of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
on Psal 4.9 Lond. in oct Heaven opened or a brief and plain discovery of the riches of Gods Covenant of Grace Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis Lond. in oct The World Conquered or a believers victory over the World laid open in several Sermons on 1. Joh. 5.4 Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat Lond. 1668. oct All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct and were entit The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe Godly feare or the nature and necessity of feare and and its usefulness both to the driving sinners to Christ and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness Lond. 1674. oct This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts A rebuke to Back-Sliders and a spur for Loiterers in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation Lond. 1677 c. oct A Companion for Prayer or directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinarie danger Lond. 1680. in tw Instructions about Heart-work What is to be done on Gods part and ours for the cure and keeping of the Heart that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity Lond. 1682 oct with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley alias Aneley to it To the second edit of this which came out in 1684 was added our author Alleins book entit A Companion for prayer c. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine his kinsman and digested fitted for the Press and published his Remaines c. See more in the said J. Alleine among these writers page 300.301 At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at Frome Selwood before mention'd in the house of one Rob. Smith wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there in or about the midst of the middle alley At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. somtimes of Gloc. Hall a Luke-warm Conformist and Vicar of that place the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle heir to the illustrious Family of Percy preached his funeral Sermon containing many pathetical Encomiums of him having several times before also visited him in his sickness THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop Herbert son of Thomas Herbert somtimes Alderman of the City of York descended being a younger brother from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive within the City of York admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman but before he took a degree his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane dau of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire invited him to that house where his continuance being short he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement he sent him to travel in 1626 with allowance to defray his charges So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great he did at his return wait on the said noble Count who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynards Castle in London died suddenly that night whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe After his return he married and setling in his native Country delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax but also a Commiss to treat with those on the Kings side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison Afterwards he attended the said Count especially at that time in Jan. 1646 when he with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace and bring him nearer to London When his Majesty came thence and was setled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire jealousies increased which begat fears against which there was then no fence The Commissioners persuant to instructions addressed themselves altogether on a certain time unto the King and acquainted him therewith and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants as it appeared by his countenance and the pause he made ere he gave the Commissioners any answer Howbeit after some expostulation and deliberation he condescended to what they proposed they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person as Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber in which place they had several years served the King Next day his Majesties servants came as at other times into the presence Chamber where all dinner time they waited but after his Majesty rose from dinner he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesties hand and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesties freedom and preservation and so left Holdenby All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy Soon after this his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament he after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with Mr. Tho. Herbert our author was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell and upon his knees desired to know the Kings pleasure He told him he would send a message to the Parliament and having none there that he usually employed and unwilling it should go under his own hand called him in for that purpose Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated was enjoyn'd secrecy and not to communicate it to any until made publick by both Houses if by them held meet which he carefully observed This errand was as I conceive His Majesties message for Peace dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston Hen. Moray John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismist he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert who had
authors Son Doct. of Phys July 14. Lewis du Moulin Doct. of Physick of the University of Leyden incorporated in the same degree at Cambridge 10. Oct. 1634 was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon This person who was a French man born and Son of the famous Peter du Moulin a French Protestant was lately establish'd Camdens Professor of History in this University by the Committee of Parliament for the reformation thereof After the restauration of his Majesty he was turned out of his Professorship by his Majesties Commissioners for the regulating of the University Whereupon retiring to the City of Westminster lived there a most violent Nonconformist The books that he hath written are these 1 Epistola ad Renatum Veridaeum i. e. Andream Rivetum in qua aperitur Mysterium iniquitatis novissimè in Angliâ redivivum excutitur liber Josephi Hall quo asseritur episcopatum esse juris divini Eleutheropoli alias Lond. 1641. qu. Published under the name of Irenaeus Philadelphus An answer to this book written by the said Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter came out soon after entit Theophili Iscani ad calumniosam Ir. Philadelphi Epistolam responsio Quâ Anglicanae Ecclesiae sana fides pietasque episcopalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 institutio Apostolico-divina à D. Jos Hallo Exon. Episcopo pridem defensa asseritur Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Apologia pro Epistola ad Renat Veridaeum Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The power of the Christian Magistrate in sacred things c. Lond. 1650. oct 4 Oratio auspicalis cui subjuncta est Laudatio Clariss Viri Guil. Camdeni Oxon. 1652. qu. Dedicated to Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. 5 Paraenesis ad Aedificatores imperii in imperio in qua defenduntur jura Magistratus adversus Moseum Amyraldum caeteros Vindices potestatis ecclesiasticae Presbyterianae In praefatione excurritur in Joh. Dallaei Apologiam pro duabus Synodis Lond. 1656. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell It was the opinion then of some eminent and judicious persons that the said book did give a notable blow to those severe ones of the Presbyterian way who build a jurisdiction within a jurisdiction And also that it did conduce to the uniting of all interests rendring the Magistrate his due and stating the right of Churches 6 Corollarium ad Paraenesim suam ad Aedificatores imp in imp c. Lond 1657. oct 7 Epistola ad Amicum in qua gratiam divinam seque defendit adversus objecta clariss Viri Johan Dallaei in prefatione libri in Epicritam Ibid. 1658. in tw 8 Of the right of Churches and of the Magistrates Power over them Wherein it further made out first the nullity and vanity of ecclesiastical power c. secondly the absurdity of the distinctions of power and laws in ecclesiastical and civil c. Ibid. 1658. oct Dedicated to the Parliament of England 9 Proposals and reasons whereon some of them are grounded humbly presented to the Parliament towards the setling of a religious and godly government in a Commonwealth with a short account of the compatibility of the congregational way with the Magistrates ordering all-matters of religion in a national publick way c. Lond. 1659. qu. 10 Morum exemplar seu characteres c. Hag. Com. 1662 in tw 11 Patronus bonae fidei in causa Puritanorum contra Hierarchos Anglos ut disceptatur in specimine confutationis vindiciarum clariss Viri Joh. Durelli c. Lond. 1672 oct See in Joh. Durell among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 553. That this book Patronus c. might escape the searchers of the Press as the author saith in his Admonitio he was forced five times to change the running title of the book and the number of pages each new title beginning with a new number The titles are after two Admonitions to the Reader 1. Praefatio sive epistola ad rev Pastores Ecclesiarum reformat in Gallia c. 2. Specimen confutationis Vindiciarum Durellianarum 3. Prodromus 4. Defensor Veritatis and then Patronus bonae fidei For the writing and publishing of this book he was committed to Custody 12 Jugulum causae seu nova unica compendiaria unâ propemodum periodo comprehensa ratio per quam totus doctrinarum Romanensium complexus de quibus lis est inter protestantes Pontificios c. Lond. 1671. oct To this are prefix'd about 60 Epistles to several persons 13 Papa Vltrajectinus 14 Fascieulus 15 A short and true account of the several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome or a model of the grounds upon which the Papists for these 100 years have built their hopes and expectations that England would ere long return to Popery Lond. 1680. qu. Soon after came out an answer to this book entit A lively picture of Lewis du Moulin drawn by the incomparable hand of Monsieur D'aille late Minister of Charenton c. Lond. 1680. qu. 16 The conformity of the discipline and government of those who are commonly called Independents to that of the antient Primitive Christians Ibid. 1680. qu. 17 Moral reflections upon the number of the Elect proving plainly from Scripture evidence c. that not one in a hundred thousand nay probably not one in a Million from Adam down to our times shall be saved Ibid. 1680. qu. To this one Edw. Lane mention'd in the Fâ—sti 1639 made a quick answer entit Mercy triumphant c. 18 His last words being his retraction of all the personal reflections he had made on the Divines of the Church of England in several of his signed by himself on the 5 and 17 of Oct. 1680. Lond. 1680. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Published after his death by Dr. Gilb. Burnet as it seems The chief Divines that he had abused were Dr. Edward Stillingfleet Dean of S. Pauls now Bishop of Worcester Dr. Joh. Durell Dean of Windsor and Dr. Simon Patrick Dean of Peterborough now Bishop of Ely 19 An additional account of the Church of Englands advances towards Porery This was published by a Fanatick after the authors death without the knowledge of his Wife or other Relations See His last words p. 15.16 20 An Appeal to all the Nonconformists in England to God and all the Protestants in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King Lond. 1681. qu. 21 A sober and unpassionate Reply to the Author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin Printed with the Appeal 22 An Ecclesiastical History The design of this being known to several of his perswasion before his death the book it self came afterwards into the hands of a Nonconformist which whether published I know not See more in His last words p. 17. He also fil'd smooth'd and polished a book entit Celeusma c. written mostly by Will. Jenkins of whom I have made mention in John Durell among the Writers an 1683. What other books this Lew. du Moulin hath written I know not nor
