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 Conformâ—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.
Several Speeches in Parl. during his office of L. Chancellour from his Majesties Restauration to 1667. They are in number at least 10 and were printed in fol. papers The difference and disparity between the Estates and Conditions of George Duke of Buckingham and Robert Earl of Essex See in Reliq Wottonianae c. Lond. 1672 octav Animadversions on a book intit Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted by Ser. Cressy Lond. 1674. oct It was printed twice in that year and once in 1685. oct Brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes book intit Leviathan Oxon. 1676. qu. Letter to his daughter Anne Duchess of York upon a report of her inclinations towards Popery and at the same time another to the Duke upon the same subject Written about 1670. It was printed at Lond. 1681. 82. He hath also written 1 A History or an Historical account of Ireland MS which Edm. Borlace made use of without acknowledgment in his book or books which he published of the affairs of that Kingdom so Dr. Jo. Nalson in his Pref. to his second vol. of his Impartial collection of Records c. 3 History from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. MS as also an account of his own life which being hereafter to be published you may be pleased to take this present discourse of him only as a Specimen of a larger to come He died of the terrible disease of the Gout at Roan in Normandy on the ninth day of Decemb. according to our accompt in sixteen hundred seventy and four whereupon his body being conveyed into England 't was buried on the north side of the Capella Regum in S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this Edw. Hyde have been two more of both his names and time that have been Writers as Edw. Hyde jun. an enthusiastical person who among several things that he hath written hath published A wonder and yet no wonder A great red Dragon in Heaven c. Lond. 1651 And Edw. Hyde first cosin to our Author Edw. E. of Clarendon as I shall tell you at large elsewhere JOHN VAUGHAN a most noted and learned Lawyer of his time was born at Trowscoed in the County of Cardigan educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School within the City of Worcester whence after he had remained there 5 years he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this Univ. in the 15th year of his age and thence at 18 he went to the Inner Temple where for some time he chose rather to follow his Academical Studies of Poetry and Mathematicks than the municipal Laws of England At length falling into the acquaintance of the learned Selden and others was instructed by them in the value of civil learning so that soon after he applied himself closely to the course of that Study particularly of the said laws which he after made his profession but when he began to become noted and admired in the Parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640. of which he was a Burgess for the Town of Cardigan the Civil War broke forth and gave a stop to his Proceedings Whereupon leaving London he retired to his own Country and mostly lived there till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Afterwards being elected Knight for the County of Cardigan to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 his Majesty was about that time pleased to take notice of his great worth and experience Afterwards he confer'd the honour of Knighthood upon him and in few days after viz. May 22. an 1668 he was solemnly sworn Serjeant at Law in the Court of Chancery in Westm Hall and the next day was sworn L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas. He hath written and collected Reports and Arguments being all of them special Cases and many wherein he pronounced the resolution of the whole Court of Common Pleas at the time he was L. Ch. Justice there Lond. 1677. fol. Published by his son Edw. Vaughan Esq and other things as 't is said fit to be printed He died in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Temple Church near the grave of Jo. Selden Over his grave was a large marble stone soon after put and over that was erected a marble Table in the south wall near the round walk with this Inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Vaughanus Eq. Aur. Capital Justiciar de Com. Banco filius Edwardi Vaughan de Trowscoed in agro Dimetarum Ar. Leticiae uxoris ejus filiae Johannis Stedman de Strata florida in eodem Com. Arm. unus è quatuor perdocti Seldeni Executoribus ei stabili amicitia studiorumque communione à tyrocinio intimus praecarus Natus erat xiiii die Sept. an Dom. 1608. denatus x. die Decemb. an Dom. 1674. qui juxta hoc marmor depositus adventum Christi propitium expectat Multum deploratus JOHN OXENBRIDGE son of Dan. Oxenb sometimes Doct. of Phys of Ch. Ch. in this University and a Practitioner of his faculty at Daventrey commonly called Daintrey in Northamptonshire and afterwards in London was born in that County became a Communer of Linc. Coll. in 1623 aged 18 years and thence translating himself to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts and soon after became a Tutor there but being found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of dealing with his Scholars by perswading and causing some of them to subscribe as Votaries to several articles framed by himself as he pretended for their better government as if the Statutes of the place wherein he lived and the authority of the then present government were not sufficient he was distutor'd in the month of May 1634. Afterward he left the Hall and shewing himself very scismatical abroad was forced to leave the Nation whereupon he with his beloved Wife called Jane Butler went to the Islands of Bermudas where he exercised his Ministry At length the Long Parliament making mad work in England in 1641. c. he as other Schismaticks did returned preached very enthusiastically in severally places in his travels to and fro while his dear Wife preached in the house among her Gossips and others So that he being looked upon as a zealous and forward brother for the cause he had some spirituality bestowed on him and at length was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore in the place of one Simonds deceased who had been thrust into the place of Dr. David Stokes in the time of the rebellion Upon his Majesties restauration Oxenbridge was outed of his Fellowship and afterwards retiring to Berwick upon Twede he held forth there till the Act of conformity silenced him an 1662. Afterwards he went to the West Indies and continued there at Syrenham for a time in preaching and praying At length
influences into Britain For tho 't is natural for us to dream always of hidden Treasures in the Tombs of our Ancestors and Fancy that oftentimes creates the Wealth always improves the value of it and tho the search into Authors of an elder date especially Antiquaries and Historians is a necessary task for those that shall hereafter with inquisitive diligence and severe judgment undertake the general History of this Nation yet still it must be own'd that Ore however rich must lose its Dross before it be refin'd into Metal and that unpolish'd Materials whatever they may be wrought into are not yet a Fabrick It is confess'd in the mean time that the rudeness or ignorance of our Ancestors the meaness of their Studies or the carelessness of their performances was not the fault of our Nation but the Age Gildas and Bede challenge the precedence of the most Antient Historians of our neighbouring Nations Our Alcuine gave Learning to one of the most flourishing Vniversities of Europe none elsewhere were more subâ—il than our Schoolmen nor more learned than Our Canonists So that in that universal Cloud of ignorance Britain enjoy'd if not always the dawn of the Day yet at least comparatively the least share of Night Now then it is time for us to observe that our Authors Work begins with the first progress if not the earliest rise of Learning in this Island that if he had ascended higher his Subject had been worse and his Guides more uncertain Records had been wanting as well as Writers and neither wou'd the Haven have been so good nor the Buoys so visible nor the Voyage so pleasant For when in the middle of the 14th Century the Art of Printing was discover'd and a few years afterwards Constantinople was taken then the Exil'd Grecians who had before given Learning to Italy now by the incouragement of Alphonso in Naples and the Family of the Medicee's in Florence restor'd it to the World And it was the particular happiness of England that as soon as the Italian Learning could reach this Northern Island about the first date of this Work in the beginning of the 15th Century then concurr'd a third Cause of the Restoration and Increase of Learning among us the discovery of America the incouragement of our Navigation and the extent of our Foreign Correspondence I shall not anticipate this Work so far as hereafter to observe the progress of Learning and the steps that it made in this Island nor to shew the gradual improvements of our Fathers in the best Studies among us yet thus much upon a view of this Period of Learning in Europe and particularly in England may without vanity be said that Learning that came very slow to the Western and the Northern Climates hath yet like a rich and weary Traveller seem'd not only to fix her last Seat here but to disperse among us the spoils of other Nations and the gains of her former Travels However unskilful therefore our Author hath been in the management of the Fabrick it is not to be denied but that he hath intituled himself to the glory of a good Architect in the choice of a rich and fruitful and that a new and unbroken Soil Before this Age and somewhat within it Leland who by the command of King Henry VIII had undertaken to survey and perpetuate Books of the antient Monasteries after the dissolution thereof hath completed that Work with so great exactness that Bale and Pits who have since attempted the same have only made use herein of the Gorgons common Eye and have reflected that single light only upon Posterity But in this Work unless we would set a value upon the Writings of mean and fanciful Authors I mean Lloyd and Fuller Our Antiquary hath let himself into a new and full Harvest and not condescended to gather the Gleanings of another hand Thus far of the Extent of our Authors Work in respect to Time It is now requisite that we consider the Latitude of it in respect of Place It is indeed by its Title confin'd to one Vniversity only But either by the peculiar happiness of that famous Body in producing eminent Authors or by the care of this Writer in inserting such of the other Vniversity as were likewise entred at Oxon or studied in it or assisted oppos'd or answer'd any Author of that Vniversity The Work in its several commendable Digressions seems almost to contain an exact and full History of Learning and of the Learned Men in England And even as to the Vniversity it self tho I have no mind to revive the Disputes of Caius and Twine on that Subject which are now as happily ended as they were unhappily begun it may be observ'd that of those Authors that are recited by Pits there are CCCLXXX of the Vniversity of Oxon and only CX of the other Vniversity And I dare upon inquiry affirm that that eminent Body hath been as fruitful in the produce of eminent Authors in this last Century as any of the former and it remains to be wish'd that some good Antiquary of the other Vniversity would convince us of our errour in this particular Thus far as to the Subject of our Author as to his Management of it there is much said in the Preface to the 1st Vol. and neither have I leisure to add more nor seems the matter it self to require it The little particulars of several Mens Lives especially the repetition of Passages already known seem distastful to some Palates when indeed the common loss of all ancient Arts is to be imputed only to the want of timely observation For while no Man writes what every Man knows at last none know what none have ever written We have an esteem of Photius Philostratus and Eunapius for the value of the Subject rather than the excellency of the performance and the price of their Works is only inhans'd by the minute circumstances of their Lives and Characters of Learned Men which other Historians have omitted Others there are that are offended at the disadvantageous Representations of eminent Authors in this Work and the disobliging expressions of our Author concerning them It is to be consider'd that all Antient Criticks not only the most severe and morose as Scioppius and Scaliger but even the most polite and easie men as Sir Tho. More have transgressed the rules of Civility and Complement which are not to be learn'd from an Antiquary And since our Writer for the publick benefit of Learning is equally regardless of Envy and of Fame it will be an intire satisfaction to him that those who upon these or other like accounts disrespect or censure the Author must yet have a just esteem and value for so useful a Work ERRATA By the Absence of the Author from the Press many Faults have been committed in the Printing this Book Page Line Error Correction 2 14 from bot was translated he was translated 12 21 from bot Suedus Ren Suedus Rex 13 40 from
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
Upminster in Essex and he the son of Adrian D'ewes a lineal descendant of the antient Family of Des Ewes Dynasts or Lords of the dition of Kessell in the Dutchy of Gelderlandht who came first thence into England in the time of K. Hen. 8. when that Dutchy had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued between Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his son 3 That he was educated in the University of Cambridge the antiquity of which he zealously asserted against that of Oxon. in a Speech spoken in a grand Committee of Parliament in Jan. 1640 as I have elsewhere told you and afterwards retired to his estate called Stow hall in Suffolk 4 That he was a Burgess for Sudbury in the same County to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 and soon after he was made a Baronet and in 1643 he took the Covenant I find going under his name these things following viz. 1 The Greek Postscripts of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus cleared in Parliament And an occasional Speech concerning the Bill of Acapitation or Poll money printed 1641 in one sheet and half in qu. 2 Speech in a grand Committee touching the antiquity of Cambridge 3 Sp. touching the priviledge of Parliament in Causes criminal and civil Which two Speeches were printed in 1641. 42. qu. 4 Sp. in Parl. on the xi of January concerning the proceedings against the eleven Bishops accused of High Treason an 1641 2. 5 The primitive practice for preserving truth or an historical narration c. Lond. 1645. qu. 6 Sp. in the H. of Commons 2â— Jul. 1644. qu. at the end of which is a Postscript by way of advice to all those who have gotten into their possessions either the Church Revenues or other mens Estates Lond. 1646. qu. in 2 sh 7 Journal of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and H. of Commons Lond. 1682. fol. Revised and published by Paul Bowes of the Middle Temple Esq This person D'ewes who was a great searcher into Records and the best of his time for the knowledge of Coins and Coinage yet of a humourous and minical disposition died in the beginning of the year 1650 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Stowlangâ—oft in Suffolk I have seen a copy of his Will written by himself in Latine wherein are most particulars of his life recited But let 's go forward with the Works of Great Selden who hath also written Of the Judicature of Parliaments wherein the Controversies and Precedents belonging to the Title are methodically handled Lond. 1681. oct Englands Epinomis Of the original of ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Testaments Of the disposition or administration of Intestates goods These three last were published by Redman Westcot before mention'd with the English Translation of Jani Anglorum c. Lond. 1683. fol. Under his name is also published Table-talke being the discourses or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State Lond. 1689. qu. published by Rich. Milward who had observed his discourses for 20 years together Letters to learned men Among which are several to the learned and godly Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland as at the end of his life printed in fol. you may see Speeches Arguments Debates c. in Parliament He also had a great hand in and gave directions and advice towards that Edition of Plutarchs Lives printed 1657 with an addition of the year of the World and the year of our Lord together with many chronological notes and explanations out of divers Authors He left behind him also divers MSS. of his own writing some of which are since published as before you may see among these are 1 The life of Rog. Bacon 2 Collections of many Records and Antiquities 3 Collection of Notes and Records of various Subjects marked with M. 4 Extracts out of the leiger books of Battel Evesham Winton c. 5 Vindication of his history of Tithes This last I once saw in the library of MSS. belonging to his Godson named Joh. Vincent son of August Vincent sometimes Windsore Herald but where it is now I cannot tell At length after this great light of our Nation had lived to about the age of man was extinguished at Lond. on the last of Nov. being S. Andr. day in sixteen hundred fifty and four in the large house called the Carmelite or White Fryers then belonging to Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Henry Earl of Kent whose estate he for several years had managed and commanded which was the reason he died very wealthy whereupon on Thursday the 14 of Decemb. following he was magnificently buried in the Temple Church on the south side of the round walk in the presence of all the Judges some of the Parl. men Benchers and great Officers His grave was nine foot deep at least the bottom pav'd with bricks and walled about two foot high with grey marble coarsly polished each piece being yoated that is fastned with lead molted in with iron champs Into this repository was the Corps in a woodden Coffin covered with a black cloth let down with a pulley or engine Which being done a stone of black polish'd marble six inches thick was let down also and made fast to the top of the repository with champs of iron yoated in to the end that in future ages when graves are dug there it might not be remov'd Upon the said marble stone was this engraven Hic inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni or to that effect Over the said sepulchre and stone was turned over or made an arch of brick the diameter being about three foot and above was left room to bury other bodies in future time On the surface of the earth even with the pavement of the Church was soon after laid a plain marble with the Bakers Arms engraven thereon and this Inscription Johannes Seldenus J. C. heic situs est Over which in the wall was fastned a white marble table and thereon an Epitaph made by himself a copy of which with encomiastical Verses under his printed picture made by Dr. Ger. Langbaine you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 350. The learned Usher Primate of Ireland preached his funeral Sermon but did not or could not say much of his sound Principles in Religion Mr. Ric. Johnson Master of the Temple buried him according to the Directory and said in his Speech with reference to the saying of a learned man that When a learned man dies a great deal of Learning dies with him and added that if Learning could have kept a man alive our brother had not died But notwithstanding the said Usher's silence concerning our Author's Religion Sir Matth. Hale one of his Executors hath often profess'd that Selden was a resolved serious Christian and that he was a great
