Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done as to the reformation of the Church then did he wheel about change his mind and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome and a hater of Protestants After Queen Elizabeth was fetled in the Throne he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire where giving way to fate in great discontent was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine aged about 63 years leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholicks that As he was a learned Man so might he have been promoted according to his deserts had his principles been constant ALBAYN HYLL was a Britaine born as one that knew him tellus partly educated in this and partly in another University beyond the Sea as it seems where applying his studies to the faculty of Physick he proceeded Doctor and became famous for it at London not only for the Theoretic but practick part and much beloved and admired by all learned Men especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer two eminent Physicians of Cambridge One that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus in omni literarum genere maxime versatus and tells us that he wrot several things on Galen which are printed and by others cited This is all that I know of this learned Person only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners Alice his Widow who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him and both had a substantial Grave-stone with an inscription on it laid over them but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire was born if I mistake not at or near to Caversham in Oxfordshire where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks received his Academical education in this University particularly as I conceive in Hart Hall wherein I find several of his Sirname without Christian names before them to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign When he continued in the University and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court he exercised his muse much in Poetry and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer For whose memory he had so great a respect that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peters Church in Westminster in the Year 1556. Which being so done he erected a comely Monument over them with Chaucers Effigies and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law became noted for it and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World His genie also was much inclin'd to English History in which faculty he published a Book which some entitle De venationibus rerum memorabilum It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of and things done in England Which being perused by John Bale he hath cull'd out many things thence for his purpose and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers See in his Book De Scriptorib Maj. Britan. cent 10. nu 72. cent 11. num 6. 42. 52. 95. c. and in cent 12. nu 24. 79. 82. 95. c. Memoires by way of Diaâ—e in 12 Books And wrot also his youth Miscellaneous Poems with other things which I have not seen being as I suppose irrecoverable and quite lost This ingenious and curious Person who was admirably well vers'd in Histories and Antiquities yeilded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth but where buried unless near to the bones of Chaucer I cannot tell JOHN WHYTE Brother to Sir Joh. Whyte L. Mayor of London an 1563. Son of Rob. Whyte of Farnham in Surrey Son of Joh. Whyte of the same place Son of Thom. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire was born at Farnham before mentioned educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School in the place of Rich. Tuchiner Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester was elected Bishop of Lincolne upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler the Temporalities of which were restored to him 2. May 1554 he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty and soon after upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester the Temporalities of which were also restored to him 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School made this distick Me puero custos Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit He was a Man of an austere life and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor He was eminent also for piety and learning was an eloquent Orator a solid Divine a nervous Preacher poetica facultate ut tempora ferebant tolerabilis as Camden tells us His fame and actions did well answer his name and so did all Men say how contrary soever to him in Religion only for one black Sermon that he made he gave offence yet for the colour it may be said he kept decorum because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage I mean Qu. Mary The offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est And speaking of Qu. Mary her high parentage her bountiful disposition her great gravity her rare devotion praying so much as he
treatise very exquisitely penn'd as one saith entituled Answers to certaine questions propounded by the Citizens of Waterford Also Divers Sermons Soon after he left his Country for the sake of Religion went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where he was promoted to the Degree of Doctor of Divinity 23. June 1576 and afterwards as 't is said wrot and published divers other things See more in Peter White under the Year 1599. To him I now add his great friend and countryman Rob. Garvey of the Diocess of Kilkenny who was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1563 proceeded Master of Arts three years after and became noted for his skill in both the Laws and for a volubility in the English and latin tongues as my Author an Irish Man tells me but whether he published any thing I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about 1579. MAWRICE CHAWNEY Chamney Chancy or Channy so many ways I find him written was from his juvenile years a Carthustan Monk in the house of that order near London now called by some the Charter-house and by others Suttons Hospital the Brethren of which place as of others in England did commonly study in an antient place of Literature near to London Coll. alias Burnells Inn within this University and no doubt there is but that this M. Chawney did receive instruction in Theological matters therein or at least in some other house of learning in Oxon. But so it was that at the dissolution of religious houses by K. Hen. 8. he with his brethren 18 in number being committed to custody for denying the Kings Supremacy over the Ch. of England did at length with much difficulty escape out of prison and so consequently death which all the rest suffered at several times before the Year 1539. At length settling himself at Bruges in Flanders became Prior of some of his English Brethren of the same order there And from him do our English Carthusians beyond the Sea at Neoport in Flanders derive their succession in the said house near London to this day having always been by them esteemed a most devout and pious Person He hath written a book entit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi Martyrum cum pia tum lectu jucunda nunquam antehaec typis excusa Printed at Mentz in Bavaria as it seems an 1550 in qu. and dedicated by Vitus à Dulken Prior of the Carthusians of St. Michael near to Mentz and William à Sittatis Procurator of the said house to Theodore Loher à Stratis Prior of the Carthusians house of St. Marie the Virgin in Buxia near to Memmingen in Schawben a Province of Germany This book contains 1 The Epitaph of Sir Tho. More written by himself in Latin fixed over his grave in Chelsey Church near to London 2 The captivity and martyrdom of John Fisher B. of Rochester 3 The capt and mart of the said Sir Th. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England 4 The martyrdome of Reynold Brigitt a pious Divine and of other 5 The passion of 18 Carthusians of London beginning with the life and passion of John Houghton the Prior of them all contained in 14 Chapters c. This passion and martyrdom of the said Carthusians was by the care of our Author represented in figures and being afterwards engraven on copper were printed at Colon. Ub. about 1608. He also reviewed corrected and put some additions to a book entit Vita Carthusiana written by Peter Sutor Prior of the Carthusians at Paris an 1522. Which being so done he wrot the Epistle dedicatory before it all printed together at Lovaine 1572. in oct Our Author Chancaeus as he writes himself in that book was then living in his Cell at Bruges before-mention'd with several English Carthusians under his government I have seen a MS. written by our Author Chancaeus bearing this title The divine clowde of unknowing The beginning of which is Goostly frende in God I pray the and besece the that thou wilt have a besy beholding to the course and manntr of thy calling c. It containeth 75 Chapters and with i is bound his Epistle of private counsel the beginning of which is Goostly frende in God as touching thy inward occupation c. And at the end of the book is this written Liber domus Salvatoris beatissimae virginis Mariae juxta London Ordinis Carthusiani per M. Chawncy quem exaravit secundum Willmum Exmâ—use The said Exmeuse or ex Mewe who had been bred in Christs Coll. in Cambridge did enter himself a Carthusian of the said house near London in the 28 year of his age being then sufficiently versed in the Gr. and Lat. tongues Afterwards he was made Vicar and thence removed to be Procurator thereof And being one of the number that denied the Kings Supremacy suffered death by hanging drawing and quartering 19. June 1535. As for our Author Chancy he submitted to fate on the 12. July in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 according to the accompt followed in Flanders Whereupon his body was buried as I suppose in the Chappel belonging to the Carthusians at Bruges before-mention'd He hath left behind him a most celebrated name for his rare piety which is preserved among those of his profession at Bruges Neôport in Flanders and at other places Neither is it denyed by any knowing and moderate Protestants but that his name is worthy to be kept in everlasting remembrance RICHARD DAVYES a Welsh Man born was educated as it seems in New Inn but what Degrees he took in Arts it appears not In Qu. Maries Reign he retired beyond the Seas upon account of Religion whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth was elected Bishop of St. Asaph on the deprivation of Tho. Goldwell the temporalities of which See he receiving 29. March 1560 was the year following translated to the See of St. David and in 1566 was actually created Doctor of Divinity He hath published several things among which are Epistle to all the Welsh especially within his Diocess wishing a renewing of the antient Cath. faith by the light of the Gospel of Christ Printed and bound with the New Test in Welsh an 1567. It was printed also among other things and published by Charles Edwards a Welsh Man Ox. 1671. in oct Funeral Sermon preached 26. Nov. 1576. in the Parish Church of Caermerthen at the burial of Walt. Earl of Essex on Rev. 14. 13. Lond. 1577. qu. Whereunto is added a genealogical Epitaph with memorials on the said Count but these were made by other Men. This Bishop paid his last debt to nature about the month of Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 aged about 80 years and was buried in the Parish Church of Abergwilly in Caermerthenshire leaving then behind him a Widow called Dorothie and several Children JOHN TWYNE Son of William Son of John Son of Nicholas Son of Sir Brian Twyne of Long Parish in Hampshire Knight was
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â—_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