resorted to for his edifying preaching After his death were published of his composition by one H. M. Eighteen Sermons preached upon the incarnation of the nativity of Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1642. qu. The five first are on John 1. ver 1. the four following on Joh. 1. ver 2. and the nine following those four are on Joh. 1. ver 6. to ver 14. Which learned Lucubrations promise no less than what they appear a compendious volumn of Divinity He died in the prime of his years in the beginning of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried in the Parish Church of Cookham near to Maydenhead before mentioned on the seventh day of the same month Contemporary with the said Jo. Dawson I find another of Ch. Ch. who after he had continued in the state of M. of A. about ten years was admitted Bach. of Div. 1634 but this person who was of gentile parents in London hath published nothing as I can yet learn I find also one Joh. Dawson Author of Paraphrasis metrica in Proverbia Salomonis Lond. 1639. oct but whether written by either of the former or by a third I cannot tell unless I can see the book HENRY MARTEN Son of Anth. Marten of London Son of Will. Marten of Okyngham in Berks by Margaret his second Wife daugh of John Yate of Lyford in the said County was born in the Parish of S. Michael of Basinghaugh within the said City of London educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1582 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1592 at which time he was an eminent Advocat at Doctors Commons as afterwards in the High Commission Court In 1595 he left his College and became successively Judge of the Admiralty twice Dean of the Arches a Knight and in 1624 Judge of the Prerogative in the place of Sir Will. Byrd deceased In all which Offices and Employments he shew'd himself a most excellent Civilian the best for ought that I know that ever appeared in our Horizon and therefore highly venerated by all good and learned men Towards his latter end he purchased a fair Estate mostly lying in Berks which his ungodly Son Harry squandred away His Writings were many and by some were thought very worthy of the press but in whose hands they are now or whether embezil'd with his Estate I know not All that I have seen are these Several speeches in Parliament As 1 Speech at a general Committee of both houses 22 May 1628. 2 Sp. as to the rational part of the matter of a Conference had by a Committee of both houses concerning Sovereigne Power an 1628. c. In which Parliament Sir Henry was a Burgess for the University of Oxon. Debates touching his Majesties Propositions and the Duke of Buckingham c. an 1628. See in Jo. Rushworths Collections vol. 1. p. 521.617 Several arguments and discourses in Parl. See in a book entit The Sovereigns prerogative and the Subjects privileges discussed c. 3 and 4 of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 140 c. p. 188. Besides other things among which is his Speech in Parl. concerning the petition of right He paid his last debt to nature on the 26 of Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and one aged 81 and was buried in a Chappel joyning on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of his mannour of Longworth near to Abendon in Berks. Over his grave and that of his Wife their son Harry Marten before mention'd erected a comely monument with an inscription thereon the Contents of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake ROBERT BURHILL or Burghill received his first breath at Dymock in Glocestershire but descended from those of his name as I conceive that lived at Thinghill in Herefordshire was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13 Jan. 1587 aged 15 years Probationer Fellow thereof 20 Mar. 1584 being then M. of A. and about that time in holy orders At length having a parsonage confer'd on him in Norfolk and a Residentiaryship in the Church of Hereford he proceeded D. of Divinity He was a person of great reading and profound judgment was well vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen right learned and well grounded in the Hebrew Tongue an exact Disputant and in his younger years a noted Latin Poet. He was much respected and valued by Sir Walt. Raleigh for his scholastical accomplishments who finding him a person of great learning had his assistance in Criticisms in the reading and opening of Greek and Hebrew Authors when he was composing the History of the World during his confinement in the Tower of London But let those things which he hath published that have been taken into the hands of very learned men speak his worth and excellency The titles of which follow Invitatorius panegyricus ad regem optimum de Elizabethae nuper reginae posteriore ad Oxoniam adventu c. Oxon. 1603. in two sh in qu. In controversiam inter Jo. Howsonum Thomam Pyum S. T. Doctores de novis post divortium ob adulterium nuptiis c. in sex commentationes Elenchum monitorium distinctus Ubi ad excusam D. Pyi ad D. Howsonum Epistolam quâ libri Howsoniani refutationem molitur ad ejusdem alteram manu scriptam Epistolam ejusd argumenti quâ contra Alb. Gentilem disputat diligenter respondetur Oxon. 1606. qu. In the general Title before the second Edit of Dr. Howson's Thesis printed herewith the aforesaid large Title is thus abbreviated Theseos defensio contra reprehensionem Thomae Pyi S. T. Doctoris The Elenchus Monitorius at the end contains 4 sheets Responsio pro Tortura Torti contra Mart. Becanum Jesuitam Lond. 1611. oct De potestate regiâ usurpatione papali pro Tortura Torti contra Parellum Andr. Eudaemon-Johannis Jesuitae Oxon. 1613. oct Assertio pro jure regio contra Martini Becani Jesuitae controversiam Anglicanam Lond. 1613. oct Defensio responsionis Jo. Buckridgii ad apologiam Roberti Card. Bellarmini printed with the Assertio c. Comment in difficiliora Job MS. in two folio's in Corpus Ch. Coll. Library Which book Elias Wrench of the said Coll. transcribed in a fair character and put the Hebrew into Hebrew letters which before were in Latin At the end of the said Commentary in the second Vol. was added Paraphrasis poetica on the said book of Job by E. Wrench before mention'd born in Glocestershire Son of Elias Wrench if I mistake not Prebendary of Glocester admitted scholar of C. C. Coll. 5 Jan. 1621 afterwards Fellow Bach. of Div. and in Apr. 1644 Rector of Trent in Somersetshire by the presentation of the President and Fellows of his house where he died and was buried in the month of June 1680. Our Author Burhill also wrot a book entit Tractatus contra Monarchomachos Hierarchomachos pro Regibus Episcopis MS.
sixteen hundred forty and two was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625. was buried Dr. Crisp left behind him many children begotten on the body of his wife the daughâ—er of Rowl Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London one of the Members of the Long Parliament and of the Council of State 1648-9 See more in Obad. Sedgwick THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells was born in that County became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry became at length after he was Master of Arts chief Master of Abendon School in Berks Where by his sedulous endeavours were many educated that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State In the year 1616 being then and some years before Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bathe and Wells he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1636 was licensed to proceed in Divinity Before which time he being as 't were broken or wearied out with the drudgery of a School had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect was a grace to his Profession was most learned also in Latin Greek and Hebrew antiquity and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy He hath transmitted to Posterity Romanae Historiae Anthologia An English exposition of the Roman antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel'd and divers obscure phrases explained In 3 books Oxon 1613 c. qu. Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells and Dean of his Majesties Chappel Moses and Aaron Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture in six books Printed 1625. in qu. Florilegium Phrasicon Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue When this book was first printed I know not for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith which coming in Ms into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin he made a Reply which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twisse The Presbyterian writers say that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews Greeks and Latines yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians than deal with Logicians and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon than as a Doctor of Divinity They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride and expos'd him to be derided by boyes Dr. Godwin after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose in requital of his many labours surrendred up his soul to God 20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell before-mention'd He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Tesdale of Abendon who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 201. a. JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term an 1586 7 aged 16 years made Demie of that house in 87 perpetual Fellow in 95 Mast of Arts in 98 one of the Proctors of the University in 1606 and three years after supplicated the ven congreg of Regents that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty but whether he was really admitted it appears not At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight afterwards Earl of Bristow and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embassadour into Spaine where remaining with him several years improved himself in various sorts of Learning and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries After his return into England he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells being then in orders was esteemed a learned man good Orator and a facetious conceited Wit He hath translated from Spanish into English under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be 1 The Spanish bawd represented in Celestina or the tragick comedy of Calisto and Melibea c. Lond. 1631. fol. 2 The Rogue or the life of Guzman de Alfarache Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman 3 Devout contemplations expressd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca 4 The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit Delight in several Shapes c. in six pleasant Histories Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies and dying about that time was buried in the Church belonging to that place as I have been informed by one of that name and family lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon. DAVID PRIMEROSE second Son of Gilb. Primerose a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Fasti an 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bordeaux made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library and conversation of protestant Theologists returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts and visited other places of learning Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity entred himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623 was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year and soon after performed the
endeavours to answer the four Arguments of Bishop Andrews which are in his Sermon on 2 Phil. 7.11 Answer to Mr. Joseph Mede's treatise of the name of Altar or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 antiently given to the holy table Written in Feb. 1637. Answer to the defence of the coal from the Altar Evangelium contractum ex quatuor Evangeliis c. Written in Hebrew Annales Ecclesiae Christi inchoati secundum methodum Baronii This is written in Lat. but imperfect Chronicon Regum Judaeorum methodo magis perspicu◠Written in Hebr. Mesolabum Geometricum Chronicon mundi emendatum Divina sphaera humanorum eventuum The beginning is Etiam absque eo foret c. dedic to the King 1632. Problema Astronomicum de solis eccentricitate The beginning is Ternis Diatribis c. Diatribae animadversiones Astronomicae ternae Circuli dimensio Lydyatéa Archimidéa Marmoreum chronicon Arundelianum cum annotationibus c. This was afterwards printed in a book intit Marmora Oxoniensia published by Humph. Prideaux All which Mss with others treating of Divinity Mathematicks and Astronomy amounting to the number of 38 at least were bound up in 22 Volumes and reserved as rarities in the hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire lately Principal of Hart Hall At length after our Author had lived at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried the next day being the same day on which he had above 70 years before been baptized by the bodies of his Father and Mother in the Chancel of the Church at Okerton which he before had rebuilt Over his grave near to the south Window and not far from the east end of the said Chancel the Warden and Society of New Coll. did cause a stone to be laid at their charge an 1669. The inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 149. a as also the Inscription on his honorary monument in New Coll. Cloyster pag. 155. WALTER RALEIGH second son of Sir Carew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts Knight by Dorothy his wife daugh of Will. Wroughton of Broadhinton in the same County relict of Sir Joh. Thynne Knight elder Brother to the famous Sir Walter Raleigh and both the Sons of Walter Raleigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon Esq was born at Downton before mention'd educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in Mich. Term 1602 ult Eliz. being then 16 years of age Afterwards proceeding in Arts he was thought worthy being a noted Disputant to undergo the Office of Junior of the Act celebrated in 1608. About that time taking holy Orders he became Chaplain to that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke in whose family spending some time had the Rectory of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire conferred upon him on the death of George Mountgomery in the latter end of 1620 and afterwards a minor Prebendship in the Church of Wells and the Rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton in the same County Much about the time of the lamented death of the said Count he became one of the Chaplains in ord to K. Ch. 1. and by that title he was actually created D. of D. in 1636. On the 13 of January 1641 he was admitted Dean of Wells on the death of Dr. George Warburton and on the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after