prove our Ministers free from Antichristianisme c. Printed there the same year in qu. The Font guarded with XX arguments containing a compendium of that great controversie of Infant-Baptisme c. Lond. 1651. 52. qu. The Collier in his colours c. wherein you have the filthy false heretical and blasphemous tenents of one Collier an Arrian Arminian Socinian c. Lond. 1652. qu. The said Tho. Collier was a husbandman sometimes Teacher to the Church at York and in 1652 a teacher at Westbury in Somersetshire Praecursor praecursoris or a word to Mr. Tombes currente calamo Lond. 1652. qu. The loathsomness of long hair or a treatise containing many arguments against it c. Lond. 1654. oct Reasons and arguments against painting spots naked breasts arms c. Lond. 1654. oct Vindiciae literarum The Schools guarded or the excellency and usefulness of humane learning in subordination to Divinity and preparation to the Ministry c. Lond. 1654. 55. oct Centuria sacra About an hundred rules for the explaining and clearer understanding of the holy Scriptures c. Lond. 1654. oct Rhetorica sacra or a synopsis of the most material hopes and figures contained in the sacred Scriptures Lond. 1654. oct Histrio-mastix A whip for Webster as 't is conceived the quondam Player Or an examination of one John Webster's delusive Examen of Academies Lond. 1654. oct Confutation of the Millinarian opinions plainly demonstrating that Christ will not raigne visibly and personally on earth with the Saints for a 1000 years c. with a word to our Fifth-monarchy men Lond. 1657. qu. Practical and polemical commentary or exposition upon the third and fourth chapters of S. Paul to Timothy Lond. 1658. fol. Much commended by a man of his perswasion named Joh. Ley of whom I have spoken under the year 1662 in one of his books which he shortly after published In which 't is said that for congruity of the truth with the holy text pertinency and fulness of profitable matter is the best that hitherto hath been extant in the Church of Christ Apologia pro Ministerio Evangelico in quâ planè plenè ostenditur ejus necessitas dignitas efficacia utilitas c. Francof 1658 in oct Printed in English also at Lond. 1660. qu. Beauty of holyness or a description of the excellency amiableness comfort and content which is to be found in ways of purity and holiness Lond. 1658. oct Funebria Florae The downfal of May-games wherein is set forth the rudeness prophaneness c. in the said heathenish customes c. Lond. 1660 there again the second and third time in 1661 in 7. sh in qu. Samaria's downfall or a commentary by way of supplement on the five last verses of Hosea 13 c. Lond. 1660. qu. This is a supplement to Jer. Burroughs his Commentary which was defective as to these five verses Beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660 qu. Assisted in this work by George Swinnocke M. A. and Minister of Great Kimbel in Bucks Exposition on the fourth 5.6.7.8 and 9th Chapters of Amos Lond. 1661. qu. Worcestershire petition for the Ministrie of England with a defence of it printed in qu. Besides these books our said Author Tho. Hall did translate paraphrastically and grammatically the second book of Ovids Metamorph. which he entit Phaetons folly or the downfal of pride Also the first elegie of Ovids book De Tristibus Both printed at Lond. 1655. oct Furthermore he made an explanation and Grammatical translation of the thirteenth book of Ovids Metamorphosis which he entit Wisdoms Conquest c. Lond. 1651. oct and finally left other matters at the time of his death fit for the press among which is his work upon the 71. Psalme He died a Nonconformist on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Ch. yard of Kings Norton before mention'd to the School of which place which he procured the Parishioners to build he gave his study of books in his life time Also to the Library of Birmingham School which was erected before that of Kings Norton he was a good benefactor and gave several volumes that he had bought and prevailed with many of his Brethren to do the like CORNELIUS BURGES was descended from the Burgesses of Batcomb in Somersetshire but whether born there I cannot justly say it In the year 1611 he made his first entry into this University but in what Coll. or Hall he took up his quarters is uncertain Sure I am that about the first foundation of Wadham Coll. he translated himself thereunto and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards retiring to Linc. Coll he proceeded in the same faculty took holy orders and had some cure bestowed upon him which I take to be the rectory of S. Magnus Church in London or the Vicaridge of Watford in Hartfordshire or both which two he afterwards held with his Lecture at S. Pauls In the beginning of the raign of K. Ch. 1. he became one of his Chaplains in ordinary and in 1627 took both the degrees in Divinity as a compounder at which time undertaking to answer the Doctors in the Divinity Act shew'd himself so sorry a Disputant and so sufficiently ignorant in the terms of Logick that instead of saying negatur major and negatur minor he could say nothing else but negatur id Whereupon Prideaux the Regius Professor said to him openly with a merry jear tu potes bene praedicare sed non potes bene disputare that he might probably be a good Preacher tho he had shewed himself a silly Disputant At that time and several years after he shew'd himself a zealous man for the Church of England and it could never be thought in the least by those that knew him that he would have swerved from it But having not that preferment confer'd upon him which he expected tho he was a pluralist and looked upon by the High Commission as one guilty of adultery and a vexer of two Parishes with continual suits of Law wherein he could find little or no remedy he became a scandalous and schismatical Lecturer using many expressions in his Sermons that moved People to sedition For which also being questioned he became incensed against the Bishops and afterwards very busie to pick holes in the coats of his Brethren and rake up the very ashes of the dead to discover their corruptions In 1635 he preached a Lat. Sermon to the London Ministers in S. Alphage Church near Sion Coll. wherein he pressed all to diligence in preaching and spoke of the connivance of Bishops at the growth of Arminianisme and Popery for which being summoned into the High Commission Court and put to charge made him afterwards implacable against them Upon the approach of the troublesome times in 1640 he with Steph.
Afterwards being invited by the people of Toxteth to take upon him the ministry there he returned into his own Country and preached the first Sermon among them on the 30. of Nov. following and about that time married Catherine daughter of Edward Holt of Bury in Lancashire For 15 years or more he preached every Sunday at Toxteth and on Tuesdays at Prescot and was much frequented at both places by the precise party But so it was that he being a severe Calvinist and little or no friend to the Church of England he was suspended for nonconformity to ceremonies an 1633 but quickly restored and soon after was suspended again by the Visitors when they visited Chester Diocess In 1635 he with his family left Lancashire and removed to New England where putting in at Boston in Aug. the same year the People of Dorchester in that County gave him a call to be their Minister Whereupon setling at that place he continued among them in the labourious work of the Gospel to his dying day He hath written Answer to 32 Questions Lond. 1643. qu. Discourse about the Church Covenant Lond. 1643. qu. These two things pass under the name of the Elders of New England but Mather was the author of them Answer to Mr. Charl. Herle and to Mr. Sam. Rutherford wherein is defended the congregational way of Church Government and how it differs from the Presbyterian Lond. 1646. qu. An heart-melting exhortation together with a cordial consolation presented in a letter from New England to his dear Country-men of Lancashire c. Lond. 1650. in tw Tho the name of Will. Tomson a Lancashire man born and Pastor of Braintry in N. Engl. is set to this book with that of Mather yet Mather was the sole author of it as his Son hath informed me A Catechisme or the grounds and principles of Christian religion set forth by way of question and answer c. Lond. 1650. oct Sermons on the second Epistle of S. Peter They were transcribed by him for the press but are not yet made publick Treatise of justification Cambr. in N. E. 1652. qu. He also prepared for the press A defence of the Churches in New England Written against W. Rathbond Minister of the Gospel And had a principal hand in drawing up The platform of Church discipline agreed unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E. an â—648 He also left behind him a Ms of his composition to prove that the power of rule and government in the Church belongs only to the Elders and not to the Fraternity At length after he had spent the greatest part of his time in the zealous Ministry of the Gospel surrendred up his pious Soul to him that first gave it on the 22. Apr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine whereupon his body was buried at Dâ—rchester in New England before mention'd He had several Sons that were Nonconforming Ministers as 1 Samuel whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1671. 2 Nathaniel sometimes Minister of Barnstaple in Devonsh afterwards at Rotterdam in Holland now Pastor of a congregation in London 3 Eleazer who died Pastor of the Church at Northampton in N. Engl. after he had been a preacher there eleven years 4 Increase or as he writes himself in his lat books Crescentius Matherus born at Dorchester in N. E. educated in Harwarden Coll. in Cambridge there and thence after six years standing removed to Ireland where in Trin. Coll. near Dublin he proceeded Mast of Arts 1658 aged 19 years or thereabouts In 1661 he returned to his native Country was elected President of the Coll. wherein he had been educated an 1681 and in May 1688 he came into England to acquaint K. Jam. 2. from the principal Gentlemen in N. Engl. the state of his Subjects in that territory whose civil liberties and properties were then invaded in an intolerable manner This person who is also now or at least was lately Pastor of a Church at Boston in his native Country hath written several things as 1 Discourse concerning the mystery of Israels salvation on Rom 11.26 Lond. 1669. oct 2 The first principles of N. Engl. concerning the subject of Baptisme and Communion of Churches Cambr. in N. E. 1675. qu. 3 A brief history of the war with the Indians in New England from the 24 of June 1675 when the first English man was murthered by the Indians to 12 of Aug. 1676 when Philip alias Metacomet was slain c. together with a serious exhortation to the Inhabitants of that land Boston in N. E. 1676 qu. Afterward reprinted at Lond. 4 Some important truths about conversion delivered in sundry Sermons Lond. 1674. oct 5 The divine right of Infant baptisme asserted and proved from scripture and antiquity Bost in N. E. 1680. qu. 6 Practical truths tending to promote godliness in the power of it Bost in N. E. 1682. 7 Diatriba de signo filii hominis de secundo Messiae adventu c. Amstel 1682. oct 8 An Essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned in this last age especially in N. England Boston in N. Engl. 1684. oct with his picture before it 9 Discourse concerning the person office and glory of Jesus Christ. Bost in N. E. 1686 oct 10 De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova Anglia Epistola ad cl virum D. Joh. Leusdenum Ling. Sanctae in Ultrajectanâ Academia professorem scripta Lond. 1688. in one sheet in oct 11 The wonders of free grace or a compleat History of all the remarkable Penitents that have been executed at Tyburn and elsewhere for these last thirty years To which is added a Sermon preached in the hearing of a condemned person immediatly before his execution Lond. 1690. in tw c. This Mr. Mather who is a person of learning candor and civility hath a son by his wife the daughter of the famous Mr. John Cotton of N. England named Cotton Mather now Pastor of a Church in Boston and in great reputation among the people in N. Engl author of Late memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions clearly manifesting not only that there are witches but that good men as well as others may possibly have their lives shortned by such evil instruments of Satan Lond. 1691. sec Edit HENRY BYAM son of Laur. Byam of Luckham alias East Luckham near Dunster in Somersetshire Clerk was born there on the last of Aug. 1580 and in Act term 1597 was sent to Exeter Coll. where he continued in the condition of a sojourner till he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. 21. Dec. 1599. In both which houses he by the advantage of an ingenious and liberal education joyned with his own diligence and industry soon became one of the greatest ornaments of this University and the most noted person there for his excellent and polite learning which
Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made Perkinson desisted and Knight by the perswasions some say threatnings of Dr. Fell desisted So that then the Masters were left to Hobsons choice to choose Bennet and no body else Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in meerly by his Authority without any application to them and Bennet's little stirring for it only for form sake without applying himself according to the manner with cap in hand to gain votes they were resolved to cross the matter So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month a majority of the Masters joyned together headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person did in despight of Dr. Fell his Mandamus and Authority of the Heads of Houses Seniors and the sober party set up and choose a meer stranger who lived remotely from Oxon named Christop Wase sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell and something to the discredit of the University as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office Afterwards Wase came to Oxon was sworn and took possession of his place But Dr. Fell who had received a character of would never let him execute the Archityp place because as he usually said he was not fit for it as being not a person of sobriety c. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time the superior Beadleship of the Civ Law and the Architypographers place hath been joyned WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts was born in that County became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall an 1629 aged 16 years where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts was appointed a Tutor in that House and about the same time entred into the sacred function But being always schismatically enclined he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1 became a rigid Calvinist an enemy to Tithes and a purchaser of Church Revenues In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in the City of Salisbury where by his doctrine he advanced much the blessed Cause and in 1654 he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which office he shew'd himself very forward against those people of which some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching but in 1662 was silenced for Nonconformity and lived for a time at or near to Salisbury But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasie he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts where he had purchased an Estate and continued there to the time of his death His works are An Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Psal 45.6 Lond. 1652. qu. Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae Justification without conditions or a free justification of a sinner c. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification c. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge Mr. Jam. Cranford and Mr. Rich. Baxter Lond. 1654. qu. Answer'd the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels against Mr. B. VVoodbridge c. Sermon on Acts 20.9 Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine as the Register of that Church enforms me which I presume follows the English Accompt and not the common Another VVill. Eyre I find who was long before this mans time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus an 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said VVill. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex an 1617. 15 Jac. 1. EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London was born in that County admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an 1621. aged 12 years afterwards he was successively Clerk Scholar and Fellow of that House Bach. of Div. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire He hath written The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford 'T was printed and set before the said Dr. Jacksons Commentary on the Creed an 1653 and afterwards before the collection of his works an 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford after he had suffer'd much as a true son of the Church of England and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire applied his mind to Academical studies in S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he was made Minister of S. Botolphs Church without Aldgate there where for his ready and fluent way of preaching he was much frequented by the Orthodox party but in the beginning of the grand rebellion he being esteemed as one of Dr. Lauds creatures he was imprison'd in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate was sequestred plunder'd and his wife and children turn'd out of doors At length he with much ado getting loose but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured he retired to Oxon where he was created D. of Div. an 1646 about which time and after he taught School in several places meerly to gain bread and drink as in London and afterwards at Paddington c. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. Botolphs Church but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners he left it and in the year 1662 he was presented to the Vicaridge of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an he was at length being grown crazy and infirm presented unsought
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 Fastâ—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 1â—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.