Will Bishop of Rurimund in Gelderland wherein is detected and made manifest the doting dangerous doctrine and haynous heresies of the rash rablement of the hereticks This book was by Lew. Evans entit The betraying of the beastl iness of the Hereticks c. Antw. 1565 in tw Afterwards the said Evans being reconcil'd to the Ch. of England by some of his friends did to shew his zeal for the love he had to it write and publish a book as full of ill language against the Roman Catholicks as the other was as full of good for them entituled The Castle of Christianity detecting the long erring estate as well of the Rom. Church as of the Bishop of Rome Lond. 1568. oct Which being dedicated to Queen Elizab. he saith in his Epistle to her that he himself had once drank of the puddle of ignorance of the mud of idolatry of the pond of superstition c. whereupon great distast being taken by the R. Catholicks the common report flew abroad by their endeavours that he was gone over again to the Church of Rome in which being settled he died in great ease and content These reports being often told to Evans while he was in Oxon by the learnedest there he soon after published a book entit The hateful hypocrisie and rebellion of Romish Prelates Lond. 1570 in tw to which he added these two treatises following A view of certaine rebellions and their ends Four paradoxes First a Bishop and a Minister is all one 2 A Bishop c. Afterwards if I mistake not our Author Evans was a Schoolmaster and was the same Person I think that revised and increased with phrases and necessary additions A short dictionary for young beginners compiled at first by John Withals and by him published at Lond. 1566. in qu. but when the additions of Evans came out I find not Afterwards the said Dictionary was augmented with more than 600 rythmical verses whereof many are proverbial by Abr. Flemmyng a native of London printed at Lond. 1594 qu. In my travels and searches I find one Lew. Evans a Flintshire Man to be a Student of Ch. Ch. in the time of Ed. 6. and to have taken the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1557 but this Person I presume is not the Author because the Author doth not stile himself in his Books Bach. or Master of Arts. Another Lew. Evans a Brecknockshire Man became Fellow of Oriel C. an 1566 Mast of Arts 1570 and resign'd his Fellowship 1577. A third who was a Monmouehshire Man was matriculated as a Member of Gloc. hall 1574 aged 28. And a fourth also I find to be a Minister of God's word who in the 31 year of his age or more was matric as a member of the same Hall and as a Native of Monmouthshire an 1581. and in 1585 took the Deg. of M. of A. Whether either of these was the Author before-mention'd is to me as yet doubtful or whether the same with Lew. Evans who by the favour of Dr. Piers B. of Sarum became Prebend of Warmister in that Church an 1583 which he resigned in May 1598 I cannot tell or whether the same with Lew. Evans Clerk Parson of Westmeane in Hampshire who died there about the beginning of 1601 leaving then behind him a Wife and Children and houses in Winchester JOHN PARKHURST Son of George Parkhurst was born at Guildford in Surrey sent when very young to Oxon where he was educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. common gate under the famous Mr. Thom. Robertson was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1529 and three years after proceeding in Arts entred into holy orders tho better then for poetry and oratory than Divinity At length he became Rector of the rich Church of Cleve called by some Bishops Cleve in Glocestershire where he did a great deal of good by his hospitality and charity After the death of K. Ed. 6. he left all for Religion sake and went into voluntary exile to Zurich where remaining till the death of Qu. Mary not without great dangers and afflictions returned when Qu. Eliz. succeeded and was by her made Bishop of Norwych To which See being elected 13. Apr. was consecrated on the first of Sept. and installed by John Salisbury Dean of that Church 27 of the same month an 1560 and about six years after was made D. of D. He hath written and published Epigrammata in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Caroli Henrici Brandon Lond. 1552. qu. They were the Sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and died of the sweating sickness Some of which Epigrams were afterwards published in his Ludicra which I am now to mention Ludicra sive Epigrammata juvenilia Lond. 1573. qu. Which book tho written in his younger days and contains therein more obscurity than the Epigrams of Martial as some say tho I my self cannot perceive it yet while he was Bishop he must needs have it printed alledging that he would not be like Heliodorus to lose his Bishoprick for it He also view'd took pains about and published John Shepreve his Dislicks on the New Test and added thereunto of his own Epigrammata Seria Lond. 1560. oct Most of which seem to be taken from his former book while it remained in MS. See more in Job Shepreve under the Year 1542. At length this Bishop yielded up his last breath in Fifteen hundred seaventy and four and was buried in the body or middle Isle of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych Over his grave was soon after a fair monument of marble raised between two pillars on the S. side of the said middle Isle on which Mon. was his proportion engraven on brass with a gown and square cap on holding his hands together in a praying posture with this inscription engraven on brass also but taken away in the civil war Johannes Parkhurstus Theologiae professor Gylfordiae natus Oxoniae educatus temporibus Mariae Reginae pro nitida conscientia Tigurinae vixit exul voluntarius Postea praesul factus sanctissime hanc rexit ecclesiam 16 annis mortuus est secundo die Februarii an 1574. aetatis suae 63. Another inscription which is on one of the said pillars runs thus Viro bono docto ac pio Johanni Parkhursto Episcopo vigilantissimo Georgius Gardiner posuit hoc Which George Gardiner who was D. of D. was installed Dean of Norwych 24. Dec. 1573 in the place of John Salisbury deceased Ralf Gualter Father and Son both of Zurich and entirely beloved of this our Author Parkhurst have written Epiceds on his death which if they could be procured being very scarce might satisfie a curious reader concerning some actions of him the said Parkhurst LEONARD DIGGES second Son of James Digges of Digges Court in the Parish of Berham in Kent by Philippa his second Wife Daughter of John Engham of Chart in the said County was born in the Province of Kent particularly
and quartered at Tyburn 1. year 1581 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one At the same time suffered Edm. Campian before-mentioned who was much pittied by all learned Men especially by his contemporaries in Oxon as Sherwyn was who had been very often a companion with Campian in his travels Alex. Briant also whom I am now about to mention did suffer at the same time and tho not so much commiserated by Scholars yet by many others because he was as the character went on both sides juvenis pulcherrimus vultu innocens prope angelico c. Contemporary with Ralph Sherwyn was one Martin Ayray who after he had left this University was one of the first that was brought up in the English Coll. at Rome and was companion there with the said Sherwyn Afterwards he became a good workman in England and of great edification for divers years as those of his opinion say both before he was taken and afterwards in Prison He was living in 1602 which was the last year of Qu. Elizab. at which time he was Provost of the English Church and residence of St. George in St. Lucar of Spain ALEXANDER BRIANT received his first breath in Somersetshire was admitted a Student of Hart hall about Lent-term in 1573-74 aged 17 or more where being trained up under a tutor sufficiently addicted to Popery left the University and went to Rheimes and afterwards to Doway At the last of which places taking the Priesthood on him he returned into his own Country an 1579. and settling for a time in Somersetshire converted the Father of Rob. Persons the Jusuit to the R. Cath. Religion On the 28. Apr. 1581 he was taken in the night time in his Lodging by one Norton who took away 3 l. in money from him besides cloathes and conducting him to a Magistrate was after examination committed close Prisoner to the Compter in London where enduring great misery till the morrow after the Ascension was removed to the Tower of London and there as 't is reported he was tormented with needles thrust under his nayles racked also otherwise in cruel sort and specially punished by two whole days and nights with famine which they did attribute to obstinacy but indeed sustained in Christs quarrel it was most honorable constancy While he was in Prison he wrot Literae ad reverendos patres societatis Jesu in Anglia degentes The beginning of which is Quoties mecum cogito reverendi patres c. They were written purposely that they would be pleased to receive him into the Order of Jesus before he died which accordingly they did to his great comfort Several Letters to his friends and afflicted Catholicks Whether extant I know not At length being found guilty of high treason at a Sessions in London he was hang'd drawn and quartered at Tyburn on the first day of Dec. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his quarters were hanged up for a time in publick places He had for his Tutor in Hart hall after he had continued there for some time one Rich. Holtbie born at Fraiton in Yorkshire educated for a time in Cambridge and afterwards going to Oxon settled in the said hall an 1574 aged 21. and more but departing without any Degree in this University he went beyond the Seas to Doway then to Rheimes and other places became a noted Jesuit and spun out his time to a fair age The reader is now to know that during the principality of Philip Rondell of Hart hall who had weathered out several changes of Religion tho in his heart he was a Papist but durst not shew it many Persons who were afterwards noted in the Rom. Church were educated under him but they having not exercised their pens upon any subject that I can yet find I can claim no pretence to set them down among such writers that that ancient house of learning hath sent into the learned world JAMES DYER second Son of Rich. Dyer of Wymaulton in Somersetshire Esq by his Wife the Dau. of one Waiton of the said County was born as I conceive at Wymaulton but in what house he was educated in Oxon for he was a Commoner for some time there it appears not notwithstanding tradition tells us in Broadgates hall From thence without the honor of a Degree he went to the Middle Temple where making great proficiency in the municipal Laws was after he had continued for some time in the Degree of Barrester elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that house 6. Ed. 6. and about the same time was by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law In the Reign of Qu. Marie he was made a Justice of the Common pleas being about that time a Knight and Recorder of Cambridge and in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth Lord Chief Justice of that Court in the place of Sir Anth Browne and not Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings-bench as one doth falsly report As for his writings which shew him a great and eminent Sage of the Law and a Person of great abilities are these Reports or a collection of Cases with divers resolutions and judgments given upon solemne arguments c. and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments in the Reigns of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Phil. and Mary and Qu. Eliz. Lond. 1601. 1621. c. fol. Abridged by Sir Tho. Ireland of Greys-Inn the same Person who abridged the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke and by another with a table made to them printed by Rich. Tothill Learned reading upon the useful statute of 32. Hen. 8. chap. 1. of Wills and of 34 and 35. Hen. 8. chap. 5. for the explanation of that statute Lond. 1648. qu. At length this great Lawyer having arrived to a good old age paid his last debt to nature at Stowton in Hunting donshire where he had purchased an estate on the 24. March in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Much Stowton in the said County near to that of his Wife on the 9 day of Apr. 1582. His said Wife was named Margaret Dau. of Sir Maurice Abarrow of Hampshire Knight Widow of Sir Tho. Eliot of Carleton in Cambridgeshire by whom she had 3 Sons but all died without issue which Margaret died 25. Aug. 1569 but having had no Children by Sir James went after his death to Richard Son of his Brother Laurence Dyer whose posterity are at this time Baronets in Somersetshire RICHARD BRISTOW another most zealous Person for the R. Cath. cause was born of honest Parents within the City of Worcester educated in Grammar learning under one Rog. Golbourne M. A. the same I think who was a Reader in St. Bernards Coll. in the Year 1540 saluted the Oxonian Muses in 1555 but whether he was then entred into Exeter Coll. I know not One Bristow I find to be Chaplain of Ch. Ch. in 1549. 50. and 51. but him
the English Sectaries and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations c. Rhemes 1582. oct Answered in a book intituled A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue c. Lond. 1583. oct Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relicks Printed 1583. oct Epistles to certain of his friends The last of which which is the largest dat 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. Whyte then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge Of the love of the soul with questions to the Protestants Printed at Roan in Normandy He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea as I conceive treating of Divinity In the Year 1584 was set forth a certain book which one calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes The Author was never discovered but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues as my Author before quoted saith but how he could be Author having been dead two years before that time I cannot say He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament printed at Rhemes 1582 for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party He also made other translations which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus King of Persia which is as some say in the Library of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books which are remembred by one that knew him while I in the mean time tell you that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses the two first of which are these Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order who was a Romanist also WILLIAM HART a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Somersetshire entred in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an 1572 where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logick left it without a Degree his relations and Country and going beyond the Seas to Doway compleated his studies in Philosophy Afterwards he travelled to Rome studied Divinity and was there made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age settled in Yorkshire where he administred comfort to the afflicted Catholicks for a considerable time with little or no interruption At length being taken and imprison'd at York he wrot