which hindred his farther advance in the Church he was persecuted plunder'd and forced to abscond for his Loyalty to his Prince At length being taken Prisoner at Bridgwater by the Rebels 21 Jul. 1645 he was sent to Banwell house as a Captive and after several removes to his own at Wells where being committed to the custody of a Shoe-maker David Barret a Constable of that City by the Committee of the County of Somerset was treated by him far beneath his quality and function Soon after having occasion to write a letter to his Wife the rude Keeper endeavoured to take it from him and read it supposing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent to some noted Cavalier But the Doctor preventing his sauciness the Keeper thrust his sword into his groyn shedding his blood as the blood of a dog of which wound he died about six weeks after to the great grief of the loyal party His papers after his death such as could be kept were for more than 30 years reserved in obscurity At length they coming into the hands of the worthy and learned Dr Simon Patrick then Rector of S. Paul in Covent Garden Preb. of Westm and Dean of Peterborough now Bish of Ely he viewed amended and methodized them which being done they were made publick under this title Reliquiae Raleighanae Being discourses and Sermons on several subjects Lond. 1679. qu. The number of Sermons are 13. What other things he left worthy of publication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands whose sister Mary our Author had married but whether any of them are yet made publick I know not 'T is said that he wrot a Tract of Millinanism he having for some time been much addicted to that opinion but that as I have been informed was long since lost Those that remember him have often said that he was a person not only of gentile behaviour but of great wit and elocution a good Orator and a Master of a strong reason which won him the familiarity and friendship of those great men who were the envy of the last age and wonder of this viz. Lucius Lord Falkland Dr. Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth The last of which was wont to say that Dr. Raleigh was the best Disputant that ever he met withal He departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob. being Saturday in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month before the Deans stall in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Andrew in Wells Over his grave is not yet an inscription only a rough marble stone which had probably been laid there many years before the Doctors death One Standish a Clergy-Vicar of that Cathedral was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid Committee for burying him in the Church and his death being soon after call'd into question at an Assize or Sessions there was a Jury of Rebels that brought in his murder either Ignoramus or at least but Man slaughter for they said that the Doctor to shun the Keepers reading of a letter which he wrot to his Wife ran upon the Keepers sword c. Much about that time the Committee turned the Doctors Wife and Children out of doors and his Son as 't is said was forced to fly the Country for that he would have farther prosecuted the Law against the murderer of his Father MATHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Coll. was
against the Holy Ghost At length having lived to the age of seventy and two years concluded his last day at Eaton in the house of Hannah Powney before mentioned on Munday the nineteenth day of May at about eight of the clock at night in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was according to his desire buried but little better than in private in Eaton College Churchyard Over his grave was afterwards an Altar Monument erected at the charge of one Pet. Curwen sometimes a Scholar of Eaton and his great Admirer with an Inscription thereon which partly runs thus Musarum charitum amor Johannes Halesius nomen non tam hominis quam scientiae hic non jacet at lutum quod assumpsit optimum infra ponitur nam certe supra mortales emicuit moribus suavissimis ingenio subtilissimo pectore pleno sapuit mundo sublimior adeoque aptior Angelorum choro c. WILLIAM HOWE son of Will. Howe was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became a Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in 1637 and in that of his age 18 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line bore Arms for his Maj. King Ch. 1. in Oxon at what time the generality of Scholars then remaining in the University did the like and being very forward in expressing his Loyalty was afterwards made Captain of a Troop of Horse But upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he desisted prosecuted his study in Physick retired to London practised that Faculty first in S. Laurence Lane and then in Milkstreet and was commonly called by the name of Doctor Howe This person being a noted Herbalist or Simpler of his time wrot and published Phytologia Britannica natales exhibens indiginarum stirpium sponte emergentium Lond. 1650. oct and obtained coâ—rected and published a book of Mathew de L'obell the Kings Botanist intit Stirpium illustrationes plurimas elaborantes inauditas plantas subreptitiis Jo. Parkinsoni rapsodiis ex codice Ms insalutato sparsim gravatae c. Lond. 1655. qu. before which our Author Howe put an Epistle to the Reader He died in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Aug. or beginning of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried according to his will I suppose in the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in a grave at least six foot deep on the left side of the body of his Mother He left behind him a choice Library of books of his Faculty but how they were bestowed I cannot tell JOHN PENDARVES son of Jo. Pend. of Crowan in the County of Cornwal was born there or at least in that County admitted a poor Scholar or Servitour of Exeter Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. in the year 1637 and in that of his age 15 where by the benefit of a good Tutor he became a tolerable Disputant In the latter end of 1641 he took the degree of Bach. of Arts and compleated it by Determination At which time all things in the Nation tending to a confusion he left the Coll. in July 1642 sided with the rout and by a voluble tongue having obtained the way of canting went up and down unsent for preaching in houses barns under trees hedges c. At length after several changes he setled his mind on Anabaptism and having got a numerous multitude of Disciples made himself head of them defied all Authority contradicted and opposed all orthodox Ministers in their respective Offices and Employments challenged them to prove their calling and spared not many times to interrupt them in their Pulpits and to urge them to disputes At length after several Challenges Jasp Mayne D. D. of Ch. Church who had been much troubled with him at Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire undertook to be his Respondent So that the eleventh of Sept. 1652 being appointed for the Encounter in the Church at Watlington were present innumerable people on each side but Pendarves being back'd with a great party of Anabaptists and the scum of the People who behaved themselves very rude and insolent the Disputation was so interrupted that it came to nothing This Fellow who was Lecturer at Wantage and Pastor to the Anabaptists at Abendon in Berkshire tho he accounted himself a true born English man yet he was so ill deserving to be reckoned so as that like to another Herostratus he with his brethren did endeavour by raising a desperate combustion to utterly undo the distressed and tottering Church of England which in few years before was accounted glorious and renowned And as we may really suppose that he did these things to no other end but to gain wealth and make himself famous to posterity so would it I know be accounted worthy by some if my omission of his name could bury him in oblivion But so it is that his Works are fled abroad and have been and are yet entertained by and taken into the hands of many and therefore if I should do it 't would be to little purpose The titles of such that I have seen are these Arrowes against Babylon or Queries serving to a clear discovery of the Mystery of iniquity Lond. 1656. qu. Answerâ—d by Will. Ley Minister of Wanting alias Wantage Christop Fowler of Reading and Joh. Tickell of Abendon in Berks. Endeavours for reformation in Saints apparel Queries for the People called Quakers These last two are printed with the Arrows against Babylon Prefatory Epistle to a book intit The Prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the Saints and Professors of this generation c. Lond. 1656. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Of the fear of the Lord on Rev. 15. former part of the fourth verse Lond. 1657. qu. c. with others and other theolog Tracts which I have not yet seen particularly the Disputation between him and Doctor Mayne which Pendarves and his party printed as I have heard to their own advantage At length after a short life spent in continual agitation he surrendred up his last breath at London about the beginning of September in sixteen hundred fifty and six Whose body thereupon being embowelled and wrap'd up in Sear-cloth by the care of the Brethren and afterwards Preparations made for his Funeral the body was some weeks after conveyed by water to Abendon in Berks. before mentioned where being lodged in a Grocers house on a Saturday was Praying and Preaching by the Anabaptists in the said house on Sunday Munday and Tuesday not without Reflections on the then Government by Oliver and endeavours made to raise Mutinies About three of the clock in the Afternoon of the said Tuesday being the 30 of Sept. and the next day after that of S. Michael his body was conducted from the said house by the Brethren to a little garden ground then lately purchased for a Burial-place for the Anabaptists situate and being in Oxstreet at the west end of the said Town where it was with great lamentation by them deposited At
his good service by Philip Earl of Pembroke as I have been informed for from thence a loyal person had been ejected In 1648 he was actually created Doctor of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation and had several boones bestowed on him by that Convention called by the Presbyterian the Blessed Parliament After the Kings Restoration he was suffer'd to keep his Parsonage because no body laid claim to it he being then accounted the prime leader of the Faction in those parts but when the Act of Conformity was published he quitted it and his life together He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Divine ballance to weigh religious Fasts in Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 27 Sept. 1643 on Zach. 7.5.6.7 Lond. 1643. qu. He was also one of three that preached before the House of Lords on the 22 of Oct. 1644 being a Fast sermon upon the uniting of the Army together but whether 't was printed I find not 2 Pauls sad farewell to the Ephesians preached at the funeral of Mr. Joh. Grayle Minister of Tidworth in Wilts on Acts 20.37.38 Lond. 1655. quart and others which I have not yet seen Motive to peace and love Printed 1649. qu. Animadversions on Mr. W. Dells book intit The crucified and quickned Christian Lond. 1653. qu. Apology for the Ministers of the County of Wilts in their meetings at the election of Members for the approaching Parliament In answer to a letter sent out of the said County pretending to lay open the dangerous designs of the Clergy in reference to the approaching Parliament by some of the defam'd Ministers of the Gospel of the same County Lond. 1654 in 4 sh in qu. In the writing of which Apol. Dr. Chambers was assisted by Joh. Strickland Adoniram Byfield and Pet. Ince Presb. Ministers Answer to the charge of Walt. Bushnel Vicar of Box in Wilts published in a book of his intit A narrative of the proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers c. Lond. 1660. quar Vindication of the said Commissioners Printed the former He was one of the number of Assistants belonging to the said Commissioners and carried himself very severe against the Ministers What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of Pewsey before mention'd on the eighth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two with no other ceremony than that we would use to a dog and about the same time was his wife buried there also In the said Rectory succeeded Rich. Watson D. D. sometimes Fellow of Gonvill and Caies Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to James Duke of York and afterwards Prebendary of Wells and Salisbury as I shall elsewhere at large tell you JOHN GAUDEN Son of the Minister of Mayland in Essex was born there or at least in that County educated in Grammar learning at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk and afterwards at about 16 years of age was admitted a Student of S. Johns College in Cambridge under one Mr. Wright where making great proficiency in academical learning took the degrees in Arts. In 1630 or thereabouts he removed to Wadham Coll. in this University where he became Tutor to Francis and Will Russell sons of Sir Will Russell Baronet into whose family he about that time had matched and after their departure to other Gentlemen of quality While he continued there the greatness of his parts were much improved by the greatness of industry bestowing the most part of the day and night too in the study of divine matters In 1635 he took the degree of Bach. of Div was afterwards Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks beneficed in Cambridgeshire D. of D. and when the Assembly of Divines was to be setled in 1643 he was nominated one of them to the Parliament by Sir Dudley North and Sir Thom. Chichley Knights for Cambridgeshire to serve in the Long Parliament to sit among them but by what trick Mr. Tho. Goodwin was substituted in his place as a person more fit for the great designs then carrying on you may see in our Author Dr. Gaudens book intit Anti-Baal-Berith c. printed at Lond. 1661. p. 89 90. At that time 1643. he being a Covenantier as the Presbyterians and fanatical people generally affirm tho positively denied by himself he had the Rectory and Deanery of Bocking in his own Country confer'd upon him which he kept during the time of Usurpation and was as before at Brightwell and elsewhere much resorted to for his most admirable and edifying way of preaching After the death of Dr. Brownrig Bishop of Exeter which was in Decemb. 