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
K. Ch. 1. and garrison'd for his use he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company consisting mostly of Scholars In which office doing good service had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him by the favour of his Majesty tho no such matter occurs in the public register of the University which was then somtimes neglected After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he by the name of Tho. Holyoake without the addition of Master Bac. or D. of D obtained a License from the University to practice physick whereupon setling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferr'd upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire which he had by the marriage of his Lady worth about 200 l. per an free from presentation institution and episcopal visitation but before he had enjoy'd it an year or thereabouts he died to the great grief of his family He hath written A large Dictionary in three parts 1. The English before the Latine 2. The Latine before the English 3. The proper names of Persons places and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets Lond. 1677 in a thick larg folio Before which is an Epistle written by the authors son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincolne wherein are many things said of the work and its author But this the reader is to know that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mention'd and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England The said Dr. Holyoake who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived for his ingenuity and humanity died of an high Feaver at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father in the great Church there dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire as it seems became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall 1648 trained up there acording to the presbyterian way took a degree in Arts afterwards had a cure in the interval and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching He hath extant Fideles aquae or some pious tears drop'd upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother Lond. 1661. oct Dust returning to the earth Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles 12.7 Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things as t is said which I have not yet seen He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention'd near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife dau of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb 1665. BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight by Elizab. his wife daugh of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks Esq was born in Fleetstreet in London in the house of Sir George Croke Serjeant at Law his Mothers Uncle on the 6 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term an 1620 at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his fathers contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud then President of that House who shewing to him several fatherly kindnesses our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor then Archb. of Cant was to be brought to a trial for his life especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners or number of the Committee appointed by Parl to draw up a charge against him But before our author had taken a degree he went to the Middle Temple where by the help of his father he became a noted proficient in the Common Law well read also in other studies and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation At length when the Long Parliament was to sit he being then a Counsellour at Law he was chose a Burgess for Marlow in Bucks to serve therein and shewing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford became noted in the House for a man of parts In 1642 he for his activeness for the cause then driving on was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass of Divines In 1644 he became Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Commissioner again for peace and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design he being privy to it and thenceforth he became very gratious with that most active person who with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the Kings party was in danger to have lost all had he not freed himself from that suspicion especially by his urging his losses that he had sufferd by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces who being admitted one of his Council of War he did oftentimes being a friend to the Univ. of Oxon express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it and pressed for honorable tâ—â—ms to be offer'd to the Garrison there In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembrok who was then lately made Constable of Windsore Castle and keeper of the Forest adjoyning constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the
pure elegancy delightful unaffected neatness of lat stile none scarce hath equal'd much less outdone him how great soever When at any time he is mention'd by authors as he is very often it is done in words expressing their highest esteem of his great worth and excellency and placed still as first in rank among Physitians And further also he hath laid a lasting foundation of a body of Physick chiefly on Hypotheses of his own framing See more in the Epistle to the reader before his works printed at Geneva in two vol. an 1676. His works are these Diatribae duae Medico-philosophicae de fermentatione altera de febribus Hag. Com. 1659. oct Lond. 1660. 65 c. in tw Answer'd by Edm. de Meara a Doctor of Physick of Bristow and Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians See more in Rich. Lower an 1690. Dissertatio Epistolica de Urinis Printed with the former book Cerebri Anatome Lond. 1664. oct Amstel 1667. in tw Whatsoever is anatomical in that book the glory thereof belongs to the said R. Lower whose indefatigable industry at Oxon produced that elaborate piece De ratione motus musculorum Printed with Cer. Anat. Pathalogiae cerebri nervosi generis specimina in quo agitur de morbis convulsivis de scorbuto Oxon. 1667. qu. Lond. 1668. Amstel 1669. c. in tw An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 31. Affectionum quae dicuntur Hystericae Hypochondriacae Pathologia spasmodica vindicata contra responsionem epistolarem Nathan Highmore M. D. Lond. 1670. qu. Leyd 1671. in tw c. Exercitationes Medico-physicae duae 1. De sanguinis accensione 2. De motu musculari This is printed with the book next before going and an account of both of them are in the Phil. Transact num 57. De anima Brutorum quae hominis vitalis ac sensativa est exercitationes duae c. Lond. 1672. in qu. and oct c. Amstel 1674 in tw And also of this num 83. All which books except Affectionum quae dicuntur c. and that De anima Brutorum were translated into English by S. P. Esq Lond. 1681. fol. Pharmaceutice rationalis sive Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore Part. 2. Oxon. 1674. and 75 in tw and qu. Published by Dr. Jo. Fell who in a Postscript added to the authors preface gives some running account of the said author but false as to his parent This Pharmaceutice was translated into English by Anon-Lond 1679. fol. but being not well done it was corrected by S. P. Esq before mention'd and involved in the former translation of 1681. Afterwards came out The London practice of physick or the whole practical part of physick contained in the works of Dr. Willis faithfully made English and printed together for the publick good Lond. 1685. oct with his picture before it What are therein made English of his works are 1 His first and second parts of the Pharmaceutice rationalis 2 His tract of Convulsive diseases 3 His tract of the Scurvy 4 His tr of the Diseases of the brain and Genus nervosum 5 His tr Of Feavers The other parts of his works being Theoretical are therein omitted This translation is said to be different from that containing the same pieces contained in his former translations of all his works in fol. A plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague or any contagious distemper in City Camp Country Fleet c. and for curing such that are infected with it This was written in 1666 but not printed till the latter end of 1690. At length after a great deal of drudgery that he did undergo in his faculty mostly for lucre sake which did much shorten his life he concluded his last day in his House in S. Martins-lane before mention'd on the eleventh day of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and five whereupon his body was conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and there inter'd in the large isle or trancept joyning to the North side of the choire near to the body of Mary his first Wife Daughter of Samuel Fell D. D. sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon Which Mary died on the Vigil of Allsaints an 1670. The said Dr. Willis who left behind him the character of an orthodox pious and charitable physitian did some years before his death settle a salary for a Reader to read prayers in S. Martins Church in the fields in Westm early and late every day to such servants and people of that parish who could not through multiplicity of business attend the ordinary service dayly there performed All his Latin works were printed in two vol. in qu. at Geneva 1676 as I have before told you and at Amsterdam 1682. qu. by Gerard Blasius M. D. and ordinary professor of the same faculty at that place JOSHUA STOPFORD a Lancashire man born was entred into Brasnose Coll. in Mich. term 1654 aged 18 years being then or soon after Scholar of that House went afterwards to Magd. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1657. Afterwards he entred into Orders became Preb. of Donington in the Church of York collated thereunto by Archb. Frewen 9. Nov. 1660 and about the same time Vicar of S. Martins Church in Conystreet there In the month of Apr. 1670 he was created Master of Arts and in the next month he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being at that time Rector of Allsaints Church in the said City of York He hath written Pagano-Papismus or an exact parallel between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian in their doctrines and ceremonies Lond. 1675. oct publ in Mich. term 1674. Before this work is a catalogue of books and authors made use of by this writer which is very considerable both for number and value To which piece is joyned another of smaller bulk written by the same author entit The ways and methods of Romes advancement or whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their doctrines discovered in two Sermons preached 5. Nov. 1671 on Rev. 18.23.24 A catalogue of authors of the like nature with the former is also prefix'd and in the Epistle to the Reader 't is said that those two Sermons were published to vindicate them and their author from the unjust aspersions and false accusations cast upon them by a generation of men who make lies and calumnies a constituted part of their religion He died in the month of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was I presume buried in the Church of All 's before mention'd and not in the Cathedral because he resign'd his Prebendship in 1663. He was a person very well read in substantial and noted authors and might had life been spared done good service for the Church of England of which he was a most zealous member FRANCIS ROBERTS son of Hen. Roberts of Alslake in Yorkshire was
Apostles by their most macerated bodies and countenances and were indeed in that respect pitied by many comforted and bless'd by true Hearts as they passed the streets After his Majesties restauration he did not read the English Liturgy in his Church in Covent garden neither did the Parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another till the latter end of 1661 at which time they petitioned the Bishop of London to have it read unto them In the interim this fat Doctor had a fat Deanery design'd him by his Majesty upon a supposal that he would conform and 't was verily thought that he would have taken it as Reynolds had the Bishoprick of Norwych could he have been ascertain'd that the Kings declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs published at his restauration would have indulged him while he was a Dean as then while he was a parochial Minister or as 't is said had not a female Saint who had read many of his books and wrot much of his Sermons extracted from them every sentence that made for the Covenant for the government by presbytery for the honor of Smectymnus or that made against the Bishops and Liturgy of the Church all put in a Letter and sent by her to him Which of these two was the reason I am not certain Sure it is that while these things were agitating and after he had taken a great deal of pains as a commission'd person by his Majesty in the Savoy conference about the Liturgy the Act of uniformity was published and rather than he would conform he not only refused the Deanery but left his rectory at Barthelmew day an 1662. Afterwards he did set up a Conventicle in Covent-garden and tho imprison'd for it for some time in the Gate-house yet as 't was thought he got more from the Brethren than if he had been a Dean or had continued in his rectory His works are these Many Sermons as 1 Meat out of the Eater or hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times Fast sermon before the House of Commons 30. June 1647 on Zech. 14.9 latter part Lond. 1647 qu. 2 Englands spiritual languishing with the causes and cure Fast serm before the H. of Com. 28. June 1648 on Rev. 2.3 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord on Rev. 14 13. 4 Sermon before the L. Protector and Parl. on a publick day of humiliation 24. Sept. 1656. on Amos 4.12 5 The Saints triumph over death Fun serm on Ch. Love 25. Aug. 1651. on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1658 oct 6 Sermon on Matth. 15.7.8 Printed in the book called The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Farewel sermon at Barthelmew-tyde on Heb. 12.2 Lond. 1662. oct This sermon tho put out under his name yet it was disclaimed by him under his hand in the common News of Sept. 24. an 1663. published by Roger L'estrange 8 How we ought to improve baptisme on Acts 2.38 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 9 Serm. on 2. Thes 2.15 Published in the Morning exercise against popery in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 10 Serm. on Rom. 5.12 Published in The morning exercise methodized c. Lond. 1676. qu. 11 Twenty sermons on the Psalms Acts c. Lond. 1678. qu. with his picture before them published by Dr. Will. Bates 12 Eighteen sermons on the second Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Thess containing the description use growth and fall of Antichrist c. Lond. 1679 oct 13 Sermons on the 119 Psal Lond. 1681. fol. They are in number 190 and have his picture before them This is called The first vol. of Sermons 14 A second Volume of sermons in two parts The first containing 27 sermons on the 25 of S. Matthew forty and five on the 17 of S. John and twenty and four on the sixth to the Romans The second part containing 45 sermons on the eighth to the Romans and 40 on the fifth Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Corinthians c. Lond. 1684. 85. fol. 15 The third Vol. of sermons in two parts The first containing sixty six sermons on the eleventh Chapt. to the Hebrews To which is annex'd A Treatise of the life of faith The second part contains A Treatise of self denial with several sermons on the sacrament of the Lords Supper and other occasions c. Lond. 1689. fol. Besides these there is now May 1691 prepared for the press a fourth Vol. in fol. of select sermons on several Texts A practical commentary or exposition on the Epistle of S. James Lond. 1651. 53. qu. Exposition on the Epistle of S. Jude Lond. 1652. qu. Smectymnus redivivus being an answer to a book entit An humble remonstrance c. Lond. 1653. 60. 61. This book called Smectymnus was written as I have elsewhere told you by Steph. Marshall Edm. Calamy Thom. Young Matth. Newcommen and Will. Spurstow and first of all published in 1641 being the year after the said Humble remonstrance was published Practical exposition of the Lords Prayer Lond. 1684. oct with his picture before it He also made some additions to the second edition of The life and death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of Exeter written by Ferdinando Nicolls Minister of S. Mary Arches in Exeter Lond. 1655. in tw Also an Epistle commendatory before A Commendatory or Exposition on the second Epist to the Corinth Lond. 1655. fol. Written by Dr. Rich. Sibbs was one of the three that collected and published Thirty and one select sermons written by Will. Strong and wrot the Epistle to the reader before the second edit of The larger and lesser Catechismes of the Assemb of Div. Lond. 1658. qu. with several other little things of the like stamp He paid his last debt to nature after he had ran through many changes on the 18. of Oct. S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was accompanied to his grave in the Church at Stoke-Newington near London before-mention'd by hundreds of the brethren At which time Dr. Will. Bates one of his perswasion the same who also had been offered a Deanery with our author if he would conform preached his funeral Sermon Which being published the Reader if curious may see therein the character and encomiums of him the said Dr. Manton JOHN PARRY son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland was born in the City of Dublin educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650 was incorporated there in the same degree and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesties restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquess afterwards Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm took the degree of Bach. of Div. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660 and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time was incorporated in
