the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
on the â—â— of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
resolved not to submit to their new Masters Soon after he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon or elsewhere for not submitting to them tho he was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had without being put to say or do or subscribe any thing against his Conscience if he would but then give his word only that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. c. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight which proving ineffectual he resolved having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell as his confessor before his execution in the beginning of Mar. 1648 to quit his Country and find out the young King and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age and found him at the Hague where he was graciously received by him From thence he went first with him into France and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda and there preach'd the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland whither being not suffer'd to carry any of his own Divines with him he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague and after some short stay there he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antwerp where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies for the space of one year or thereabouts At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia and Dr. Earle to attend on his Higness James Duke of York then in France Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Embassador for the King in Spain and all the time he was there which was about 3. or 4 years he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day catechiz'd once a week and administred the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town who would come to it as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his comming to Breda he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous thought himself so much the rather oblig'd both in Conscience towards God and in duty to the Royal Family for she was Sister to K. Charles 1. to wait on her and accordingly he did and readily officiated both in her family and in the English Church there about two years and an half without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing There as in all other places where he lived especially at Breda he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church his Catechizing of young persons his administring the holy Sacraments and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private he visited the sick and buried the dead and relieved many whom their Loyalty had impoverished His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius whom he often visited to the last of which then abiding at Leyden the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyr'd Father but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent lyer reported But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart to whom he wrote a Latine Letter from Paris declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latine the year following And as he was zealous for the Church so he was also for his Royal Master wâ—tness the large Epistle he wrote in Latine to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery For his friends at home of whom he never lost any but by death only were eminent both for parts and quality the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire both long since dead and Edward Earl of Clarendon who died long after them Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. Payne Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson late B. of Linc. who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant Dr. Earl of Salisbury c. with the two last of which he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad which made his banishment less tedious to him After his Majesties return this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York whence after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648 c. and had filled up the vacant places he was called to be Bishop of Worcester to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm on the 28. of Octob. 1660 and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the Kings Coronation-Sermon and soon after made Dean of the Chappel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon In 1662 he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester confirmed therein 14. May the same year where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishoprick on him that he would never be the richer for it For besides his expences in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act which impowred him to lease out Waltham Park and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham before the year 1672 and afterwards spent more and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See which when he came to he found not an house to dwell in yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person and went into the Isle of Wight where had not been a Bishop before in the memory of man In July 1664 he came to Oxon
advanced to the See of Hereford See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 185. b. The third Dr. Taylor was after his Maj. return made Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland Nov. 1. .... Mason of Cambridge Nov. 1. .... Sherwood of Cambridge The first of these two was perhaps Charles Mason of Kings Coll. who was afterwards Rector of the Church of S. Peter le Poore in London author of 1 Concio ad Clerum Londinensem in Eccles S. Alphagi Lond. 1676. qu. 2 Miles Christianus preached to the Artillery Company 16 Octob. 1673 at S. Mich. in Cornhill on 2 Tim. 2.3 and of other things He died in the time of Winter 1677. Peter Hausted M. A. of Cambridge was also actually created D. of D. the same day This noted person was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire educated in Queens Coll. in the same University entred into holy Orders when M. of A became Curat of Vppingham in Rutlandshire and at length Rector as 't is said of Hadham in Hertfordshire Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion or thereabouts he became Chaplain to the noble and loyal Spencer Earl of Northampton stuck close to him in all Engagements was with him in the Castle of Banbury in Oxfordshire when stoutly defended against them where concluding his last day in the year 1645 was either buried in the precincts of that Castle or else in the Church belonging to Banbury This person who was always accounted an ingenious man and an excellent Poet hath written and published several things as 1 The Rival Friends a Comedy Lond. 1632. qu. Acted before the K. and Qu. at Cambridge 19 Mar. 1631. 2 Senile odium Comedia Cantabrigiae publicè Academicis recitata in Coll. Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute Cantab. 1633. in tw 3 Ten Sermons preached upon several Sundays and Saints-days Lond. 1636. qu. To which is added An Assize Sermon 4 Ad populum A lecture to the people with a Satyr against Separatists Oxon. 1644 c. in three sh in qu. 'T is a Poem and the title of it was given by K. Ch. 1 who seeing it in Manuscript with the title of A Sermon to the People he alter'd it and caused it to be called A Lecture c. being then much pleased with it He also translated into English Hymnus Tobaci c. Lond. 1651. oct See in the first vol. p. 422 at the bottom Nov. 1. George Roberts sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in this University now Rector of Hambledon in Bucks This person who was a general Scholar and a most accurate Preacher was afterwards thrown out of his Living by the Usurpers and suffered much for his Loyalty After his Majesties return he was restored to his Living and on the 9 of August 1660 he was install'd Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Edw. Burby some years before dead Dr. Roberts died at Istleworth in Middlesex about the middle of March an 1660 and was buried in the chancel of his Church at Hambledon before mention'd on the 17 of the same month Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument with an inscription thereon made by Dr. Ralph Bathurst In his Archdeaconry was installed on the 19 of the said month of March Dr. Thom. Gorges sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. Gilb. Wats Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. was actually created D. D. the same day James Fleetwood of Cambridge was also then created He was the seventh son of Sir George Fleetwood of the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks Knight by his wife Catherine daugh of Henry Denny of Waltham in Essex and Sister to Sir Edw. Denny Earl of Norwich And being when a child very forward to learn he was sent to Eaton School where being rip'ned for the University was admitted Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1622. After he was four years standing in the degree of Mast of Arts he became Chaplain to Dr. Wright Bishop of Lichfield by whom he was presented to the Vicaridge of Prees or Priss in Shropshire and soon after collated to the Prebendship of Eccleshall belonging to the said Church of Lichfield but before he was admitted or installed the rebellion broke out Afterwards being forced for his Loyalty to forsake his preferment he betook himself to the Wars and became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Earl of Rivers and in the quality of a Chaplain he continued to the end of the said Wars In 1642 he was by the Kings special command honored with the degree of Doct. of Div. for the service he did for him at Edghill fight and soon after he was made Chaplain to Charles Prince of Wales and Rector of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire After the Wars were ceased and he ejected thence he became Tutor to three Earls viz. to the Earl of Lichfield E. of Kildare and the E. of Sterling Afterwards to two Dukes namely to Esme Duke of Richmond and Lenox with whom he travelled into France where he died and to Charles who succeeded him in his Dukedoms After the restauration of K Ch. 2. he was the first that was sworn Chaplain in ord to him was made Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in June 1660 and about that time Rector of Anstey in Hertfordshire and of Denham in Bucks On the 29 of Aug. 1675 the Archbishop of Cant. being then at Croydon and the B. of London Henchman languishing and near his end he the said Dr. Fleetwood was consecrated Bishop of Worcester not in the Chap. at Lambeth or in that at Fulham nor in Bow Church because unfinished but in the Church of S. Peter le Poore in Broadstreet in London in the place of Dr. Walt. Blandford deceased at which time his old friend and acquaintance Dr. Charles Mason sometimes of Kings Coll. was Rector of the said Church and procured for him a neighboring Hall to keep his Consecration Feast in He died on the 17 of July 1683 aged 81 years and was buried near the body of Bishop Gauden in our Ladies Chappel within the Precincts of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester In his Provostship of Kings Coll. succeeded Sir Tho. Page Knight about Michaelmas 1675 a person of great experience learning and infinite accomplishments who died 8 Aug. 1681 and in his Bishoprick Dr. Will. Thomas as I have elsewhere told you After Easter in 1687 was erected over the grave of the said B. Fleetwood a large marble Monument with an Epitaph of his own making which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Tho this Bishop was a very loyal person yet several of his Family of the Vache were great Parliamentiers and Cromwellians among whom was George Fleetwood one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 for which he lost the Vache and his other Estate Nov. 1. John Watkins of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Hen. Kelligrew of Ch. Ch. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. was put into the same roll with the former persons by his Majesty to
a constant Actor and as 't was observed had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as Comptroller Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks and in the same year he finished a new Chappel at Vgbrook which was consecrated and dedicated to S. Cyprian by Anthony Bishop of Exeter Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672 until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh and in June following he gave him and his heirs males the mannours of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire On the 28 of Nov. the same year his Maj. valuing his many eminent services and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton At which time his Maj. confer'd the place of Treasurer of the Houshold on the L. Newport beforemention'd and the place of Comptroller on Will Lord Maynard On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. pass'd for the entailing of Vgbrook and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesties hands his staff as L. Treasurer because he as 't was said refused the Test it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died and was as I suppose buried at Chudleigh ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted incorporated or created this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll. He afterwards lived a Nonconformist and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock mention'd among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others Quaere One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love describing the folly of Youngmen and the fallacy of Women Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this or of any other University I know not yet Nov. 19. Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll. 30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll. Jan. 14. Tho. Neast of New Coll. This person who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks Thence going to London lived for some time after his Majesties Restauration a Nonconformist and preached in Conventicles Afterwards conforming he became Minister of S. Martins Ch. in Ironmonger-lane and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet London He hath extant Serm. on Ephes 6.24 printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate c. Lond. 1661. qu published by Sam. Annesley or Anely and perhaps other things Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv Coll. Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty 10 Dec. Bach. of Div. ..... George Kendall of Exeter Coll was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year but the day or month when it appears not Doct. of Law Oct. 19. John Wainwright of All 's Coll Chancellour of the Dioc of Chester ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Doctor of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May .... Christoph Tearne or Terne Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London hath published something of his faculty and died about 1685. He was as it seems originally of Cambridge May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys of Cambridge This person who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University was lately Fellow of that House also but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors Afterwards he travelled into remote parts of the World resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Mosco for the space of nine years and wrot The History of the present state of Russia in a letter written to a friend in London Lond. 1671. oct illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physitians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538 and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge This person who took that degree in Camb. 1649 was now or soon after Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Univ. See more in the year 1652 and 59. 18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Anger 's in France This Gent. who had that degree confer'd on him in the said Univ. in Nov. 1648 was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells was educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642 and travelled during the time of the War Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster became Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894. Nov. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr. The next day he was admitted M. of A as before I have told you Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell whose Sister he had married See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was now or soon after made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Univ. Creations Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne was created Master of Arts. 12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Univ. which partly run
born in S. Michaels Parish in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622 became a sojourner of the said Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640 was elected Fellow soon after took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1644 and in the year following he by the name of Captain Mathias Prideaux was by vertue of the Chancellours letters actually created Master of Arts. Under the name of this person was publish'd after his death An easie and compendious introduction for reading of all sorts of Histories Oxon 1648. qu. There again 1655. qu. To which is added A synopsis of the Councils written by the Father of the Author Mathias who as 't is said had a considerable hand in the Easie and comp Introd This Mathias Prideaux who was esteemed by his contemporaries an ingenious man died at London of the Small pox in sixteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts to which place he receded after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Forces under the command of the Parliament He had written one or more trite things but were never published JOHN GREGORY the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning was born at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks on the 10 Nov. 1607 applied himself to academical learning in the condition of a Servitour in Ch. Ch. an 1624 being then put under the tuition with his Master Sir Will. Drake of the most ingenious and learned Mr. George Morley afterwards Bishop of Winchester where for several years spending sixteen of every 24 hours he arrived to great learning and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631. About which time being received into the favour of Dr. Duppa the vigilant Dean of his house he was by him made Chaplain or petty Canon of the Cathedral and after that his own Domestick and Prebendary of Chichester and Salisbury when he successively sate at those places as Bishop He attained to a learned elegance in English Latine and Greek and to an exact skill in Hebrew Syriack Chaldee Arabick Ethiopick c. He was also well vers'd in Philosophy had a curious faculty in Astronomy Geometry and Arithmetick and a familiar acquaintance with the Jewish Rabbines antient Fathers modern Criticks Commentators and what not His works are Notes on the View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law written by Sir Tho. Ridley Kt. Oxon. 1634. qu. second Edit Ox. 1662. oct there again 1675. 76. qu. In which notes he being scarce 26 years old when he wrot them he made an early discovery of his civil historical ecclesiastical ritual and oriental Learning through which he miraculously travel'd without any guide except Joh. Dod the Decalogist whose society and directions for the Hebrew tongue he enjoyed one Vacation at his benefice in Northamptonshire Notes and Observations upon some passages of Scripture Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1660. 65. 71. 83. qu. translated also into Lat. and remitted into the Critica sacra From â—hich notes may easily be discovered his exact skill in the oriental Tongues Certain learned Tracts as 1 A discourse of the 70 Interpreters the place and manner of their interpretation 2 Discourse declaring what time the Niceen Creed began to be sung in the Church 3 Serm. upon the Resurrection on 1 Cor. 15. ver 20. 4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a disproof of him in the 3 of Luke ver 36. 5 Discovery of an antient custom in the Ch. of Sarum making an anniversary Bishop among the Choristers on Innocents day 6 The several accounts of time among all nations from the Creation to the present age 7 The Assyrian Monarchy being a description of its rise and fall 8 Descript and use of the terrestial globe Which eight Tracts were printed under the title of Gregorii posthuma at Lond. 1650. 64. 71. 83. qu. with a short account of the Authors life set before them written by his dearest friend John Gurgany son of Hugh Gurgany of London Priest sometimes a Servitour of Ch. Ch. afterwards Chaplain of Merton Coll. who dedicated them to Edw. Bysshe Clar. King of Arms a Patron not only to the Author but Gurgany in the time of their Afflictions Optica promota seu abdita radiorum reflexorum refractorum mysteria Geometricè enuclâ—ata Lond. 1663. published then under the name of Jo. Gregorius Observationes in loca quaedam excerpta ex Joh. Malatae chronographia Ms which after his death came into the publick Library at Oxon where it now remains Edm. Chilmead having afterwards prepared the whole work of Malâ—ta for the Press intended as it seems to prefix the said Observations as a Preface he having therein spoken something of the said Author but that Author being publish'd at Oxon in 1691 Gregories Observations were laid aside as containing things little material and instead of them there is added a Preface or Prolegomena to Malata by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. Fellow of Wadh. Coll. See the said Preface § xliii He the said Gregory did also translate from Gr. into Lat. 1 Palladius de gentibus Indiae Bragmanibus 2 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 3 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Which Translations coming after his death into the hands of Edm. Chilmead Chapl. of Ch. Ch. came after his into those of E. Bysshe Esq before mentioned who published them under his own name in 1665. as I shall tell you elsewhere At length after an industrious and short life he gave way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the left side of the grave of W. Cartwright in the isle joyning on the south side of the choire of the Cath. of Ch Church in Oxon. Some years before his death he being reduced to poverty because he was deprived of the benefit of his two Prebendships he retired to an obscure Ale house standing on the Green at Kidlington near Oxon kept by one Sutton Father to that Son whom our learned Author had bred up from a boy to attend him There I say spending some time in great retiredness died obscurely and by the contribution of one or more friends his body was conveyed to Oxon. CHARLES BUTLER was born at one of the Wycombs Great Wycombe I suppose in Bucks entred a Student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579 took a degree in Arts and being made one of the Bible Clerks of Magd. Coll. was translated thereunto Soon after proceeding in that faculty he became Master of the Free-school at Basingstoke in Hampshire where continuing 7 years with the enjoyment of a Cure of a little Church called Skewres was promoted to the Vicaridge of Lawrence-Wotton three miles distant thence a poor preferment God wot for such a worthy scholar where being setled he wrot and published these books following which shew him to have been an ingenious man and well skill'd in various sorts of learning The feminine Monarchy or a Treatise of Bees Ox. 1609. oct Lond. 1623. Ox. 1634. qu. translated into Latine by