Letters to certaine Catholicks Letters to his spiritual Sons Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison Letters to a noble Matron All which at least 10 in number were as I presume written by him in the English tongue The Latine copies with many things of their Author you may see in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia p. 104. mention'd in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hang'd drawn and quarter'd for being a R. Priest at York on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two and his quarters afterwards hanged up in publick places In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholicks having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job Bridgwater before-mentioned who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion Some of them I shall mention as they lay in my way NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist well skill'd in both the Laws and in Greek History and Poetry in all or most of which faculties having written very well do report him renowned by those of his own perswasion His first being in this World he received in the Parish of St. Marie Magd. in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and his Grammaticals in Wykehams School near to Winchester In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served 2 years of probation there about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy he applyed himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law wherein he became very eminent In 1544 he being then Bach. of the Civ Law of about an year standing was admitted Principal of an ancient hostle mostly for Civilians called White hall on the Site of which Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue in the University In 1553 he left his Fellowship took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer Brother to the Archb. deprived for being married and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England But that matter coming to nothing he was soon after imprison'd for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books some of which follow Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatûs monasticae vitae sanctorum sacrorum imaginum oppugnatores pseudo-Martyres Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope he put it out under his name lest danger should befall the Author in Prison See before in Alan Cope an 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrot also Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis ad nostra fere tempora deducta Duac 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit 'T is a book no less learnedly than painfully performed and abating his partiality to his own interest he well deserves of all posterity The original of this Ecclesiastical history written with the Authors own hand is in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. num 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishops Library at Lambeth L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian are several things expunged by the Licenser and not at all remitted into the printed copy Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem and Qui omnis c. Non
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
the north parts of England In 1560. the Queen design'd him to be Bishop of Norwich but he altogether refused it for no other reason as 't was suppos'd but that he was much disaffected to the Hierarchy and Ceremonies of the Church of England In the latter end of the said year in the beginning of March he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied Divinity he might be admitted to the reading of Epistles of S. Paul that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity which was before the time of Reformation to the reading of the Book of Sentences This supplicat was granted by notwithstanding he had taken no Degree before among them as it appears from the publick Registers In the same congregation he supplicated also that after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the same Faculty but to that no answer was given Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of Master of Arts in the time of his admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity but afterwards also while he continued in that state Which request though granted simpliciter yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that Degree In Michaelmas term 1561. he was installed Dean of Christ Church in Oxon in the place of Dr. George Carew and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congregation of Regents that it might be lawful for him to Preach within the limits of the University in a doctoral habit Which desire being as they thought unreasonable yet because he was a Dean they granted it only to continue till the Act following At that time there being a great scarcity of Divines in the University and but very few Masters he the said Sampson and Laur. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. another severe Calvinist preached by turns every Lords day either at St. Maries or elsewhere to the Academians and soon after got another brother of Allsouls Coll. as 't is said to joyn with them but who that was unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva I know not But Sampson being too severe a Calvinist if not worse to govern such a noted Coll. as Ch. Ch. for he was an enemy to Organs ornaments of the Church clerical vestments the square cap he always in imitation of Humphrey wearing the round cap and rather a perswader from than encourager to use them he was at length after a great many of admonitions from authority to conform and entreaties from certain Bishops so to do removed from his Deanery by the sentence of Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury an 1564. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston at Leycester besides the Penitentiaryship or the Prebend of St. Pancras in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where continuing for some time in teaching he was by the leave and favour of the Queen permitted to be a Theological Lecturer in Whittingdon Coll. in London but before he had enjoyed that place 6 years he was taken with the palsie Whereupon retiring to his hospital spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing Those works that go under his name are these Letter to the professours of Christs Gospel in the Parish of Allhallows in Bredstreet Lond. Strasburg 1554 oct A warning to take heed of Fowlers Psalter Lond. 1578. oct See in John Fowler under the Year 1578. Brief collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof Lond. 1581. oct Prayers and meditations Apostolike gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles c. Lond. 1592. in 16o. He also corrected and caused to be published Two Sermons the first of repentance the other of the Lords Supper Lond. 1581. oct written by his friend Joh. Bradford with other things of that Author At length Tho. Sampson having lived beyond the age of Man in a perpetual motion as 't were for the carrying on of the holy cause laid down his head and gave up the ghost on the 9. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston before-mention'd Over his grave was a monument soon after fastned to the South wall thereof with an inscription on it erected by his Sons John and Nathaniel Sampson A copy of which with other matters of the said Author which I have not here mention'd you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 254. From this Tho. Sampson is if I mistake not descended Tho. Sampson a pretender to Poetry Author of Fortunes fashion portrayed in the troubles of Lady Elizab. Gray Wife of Edw. 4. Lond. 1613. qu. a Poem dedicated to Henr. Pilkington of Gadsby in Leicestershire JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself a most noted Master of the Latin Tongue was born as I conceive in Cheshire and had a considerable part of his education in this University but mostly as 't is thought in Cambridge where I presume he took one or more Degrees After his retreat thence he setled at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he taught the Free-school with very good success and having obtained a good report and honourable advancement in the Latin Empire was deservedly numbred amongst the best Latin Poets that lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. His works are Progymnasmata aliquot poemata Lond. 1590. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this world on the 15. Apr. year 1589 in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Macclesfield before-mentioned In which year Tho. Newton his sometimes Scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious Men of England in which he hath this Distick of Brownswerd Rhetora Grammaticum Polyhistora teque poetam Quis negat is lippus luscus obesus iners And soon after the said Newton whose respect to his memory was great set up a Monument on the South wall of the said Chancel with an inscription thereon stiling Brownswerd Vir pius doctus and concluding with these two verses Alpha poetarum Coryphaeus Grammaticorum Flos Paedagogorâ—a hac sepelitur humo GEORGE PETTIE a younger Son of John le Petite or Pettie of Tetsworth and Stoke-Tatmach in Oxfordshire Esq was born in that County and at about 16 years of age an 1564 was a Scholar or Student of Ch. Ch. under Mr. Tho. Barnard Canon thereof and took one Degree in Arts as a member of that house in the latter end of the Year 1568. Soon after he left the University travelled beyond the Seas and at length became excellent for his passionate penning of amorous stories equal for poetical invention with his dear Friend Will. Gager and as much commended for his neat stile as any of his time He hath written a book intit A Petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure containing
Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law and about that time made the Queen's Serjeant and at length one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and not of the King's Bench as one falsly tells us which last place he executed for 5 years with great integrity equity and prudence He was a learned man and a great lover of learning and those that professed it but all the Writings which I have seen of his that are extant are only Reports in the Common Pleas wherein are many choice Cases most of them throughly argued by the learned Serjeants and after argued and resolved by the grave Judges of those times with many Cases wherein the differences in the Year-books are reconciled and explained Lond. 1656. fol. What else is published under his Name I know not nor any more of him only that he dying 21. Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 was buried on the S. side of the Choire of St. Peter's Church in Westminster Over his grave was soon after erected a noble monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold with his Image in scarlet robes lying thereon which remains to this day He left behind him a Son named named Roger who was a Knight and for his manifold learning a right Worthy Son of so Good a Father This Sir Roger who had been a Gent. Com. of Ch. Church and a great Friend to the Clergy by vindicating them when aspersed in open Parliament 11 Jac. 1. dyed in a distracted condition to their great reluctancy 29. May being Holy Thursday in 1617. MICHAEL MASCHIART a most excellent Latin Poet of his time was born in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City of Salisbury educated in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1562. became Vicar of Writtle in Essex in 1572. being then Bach. of the Civil Law and two years after proceeded Doctor of that Faculty at which time he was not only esteemed an able Civilian but also excellent in all kind of Humane learning He hath written Poemata varia This book I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether that be the true title Nor indeed should I have known that he had written any thing had not the learned Camden told me so in his Britannia wherein are by him inserted several Verses taken from Maschiart to adorn his discourse of Clarindon Park in Wiltshire This learned Doctor dyed at Writtle before-mentioned in the latter end of the year about Christmas of fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed In that Vicarige succeeded a learned Doctor of Divinity named John Lloyd whom and his Works I shall mention among these Writers under the year 1603. STEPHEN GOSSON a Kentish man born was admitted Scholar of C. Ch. coll 4. Apr. 1572. aged 16. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after left the University without compleating that degree by Determination and went to the great City where he was noted for his admirable penning of Pastorals being so excellent therein that he was ranked with Sir Ph. Sidney Tho. Chaloner Edm. Spencer Abrah Fraunce and Rich. Bernfield noted Poets of their time Thence as he saith he went to a worshipful Gentleman in the Country to teach his Sons where he continued till he shewed his great dislike of Plays having his mind then quite alienated from them So that the Gentleman being weary of his company Gosson left him took Orders and at length became Parson of Great Wigborow in Essex He hath written and published The School of abuse containing a pleasant invective against Poets Pipers Players Jesters and such like Caterpillers of the Common-wealth c. Lond. 1579. and 1585. in oct dedicated to Sir Ph. Sidney Plays confuted in five actions proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common-wealth By the way both the cavils of Tho. Lodge and the Play of Plays written in their defence and other objections of Players Friends are truly set down and directly answered Dedicated to Sir Franc. Walsingham but when printed it appears not The Trumpet of War Serm. at Pauls Cross 7. May 1598. on 2 Chron. ch 20. ver 20. Lond. 1598. oct As for the Pastorals Comedies Tragedies or Poetry some of which he hath written I have not yet seen either printed or In Manuscript JOHN LYLIE or Lylly a Kentish man born became a Student in Magd. coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards as I conceive either one of the Demies or Clerks of that house but always averse to the crabbed studies of Logic and Philosophy For so it was that his genie being naturally bent to the pleasant paths of Poetry as if Apollo had given to him a wreath of his own Bays without snatching or strugling did in a manner neglect Accademical studies yet not so much but that he took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1575. At which time as he was esteemed in the University a noted Wit so afterwards was he in the Court of Q. Elizabeth where he was also reputed a rare Poet witty comical and facetious His Works are these Gallathea Love's Metamorphosis Midas Endimion or the man in the Moon Mother Bomby Maids Metamorphosis Sapho and Phao. Woman in the Moon Warning for fair Women Alexander and Campaspe All which are Comedies and most of them having been published in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth six were re-printed at London in oct an 1632. by the care of Hen. Blount Esq afterwards a Knight under the title of Court Comedies which before had crowned the author with applause and the Auditors of them with pleasure Euphues and his England containing his voyage and adventures mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest love the description of the Country the Court and the manner of that Isle c. Lond. 1580. and 82. in two parts in a large oct The first part is dedicated to Edw. Vere E. of Oxon a noted Poet and encourager of learning in his time and the last to the University of Oxon. These two parts were published again with corrections and amendments at Lond. 1606. and 1636. qu. Euphues The Anatomy of Wit or the delights of Wit in Youth c. Lond. 1581. qu. corrected and amended Lond. 1606. 1623. and 30. qu. To these books of Euphues 't is said that our Nation is indebted for a new English in them which the Flower of the Youth thereof learned All the Ladies then were Scholars to them and their author and that Beauty in Court which could not parly Euphuism was as little regarded as those now there that cannot speak French What other Books Comedies or Trag. our author hath written I cannot find nor when he dyed or where buried only that he lived till towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth if not beyond for he was in being in 1597. when the
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâ—ed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
England where he preached the word of God very constant as his brother Edmund did was inducted into a Prebendship of Durham 9. May 1572. made Archdeacon of Northumberland on the resignation of Ralph Lever 20. Oct. 1573. and on the eleventh of Sept. 1578. he was made Rector of Ryton within the Bishoprick of Durham This person was very zealous in the way he professed was a great admirer of Jo. Calvin a constant preacher charitable and a stiff enemy to Popery He hath written and published Survey and tryal of the Popes Supremacy Lond. 1590. qu. Written against Card. Bellarmine Comparison between the antient faith of the Romans and the new Romish Religion Lond. 1595. qu. This is commonly called Truth and Falshood Answer to a popish Libel called A petition to the Bishops preachers and Gospellers Oxon. 1607. oct Exposition on the 28. verse of the third Chapt. of the Epistle to the Romans wherein is manifestly proved the doctrine of justification by faith c. Lond. 1616. qu. Plain and familiar Exposition of the ten Commandements by questions and answers Lond. 1617. oct In Joelis prophetiam enarratio Written by the author an 1595. and by his Epistle dedicated it to Tobie Bishop of Durham in which he saith he hath preached Sermons at Berwick about 20. years before that time upon Joel of which this book is the summ And if printed for 't is in MS. would contain about 3 quire of Paper He departed this mortal life at Ryton before mention'd 16. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there year 1617 near to the Graves of 4 of his Sons which he had by Jane his Wife Daughter of Henr. Priestly Over his Grave was soon after set up in the Wall adjoyning a table or plate of Brass whereon are engraven certain trite Verses The first Stanza runs thus My bark now having won the haven I fear no stormy Seas God is my hope my home is heaven My life is happy ease c. By his will he bequeathed to the University of Oxon. 100 l. towards their building of the New Schools and 33 l. to Madg. college HENRY SAVILE Sometimes of Shawhill in Yorkshire commonly called Long Harry Savile was born of an antient family of his name living at Banke near Halyfax in that County entred a Student in Merton coll of which his kinsman Mr. Hen. Savile was Warden in 1587. and was soon after made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he left it and retired to S. Albans hall and as a member thereof he took the degree of M. of Arts in 1595. All which time being under the inspection of his kinsman he became an eminent Scholar especially in the Mathematicks Physick in which faculty he was admitted to practice by the University Chemistry Painting Heraldry and Antiquities Afterwards for the compleating and advance of his knowledge he travelled into Italy France and Germany where spending his time very profitable returned the most accomplished person of his time and therefore his company was desired and sought after by all learned and vertuous Men. He had written several things fit for the Press but whether ever published I find not as yet It must be now known that this Henr. Savile being an intimate friend with the learned Camden he communicated to him the antient exemplar of Asser Menevensis which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars that Grimbald brought with him to Oxon at the restauration of the University by K. Alfred with the old Clerks that the said Grimbald found when he came to that place Which exemplar being discovered to be genuine by the said Camden who afterwards stil'd it Optimum exemplar Asserii he did therefore make it publick an 1602. But so it was that as soon as it peep'd forth certain envious Cantabrigians did not stick to report that the said story concerning the dissention between the old and new Scholars was foisted into Asser by the said Long Harry Savile and which is more that passage also was put by him into the printed History of Ingulphus which maketh much for the Antiquity of the University of Oxon. Ego Ingulphus c. pro literis addiscendis in teneriore aetate constitutus primum Westmonasterio postremo Oxoniensi studio traditus sum c. But for the clearing of the said vain reports much hath been said already and therefore I shall trouble the reader no more but only tell him that after the said Long Harry had lived for some years after his return from forreign Countries within the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields near London died there to be the great reluctancy of all learned men on 29. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 aged 49. Whereupon his body being buried in the Chancel of the Church of that Parish had soon after a Monument set over his Grave on the north Wall with his bust to the middle carved out from stone and painted The reader is now to know that there was one Hen. Savile Esq who was employed as a Captain in one of her Majesties Ships called the Adventure under the conduct of Sir Franc. Drake and Sir John Hawkyns against the Spaniard in the West Indies Which Henry wrote a book intit A Libel of Spanish lyes found at the Sack of Cales discoursing the fight in the West Indies between the English and the Spaniard and of the death of Sir Franc. Drake with an answer confuting the said Spanish lies c. Lond. 1596. qu. But this Capt. Henry Savile must not be understood to be the same with Long Harry or with Sir Hen. Savile Warden of Merton college but another of the same House as I conceive for three Hen. Saviles of Yorkshire were atriculated as members of that coll in the time of Qu. Elizabeath viz. one who is written the Son of a Plebeian 1588. a second the Son of an Esq in 1593. and a third an Esq Son also in 1595. The said Capt. Savile or else Long Harry was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons for which he was forced to abscond and withdrew for a time WILLIAM JAMES Son of Joh. James of Little On in Staffordshire by Ellen his Wife Daughter of Will. Bolt of Sanabach in Cheshire was born at Sandbach admitted Student of Ch. Ch. in 1559. or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences 1571 being then Divinity Reader of Magd. coll The next year he was elected Master of Vniv. coll and in 1577. Aug. 27. he became Archdeacon of Coventry on the death of Thom. Lewes In 1584. he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 96. June 5. he was installed Dean of Durham after that place had laid void for some time upon the promotion of Tob. Mathew to the See of Durham In 1606. he succeded the
our author Bunney who had a bulkey body and a broad face did several times come to Oxon accompanied with two men in black Liveries with horses and did preach or catechize in some Churches there and near to it where was none to do that office particularly in Allsaints Church to whom many resorted and took Notes Also that whatsoever he had given to him by way of gratuity he would bestow on his men and farther added that by his seeing holiness of life and soundness of doctrine many Scholars particularly himself were induced afterwards to take holy Orders He would travel over most parts of England like a new Apostle and would endeavour to act as the Apostles did So that being blamed for it by many as if there were none to be found to do that office but he and looked upon by others as a forward busie and conceited man he therefore wrote his Defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry and dispersed several copies of it abroad among his friends and acquaintance The truth is he was the most fluid Preacher in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth for he seldom or never studied for what he was to deliver but would preach and pray extempere as our beloved Saints did in the time of the rebellion under K. Ch. 1. and after insomuch that many were pleased to say he was troubled with the Divinity squirt I have heard some of our Ancients who remember him report that he was a severe Calvinist and that by the liberty he took did a great deal of harm by his Preaching in Corporation-Towns as many then did and some Gentlemen also with Licenses obtained from the Queen under pretence of a scarcity of Divines He hath written The summ of Christian Religion in two parts The first intreateth of the Trinity and the second of the Commandments Lond. 1576. oct Abridgment of Jo. Calvin's Institutions Lond. 1580. oct Translated into Engl. by Edw. May. Scepter of Judah or what manner of Government it was that unto the Commonwealth or Church of Israel was by the Law of God appointed Lond. 1584. oct Of the Coronation of K. David wherein out of that part of the History of David that sheweth how he came to the Kingdom we have set out what is like to be the end of these troubles that daily arise for the Gospels sake Lond. 1588. qu. Necessary admonition out of the Prophet Joel concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us and is not clean taken off as yet c. Lond. 1588. oct The Reader is to understand that Rob. Persons a Jesuit did put out a book intit Christian Exercise appertaining to Resolution c. in two parts The first of which coming forth before the other our author Bunney did correct alter and made it fit for the use of Protestants adding thereunto of his own composition A Treatise of Purification Lond. 1584. or thereabouts in oct But the Jesuit in the next edit of the said Resolution did much complain of our author for assuming to himself the labours of another person and of spoiling his work and the impression thereof Whereupon our author put out another book intit A brief answer unto those idle and frivolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the Resolution Lond. 1589. oct He hath also written Of Divorce for Adultery and Marrying again that there is no sufficient Warrant so to do Oxon. 1610. qu. At the end of which is a note to shew that Rob. Persons was many years since answered The corner Stone Or a form of teaching Jesus Christ out of the Scriptures Lond. 1611. fol. A defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry MS. written 20. Jan. 1602. He also translated as some say into the English tongue or as others perverted it that excellent book of Joh. Gerson or rather of Tho. de Kempis intit Of the imitation of Christ but whether true I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing He ended his days at Cawood in Yorkshire 26. Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the choire of York Cathedral Over his grave is a fair Monument in the wall with his Effigies carved from stone and this inscription by it Edmundus Bunnaeus ex nobili Bunnaeorum familia oriundus S. Th. Bac. coll Mertonensis in Oxâ—n olim Socius Parochiae de Bolton-Percy Pastor Ecclesiarum B. Pauli London B. Petri Eborum B. Mariae Carleol Praebendarius dignissimus concionator frequentiss vicatim oppidatim praedicando multos annos consum siâ— cum ob amorem christi haereditatem paternam fratri Riâ—â—â—â—â—â—uniori relinquisset Obiit die mensis Febr. 26. an 1617. Haec senis Edmundi Bunney est quem cernis imago A quo Bunnaei villula nomen habet Clarus â—rat tanti tumuit neque sanguinis aestu Haeres patris crat profuit esse nihil Denotat aetatem gravitas resolutio mentem Zelum Scripta aciem Pulpita facta fidem Vasa sacro librosque dedit post funera templo Et bona pauperibus caetera seque deo ROBERT ABBOT the eldest Son of Maurice Abbot Sherman who died 25. Sept. 1606. by Alice March his Wife was born at Guildford in Surry in an house now an Ale-house bearing the sign of the Three Marriners by the Rivers side near to the Bridge on the North side of the Street in St. Nicholas Parish educated in the Free School there founded by K. Ed. 6. 1551. under Mr. Franc. Tayler Schoolmaster thereof became a Student in Balliol coll 1575. aged 15 years elected Socius Sacerdotalis of that house 16. Jan. 1581. took the degree of M. A. in the year following became a noted Preacher in the University and a constant Lecturer at St. Martins Church in the Quadrivium and sometimes at Abendon in Berks. Afterwards being made Lecturer in the City of Worcester and Rector of Allsaints Church there he resigned his Fellowship 8. March 1588. and not long after became Rector of Bingham in Northamptonshire by the favour of Joh. Stanhope Esquire and afterwards took the degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated in 1597. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to him in the year 1609. he was unanimously elected Master of Balliol coll and in the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was made Prebendary of Normanton in the Church of Southwell In 1612. he was appointed Doctor of the Theological Chair usually called the Kings Professor of Divinity by his Majesty and in 1615. he was nominated by him to be Bishop of Salisbury meerly as 't is said for his incomparable Lectures read in the Divinity School concerning the Kings Supream Power against Bellarmino and Suarez and for his Antilogia which he a little before had published So that being consecrated thereunto on the third of Dec. the same year sate there till the time of his death which was soon after He was a
Inn Ben. Johnson Thom. Wenman of the Inner Temple c. which last I take to be the same that had been Fellow of Ball. coll and Publick Orator of this University These two books or parts in fol. were also printed in two vol. in oct 1625. which I have not yet seen Our author Browne hath also written a Poem intit The Shepard's Pipe in 7 Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct The fourth Eglogue is dedicated to Mr. Tho. Manwood who died about that time Son of Sir Pet. Manwood and the fifth to his ingenious Friend Mr. Christop Brook mentioned elsewhere in this work Elegy on the never enough bewailed c. Prince Henry Lond. 1613. qu. and other Poems as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen However the Reader is to know that as he had honoured his Country with his elegant and sweet Pastorals so was he expected and also intreated a little farther to grace it by drawing out the line of his Poetick Ancestors beginning in Josephus Iscanius and ending in himself but whether ever published having been all or mostly written as 't was said I know not In the beginning of the year 1624. he retired to Exeter coll again being then about 34 years of age and was Tutor or Gov. to Rob. Dâ—rmer of that house the same who was afterwards Earl of Caernarvon and killed in Newbury fight 20. Sept. 1643. In the same year he was actually created Master of Arts as I shall tell you elsewhere in the Fasti and after he had left the Coll. with his Pupil he became a retainer to the Pembrochian Family was beloved by that generous Count William E. of Pembroke and got wealth and purchased an estate which is all I know of him hitherto only that as he had a little body so a great mind In my searches I find that one Will. Browne of Otterie S. Mary in Devon died in the Winter time 1645. whether the same with the Poet I am hitherto ignorant After the time of the said Poet appeared another person of both his names author of two Common Law-books written in English intit Formulae bene placitandi and of Modus intraadi placita generalia and of other things pertaining to that Faculty JOHN DAVIES an excellent Mathematician as the learned Camden stiles him was the Son of John Davies of London in which City he was born at about six of the clock in the evening of the eighth of Feb. in 1559-60 and educated in Gramaticals there In 1574. he made his first entry into this University and setling in Gloucester hall under the tuition of one that was much enclined to the Rom. Perswasion made great proficiency in his studies and Mr. Tho. Allen of that house finding that his Genie was much addicted to the Mathematicks instructed him therein and gave him all the incouragement imaginable to proceed in that noble Science In 1581. he proceeded M. of A. as a Member of Glouc. hall continued there for some time after and then retiring to the great City was instructed in Astrological matters by one Dr. Sim. Forman a very able Astrologer and Physician as it appears by the MS. books he left behind him when he died tho a certain author tells us he was a very silly fellow In Feb. 1587. he was first of all introduced into the Royal Court where he was made known to and received with great courtsie by that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex In 1589. he travelled into France and made a voyage into Portugal whereby he advanced his knowledge as to men and the Languages of those Countries very much In 1596. after he had been married 3 years he went under the conduct of the said Count towards Spain where doing most admirable service at the taking and sacking of Cadiz he received the honour of Knighthood and of Baneret In 1597. he travelled to the Islands of Terceres where he performed that employment he went about to the great honour of himself and in 1598. Jan. 31. he was made Surveyor of the Ordnance by the endeavours of his singular good Lord the E. of Essex under whom in the year following he went as a prime Officer into Ireland where his service was much remarkable against the Rebels In 1600. he was deeply ingaged in that Earls Teasons for which he was taken and committed to custody on the 8. Feb. the same year About the eleventh of the same month the Archbishop of Canterbury issued out a Direction for the Ministers and Preachers in his Province to the end that they give the People a right understanding what the Earl of Essex intended by his treasonable conspiracy in which Direction I find these matters of Sir Joh. Davies viz. that he was brought up in Oxford and was by profession a seller of figures and on whom that hateful Earl hoth to God and man did repose great affiance insomuch that he made him chief Officer about the Ordnance in the Tower and thought him one of the faithfull'st Servants he had to make his Keeper c. This Davies was one that favoured nothing less than the Gospel for being in hold the chiefest motion that he made to the Gentleman that had the custody of him for that time was that if it were possible he might have a Priest to confess him c. In March following he was tried among other Conspirators for his life and being in a manner convicted by his own Conscience and confession held his peace and then being taunted by the way that he was a Papist he denied not but that in Oxon he was instructed in the Romish Religion by his Tutor and confirmed in the same by Sir Christop Blount one of the Conspirators while he was in the Irish Wars At which words when he perceived Blount was moved he straight appeased him affirming that he was confirmed in that Religion not by Blounts perswasion but by the example of his Christian and Religious life Afterwards being condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered he requested that altho he was no Nobleman yet he might suffer as they did that is by beheading if not not to be quarter'd in pieces but to be buried Christianly After sentence he was remanded to his prison but by the intercession of Friends the Queen signed his Pardon 5. Feb. 1601. which was allowed by the Judges in Westminster hall on the 12. of the same month So that being free he purchased an Estate in the Parish of Pangborne in Berks where he spent the remainder of his days in a retired and studious condition This person who is stiled in literis Mathematicis apprime eruditus hath written many things of Mathematicks and Astrology but hath nothing as I can yet find that is extant There went from hand to hand a volume of Letters which were written by this Sir Joh. Davies Dr. Joh. d ee and Dr. Mat. Gwinne concerning Chimical and Magical secrets which as some say tho I cannot yet be satisfied in it
cuts engraven from the representations drawn with great curiosity by him which hath advantaged the sale of it much And I am verily perswaded had the said book been published two years before I mean before the first edition of Camdens Remaines which first saw light in 1604. it would have been more cried up and consequently would have sold more But however so it is that the book hath been so much valued by learned and curious men in times following that a second impression of it was made at Lond. 1653. in large oct and another in 1674. oct He hath also written The sundry successive regal governments of the Realm of England Antw. 1620. printed in one long sheet wherein are the pictures of a Britain Roman Saxon Dane and Norman wrought off from a Copper plate And was the same person without doubt with him who writes himself R. V. author of Odes in imitation of the seven penitential Psalms with sundery other Poems and Ditties bending to devotion and piety Printed beyond the Sea in 1601. with the Jesuits mark in the title for as I have been informed Verstegan had some skill in Poetry as well as in Painting In the said Poems he toucheth on many matters of antiquity and antient Saints of England The same R. V. also hath translated into English A dialogue of dying well Antw. 1603. oct written in Ital. by Don Peeter of Luca a Can. regular and D. of D. and by the translator dedicated to the Lady Joan Berkley Abbess of the English Nuns of S. Benedict in Bruxells The said Verstegan hath written and translated other things but few of them coming into England we seldom or never see them He was living in good condition among the English at Antwerp who had fled for the sake of Religion under the notion of a Spanish stipendary having several years before been married to so thirâ—ty and prudent a woman that she kept up his credit in the latter end of K. James and beginning of K. Ch. 1. as one or more Letters written by him to the great Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton which I have seen in his Library shew And thus much of Rich. Verstegan alias Rowland of whom Will. Watson Priest will give you a sharp character and another stuff enough beyond the rules of charity to run down a Dog JOHN STRADLING Son of Franc. Stradling by Elizabeth his Wife was born near to Bristow in Somersetshire but descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donats in Glamorganshire was educated in puerile learning under a learned and pious man named Edw. Green Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Bristow became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1579. aged 16. years or thereabouts and in 1583. he took a degree in arts as a member of Magd. hall being then accounted a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts Soon after his great worth being discovered in the Metropolis while he continued in one of the Inns of Court but especially after he had return'd from his travels beyond the Seas was courted and admired by the Learned Camden Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Tho. Leyson mention'd before under the year 1607. and above all by that most noted Critick and Physitian Dr. Jo. Dav. Rhese He hath written and published De vita morte contemnenda lib. 3. Francof 1597. in oct written to his Uncle Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats whom I have mention'd under the year 1609. Epigrammatum libri quatuor Lond. 1607. in oct Two years after he became heir to his Uncle before mention'd setled at S. Donats Castle and was made a Baronet in 1611. at which time he was esteemed a wise and most learned Gentleman Afterwards being involved in secular affairs and the services of his Country was taken off from writing till the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. at which time he published a book intit Beati pacifici Printed 1623. but whether in prose or verse I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it Afterwards he published Divine Poems in seven several Classes written to K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1625. qu. At the end of which is an Epitaph made by him on K. Jam. 1. I have sent several times to several persons in Wales to have some account of this person his last end and his Epitaph but no returns are yet made ARTHUR LAKE brother to Sir Tho. Lake Knight principal Secretary of State to K. Jam. 1. Son of Almeric Lake or du Lake of the antient borough of Southampton was born in S. Michaels parish and educated for a time in the Free-School there Afterwards being transplanted to Wykehams School to perâ—ect his Grammar learning was thence elected probationer Fellow of New coll and after two years of Probation he was made perpetual Fellow thereof an 1589. Five years after that he proceeded in Arts entred into the sacred function was made Fellow of Wykehams coll near to Winton about 1600. and three years after Master of the hospital of S. Cross in the place of Dr. Rob. Bennet promoted to the See of Hereford In 1605. he took the degrees in Divinity and the same year he was installed Archdeacon of Surrey Afterwards he was made Dean of Worcester in Apr. 1608. in the room of Dr. Jam. Monutague promoted to the See of Bath and Wells and at length Bishop of those Cities to which he was consecrated at Lambeth 8. Dec. 1616. In all these places of honour and employment he carried himself the same in mind and person shewing by his constancy that his virtues were virtues indeed in all kind of which whether natural moral Theological personal or pastoral he was eminent and indeed one of the examples of his time He always lived a single man exemplary in his life and conversation and very hospitable He was also well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and had such a command of the Scripture which made him one of the best preachers that few went beyond him in his time The things that he hath written were not by him published but by his Friends after his death the titles of which follow Exposition of the first Psalm Exposition of the 51. Psalm Nine Sermons on Matth. 