the Popish Plot was discovered but also wrot and published divers books in vindication of the Church of Rome and thereby gained the character by the men of that party of the prime Champion of England to stand up for their Cause A noted Author of the English Church saith that the author of the Guide in Controversies Ab. Woodhead is a person most highly famed among the Roman Catholicks and that he is in his opinion the most ingenious and solid writer of the whole Rom. Party His Works plainly shew him to have been a person of sound and solid judgment well read in the Fathers and in the polemical Writings of the most eminent and renowned Defenders of the Church of England who have quite down from the Reformation successfully managed the Protestant Cause against Rome He was so wholly devoted to retirement and the prosecutions of his several studies that no worldly concerns shared any of his affections only satisfying himself with bare necessaries and so far from coveting applause or preferment tho perhaps the compleatness of his learning and great worth might have given him as just and fair a claim to both as any others of his perswasion that he used all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy and conceal his name And altho he obtained these his desires in great part yet his calm temperate and rational discussion of some of the most weighty and momentous Controversies under debate between the Protestants and Romanists rendred him an Author much fam'd and very considerable in the esteem of both He hath written very many things some of which were published in his life time and some after his death all without his own name or initial letters of it set to them The Catalogue of most of them follow A brief account of ancient Church Government with a reflection on several moderne Writings of the Presbyterians The Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum Ministerii Anglicani published 1654 and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi and others touching this subject Lond. 1662 and 85 in four parts in a thin quart This book was generally reported to have been written by him yet a certain R. Catholick who was originally of Univ. Coll and much pretended to know all the Works that Mr. VVoodhead had written which he had with great zeal bought and collected for the honour he had to the author hath several times told me that he was not the author of that book but Obad. VValker The Guide in Controversies or a rational account of the doctrine of the Romane Catholicks concerning the ecclesiastical Guides in Controversies of Religion reflecting on the later Writings of Protestants particularly of Archb. Laud and Dr. Stillingfleet on this subject This book is divided into four discourses the two first of which were printed at London 1666. in qu. But before they could appear in publick they were burnt in the grand conflagration at London except a very few copies that were saved and vended abroad The other two discourses were published at London 1667 qu. and there again altogether with additions and some alterations an 1673. qu. In the composition of this book The Guide I have been credibly informed by several R. Catholicks that one Perkins a learned man of that perswasion did assist the author Part of the third discourse is refuted in a book intit A second discourse in vindication of the protestant grounds of faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Rom. Church in answer to The Guide in Controversies by R. H. and against Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion c both written by E. W. I say refuted by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Lond. 1673. oct Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith against some exceptions Printed 1674. qu. These Exercitations are in vindication of some part of the third discourse from what was said against it by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second discourse just before named An appendix to the four discourses concerning The Guide in Controversies Further shewing the necessity and infallibility thereof against some contrary Protestant Principles Printed 1675. qu. Some copies of this book have this title A discourse of the necessity of Church Guides for directingâ—Christians in necessary faith c. The second part of the Appendix printed with the former containeth Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleet's answer to N. O's considerations of his Principles These two parts contain an Answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in a piece of his called An answer to several late Treatises occasion'd by a book intit A discourse concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome c. hath said against our author Woodhead his book named Dr. Stillingfleets Principles c. considered which I am now about to set down Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants considered Paris 1671. oct This is answer'd in Dr. Stillingfleets first part named An answer to several late treatises c. before mention'd Considerations on the Councill of Trent being the fifth discourse concerning The Guide in controversies Printed 1671. qu. 'T is said that there is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of Church lands but Quaere The Roman Churches devotions vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations Printed 1672. oct The Rom. doctrine of repentance and indulgence vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets mis-representations Printed 1672. oct These three last books were published under the initial Letters of N. O. or O. N And the two last are briefly replyed upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to his first above named wherein having only touched on Seren. Cressy's piece entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. wrot against him saith these things of our author N. O. Woodhead compared with Ser. Cressy whose book he affirms to be rayling and the author mad is a meer pattern of meekness and that he writes pertinently without the others bitterness and passion And elsewhere in the same Preface he stiles him a moderate man An historical narration of the life and death of our Saviour Jes Christ in two parts Oxon. 1685 qu. Published by Obad. Walker and then said not to be of his composition but of his Tutor Ab. Woodhead Before it went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane the Kings Professor of Divinity who made some deletions and corrections in it yet afterwards they were put in again by Mr. Walker when it was in the Press Several exceptions were made against divers passages therein and great clammoring there was in the University against the book particularly by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. Coll yet on the 13 of Oct. the same year when Mr. Nath. Boys of Univ. Coll. was introduced into his late Majesties K. Jam. 2. presence he his Majesty was not then only pleased to commend him for his Sermon as being an ingenious and well pen'd discourse I mean that Sermon which he had preached in S. Maries Church on 26. Jul. going before being
home to the house of his Patron the Earl of Devon he published two books one De Corpore and another De Homine The first was oppugned by two Theologists who were afterwards ashamed as 't is said of what they had done the other rested untouched Soon after he published others the titles of which I shall give you anon and only now say that tho he hath an ill name from some and good from others yet he was a person endowed with an excellent Philosophical soul was a contemner of riches mony envy the world c. He was charitable and beneficial to his Relations and others He was a severe lover of Justice and endowed with great Morals Among those that he lived with and was conversant he was cheerful open and free of his discourse yet without offence to any which he endeavoured always to avoid Many writers do speak honorably of him in their respective works and Dr. Sam. Sorbiere his great acquaintance doth mention him with venerable respect in the Relation of his voyage into England and tells us also that his picture which was drawn by the hand of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of the age he lived in hangs in his Majesties Closet at Whitehall His Picture also hath been in great esteem in France insomuch that the Vertuosi thereof have come as 't were in Pilgrimage to the house of Sorbiere to see it Outlandish Gentlemen also when they came to London during the life time of the author did make it one of their employes to visit him and Cosmo Prince since the Great Duke of Tuscany went to him more than once in the month of May 1669 and discoursed and was pleasant with him He also expressed so great veneration for him that he and some of his Genltemen carried with them all his published works His Majesty also K. Ch. 2. delighted in his company when he learned Mathematicks of him and express'd his esteem so much of him after his restauration that he allowed him a pension of an 100 l. per an out of his Exchecquer He was most excellently well skill'd in the Lat. and Gr. tongues was a great Critick and Poet and above all a Philosopher and Mathematician yet in his last dayes after he had been exasperated by certain Academians especially of Oxon he express'd himself in his writings an enemy to the Universities Scholastical Divinity Metaphysicks Aristotle Duns Scotus c. To conclude A man he was of excellent parts as a noted author tells us of great wit some reading and somewhat more thinking One who had spent many years in foreign parts and observation understood the learned as well as the modern languages had long the reputation of a great Philosopher and Mathematician and in his age had conversation with very many worthy and extraordinary men to which it may be if he had been more indulgent in the more vigorous part of his life it might have had an influence upon the temper of his mind whereas age seldom submits to those questions enquiries and contradictions which the laws and liberties of conversation require And it hath been always a lamentation amongst Mr. Hobbes his friends that he spent too much time in thinking and too little in exercising those thoughts in the company of other men of the same or of as good faculties for want whereof his natural constitution with age contracted such a morosity that doubting and contradicting men were never grateful to him In a word besides his eminent parts of learning and knowledg he was always looked upon as a man of probity and a life free from scandal c. The books and other things that he hath written are these De Mirabilibus Pecci This is a lat poem and was printed at Lond about 1636 and the second time there in 1666 in qu. Translated into English by a person of quality and printed with the Latin at Lond. 1678. oct It treates of the wonders of the Devills arse in peak near Chatsworth in Derbyshire Such a book also entit The wonders of the peake was written by Charles Cotton Esq Lond. 1681. qu. a poem Elementa Philosophica de Cive Par. 1642. c. Answer to Sir Will. D'avenants Epist or pref to Gondibert Par. 1650. in tw afterwards printed with Gondibert in qu. Humane nature or the fundamentall Elements of policie being a discoverie of the faculties acts and passions of the soul of man Lond. 1650 in tw c. De Corpore Politico or of the Elements of the Law Lond. 1650 in tw c. Leviathan or the matter forme and power of a Commonwealth Lond. 1651 fol. Reprinted there again with its old date an 1680 fol. Turned into lat by another hand and printed at Amsterd 1668. qu. c. Review of the Leviathan Print only with the English editions and in the place of that in those of the Lat. is an Appendix consisting barely of three chapters As for the Review and the writing thereof an eminent author will give you a better account than I can therefore I pray go to him It is said by one who was no friend to K. Ch. 2. or Monarchy that the author Mr. Hobbes being at Paris when his book was published he sent one of them as a present to the King of Scots which he accepted in regard he had been his Tutor in the Mathematicks but being afterwards informed by some of his Priests that that book did not only contain many Principles of Atheism and gross impiety for so they call every thing that squares not with the Clergy interest but also such that were prejudicial to the Church and reflected dangerously upon the Majesty of Soveraign Princes therefore when Mr. Hobbes came to make a tender of his service to him in person he was rejected and word brought him by the Marquess of Ormonde that the King would not admit him and withal told him the reason By which means Mr. Hobbes declines in credit with his friends there of the Royal Stamp c. Many have been the authors that have written against this Leviathan as may be seen in Auctarium Vitae Hobbianae and partly in the body of this work But more by far have been the censures of it and those severe too as having no true Divinity or true Philosophy or true policy in it The author several times saith that the law of nature is the law of God and yet all wickedness is lawful by the law of nature That no Homicide or Selfcide or Fratricide or Patricide is against the law of nature If so 't is a wise law that forbids nothing Also that there must be a law of God winking at most unnatural impieties That which forbids nothing is no law As for policy he lays the foundation of the government in the populace which overthrows all government and that might is right But if he had consulted the Scripture the word of God would have shewed that the foundation of government was not laid in
respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
several generous hazards of his person in Battle he was at last totally routed by the rebellious party near Stow on the Would in Glocestershire where the noble and valiant Sir Jacob Astley was taken Prisoner and himself received several scars of honour which he carried to his grave Afterwards he retired to Oxon the then seat of his Majesty and had in recompence of his losses confer'd upon him an employment under Sir Joh. Heydon then Lieutenant General of the Ordnance which was to receive and pay off money for the service of the Magazine and Artillery at which time Edward Sherburne Gent. afterwards a Knight was Commissary General of the said Artillery It was then that at leisure houres he followed his studies was esteemed a member of Queens Coll. being entred among the students there and might with other officers have had the degree of Master of Arts confer'd on him by the members of the Ven. Convocation but he neglected it After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon at which time the Kings cause did dayly decline our author Wharton was put to his shifts and lived as opportunity served went to the great City lived as privately as he could and wrote several small things for a livelyhood But they giving offence to the great men then in power he was several times seized on and imprison'd as in the Gatehouse at Westminster in Newgate and at length in Winsore Castle At which time being threatned with greater punishment he found Will. Lilly his Antagonist a friend After his Majesties restauration he became Treasurer and Pay-Master to the Office of his Majesties Ordnance repaid Lilly his curtesie gained so well by his employment that purchasing an estate he was in consideration of his former sufferings under and for K. Ch. 1 and for particular services to K. Ch. 2 created a Baronet by patent dated 31. Dec. 1677 which honor his son Sir Polycarpus Wharton now enjoyes Sir George was alwaies esteemed the best Astrologer that wrote the Ephemerides of his time and went beyond W. Lilly and Jo. Booker the idolls of the Vulgar was a constant and thro-pac'd Loyallist a boon Companion a witty Droll and waggish Poet. He hath written Hemeroscopions or Almanacks from 1640 to 1666. Printed all in oct The six first came out under the name of George Naworth and therefore by Lilly usually called Noworth The rest that for 1646 being as it seems omitted came partly out under the name of Captaine George Wharton and partly under George Wharton Esq In that Alman which he published in 1644 he began to fill the blank leaves of the respective months with Chronological notes which continuing so now and then interruptedly till 1657 he then put them at the end of every Almanack under the title of Gesta Brittannorum and commenc'd them from 1600 whereas before they were but from Dec. 1641. These Gests are all or most part involved in an octavo book called The Historians Guide c. In all the said Almanacks is a great deal of satyrical poetry reflecting on the times and rebellious persons thereof which since hath been collected together and printed in his works Mercurio-caelico Mastix or an anti-caveat to all such as have heretofore had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded by that great and traiterous Impostor Joh. Booker in answer to his frivolous Pamphlet Entit Mercurius-Caelicus or a caveat to all the people of England Oxon. 1644. in tw sh in qu. Englands Iliads in a Nutshel or a brief Chronologie of the battailes sieges conflicts c. from Dec. 1641 to 25. of Mar. 1645. Oxon. 1645 oct Taken from his Almanacks for 1644. and 45. Mostly involv'd also in the said Hist Guide c. An Astrological judgment upon his Majesties present March begun from Oxon 7. May 1645 Print in qu. Bellum Hybernicale or Irelands Warr Astrologically demonstrated from the late celestial congress of two malevolent Planets Saturne and Mars in Taurus the Ascendent of that kingdome c. Printed 1647. qu. Merlini Anglici Errata Or the errours mistakes c. of Mr. Will. Lilly's new Ephemeris for 1647 Printed 1647. Mercurius Elencticus communicating the unparallel'd proceedings at Westminster the Head-quarters and other places c. Printed by stealth in London This Mercury which began 29. Oct. 1649 came out sheet by sheet every week in qu and continuing interruptedly till 4. Apr. 1649 it came out again with numb 1. and continued till towards the end of that year I have seen several things that were published under the name of Merc. Elenct particularly the first and second part of The last Will and Test of Philip Earl of Pembroke c. Pr. 1649. qu but whether George Wharton was author of them I know not A List of the names of the members of the H. of Commons observing which are Officers of the Army contrary to the self-denying ordinance together with such sums of money offices and lands as they have given to themselves for service done and to be done against the King and Kingdom Printed in one sh in qu. 1648. It was all taken from the first part of The Hist of Independency written by Clem. Walker In the said List are the names of an 100 persons and to it was added a second Century by the same author Wharton printed on one side of a sh of paper the same year and subscribed M. El. i. e. Merc. Elencticus The reader is to note that in 1657. and 58 came out Two Narratives of the late Parliament so called their Election and appearing c. with the account of the places of profit sallaries and advantages which they hold and receive under the present power c. Pr. in qu. but by whom they were written I know not Sure it is that the author borrowes several things from the said Hist of Indep and the said List or Two Centuries and from them all put together doth borrow the author of another book entit The mystery of the good old cause briefly unfolded in a cat of such members of the late Long Parliament that held offices both Civil and Military c. Lond. 1660. oct Who the author of this Mysterie was I cannot yet tell Sure it is if Sir Will. Dugdale told me right that Clem. Spelman who was Cursitor Baron published about the same time a Character of the Oliverians on one side of a sheet which Clement after he had written and published a large preface to his fathers Sir Hen. Spelman book De non temerandis Ecclesiis and some other little things as I suppose he concluded his last day in June after Whitsontide an 1679 whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet London G. Wharton hath also written A short account of the Fasts and Festivals as well of the Jews as Christians c. The Cabal of the twelve Houses Astrologicall from Morinus Written 1659. and approved by Will. Oughtred A learned and useful discourse teaching the right observation and keeping of
to a friend Printed in qu. He had a chief hand also in Celeusma which I shall anon mention and wrot other things He died in the Prison called Newgate in Lond. on the 19 of January 1684 at which time were 80 Dissenters or more then and there remaining and on the 24 of the same month his corps being attended by at least 150 Coaches was inter'd in the burying place called by some the Phanatical and by others Tyndales Burying place joyning on the north side to the New Artillery Garden or Yard near London Soon after was printed and published An Elegy on that reverend and learned Minister of the Gospel Mr. Will. Jenkyns who finished his Testimony c. A comment on which with many things concerning Mr. Jenkyns himself you may see in the 2 vol. of The Observator num 209.210 written by Rog. L'estrange Esq wherein also you 'll find his Petition to the Supreme Authority the Parliam of the Commonwealth of England for the pardon of his life and estate for being engaged in the Plot before mention'd in which Petition being asserted by him that Possession and strength give a right to govern and success in a cause or enterprise proclaims it to be lawful and just c. it was by the decree and judgment of the Univ. of Oxon past in their Convocation 21 July 1683 burnt with certain books in the School Quadrangle as destructive to the sacred person of Princes their state and government c. Our author Dr. Durell hath also written against the aforesaid two Apologies a book intit Sanctae Ecclesiae Anglicanae adversus iniquas atque inverecundas schismaticorum criminationes Vindiciae c. Lond. 1669. qu. In which Vindiciae the author doth only by the by sometimes take notice of the former or first Apologist as thinking him unworthy of any larger confutation but the other Hickman he answers more fully and designedly in his citations following his second edition As for the character given of the said Vindiciae hear what Mathew Scrivner saith in the place before cited in relation to his answer to Hen. Hickman Justo volumine contemptissimi istius capitis veternos nuper obtrivit Durellus fecitque vanissimum autorem inter pueros immodestiae amicitiae suae infelicissimum deplorare exitum And what Lew. du Moulin delivers of it is that it is more offensive to the Puritans than the other book intit A view of the Government c. And therefore against it came out soon after a small piece intit Bonasus vapulans or some Castigations given to Mr. Joh. Durell for fowling himself and others in his English and Lat. book Lond. 1672. in a small oct said to be written by a Country Scholar yet generally believed to have been pen'd by Hickman before mentioned Which book with some additions and alterations came out again with this new title The Nonconformists vindicated from the abuses put upon them by Mr. Durell and Mr. Scrivner Lond. 1679. oct Of which edition and notorious falsities expressed in the title I shall give you an account when I come to H. Hickman Dr. L. du Moulin published also another book against it without his name set to it bearing this title Patronus bonae fidei in causa Puritanorum contra Hierarchas Anglos ut disceptatur in specimene confutationis Vindiciarum clariss viri Joh. Durelli cujus periculum fit cum passim in ejus opere tum Maxime in capite primo in quo agitur de authoribus nuperorum motuum in Anglia Lond. 1672. oct This book hath five distinct running titles all differently paged to the end that the sheets so printed might the better by that means escape the Searchers of the Press The titles are 1. Epistola 2 Specimen 3. Prodromus 4. Defensor and 5. Patronus c. This Patronus bonae fidei tho fraught with scurrilities and the utmost malice and bitterness in which the author whose excellency laid in ill natur'd Satyr could possibly express himself against the Ch. of England and some of her most eminent as well dead as living Propugners yet it is cited more than once as a piece of notable authority in Will Jenkyns's Celeusma seu clamor ad caelum c. Lond. 1677. qu. In which book when the author refers you to the said Patronus bonae fidei the Writer thereof Moulin is characterized as doctissimus clariss and eruditiss possibly as we may justly conceive for his performance in that work Nay 't is not only quoted as a very authentick piece by the said Jenkyns but is cited by Dr. Tho. Godden the great and eminent Rom. Cath. Writer against the Church of England in his Dialogues wrot in defence of Catholicks no Idolaters against Dr. Stillingfleet as a Treatise to be credited in its account of some practices and usuages in the Ch. of England but chiefly of bowing towards the Altar To which citation from Du Moulin Dr. Stillingfleet replies in his book intit Several Conferences between a Romish Priest a fanatic Chaplain and a Divine of the Ch. of England being a full answer to the late Dialogues of T. G. In the pages here quoted in the margin you 'll find an account of the great Knight-service which L. du Moulin did for the Papists and what wonderful good use they made of him besides the sharp character given of his performance in Patronus bonae fidei which I presume could not be over pleasing to that proud and haughty French-man A farther account of him and his Writings is in Dr. Rob. Grove his Defensio suae responsionis ad nuperum libellum qui inscribitur Celeusma c. adversus reputationem ab authore Celeusmatis editum but more particularly from the said Groves former piece called Responsio ad Celeusma c. In the 15 page of this last mention'd book you have this close and smart character of some of this French Doctors most considerable performances thus Erat aliquando tempus cum tu excusatius peccares cum esses olim Irenaeus Philadelphus an 1641 qui à te laesi erant temeritati tuae veniam dabant cum Paraenesin scriberes an 1656 te opus viribus tuis majus aggredi putabant cum Causae jugulum peteres anno 1671 delirare credebant cum Bonae fidei Patronum ederes 1672 insanire videberis nunc autem postquam Ecclesiae Anglicanae progressus ad Papismum emisisti omnes te jam furore arbitrantur c. Altho these Vindiciae of Dr. Durell are well known to be written in good Latin yet Dr. Du Moulin makes such a boasting fulsome comparison between the goodness of Dr. Durell's stile in this book and that of his own in his Patr. bon fidei c. by a strange kind of modesty giving himself the preeminence in such unbecoming extravagant Language that Mr. Mat. Scrivener could not but take particular notice of and reflect on this notable piece of self flattery among other passages