ubi ad interiorem Templum saith he Amanuensis mihi in codice Regi tunc porrigendo operam praestitit mihi vir doctissimus Henricus Jacobus c. At which time as 't is said he taught or at least improved Selden in the Hebrew Language and added several things which Selden finding to be very excellent let them stand In the same year he was created Master of Arts but upon the turn of the times Brent then Warden of Mert. Coll. no friend to Laud silenced him In the year 1641 he was upon the death of John Thimble elected superior Bedle of Divinity about the 14 of June and in the beginning of Novemb. in the year following he was created Bach. of Physick But his head being always over-busie about critical notions which made him sometimes a little better than craz'd he neglected his duty so much that he was suspended once if not twice from his place and had his Bedles staff taken from him At length when the Parliamentarian Visitors sate he lost it for altogether and the right he pretended to his Fellowship in Mert. Coll. So that being destitute of maintenance he retired to London where the learned Selden exhibited to him gave him his cloaths and an old scarlet cloak of which last his friends would mock him and call him Young Selden when they saw it on his back But he being a shiftless Person as most meer Scholars are and the benefactions of friends not sufficing him he sold that little Land he had at Godmersham in Kent to supply his necessities and died before that was spent He wrot many things but he himself published nothing in his life time a Cat. of which is this Oratio inauguralis sub aditu praelectionis Philologicae publicè habita apud Collegium Oxonio-Merton 4. Aug. 1636. Graeca Latina Poemata Description of Oakey hole near Wells an 1632 Written in English verse Annotationes in eam partem Orationis inaug in qua viz. p. 6. dicitur Oratione soluta scripsit Aristeus Proconnesius Contained in about 5. sheets in qu. These four things beforemention'd were published at Oxon while the Author lived an 1652. in qu. by his intimate friend Hen. Birkhead Fellow of All 's Coll. To which he putting a Preface he tells you therein that this our Author had written and laying by him these things following Etymotechnia Catholica containing four Diatribes concerning the original of Letters The first De ordine Alphabeti the second De transitu Alphabeti the third De numero figura potestate divisione Literarum and the fourth called Geographistor Etymotechnicus Grammatica Ebraea No English man before his time did ever endeavour to make one after that way and manner which he did this ΣΒΩ′ vel Osiris inventus de coptiacis originibus commentatio Geographumena In which are many Assiriac and Egyptic antiquities discovered Pancarpia opus ex artibus linguis miscellan Imperfect Excogitata Philosophica nempe de novâ ratione circa Monoptosyllogismum dialecticum pridem semicirculariter figuratam natalia ventorum conceptacula c. Magnetologia in lib. 3. agentibus de triplici motu Magnetico Lapidali Caelesti Animali c. Before I go any farther the reader is to understand that this our Author Jacob being ejected in 1648 from Merton Coll. and so consequently from his Chamber wherein he had left a trunk full of Books as well written as printed left Oxon as I have before told you And taking no care or appointing any friend for its security his Chamber door before an year was expired was broke open for a new commer who finding the trunk there did let it remain in its place for a time At length when no man inquired after it as the then possessor thereof pretended he secur'd it for his own use broke it open and therein discover'd a choice treasure of Books One of them being a Ms and fit for the press he disguised and alter'd it with another stile and at length after he had learned Hebrew and the Oriental Languages to blind the World and had conversed openly with those most excellent in them as Pocock and Bogan of C. C. Coll. or any Grecian or Jew that came accidentally to the University he published it under this title Delphi Phoenicizantes sive tractatus in quo Graecos quicquid Delphos celebre erat c. è Joshuae Historiae scriptisque sacris effluxisse rationibus haud inconcinnis ostenditur c. Oxon. 1655. oct To which is added Diatriba de Noe in Italiam adventu ejusque nominibus Ethnicis and a little tract De origine Druidum Which three things are much commended by forreign Authors particularly by Spizelius in his book De doctrina Senensium The Reader is also to know farther that Dr. Pet. Turner of Mert. Coll. being a great friend to Hen. Jacob did borrow and peruse several of his elucubrations in which taking great delight because his learning did partly lye that way did either keep the originals by him or at least took copies of them At length the Doctor being involv'd in the same fate with his friend retired with his Books for succour to his Sister the Widow of one Wats sometimes a Brewer in Southwark where dying obscurely about an year before Jacob his Papers came into the hands of his Nephew Will. Wats afterwards a Residentiary of Hereford who having a Son of Bras Coll. into whose possession they came he communicated several of them to Moses Pengry Fellow of that House a curious Person in Philological learning of which one was entit De Mari rubro and another De historia Beli Draconis Copies of which Pengry communicated to Mr. Rich. Reeves then Master of the School joyning to Magd. Coll. which he hath in his possession to this day Our Author Jacob also did put notes to most of the printed books in his study which tho little yet curious and particularly on Solinus his Hist of the World with Salmasius's notes to it Which book coming I know not how into the hands of H. B. he transcribed the said notes or observations and entring them as it seems into another Copy of his own deleeted those of Jacob with Aquafortis and sold the copy it self to an Oxford Bookseller such was his sordid avarice There is also another Ms of his going about entit Libri Ebraeo Rabbinici in Bib. Bodleiana recensiti an 1629. A copy of which I have written by the hand of the learned Dr. Langbaine It was the first work that Jacob performed after he was setled in Oxon at the desire and command of his Patron Will. Earl of Pembroke being the same books which the said Count a little before had obtained out of Italy from the Baroccian Library A copy of which Cat. or else another I have seen written under the hand of Pet. Turner for Seldens use To conclude it must be now known that this miracle of learning a harmless innocent careless and shiftless Person who by his
to the Army in Scotland where he died in the beginning of the year 1650. THOMAS LAURENCE a Ministers Son was born in Dorsetshire became Scholar of Ball. Coll. in 1614 aged 16 years elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1618 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became a noted Preacher in the University was made Prebendary of Lichfield Doct. of Div Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. by the endeavours of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Cant with whom he was in much esteem Master of Ball. Coll. and Marg. professor of the University 1637 At which time he was accounted famous for Scholastical Divinity a profound Theologist and Exquisite in the excellencies of the Greek and Lat. Tongues After the declining of the cause of K. Ch. 1. and upon a foresight thereupon of the ruin of all things that would follow he grew melancholy careless and did much degenerate in his life and conversation At length when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament came to visit the University he resigned his Headship to prevent expulsion Afterwards he submitted to their Authority had a certificate under the Commissioners or Visitors hands dated 3. Aug. 1648 whereby they attested that he had engaged to observe the Directory in all Ecclesiastical administrations to preach practical Divinity to the People and to forbear preaching of any of those Opinions that the reformed Church hath condemned Being thus dismissed with the loss of all he had in the University he retired to his Friend Coll. Valentine Walton one of the Kings Judges to whom he had shew'd many singular curtesies while he was a Prisoner of War in Oxford Garrison and at length by exchange had procured his release I say that he retiring to the said Collonel and laying open his condition before him he did commiserate it so much that he did not only exhibit to his wants for the present but soon after setled upon him a little Chappelrey called Colne in the Parish of Somersham in Huntingdonshire which he enjoyed to the time of his death The Reader may be pleased here to note that Somersham with its appurtenances being part of the Qu. jounture the said Col. Walton got it to be setled on him and his posterity for ever for the services he had done for the Parliament And tho the Church thereof did belong to the Margaret professor of Cambridge yet by his power he got the tithes of Colne to be separated from it and be setled on the Chappel of Colne whereby he made it a little rectory purposely as 't is thought for the sake of his learned Friend Laurence who hath these things following going under his name viz. Several Sermons as 1 The duty of the Layty and Priviledge of the Clergy preached at S. Maries in Oxon 13. July 1634 being then Act-Sunday on Exod. 20.21 Oxon. 1635. qu. 2 Of Schisme in the Church of God preached in the Cath. Ch. at Sarum at the Visitation of Will Archb. of Canterbury 23. May 1634 on 1. Cor. 1.12 Oxon. 1635. qu. 3 Serm. before the Kings Maj. at White-hall 7 Feb. 1636 on Exod. 3.5 Lond. 1637. qu. In this Sermon he moderately stated the real presence and thereupon suffered trouble for it Also for other passages therein he was charged by the Puritans to be a grand Arminian He hath also written Index Materiarum Authorum MS. fol. in the Bodleian Library and other things fit for the press as I have been credibly informed by those that well knew the Author who dying in great obscurity at Colne in Huntingdonshire beforemention'd was buried in the Chappel there on the tenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven Had he lived 3 years longer he would have been consecrated Bishop of a certain See in Ireland to which he had been nominated some years before his death but the name of the See I cannot now tell you WILLIAM BURTON Son of Will. Burt. sometimes of Atcham in Shropshire second Son of Tho. Burt. of Longnore near to Shrewsbury Son and Heir of Edw. Burton of the same place who died in 1558 was born within the precincts of the Austin Friers in London as his Daughter hath informed me educated in Pauls School under Alex. Gill Senior became a Student in Qu. Coll. in Easter term 1625 aged 16 years being then accounted a good Grecian But having not wherewithal to maintain him the learned Mr. Allen who found him to be an ingenious youth took him to him to Gloc. Hall and confer'd on him the Greek Lecture there which he kept during his continuance in the University In 1630 he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law but indigence which commonly attends good wits forcing him to leave the University he became the Assistant or Usher of Mr. Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaster of Kent with whom remaining some years was at length made Master of the Free-School at Kingston upon Thames in Surrey where he continued till two years before his death at which time being taken with the dead palsie he retired to London where he lived to see the most part of his last book called A Com. on Antoninus his Itinerary printed He was an excellent Latinist noted Philologist was well skill'd in the tongues was an excellent Critick and Antiquary and therefore beloved of all learned men of his time especially of the famous Usher Archb. of Armagh He hath written and published these things following Laudatio funebris in obitum viri excellentiss D. Thomae Alleni Lond. 1632. Ox. 1633. qu. The said speech was spoken by the Author in the Refectory of Gloc. Hall before the body was carried thence Afterwards another was spoken at the Grave in Trin. Coll. Chap. by George Bathurst as I have elsewhere told you which with Burtons were both printed together Annotations on the first Epistle of Clement the Apostle to the Corinthians Lond. 1647. and 52 in qu. Wherein as much reading is shew'd by the Author so some things therein do rankly smell of Presbytery The said first Epistle being set forth in Latine by Patrick Yong in 1633 was translated into English by our Author who thereunto did add the said Annotations as a very proper and sutable remedy if rightly attended to to cure the many distracting schismes of those loose and dissolute times when published Graecae Linguae Historia Lond. 1657. oct 'T is the sum of one or more speeches delivered in the refectory of Gloc. Hall 1631. Veteris Linguae Persicae Historia Lond. 1657. oct This printed with the former book and before them is an Epistle written by way of commendations by the learned Langbaine friend to our Author Burton A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or journeys of the Rom. Empire so far as it concerneth Britain c. Lond. 1658. fol. with the Authors Picture before it He also translated from Lat. into English a Book intit The beloved City or the Saints Raign on Earth a thousand years asserted and illustrated from
24. Lond. 1672. qu. This sermon which I have not yet seen hath the name of Rob. Waring M. A. set in the title as Author which I take to be the same with our Author before mention'd JOHN HARRIS son of Rich. Harris of Padbury in Bucks sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards Rector of Hardwick in the same County was born in the Parsonage house at Hardwick educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1606 took the degrees in Arts and became so admirable a Greecian and so noted a Preacher that Sir Hen. Savile used frequently to say that he was second to S. Chrysostome In 1617 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University and two years after was made Greek Professor thereof both which Offices he executed to his great honor and credit Afterwards he became Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Meonstoke in Hampshire Doct. of Divinity and at length in Sept. 1630 Warden of VVykehams Coll. near VVinchester he being then Preb. of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells In the beginning of the grand Rebellion raised by the Presbyterians he sided with them was elected one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant and other Oaths and so kept his Wardenship to his dying day He hath written A short view of the life and vertues of Dr. Arth. Lake sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells Lond. 1629. in 6 sh and an half in fol. As also several letters to the noted Anti-Arminian Dr. W. Twysse of which one was Of Gods finite and indefinite decrees another Of the object of Predestination which with Twysse's Answers were published by Hen. Jeanes in a folio book which he published at Oxon 1653. Our Author Harris died at Winchester on the eleventh day of August in sixteen hundred fifty and eight aged 70 years and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Coll. of W. of Wykeham near Winchester Over his grave was soon after a Tomb-stone laid with an Inscription on a brass plate fastned thereunto the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by In his Wardenship succeeded Will. Burt D. D. whom I shall mention elsewhere ANTHONY FARINGDON was born at Sunning in Berks admitted scholar of Trin. Coll. 9 June 1612 aged 16 years Fellow in 1617 and three years after M. of A. About which time entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts an eminent Tutor in the College and a worthy example to be imitated by all In 1634 he was made Vicar of Bray near Maydenhead in Berks. being then Bach of Div. and soon after Divinity Reader in the Kings Chappel at Windsore At the first of which places continuing not without some trouble till after the civil distempers broke forth was turn'd out thence and at length out of all by the impetuous and restless Presbyterians So that lest he his Wife and Children should be reduced to extremities and starve Sir Jo. Robinson Kinsman to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and some of the good Parishioners of Milkstreet in London invited him to be Pastor of S. Mary Magd. there where preaching to the great liking of the loyal party published some of the Sermons he had delivered to them viz. Forty sermons Lond. 1647. fol. the first vol. Afterwards were published by his Executor Forty sermons Lond. 1663. fol. The 2 vol. Fifty sermons Lond. 1673. fol. The 3 vol. He gave way to fate in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in the Church of S. Mar. Magd. there He left behind him in MS. several memorials of the life of the famous John Hales of Eaton which if life had been spared he would have finish'd and made them publick But what became of them afterwards I cannot tell unless they were transmitted to the hands of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. who to my knowledge had taken great pains to recover the memory of that worthy person from oblivion ROBERT HARRIS a famed puritanical Preacher of his time was born at Broad-Camden in Glocestershire an 1578 educated partly in the Free-school at Cheping-Camden and partly in the Free-school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright Thence he removed to Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1595 took one degree in Arts holy Orders and preached for some time near Oxon at Stadham as it seems and at length being made Rector of Hanwell near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1614. There he continued till the Civil War broke out in 1642 in all which time be was a constant Lecturer in those parts which with other Lectures in mercat Towns were the chief promoters of the Rebellion Upon pretence of great trouble and danger that might ensue from the Soldiers of each party when the War began he retired to London was made one of the Assembly of Divines and Minister of S. Botolphs Church near Bishopsgate in that City In 1646 he was appointed one of the six Ministers or Apostles to go to Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience â—o the Parliament and about that time had the rich Rectory of Petersfield in Hampshire confer'd upon him which he kept with Hanwell for a time In 1647 he was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by Authority of Parliament and in the year following he was actually created Doct. of Div. and made President of Trin. Coll. by the said Authority and so consequently Rector of Garsingdon near to Oxon. In 1654 he with Dr. Jo. Owen Dr. Tho. Goodwin Dr. Hen. Wilkinson of Ch. Ch. Dr. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire to eject scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters as they were then called in which office he and they were not a little busie What else the Reader is desirous to know of him may be seen in his life such as 't is written by his Friend and Kinsman Will. Durham whom I shall hereafter mention In the mean time the Reader is to know that Dr. Harris wrot and published these things following Nine and thirty sermons Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Remedy against Covetousness Most or all of which having been printed severally were printed in one Volume at Lond. 1635 fol. and went by the name of Mr. Harris his works Several sermons being a supplement to his works formerly printed in fol. Lond. 1654. Soon after these sermons and the aforesaid works were all printed together with this title Dr. Rob. Harris his works revised and corrected and collected into one Volume with an addition of sundry sermons c. Lond. 1654. 55. fol. Among which are two parliamentary sermons and his Concio ad clerum 1. Oxoniae jamdudum habita 2. Dein posthabita repudiata 3. Nunc demum in lucem edita on Joh. 21. part of the 17 and all the 18 vers This with another