1659 he became Preacher of the Temple at London and after the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. Chaplain in ordinary to him who taking notice that he upon all occasions had taken worthy pains in the pulpit and at the press to rescue his Majesty and the Church of England from all the mistakes and heterodox opinions of several and different Factions as also from the sacrilegious hands of those false brethren whose scandalous conversation was consummate in devouring Church-lands and then with impudence to make sacrilege lawful I say for these his services his Majesty confer'd upon him the Bishoprick of Exeter to which being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent in the year 1660 sate there but little more than an year and a quarter Afterwards he was translated thence to Worcester on Dr. Morleys Translation to Winchester in the beginning of the year in the month of May I think 1662 where he soon after ended his course having been esteemed by all that knew him a very comely person a man of vast parts and one that had been strangely improved by unwearied labour His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The love of truth and peace on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Three Sermons preached upon several publick occasions Lond. 1642. qu. The first of which preached before his Maj. is on Heb. 12.14 The second before the Judges at Chelmsford in Essex is on Zach. 8.16 and the third at S. Maries in Oxon on Act Sunday 11 July 1641 is on Ephes 4.23 3 Funeralls made cordials Sermon prepared and in part preached at the solemn interment of the corps of Rob. Rich heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick who died at Whitehall 16 of Feb. an 1657 aged 23 years and was honorably buried on the 5 of March following at Felsted in Essex Lond. 1658. qu. 4 Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bishop of Exeter 17 Dec. 1659 on 2 Kings 2.12 Lond. 1660. oct 5 Slight healing of publick hearts c. Serm. in S. Pauls Cathedral before the Lord Mayor Lord General Aldermen c. 26 Feb. 1659 being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the secluded Members of
before Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation is soon after as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times decryed and condemned by the same Persons as flat dull and insipid Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good yet Dr. Sandersons Sermons and indeed all his other genuine works have not by their age lost the least of their former repute For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings pen'd in such a manly and lasting a language that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judgings and censures as they do still so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers Two cases of conscience resolved Lond. 1628. oct Three more added Lond. 1667. 8. oct Another Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine and repr 1678 and 1685. in oct De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct This is the book which I have before hinted that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand and by him shew'd to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert commanding them then to examine it with the original which they did and found it accurately translated Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary but the particular time when I cannot tell Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur 26. oct 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct Censure of Mâ— A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon. De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae an 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct The same in English came out with this title Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct Published at the instant desire of Rob. Boyle Esq an encourager of Dr. Sandersons studies in the time of his affliction Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power c. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct His judgment for setling the Church in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit Reason and judgment or special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted I mean His judgment at Lond. 1678. oct Physicae scientiae compendium Oxon. 1671. oct Whether ever before printed I know not His judgment concerning submission to Usurpers Lond. 1678. oct Pax Ecclesiae Lond. 1678. oct in English These two with His judgment for setling c. before mention'd and the Oxford reasons are to be seen in his life printed in oct Discourse concerning the Church in these particulars 1 concerning the visibility of the true Church 2 concerning the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1688 in about 5 â—h in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn Coll. from a Ms copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon Domestick Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death He also had the chief hand in a book intit Reasonâ— of the University of Oxon against the Covenant c. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his yet notwithstanding tho Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part the whole goes under his name He also wrot 1 The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy entit The power communicated by God to the Prince and the obedience required of the Subjects Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh 2 The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of Clavi Trabales or nails fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies c published by Nich. Bernard D. D. Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Usher Mr. Ric. Hooker Lanc. Andrews Adr. Saravia c. 3 Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Printed in a book intit Fair warning the second part Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge Which challenge a certain Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry as was ever called Demonstration And tho the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed yet such is the pleasure of some men that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy an 1661 being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond in Dr. Hammonds works about those knotty points which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversie Several Treatises also he had laying by him which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication but a little before his death he caused them to be burnt least after they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mention'd in the 76 year of his age Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid with an Inscription engraven thereon made by himself a Copy of which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. shall be now omitted and in its room shall this be said that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation from his first book of Logick to his Divinity Lectures Sermons and other excellent discourses the vastness of his judgment the variety of his learning all laid out for publick benefit his unparallel'd meekness humility and constancy you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not loose a greater pillar a better man and more accomplish'd Divine Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincolne Lond. 1678. oct Written by Isaac Walton and in the book before mention'd entit Reason and judgment or special remarks c. ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time in the West parts of England Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City and educated there in Grammar
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
72 persons Members of the House of Commons Officers of the Army and Citizens of London sate upon benches some degrees above one another as Judges Hacker I say by order of the Court which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the President at which time John Cook the Sollicitor General was placed on the Kings right hand I shall pretermit the Judges names the formality of the Court and the proceedings there by way of charge as also his Majesties replies in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers Nor indeed was much to be observed seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him would sometimes smile but not acknowledge their jurisdiction or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King it being without example also whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the Kings Chamber The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the Kings bed which he did and there slept Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had as his Majesty desired the Liberty to attend the King which was much to his comfort and as he said no small refreshing to his spirit especially in that his uncomfortable condition The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King Munday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting as formerly in Westminster Hall Now the more noble the person is the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings Here it was otherwise for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice justice some of the Officers joyning with them At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed but overcame it with patience Sure to persecute a distressed soul and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart is the very pitch of wickedness yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer as the learned Bishop of Winchester Bilson saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday which was here very applicable As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir The King thank'd him but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head which his Majesty observing said The punishment exceeded the offence Being come to his apartment in Cotton house he immediatly fell upon his knees and went to prayer which being done he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice he answer'd he did and marvell'd much at it So did not I said the King for I am well assur'd the Soldiers bare no malice towards me the cry was no doubt given by their Officers for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sate in the Court and who they were he replied there were upward of threescore some of them members of the House of Commons others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London some of whom he knew but not all The King then said he viewed all of them but knew not the faces of above eight and those he named The names tho Mr. Herbert told me not yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie William L. Monson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Danvers Oliver Cromwell who had shew'd seeming civility to him at Childerlie Newmarket and Hampton Court Major Harrison Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond c. Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned and as formerly guarded to the Court where as at other times he persisted in his judgment that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the President of the Court but was gently interrupted by the King laying his staff upon the Solicitors arme the head of which being silver hapned to fall off which Mr. Herbert who as his Majesty appointed waited near his Chair stoop'd to take it up but falling on the contrary side to which he could not reach the King took it up himself This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it hapned on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King The Court sate but a little time that day the K. not varying from his principle At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind the Soldiers who as his Majesty pass'd said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty for which the King returned them thanks Saturday 27. Jan. The President came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown whereupon the K. having quick notice of it he forthwith went seated himself in his chair and observing the President in his red Gown did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting and therefore he earnestly press'd the Court that altho he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther whereupon the President and Court arose and withdrew In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sate The King therefore going away he seated himself in the Chair The President told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence His Majesty had the former day mov'd the President that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publickly read by the Clerk but neither would that desire be granted The President then gave judgment against the King who at the Presidents pronouncing it