22. verse 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Ten Serm. on Exod. 19. Five Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon. on Luke 3. ver 7 8 9. Eight Serm. on Isa 9. Six Serm. on Haggai 2. Sundry Sermons de tempore preached at Court Meditations All which being collected into a large volume were printed under this general title Sermons with religious and divine meditations Lond. 1629. fol. Ten Sermons upon several occasions preached at S. Paul's Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1641. qu. The first is on Psal 160. 29 30. the second on Jude 5. c. He dyed in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in an Isle on the north side of the Choire of Wells Cathedral Over his grave was soon after laid a plain
the Doctors of Physick resident in Oxon. This Dr. Anthony died in S. Barthelmews Close where he had lived many years on 26. May 1623. and was buried in the Isle joyning to the north side of the Chancel of St. Barthelmew the Great in London leaving then behind him two Sons by Elizabeth his second Wise viz. John Anthony M. D. who succeeded his Father in his practice in London and Charles a Physitian of Bedford living there 1634. and after I find another Francis Antony to have been a writer of the same time with our author Dr. Anthony but he was by birth a Portugues and by profession a Jesuit and therefore the books of his composition must not be attributed to the other Our author Dr. Gwinne hath also written a book of Travels various Letters concerning Chymical and Magical secrets and also divers copies of Verses in English Italian and French occasionally set by way of commendation before the books published by his friends and acquaintance but none of these have I yet seen only some of the said verses He deceased in the month of Octob. or in the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven in his house situate and being in S. year 1627 Mary Magdalens parish in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and was as I suppose buried in the Church there He had a Son named John Gwinne and lest behind him a Widdow called Susanna who had a Commission from the Prerogative Court dated 12. Nov. 1627. to administer the goods debts chattels c. of her Husband Dr. Gwinne then lately deceased RICHARD CARPENTER a Cornubian born became a Batler of Exeter coll in the beginning of of 1592. and four years after Fellow being then B. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he solely dedicated his studies to Theology by the advice and directions of Holland the Rector of his college and proved in few years after learned and profound in that faculty and an excellent preacher In 1611. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time was made Rector of Sherwill and of Loxhore adjoyning near to Barnestaple in Devonshire both which he kept without any other preferment except the Benefice of Ham near unto Sherwill which he enjoyed for some years to the time of his death Afterwards he proceeded in Divinity and became much esteemed for his learning by Scholars and by others for those things that he published which are Various Sermons as 1 The Souls Sentinel c. at the funeral solemnities of Sir Arthur Acland Kt. 9. Jan. 1611. on Job 14. verse 14. Lond. 1612. oct 2. A Pastoral charge faithfully given and discharged at the Triennial visitation of William B. of Exon. at Barnstaple 7. Sept. 1616. on Acts. 20. 28. Lond. 1616. oct 3 Christs Larambell of love resounded c. on Joh. 15. 12. Lond. 1616. oct 4. The conscionable christian c. Three Assize Sermons at Taunton and Chard in Somersetshire 1620. on Acts 24. 16. Lond. 1623. qu. Which three Sermons are mostly concerning the keeping of a good conscience He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. year 1627 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven aged 52. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Loxhore before mentioned Over his grave is a large Epitaph in Prose and Verse some of which runneth thus Richardus Carpenter S. Theol. D. ab eruditione multiplici venerandus pietate vitae integritate morumque comitate valde clarus Hujus Ecclesiae Sherwillensis pastor fidus c. The reader is now to know that there was another Rich. Carpenter a Divine both after the former in time and much inferior as to learning He was educated in the School at Eaton coll near Windsore and thence was elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1622. where continuing about two or three years left it his friends and Country went beyond the Seas and studied in Flanders Artois France Spain Italy and at length received holy Orders at Rome from the hands of the Popes substitute Soon after he was sent into England to gain Proselites being then as I have been told a Benedictine Monk In which employment continuing an year and upward return'd to the Protestant Religion and had by the Archbishop of Canterburies endeavours the Vicaridge of an obscure and small Village called Poling by the Sea side near Arundel Castle in Sussex bestowed on him But before he was warm in that Seat he received many abuses and affronts from certain Rom. Priests and Lay-men of their profession living in those parts particularly by Franc. a S. Clara who being sometimes in the neighbourhood by the name of Hunt would be very free with and expose him to scorn before his parishioners In the year 1642. and that of his age 33. or rather more he published a treatise intit Experience History and Divinity in five books Printed at Lond. in a thick oct and by the said author dedicated to the Parliament then sitting In which Treatise p. 32. 37. c. are many things spoken of himself This book came out again or rather had a new title to it of The Downfal of Antichrist c. an 1648. What preferment he had afterwards I cannot tell yet sure I am that in the time of the Civil War he left the Nation and retired to Paris where he became a railer against the Protestants Afterwards he return'd to his old trade of Independancy in England and about that time published The perfect Law of God being a Sermon and no Sermon preached and yet not preached Printed 1652. in oct He lived then and after at Aylesbury in Bucks where he had kindred living and would preach there very fantastically to the great mirth of some of his Auditors After his Maj. Restauration he published a Comedy intit The Pragmatical Jesuit with his picture before it represented in very gentile Lay-habit whereas his picture before his Experience History and Divinity represents him to be a formal Clergy man with a mortified countenance He was living at Aylesbury before mention'd in 1670. But before his death which was elsewhere he was as some of his acquaintance hath told me returned to Popery and caused his pretended Wife to be of his perswasion in which Faith he died Those that knew him have often told me that he was an impudent fantastical man that changed his mind with his cloaths and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of Religion he was esteemed a Theological Mountebank I find one or more of both his names that have been writers which I shall now pass by and one Rich. Carpenter who had a publick dispute with one Gibs concerning Infant Baptism in the times of Usurpation which probably may be the same with him before mentioned ADAM REUTER who intitles himself in some of his books Cotbusius L. Silesius did for his improvement in all kind of Literature retire to the University of Oxon in the beginning of 1608. being then
the Parliament forces in the year 1646. at which time the Wars were ceased he was sent to S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he had not been there many months e're came forth the first issue of his prodigious wit entit Horae vacivae or Essayes with some occasional considerations Lond. 1646. oct with his Picture before them aged 19. The sudden breaking forth of which amazed not only the University as I am instructed by one of his Fellow Collegiats but the more serious part of men in the three Nations where they were spread The same year about New-years time came out his Poems Lond. 1646. and with them The second book of divine Poems Pr. in oct Both which books were much admired After he had continued more than an year at Cambridge in the condition of a Commoner and Gent. Com. he was translated to Greys Inn where he added to the Structure of a most admirable Romance intit Lucenia which he had began in Cambridge but by the lending it forth to a friend it was smother'd In 1648. his mind being sufficiently known to encline towards a Commonwealth he sided with the Independent and wrote A Satyr against Presbytery and in 1649. he published An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Vniversities Printed at Lond. in 6. sh in qu. In which taking occasion to court the then Rulers got him a present sum of Money and a Pension of 100. l. per an from the Councel About the same time he wrote Four Paradoxes to which he added two more in 1653. Published at Lond. 1653. in tw under the name of Joh. de la Salle by Joh. Davies of Kidwelly And in 1650. being commanded by the Councel of State into Scotland to attend Oliver Cromwell to make such observations on affairs there as might conduce to the setling of the interests of the Commonwealth he wrote a book intit The grounds and reasons of Monarchy with an Appendix of An Epitomy of the Scotish affairs Both printed at Edenburgh in qu. and afterwards at London About that time he was called to the Barr and sometimes pleaded and in 1651. he published A Gag to Loves Advocates c. wherein he justified the Parliaments proceedings in the execution of Christop Love a forward and busie Presbyterian What other things he either wrote or published are briefly these 1 A Preface before with remarks upon a book intit A true relation of the unjust cruell and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the E. Indies by the Netherlandish Government and Councell there Which book tho it had been published in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and the third time at Lond. 1632. in qu. Joh. Hall thought it necessary to revive it at that time 1651. because of the then differences between the Dutch and the English This book he dedicated to the General O. Cromwell and was much bought up Whereupon the Dutch Embassador residing then in Westminster made a complaint of that book and demanded punishment on the reviver of it but the Parliament thinking it a seasonable service done to the publick took no notice of it 2 He rendred into English from the Original The height of Eloquence written by Dionis Longinus Lond. 1652. oct Dedicated to Balstrade Whitlock one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 3 He wrote A Letter from a Gent. in the Country concerning c. an 1653. just after the Long Parliament was dissolv'd tending to settle the humours of the people in that great emergency 4 Answer to the grand politick Informer Printed 1653. fol. which Politick Informer being a virulent Pamphlet writen upon the Assembly of Barbone's Parliament and therefore censured and suppressed it was thought expedient that Hall should answer it and he was well rewarded for it from the Exchequer He put out Lusus Serius in 1654. written in Lat. by Mich. Majerus Half of which almost was done in one afternoon over a glass of Wine in a Tavern 6 He made a translation of Hicrocles upon the golden verses of Pythagoras teaching a vertuous and worthy life Published after his death by his friend John Davies of Kidwelly Lond. 1657. oct with other things as Poems Translations Treatises which were never published At length being overtaken with a disease which he could not thoroughly shake off he left London in Jul. 1655. and retiring to Durham died there on the first of Aug. 1656. having not fully arrived to the 29th year of his age and was buried there near to the grave of his Father who died about an year before just after his Sons arrival there To conclude had not his debauches and intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies he had make an extraordinary person for no man had ever done so great things at his age So was the opinion of the great Philosopher of Malmsbury Besides this John Hall of Durham were others of both his names and writers as Joh. Hall of Richmond author Of Government and Obedience in four books Lond. 1654. fol. and of other things and another John Hall author of The true Cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty either of Schism or Sedition Lond. 1656. besides other matters A third also who was Bach. of Div. now or lately living was author of Jacobs Ladder or the 〈◊〉 souls ascension to heaven in Prayers c. WILLIAM HINDE was born at 〈◊〉 in Westmorland became a poor serving Child of 〈◊〉 in Mich. Term 1586. aged 17. afterwards 〈…〉 M of A. and perpetual Fellow of the said house wherein having been alwaies a close and severe 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 and beloved by the famous Jo. Rainolds a Commoner of the said Coll. during his time Whose doctrine making impressions on the Juniors there our author Hinde became an admirer of him At length being full ripe for a removal he left the Society about 1603. being then much in esteem among them for his excellent Theological Disputations and Preachments and became Minister of Gods word at Bunbury in Cheshire where he was much noted among the puritanical party for his piety and so much followed by them for his frequent preaching that he was esteemed the Ring-leader of the Nonconformists in that County during the time that Dr. Tho. Morton sate Bishop of Chester with whom our author had several contests about Conformity He hath written The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel justified and explained at large by Scriptures Fathers and other Orthodox Divines c. Lond. 1623. qu. Path to Piety a Catechism A faithful remonstrance or the holy life and happy death of John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford in the County of Chester Esq exhibiting variety of many memorable and exemplary passages of his life and at his death c. Lond. 1641. oct Published by Sam. Hinde a Minister Son of William the author The said John Bruen who was a noted Calvinist and