certain passages not at all befitting the place especially on such a text which treated concerning the resurrection of our Saviour The truth is this our Preacher was a Person more ingenious than prudent and more apt upon most occasions to display his fancy than to proceed upon solid reason if not he would not in his said Sermon have discanted on the whole life of our Saviour purposely to render him and his Attendants Men and Women objects of scorn and aversion as if they had been a pack of dissolute vagabonds and cheats But the best of it was that tho he then assumed the Person of a Jewish Pharisee and Persecutor of Christ yet presently after changing his stile as became a Disciple of Christ he with such admirable dexterity as 't is said answered all the Cavillations and Invectives before made that the loudly repeated applauses of his Hearers hindred him a good space from proceeding in his Sermon He hath written and published these things following Commentary on the Hebrews Lond. 1646. 47. fol. Published under the Capital Letters of G. M. Animadverted upon by Rich. Porter Bach. of Div. Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Norwych in his book intit God incarnate shewing that Jesus Christ is the only and most high God c. Lond. 1655. oct In the Epistle dedicatory before it he saith he was drawn to write that book by the importunity of some religious friends and by the iniquity of a most blasphemous book lately printed and called A commentary on the Hebrews written by a nameless D. of D. who now resides in this County Norfolk but formerly in Broadgates Hall so it was then called wherein he hath vented such blasphemies against Jesus Christ as without special revocation and repentance will in the end bring both himself and all his seduced Sectaries to that woful Broad gate of which mention is made Matth. 7.13 Lata est porta quae ducit ad perditionem c. The said Commentary hath laid the axe to the root and foundation of our Christian Religion by ungoding Jesus Christ and blasphemously denying his grand and most gracious work of Redemption And it is to be feared that the pernicious Doctrines therein contained have many Abetters and Favourers in these dangerous times albeit his Commentary is the first of all the Serpents nest that dared to peep out and appear in our English Print who both by his book and by his personal insinuations hath already as we know perverted many from the saving truth of the Gospel to the evident danger both of theirs and his own soul And his impious ambition to be the Ring-leader of this blasphemy hath in this County Norfolk procured to him such a title and character as was fastned on Marcion the Heretick by Polycarpus when he called him Primogenitum Satanae c. Thus the Author before quoted But the Reader must know that the said Commentary on the Hebrews was long since written in the Lat. Tongue by a Foreigner either Joh. Crellius Slightingius or by some other Socinian and was translated into English by this our Author not without some alterations and additions He also published Commentary on the Galathians Lond. 1650. fol. Translated from Crellius and wrot Logica Analytica de principiis regulis usu rationis rectae lib. 3. Lond. 1650. oct dedicated by the Author to Thom. Some Esq his then Patron But the copy coming from the Author into the hands of Nich. Bacon great Nephew to Francis Viscount S. Albans was by him published propter operis perfectionem as he saith in quo nihil dictum quod non statim probatum est vel à principiis primo per se notis vel à propositionibus inde demonstratis deinde etiam propter ejus usum vel fructum eximium There was another part written by the same Author De argumentatione when this was published but whether ever it came to light I know not The resurrection rescued from the Soldiers calumnies in two sermons at S. Maries in Oxon on Math. 28.13 and on Acts 2. latter part of the first verse Lond. 1659 in tw then published under the name of Rob. Jones D. D. Treatise of the passions according to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas Treat upon the Theology of Proclus These two last are written in Latine and go about in MS. from hand to hand and are not as I conceive yet printed At length our Author retiring in his last days to some of his relations living at Sittingbourne near Milton in Kent where he lived for some time in great retiredness surrendred up his soul to God on 22 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and one aged 72 years and was buried in the south Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after set up against the south wall of the said Chancel a comely monument containing an arch of Alabaster supported by two pillars of black marble between which is the statue or bust to the middle of our Author Lushington in his Doctor 's gown holding his right hand on his breast and having in his left a book leaning on a cusheon Over his head is an Urne and under him a square table of black marble with a large Inscription thereon beginning thus Siste viator raro calcabis doctos simul mansuetos cineres c. Under all are piles of books On the stone that covers his grave is another Inscription beginning thus Hic jacet Thomas Lushingtonus olim Collegii Lincolniensis Pembr c. The copies of both which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 335. b. in the first of which is an high character given of him HENRY VAUGHAN Son of John Vaughan Gentleman was born at Cathle or Cathlin in Merionethshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in Midsum term 1632 aged 16 years whence being elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. continued there for some time under a severe discipline took the degrees in Arts was made Fellow of that house and afterwards became Preacher while King Ch. 1. kept his Court in Oxon in the time of the grand Rebellion In July 1643 he was presented by the Univ. of Oxon to the Vicaridge of Penteg in Monmouthshire by vertue of an Act made in Parl. began at Westm 5 of Nov 3 Jac. 1. to disinable Recusants to present Persons to Livings in their gifts What other Preferments he had or what he suffer'd for his Loyalty I know not nor any thing else of him only that he wrot Several Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at Oxon. on Math. 5.20 Ox. 1644. qu. c. Conference had between him and Jo. Tombes B. D. in S. Maries Church in Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-baptism Lond. 1656. qu. and that he died and was buried at Abergavenny about sixteen hundred sixty and one as I was some years since informed by his Pupil Sir Leolin Jenkyns sometimes Principal of Jesus Coll. afterwards Judge
what he had done and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire On Ap. 10. an 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne W. Prynne and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford By the first because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College By the second because he had furnished the Lords of the Council with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears c. and by the last because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle to the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service In the year 1642 leaving his Preb. of Westminster and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come he followed the King to Oxon where having little to live upon did by the Kings command write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus which had been begun by John Birkenhead who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries far more than Heylyn In the beginning of the year following 1643 he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm because of his retirement to the King and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate and seize upon his Goods Which Order being put in execution his incomparable Libâ—ary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth In 1644 hâ—s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded his hopes of rising higher in the Church were totally blasted So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate he stuck to his temporal for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall and to the earning of money by writing books In 1645 he left Oxon and shifted from place to place like the old travels of the Patriarchs and in pity to his necessity some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies he left them in a disguise and being entertained by several Loyalists removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647 where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books the publishing of which especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio was a great relief to him Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court which being but five miles from Oxon he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure either from Shops the Libraries of acquaintance there particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll. or by his repair to Bodlies Library and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England and the true genuine sense thereof Afterwards he suffer'd in his Estate by Decimation which trick being brought up by Oliver while Protector many Families thereby especially such that had before compounded were thereby undone In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his spiritualities but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster which was a wonder to many and a great discontent to him and his but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther He was a Person endowed with singular gifts of a sharp and pregnant wit solid and clear judgment In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet but very conceited and pragmatical in his elder a better Historian a noted Preacher and a ready or extemporanean Speaker He had a tenacious memory to a miracle whereunto he added an incredible patience in study in which he persisted when his Eye-sight failed him He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes tho of very mean port and presence and therefore by some of them he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative either in their afflicted or prosperous estate a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks a despiser of envy and in mind not at all discouraged He writ many books upon various Subjects containing in them many things that are not vulgar either for stile or argument and wrot also History pleasant enough but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme His works which are very many are these Spurius a Tragedie Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed Theomachia a Com. Made in the year 1618 but not printed Microcosmus A description of the great World Oxon. 1622. 24 c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio entit Cosmography in four books Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand 1651 for after it was finished his eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church and opposition of the present Lond. 1631. and 33. qu. The institution of the most noble Order of S. George named the Garter Printed with the former Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging Printed also with the Hist of St. George 1631. and 33. In which last edition is at the end A review of the whole work consisting of additions and emendations On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day the Author of the said History and its adjuncts was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London a great incourager of learning and industry to his Majesty being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall to whom he did present them Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book he did graciously accept of it and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster and was used by
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâ—over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
restauration for want of conformity He was a conceited whimsical person and one very unsetled in his opinions sometimes he was a Presbyterian sometimes an Independent and at other times an Anabaptist Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people At other times having received revelations as he pretended he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses and upon pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire whose daughter Henry the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week At which the Gentlemen being well pleased they and others always after called him Doomesday Sedgwick and the rather for this reason that there were others of his sirname that pretended to prophecy also He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Zions deliverance and her friends duty or the grounds of expecting and means of procuring Jerusalems restauration Preached at a publick Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons on Isaiah 62.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man in eleven Sermons Lond. 1648. oct These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22 c. The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the nations opening all wounds of this Kingdom and of every party and applying a remedy to them c. Lond. 1648 qu. This book as soon as 't was published which was in the latter end of 1647 the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal which as he said if his Majesty would please to read might as he imagined be of much advantage to him and comfort in that his disconsolate condition The King thereupon came forth and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book After he had read some part thereof he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment By what I have read in this book I believe the author stands in some need of sleep These words being taken by the author in the best sense he departed with seeming satisfaction The next day came one John Harrington Esq Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account desired to have some discourse with his Majesty but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mention'd that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian thanked him likewise for his good intentions without discoursing with him upon any point Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness withdrew Justice upon the Army-remonstrance or a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways c. Lond. 1649 qu. A second view of the Army-remonstrance or justice done to the Army wherein their principles are new model'd brought out of obscurity into clearer light c. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former but in such a canting fashion that I know not what to make of it unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way Animadversions on a letter and paper first sent to his Highness Oliv. Cromwell by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers c. Lond. 1656 qu. Animadversions upon a book intit Inquisition for the blood of our Soveraign Lond. 1661. oct What other things this our author hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent but leaving that place about 1668 retired to London where he soon after died I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Baylie in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London on the 14 of Sept. 1618 became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632 where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline went thence to Hart Hall for a time and took the degree of Mast of Arts an 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders Afterwards he retired to the great City became a florid and very ready Preacher and at the turn of the times was insnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King and those by the Parliament to treat about Peace an 1644 he was present and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversie he was fully convinced of his error chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond So that then being in the 26 year of his age he immediately as 't is said upon his return to London preached a Recantation Sermon and ever after even in the worst of times he attested his loyalty to the King and conformity to the Church in discipline as well as in doctrine in his ministerial function Of these matters I have been informed by his friend but this must be known that in all or most of the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London and tho frequented by some Loyalists yet by more Presbyterians His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church which was called The Loyal Lecture whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2 he preached his funeral Sermon In the year 1660 he by his forward endeavours got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners appointed by the City of London to the Hague in order to his Majesties restauration And being there on a Sunday 20. May he with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly that there was not any one present but admired his elegancy and learning and