endeavours of some of his friends and fellow-sufferers to reduce the University to that manner and form as to Preaching Disputing Discipline Opinion c. as 't was while Dr. Laud was Chancellour thereof but because of the twenty years interval wherein a most strange liberty loosness in manners and religion had taken place they could not do it and I remember that many made it a ridiculous thing that he and they should in the least think of such a matter which a whole age could not do nor that also unless a succession of good Kings came that should be of the same mind and opinion with Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory He was a most excellent Disciplinarian kept up the exercise of his house severely was admirable in training up Youth of noble extraction had a faculty in it peculiar to him and was much delighted in it He would constantly on several mornings in the week take his rounds in his Coll go to the Chambers of Noblemen and Gent. Commoners and examine and see what progress they made in their studies He constantly frequented divine Service in public four times in a day and had besides Prayers twice every day in his own family He was a most zealous Favourer of the Ch. of England and none that I yet know of did go beyond him in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto He was a great encourager and promoter of Learning in the University and of all public works belonging thereunto witness not only the Edifices before mentioned but his sollicitation for the building of the publick Theater to the end that the house of God might be kept free for its own use He likewise advanced the learned Press and improv'd the Manufacture of Printing in Oxford in such manner as it had been designed before by that public spirited person Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and certainly it would have been by him effected as other matters of greater concern relating to Religion and Learning had not the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians prevented him He was also a person of a most generous spirit undervalued money and disburs'd it so freely upon learned pious and charitable uses that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing He was an eager defender and maintainer of the University and its Privileges especially while he executed the office of Vicechancellour against the Oppugners of them and always endeavour'd to advance its Liberties for which he often gained the ill opinions of the Citizens He was a bold and resolute man and did not value whaâ— the generality said or thought of him so that he could accomplish his just and generous designs which being too many to effect was the chief reason of shortning his days His charity was so great that he was a husband to the afflicted widow a father to the orphan and a tender parent to poor Children He constantly allowed an yearly pension to a poor man of S. Thomas in the Suburb of Oxon purposely that he should teach gratis 20 or 24 poor children of that Parish to read some of which he afterward bound Apprentices or made Scholars He was a person of great morals and vertues spent his time in celebacy of an unspotted life and unquestionable reputation On the 8 of Jan. 1675 he was elected Bishop of Oxon by the Chapter of Ch. Ch. by vertue of a Conge d'eslire sent to them from his Majesty and on the sixth of Febr. following being then Shrove Sunday he was consecrated in the Chappel of the Bishop of Winchester at Chelsey near London at which time liberty was given to him to keep his Deanery in commendam purposely to keep him in his Coll. that he might do farther good therein and in the University No sooner he was setled in his See but he betook himself to the rebuilding the Palace belonging thereunto at Cudesden near Oxon whereupon examining what had been done in order to it by any of his Predecessors which was no considerable matter he undertook and finished it as I have told you in the first vol. p. 634 yet enjoyed but a little time in it As for his Works pertaining to Learning they are these The life of the most learned Rev. and Pious Dr. Hen. Hammond Lond. 1661 c. oct Before which time he was supposed to be author of The interest of England stated or a faithful and just account of the aimes of all parties now pretending distinctly treating of the designments of the R. Cath Royalist Presbyterian Anabaptist c. Printed in 1659 in two sh in qu. but how true it is I cannot tell because I heard of it but very lately and that from no considerable hand It was answered by March Nedham as I have told you in my discourse of him The vanity of scoffing in a letter to a Gent. Lond. 1674 qu. No name is set to it only then generally reported to be his Responsio ad epistolam Thomae Hobbes Malmsburiensis See at the end of Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Several Sermons as 1 The Character of the last days preached before the King on 2. Pet. 3.3 Oxon. 1675. qu. 2 Serm. preached before the H. of Peers 22. Dec. 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation on Matth. 12.25 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Account of Dr. Rich. Allestree's life This is in the preface before the said Doctors Forty Sermons published by our author Dr. Fell who also reviewed and illustrated with marginal notes the works of S. Cyprian which he published under this title Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera recognita illustrata per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem Pr. 1682 fol. in the printing house joyning on the east side of the Theater erected at the charge of the University of Oxon on the motion of Dr. Fell an 1674. To which book were added Annales Cyprianici by Dr. John Pearson Bishop of Chester He also translated into English Of the Unity of the Church Printed also in the same house 1681. qu. Written originally by S. Cyprian See more of his works in Pat. Young in the first vol. p. 794 and in Ger. Langbaine and Tho. Willis in this p. 141 and 403. Dr. Fell also published or reprinted every year while he was Dean of Ch. Ch viz. from 1661 to the time of his death a book commonly a classical author against New-years tide to distribute among the Students of his House To which books he either put an Epistle or running notes or corrections These I have endeavoured to recover that the titles might be known and here set down but in vain The first piece which he published of the incomparable author of The whole duty of man was The Ladies Calling before which he put an Epistle to the Reader giving an account after what a private manner the copy thereof accompanied with a letter was conveyed to his hands This Epistle is left out in the folio edit of that authors works as also Dr. Hammonds Epistle before The whole duty of man
Actress in the Dukes Play-house an 1680 and after Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life written by himself which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book and altogether unknown to him he could never gain a sight of it THOMAS PITTIS son of a father of both his names a Captain somtimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight was born at Knighton there became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652 took one degree in Arts and then translated himself to Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant Afterwards he took the degree of Master and was made one of the Terrae Filii but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times he was expel'd the University an 1658. Afterwards he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1665 became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord. proceeded in Div. in 1670 and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh bestowed on him by the King which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke somtimes of Linc. Coll. for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate London So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty Lecturer at Ch. Church and Rector of S. Botolph before mention'd His works are these A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar made public Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England Lond. 1670. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. before the Artillery Company on Luke 3.14 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 An old way of ending new Controversies preached to the Comptroller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple 8. Jan. 1681 on 1. John 2. former part of the 24. ver Lond. 1682. qu. c. A discourse of Prayer wherein this great duty is stated so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and Fanaticks as they are contrary to the publick Formes of the Church of England established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits wherein enquiry is made into mens pretences to inspiration for publishing doctrines in the name of God beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture in opposition to some Principles of Papists and Fanaticks as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England defined in her Articles of Religion established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parliament Lond. 1684 oct Dedic to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt Deput Gov. of the Isle of Wight This Dr. Pittis died on the 28. of Decemb. Innocents day in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentiond into the Isle of Wight and there buried at Westcowes as I have been informed CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks was born at Winchcombe in Glocestershire on S. Clements day 23. Nov. 1609 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks entred a Servitour in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent terme 1625 but making little stay there he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Whear the Principal where continuing a severe Student several years he took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplyed the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints commonly called Alhallowes in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford Vicar Choral there and in short time after Vicar of Alhallowes in that City In 1646 the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprized by the Parliam Forces he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power And after that he sheltred at Hawling in Coltswold where he taught a private School with good success After the Kings restauration he was by his Majesties gift setled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire which he kept to the time of his death He was a good Disputant a great admirer of Hugh Grotius a frequent preacher but very conceited and vain a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts most of which are meer Scribbles The titles follow Monumenta literaria sive â—obitus Elogia doctorum Virorum ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani Lond. 1640. qu and several times after with additions or corrections in oct A short Practical Catechisme out of Dr. Hammond with a paper monument Lond. 1649. oct Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti Selecta exposita ab Andr. Schotto Oxon. 1651. in tw They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale Nympha Libethris or the Coâ—swold Muse presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars In four parts Lond. 1651. oct I have a book in my Study entit Annalia Dubrensia Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills c. Lond. 1636 qu. This book which hath the running title on every page of Cotswold Games consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia but nothing of the Cotswold Muse of Barksdale relates to them which some that have only seen the title of it think it to be the same The said Games were begun and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire son of John Dover of Norfolk who being full of activity and of a generous free and publick Spirit did with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotswold Hills in Glocestershire whereon those Games should be acted Endimion Porter Esq a native of that County and a servant to that King a person also of a most generous spirit did to encourage Dover give him some of the said Kings old clothes with a Hat and Feather and Ruff purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games frequented by the Nobility and Gentry some of whom came 60 Miles to see them even till the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians which gave a stop to their proceedings and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets some of which were
Viaticum from the hands of Dr. Alex. Monro Principal of K. James's Coll. at Edinburgh and his colleague in S. Giles's Church named Dr. John Strachan Professor of Div. at Edinb did assist after the manner of the Church of England They and several other Ministers and Layicks communicating then with him he regretted with tears the overthrowing of their Church saying he never thought to have outlived the Church of Scotland yet hoped others should live to see it restored c. His Father Will. Annand before mentioned lived very obscurely divers years after he came into England But at length obtaining the Vicaridge of Throwley in Kent 1649 and afterwards the rectory of Leveland in the same County the Usurper then ruling he caused his Son to be educated in learning in a good condition RICHARD SHERLOCK was born at Oxton in Cheshire and originally as 't is said a Student in Magd. Hall where he obtained a part of Acad. learning Thence he was translated to Trin. Coll. near Dublin where he proceeded Master of Arts in 1633 entred into the sacred function and soon after became Minister of several small Parishes in Ireland united together and yeilding no more than 8O l. per an At length upon the breaking out of the rebellion in that Country he journied into England and became Chaplain to a Regiment of his Majesties forces at Namptwich in Cheshire But that place being taken by the Parliament forces in Jan. 1643 he retired to Oxon where he became Chaplain to the Governour of the Garrison there and at length by the favour of Dr. Pink Warden of New College he was made one of the Chaplains of that House much about the time that P. Gunning and Is Barrow were made Chaplains also In 1646 he had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him in consideration of several Sermons that he preached either at Court or before the Parliament in Oxon but in the year 1648 or thereabouts being thrown out of his Chaplains place by the Visitors he became Curat for Dr. Jasp Mayne in an obscure Village called Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire who allowing him 16 l. per an for his pains for the Vicaridge there is esteemed to be worth but 50 l. yearly he gave a good part thereof away to the poor of that place At length leaving that Cure upon the ejection of the Doctor about 1652 he went into Lancashire became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Bindlosse of Borwick hall in the Parish of Warton Bt where as long as he continued he was very much troubled with the People called Quakers against whom he wrot several things as I shall tell you anon After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he was made Doctor of Div. of the Univ. of Dublin and about that time by the favour of his honorable Patron Charles E. of Derby whose Chaplain he was Rector of Winwick in Lancashire a place among other fat benefices of England of greatest name He was a person of a most pious life exemplary conversation of great charity hospitality and so zealous a man for the Church of England that he was accounted by precise persons popishly affected and a Papist in Masquerade He hath written and published The Quakers wild questions objected against the Ministers of the Gospel c. briefly answered Lond. 1654. oct 1656. qu. Animadverted upon by a noted Quaker called Rich. Hubberthorne in a book entit A Reply to a book set forth by the Priest of Borwick-hall in Lancashire called Rich. Sherlock c. Lond. 1654. qu. and by another more noted than he named George Fox in his book called The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 242.243 c. A discourse of the holy spirit his workings and impressions on the souls of Men This is also against the Quakers Discourse of divine revelation mediat or immediat Discourse of error heresie and schisme These three last pieces are printed with The Quakers wild Questions c. The principles of holy Christian Religion or the Catechisme of the Church of England paraphras'd c. Lond. 1656. oct Written for the use of Borwick-hall The thirteenth impression of this book came out at Lond. 1677. oct Sermon preached at a visitation held at Warrington in Lanc. 11. May 1669 on Acts 20.28 Lond. 1669. qu. Mercurius Christianus The practical Christian A treatise explaining the duty of self-examination c. Lond. 1673. oct Confessions Meditations and Prayers in order to the receiving of the holy Communion of the body and blood of Christ Printed with Merc. Christ The second part of the practical Christian consisting of meditations and psalmes illustrated with notes or paraphrased relating to the hours of prayer c. Lond. 1675. oct The practical Christian or the devout Penitent A book of Devotion containing the whole duty of a Christian in all occasions and necessities c. in 4 parts 1. Of self examination confession of sins c. 2. Of the Communion of the holy body and blood of Christ 3. Of the hours of Prayer and occasional meditations 4. Of the four last things death judgment hell and heaven Lond. 1676. 77. c. Several short but seasonable discourses touching common and private prayer relating to the publick offices of the Church c. Oxon. 1684. oct c. This book contains 1. The irregularity of a private prayer in a publick congregation which was first printed 1674 in 4 sh in qu. 2. Dr. Steuarts judgment of a private prayer in publick c. 3. A discourse of the differences between long prayers prohibited and continuance in prayers commanded 4. Meditations upon our going to Church with short directions for our demeanour in the House of God c. 5. Sermon preached upon the Archbishop of Yorks provincial Visitation at Warrington At length this most holy zealous mortified and seraphical Dr. Sherlock having spent all his time in holy and chast celebacy surrendred up his most pious soul to God in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried on the 25 of June within the Chancel at the first entrance into it out of the body of the Church at Winwick before mention'd at which time his friend and acquaintance Tho. Crane M. A. preached his funeral Sermon which being extant you may see a full account therein of the great piety charity hospitality strictness of life c. of him the said Dr. Sherlock Some years before his death he caused his Grave-stone to be laid in that place where his body was afterwards buried and ordered for his epitaph to be engraved in brass and sixt upon his stone this following Exuviae Richardi Sherlock S. T. D. indignissimi hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris Obiit 20 die Junii anno aetatis 76. an dom 1689. Sal infatuum conculcate Whereupon a certain Person reflecting upon it and much honouring his pious memory did subjoyn and add this further inscription En viri sanctissimi modestia Qui Epitaphium se indignum inscribi