Poems and Epistles before mentioned and at the end are Elegies on the authors death Six Sermons Lond. 1634. qu. Fasciculus Poematum Epigrammatum Miscellaneorum Translated into English by Jasp Mayne D. D. with this title A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1632. oct Ignatius his Conclave or his inthronization in a late election in hell c. Lond. 1635. in tw there again in 1653. An edition of this came forth in 1626. in oct intit Ignatius his Conclave viz. of establishing a Church in the Moon Apology for the Jesuits Pr. with the former Eighty Sermons Lond. 1640. fol. Among which are involved the six Sermons before-mentioned These eighty Sermons are called The first vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Declaration of that Paradox or Thesis that self homicide is not so naturally a Sin that it may not be otherwise Lond. 1644. 48. c. qu The original under the authors own hand I have seen in Bodley's Library dedicated to Edward L. Herbert of Cherbury Essays in Divinity c. Lond. 1651. oct Published by his Son John who tells us that they were written before his Father had entred into holy Orders Prayers Pr. with the former Paradoxes Problems Essays and Characters Lond. 1652. oct In which book are involv'd several or most of the Paradoxes Problems c. before-mentioned Various Sermons Lond. 1649. fol. vol. 2. Six and twenty Sermons never before published Lond 1660. 61. fol. This is called the Third vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Letters to several persons of honour Lond. 1651. qu. Some of which I think were before printed He had also lying by him at his death many Sermon notes and other papers containing an extract of near fifteen hundred authors All which as his last Legacy he left to Dr. Hen. King afterwards B. of Chichester but what became of them after that Bishops death in 1669. I know not He also translated from Greek into English The ancient history of the Septuagint Lond. 1633. in tw written originally by Aristeus Which translation was revised and very much corrected by another hand Lond. 1685. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of March year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the South Isle behind the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul near to the Monument of Dr. Jo. Colet Both whose Epitaphs with the Pictures of their respective Monuments you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale lately Garter K. of Arms. Our Author Dr. Jo. Donne left behind him a Son of both his Names but of none of his virtues manners or generous qualities and therefore by many his memory is condemn'd to utter Oblivion while that of his Father flourisheth in the History of his life written by Isaac Walton the first edition of which printed 1653. coming into the hands of the best critick of the last age I mean Jo. Hales of Eaton he affirmed to his friends that he had not seen a life written with more advantage to the Subject or more reputation to the writer than it JOHN RAWLINSON a fluent and florid Preacher of his time was born in London educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll 1591. aged 15. and was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and so great a frequenter of the Pulpits in Oxon that his name being cried up for an excellent Theologist became successively Rector of Taplow in Bucks Vicar of Asheldam in Essex Prebendary of Sarum D. of D. Principal of S. Edmunds hall Chaplain to Tho. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere L. Chanc. of England and in Ordinary to K. Jam. 1. Rector of Celsy in Sussex and of Whitchurch in Shropshire In all which places he was much followed for his frequent and edifying preaching great charity and publick Spirit He hath published Divers Sermons as 1 The four Summons of the Shulamite preached at Pauls Cross on Cantic 6. 12. Oxon. 1606. in oct 2 Fishermen Fishers of Men on Matth. 4. 19. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The Romish Judas preached on the 5. Nov. 1610. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Mercy to a Beast on Prov. 12. 10. Oxon. 1602. qu. 5 Vnmasking of the Hypocrite preached at S. Maries in Ox. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1616. qu. 6 Vivat Rex Let the King live or God save the King on 1 Sam. 10. 24. Ox. 1619. qu. 7 The Dove-like Soul on Psal 55. 6. Oxon. 1625. qu. 8 Lex Talionis on Judg. 1. 7. Ox. 1625. qu. 9 Surprising of Heaven on Mat. 11. 12. lb. 1625. qu. 10 The Bridegroom and Bride on Cant. 4. 8. lb. 1622. c. qu. Which four last Sermons viz. the 7 8 9 and 10. were all published together under the title of Quaâ—riga Salutis or Four Quadragesimal Sermons c. These are all the Sermons of his publication that I have yet seen and whether he be author of an Explication of the Creed Ten Commandments and Lords Prayer which is published under the name of Rawlinson in oct I know not He departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch in Shropshire before-mentioned where his name continues precious to this day among the inhabitants of that place and in the neighbourhood In his Prebendship of Salisbury called Netherbury in Ecclesia succeeded Thom. Fuller 18. Jun. 1631. the same who was afterwards the author of divers historical books and him Tho. Henchman 17. Aug. 1661. JOHN BUCKRIDGE Son of Will. Buckridge by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Tho. Keblewhyte of Baselden Son of John Keblewhyte Uncle to Sir Tho. Whyte the Founder of S. Johns college and he the Son of Henry some say John Keblewhyte of Fawley was born as I conceive at Draycot near to Marlborough in Wiltshire educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of the said coll in 1578. soon after Fellow and through the degrees in Arts Doctor of Divinity in the latter end of 1596. about which time he was Chaplain to Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury After he had left the University I find him to have been first of all Rector of North-Fambridge in Essex afterwards Chaplain to Robert E. of Essex Rector of North Kilworth in Leicestershire Vicar of S. Giles Church without Cripplegate London Archdeacon of Northampton Canon of Windsore and Hereford Chaplain to K. James and at length President of S. Johns college 1605. At which time his eminent abilities in the Pulpit had brought him into great credit with K. James insomuch that he was chosen to be one of the four Dr. Andrews B. of Chichester Dr. Barlow B. of Rochester and Dr. Jo. King then Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon were the other three who were appointed to Preach before his Maj. at Hampton Court in the month of Sept. 1606. for the reduction of the two Melvins and other Presbyterian Scots to a right understanding of the Church of England In
in Rushia in 1619. and esteemed to be a person well vers'd in most parts of learning He was noted by all those that knew him to be a very good Greecian Poet an excellent Critick Antiquary Divine and admirably well skill'd in the Saxon and Gothick languages But as for his Preaching it was not except by the graver sort approved by any in the University For of three Sermons delivered to the Academians one of which concerning the Observation of Lent was without a Text according to the most ancient manner another against the Text and a third beside it shewing himself thereby a humorous person The famous Selden was much beholding to him for the drudgery he did for him when he composed his Marmora Arundeliana acknowledging him in his Preface to that book to be Vir multijugae studiique indefatigabilis Sir Rob. Cotton also his great Patron and his Son Sir Thomas could not but acknowledge his like drudgery in the ordering disposing and setling their incomparable Library with the first of whom no great friend to the Prerogative being intimate and familiar was confin'd to close keeping by the Lords when Sir Robert was imprisoned for certain matters uttered in Parliament an 1629. Nothing was wanting to our author and his studies but a Sinecure or a Prebendship either of which if confer'd upon him Hercules his labours would have seem'd a trifle His works are these Several Lat. Sermons as 1 Anti-Possevinus sive concio habita ad clerum 〈◊〉 Acad. Oxon an 1625. in 2 Tim. 4. 13. Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Conc. habita ad clerum Oxon de Ecclesia in Matth. 16. 18. Oxon. 1633. qu. c. Several Engl. Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning the Eucharist delivered on Easter day in Oxon. on Matth. 26. ver 26 27 28. Lond. 1629. qu. 2 History of Preaching or concerning the Apostles preaching and ours on 1 Cor. 9. 16. Lond. 1630. qu. 3 Serm. concerning the observation of Lent-fast Lond. 1630. qu. To which tho there be no Text yet it is grounded on Luke 4. 2. 4 Serm concerning the times of receiving the Sacrament and of mutual forgiveness delivered in C. C. C. at the election of a President on 1 Cor. 11 25. Lond. 1632. â—qu 5 Apologetical Essay for the righteousness of miserable unhappy People preached at S. Maries in Oxon on Psal. 37. 25. Lond. 1632. qu. Poemata quaedam in mort clariss viri Roberti Cottoni Thomae Alleni Oxon. 1633. qu. With which Poems he published Sir Thom. More 's Epistle written from Abendon in Berks an 1519. to the Univ. of Oxon for the embracing of the Greek tongue which had been for many years neglected among the Members thereof He also translated into English Octavius Ox. 1636. in tw written by Minutius Felix All the afore-mentioned works except the translation bound in one vol. the author gave to Bodlies Library with a copy of verses of his composition written in a spare leaf before the first of them beginning thus Dear God by whom in dark Womb's shade I am to fear and wonder made c. The said copy of verses was made by him when he was confin'd to close custody by the Lords He died of a Quartan Fever in the house of Sir Tho. Cotton Bt. near to Westminster hall by too much studying as 't was supposed and wracking his body with hardship in the beginning of Decemb. year 1638 in sixteen hundred thirty and eight and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in S. Margarets Church within the said City He left behind him several MSS. of his own composition and others collected by him from various authors to the number of 45. or thereabouts all written with his own hand which coming after his death into the hands of his intire Friend and Colleague Mr. Tho. Greaves came after his death to the Bodleian Library where they now are The MSS. of his composition are these 1 Decanonizatio Thomae Cantuariensis suorum fol. This book containing 760. pages hath this beginning Viam regiam mihi patefacit ad decanonizationem ficti fucati Martyris c. and the beginning of the Epist to the Reader is this Amice lector rogatus sum saepius c. 2 Comment in Evangelia S. Johannis in two parts in qu. The beginning is Postmodo ad textum sacrae historiae deveniam ubi prius c. Both parts contain about 12 sheets 3 Notae in aliquot loca Bibliae in 3 sh in qu. The beginning is Videte sub ficu Paraphrastes sub umbrosa ficu c. 4 Antiquitates Insulae Victae in 17 pages in qu. The beginning is Angli Saxones Marciarum c. and of the Epistle to the Reader Vtrum moriar priusque hoc opus perficium deus novit c. 'T is only a specimen or a foundation for a greater work to build on 5 Epistolae ad amicos suos doctos The beginning of the first Ep. which was written to Dr. Seb. Benefeild of C. C. coll is this Sancte Deus c. 'T is a thick quarto and containeth Epistles mostly written to C. C. coll men Epitaphs and some English copies of verses 6 Epigrams in Lat. and Engl. with other Poems 7 Reasons concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. These reasons which are six or more have this beginning Sir if you please to learn my mind concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. written in 2 sh in fol. 8 Two Sermons The first on James 5. 14. the other on John 12. 32. Both written in fol. papers 9 Iter Lancastrense This Itinerary which was written in English verse 1636. hath this beginning High Holt of Wood and 't is contained in two sheets and an half 10 Glossarium Saxonicum-Anglicum 'T is a long pocket-book 11 Glos Sax. Angl. another part in oct 12 A Rushian Dictionary with the English to it 13 Observations made in his travels through some parts of Wales Scotland on Shetland Greenland c. In 4 sheets in qu. 14 Observations made on the Country with the manners and customs of Rushia or Rusland an 1619. in oct 'T was intended to be transcrib'd and to have other matters added to it but what hindred the design I cannot tell Besides these 14 books I have another of Epigrams written mostly in Latin and partly in Greek in oct dedicated to his Tutor Dr. Sebast Benefeild As for his collections which are in four and twenty quartoes and in about 7 thin folio's all under his own hand are contained in them for the most part notes from ancient MSS. sometimes from printed authors relating to Hist and Antiq. and any thing that could be found against S. Thomas of Canterbury the greatness and corruption of Popes Cardinals Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Friers and the Clergy before the time of Reformation And when he thought that the matter it self from the authors whence he made his collections was not enough sufficient to make them bad his