Sermons as 1 Christ exalted by the Father God the Father glorified and Mans redemption finished preached before the L. Mayor of Lond. Lond. 1649. qu. c. Christ and Moses excellency or Sion and Sinah's glory being a triplex treatise distinguishing and explaining the two Covenants of the Gospel and the Law c. Lond. 1650. oct Dialogue between Christ and a Publican and Christ and a doubting Christian Common-prayer book no divine service A small curb to the Bishops career c. Lond. 1660. in 5 sh in qu. The bird in the cage chirping c. Lond. 1661 2. oct Written while he was in Prison The Sufferers Catechisme Written also when he was in Prison Brief Narrative concerning the proceedings of the Commissioners in Wales against the ejected Clergy Written upon the spreading of a report that he was put in the Fleet Prison for a great part of the Revenew of the Tythes of Wales from which aspersion as the Brethren called it tho a friend of his had written a Pamphlet called Examen purgamen Vavasoris an 1653 yet not knowing how far such a report might influence to the reproach of the Gospel he did publish the said Pamphlet The young-mans conflict with the Devil Printed in oct This I have not yet seen Sinful and sinless swearing An Account of his Conversion and Ministry Lond. 1671. oct 'T is a canting and enthusiastical piece A confession of Faith concerning the holy Scriptures Printed with the said Account as also two little Appendices Some gracious experimental and very choice Sayings and Sentences Pr. also with the said Account Certain Hymns There also His death-bed Expressions A new and useful Concordance of the Bible with the chief acceptations and various significations contained therein Also marks to distinguish the commands promises and threatnings Lond. 1671 and 73. oct This was mostly done by V. Powell but finished by N. P. and J. F. c. Commended to the world by Edw. Bagshaw and J. Hardcastle and afterwards by Jo Owen D. D. Collection of those Scripture-Prophecies which relate to the call of the Jews and the glory that shall be in the latter days Printed at the end of the said Concordance to which was afterwards 1673 added near nine thousand Scriptures omitted in the former Edition with the addition of the Scripture Similies c. The most ingenious Mrs. Kath. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan hath among her Poetry a Poem upon the double murder of K. Ch. 1 in answer to a libellous copy of rimes made by V. Powel but in what book those rimes are or whether they were printed by themselves I cannot tell He died in the Fleet prison before mention'd on the 27 of Oct. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at the lower or west end of the fanatical burial place near to Bunhill and the New Artillery garden in the Suburb of London in the presence of innumerable Dissenters that then followed his corps Over his grave was soon after erected an altar-monument of free stone on the plank of which was engraven this epitaph made by his dear friend E. Bagshaw before mention'd Vavasor Powell a successful teacher of the past a sincere witness of the present and an useful example to the future age lies here interred who in the defection of so many obtained mercy to be found faithful for which being called to several prisons he was there tried and would not accept deliverance expecting a better resurrection In hope of which he finished this life and testimony together in the eleventh year of his imprisonment and in the 53 year of his age Octob. 27. an 1671. In vain Oppressors do themselves perplex To find out arts how they the Saints may vex Death spoils their plots and sets the oppressed free Thus Vavasor obtain'd true liberty Christ him releas'd and now he 's joyn'd among The martyr'd Souls with whom he cries How long Rev. 6.10 I have been informed by M. Ll who knew and was acquainted with V. Powell that he was wont to say that there were but two sorts of people that had Religion viz. the gathered Churches and the Rom. Catholicks and would not allow it to the Church of England men or to the Presbyterians He farther informed me that when he preached a mist or smoak would issue from his head so great an agitation of spirit he had c. and therefore 't was usually reported by some especially those that favoured him that he represented the Saints of old time that had rayes painted about their heads JOHN HARMAR an excellent Greecian of his time was born at Churchdowne commonly called Chursden near to and in the County of Glocester educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became a Semicommoner or Demie of Magd. Coll. 1611 aged 17 years or more being then about an years standing in the University took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1617 which was the highest Acad. degree he took tho afterwards he was always called by the name of Doctor Harmar About that time he entred into holy Orders was Usher of the School joyning to his College and a Preacher for some time in these parts At length he became the chief Master of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire and thro some petite and pedagogical employments of which the under-Mastership of the Coll. school at Westm was one the Kings Greek Professor of this University and Rector of the Donative of Ewhurst in Hampshire the Patron of which being a convicted Recusant the Vicechancellor and Masters did elect and present him thereunto 30 March 1659 by virtue of the Chancellours letters Rich. Cromwell whom he highly flatter'd written in his behalf But losing those two places after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 he retired to Steventon in Hampshire where he mostly lived on the Joynture of his wife He was a most excellent Philologist and a tolerable Latine Poet was happy in rendring Greek into Latine or Latine into English or English into Greek or Latine whether in prose or verse which we now call transversing and transprosing But as in these he did excell and therefore often made use of by Scholars so did he go beyond all that I knew of his condition that affected popular applause he being of so credulous a humour as to take all that was said or done to him to redound to his honour and credit much like the humour of Tom Coryate who was a Whetstone for the Wits of his time Besides all this he being also a meer Scholar and therefore mostly in a poor and shabbed condition whether in his way of living or habit he flatter'd all Men and Powers that were uppermost whether lawful or usurping and endeavoured to make himself known to all Patrons of Learning if it were only for a meals meat or gain applause He hath written and published these things following Praxis Grammatica verum genuinum declinationum conjugationum usum liquidò indicans c. cum
of Aldermary while he was Chapl. to Archb. Laud. Which Serm. being esteemed a blasphemous piece by the puritanical party of the said Parish they complained of it to the said Archbish who instead of having him punished was made said they Canon of Windsore and afterwards when the Archbishop's Writings were seized on at Lambeth the Sermon was found lying on his Table But this I presume was never printed He hath also written A Key to the Kings Cabinet or animadversions upon the three printed speeches of Mr. L'isle Mr. Tate and Mr. Brown Members of the H. of Commons spoken at a Common hall in London 3 July 1645 detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous Observations upon the K. and Queens letters Oxon 1645. qu. The said Speeches were spoken by Joh. L'isle Zouch Tate and Mr. Browne Our Author Th. Browne wrot also a treatise in defence of H. Grotius against an Epistle of Cl. Salmasius De posthumo Grotii published under the name of Simplicius Virinus Hag. 1646. in oct But the said Treatise or Answer I have not yet seen nor was he known to be the Author of it till after his death at which time Isaac Vossius to whom he had sent a printed copy of it formerly but never told him who was the Author found the Manuscript of it written with his own hand with a Title page owning himself therein to be the Author of it Dissertatio de Therapeutis Philonis adversus Henricum Valesium Lond. 1687. oct Put at the end under the name of Tho. Bruno of the interpretation of S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians made by Pat. Junius Gottifredus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius published by Paulus Colomesius Our Author Browne also did translate from Lat. into Engl. Camden's second Vol. of the Annals of Qu. Elizabeth from the beginning of the year 1589 to the end of 1602 Which Translation bears this Title Tomus alter idem Or the history of the life and raigne of that famous Princess Elizabeth c. Lond. 1629. qu. To which Translation our Author Browne added An Appendix containing Animadversions upon several passages corrections of sundry errours and additions of some remarkable matters of the History before mention'd never yet printed He died at Windsore on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried without and on the south side of the Kings Free-Chappel there dedicated to S. George Over his grave was soon after erected at the charge of Dr. Isaac Vossius Canon of that Chappel sole Executor to our Author Browne a monument of free stone with a plank of marble thereon joyning to the south wall between two Buttresses of the Chappel and an inscription engraven upon it made by the said Vossius from which I am informed that he the said Browne was esteemed by all that knew him Vir apprimè doctus eruditus Criticus acutus facundus Orator felix Philologus Antiquitatum Chronologiaeque cultor solertissimus Aenigmatum Dilemmatumque conscientiarum dubitantium Oedipus admodum Christianus c. One Tho. Browne was elected from Eaton School into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1550. was afterwards Master of Westminster School Prebendary of the collegiat Church there 1565 Doctor of Div. and a worthy and learned Divine He wrot a Tragedy called Thebais and dying in 1584 or thereabouts was buried at Westminster What relation there was between this and the former Thom. Browne I know not nor whether he was related to another Thom. Browne whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1682. JAMES JANEWAY a Ministers son was born as it seems at Lilly or Lulley in Hertfordshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1655. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and became Tutor for a time to one George Stringer in his mothers house at Windsore the same I mean who was afterwards a Commoner and M. of A. of the said College So that our author who had all his education under Presbyterians and Independents did after his Majesties restauration set up a Conventicle at Redriff near London where to the time of his death he was much resorted to by those of his persuasion and admired for a forward and pretious young man especially by those of the female sex His works are Several Sermons as 1 Death unstung preached at the funeral of Tho. Mousley an Apothecary with a brief narrative of his life 2 Serm. at the funeral of Tho. Savage 3 The duties of Masters and Servants on Ephes 6. ver 5.6 7.8.9 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674 and 76. 4 Mans last end fun Serm. on Psal 89 48. Lond. 1675. oct Heaven upon Earth or the best friend in the worst of times Lond. 1670. c. oct Delivered in several Sermons A token for Children being an exact account of the conversion holy and exemplary Lives and joyful deaths of several young children Lond. 1671. the first part in oct The second part was printed there also in 8o. an 1672. Invisible realities demonstrated in the holy life and death of Mr. John Janeway Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Lond. 1673. c. oct This Jo. Janeway who was elder brother to James our author was born at Lilly in Hertfordshire 27. Oct. 1633 bred in Paules School under Mr. Joh. Langley became a zealous Presbyterian and dying in June 1657 was buried in Kelsall Church in Hertfordsh This life is recommended to the world with an Epistle written by Mr. Rich. Baxter The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service with motives and meanes to Christian activity To which is added as an example to prove the point handled The death-bed experiences of Mistris B. Lond. 1673. oct Legacie to his Friends containing 27 famous instances of Gods providences in and about Sea-dangers and deliverances with the names of several that were Eye-witnesses to many of them Lond. 1674. 75 oct Before which book is the authors picture in a cloak aged 38 years and at the end of it is a Sermon intit Sea-dangers and deliverances on Acts 27.18.19.20 by Joh. Ryther a Nonconformist of Wapping near London The said Legacie is several times made use of by Increase Mather in his Essay for the recording of illustrious providences Saints memorials or words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divers sentences Lond. 1674. oct Edm. Calamy Ralph Venning and Jos Caryl had a hand besides Janeway in the said memorials He died on the sixteenth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried 4 days after in the Church of S. Mary in Aldermanbury within the City of London near to the grave of his father At which time his friend Mr. Nath. Vincent preached his funeral Sermon which being extant the reader may satisfie himself more of the character of Mr. Janeway therein Several Elegies I have seen that were made on his death as that by Ralph Venning who saith
stayed an year longer or more would have destroyed all that were to be saved by falling upon them for he was a great Dilapidator suffered some of the Offices Stable and Wood-house to fall made Hey-lofts of the Chambers and suffered one side of the Hall the assembling room to drop down Insomuch that Dr. Edw. Fulham who succeeded him at the Kings restauration was forced to build it up in the first month he had it and Mr. Fr. Carswell in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham spent about 150 l. to make the house habitable He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court neglecting his tithes and put whims into the peoples heads that they were Romish and Antichristian and only pleased himself in taking presents of the peoples free will offering as most becoming the Gospel By these courses he had almost ruined a good Vicaridge for there are but few there now but what are so principled as they think it a piece of service to the establish'd Religion to cheat or rob the Church and an age is scarce able to repair that mischief which he hath done there as other Saints elsewhere I have been informed from that place by a very good hand that he was a man very censorious and ready to damn all those that did not comply with him in his fancies also that he always denied to pay and cheated the wife of Mr. Faringdon his Predecessor in the Vicaridge of her fifths or fifth part of the revenews of the said Vicaridge which he by Law was to pay and she to receive and he thought it a sin to pay her being the wife of one of the Antichristian Crew of the Ch. of England tho she lived near him and he knew full well that she had five or six small Children ready to starve and her Husband a learned man He would not administer the Sacrament in the Church to his Parishioners nor baptize their Children unless they were of his private Church and would not so much as keep company with or come near those that were not of his mind He hath left an ill name behind him and none there have any esteem for his memory only Anabaptists Quakers or such that tend that way In this course he continued till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then leaving the place to prevent Ejection he retired to Uxbridge where he carried on the trade among the Brethren either more or less to the time of his death His printed works are these Gate to Sciences Written when he was a Schoolmaster The Childs patrimony laid out upon the good nurture or tilling over the whole man In two parts Lond. 1640. qu. c. This came out afterwards again with the title alter'd Vestibulum or a manuduction towards a fair Edifice by their hands who are designed to open the way thereunto Printed with The Childs Patrimony The Churches Thanksgiving to God her King c. Lond. 1642. qu. The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of all men c. Ibid. 1643. qu. Three Kingdoms made one by the Covenant c. Pr. 1643. Cause use and cure of fear c. Pr. 1643. The Kings Chronicle in two sections Wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good Kings of Judah fully declared with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon c. Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of Parliam and written purposely to point out the bad actions of his Majesty who then stood in his own defence against the inveterate Presbyterians and tumultuous factions in London The Sons patrimony and daughters portion c. Lond. 1643. qu. Inquiries into the causes of our miseries c. Lond. 1644. qu. Written partly against a book entit An antidote against the contagious air of Independency c. by D. P. P. Lond. 1644. qu. Short Letter intreating a friends judgment upon Mr. Edwards book call'd Antipologia with a large but modest answer thereunto c. Lond. 1644. qu. Lords-day the Saints holy-day Christmas an Idol-day c. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time came out Christmas-day the old Heathens feasting-day in honor to Satan their Idol-God c. Whether written by Woodward quaere A just account in truth and peace by Brethren lovers of and fellow-helpers to both why they must open themselves to the view of the world speaking to them as the house top c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Appeal to the Churches of Christ for their righteous judgment in matters of Christ the concernments of all his glory over whom there is a defence whether Christs way be not poured forth in scripture to be traced by the footsteps of his near ones Pr. at Lond. in qu. Conference of some Christians in Church fellowship about the way of Christ with his people and the result therefrom c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Infant baptism and the first quere thereupon Whether all Parents how notorious soever for wickedness are priviledged upon account of their own baptism to present their infants thereunto The negative maintained Pr. at Lond. in qu. An inoffensive answer to remove offences taken from some passages in a printed book other some from report which are cleared to be wholly mistaken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the practical use of Infant baptisme in his Postscript to his scond part p. 103. c. Lond. 1657. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen and had others fit for the press lying by him at the time of his death which hapning at Uxbridge in Middlesex 29 of March in sixteen hundred seventy and five aged 87 years or thereabouts his body was carried to Eaton near Windsore and buried in the Churchyard there near the grave of his sometimes wife Frances Woodward who was as I have been told inter'd some years before him in the said yard He had one only daughter named Frances who became the second wife of John Oxenbridge Fellow of Eaton Coll. and dying in child-bed in the 25 year of her age was buried in the Chappel there and hath a monument over her grave as I have before told you HENRY BEESLEY son of Rob. Beesl Chaplain of Merton Coll was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in the City of Oxon 22 Jul. 1605 and in Mich. term 1621 was made either Clerk or Portionist of the said College where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts retired to S. Albans Hall took the degree of Master as a member thereof and was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrae filii in the Act following Soon after he became Tutor in the Country to Tho. Pope the young Earl of Downe whose Guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq did for the great care he took on his Pupil bestow on him the Rectory of Swerford near to Châ—pping-Norton in Oxfordshire which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed to his dying day Afterwards he became a sufferer in the time of the