questioning and censuring rebellious actions The running title of which in the Corollary it self is this Who can touch the Lords anointed and be guiltless 2 A singular Master-piece of furious Sedition preached Jan. 15. an 1642. on Psal 94.20 Printed with Disloyalty of Language questioned c. 3 The almighty his gracious token of love to his friend Abraham preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow 3 Jan. 1674 on Acts 7.8 former part Lond. 1676. qu. c. He died in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the north isle of the choire at Bristow over against the tomb of Sir Charles Vaughan Soon after was a flat stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Richardus Towgood S. T. B. obiit Aprilis 21. An. Dom. 1683. aetatis suae octogesimo nono Spes mea reposita est in caelis In his Deanery succeeded Sam. Crossman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Bristow son of Sam. Crossm of Bradfield Monachorum in Suffolk who had it confer'd upon him by his Maj. in the beginning of May following He hath written and published several things as The young mans Monitor c. Lond. 1664. oct and several sermons among which are Two sermons preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol 30 Jan. 1679 and 30 Jan. 1680. being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of K. Ch. 1. Printed at Lond. 1681. qu. Also A Serm. preached 23 Apr. 1680 in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol before the Gentlemen of the Artillery company newly raised in that City Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. And An humble plea for the quiet rest of Gods ark preached before Sir Joh. Moore L. Mayor of Lond. at S. Mildreds Ch. in the Poultrey 5 Feb. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. c. He died 4 Febr. 1683 aged 59 years and was buried in the south isle of the Cath. Ch. in Bristow After him followed in the said Deanery Rich. Thompson as I shall tell you elsewhere MATHEW SMALWOOD son of Jam. Smal. of Middlewick in Cheshire was born in that County became a Student in this Univ. 1628 aged 16 years Scholar of Brasn Coll. two years after took the degrees in Arts and left the University for a time In 1642. Nov. 1. he was actually created Master of Arts being then in holy Orders and a sufferer in those times if I mistake not for the royal cause After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he was actually created D. of D. by vertue of the Kings Letters for that purpose was about that time made a Dignitary and in 1671 Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Tho. Wood promoted to the See thereof He hath published Several Sermons as one upon Gen. 5.24 another on Prov. 11.18 a third on Math. 5.34 c. All printed after his Maj. restauration He died at Market Bosworth in Leicestershire on the 26 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three being then there to attend the funeral of Sir Wolstan Dixey and was some days after buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. JOHN DURELL son of Jo. Durell of S. Hillary in the Isle of Jersey was born there entred a Student in Merton Coll. in the latter end of the year 1640 aged 15 years having then a chamber in S. Albans Hall but before he had spent two years there which was under Mr. Tho. Jones he left that antient house Oxford being then garrison'd for his Majesty and the Scholars in arms for him and forthwith retired to France where at Caen in Normandy he took the degree of Master of Arts in the Sylvanian Coll. 8. of July 1644. About which time he studied Divinity carried it on for at least two years at Samaur under the famous Divine and Writer Moses Amyraldus Divinity Reader in that University Afterwards he retired to his own Country continued there for a time among his Relations but at length being expuls'd thence with Monsieur Le Conteur and Dan. Brevint both born in Jersey our author Durell who was the first that left that place took his journey to Paris and there received Episcopal Ordination in the Chappel of the honorable and truly noble Sir Rich. Browne Knight his Majesties then Resident in France from the hands of Thomas Bish of Galloway after the Kings restauration of Orkney about 1651. So that being a native of Jersey ordained in France and by a Scotch Bishop doth make a certain Writer doubt whether he was Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter as our author stiles himself in his books Soon after he resided at S. Maloes and acquainting his friends with the condition he was then in he was thereupon kindly invited by the reformed Church at Caen by an express on purpose to come there and become one of their Ministers in the absence of Monsieur Sam. Bochart the famous Orientalian Philologist and Critick author of Geographia sacra c. and of that Latin Letter to Dr. George Morley at the end of that book who was then going into Sweden Not long after the Landtgrave of Hessen having written to the Ministers of Paris to send to him a Minister to preach in French at his Highness's Court he was by them recommended to that Prince from whom likewise he received a very kind invitation by Letters which he kept by him to the time of his death But the providence of God not permitting him to go to either of those places he became at length Chaplain to the Duke de la Force Father to the Princess of Turein Monsieur Le Couteur being invited likewise at the same time to the reform'd Church of Caen and Brevint to another Church in Normandy where he was prefer'd to be Chaplain to the Prince of Turein Before I go any farther I must tell you that about 1642 the Duke of Soubize living near to the Court at Whitehall and finding it troublesome and sometime impossible by reason of his infirmities to go to the VValloons Church in the City of London had commonly a French sermon preached before him in his own house every Sunday This being found very commodious to the French living near thereunto it was thought convenient upon the death of the said Duke to set up a French Church about the Strand And it being in a manner setled that in the City did so highly resent it that ever after the members thereof did endeavour by all means possible to pull it down Upon the Kings restauration the French Church in the City addressed his Majesty to have the French Congregation at VVestminster broken and forbidden to assemble because it was not established by lawful authority That at VVestminster did present an humble suit to his Majesty that he would be pleased to continue it His Maj. upon consideration of the matter granted both their requests by breaking the Congregation at VVestm and by setting up a new Church under the immediate jurisdiction of the Bishop of London wherein divine Service
party He also left behind him at his death unfinished 1 Canonis Chronici liber quintus sive Imperium Persicum 2 De Provinciis Legionibus Romanis 3 De re nummaria c. At length departing this mortal life at Bushy hall in Hertfordshire on the 25. of May in sixteen hundred eighty and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Cuxton near Rochester in Kent where he had an Estate and buried in the Church there He left issue behind him begotten on the body of Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Hammond of S. Albans in East Kent two Sons viz. Sir John Marsham now of Cuxton Baronet who is writing The History of England much more exact as 't is said than any yet extant and Sir Robert of Bushy hall Knight who succeeded his Father in the place of Six Clerk In the possession of the first of these two is Sir Johns Library which tho diminished by the fire that hapned in London 1666 yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exquisite remarks in the margin of most of the books and in the possession of the other is his Cabinet of Greek Medals as curious as any private collection whatsoever ANDREW ALLAM the son of a sufficient Plebeian of both his names by Bridget Derling his Wife was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon in Apr. 1655 and baptized there on the 23 of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School at Denton in the Parish of Cudesdon near to his native place under a noted Master named Will. Wildgoose M. of Arts of Brasn Coll. much fam'd for his dexterity in Pedagogy became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall in Easter term 1671 where had it not been his misfortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person he might have prov'd a prodigy in several sorts of learning After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a Tutor Moderator a Lecturer in the Chappel and at length Vice-principal of his House In all which offices he behaved himself much to the credit honor and flourishing thereof In 1680 at Whitsontide he entred into holy Orders and in 83 he was one of the Masters of the Schools which last place he executed with very great judgment and prudence He was a person of eminent virtues was sober temperate moderate and modest even to example He understood the controversial writings between Conformâ—sts and Nonconformists Protestants and Papists far beyond his years which was advanc'd by a great and happy memory And I am perswaded had he not been taken off by the said Offices he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters and might have proved an useful and signal member to the Church of England for which he had most zealous respect He understood the world of men well authors better and nothing but years and experience were wanting in to make him a compleat walking Library His works that are extant are 1 The learned Preface or Epistle to the Reader with a dedicatory Epist in the Printers name set before The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor c. to the Covenanters of Scotland c. Oxon. 1684. 2 The Epistle with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins's life set before the said Cosins's book entit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in tabulas digesta Oxon 1684. in a thin fol. The ded Epist to Sir Leolin Jenkins in the Printers name was written by Christoph Wase superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon. 3 The Epistle before with a review and correction of the book entit Some plain discourses on the Lords Supper c. Written by Dr. George Griffith B. of S. Asaph Oxon. 1684. oct 4 Five or six sheets of his own hand writing and composure containing corrections in and addit to a book entit Angliae Notitia or the present state of England c. written by one who had been also of S. Edm. Hall They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit of that book printed at Lond. 1684. and were all as I presume inserted in that edition which came out at that place in 1687 but without any acknowledgment with shame be it spoken from the author of that Notitia who neither returned those thanks that he ought out of common civility to have done or granted him his company or acquaintance when he went to Lond to desire it purposely to communicate such things by word of mouth which he could not without great trouble by his Pen concerning various matters in that book 5 He also began and made divers additions in Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Theatre as occasion required and would have quite finished the supplement at the end from 1660 to 1685 had he not been cut off by cruel death These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687 fol But the Reader is to understand that whereas there was a colom in that book of the said editi-of 1687 made to contain the names of the famous Jesuits from the first foundation of their order to the year 1685 which was not in any of the Latine editions 't was not done by Allam but by a busie body nor that passage under the year 1678 which runs thus Titus Oates discovers a pretended Popish Plot. 6 He had laid the foundation of a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae wherein he would have spoken of the foundation of all Cathedrals with a touch of their Statutes and Customs Which done to set down the names of the present Bishop Dean Archdeacon Cannons and Officers of each Cathedral but death also prevented the finishing this He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers of our Nation while the said author was day and night drudging after those more antient For the truth is which hath been a wonder to him since his death he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work which none else in the University could as he and the author knew full well to their great reluctancy or would give any assistance or encouragement Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English The Life of Iphicrates written in Lat. by Corn. Nepos and remitted into the book of Lives of that author translated by several Oxford hands Oxon. 1684. oct p. 99 c. At length after a great deal of fear of and avoidance from the disease called the Small pox he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it so that being not able to overcome its encounters he did surrender up his spotless soul being too worthy for this world and the people he lived with and was wedded to his Saviour Jesus Ch. on the 17. of June about noon in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was buried the same day late at night at the west end of the Church of S.