of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martins Parish in the County of Kent but the Widdow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and thence in the beginning of 1584 he was transplanted to New coll where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoyning and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman afterwards a Knight and a noted writer But continuing there not long he went to Queens coll where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practiced he became well vers'd in Logick and Philosophy and for a diversion now and then he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo On the 8. June 1588. he as a Member of Qu. coll did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logick of Aristotle that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following but whether he was admitted or did determine or took any other degree it doth not appear in any of the University Registers which I have exactly searched and the more for this reason because the author of his life saith that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello which being learned caused a friendship between him and Alberic Gentilis who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle The said author also saith that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent occasioned by a dream relating to that matter that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended c. But upon my search into the University Registers Records Accompts c. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon I find no such robbery committed To pass by other mistakes in the said life especially as to time which are not proper to set down in this place I shall go forward After our author had left Oxon he betook himself to travel into France Germany and Italy and having spent about 9 years in those places he returned into England and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom continuing till towards his fall he left England once more and retiring to Florence became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him when made K. of England honoured with the degree of Knighthood sent thrice Embassador to the Reipub. of Venice once to the States of the Vnited Provinces twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy once to the united Princes of Vpper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune also to the Archduke Leopald to the Duke of Wittenbergh to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassie at Venice with a vain hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State but missing his design I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again Sure 't is that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eaton coll confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England He hath written these things following Epistola de Casparo Scioppio Amberg 1613. oct This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit and a malicous pen who in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album viz. Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Embassador Wotton then at Venice where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows Epist ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir Augustae Vindelicae an 1612. The elements of Architecture Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae an 1651. 54. and 1672. c. oct Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius and a great Elogy concerning Wotton put before it Amstel 1649. fol. Plausus vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit by him Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct 'T is in English also in Reliquiae Wotton Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks Lond. 1641. in four sh in qu. Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu. Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex Characters of and Observations on some Kings of England The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo Philosophical survey of education or moral Architecture Aphorisms of education The great action between Pompey and Caesar extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day Letters to and characters of certain personages Various Poems All or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit Reliquiae Wottonian◠before-mentioned Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct published by Is Walton at the end of Sir H. Wottons life Letters to the Lord Zouch Printed at the latter end of Reliq Wottom in the edition of 1685. The state of Christendom or a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times Lond. 1657. fol. Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon Lond. 1661. oct He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks in a book called Cabala Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Journal of his Embassies to Venice -MS fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel comprehending as it seems the latitude of that subject MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is Quale sia stato c. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma from whence he was banished and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy where he was esteemed a very punctual Duelist and there managed many differences between Gentlemen Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
Iconoclastes in answer to a book entit Eikon Basilice the portrature of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings Lond. 1649 50. qu. ib. 1690 oct which being published to the horror of all sober men nay even to the Presbyterians themselves yet by the then dominant party it was esteemed an excellent piece and perform'd answerably to the expectation of his Wit and Pen. After the Return of King Charles 2. this book was called in by Proclamation dated 13 Aug. 1660 at which time the Author who a little before had left his house in Petty France which had a door going into S. James's Park absconded for fear of being brought to a legal Tryal and so consequently of receiving condign Punishment At the same time also was called in a book of John Goodwin then lately a Minister in Colemanstreet in Lond. entit The Obstructors of Justice written in defence of the Sentence against his Majesty Charles 1. At which time also the said Goodwin absconded to prevent Justice Soon after the publication of Iconoclastes Salmasius a Professor in Holland who had in a large Treatise not long before maintained as 't is said the parity of Church Governors against Episcopacy did publish Defensio rogia pro Carolo 1. Rege Angliae wherein he justified several matters as Milton conceived to the contradiction of his former book Whereupon he wrot and published 15 Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmasii defensionem regiam Lond. 1651. fol. said to be written in more correct Latin than that of Salmasius While Milton was writing the said book his sight began to fail him and before it was fully compleated one of his eyes did absolutely perish In the month of June the same year 1651 the said book was burnt at Tholouse by an arrest from the Parliament under the Government of the Duke of Orleans And in Sept. following it was the usual practice of Marchm Nedham a great crony of Milton to abuse Salmasius in his publick Mercury called Politicus as Milton had done before in his Defensio by saying among other things that Christina Qu. of Sweden had cashiered him her favour by understanding that he was a pernicious parasite and a promoter of Tyranny After his Majesties Restauration this book also was called in by the same Proclamation before mention'd But so it was that in 1652 a certain book entit Regii sanguinis clamor c. being published Salmasius was highly extol'd in it and Milton had his just Character given therein The nameless Author of which being for a considerable time sought out but in vain by Milton he at length learn'd by certain Ministers of State sent to the Republick of England who would sometimes visit him as a learned man that it was written by one Alex. More formerly a Professor and Minister at Geneva then living in Holland Whereupon he published 16 Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda contra infamem libellum Anonymum cui titulus Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus patricidas Anglicanos Lond. 1654 and at Hag. Com. the same year in oct Upon the writing of this book the Author Milton lost the other eye and tho to his charge he used many means yet he could never recover either of his eyes This book entit Reg. sang clam c. tho written by Dr. Peter du Moulin Prebendary of Canterbury as it afterwards well appeared yet Milton upon the reports before mention'd could not be convinced to the contrary but that it was written by the said More and therefore not only abused him in his Answers but by his friend Nedham in his Politicus whereby the reputation of that learned person was severely touched 17 Pro se defensio contra Alex. Mornum Ecclesiaste libelli famosi cui tit Regii sanguinis clamor c. Lond. 1655 oct In this book he is exceeding bitter against Morus and pretends to give a true history of his notorious Impurities both at Geneva and Leyden and an account of his own particular life to vindicate himself from what as he thought was scurrilously said of him by Morus At the end of the said book the Author Milton added Ad Alex. Mori supplementum responsio About the time that he had finished these things he had more leisure and time at command and being dispenced with by having a substitute allowed him and sometimes Instructions sent home to him from attending his office of Secretary he began that laborious work of amassing out of all the classick Authors both in prose and verse a Latin Thesaurus to the emendation of that done by Stephanus also the composing of Paradise lost and of the framing a Body of Divinity out of the Bible All which notwithstanding the several troubles that befell him in his fortunes he finished after his Majesty's Restauration But to go on with the Cat. of his Books according to time take these as they follow 18 Treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes c. Lond. 1659. in tw 19 Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church Lond. 1659. in tw 20 Ready and easie way to establish a free Commonwealth and the excellencies thereof compared with c. Lond. 1659 in two sheets and an half in qu. This being published in Feb. the same year was answer'd by G. S. in his Dignity of Kingship 21 Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God and the King c. Lond. 1660. qu. See more in Matthew Griffith among the Writers an 1665. 22 Accedence commenced Grammar c. pr. 1661. in oct 23 Paradise lost a Poem in 10 books Lond. 1669. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 24 Paradise regain'd a Poem in four books Lond. 1670. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 25 History of Britany from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman Conquest Lond. 1670 qu. This History when it first came abroad had only the reputation of the putting of our old Authors nearly together in a connex'd story not abstaining from some lashes at the ignorance or I know not what of those times 26 Artis logicae plenior institutio ad Petri Rami methodum concinnata Lond. 1672 in tw 27 Of true Religion Heresie Schism Toleration and what best means may be used against the growth and increase of Popery Lond. 1673. qu. 28 Poems c. on several occasions both English and Latin c. composed at several times Lond. 1673-4 oct Among these are mixed some of his Poems before mention'd made in his youthful years 29 Epistolarum familiarium lib. 1. Lond. 1674. oct 30 Prolusiones quaedam Oratoriae in Coll. Christi habitae printed with the familiar Epistles 31 Literae Pseudo senatus Anglicani Cromwellii reâ—iquorum perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae printed in 1676 in tw 32 Character of the Long Parliament and of the Assembly of Divines Lond. 1681. in 2 sheets in qu. In which book is a notable account of their