men especially in Ministers of the Gospel on 1. Cor. 3.21 Lond. 1643. 45. 47. qu. 5 True old light exalted above pretended new light or a treatise of Jesus Christ c. in nine Sermons Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also as it seems a Sermon extant on 1. Cor. 7.14 which I have not yet seen only mention of it in the title of a book written by Mr. Baxter running thus Plain Scripture proof of Infant-Church membership and baptisme Being the whole arguments at a publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Beaudley and answers to his Sermon upon 1. Cor. 7.14 with all his letters by Messengers and his calling for answers in pulpit and in point with many things relating to Mr. Thomas Bedford and Dr. Ward and others upon that subject Printed 1652 or thereabouts and in an 1656. Two Treatises and an appendix to them concerning Infant-baptisme c. Lond. 1645. qu. Written mostly against Steph. Marshall Minister of Finchingfield in Essex An examen of a Sermon of Mr. Steph. Marshall about Infant-baptisme in a Letter sent to him in 4. parts Lond. 1645. qu. An apologie for two treatises and an appendix to them concerning Infant-baptisme published 15. Dec. 1645. against the unjust charges and complaints of Dr. Nathan Homes Mr. John Geree Stephen Marshall John Ley and William Husley together with a Postscript by way of reply to Mr. Blakes answer to Mr. Tombes Letter c. Lond. 1646. qu. See in Tho. Blake under the year 1657. p. 133. Exercitation about Infant-baptism in 12 arguments c. Lond. 1646. qu. A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings Supremacy Lond. 1649. qu. Antidote against the venome of a passage in the first direction of the Epist ded to Mr. Baxters book of the Saints everlasting rest Lond. 1650. qu. Praecursor or a forerunner to a large view of a dispute concerning Infantâ—baptism c. Lond. 1652. qu. Anti paedobaptisme or no plain or obscure scripture proof of Infants baptisme or Church membership being the first part of the full review of the dispute about Infant-baptisme c. against St. Marshall John Geree Rich. Baxter Tho. Cobbet Tho. Blake Josias Church Nath. Stephens c. Lond. 1652. qu. Anti-paedob or the second part of a full review and dispute concerning Infant baptisme c. against the Writings of St. Marshall Dr. Nath. Homes Dr. Daniel Featley Dr. H. Hammond Th. Blake Tho. Cobbet Rob. Bailee Joh. Brinsley Cuthb Sydenham Tho. Fuller c. Lond. 1654. qu. Anti-paedob or the third part being a full review of a dispute concerning Infant-bapt c. against St. Marshall Rich. Baxter J. Geree Th. Blake Th. Cobbet Dr. N. Homes John Drew Jos Church Will. Lyford Dr. D. Featley Jo. Brinsley C. Sydenham Will. Carter Sam. Rutherford Joh. Cragge Dr. H. Hammond Joh. Cotton Th. Fuller Jo. Stallam Tho. Hall and others c. Lond. 1657. qu. Refutatio positionis ejusd confirmationis paedobaptismum esse licitum affirmantis ab Hen. Savage S S. Th. D. in comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. mense Jul. 1652 propositae Lond. 1653. quart Plea for Anti-paedobaptists against the vanity and falshood of scribled Papers intit The Anabaptists anatomized and silenced in a publick dispute at Abergavenny in Monmouthshire 5 Sept. 1653 betwixt Mr. Joh. Tombes Joh. Cragge and Hen. Vaughan touching Infant-baptisme Lond. 1654. qu. Relation of a conference had between Joh. Tombes B. D. and Hen. Vaugen M. A. at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-bapt Lond 1656. oct Relation of a dispute had between Joh. Tombes B. D. Respondent and Joh. Cragge M. A. Opponent at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-bapt Lond. 1656. octav Animadversiones quaedam in Aphorismos Richardi Baxter de justificatione Published by the said Baxter without the Authors knowledge an 1658. I never saw this book only the mention of it made in our Authors Epist ded before his Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli. Short Catechisme about Baptisme Lond. 1659 in one sh in oct Felo de se Or Mr. Rich. Baxters self-destroying manifested in 20 Arguments against Infant-baptisme c. Lond. 1659. qu. A discussion of Mr. Rich. Baxters ten reasons of his practice about Infant baptisme delivered in a serm at Beaudley on Colos 3.11 Lond. 1659. qu. Romanisme discussed or an answer to the nine first Articles of H. T. Turbervill his Manual of controversies Lond. 1660. qu. Sephersheba or the oath-book Being a treatise concerning swearing c. Lond. 1662. qu. Delivered in 20 catechistical lectures at Lemster an 1636. Saints no smiters c. a treatise shewing the doctrine and attempts of Quinto-Monarchians or fift Monarchy-men about smiting Powers to be damnable and antichristian Lond. 1664. qu. Theodulia or a just defence of hearing the sermons and other teaching of the present Ministers of the Ch. of England against a book unjustly intit in Greek A Christian testimony against them that serve the image of the beast c. Lond. 1667. oct Emanuel or God-man A treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon Councils concerning the two Nativities of Christ is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine Lond. 1669. oct Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bullii cui titulum fecit Harmonia Apostolica c. Lond. 1676. oct What other things our Author Tombes hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died at Salisbury in sixteen hundred seventy and six and that he was buried on the 25 day of May in St. Edmunds Ch. yard there over against the Steeple on the north side at a good distance And lastly that soon after was put over his grave a flat stone with this Inscription thereon Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Tombes Bachelour of Divinity a constant Preacher of Gods word who deceased the 22 of May an 1676. aged 73. GILBERT COLES Son of Edm. Coles of Winchester Priest was born at Burfield in Berks educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1637 took the degrees in Arts and in 1648 or thereabouts became Fellow of the Coll. near Winchester but soon after was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Afterwards he was elected Fellow again by the Society of New Coll for the great respect they had for him he being about that time Rector of East-Meon in Hampshire and accounted by many a learned man Afterwards he became Rector of Easton near Winchester Doct. of Divinity and Rector of Ash in Surrey He hath written Theophilus and Orthodoxus or several conferences between two friends the one a true son of the Church of England the other faln off to the Church of Rome Ox. 1674. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church of Easton before mentioned Over his grave his widow soon after caused a stone to be laid with this Inscription thereon Gilb. Coles S. T. P. hujus ecclesiae Rector
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
and their better understanding they interrupted him and told him in plain terms they could not suffer his attendance any longer about the King With which proceedings and dismiss without acquainting him with the occasion 't was ill resented by the King who had Harrington in good esteem looking upon him as a Gentleman qualified with special parts and having found him trusty his service was the more acceptable yet blamed him nevertheless for not being more wary amongst men that were at such a time full of jealousies and very little obliging to his Majesty Being thus dismist and Herbert only left to attend the K. in his chamber I think he was never admitted again when the King was afterwards conveyed to Windsore and so to St. James's However he was with him on the Scaffold when he suffered death where or else a little before he received a pledge of his Majesties affection From that time always even when Oliver raigned he would speak of the said King with the greatest zeal and passion imaginable and would often say to his Companions that his death gave him so great grief that he contracted a disease by it and that never any thing went more near to him than the death of that most wise and pious Prince Before I go any farther with Harrington I will here make a little digression concerning the condition then of his Majesty Herbert was only then left to wait upon the K. in his Bed-chamber for the other two were before dismist who tho sickly and in an aguish condition yet he held out by his careful observing his Majesty's instructions without which as the times then were it had been impossible for him to have kept his station To this deplorable condition his Maj. being thus reduced he could not choose but have some melancholy apprehensions as indeed he had for accordingly about midnight there was an unusual noise in the said Hurst Castle that awakened him out of his sleep and was in some marvel to hear the Draw-bridg let down at that unseasonable hour and some Horsemen enter who being alighted the rest of the night was in a deep silence The King being desirous to know the matter he rung his silver bell long before break of day which with both his watches he usually laid upon a stool near the wax Lamp that was set near them in a large silver bason upon which call Herbert opened the Bed chamber door to know his Maj. pleasure The K. told him he would rise and as he was making ready he ask'd him if he heard the noise that was made about midnight Herbert answer'd he did as also the falling of the Draw-bridg but he being shut up in the back-stair room next to the Bed chamber and the door by the Governours order being bolted without he neither could nor would without his Maj. order adventure out at such a time of night The K. then bid him go and learn what the matter was which he did accordingly and knocking at the back-stair door the Soldiers unbolted it without so that entring into the next room he happily found Capt. Joh. Reynolds there alone by a fire and after some discourse he enquired of him who they were that came so very late into the Castle last night and their errand The Captain in a joking way bad him be wary in carrying news to the K. for he was among supercilious superintendants and his Comrade was served for an example Herbert thanked him for his friendly caution and at length got out of him who the Commander was that came so late into the Castle but would not discover what his business was Whereupon he returned to his Majesty and told him it was Major Tho. Harrison that came so late into the Castle Are you sure it was Major Harrison said the King May it please your Majesty said Herbert Captain Reynolds told me so the K. then making a little pause said then I believe it but did you see Major Harrison No Sir said Herb. Then the K. said Would not Capt. Reynolds tell you what the Major's business is Herbert then replied that he did what he could to be informed but all that he could then learn from the Captain was that the occasion of Harrisons coming would be known suddenly The King said no more but bad him attend in the next room and forthwith his Maj. went to his prayers In less than an hour the K. opened the Bed-chamber door and beckoned to Herbert to come in and make him ready Herbert was in some consternation to see his Maj. so much discomposed and wept which the K. observing asked him the meaning of it Herbert replied because I perceive your Maj. so much concerned at the news I brought said the K. thereupon I am not afraid but do you not know that this is the man Harrison who intendeth to assasianate me as by letter I was informed during the late Treaty To my knowledge I never saw the Major tho I have often heard of him nor ever did him injury The Commissioners indeed hearing of it represented it from Newport to the House of Lords what satisfaction he gave them I cannot tell this I can that I trust in God who is my helper I would not be surprised but this is a place fit for such a purpose Herbert I trust to your care go again and make farther enquiry into this business Immediately after Herbert went out and finding an opportunity to speak in private with Capt. Reynolds who being a Gent. well educated and at all essays ready to express civility towards the King with whom he most times walked upon a long narrow passage of stony ground joyning to the Castle and was always courteous to his servants he told him that the Major's business was to remove the King thenee to Windsore Castle within three days at farthest Herbert believing the King would be well pleased with the exchange by leaving the worst to enjoy the best Castle in England returned to his Majesty with a mirthful countenance little imagining God knows the sad consequence but as soon as the King heard Windsore named he seemed to rejoyce at it The Major tarried two nights at Hurst Castle and when it was dark having given orders for the Kings removal he departed to the place from whence he came and what passed between the King and him in his Majesties going from Hurst Castle to Windsore you shall have an account hereafter Now let 's return to our Author Harrington who when he thought that after the death of his Master Monarchy would never be restor'd he followed his own genie which chiefly laid towards the Politicks and Democratical Government He made several Essays in Poetry as in writing of Love verses and translating of Virgils Eclogues but his muse was rough and Harry Nevill an ingenious and well-bred Gentleman and a good but conceited Poet being his familiar and confident friend disswaded him from tampring with Poetry and to apply himself to the improvement of
provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum Manuale Missionariorum Regularium praecipuè Anglorum S. Francisci c. Printed 1658 and at Doway 1661. in octav Apologia episcoporum seu sacri magistratus propugnatio c. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct Liber dialogorum seu summa veteris Theologiae dialogismis tradita Duac 1661. in oct Problemata scholastica controversialia speculativa c. Corollarium dialogi de medio statu animarum c. Paralipomena philosophica de mundo peripatetico This was published at Doway under the name of Francisc Coventriensis an 1652. in oct All these except the three first most of which had been printed in little volumes by themselves were printed in two volumes in fol. at Doway an 1665 which cost the author having no contribution given him towards the press 220 l. Religio philosophiae Peripati discutienda in qua offertur epitome processus historiae celeberrimi miraculi à Christo nuperrimè patrati in restitutione Tibiae abscissae sepultae ab Aristotile in suis principiis examinati Duac 1662. oct Supplementum Historiae Provinciae Angliae in quo est chronosticon continens catalogum praecipua gesta Provincialium Fr. Min. Provinciae Angliae Duac 1671. fol. to be put at the end of Fragmenta seu Hist Min. c. Disputatio de antiqua Provinciae praecedentia Printed there also the same year and to be put in the same vol. at the end of Supplementum Hist This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh an 1670. Enchiridion of Faith in a dialogue concerning christian religion Printed under the name of Franc. Coventrie 1655. oct Explanation of the Romane Catholic belief Printed 1656 and 1670 in one sh in oct 'T is reported by a nameless author that he S. Clara wrot and published The Christian Moderator or persecution for Religion condemned c. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec edit and that he whom he calls that famous or rather infamous Priest presented one of them to a Lady who told it to a reverend Minister of this City London that he was the author of that book But let this Anon. say what he will sure I am that I have been informed by R. Catholicks of unquestionable veracity that neither he nor William Birchley was the author but one John Austen born at Walpole in Marshland in the County of Norfolk and bred in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge which house he leaving and his religion too about 1640 entred himself into the Society of Lincolns Inn with intentions to follow the municipal Laws but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was driven thence It is to be noted by the way that this Austen being a man of good parts and much in esteem with the R. Catholicks he did write and publish several books that is to say besides the three parts of The Christian Moderator which he put out under the name of W. Birchley 1 Two vol. of Devotions after the old way printed in octavo and afterwards reprinted in 1672 with a preface to them written by Joh. Sergeant He also wrot a third volume which is not yet published 2 Treatise in behalf of the oath of Allegiance 3 Letter from a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a friend written in the time of war and other things among which must not be forgotten A punctual Answer to Dr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of Faith c. Six or seven sheets of which were printed off but for what reason all were not finished I cannot tell He died in his house in Bow street in Cov. Garden near London in the summer time an 1669 and was buried in the Ch. of S. Paul there Two parts of the said Christian Moderator being esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a venemous potion as full of dangerous Ingredients c. was examin'd and animadverted upon in a book called Legend◠lignea c. p. 29.30 c. One Will. Austen of Linc. Inn Esq who died 16 Jan. 1633 wrot Devotionis Augustinianae flamma or certain devout and learned Meditations c. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but of what kin he was to John I know not As for our author Christop Davenport alias Sancta Clara who mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt and sometimes by that of Coventrie died in Somerset house in the Strand near London on the 31 of May early in the morning being then Whitmunday in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried not according to his desire in the Vault under Somerset house Chappel which the Queen opposed but in the Church belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the said Strand It was his desire many years before his death to retire to Oxon in his last days there to die purposely that his bones might be laid in S. Ebbes Church to which the mansion of the Franciscans or Grey Friers sometimes joyned and in which several of the Brethren were antiently interred particularly by those of his old friend Joh. Day a learned Frier of his order born at the Mill in the Parish of S. Cross alias Halywell near Oxon who was buried at the west end of the said Church near the Font an 1658 but troubles coming on by the breaking out of the Popish Plot his design was frustrated JOHN WILMOT Earl of Rochester Viscount Athlone in Ireland and Baron of Adderbury in Oxfordshire was born at Dichley near Wodstock in the said County .... Apr. 1648 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Burford under a noted Master called John Martin became a Nobleman of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Phineas Bury Fellow and inspection of Mr. Blandford the Warden an 1659 actually created Master of Arts in Convocation with several other noble persons an 1661 at which time he and none else was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellour of the University Clarendon who then sate in the supreme chair to honour that Assembly Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and at his return frequented the Court which not only debauched him but made him a perfect Hobbist and was at length made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and Controller of Wodstock Park in the place of Sir W. Fleetwood deceased He was a person of most rare parts and his natural talent was excellent much improved by learning and industry being throly acquainted with all classick Authors both Greek and Latine a thing very rare if not peculiar to him among those of his quality He knew also how to use them not as other Poets have done to transcribe and steal from but rather to better and improve them by his natural fancy But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temper unhappily inclining him to the excesses of Pleasure and Mirth which with the wonderful pleasantness of his unimitable humour did so far engage the affections of the Dissolute towards him that to