at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire because he died in 1638. Thom. Some or Soame D. D. was incorporated also the same day Aug. 12. as he before had stood at Cambridge He had been Fellow of Peter House was now Canon of Windsore Preb. of S. Pauls in London Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex and if I mistake not Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxon in which last Benefice he was succeeded by Dr. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Some who hath one or more Sermons extant died at Stanes as it seems in the beginning of the year 1649 leaving a son then behind him called Henry Will. Beale D. D. sometimes of Pemb. Hall afterwards Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge now one of his Majesties Chaplains was incorporated the same day This most worthy person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and by him promoted and therefore esteemed an Arminian and popishly affected by the inveterate Puritans did suffer much in the beginning of the Rebellion raised by them as first for his having a hand in gathering and conveying the plate belonging to the University of Cambr. to his Majesty he was violently hurried thence Prisoner to London suffered great indignities from the Rabble in his way thro that City to the Tower where continuing some years was at length exchanged Secondly by being plunder'd and thrown out of his Headship of S. John's Coll. before mentioned for the same reason and for denying their wicked Covenant and lastly sequestred of all other his Spiritualities After his Exchange he fled to Oxon the common Asylum of afflicted Royalists where he exercised his function sometimes before his Majesty and at other times before the remnant or the royal Court there remaining After the Kings Cause declined he went beyond the Seas where he died heart-broken in 1651. or thereabouts David Stokes D. D. of the said Univ. was incorporated the same day This most loyal Doctor was educated in the College School at Westminster and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in the same University an 1610 afterwards he was Fellow of Peter House Fellow of Eaton Coll Canon of Windsore and Rector of Binfield in Berks All which preferments he losing in the time of the Rebellion was put to his shifts as other Royalists were retired to Oxon for refuge and there exercised his function for a time as others did After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost lived several years in great quiet and repose with much content to himself and died 10 of May 1669. He hath written and published 1 An explication of the twelve minor Prophets Hosea Joel c. wherein the difficult places are unfolded the seeming contradictions are reconciled according to the best Commentators now extant c. Lond. 1659. oct 2 Verus Christianus Or directions for private devotions and retirements with an Appendix containing some private Devotions of Bishop Andrews never before extant Oxon 1668 in tw 3 Several sermons which I have not yet seen nor his Truths champion c. pr. in oct George Bardsey D. D. of Qu. Coll. in the said Univers was also then Aug. 12. incorporated He died in Oxon in January 1645 and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in that chancel commonly called The College chancel in S. Michaels Church joyning to the north gate of the said City Aug. 12. .... Peake D. D. of Cambr. Aug. 12. .... Andrews D. D. of Cambr. The christian name of the first of these I cannot yet recover and therefore I can say nothing of him The other I take to be Nich. Andrews whom I have mention'd among the Incorporations in the first vol. an 1626. p. 853. Aug. 12. Brian Walton D. of D. of the same University was also then incorporated This most learned and loyal Doctor was born in Cleavland in the North Riding of Yorkshire an 1600 admitted first in Magd. Coll. under Mr. Joh. Gooch as a Sizer or Servitour and thence removing to Peter House under one Mr. Blake 4 Dec. 1616 took the degree of M. of A. as a member thereof an 1623. About that time or before he taught school in Suffolk and served as a Curate there Thence he removed to London and lived for a little time under the rev and learned Divine Mr. Rich Stock Rector of Allhallows Breadstreet in London After his death he became Rector of S. Martins Orgar in the said City and of Sandon in Essex at both which places he was highly valued by the orthodox party for his Learning and Religion In 1639 he commenced D. of D at which time he was Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral Chaplain to his Majesty and a person of great esteem especially for his skill in the Common Laws of this Realm so far I mean as they related to the patrimony and liberties of the Church as it appears by a little book written by him in defence of the Tithes within the City of London according to the proportion of two shillings and nine pence the pound rent Upon the breaking out of the diabolical Rebellion he was assaulted by the faction abused sequestred and forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxford he did there lay the ground of a most noble design which afterwards he did live to accomplish For upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he returned to London and residing with his father in law Dr. Will. Fuller then a great sufferer for the royal cause as he was he had time and leisure at command as being debar'd the exercising of his ministerial function tho often disturb'd for his loyalty of proceeding in the work with the advice of the most learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland his said father in law Dr. Bruno Ryves and some others residing in London yet not without the leave and license of Dr. Juxon Bishop of that City I say that this most worthy person Dr. B. Walton being most eminent for his learning especially in the holy Scriptures and Eastern Languages did undertake and happily perform the publishing of the Biblia Polyglotta printed at Lond. in six volumes in folio an 1657 wherein the sacred Text was by his singular care and oversight printed not only in the vulgar Latine but also in the Hebrew Syriake Chaldea Samaritan Arabick Aethiopick Persick and Greek Languages each having its peculiar Latin translation joyned therewith and an Apparatus fitted for each for the better understanding of those tongues In this great Work tho he met with infinite disturbances and discouragements by reason of the times wherein the Usurping Powers ruled and a multitude of other difficulties yet he most happily accomplished it in about four years space which when published was by the generality of Scholars esteemed the most absolute and famous edition of the Bible that the Christian World had or is like to enjoy In this most noble work so far as concerned the correcting of it while at the Press and in collating
several copies of verses that are extant in various books which shew him to have been a good Poet. He was put out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 was restored in 1660 but was no gainer by his sufferings as many honest Cavaliers were not by theirs He is now living and will tell you the reason why c. Others were created this year which for brevity sake I shall now omit to set down However the Reader must know that several persons besides were allowed to take the same degree of Bach. of Div among whom were Obadiah Walker of Vniv Coll. and Ant. Hodges Chapl. of New Coll but they refused that favor Doct. of Phys April 9. Peter Massonet lately of the City of Geneva now second or under Tutor to James Duke of York was then actually created June 23. Charles Scarborough of Merton Coll lately Fellow of that of Caies in Cambr. was then actually created by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University in which 't is said that he was Master of Arts of Cambridge of 7 years standing and upwards and that he was spoiled of his Library in the beginning of these troubles and afterwards for his conscience deprived of his Fellowship at Cambridge c. His Letters testimonial under the hand of the famous Dr. Will. Harvey say also that he is well learned in Physick Philosophy and Mathematicks c. While he abode in Mert. Coll he did help the said Dr. Harvey then Warden of that House in his Chamber at the end of the Library there in the writing his book De generatione Animalium which was afterwards published by the said Harvey Afterwards he became a most learned and incomparable Anatomist one of the Coll of Physitians principal Physitian to K. Ch. 2. from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 15. of Aug. 1669 and to his royal Highness James his Brother while Duke of York and when King Physitian to the Tower of London and afterwards to K. Will. 3. c. He was the first that introduced Geometrical and Mechanical speculations into Anatomy and applyed them as well in all his learned conversation as more particularly in his famous Lectures upon the Muscles of humane Bodies for 16 or 17 years together in the publick Theater at Surgeons Hall which were read by him with infinite applause and admiration of all sorts of learned men in the great City He is also most admirably well skill'd in the Mathematick Arts and was so esteemed by the famous Mr. Will. Oughtred who speaks thus of him after he had given a just character of Mr. Christop Wren Accessit alter Hortator vehemens D. Car. Scarborough Doctor Medicine suavissimis moribus perspicatissimoque ingenio Vir cujus tanta est in Mathesi solertia supra fidem faelix tenaxque memoria ut omnes Euclidis Archimedis aliorumque nonnullorum ex Antiquis propositiones recitare ordine in usum proferre potis sit c. He hath extant under his name 1 Syllabus Musculorum which is added to The Anatomical administration of all the Muscles of an humane body as they rise in dissection c revived with additions by Will. Molins Master in Chirurgery This book which hath been several times printed in oct is and ever will be used as having a prospect of two excellent ends especially one to shew all the Muscles as they naturally rise in dissection the other to place every one