 of Sept. Sept. 12. Rich. Newporn of Ch. Ch. eldest son of Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall Sept. 12. Seymour Shirly of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stradling of Jes Coll. Baronets Sept. 12. Jam. Rushout of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stanley of Brasn Coll. Baronets All which were created by the favour of the said Chanc. Oct. 19. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Salisbury and a publisher of Several Sermons and therefore he ought hereafter to be mention'd more at large Nov. 6. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Besides all these were several others created among whom were Rich. Newborough of Ball. Coll May 28 who had served his Maj. in the late Wars and was this year Preb. of Hereford Bach. of Div. Thirteen Bach. of Div. were created by vertue of the Chancellours recommendations among whom were these Jul. 1. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. As for Wyatt who was born at Todenham in Glocestershire was not graduated in Arts because before the time came when he should take the degree of Bach the Civil War began Afterwards he was Assistant to Dr. Jer. Taylor when he taught School in Caermerthenshire and wrot as 't was usually said which he himself did also acknowledge A new and easie institution of Grammar c. which was published under Dr. Taylor 's name See more in the life of the said Doctor among the Writers p. 285. Afterwards Mr. Wyatt taught at Evesham in Worcestershire and at length assisted Mr. Will. Fuller while he taught a private School at Twittenham in Middlesex Afterwards when that person became Bishop of Linc he made him not only his Chapl but also Preb. and afterwards Chantor of the Church there Which Dignities he resigning in 1681 he retired to Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire where he died in the house of Sir Ric. Newdigate about 1686. What other things the said Mr. Wyatt hath
married to Sir Edw. Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordsh Bt afterwards Earl of Lichfield 10 Mary begotten on the body of Mary Davies a Comedian in the Duke of Yorks Play-house She had afterwards the Sirname of Tuder given to her and on the 18 of Aug. or thereabouts an 1687 she was married to the Son of Sir Francis Radcliffe afterwards Earl of Derentwater 11 James begotten on the body of the said Eleanor Quinn was born in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westminster on Christmas day or thereabouts an 1671 and died in France of a sore leg about Michaelmas in 1680. Here are eleven natural Children set down but whether in order according to Birth I cannot justly tell you There was another Daughter begotten on the body of the said Barbara Duchess of Cleveland which the King would not own because supposed to be begotten by another and whether he own'd it before his death I cannot tell He also adopted for his Daughter the Daughter of the said Rog. Palmer E. of Castlemaine which was born of Barbara his Wife before she had knowledge of his Majesty After her adoption she was married to Thomas Lennard Lord Dacres Earl of Sussex But now after this digression le ts proceed to the rest of the incorporations Feb. 13. Joh. Heaver D. D. of Cambr. He had been Fellow of Clare Hall in that University was now Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton Coll and dying 23 of June 1670 was succeeded in his Canonry by Tho. Viner Bach afterwards Doct. of Div. Mar. 15. Anthony Horneck a German of Qu. Coll Mast of Arts of Wittemberg He is now an eminent Minister in Lond hath published several books of Divinity and Sermons and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers CREATIONS By the command of the Chancellour of the University were Creations made in all faculties in the latter end of Sept. at which time the King and Queen were in Oxon. Bach. of Law Sept. 28. Joh. Baylie of S. Johns Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Dr. Rich. Baylie President of that Coll was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of B. and Wells He died at or near Wells about the 20. of Jan. 1688. Mast of Arts. These following persons were created on the 28 of Sept. in a full Convocation then celebrated James Howard Earl of Suffolk John Greenvill Earl of Bathe chief Gentleman of his Majesties Royal Bedchamber He was before the Wars began a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall and after they began a Commander of note in his Majesties Army against the Rebels and at length entrusted by his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in the great affair of his restauration c. John Middleton Earl of Middleton in Scotland and L. High Commissioner thereof Henry Hamilton a young Nobleman of Ch. Ch E. of Clanbrazill Son of James sometimes E. of Clanbrazill Henry Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland He was afterwards Marq. of Worcester and Duke of Beaufort Charles Berkley Visc Fitz-Harding He was now Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold and one of the Lords of the Privy Council and dying in Whitehall of a short apoplectical distemper on the 12 of June 1668 Sir Thomas Clifford succeeded him in his Treasurership William Lord Cavendish Son of the Earl of Devonshire He was afterwards Earl of Devonshire Joh. Hales of Ch. Ch. Bts. Franc. Hen. Lee of Ditchley Bts. Sir Allen Apsley Kt. He was originally as 't is said of Trinity Coll. in this University and afterwards a faithful adherer to his Majesties cause in the worst of times After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Captain Lieutenant in the Regiment of James Duke of York Falconer to his Majesty and Treasurer of the Houshold and Receiver general to the said Duke This person who died in S. James Square near London about the 15 of Octob. 1683 hath written and published a Poem entit Order and disorder or the world made and undone Being meditations upon the Creation and the Fall as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis Lond. 1679. in five Cantoes He was a Burgess for Thetford in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. May 1661. Henry Guy Esq sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Cup-bearer to the Qu. He was afterwards an Officer of the Excise in the North was a Recruiter for Headon in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became Secretary to the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury 26. Mar. 1679 and in the same year one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber upon the resignation of Col. Silas Titus Afterwards he was made a Commissioner of the Custom-house c. Sidney Godolphin Esq This person who is of the antient family of Godolphin in Cornwall was afterwards a Recruiter for Helston in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber and the last of the four Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury on the 26. Mar. 1679 about which time Thomas Earl of Danby was discharg'd of his place of Lord Treasurer In the middle of Apr. 1684 he succeeded Sir Leol Jenkyns in the place of Secretary of State and on the 17 of that month he was sworn to that office at a Council held at Hampton Court On the 24 of Aug. following he was by his Majesty declared the first Commissioner of the Treasury and thereupon Char. Earl of Middleton succeeded him in his Secretaryship and in the beginning of Sept. following he was by his Majesty created a Baron by the title of Lord Godolphin of Rialton in Cornwall About the 16 of Feb. 1684 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then newly dead he was by K. Jam. 2. made Lord Chamberlain to his Queen and about the 5 of Jan. 1686 he with John Lord Bellasyse Henry Lord Dover Sir Joh. Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were appointed Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer of England Laurence Earl of Rochester being about that time removed from that great office On the 15 of Nov. or thereabouts an 1690 his Majesty K. Will. 3. was pleased to order a new Commission to pass the Great Seal constituting the said Sidney Lord Godolphin the first Commissioner of the Treasury The other Commissioners then appointed were Sir Joh. Lowther of Lowther Bt. Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold Richard Hamden Esq Chanc. of the Exchecquer Sir Steph. Fox Kt. and Tho. Pelham Esq Sir Franc. Drake of Exeter Coll. Bts. Tho. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bts. Charles Berkley Knight of the Bath a Noble man of Ch. Ch. and eldest Son to George Lord Berkley Grevill Verney of Compton Murdack in Warwickshire Knight of the Bath He died at Lond. 23. July 1668. Bernard Greenvill Esq He was afterwards a Recruiter for Leskard in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 and one of the Groomes of his Majesties Bedchamber Sir