before the said Epistle congratulatory c. Printed at Oxon 1684. qu. Which Epistle was written as I have been informed by a Scottish Writer since I wrot these things by John Maxwell Bishop of Ross in Scotland who therein compares the Presbyterians to the Jesuits Sed qu. ANTHONY SADLER son of Tho. Sadl of Chilton in Wilts was born in that County entred in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler in Lent term 1627 admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders an 1631 being then 21 years of age Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire and in the beginning of the Civil War Curat of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire was refused to pass by the Triers an 1654 and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey where I find him in much trouble an 1664 occasion'd by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place and afterwards to be Doctor of Div. and Chapl. extraord to his Majesty He hath written and published Inquisitio Anglicana or the disguise discovered shewing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers c. Lond. 1654. in three sh in qu. Several Sermons as 1 Benedictio Valedictio or the remembrance of thy friend and thy end being a farewell serm preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased on 2 Cor. 13.11 Lond. 1655. oct 2 Mercy in a miracle shewing the deliverance and duty of the King and People on Matth. 8.25 Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660 in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne c. A divine Masque Lond. 1660. qu ded to the Lord Gen. Monke Strange news indeed from Mitcham and Surrey of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham c. Lond. 1664. in one sh in qu. Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper written in English partly in verse and partly in prose This is the second or third edition but when the first came out I know not nor any thing else of the author only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty or thereabouts leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit RICHARD ALLESTRY or Allestree son of Robert son of Will. Allestry of Alveston in Derbyshire was born at Uppington near to Wreken in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning mostly in the Free-school at Coventry where Philem. Holland taught became a Commoner of Ch. Ch. in Lent term an 1636 aged 15 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Busby and about half an year after was made Student of that House In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for his Maj. under Sir Joh. Byron and when Oxford was garrison'd for the King he bore a musket among the Scholars for his service In 1643 he proceeded Master of Arts and the same year had like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon after he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the House but when the Parliament Visitors came under pretence of reforming the University he with hundreds more were ejected So that being put to his shifts he was soon after entertained as Chaplain to Francis Newport of Shropshire Esq afterward L. Newport of High-Arcal with whom continuing till Worcester fight he did after the Kings miraculous escape from the Rebells there attend him at Roan in Normandy and received his dispatches to the managers of his Affairs in England Soon after coming to Oxon where he found his friends Mr. Joh. Dolben and Mr. Jo. Fell living privately and performing the Offices of the Church of England to the loyal party there he joyned with them and continued there till Sir Anth. Cope of Hanwell near Banbury prevailed with him to live in his family which for several years he did having liberty allowed him to go or stay as his occasions required By which advantage he was enabled to step aside upon Messages from the Kings friends which he managed with courage and dexterity But in the Winter of 1659 being snapt at Dover in his return from his Majesty in Flanders he was examined by the Committee of the Council of Safety and committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he continued till things moved towards his Maj. restauration In 1660 he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and soon after actually created D. of Div and about that time made one of the Lecturers of the City of Oxon to instill principles of Loyalty among the Citizens who before had been led aside by schismatical Teachers In 1663 he being then one of the Kings Chaplains in ordinary became Reg. Prof. of Div. upon the death of Dr. Creed and two years after he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore upon the death of Dr. Joh. Miredith which was all the preferment he enjoyed being little enough for such a sufferer as he had been and one that had often ventured his neck to do his Majesty service He was a good and most affectionate Preacher and for many years by his prudent presiding in the Professors chair he did discover perhaps as much learning as any and much more moderation as to the five controverted points than most of his Predecessors He was also a person richly furnished with all variety of choice solid learning requisite to recommend him with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent Divines of our age He hath written and transmitted to posterity The privileges of the Univ. of Oxford in point of Visitation in a letter to an honorable personage Pr. in one sh and an half in qu. 1647. Whereupon W. Prynne came out with his University of Oxfords plea refuted c. and in answer to that R. Waryng wrot An account of Mr. Prynns refutation c. and Ed. Bagshaw sen with his Short censure c. Eighteen Sermons whereof 15 were preached before the King and the rest upon public occasions Lond. 1669. fol most of which had been before published singly Of the authority and usefulness of the Scripture serm on 2 Tim. 3.15 Oxon. 1673. qu. Forty Sermons whereof twenty one are now first published the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions Oxon. 1684. fol. These were published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxford and had the 19 sermons before mention'd added to with his picture before them He died in January in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in Eaton Coll. Chappel on the north side of the high Altar or Com. table Over his grave was
soon after laid a black marble stone with this engraven thereon Ricardu◠Allestree Praepositus obiit 28 Jan. 1680 And on the north wall was set up a white marble table with this inscription thereon H.S.I. Ricardus Allestree Cathedrae Theologicae in Universitate Oxoniensi Professor Regius Ecclesiae Christi ibidem Praebendarius Collegii hujus Etonensit Praepositus Muniis istis singulis ita par ut omnibus major In disputationibus irrefragabilis concionibus flexanimus negotiis solers vita integer pietate sanctus Episcopales infulas eadem industria evitavit qua alii ambiunt cui rectius visum Ecclesiam defendere instruere ornare quam regere Laboribus studiisque perpetuis exhaustus morte si quis alius praematura obiit vir desideratissimus Januarii xxviii an MDCLXXX aetatis LXI Nobile sibi monumentum areae adjacentis latus occidentale quod à fundamentis propriis impensis struxit vivu◠sibi statuit Brevem hanc tabellam haeredes Defuncto posuere The fabrick here mentioned was a new Grammar school which cost Dr. Allestry about 1500 l. Dr. Zach. Cradock of Cambridge who had been installed Canon resid of Chichester on the 11 of Febr. 1669 succeeded him in the Provostship of Eaton by vertue of the election thereunto of the Fellows so that Edm. Waller the Poet who had tug'd hard for it was put aside Of the same family with Dr. Allestree was another of both his names of Derby author of several Almanacks before the Rebellion began one of which for the years 1629 and 1633 I have seen but whether he was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell WILLIAM BEN or Benne was born at or near to Egremond in Cumberland in Nov. 1600 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at S. Bee transplanted thence to Qu. Coll. where if I am not mistaken he was a Servitour Afterwards leaving the place without a degree upon the obtaining a presentation to Okingham in Berks he setled there but one Bateman his contemporary in Oxon having got another Presentation thereunto they both rather than go to law did joyntly perform the duties and received the profits thence At length our Author Ben became Chaplain to the Marchiones of Northampton living in Somersetshire left his interest in Okingham to Bateman and continuing in the service of the said Marchiones till 1629 he did by vertue of a call from John White the Patriarch of Dorchester go to that place and by Whites endeavours was made Rector of Allhallowes Church there where he continued in great respect from the precise party till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 excepting only two years in which time he attended the said White when he was Rector of Lambeth in Surrey in the place of Dr. Featley ejected Besides his constant preaching at Allhallowes he preached gratis on a week-day to the Prisoners in the Goale situated in his Parish where being much frequented by the neighbourhood and so consequently the room wherein he held forth not spacious enough to contain the Auditory he caused a Chappel to be built within the Prison walls in good part at least at his own charge After his ejectment from Allhallowes for Nonconformity he lived in Dorchester to the time of his death but for his preaching in Conventicles there and in the neighbourhood he was often brought into trouble and sometimes imprison'd and fined He hath written Answer to Mr. Franc Bampfields letter in vindication of the Christian Sabbath against the Jewish Lond. 1672. 77. oct It is printed with the said Bampfields judgment for the observation of the Jewish Sabbath wherein Bens Answer begins p. 9. and ends in p. 86. Soul-prosperity in several sermons on Joh. 3.2 Lond. 1683. oct This book contains 12 sermons at least He died in the latter end of the year 22 of Mar. as I have been informed of sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the yard belonging to his sometimes Church in the antient Borough of Dorchester in Dorsetshire before mention'd What I have farther to observe of this perperson is 1 That he was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Dorsetsh and Pool for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters 2 That tho he lived to be 80 years of age yet he never used Spectacles tho he read and wrot much writing all his Sermons generally as large as he delivered them except the words of the texts of Scripture cited by him 3 That it was always his custom especially when he was at home to pray in his Study seven times in a day and in his prayers to give God thanks for certain deliverances of him from dangers which hapned 5 June 1636. 23 Oct. 1643 12 Aug. 1645 c. See more in Franc. Bampfield an 1683. JOHN DOBSON a Ministers son was born in Warwickshire became Demie of Magd. Coll. about 1653 perpetual Fellow in 1662 being then Master of Arts and a most celebrated Preacher and in the year after he did repeat memoriter in Dominica in Albis the four Easter sermons to the wonder of the auditory in the University Church of S. Mary In the month of Sept. the same year 1663 he was expel'd the University for being author of a Libel in vindication of Dr. Tho. Pierce against Dr. Hen. Yerbury so that all the credit that he before had gained by his preaching was lost among some but being soon after restored he continued in his Coll took the degree of Bach. of Div. and afterwards became Rector or Cold Higham near to Tocester in Northamptonshire and of Corscomb in Dorsetshire by the favour of Sir Will. Farmor of Easton Neston sometimes his Pupil if I mistake not in Magd. Coll. He hath written Queries upon Queries or Enquiries into Certain Queries upon Dr. Pierce's sermon at Whitehall Feb. 1. Lond. 1663. in two sh in qu. Dr. Pierce his preaching confuted by his practice Sent in a Letter by N. G. to a friend in London This was printed in half a sheet in qu. and was first published in Oxon. 28 Aug. 1663. It is written in prose and verse the beginning of the first is Dear George I send thee a copie of a Lampoon upon the President of Maudlins c. and the beginning of the other which is the Lampoon runs thus Near to the ford o're which an Ass Or an Ox at least did pass c. About 8 or 10 days after was published in Oxon. another libel intit Dr. Pierce his preaching exemplified in his practice Or an antidote to the poison of a scurrilous Pamphlet sent by N.G. to a friend in Lond. c. Which libel tho written by Dr. Pierce yet Dobson took it upon him upon a close inquisition after the author to save the Doctor whereupon the Vicech by his Bannimus dat 10 of Sept. 1663 stuck up in publick places in the University did expel the said Dobson and discommune for ever the Bookseller called Edmund Thorne living near the
dispersed THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michaels Cheap or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London on the 19 of Nov. an 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester entred a Commoner of Broadgates Hall soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll in the beginning of the year 1623 took the degrees in Arts as a Member of the said Coll entred on the physick line and practised that faculty for some time in these parts Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas was made Doctor of Physick at Leyden and after his return he was incorporated in this University an 1637. About which time he by the perswasions of Tho. Lushington his somtimes Tutor retired to the City of Norwych where being setled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physick which he practiced there with good success for many years was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physitians at London and at length in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2 then at and near the City of Norwych He hath written Religio Medici Lond. 1642. c. oct in English Answerd in a book intit Medicus Medicatus written by Alex. Ross a Scot and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby and Annotations by another Afterwards the book it self was translated into Latine by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge and had latine annotations put to it by a certain German who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct whose preface to it tells us that the book it self which is translated into French Italian Dutch German c. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men who have read it with great delight See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat Pseud Epidem Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed truths or enquiries into common and vulgar errours Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 c. The sixth edit in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations additions alterations c. T was answer'd by the said Alex. Ross in his Arcana Microcosmi Or the hid secrets of mans body discovered c. Lond. 1652 oct c. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit Eudoxa seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile c. Lond. 1656. oct The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name a book bearing this title Natures Cabinet unlocked wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metalls Stones Pretious Earths c. Printed 1657 in tw A dull worthles thing stole for the most part out of the Physicks of Magirus by a very ignorant person a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibbous and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Natures Cabinet c an arrogant and fanciful title of which our authors Browne true humilitie would have no more have suffer'd him to have been the father than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book For it is certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her Sir Tho. Browne hath written also Urn-burial or a discourse of Sepulchral Urns lately found out in Norfolke c. Lond. 1658. oct c. The Garden of Cyrus or the Quincunical Lozenge or Net-work plantations of the Antients artificially naturally mystically considered with sundry observations c. Printed with Urn-burial Certaine Miscellany Tracts 1 Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture 2 Of Garlands and coronary or garden-plants 3 Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples after his resurrection from the dead 4 Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes Birds Insects 5 Of Hawkes and falconry antient and moderne 6 Of Cymbals c. 7 Of ropalie or gradual verses c. 8 Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue 9 Of artificial Hills mounts or burrowes in many parts of England 10 What place is meant by that name 11 Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia 12 A prophecie concerning the future state of several nations 13 Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca abscondita c. All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct with the authors picture before them shewing him to have been an handsome man and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the authors life and that there are already some memorialls collected for that purpose by one of his antient friends and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses among which is his Repertorium or some account of the Tombes Monuments c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich This learned and worthy Physitian whose works were published in fol. 1686 with his picture also before them died in his house in Norwych on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried within the Railes at the East end of the Chancell in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy who had been his affectionate wife 41. years with this inscription thereon M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. Miles An. 1605 Londini natus generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus Scholâ primum Wintoniensi postea in Coll. Pembr apud Oxonienses bonis literis haud leviter imbutus in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam arte egregiâ faelici successu professus Scriptis quibus tituli Religio Medici Pseudodoxia Epidemica aliissque per orbem notissimus Vir pientissimus integerrimus doctissimus Obiit Octob. 19 an 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D a Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph which for brevity sake I shall now pass by THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City an 1630 educated in Paules School and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sate there he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650 and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts having some time before had the degree of M. of A. confer'd on him
c. These two Speeches are said to be printed at Amsterdam but were not 6 Speech in the H. of Lords 25. Mar. 1679. upon occasion of the Houses resolving it self into a grand Committee to consider of the state of England 7 Speech lately made by a noble Peer of the Realm Printed in half a sheet of paper in fol. like a Gazette in the latter end of Nov. 1680 The beginning of which is this My Lord in the great debate concerning the Kings Speech c. pretended to have been spoken in Parliament but 't was not Which Speech being full of rascallities was by order of the House of Lords burnt by the hand of the common Hangman before the Royal Exchange and in the Pallace-yard at West on the 4. of Dec. following Therein in the Shuboleth of factions which he could truly pronounce he had cajoled the Brethren of Scotland But in the latter end of Jan. following came out an answer to it by Anon. intit A Letter from Scotland written occasionally upon the Speech made by a noble Peer of this Realm written by a better Protestant than the author of it tho a servant to his Royal Highness the Duke of York Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament Oxon alias Lond. 1675. qu. The first discourse is thus entit The debate or arguments for dissolving this present Parliament and the calling frequent and new Parliaments The other discourse is A Letter from a Parliament man to his friend concerning the proceedings of the H. of Com this last Sessions began 13. Oct. 1675. The first discourse contains 10 pages the other seaven And tho no name is set to them yet it was very well known to all that Shaftesbury wrot them who tells us in the said Letter that the said Parliament consists of old Cavaliers old Round-heads indigent Cavaliers and true Country Gentlemen The first of which discourses if not both together with the Speech before mention'd on the 20. of Oct. 1675 and the protestation and reasons aforesaid are all answer'd in the body of a book which I shall anon mention entit A pacquet of Advices c. part 1. A Letter from a person of quality to his friend in the Country Printed 1675. qu. It contains 32 pages and speaks much in the praise of some of the temporal Lords but gibes at the spiritual bench particularly at Ward of Salisbury whom he makes a very rogue It is also chiefly as I remember against the Test and was published after the Parl. had been prorogued 22. of Nov. the same year It was answer'd by March Nedham in his pamphlet entit A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftesbury c. part 1. As for the Test it self which was the same with the corporation oath and part of the Declaration required to be subscribed in the Act of Uniformity only with this additional clause I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour an alteration of the government either in Church or State was brought into the House by Robert Earl of Lindsey but violently opposed by Shaftesbury altho this very clause too had passed the Parliament long before meeting with little opposition in a particular Bill which concerned only Nonconformist Preachers known by the name of The Oxford or The five-mile Act which hath been ever since so loudly clamoured against by that party His case at the Kings bench on his confinement to the Tower Lond. 1679 in 4. sh in fol. Expedient for the setling of the nation discoursed with his Majesty in the House of Peers at Oxford 24. March 1680. Lond. 1681 in one sh in qu. The expedient was for setling the Crown on James Duke of Monmouth No Protestant Plot or the present pretended conspiracy of Protestants against the Kings Government discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects Lond. 1680 in 4 sh and an half in qu. Tho no name is put to this yet the general report was that the Earl of Shaftesbury was the author or at least found materials for it and that his servant who put it in the Printers hands was committed to prison Not long after the publication thereof which was partly answer'd in a pamphlet intit A plea for succession in opposition to popular exclusion c. Lond. 1682 in 5 sh in folio came out by the same hand The second part of no Protest Plot c. Lond. 1682 in 4. sh and an half in qu. great part of which is concerning the duty and power of Grand Juries with reference still to the Earl of Shaftesbury Afterwards came out a third part in qu. containing about 20 sheets written as 't was vulgarly said by Rob. Ferguson a Scot by the appointment and consent of Shaftesbury which mostly reflects on the printed proceedings against Shaftesbury when the indictment of High Treason was charged against him It endeavours also at large to lessen the credit and invalidate the Testimony of those several witnesses which appeared against the said Earl when the before mention'd indictment was charged against him by representing them singly in the blackest and most malicious characters that can be It doth more than ordinarily reflect upon Edmund Warcup a Justice of Peace in Middlesex as if he had corrupted and managed most of the evidences against the said Count. He is also touched upon in the first and second part which I shall now for brevity sake omit and only tell you that all three parts contain chiefly a vindication of Shaftesbury as to his not being in the least concern'd in any plotting design against the King and that they are taken to task by Roger L'estrange in some of his Observators They were written as well as the bad subject of them could bear and the third part which is very libellous was answer'd by a pamphlet entit A letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages which have been published in a late libell entit The third part of no Protestant Plot. Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. Written chiefly in vindication of James Duke of Ormonde and his administration of affairs and government in Ireland A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England with particular reference to the Earl of Shaftesbury's case And a vindication of him from two pretended Letters of a noble Peer Lond. 1682 in 5. sh in fol. Which two letters supposed to belong to George Earl of Halyfax were doubtless forged and â—eigned only purposely to give Shaftesbury a greater liberty and scope of railing at and libelling the said Count. But this the reader must know that tho there is no name to this Modest account and therefore it cannot be reasonably fastned upon our author yet the general report was at its publication that 't was his and at that time it was judged to be so by Rog. L'estrange in two or three of his Observators weekly intelligences that then