of them by his proper Antagonist 2 Trigonometry printed in qu. He hath also compendiously methodized the Grammar of the famous Will. Lilye which shews him to have been a critical Grammarian as indeed he is but this I have not yet seen nor his Elegy upon Mr. Abr. Cowley which goes from hand to hand in Ms This worthy person is now living in great repute and veneration at Court within the liberty of Westminster of whom you may see more in the discourse of Dr. Seth Ward among the Writers in this vol. num 522. June 23. Rob. Mead M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Captain in his Majesties service William Lord Brouncker Vicount of Castle Lyons Son of Sir Will. Brouncker mention'd among the created Doctors of the Civil Law under the year 1642 was actually created Doctor of Physick the same day This noble person did then solely addict himself to the study of Mathematicks and at length became a very great Artist in that faculty He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and President thereof for about 15 years which society he did much honour and advance by his learning and experience The places of honour and profit which he held were the Chancellourship of her Majesties Courts and keeping of her Great Seal one of the Lords Commissioners for the executing the office of the Lord High Admiral and the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London which last place he obtained in Nov. 1681 after a long suit of Law had depended between him and Sir Rob. Atkins a Judge concerning the right thereof He hath extant under his name Experiments of the recoiling of Guns mention'd in the Hist of the Royal Society and Several Letters to Dr. Jam. Vsher Primate of Ireland which are at the end of his life published by Dr. R. Parr He died in his house in S. James-street within the liberty of Westm on the 5. of April early in the morning an 1684 aged 64 years and was buried on the 14 of the same month in a little vault which he had caused to be made eight foot long and four broad in the middle of the choir belonging to the Hospital of S. Catherine before mention'd Which choir he a little before had divided in the middle with a good skreen set up at his own charge whereby he hath spoiled the beauty and state of it Hen. Brouncker younger brother to the said L. Brouncker was created the same day Jun. 23. After the death of Will Lord Brounker this Henry succeeded him in his honour and dying about the 4 of January 1687 was buried at Richmond in Surrey where there is a mon. over his grave Doct. of Div. Jun. 6. In a Convocation then held the Vicechancellour signified to the Members thereof c. as before under the title of Bach. of Div this year Whereupon these persons following were created either for their preaching before the Court or Parl. at Oxon or for their Sufferings for the Royal Cause Jun. 17. Matthew Brookes of Mert. Coll. Jun. 17. Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 17. Tho. Philpot of New Coll. This last Tho. Philpot son of Dav. Philpot was born at Michel Dever in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1609 and afterwards taking holy Orders he became Rector of Turveston and Akeley in Buckinghamshire In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much for his Loyalty and a
Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated on the same day This person who was younger Brother to the said Joh. Still was born near Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire was first Rector of Sutton in Bedfordshire by the favour of Sir Rog. Burgoyne then of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London D. of D Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Canterbury Can. resid of S. Pauls Cathedral Dean thereof upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Sancroft to the See of Canterbury and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See he was consecrated in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham on Sunday the 13 of Oct. 1689 with Dr. Sim. Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilbert Ironside to Bristow by the Bishops of London S. Asaph and Rochester by vertue of a Commission directed to them in that behalf He hath published divers books too many to have their titles set down here in defence of the Church of England which shew him to be an orthodox and learned man The first book which made him known to the world was his Irenicum A weapon salve for the Churches wounds Lond. 1661. Tho. White of Peter House I find one Thom. White a Minister of London of Allhallows the Great as it seems to be author of 1 Method and instructions for the art of divine meditation c. Lond. 1655. c. in tw 2 Observations on the fourth 5 and 6 Chapters of S. Matthew c. Lond. 1654. oct 3 Treatise of the power of godliness in three parts c. Lond. 1658 in tw 4 A manual for Parents wherein is set down very particular directions in reference to baptizing correcting c. Lond. 1660. c. and of other things Whether this author who was dead before 1671 be the same with the former Tho. White of Peter House I know not Rich. Cumberland M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div. and published 1 De Legibus naturae disquisitio Philosophica in qua â—arum forma summa capita ordo promulgatio obligatio è rerum natura investigantur quinetiam elementa Philosophiae Hobbianae cum moralis tum civilis considerantur refutantur Lond. 167â— qu. 2 An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures and weights comprehending their moneys by help of an antient standard compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans and Eastern Nations Lond. 1686. oct c. This Dr. Cumberland was consecrated Bish of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Tho. White deprived for not taking the Oathes to K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary in the Church of S. Mary Le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691 at which time other Bishops were consecrated Mathew Pole or Poole M. of A. of Emanuel Coll. He was Minister of S. Michaels in Le Querne in London from whence being ejected for Nonconformity an 1662 he set himself to the writing of those admirable and useful books entit Synopsis Criticorum Bibliorum c. The two first Volumes of which were printed at Lond. 1669 and three more afterwards besides one in English all in fol. He hath also written 1 The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the spirit or a plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost wherein the Deity of the spirit is proved against the Cavils of Joh. Biddle Lond. 1654. in tw 2 A model for the maintaining of Students of choice abilities in the Vniversity and principally in order to the Ministry c. Printed 1658 in 3. sh and an half in qu. 3 Letter to the Lord Charles Fleetwood Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. It was delivered to that person one of Olivers Lords 13. of Dec. the same Year in reference to the then juncture of affairs 4 Quo Warranto A moderate debate about the preaching of unordained persons election ordination and the extent of the Ministerial relation in vindication of the Jus Divinum Ministerii from the exceptions of that late piece entit The Preacher sent Lond. 1659. qu. Written by the appointment of the Provincial Assembly at London 5 Evangelical Worship serm before the L. Mayor 26. Aug. 1660. c. Lond. 1660. qu. 6 The nullity of the Romish faith c. Oxon. 1666. oct 7 Dialogue between a Popish Priest and English Protestant wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed and fully examined Lond. 1667 and several times after in tw 8 Seasonable Apologie for religion on Matth. 11.19 Lond. 1673. qu besides other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died at Amsterdam in Holland to which place he had retired for the free exercise of his religion in the middle of Octob. 1679 leaving then behind him the character of Clarissimus Criticus Casuista whereupon his body was buried in a certain Vault under the Church which belongs to the English Merchants trading there He left behind him certain English Annotations on the Holy Scripture which being imperfect were finished by other hands in two volumes in fol. an 1685. See more among the Writers in Joh. Owen p. 564. Joh. Meriton M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was before his Majesties restauration the Sunday's Lecturer at S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster afterward D. D. Rector of S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lecturer at S. Mary Hill c. in London He hath published several Sermons as 1 Curse not the King preached at S. Mart. in the Fields 30. Jan. 1660 on Eccles 10.20 Lond. 1660. 61. qu. 2 Religio Militis on Josh 1.7 preached to the Attillery Company 24. Oct. 1672 at S. Mich. in Cornhill Lond. 1673 qu. c. I find another Joh. Meriton who was M. of A Vicar of S. Ives in Huntingdonshire Rector of St. Mary Bothaw in London c. and Chaplain to Henry Earl of Arlington a publisher also of several Sermons as of 1 The obligation of a good conscience to civil obedience preached before the Judges at an Assize held at Huntingdon 24. Aug. 1670 on Rom. 13.5 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall 30. July 1676. Lond. 1676 qu. c. Will. Williams M. A. of Trin. Coll. Several of both his names have been Writers but whether this hath published any thing I know not Anthony Walker M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div Rector of Fyfield in Essex Chaplain to his Majesty and a publisher of several Sermons as 1 Planctus Unigeniti spes resuscitandi Or the bitter sorrows for a first born c. funeral Serm. on Luke 7.12 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Leez lachrymans sive Comitis Warwici justa Serm. at the funeral of Charles Earl of Warwick Baron Rich of Leez who being the fourth Earl of the Family and last of the direct line died at his house of Leez le Rich in the County of Essex 24. August 1673 aged 55 and was inter'd among his Ancestors in