called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland collected from records antient Manuscripts Monuments on the place and other authorities illustrated with Sculpture Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition Lond. 1687 in 2 sh and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry meerly to get a little money which he will not own THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Wormes in the Palatinate on the day of S. James S. V. an 1605 educated in Grammar and in the Reform'd Religion in those parts travelled into England in 1625 retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning and afterwards at Cambridg as much Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas returned in 1629 became a Communer of Glocester Hall continued there near three years but took no degree and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter In the time of the German Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Diocesses in England to be transmitted into Germany which he usually said was a Deacons work and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament having been alwaies Calvinistically educated The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary but he loving Solitude declined that employment as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark c. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618 care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible and Annotations to be put thereunto In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum Dr. Hall B. of Exon Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. c. by whose great and assiduous Labours jointly for many years together the said Annotations were compleated and came forth in print first an 1637. These Annotations I say commonly called the Dutch Annotations being thought very fit and of great use by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak that he or whom he should assign should have the priviledge of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years which terme should begin from the time of the first impression So that none else under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole or any part thereof upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak c. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which is an exact narrative touching the work and the said translation Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity as 1 Of the deceitfulness of mans heart written by Dan. Dyke 2 The Christians daly walke c. written by Hen. Scudder 3 The old Pilgrim being the Hist of the Bible written by Anon. but not yet printed as other translations which he had made are not He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse half the Poem called Paradise lost written by Joh. Milton which comming into the hands of J. Secbald Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg he was so much taken with it that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili copia lectissimorum verborum c. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue and as many into the Germ from the Language of the Spaniard who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections which were published in the beginning of May 1682 and perhaps in the Transactions Quaere At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D situate and being in an Alley joyning to Fetter Lane on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German preached his Funeral Sermon wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life but that Sermon being not yet extant I cannot therefore refer you to it Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had were Prince Rupert Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dr. Williams Archb. of York Joh. Selden Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place Briggs and Pell Mathematicians Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him and kept it as a choice relique of his deceased friend to the time of his death Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus and others of later time JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Raign of K. Jam. 1 but left it soon after without being matriculated and retiring to London he entred himself a Student in Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years interval of Parliament in the Star-Chamber Court of Honour and Exchecquer Camber when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance he was
c. Lond. 1677. oct c. 2 The common interest of King and people shewing the original antiquity and excellency of Monarchy compared with Aristocracy and Democracy and particularly of our English Monarchy and that absolute Papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative property and liberty Lond. 1678 oct 3 A true copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the trial of K. Ch. 1. as it was read in the H. of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps Clerk to that infamous court Lond. 1684. fol. With a large introduction by the said Nalson He hath also translated into Engl. The History of the Crusade or the expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land Lond. 1685 fol. Written originally in French by the fam'd Monsieur Maimbourgh What other things he hath written or translated I know not as yet or any thing else of him only that he died at or near the City of Ely on the 19. of March or thereabouts according to the English accompt an 1685. to the great loss of the true Sons of the Church of England of which he had been a zealous Member Our author Rushworth hath also written The History of the Civil War of England This which is the fift vol. is in MS and not yet published Several Letters to the Parliament and to particular Members thereof These he wrote while the War continued and were subscribed by himself and not by Gen. Fairfax as the printed copies shew What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he spent the six last years or thereabouts of his life in the Prison called the Kings bench in Southwark where being reduced to his second childship for his memory was quite decayed by taking too much Brandy to keep up his spirits he quietly gave up the Ghost in his lodging in a certain Alley there call'd Rules Court on Munday the twelfth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 83 years or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried on Wednesday following behind the Pulpit in the Church of S. George within the said Borough of Southwark He had no son only daughters virtuous women of which one was married to Sir Franc. Vane of the North. HENRY WILKINSON junior commonly called Dean Harry son of Will. Wilk of Adwick or Adwickstreet in the West Riding of Yorkshire Priest was born there an 1616 instructed mostly in Grammar learning in Edw. Sylvesters School in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon entred a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1631 took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in and moderator or Dean of his House At length upon the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 he left the University adher'd to the Parliament party took the Covenant and became a forward and frequent preacher among them After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament Forces he returned to the University and by the authority of the then dominant party he was created Bach of Divinity made Principal of his Hall and Moral Philosophy Reader of the University Afterwards we find him one of the most frequent and active preachers among the Presbyterians in the University whether at S. Maries S. Martin commonly called Carfax S. Pet. in the East c. being then Doct. of Divinity and took all the ways imaginable to make his House flourish with young Students At length the Act of Conformity being published in 1662 he rather than conform left his Principallity tho perswaded to the contrary by some of the Heads of the University purposely to keep him there because he was a good Disciplinarian and lived for some time in these parts Afterwards upon the receipt of a Call he lived by the help of the Brethren at Buckminster in Leycestershire where he exercised his gifts in Conventicles as he did afterwards at Gosfield in Essex and in 1673 and after at Sybill-Hennyngham near to that place and a length at Great Connard near Sudbury in Suffolke at which last place he finished this mortal life as I shall tell you by and by having before suffered by imprisonments mulcts and loss of his Goods and Books for preaching in Conventicles against the Act. He was a zealous person in the way he professed but oversway'd more by the Principles of education than reason He was very courteous in speech and carriage communicative of his knowledge generous and charitable to the poor and so publick spirited a rare thing in a Presbyterian that he alwaies minded the common good more than his own concerns His works as to learning are these Conciones tres apud Academicos Oxonii nuper habitae Oxon. 1654. oct The first is on Psal 119.9 The second on Eccles 2.1 and the third on 1. Pet. 4.11 Brevis tractatus de jure divino diei dominici Ibid. 1654. 58. oct Conciones sex ad Academicos Oxonienses Ib. 1658. oct Among which are the former three De impotentia liberi arbitrii ad bonum spiritale Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Epistolarum decas Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Oratio habita in schola moralis philosophiae Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Conc. duae ap Ox. nuper habitae Ibid. 1659. qu. Both on 1. Cor. 16.22 Concio de brevitate opportuni temporis Oxon habita ad Bac. die Cinerum 7. Mar. 1659. Ib. 1660. qu preached on 1. Cor. 7.29 Several English Sermons as 1 Sermon at Haseley in the County of Oxon at the funeral of Margaret late wife of Dr. Edw. Corbet Pastor of Hasely on Col. 1.27 Ox. 1657. oct 2 Three decads of Sermons lately preached to the University in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Ox. 1660. qu. 3 Several Sermons concerning Gods All-Sufficiency and Christs preciousness Lond. 1681. oct c. Catalogus librorum in Bibl. Aul. Madg. Oxon. Ox. 1661. oct The doctrine of contentment briefly explained and practically applied in a Treatise on 1. Tim. 6.8 Lond. 1671. oct Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the word of God Lond. 1674. oct Two treatises concerning 1 Gods All-Sufficiency 2 Christs Preciousness Being the substance of some Sermons long since preached in the Univ. of Ox. Lond. 1681. oct These two treatises are the same with the Several Sermons before mention'd with some alterations in and additions to them purposely to please his friend and favourer one of his perswasion called Joh. Clark of S. Edm. Bury Esq by a dedication to him set before them Praelectiones Morales MS. in Magd. Hall Libr. They are his Lectures that he read in the Moral Philosophy School while he was public Reader of that Lecture At length after the latter part of the life of this zealous Theologist had been spent in trouble and adversity for the cause he professed he very devoutly surrendred up his soul to God at Great Connard before mention'd on the 13 day
Smerne about the year 1651. While he was in Oxon he had a book of Musick laying by him which as he said was of his own composition And being well skill'd in that faculty his Countryâ—men in their Letters sent to stil'd him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the notes were such as are not in use with or understood by any of the Western Churches When he died or what he wrot after he had left England I know not It was observed that while he continued in Ball. Coll. he made the drink for his own use called Coffey and usually drank it every morning being the first as the Antients of that House have informed me that was ever drank in Oxon. You may see more of this Conopius in the Epistles of Ger. Joh. Vossius written to learned men lately published part 2. p. 145. RICHARD PARR sometimes Fellow of Brasnose College was made Bishop of Sodor or the Isle of Man about the year of the Lord 1635 and dyed in the times of Usurpation but the year when I cannot tell tho several times I have sent Letters to know it See more of him among the Writers p. 96. The See of Man laid void till 1662 and then in June Dr. Isaac Barrow being elected to govern it was consecrated thereunto in K. H. 7. Chap. at Westm on the 5. of July 1663 and not before at which time his Nephew Son of his Brother Thomas called Dr. Isaac Barrow Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. preached the Consecration Sermon This worthy and godly Bishop who was Son of Isaac Barrow of Spiney-Abbey in the County of Cambridgeshire Esq was educated in S. Peters Coll. commonly called Peter House in Cambridge of which he became Fellow but turn'd out thence by the Presbyterians an 1643 or thereabouts whereupon going to Oxon and his eminency being known there he was made one of the Chaplains of New Coll by the most loyal and generous Warden thereof Dr. Pink where continuing till after the garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament shifted afterwards from place to place and suffered with the rest of the loyal and orthodox Clergy till the most blessed return of K. Ch. 2. At which time he was not only restored to his Fellowship but also made one of the Fellows of Eaton Coll. near Windsore which he held in Commendam with the Bishoprick of Man In Apr. 1664 he was made Governour of the Isle of Man by Charles Earl of Derby governed it piously and prudently held that office all the time he was Bishop of Man and sometime after his translation to S. Asaph He was a great benefactor to the Island especially to the Clergy did collect by his great care and pains from pious persons one thousand eighty one pounds eight shillings and four pence with which he bought all the impropriations in the Island from the Earl of Derby and setled them upon the Clergy as every one had need He ordered them all to teach School in their respective Parishes and allowed 30 l. per an for a Free-school and 50 l. per an for Academical learning He got also one hundred pounds a year setled which was like to have been lost upon the Clergy which was given by K. Ch. 2 and gave 135 l. of his own money for a lease upon lands of twenty pounds a year which is setled towards the maintenance of three poor Manks Scholars in the College at Dublin that in time there might be a more learned Clergy in the Island He gave likewise 10 l. towards the making a bridge over a dangerous water and did many other good works there Afterwards going into England for healths sake and continuing in a house of the Countess of Derby in Lancashire called Cross-hall he received the news of his Majesties conferring on him the Bishoprick of S. Asaph See more of him in Hen. Glemham among these Bishops under the year 1667. p. 670. ROGER MANWARING was born at Stretton in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School at Worcester under Hen. Bright entred a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1604 and soon after was made one of the Clerks of All 's Coll. After he had run through the usual courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts being about that time as I conceive one of the Chaplains of that House At length being made Vicar of S. Giles in the fields near London he took the degrees in Divinity and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to K. Ch. 1 before whom while he was in his attendance at Oatlands he preached two Sermons in July 1627 entit Religion and Allegiance on Eccles 8.2 Lond. 1627. qu. and about the same time preached them at his Country cure In the year following on the fourth of May he preached on the same subject in his Church of S. Giles before mention'd for which as also for his former Sermons he was the same year June 14 censur'd in Parliament to be imprisoned fined 1000 l to make submission and to be disinabled to have or enjoy any preferment or office At that time John Pym a busie Man in the House of Commons brought into the House a charge against him that he endeavoured to destroy the King and Kingdom by his Divinity c. On the 21 of the said month he made his submission and in the next month following he was presented by the King to the rich rectory of Stanford Rivers in Essex void by the promotion of Dr. Richard Mountague to the See of Chichester with license to hold it and his other Living with it On the 9. of Jan. following he procured his pardon which in the next month made some stir in the Session of Parliament that then was In the month of May 1633 he was made Dean of VVorcester in the place of Dr. VVill. Juxon promoted to the See of Hereford where he made some alterations for the better in that Church and in Dec. 1635 he was nominated Bishop of S. David on the translation of Dr. Theoph. Field to Hereford On the 28 of February following he was consecrated thereunto by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants in the Chap. at Lambeth where he sate till his function was silenced On the 22. Feb. 1640 were several complaints made against him in the Long Parliament but not for the present prosecuted because the members thereof were employed on greater matters Afterwards the rebellion breaking out he was imprison'd violently persecuted from place to place lost all his Spiritualities and had only some small temporal Estate left to maintain him and his Family He was a person that had some curiosity in learning but greater zeal for the Church of England He was of a pious life and conversation charitable and tho with Sibthorpe accounted a Sycophant by the Puritans yet by the Royallists he was esteemed worthy of the function of a Bishop He finished his course at Caermerthen after he had
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 â—usâ—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 Warwickâ—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