Stilling fleets Irenicum c. against his late Sermon entit The mischief of separation against the author of The Christian temper said to be written by John Barret M. of A. in a Letter to a friend I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mention'd together with that of The peaceable design renewed c. wrot by John Humphrey with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first are to be found in the preface to the said Doctors Unreasonableness of separation c. Which characters as are thus given are reflected on by a short piece entit Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country in order to peace The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern with the institution of all its utensils and services their especial signification and end c. Lond. 1681. An enquiry into the original institution power order and communion of Evangelical Churches the first part Lond. 1681. qu. Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Stillingfleet Printed with the Enquiry Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and formes Lond. 1681. oct An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations or the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments in a discourse on Luke 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct Printed with the Discourse of the work c. The grace and duty of being spiritually minded declared and practically improved Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons A brief instruction in the Worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers Lond. 1682. oct c. Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ in his person office and grace with the difference between faith and sight applyed to the use of them that believe Lond. 1683. 84. c. oct Opus Posth Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sins reign is discovered in whom it is and in whom it is not how the law supports it how grace delivers from it by setting up its dominion in the heart Lond. 1688. oct The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled 1. The subject matter of the Church 2. The formal cause of a particular Church 3. Of the policy of the Church in general c. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book but by whom written I cannot tell A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the World its strength and weakness with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its publick national profession Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation or the second part of that book formerly printed the difference between faith and sight being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto converted sinners and Saints under spiritual decays in two chapters from John 17.24 Lond. 1691. oct Our author Dr. Owen with Dr. Tho. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Dr. Jo. Collings Mr. Pet. Vinke Joh. How Dav. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture in 2. vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole and carried on by him to the 58 chapt of Isaiah and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books by way of recommendation among which are his and Dr. Tho. Goodwins epist before Dr. T. Taylors works A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist commend with another by Mr. Baxter to The Christians dayly walk in holy security and peace written by Hen. Scudder Printed 1674. the eleventh edit An ep by way of recom to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale c. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him as they were delivered in a Sermon preach'd at his interment printed in two sh in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. Time-server general of England is not his but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews day in sixteen hundred eighty and three having a little before been knowing of and consenting to the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's where resting for some-time was on the 4. of Sept. following attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed to the Fanatical burying-place called by some Tyndales Burying-place joyning on the North side to the New Artillery-garden near London where it was buried at the East end thereof Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave covered with a black marble plank with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis ménsura parum communi instructus omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat 67. Besides this John Owen I find another of both those names Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen author of Immoderate mourning for the dead prov'd unreasonable and unchristian c. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23 Lond. 1680 in oct and perhaps of other things WILLIAM GUISE or Guisius as in his book following he is written Son of John Guise was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an 1669 aged 16 years afterwards Fellow of that of All 's Master of Arts and in holy Orders In 1680 he resign'd his Fellowship being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning but soon after cut off
additions with prefaratory discourses of Arms and Armory it was printed again at Oxon 1674. in 16 sh in qu. After this the Author growing wealthy and noted for a rich man became High-Sheriff of Wilts an 1680 whereupon suffering in his reputation by some of his neighbouring gentry he wrot and published Loyalty displayed and falshood unmask'd or a just Vindication of Tho. Gore Esq High-Sheriff of the County of Wilts in a letter to a friend Lond. 1681. in 1 sh qu. He gave up the ghost at Alderton before mention'd on the 31 of March Easter Munday in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church there among the graves of his Ancestors leaving then behind him several pieces of Heraldry of his own composure collections of Arms out of several Churches and Houses which he had made in his Journeys additions to and corrections of the books that he had published and a choice collection of Heraldry books and books relating to that faculty as well printed as in MS. WILLIAM CLARKE son of George Clarke by his wife the sister of Will. Prynne Esq was born at Swainswyke near Bathe in Somersetshire became a Communer of Oriel Coll an 1657 aged 17 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts 1661 and on the 30 of Mar. 1663 was made Fellow of his House About that time applying his mind solely to the study of Physick left his Fellowship three years after retired to his native Country and practised it in the City of Bathe where I saw him in 1678 and his book intit The natural history of Niter or a philosophical discourse of the nature generation place and artificial extraction of Niter c. Lond. 1670. oct Translated into Lat. and printed beyond the Seas after a full account of it had been made publick in the Philosophical Transactions numb 61. p. 2008. Afterwards the Author retired to Stepney near London in Middlesex where he practised his faculty with good success and dying on the 24 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there on the 27 of the same month He was usually called there Dr. Clarke but whether he ever took that degree elsewhere I cannot tell I am sure he was only Bach. of Arts of this University DANIEL WHISTLER son of Will. Whistl of Elvington in the Parish of Goring in the dioc of Oxford was born at Walthamstow in Essex educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in Jan. 1639 aged 20 years or thereabouts where going thro the severe exercise then kept up proceeded in Arts four years after About that time obtaining leave of his Society to travel he crossed the seas to Holland took the degree of Doctor of Phys at Leyden an 1645 and returning the year following to his Coll. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University 1647. Afterwards he submitted to the power of the Visitors appointed by Parliament kept his Fellowship tho absent became superior Reader of Lynacres Lecture but read not because he was practising his faculty in London and in 1653 he went as chief Physitian to the Embassy made by Bulstrode Whitlock into Sweedland After his return he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Fellow of the Royal Society when first instituted and at length upon the removal of Dr. Tho. Cox for being whiggishly inclined he was made President of the said College about S. Lukes day 1683. He hath written and published Disputatio medica inauguralis de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant The Rickets quam deo suppetias ferente c. Lond. 1645 and 1685. qu. This noted Doctor tho he had married a rich widdow and did obtain about 1000 l. per an by his practice many years before his death yet he died in the Coll. of Physitians very much in debt and worse than nothing on Sunday the eleventh day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried but a little better than in private towards the upper end of the north isle or alley joyning to the Church called Christ Church in London which is near the said Coll. of Phys THOMAS LYE son of Tho. Lye or Leigh was born at Chard in Somersetshire 25 of Mar. 1621 entred a Servitour of Wadh. Coll. under his learned and faithful Tutor Mr. George Ashwell in Mich. term 1636 elected scholar thereof 29 Jun. in the year following took one degree in Arts by the name of Tho. Leigh by which name also he had been matriculated went afterwards to Cambridge when Oxford was garrison'd for his Majesty took the degree of Master of Arts there in July 1647 being then or lately Master of the school at Bury S. Edm. in Suffolk returned afterwards to Oxon for preferment was made Chaplain of Wadh. Coll and incorporated Master of this University by the name of Tho. Lye in the month of May 1649. Soon after he was made Minister of Chard before mentioned and on the 24 of Aug. 1651 he preached a farewell sermon as being under the sentence of banishment because he would not swear against the beloved Covenant In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Somersetshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1658 upon the receipt of a Call he entred on the pastoral charge of Allhallowes Church in Lombard-street in London on the 20 of Nov. or thereabouts and by Act of Parl. of the 14 of March 1659 he was made one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way which Act being soon after annulled upon a foresight of his Majesties restauration he himself two years after was ejected for Nonconformity He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 The fixed saint held forth in a farewell Serm. at Allhallowes in Lombardstreet 17 Aug. 1662 on Phil. 4.1 Lond. 1662. qu. It was reprinted the same year in octavo among other farewell Sermons at Barthelmew tide with his picture very like him with other pictures of Nonconformists that then preached in and near London set in the title 2 Sermon on Luke 17.10 Printed in The morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 3 By what spiritual rules may catechising be best managed on Prov. 22.6 Printed in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 4 The true believers union with Christ on 1 Cor. 6.17 Pr. in The morning exercise at S. Giles in the fields near Lond. in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. In which Morn exerc one John Tillotson hath also a sermon An explanation of the shorter Catechisme composed by the Assembly of Divines 1647. With a plain and familiar method of instructing the younger sort in that Cat. Lond. in oct Several times printed The Childs delight together with an English Grammar Lond. in oct Several times printed A new
tye of friendship than blood perhaps could do His genie was then much inclining to the Mathematicks which being as 't were natural to him he quickly and easily obtained them Mr. Cha. Scarborough then an ingenious young Student and Fellow of Caies Coll. in the same University was his great acquaintance and both being equally Students in that faculty and desirous to perfect themselves they took a journey to Mr. Will. Oughtred living then at Albury in Surrey to be informed of many things in his Clavis Mathematica which seemed at that time very obscure to them Mr. Oughtred treated them with great humanity being very much pleased to see such ingenious young men apply themselves to those studies and in short time he sent them away well satisfied in their desires When they returned to Cambridge they afterwards read the Clav. Math. to their Pupils which was the first time that that book was read in the said University Mr. Laur. Rook a disciple of Oughtred I think and Mr. Ward 's friend did admirably well read in Gresham Coll. on the sixth Chapt. of the said book which obtained him great repute from some and greater from Mr. Ward who ever after had an especial favour for him In 1643 he with the Master and several of his Coll. were for the Kings Cause imprison'd in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and ejected from their several places much about which time he and Mr. P. Gunning Mr. Is Barrow Mr. Jo. Barwick c. did write a well pen'd treatise against the Covenant which was made publick After his release he was civilly and kindly received by his friend and neighbour Ralph Freeman of Aspden in Hertfordshire Esq and upon the ceasing of the Civil War he was entertained in the quality of a Chaplain to Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire In 1649 his mind being then changed as to orthodox Principles he by friends made to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon became Astronomy Professor thereof in the place of Mr. Joh. Greaves then ejected who upon an infallible foresight that he should be turn'd out put Ward upon to gain it because he would be sure as far as his power laid to get an able Successor and about that time he entred himself a Gentleman Commoner in Wadham Coll for the sake of VVilkins then Warden of that House In Oct. the same year he was incorporated Master of Arts and admitted to his Professorship and soon after took the Independent Oath called the Engagement the effect of which was to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. in which year Mr. Joh. Wallis the other Savilian Professor proceeding also fell out a Controversie between them occasion'd by Wallis who should have seniority which being decided by the Vicechanc. on VVards behalf VVallis went out grand Compounder and so got superiority as I shall largely tell you in the Fasti of that year In 1656 or thereabouts he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg the silenc'd Bishop of Exeter the Chantorship of that Church then void and in the year following gaining an interest among the Fellows of Jesus Coll. he was elected by them to be their Principal upon the resignation of Dr. Mich. Roberts but Franc. Howell of Exeter Coll. an Independent got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector In 1659 he was elected President of Trin. Coll. by a majority of Fellows made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bashurst but being soon after forced to leave that place to make room for the right owner Dr. Han. Potter who had in a most woful manner endured great hardship from the time of his ejection in 1648 the Politician retired to the great City where he became Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich and in the same year 1660 he was installed in his place of Chantor of Exeter At that time it was his endeavours to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambridge by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what About that time he became a member of the Royal Society and soon after Dean of Exeter where being setled he wound himself in a short time by his smooth language and behaviour into the favour of the Gentry of the neighbourhood In 1662 Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter being translated to VVorcester he was by the endeavours of a considerable party of the Gentry of Devonsh who were of the H. of Commons advanced to that See And being consecrated thereunto 20 July 1662 sate there but few years for on the death of Dr. Hyde he was translated to Salisbury 12 Sept. 1667. In 1671. Nov. 25 he was made Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter by the restitution of K. Ch. 2 after that place had been occupied by Lay-persons about 154 years He was a benefactor to the Royal Society gave a Pendulum Clock thereunto which goes for a week together to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend Laur. Rook. Also about 1672 he gave a considerable sum of money towards the making of the River at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church in Hampshire and in 1679 he bestowed a 1000 l. on Sidâ—ey Coll. in Cambridge In 1683 he built an Hospital or College at Salisbury for the entertainment of ten poor widows of Ministers of Gods word and in 1684 he built an Alms-house at the place of his nativity for four antient men and four antient women who had lived handsomely and brought by misfortune to poverty c. His Works as to learning are these A philosophical Essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God the immortality of the souls of men and the truth and authority of Scripture Oxon. 1652. oct c. De cometis ubi de cometarum natura disseritur Nova cometarum Theoria novissimae cometae historia proponitur Praelectio Oxonii habita Oxon. 1653. qu. Inquisitio in Ismaelis Bullialdi Astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta Printed with the book De cometis Idea Trigonometriae demonstratae in usum juventutis Oxon. Oxon. 1654. qu. The method of which mention'd in the Preface to this book Mr. Oughtred challenged for his Vindiciae Academiarum Containing some brief animadversions upon Mr. Joh. Websters book stiled The Examen of Academies Oxon. 1654. qu. Before this book is an Epistle written to the author by one who subscribes himself N. S. i. e. John Wilkins of Wadh. Coll being the two last letters of both his names Appendix concerning what Mr. Hobbes and Mr. Will. Dell have published on the same arguments Printed at the end of Vindiciae Academiarum As for Dell he had been educated in Cambridge and Webster who was then or lately a Chapl. in the Parl. Army had as I conceive been educated there also See in Thom. Hall under the year 1665 among the titles of
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected â—ch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Petâ—r Eâ—ioâ— of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
from the antient family of his name in Cornwall was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1651 where he continued till his Majesties restauration under Presbyterian and Independ discipline Afterwards getting into the service of the said Sir Henry he was chose a Recruiter for Camelford in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. May 1661 wherein shewing himself zealous for the prerogative had several Boons bestowed on him On the 28. of Aug. 1668 his Majesty confer'd on him the honour of Knighthood he being then about to send him to the Catholick King and Qu. Regent of Spain to reside as his Embassador in that Court upon the return thence of Edward Earl of Sandwich his Maj. late Embassador extraordinary there So that going and continuing there several years he changed his Religion for that of Rome Doct. of Phys Mar. 26. Rich. Keurden sometimes known by the name of Jackson M. A. of S. Maries Hall was then actually created Doctor of Phys He was the Son of Gilbert Keurden who died in 1662 Son of Rich. Keurden who died 1630 Son of Gilb. Jackson of Keurden near to Preston in Lancashire and was at this time and several years after a practitioner of his faculty at Preston and in the Country adjacent But his genie being more adaquat to antiquities than his proper profession he neglected his practice and wrot in honor of his Country Brigantia Lancastriensis restaurata Or History of the honorable Dukedom or County Palatine of Lancaster in 5. vol. in fol. The method of which he printed in certain proposals by him scattered among his friends in July and Aug. 1688 wherein it appears that he had then obtained several sums of money from some of the Gentry of Lancashire and elsewhere to print that work Sir Hen. de Vic of the Isle of Guernsey Bt. He had been Resident at Bruxells for K. Ch. 1. near 20 years and after that he was made Chancellour of the noble order of the Garter He died 20. of Nov. 1672 and was buried in the north cross Isle of the Abbey Church dedicated to St. Peter in Westminster About that time his Chancellourship went to Seth B. of Sarum and his Successors in that See Doct. of Div. Oct. 1. Rob. Powell M. A. of All 's Coll. was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters This person who had been made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 was now Archdeacon of Shrewsbury and afterwards Chancellour of S. Asaph and took all advantages to thrust himself into other places tho he himself had been no sufferer for the Kings cause but rather an enemy to him and his friends After the Letters of the Chancellor had been read for his creation the generality of the members of Convocation cried non and protested with great clamours against his creation whereupon a scrutiny being made he was by the falseness of one of the Proctors pronounced passed Afterwards Dr. Joh. Wallis presenting him to the Vicechancellour he was admitted Bach. of Div. and after another presentation by the said person Doct. of that faculty Rob. South M. of A. of Ch. Ch. of six years standing was created at the same time This Gent. who had been bred in the said House during the times of Usurpation was now Orator of the University and Chaplain to the Chanc. thereof After the Letters of the said Chanc. had been read for his creation the Bachelaurs of Divinity and Masters of Arts were against it as they were against that of Powell but at length after a scrutiny the said Proctor pronounced him virtute juramentiâ—â—ui as he had done Powell passed by the Major part of the House Whereupon by the double presentation of Dr. Joh. Wallis he was first admitted Bachelaur then Doct. of Divinity James Sessions Bach. of Div. of Magd. Hall was also then Oct. 1. created but not at all denied At the same time the Chancellour commended to the members of Convocation one Mr. Joh. Clegge of S. Alb Hall a person of good affections to the King and Church to be also created D. D but he did not then appear Mar. 21. Thomas Barton of Magd. Hall was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters then read which say that he is Master of Arts and hath been throughout the War Chaplain to Prince Rupert in the Army c. This year became a Sojourner in the University to improve himself in Literature one Laurence Son of Nich. Fessius a Dane born in the City of Schaane sometimes belonging to the K. of Sweedland afterwards to the K. of Denmark which Laurence after his return to his own Country wrot several Panegyricks on the K. of Denmark and other things An. Dom. 1664. An. 16. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. Rob. Say D. D. Provost of Oriel Coll. Sept. 1. Proct. Joh. Hearne of Exet. Coll. Apr. 20. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 23. John Prince of Brasn Coll. This person who was afterwards Mast of Arts of Caies Coll. in Cambridge is now Vicar of Berry-Pomery near Totness in Devonsh and having published a Serm. and two other things as he may more hereafter he is therefore in future time to be remembred among the Writers of Oxon. Apr. 30. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll. He hath published four Sermons at least and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred June 14. Nathan Wilson of Magd. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland 16. Will. Jane of Ch. Ch. He has several things extant and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred Octob. 15. Thom. Wagstaff of New Inn He hath four Sermons at least extant and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers 20. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll. 22. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch. Feb. 3. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1667. 23. Tho. Laurence of S. Johns afterwards of Vniv Coll. See among the Masters 1668. Mar. 16. Morgan Godwin of Ch. Ch. Several things are extant under his name and therefore he ought hereafter to be remembred among Oxford Writers Adm. 165. Doct. of Musick July 7. Christoph Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesties Chap. was then licensed to proceed Doctor of Musick which degree was compleated in an Act celebrated in S. Maries Church on the eleventh of the said month with very great honour to himself and his faculty He was licensed by vertue of his Majesties Letters written in his behalf which say that the bearer Christopher Gibbons one of our Organists of our Chap. royal hath from his youth served our Royal Father and our self and hath so well improved himself in Musick as well in our own judgment as the judgment of all men well skill'd in that science as that he may worthily receive the honour and degree of Doctor therein c. This person who was Son of Orl. Gibbons mention'd in
the Son of Thomas Williams of Swansey in Glamorganshire went away without compleating his degree by Determination and was author of 1 A pindarick Elegy on the famous Physitian Dr. Willis Oxon. 1675 in one sh in fol. 2 Imago saeculi or the image of the age represented in four characters viz. the ambitious Statesman insatiable Miser atheistical Gallant and factious Schismatick Oxon. 1676. oct The Pindarick Elegy is printed with and added to this last book He died in his own Country about 1679. June 13. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Theoph. Downes of Ball. Coll. 26. Will. Haylie of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679 and of the other in 1680. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day He hath written and published many things relating to Divinity and therefore he is to have a place hereafter among the Oxf. Writers Feb. 6. Rob. Brograve of Magd. Hall See among the Masters 1679. Adm. 188. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. James Bampton of New Coll. This person who took no higher degree entred afterwards into holy Orders and published a Sermon but the title of it I know not only the text which is Suffer the little children to come c. Mark 10.14 He also had provided another thing for the press which I think is not yet published or ever will He died of a consumption 9. May 1683 aged 37 and was buried in the west Cloyster belonging to that Coll. Adm. 11. Mast of Arts. June 8. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. July 3. Edm. Sermon of S. Maries Hall This person who was the Son of a Father of both his names of Naunton Beauchamp in Worcestershire was originally of Trin and afterwards of Ball. Coll and as a member of the last he took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1665 but left the University without compleating it by Determination Afterwards he took upon him a spiritual cure and the education of a youth of noble extraction but instead of taking the degree of Bach. of Div in order to which he had the Chancellours Letters he with much ado obtained that of Master He hath published The wisdom of publick piety discoursed in a Sermon at Guild-hall Chap. on Jam. 3.13 Lond. 1679. qu. He died about 1680. Nearly related to him was that forward vain and conceited person named Will. Sermon who wrot himself Doctor of Physick and Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 author of 1 The Ladies companion or English Midwife c. Lond. 1671. oct 2 A friend to the sick or the honest English mans preservation c. Lond. 1673. 4. oct and of other things but whether he was of this or of any University I know not He died in his house in the Parish of St. Bride alias St. Bridget in Lond. in Winter time an 1679. Oct. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn. Nov. 23. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Vplime in his native Country of Devonshire and author of The Rebels text opened and their solemn appeal answered Thanksgiving Sermon 26. July 1685 on Josh 22. ver 22. Lond. 1686. qu. Jan. 15. Tho. Mannyngham of New Coll. Adm. 130. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted but neither of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Six were admitted of whom Tho. Snell Can. resid of Exeter was one Three others I shall make mention among the Doct. of Div. in their respective places Doct. of Law July 6. Rich. Warren of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Phys July 4. Joh. Ludwell of Wadh. Coll. 6. William Warner of S. Joh. Coll. 7. Ralph Harrison of New Coll. a Compounder He had been of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Bach. of Phys and coming to Oxon he was incorporated in that degree on the 26 of June this year Doct. of Div. July 6. Edward Reynolds of Magd. Coll. July 6. Will. Hawkins of Magd. Coll. These were both Compounders as being dignified in the Church On the 20 of Sept 1660 the first was installed Preb. of Worcester and on the 15 of Apr. 1661 Archdeacon of Norfolk on the death of Philip Tenison which last Dignity was confer'd upon him by his Father Dr. Edw. Reyn. Bish of Norwich The other was Preb. of Norwich and had some other preferment in the Church July 6. George Owen of All 's Coll. July 6. Tho. Pargiter of Linc. Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll was now Canon of S. David The other was Rector of Greetworth in his native Country of Northamptonshire and published A Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond 23. July 1682 on 1. Thess 4.6 Lond. 1682. qu. Incorporations July 6. Will. Howell or as he writes himself Hoëlus Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge He was educated in Magd. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow was afterwards Tutor to John Earl of Mulgrave and at length Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincolne He hath written 1 An institution of general History from the beginning of the world to the monarchy of Constantine the Great Printed 1661. oct In this work the Reader may without any intervening matters impertinent to his present purpose read the History of any Empire or Kingdom contemporary to it by it self The principal passages in all of them are linked together by Synchronisms not only placed in the Margin but in the beginning or end of every occurrence This book which was afterwards put into latine by the author for the use of the said Earl entit Elementa Historiae ab orbe condito usque ad Monarchiam Constantini magni c. Lond. 1671. in a thick tw was increased to two folio's Lond. 1680. and afterwards had three remaining parts of it published in 1685. 6. 2 Medulla Historiae Anglicanae Being a comprehensive History of the lives and raigns of the Monarchs of England From the time of the invasion thereof by Julius Caesar to the death of K. Ch. 2 with an abstract of the lives of the Rom. Emperours commanding in Britain There have been several editions of this book to the great benefit of the Bookseller that printed it One came out in 1679 with the addition of A list of the names of the H. of Com. then sitting and a list of his Majesties Privy Council c And in 1687 the third edit of it was published in oct with a continuation from the year 1678 to 1684 by a great favourer of the Roman Catholicks There is no name set to this Medulla Hist Angl. only report makes Dr. W. Howell the author and upon that report I presume here to set it down under his name He hath without doubt other things extant but such I have not yet seen and therefore I can only now say that he died in the beginning of the year 1683. One William Howell Minister of Tuttleworth in Sussex hath published A Sermon at the Bishop of Chichesters first Visitation Lond. 1675. 6. qu. but
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
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
A letter to a friend in Wilts upon occasion of a late ridiculous pamphlet wherein was inserted a pretended prophecy of Thom. Becket Lond. 1666. in two sheets in qu. The said letter was written to Tho. Gore of Alderton Esq who gave Dr. Tully the rectory of Grigleton and the Prophecy was published by one W. Tinker alias Littleton a Minister who therein usurped Dr. Tully's name to his disparagement Praecipuorum Theologiae capitum Enchiridion didacticum Lond. 1665.68 c. oct Appendicula practica de coena Domini Printed with the Enchiridion Symboli Apostolici Expositio Ox. 1673. octavo Precationis Dominicae Expositio Ox. 1673. octavo Justificatio Paulina sine operibus ex mente Ecclesiae Anglicanae omniumque reliquorum quae reformatae audiunt asserta illustrata c. Oxon. 1674. qu. Dissertatiuncula de sententia Paulinâ c. Printed with Just Paulina written chiefly against Mr. George Bulls book entit Harmonia Apostolica and Mr. R. Baxters Aphorismes But Mr. Baxter sitting not still as he never yet hath done published an answer to it bearing this title A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books 1. A treatise of imputed righteousness c. with an answer to Dr. Tully's Letter which he calls angry 2. A friendly debate with the learned and worthy Mr. Christop Cartwright containing first his animadversions on his Aphorismes with my answer Secondly his exceptions against that answer thirdly my reply to the sum of the controversies agitated in those exceptions All published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults of Dr. Tully's Justificatio Paulina Lond. 1676. oct The Aphorismes of Mr. Baxter here defended against Dr. Tully were answer'd as to some passages 1 By Will. Eyre of Salisbury in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae c. 2 By John Crandon Minister of Fawley in Hampshire more largely in a just volume intit Mr. Baxters Aphorismes exoriz'd and authoriz'd c. Lond. 1654. qu. To both which Mr. Baxter quickly after publish'd distinct replies placed at the end of his Apol. Lond. 1654. qu. One called An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre c. and another An unsavoury volume of Mr. John Crandons anatomiz'd c. But Crandon died before this answer against him came out The said Aphorismes also were excepted against and animadverted upon at their first coming forth 1650 by many learned men some of whom wrot upon the motion and desire of their author himself among whom were Mr. George Lawson Dr. John Wallis Mr. John Warren and Mr. Christoph Cartwright were the chief which being as he himself confesseth then but crude and defective for want of time and use of writing this being his first some suspected it of errour in doctrine some of novelty some of divers undigested expressions and some overvaluing it received those imperfections with the rest Upon this he published his suspension of these Aphorismes then his fuller explication and defence of them in his Apologie c. Afterward his additional explication and defence both in his Confession of faith c. and in his Four Disputations of Justification c. And tho he hath in these three several pieces thus largely explain'd himself and his Aphorismes yet Dr. Tully as he complains fell notwithstanding upon him without taking notice of any of those following treatises which clear and illustrate his former doctrine in these points But whatever hath been the Doctors dealing towards him on this account at which he seems to be so much concern'd of this I am assured that his publishing the above named book consisting of two parts the far greater part of the former being by his own acknowledgment written 3 or 4 years before and nothing newly added and immediatly directed against the Doctor but barely the 6.7 and 8. Chapters with the answer to the Doctors letter and the latter part being wholly made up of papers which had passed so many years before between the learned Mr. Christ Cartwright and himself concerning his Aphorismes his publishing I say these in answer to the Doctors book which came out some time after was generally looked upon as a scornful slighting and very unfair way of his And tho he thinks fit to call the Doctor in the general Epistle to the Reader more than once a worthy Person yet for all this in the very entrance on the 6 Chapt. of the first part he sufficiently discovers his anger against him in liberally bestowing on a great part of his Justificatio Paulina this foul character viz. that it is defective in point of truth justice charity ingenuity and pertinency to the matter But his published papers wrot long before those books to which they are very improperly by him called answers is not unusual with him and the ingenious and learned Mr. Hen. Dodwell hath not long since complained of this his unjust usuage in relation to himself To conclude since the publishing of the said Justificatio Paulina the author thereof is charactarized by some Church men and Fanaticks to have been a main pillar of the Chur. in defence of her true doctrine Nay and long before it was published a certain hot headed Fanatick tells us in a book afterwards by him made extant that he Tully with Mr. Tho. Barlow did keep this University of Oxon from being poyson'd with Pelagianism Socinianisme Popery c. The other things that Dr. Tully hath written are these A Letter to Mr. Rich. Baxter occasion'd by several injurious reflections of his upon a treatise entit Justificatio Paulina Oxon. 1675. qu. Animadversions on Mr. Baxters pamphlet entit An appeal to the light Oxon. 1675. qu. Printed with the aforesaid letter At length our author Dr. Tully after he had spent his last years in a weakly and lingring condition surrendred up his pious Soul to God in the Parsonage house at Grigleton before mention'd on the fourteenth day of January in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery which he had not enjoyed an year succeeded Dr. Tho. Cartwright sometimes of Qu. College in his Principality of S. Edm. Hall Steph. Penton M. A sometimes Fellow of New Coll. who was elected thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Queens Coll. Proprietaries of the said Hall on the 15 of Feb. 1675 but with this condition that he resign his rectory of Tingwick in Bucks and that the society of New Coll. present a Fellow of that of Queens thereunto which was accordingly done and in his Rectory of Grigleton Rich. Hine M. of Arts of Merton Coll. EDWARD WEST son of Tho. West of the antient borough of Northampton Gent. became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the year 1651 and there received a severe discipline under a Presbyterian Tutor After he had taken one degree in Arts he translated himself to S. Maries Hall where continuing till he was Master of that faculty took the Ministry upon him according to the Presbyterian way and was benefic'd After his Majesties