good Conscience suffer'd also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment and therefore retiring to Oxon was there actually created D. of D. He hath published 1 An adieu to the Duke of Glocester or a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church Turweston or Turveston near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660 on Eccles 3.20 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The Cripples Complaint c. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7 Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts and was I suppose buried at Turveston Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll. Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll. 23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll. He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire was first a Com. of Linc. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules M. of A. and beneficed but suffering for his Majesties Cause he retired to Oxon and was there created D. of D. as 't is here said After his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased in which being instal'd 7 Aug. 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapning on the 27 Jul. 1670 he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich His said Brother Will. Lord Croft died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677. Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West was actually created the same day June 23. Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire had been public Metaphysick Reader and Proctor of the University Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648 and suffer'd much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and dying on the 27 of January in the same year was buried in the Chappel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands that it is doubted whether ever they will see light Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch. Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester He resigned the said Mastership soon after was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt and died in 1659. This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven Convocation that Hen. Tozer Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll Rob. Barker of New Coll Rich. Washington of Vniv Coll Edm. Diggle of Magdalen and John Good of New Coll might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity but they all refused then and the next year to accept of that favour At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll Will. Haywood of S. Johns Coll c. who had fled to Oxon as an Asylum and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament had each a license given to them under the public Seal of the Univ. to preach the word of God throughout England This year Jun. 24 being Wednesday and Midsummer day the Garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers besides 500 or thereabouts northward and a little before and after them five hundred more mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege On Munday going before Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother with their attendants departed and those that followed them the next day were about 300 persons most of them of quality and their attendants When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entred who were all Presbyterians Independents or worse were among them their Chaplains of the same perswasion who forthwith upon all occasions thrust themselves into the pulpits purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselites or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants Among them were Hugh Peters that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon Will. Dell Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax John Saltmarsh Will. Erbury c. and what they did there besides during their stay is too large a story now to tell you In Sept. following were seven Presbyterian Ministers who had formerly their education in this University appointed by Parliament sent to Oxon to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles but Edw. Corbet one of them being about that time called thence the six carried on the work yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries of whom Will. Erbury was one yet all upon any occasion would joyn together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants that is Cavaliers and Royalists So that whereas before the surrender there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince orthodox and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers there appeared nothing but confusion darkness c. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant and they were over-run by Sectaries Blasphemers Hypocrites Exciters to Rebellion Censurers Covetous persons men of self-pride envy and what not So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons did either leave the University or abscond in their respective houses till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits and to thrust themselves into the public Schools and there in the places of Lecturers speak to the Scholars against humane learning and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ c. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed who to fill their coffers raise families please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else care not what mischief they do or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends An. Dom. 1647. An. 23 Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Marquess of Hertford c. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year as I shall tell you by and by Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors 8 Oct. this year because as they said he was neither nominated or lawfully admitted thereunto yet notwithstanding he took no
Coll. in Cambridge of which he was elected Scholar an 1636 where by the progress and continuance of his wit it appeared that two things were joyn'd in it which seldom meet together viz. that it was ripe and lasting In the beginning of 1643 he being then M. of A was among many others ejected his Coll. and University whereupon retiring to Oxon he setled in S. Johns Coll and under the name of a Scholar of Oxon he published the same year a Poem entit A Satyre The Puritan and the Papist In that House he prosecuted his Academical Studies with the like success as before and was not wanting in his duty in the War it self whereby he became acquainted with the great men of the Court and the Gown After he had left Oxon which was a little before the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament he went to Paris where falling into the acquaintance of Dr. Stephen Goffe a Brother of the Oratory he was by him prefer'd and plac'd in the family of the noble and munificent Henry Lord Jermyn afterwards E. of S. Alban who having a great and singular respect for him he was by his most generous endeavours design'd to be Master of the Savoy Hospital which tho granted to his high merit by both the Charles's 1. and 2 yet by certain persons enemies to the Muses he lost that place He was absent from his native Country about 10 years which were for the most part spent either in bearing a part in the distresses of the Regal family or in labouring in the affairs thereof In the year 1656 he returned into England and was for a time brought into trouble but afterwards complying with some of the men then in power which was much taken notice of by the Royal party he obtained an order to be created Doctor of Physick Which being done to his mind whereby he gained the ill will of some of his friends he went into France again having made a copy of verses on Olivers death where continuing till towards the time of the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2 he returned but then not finding that preferment confer'd on him which he expected while others for their money carried away most places he retired discontented into Surrey where he spent the remaining part of his days in a private and studious condition mostly at Chertsie where he had a lease of a Farm held of the Queen procured for him by George Duke of Bucks from the Earl of S. Alban before mention'd The writings of this most eminent Poet are these 1 Poetical Blossomes Lond. 1633. qu which contain Antonius and Melida and The tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe The first is ded to Dr. Williams Bishop of Line and the other to his Master Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston Before both is his picture with his age set over it viz. 13 but false an 1633. There are also verses made by his School-fellows in commendation of them one of which is Rob. Mead who proved afterwards a most ingenious person as I have elsewhere told you and at the end are two Elegies one on Dudley Lord Carleton and another on his kinsman Rich. Clerk of Linc. Inn Gent and A dream of Elysium I have seen a book entit Sylva or divers copies of verses made upon sundry occasions Lond. 1636. oct said in the title to be written by A. C. but whether by Abr. Cowley I doubt it because the said A. C. seems to be not of Cambr. 2 Loves riddle a pastoral Comedy Lond. 1638. oct written while he was at Westminster School and ded to Sir Ken. Digby 3 Naufragium joculare Comaedia Lond. 1638. oct Acted before the Academians of Cambr. in Trin. Coll. there on the 4. of the nones of Feb. 1638. 3 A Satyre The Puritan and the Papist Pr. in 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. This was published again at London in 1682 in qu. in a book entit Wit and Loyalty revived in a collection of some smart Satyrs in verse and prose on the late times The prefacer to these Satyrs complains that this of Mr. Cowley was not set forth by the publisher of his first collection of pieces of Poetry and gives two presumptive reasons thereof and wonders that his Poem called Brutus and that upon the B. of Lincolns enlargement from the Tower which he guesseth not to be his have met with so good fortune as to have place therein See more in Joh. Birkenhead among the Writers an 1679. p. 476. 4 The Mistress or several copies of love verses Lond. 1647. oct 5 Guardian Com. Lond. 1650. qu. Acted before Pr. Charles at Trin. Coll. in Cambr. 12. Mar. 1641. 6 Cutter of Colemanstreet Com. 7 Poems viz. 1. Miscellanies 2. The Mistriss or Love verses 3. Pindariques c. with notes Lond. 1656. fol. Before a copy of this book which he gave to the publick Library at Oxon he wrot with his own hand A Pindarique Ode whereby the book presents it self to the Vniversity Library of Oxon. 8 Ode upon the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu. 9 Poemata Latina in quibus continentur sex libri Plantarum cum notis Lond. 1668 and 78. oct with his picture before them and a short account of his life written in Lat. by Dr. Tho. Sprat Among these books were reprinted Plantarum libri duo which had been printed at Lond. 1662. oct A translation of the sixth book of these Plants was printed in 1680. qu. 10 Miscellan lib. 1 wherein is Opus imperfectum Davideios sacri Poematis Pr. with Poem Lat. 11 Poem on the late Civil War Lond. 1679. qu. This was afterwards printed in the translation of the sixth book of Plants before mention'd As for other of his writings which have escaped my sight you may see more in the first part of his Works printed at least eight times in fol in the second part of his Works being what was written and published by himself in his younger years pr. at least four times in fol and in the third part of his works containing his 6. books of Plants made English by several hands fol. c. A little before his first return into England 1656 there was a book published under his name entit The iron age which he disclaimed in the preface of his Poems which came out that year He died at Chertsey in Surrey before mention'd on the 28. of July 1667 aged 49 years Whereupon his body being conveyed to the house of his great Patron George D of Bucks called Wallingford house near to Whitehall was conveyed thence to Westminster Abbey on the 3 of Aug. following accompanied by divers persons of eminent quality and there in the South cross isle or large isle joyning to the South side of the Choire was buried near to the place where the reliques of Jeffr. Chaucer had been lodged About the middle of May 1675 the said Duke of Bucks did at his own charge erect over his grave a curious Pedestal of white
in the busie and inquisitive age he lived in the Hist of the Animals alone to have been in a great measure neglected by English men he made the study thereof his province applying himself with all diligence to the cultivating and illustrating of it Which that he might the more effectually do he not only read what had been written by others but did himself accurately describe all the Animals he could find and procure either in England or beyond the Seas making a voyage into foreign Countries chiefly for that purpose to search out view and describe the several species of nature and tho he was not long abroad yet travelled he over a great part of France Spain Italy Germany and the Low Countries In all which places he was so inquisitive and successful that not many sorts of Animals described by others escaped his diligence He drew them out or describ'd them with a pencil which are with great curiosity engraven on copper plates at the charge of his Relict Emm and are printed in the Lat. and Engl. edition of the said Ornithologia He hath also written 2 Historiae piscium libri quatuor c. Oxon. 1686. fol. Which work was with great pains view'd review'd made fit for use and the two first books entirely compleated by the said most eminent Virtuoso Mr. Ray. It is adorned with very many cuts of several sorts of Fishies that were not ever before known in England 3 Letter containing some considerable observations about that kind of wasps called Ichneumones c. dat 24. Aug. 1671. See in the Philos Transact num 76. p. 2279. 4 Letter about the hatching a kind of Bee lodged in old Willows dat 10. July 1671. See in the said Transact num 74. p. 2221. At length this most worthy and learned person Mr. Willoughby dying to the great reluctancy of all curious and inquisitive persons especially those of the Royal Society of which he was an eminent member and ornament to his friends and all good men that knew him and the great loss of the Commonwealth of learning on the third day or July 1672 aged 37 years was buried as I presume at Middleton among the graves of his Ancestors An. Dom. 1661. An. 13. Car. 2. Chanc. Sir Edw. Hyde now Earl of Clarendon Viscount Cornbury and Baron of Hindon Vicechanc. Rich. Baylie D. D. President of S. Johns Coll. and Dean of Salisbury 9. August He had been Vicechancellour in 1636 and 37. Proct. Nich. Meese of Trin. Coll. Apr. 24. Henr. Hawley of Oriel Coll. Apr. 24. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Tho. Ken of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells and is now living a Nonjurer and a sequestred person He hath also published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred in a double respect June 14. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall He hath published several things and therefore he ought to be hereafter remembred among the Writers 21. Henry Dolling of Wadham Coll. See among the Masters 1664. Oct. 15. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall He is an eminent Virtuoso hath published several books and being living he is to be hereafter remembred among Oxford Writers Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll. was admitted the same day See more of him among the Bach. of Div. an 1674. Nov. 14. Will. Clark of Or Coll. Mar. 22. Rich. Rhodes of Ch. Ch. Adm. 164. Bach. of Law Four were admitted and several created but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Joh. Cave lately of Magd. now of Linc. Coll. Apr. 30. Sam Jemmat of Vniv Coll. The last of these two who was Son of John Son of William Jemmat mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 449 was at this time Fellow of the said Coll and soon after taking holy Orders he became a florid preacher in these parts In 1665 he was the Repeater or Repetitioner in S. Maries Church on Low Sunday of the four Easter Sermons which being admirably well performed all to a word memoriter without any hesitation he obtained a great esteem among the Academians and in the same year he became Rector of Somerton in the Dioc. of Oxon and not long after Vicar of S. Nicholas Church in the Borough of Warwick where he now lives He hath published A Sermon preached at the Assizes held in Warwick 19 March 1682 on 2. Cor. 19.6 Oxon. 1683. qu. and may hereafter other things May 14. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Tho. Trapham sometimes a Chirurgion living in Oxon and afterwards Bach. of Phys by Creation as I have told you under the year 1649 in these Fasti was afterwards a Traveller and Doctorated in Phys in another University and after his return became one of the Fellows of the Coll. of Physitians and author of A dâ—scourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica with a provision therefore calculated from the Air the place and the water The customs and manner of living c. Lond. 1679. oct An account of which book is in the Philos Transact numb 141. p. 1030. May 28 Joh. Whitehall sometimes of Merton now of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Peterborough and Dean of Oundle in Northamptonshire He died in January 1685. July 2. Edmund Thorne of Oriel Coll. He hath published A funeral Sermon upon the much lamented death of Col. Edward Cook who died at London January 29 and was buried in the Chappel at Highnam or Higham near Glocester on the second of Feb. 1683 on Rev. 14.13 Lond 1684. qu. He is now living in those parts and may publish other things hereafter July 4. Thomas Marsden of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to the English Merchants trading at Lisbone in Portugal and after his return became Vicar of Walton in his native Country of Lancashire He hath written Roman Catholicks uncertain whether there be any true Priests or Sacraments in the Church of Rome evinced by an argument urg'd and maintain'd upon their own Principles against Mr. Edw. Goodal of Prescot in Lancashire printed in the reign of K. Jam. 2. He is now living and able to publish other matters July 10. Edward Wetenhall of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards a Writer and Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers and Bishops of this Univ. of Oxon. Oct. 15. Joh. Ellis Chaplain of New Coll lately a Student of Wadh. He was afterwards D. D. elsewhere and in 1678 was made Chantor of S. David in the place of Dr. Will. Thomas promoted to the See thereof He is also now a Dignitary in the Church of S. Asaph Adm. 68. Bach. of Phys There was only one that was admitted this year of whom I have made mention elsewhere Bach. of Div. July 3. Joh. Good M. A. of Ball. Coll. This person who is mention'd in the â—asti of the first Vol. p. 833.834 died early in the morning of the
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 Brucâ— 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 Ossâ—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 depoâ—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
Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law July 27. Edward Filmer of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll. Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Doct. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. and is now Bishop of Gloc. 20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 hath published 1 The State-informer enquired into Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15 part of the 3. and 4. verses Lond. 16â—4 qu. 2 Englands restauration parallel'd in Judges or the Primitive Judge and Counsellour Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689 on Isay 1.26.27 Lond. 1689. qu. July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch. He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington and after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680. Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. This learned Divine who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam in a Greek fol according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition an 1550 wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with both at home and abroad Also the Readings of the Fathers Greek and Latine with a judgment upon such Lections as are more considerable with large annotations upon them together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture and other places illustrative of particular words or passages in each verse placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference by which in every verse may be seen what part of each verse the said places of Scripture do refer to This most elaborate work was began above 15 years since and without intermission carried on with great industry and care He hath consulted all the antient Mss of the whole or any part of the New Test now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentick Ms copies at Rome Paris and Vienna The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon and the impression began at his charge in his Lordships Printing-house near the Theater After the said Bishops death his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking the author Dr. Mill refunded the prime costs and took the impression on himself and at his proper expence it is now so near finish'd that the publication is expected within an year with very learned Prolegomena that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test and other most early records of the Church Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nov. going before In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div. but whether he did so it appears not Incorporations Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year mostly after the Act but not one of them is yet a Writer as I can yet find Among them was Byron Needham Brother to Tho. Visc Kilmurrey in Ireland July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge This person who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsore about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh as it seems is a learned man as divers books published by him in English and Lat. shew the titles of which are now too many to be here set down See before in p. 286. Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year May 2 he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire Creations Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton of Ch. Ch being about to leave the University was actually created Mast of Arts. Charles Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland of Ch. Ch the eldest Son of Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquess is now Duke of Beaufort These two young Noblemen were presented by the publick Orator each with a little speech This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the publick Library one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things and afterwards became Professor of Div. in the University of Altorf Rector of a Church in Nuremberg c. An. Dom. 1682. An. 34. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Oct. 6. Proct. Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll. The first of these two who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl was born and bred in the Free-school there and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll when Bach. of Arts he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh in oct Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson To this Letter are added Two Prayers one for the submission to the divine Will another for contentment This ingenious and religious young man died in his Fathers house 20. Decemb. 1684 and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mention'd on the W. side of the Pulpit The other Rob. Harrison who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest which hapned at Oxford May 31. an 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book which is not yet extant entit Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus c. taken mostly from Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. and said to be written by a well-wisher to Astron
oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paid his last debt to nature on the second of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred fifty and one and was buried in the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-barr near London on the fifth day of the same month having suffer'd much in his estate for the Kings Cause which he had stoutly defended PETER TURNER a younger son of Dr. Peter Turner a Physitian mention'd among the Incorporations in the Fasti an 1599 was born as it seems in the parish of S. Helen within Bishopsgate in the City of London in which parish his father lived and practised his Faculty admitted Probation Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1607 proceeded in Arts and being not bound to any particular Faculty as the Fellows in other Colleges are became most admirably well vers'd in all kind of Learning He was a most exact Latinist and Greecian was well skill'd in the Hebrew and Arabick was a thorough-pac'd Mathematician was excellently well read in the Fathers and Councils a most curious Critick a Politician Statesman and what not The first preferment that he had whereby his parts were made manifest to the world was the Professorship of Geometry in Gresham College which he kept with his Fellowship as afterwards he did the Savilian Professorship of Geometry in this University obtained on the death of Hen. Briggs in the year 1630. He was much beloved of Archb. Laud and so highly valued by him that he would have procured him to be one of the Secretaries of State or Clerks of the Privy Council c. but being wedded to his College and a studious life entertaining hopes withal of being Warden thereof he denied those and other honorable and beneficial places In 1636 he was actually created Doctor of Physick and in the beginning of the grand Rebellion was one of the first Scholars that went out and served his Majesty in the quality of a Volunteer under the command of Colonel Sir John Byron for which he did not only for the present suffer as being a Prisoner of War but was afterwards ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors from all right he had to his Fellowship of Mert. Coll and from his Professorship of the University He wrot many admirable things but he being too curious and critical he could never finish them according to his mind and therefore cancell'd them He also made divers Translations from Greek into Lat. particularly some of the Epistles from an old authentick MS of Isidorus Pelusiota Which Trans were found among Hen. Jacobs Papers after his death But that with other Curiosities of our learned Turner went afterwards into obscure hands He hath extant in several books Epistolae variae ad doctissimos viros He had also a principal hand in framing the University Statutes now in use and was the sole person that made them run in good Latine and put the Preface to them He made the Caroline Cycle for the Election of Proctors beginning in 1629 and ending in 1720 and did many other matters for the benefit of Learning and this University At length being in a manner undone by the Severities of the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he retired to the House of his Sister the afflicted widdow of one Wats a Brewer living against the Compter Prison in Southwark near London where spending the short remainder of his life in obscurity surrendred up his soul to God in the month of January in sixteen hundred fifty and one and in that of his age 66 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Saviour there This person having been of a proud and haughty mind because of his great parts and intimate acquaintance with Archb. Laud and the great Heroes of that time the snivling Presbyterians therefore especially those of his College which he left behind him as Alex. Fisher Ralph Button c. did not stick to report that he died no better than a Brewers Clerk because he often inspected the Accompts of his Sister before mention'd and had a great care of her concerns JOHN ARNWAY a Shropshire man born became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the year 1618 and in that of his age 18 took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and had a cure of Souls bestowed on him At length the Civil Wars breaking forth he adhered to the Kings cause suffer'd much for it in his own Country went after him to Oxon and was actually created D. of D. in 1642 being about that time as I conceive made Archdeacon of Lichf and Coventry in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig promoted to the See of Exeter He had then quitted a large fortune to serve his Prince and thereupon was plunder'd by the Rebels and lost his books and papers which he could never recover Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he went to the Hague in Holland and afterwards to Virginia where he died He hath written The Tablet or moderation of Charles the first martyr An Alarum to the Subjects of England A few copies of these two little treatises were both printed together in a small character at the Hague an 1650 afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1661. in oct by the care of Will. Rider sometimes of Mert. Coll. who married the authors near kinswoman Afterwards Dr. Arnway being reduced to necessity left the Hague and upon an invitation he went into Virginia to exercise his function among the English where he died about Lyn haven Elizabeth river or Nausunum but when I cannot tell unless about the year 1653. JOHN VICARS a Londoner born descended from those of his name living in the County of Cumberland educated from his infancy or time of understanding in School learning in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London and in Academical partly in Oxon. particularly as it seems in Queens Coll. but whether he took a degree it appears not Afterwards he retired to his native place became Usher of the said Hospital which he kept to or near his dying day and was esteemed among some especially the puritannical party of which number he was a zealous brother a tolerable Poet but by the Royalists not because he was inspired with ale or viler liquors In the beginning of the Civil Wars he shewed himself a forward man for the Presbyterian cause hated all people that loved Obedience and did affright many of the weaker sort and others from having any agreement with the Kings Party by continually inculcating into their heads strange stories of Gods wrath against the Cavaliers Afterwards when the Independents began to take place he bore a great hatred towards them especially after they had taken away the Kings life His works are these A prospective glass to look into heaven or the celestial Canaan described Lond. 1618. oct 'T is a Poem The Soules sacred Soliloquie c. sung in a most heavenly hymne 'T is a Poem also and printed with
the former Englands Hallelu-jah or Great Britaines grateful retribution for Gods gracious benediction in our many and famous deliverances since the Halcyon dayes of ever blessed Qu. Elizab. to these present times Lond. 1631. oct This is a Poem also and his kinsman Tho. Vicars of Qu. Coll. hath a Copy of verses before it Quintisence of cruelty or the Popish powder-plot related 'T is a Poem and printed in a large oct Englands remembrancer Or a thankful acknowledgment of Parliamentarie mercies to the English nation Lond. 1641. a Poem in one sh in qu. The sinfulness and unlawfulness of having or making the picture of Christs humanity c. Lond. 1641. in tw God in the mount or Englands remembrancer being a panegerick piramides erected to the honour of Englands God c. Lond. 1642. qu. a Poem Looking glass for Malignants or Gods hand against God-haters Lond. 1643. qu. in 6. sheets In this book is much bitterness against the Kings followers whom he often stiles cormorants against the Prelates also especially Laud. God in the mount or Englands remembrancer being the first and second part of a Parliamentary Chronicle or a Chron. of the Parliament of England from 1641. to the month of Octob. 1643. Lond. 1644. Gods Arke overtopping the worlds waves or a third part of a parliamentary Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. The burning bush not consumed or the fourth and last part of a Parliam Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. one J. Hart did put out in the year 1627. The burning bush not yet consumed printed in oct which title our author Vicars borrowed These three last books viz. God in the mount c. Gods Arke c. and The burnish bush c. were all printed together with this general title Magnalia Dei Anglicana or Englands parliamentary Chronicle c. Lond. 1646. qu. Of which Chronicle one Joh. Hornius a Dutchman is very liberal in his character thus Chron. Vicarii qui priora belli complexus est sermones potius sacros quales ad populum habentur quam historias continet cum maxima operis pars Theologica sit c. Coleman-street-conclave visited and that grand impostor the schismaticks cheater in chief who hath long slily lurked therein truly and duly discovered containing a most palpable and plain display of Mr. John Goodwins self conviction c. and of the notorious heresies errors malice pride and hypocrisie of this most huge Garagantua c. Lond. 1648. qu. in 7. sheets Before the title is John Goodwins picture with a windmil over his head and weather cock upon it with other Hierogliphicks or Emblems about him to shew the instability of the man The Schismatick sifted c. Soul-saving knowledge c. in oct Picture of a Puritan c. These three last I have not yet seen Dagon demolished or twenty admirable examples of Gods severe justice and displeasure against the subscribers of the late engagement against K. Ch. 2. and the whole house of Peers c. Lond. 1660. in two shâ—in qu. He the said J. Vicars translated also from Lat. into English 1 Mischiefs mysterie or treasons Master-piece the powder-plot invented by hellish malice prevented by heavenly means c. Lond. 1617. qu. This is a Poem written in Latin by the rev and learned Dr. Fr. Herringe but much delated by Vicars whose labours therein are commended to the world by several copies of verses made by divers persons among whom are Thom. Salisbury M. A. of Cambridge Joshua Sylvester Nathan Chamber of Greys-inn c. Afterwards Vicars making some additions to the said translation repaired to Dr. Sam. Baker Chaplain to Laud B. of London to have it licensed but denied for several reasons See in Canterburies Doome p. 184. 2 Epigrams of that most witty and worthy Epigrammatist Mr. John Owen Gent. Lond. 1619. oct 3 Babels Balm or the Honey-comb of Romes religion with a neat draining and straining out of the rammish honey thereof sung in ten most elegant Elegies in Lat. by the most Christian Satyrist Mr. George Goodwin Lond. 1624. qu. 4 The XII Aeneids of Virgil into English deca-Syllables Lond. 1632. oct What other things this Presbyterian Poet hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying after he had spent 72 years in this vain world about the 12. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the north isle of the Church of Ch. Ch. Hospital beforemention'd Over his grave was a large stone soon after laid with an inscription thereon but defaced and consumed with the Church it self in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. One Joh. Vicars of Magd. Coll. was admitted Bac. of Arts Nov. 7. an 1587. and another Joh. Vicars of Broadgates Hall was admitted Master of that faculty in the beginning of July the same year but both these are too soon for John Vicars the author beforemention'd who had a Son of both his names matriculated in this University as a member of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1631. aged 17. I have made mention of John Viccars among these writers under the year 1639. ARTHUR WILSON Son of Rich. Wilson of Yarmouth in Norfolk Gent. was born in that County became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the year 1631 being then about 33 years of age where spending more than two years was all the Academical education that he ever received but whether he took a degree or was actually created M. of A. as some of his relations hath told me it doth no where appear in the registers During his stay in the said Coll. he was very punctual in frequenting the Chappel and Hall and in observing all orders of the College and University He had little skill in the Lat. tongue less in the Greek a good readiness in the French and some smattering in the Dutch He had travelled in Germany France and Spain in the quality of a Servant to Robert Earl of Essex and was well seen in the Mathematicks and Poetry and somthing in the Common Law of the Nation He had composed some Comedies which were acted at the Black-friers in Lond. by the Kings players and in the Act time at Oxon with good applause himself being present but whether they are printed I cannot yet tell sure I am that I have seen several specimens of his poetry printed in divers books His carriage was very courteous and obliging and such as did become a well-bred Gentleman He also had a great command of the English tongue as well in writing as speaking and had he bestowed his endeavours on another subject than that of History they would have without doubt seemed better For in those things which he hath done are wanting the principal matters conducing to the completion of that faculty viz. matter from record exact time name and place which by his endeavouring too much to set out his bare collections in an effected and bombastic style are much neglected
illegal proceedings against S. Mary Magd. Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1689. qu. sec edit collected by a Fellow of that Coll will at large tell you At that time this Bishop making it his sole endeavours to be gracious with the then great and leading men and to shew himself in all publick assemblies particularly in those wherein the Rom. Cath. Bishops were consecrated he gained the ill will so much of the Sons of the Church of that when the Pr. of Aurange made his expedition into England he out of fear of suffering for what he had acted and of the insults of the rabble then committing great disorders in London and most parts of the Nation did withdraw himself in private sculk and in a disguise fled into France where repairing to his royal Master K. Jam. 2 then lately come thither to avoid imminent danger in England had by him upon the news of Dr. Wards death the Bishoprick of Salisbury confer'd on him and while he abode at S. Germains he did usually read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his Lodgings to such Protestants that came thither to him Afterwards he went with his said Master towards Ireland landed there on Tuesday the 12 of Mar. 1688 and on Sunday following being at Cork he received the Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of that place On Palm Sunday Mar. 24 he went to Dublin with the King and on Easter-day and the Octaves of Easter 1689 he again received the Sacrament at Ch. Ch. there from the B. of Meath to which Ch. B. Cartwr went dayly to prayers Afterwards being overtaken with the Country disease called the Flux or Disentery he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Gods arraignment of Adam on Gen. 3.9 Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Serm. before the King at Whitehall on Jude 22.23 Lond. 1676. qu. 3 Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of S. Pet. in York before the Judges of Assize on Judges 17.6 Lond. 1677. qu. 4 Sermon preached at Holy-Rood house 30. Janu. 1681 before her highness the Lady Anne on Acts 7.60 Edinb and Lond. 1682 qu. The author was then with James Duke of York who with his Royal Consort and the Lady Anne his Daughter were retired to that place upon the command of his Majesty to put a stop to the fury of the Faction then driving on their designs upon prosecution of the Popish Plot. 5 Sermon preached to the Gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow Church Lond 24 June 1684 on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1684. qu. 6 Sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of K. Jam. 2 in the Collegiat Church of Rippon 6. Feb. 1685 on 1. Kings 8.66 Lond. 1686. qu. He hath also extant a Serm. on 2. Chron. 7.9.10 and another on Rev. 14.13 which I have not yet seen And there is also extant under his name A Sp. spoken to the Society of Magd. Coll 16. Nov. 1687 which much commended with several of his Discourses you may see in An impartial relation c. before mentioned At length after he had declared himself to be a member of the Communion of the Church of England in which he had always lived had taken the blessed Sacrament and the Churches absolution he surrendred up his Soul to God at Dublin on Munday morning 15 of April in sixteen hundred eighty and nine On the day before in the afternoon while the ven Minister that usually attended him was at Church the titular Bishop of Clogher and Dean of Ch. Ch. made his Lordship a visit and after the first civilities were past one of them in latine desired him to be mindful of eternity and to prepare for death His servant being present answer'd them that his Lordship had prepared himself already They afterwards told him in latine there was but one God one Faith one Church To which the Bishop replyed I believe so and hope that I have made my peace with God They again repeated There is but one God one Church intending as was supposed to enlarge upon that subject whereupon the Bishop answer'd somewhat short I know all this as well as you but I am not able to answer you for the failing of my spirits and therefore I desire you to forbear talking with me any more about this for I have done already what I hope is necessary for my salvation Hereupon they seeing they could not effect any thing with him nor engage him in a discourse took their leaves and they themselves gave out that the Bishop of Chester was dying and that he would dye a Protestant As soon as he was dead the said Bishops servant acquainted Will. Earl of Powis and Dr. Anth. Dopping Bishop of Meath with his death who with the Earl of Longford took care for his funeral after this manner On Tuesday Apr. 16 the body was carried early in ths morning from the house where he died to that of the B. of Meath which was near where several rooms were hung with black and that where the body lay was furnished with many Lights in sconces and eight large Tapers on stands about the Body which was covered with a fair Velvet Pall. In the afternoon all the Nobility Clergy Judges and Gentry of both Religions that were in Town among whom were the E. of Powis and the L. Chancellour came thither And about six in the evening his body was carried in a velvet Herse drawn with 6 horses cloathed in black and attended by the King at Armes the aforesaid company in near 30 Coaches and a multitude of common people to Christ Church in Dublin where the Sub-Dean and Choire met the Body at the Church door and sung it into the Choir which was very much crowded The Service was solemnly performed with several Anthems and the Body afterwards inter'd in the North-east end of the Choir by the Bishop of Meath in his Episcopal habit It was then commonly reported that K. Jam. 2. did nominate Dr. Jam. Arderne Dean of Chester to succeed Dr. Cartwright in his Bishoprick but how true I cannot tell Sure it is that K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne he nominated to that See Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph who thereupon was consecrated thereunto in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham near London on the 15 of Sept. 1689. JOHN SHAW a Ministers Son was born at Bedlington in the County Pal. of Durham educated in Grammar learning for the most part under Tho. Ingmethorp Rector of Great Stainton in the said County was at his first coming to the University entred a Student in Qu. Coll. but making little stay there he became a Batler of that of Brasnose 2. Apr. 1629 aged 15 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and retiring soon after to his native Country took holy Orders and exercised the Ministry for some years in the northern parts of England In 1645 he was instituted and inducted Rector of Whalton in Northumberland but not
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