written I cannot tell Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Joh. Birkenhead or Berkenhead of All 's Coll. Jul. 3. Thom. Croft of All 's Coll. Sept. 12. Rob. Mathew of New Coll. Sept. 12. Christop Wren of All 's Coll. Sept. 12. Sam. Davies of Jes Coll. As for Christop Wren who had been Astron Prof. in Gresham Coll was now Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this Univ and a member of the Royal Society c. He is a most eminent Mathematician and is hereafter to be mention'd with all honour for his curious discoveries in Philosophy and Mathematicks as they stand recorded by the excellent pen of the ingenious author Dr. Thomas Sprat of The Hist of the Royal Society c. Nov. 6. Rich. Baylie of S. Joh. Coll. He was son of Dr. Rich. Baylie President of that Coll and dying at London where he was a Merchant in the latter end of 1675 his body was conveyed to Oxon and buried in a Vault under a little Chappel built by the said Doctor an 1662 joyning to that of S. Joh. Coll on the 15 of March the same year Dec. 11. David Budd The Coll. or Hall of which he was a member if of any is not set down in the Register Doct. of Phys May 9. Will. Jackson of Vniv Coll was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which tell us that his father was Doct. of Div. and sequestred in the late Rebellion from about 300 l. per an Also that this William was in the old Kings Service at Colchester and in the Service of this King That his near Kinsman Col. Rob. Levinz suffered and was executed by the bloody Rebels c. Jun. 18. Geffry Rishton M. A. of S. Maries Hall He was now a Parl. man for Preston in Lancashire Jul. 11. George Neale M. of A. of Ch. Ch. Sept. 12. Joh. Metford of S. Edm. Hall Sept. 12. Will. Bentley of Ball. Coll. Sept. 12. Freder Sagittary of Qu. Coll. Sept. 12. Rob. Peirce of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Walt. Pope of Ball. Coll. Sept. 12. Tho. Bedingfield of Ch. Ch. These were created while the Chanc. of the University was near Oxon. Metford and Sagittary were afterwards honorary Fellows of the Coll. of Phys and Dr. Pope who was uterine brother to Dr. Joh. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester is now Fellow of the Royal Society and Astron Prof. of Gresham Coll and hath spent much time in observing the motions and appearances of the Heavens the result of which he hath delivered in his Astronomical Lectures there read which 't is hoped he may be prevailed with to be made public hereafter and not publish vain and trivial things as he hath hitherto done among which must not be forgotten The Memoires of Mounsieur Du Vall containing the history of his life and death as also his Speech and Epitaph written out of a pique and printed at Lond. 1670. qu. Oct. 10. Will. Sparke of Magd. Coll. See in vol. 1. p. 740. at the bottom Doct. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Triplet M. of A. was then diplomated He was born in or near Oxon was educated a Student of Ch. Ch where and in the Univ he was always esteemed a great Wit and a good Greecian and Poet. In Oct. 1645 he became Preb. of Preston in the Ch. of Sarum at which time he was also beneficed but soon after being sequestred he taught School at Dublin in Ireland was there when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded and afterwards taught at Hayes in Middlesex After K. Ch. 2. was restored he was made Preb. of Westminster and of Fenton in the Church of York and dying 18 Jul. 1670 aged 70 years his body was buried in the south Transcopt or large south Isle joyning to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster Over his grave was soon after fastned to the west wall of the said Isle a fair monument in the very place where the monument of Tho. May the Poet once stood This worthy Doctor of whom you may see more in the first vol. p. 502 hath several Specimens of his Poetry extant in various books and some that yet go from hand to hand in MS. May 21. Franc. Davies of Jes Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Landaff Jun. 7. Joh. Fairclough commonly called Featley of All 's Coll. 12. Sam. Bolton of Linc. Coll. now one of the Kings Chaplains was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is a man of extraordinary abilities and great integrity and one who by his preaching in this City London is very serviceable to the interest of the K. and Church c. On the 15 of Jan. 1661 he and Dr. Br. Ryves preached before the H. of Commons at S. Margarets in Westm and were by them desired to print their Sermons but whether they were printed I know not for I have not yet seen either See more of this Dr. Bolton in the first vol. p. 481. Jun. 7. Edw. Drope of Magd. Coll. Jun. 7. Edm. Diggle of Magd. Coll. The first of these two who was esteemed a good Preacher and therefore put upon preaching before the K. and Parl. at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion and upon that account had the degree of Doctor confer'd upon him died in Magd. Coll. 13 Apr. 1683 aged 84 or thereabouts and was buried in the outer Chappel there The other who also had his degree confer'd upon him on the like account was then Canon of Lichfield which they call the Golden Prebend by the favour of Dr. Frewen Bishop thereof to whom he was Chaplain and afterwards became Preb. of Hustwait in the Church of York and Archdeacon of York or of the West Riding of Yorksh. in the place of Dr. Rich. Marsh deceased in which last dignity he was installed 19 Oct. 1663. He died at Slimbridge in Glocestershire of which he was Rector on the first of August anno 1688. Jul. 3. Cornelius Trigland a learned Theologist and Chapl. to the Prince of Aurange or Orange was diplomated by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is one of the Ministers at the Hague was very kind to the King Ch. 2. and his friends while they lived in those parts shewed himself kind to the Church of England entrusted by our King with a great share of the education of his Nephew the Prince of Orange c. There is mention made of this learned person in Dr. George Morley among the Writers an 1684. p. 585. Jul. 3. Rich. Mervin Bach of Div. of Exet. Coll. Jul. 3. Jam. Smith Bach of Div. of Linc. Coll. Jul. 3. Giles Thorne Bach of Div. of Ball. Coll. The first of these three was Chancellour of the Church of Exeter in which Dignity he was succeeded as it seems by Dr. Tho. Tomkins The second I have mention'd among the Writers p. 279 and the third was now 1661 Archdeacon of Bucks in the place of Rob. Newell who died in the time of the Civ War Jul. 9. David Michell Sanctandrianus as in the reg he
the place of Dr. Joh. Lloyd sometimes of All 's Coll. deceased and was about that time Rector of Hartley Westpoll in Hampshire 27. Sam. Jackson M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Practitioner in Physick for several years in this University and near it was created Doct. of that faculty by vertue of the Kings Letters This person who had been an Officer in the Kings Army during the grand Rebellion died 3 of March 1674 and was buried in the body of S. Maries Church in Oxon near that of his Father sometimes an Apothecary of that City Joh. Henr. Otho of Berne in Switzerland became a Sojournour in the University in the latter end of this year where improving himself much in Literature by the use of the public Libr. did afterwards write a Talmudical Lexicon and a book De autoribus Mishnae that is of the Talm. Text or of those old Jewish Doctors who wrot the parts of the Mishna which is the Text of the Talmud and other things An. Dom. 1672. An. 24 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews made this year Bish of Bathe and Wells Proct. George Verman of Ex. Coll. Apr. 19. Tho. Crosthwaite of Qu. Coll. Apr. 19. Which Proctors were not admitted till the third day of Easter term because on the first was observed a public Fast for a prosperous War against our Enemies the Dutch and on the second was preached a Lat. Sermon and other Preparations made for the beginning of the Term. Bach. of Arts. May 14. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters an 1682. Jun. 22. Jonath Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Jun. 22. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristow and Exeter the other hath published several books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Adm. 213. Bach. of Law Eight were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them Rob. Rigby of Ch. Ch. was one a person of good rank and a Traveller as the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf tell us Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Rich. Lucas of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Joh. Williams of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. The second of these three was afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan 19. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Curate for Dr. George Hooper at Woodhay in Hampshire and Author of The Antidote or a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13.1 shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher Powers with an account of the divine right or original of Government Lond. 1684. oct Mar. 22. Joh. Rogers of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to George Earl of Berkley and published A Sermon preached before the Corporation of Trinity-House in Deptford Strand at the election of their Master 30 May 1681 on Jonah 1.6 Lond. 1681. quart Adm. 120. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted this year but neither of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. Henr. Rose of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Minister of Allhallowes Church in Oxon and afterwards wrot A philosophical Essay for the re-union of the Languages or the art of knowing all by the Mastery of one Oxon. 1675 in about 5 sheets in oct He afterwards went into Ireland and whether he be there now living I cannot tell Jul. 10. Moses Pengry of Brasn Coll. He was about this time Chaplain to Will Earl of Devonshire to whose son Will. Lord Caâ—endish he dedicated his Translation into excellent Latin Verse of Sir John Denham's English Poem called Coopers hill which Mr. Pengry intituled Coopers hill latine redditum c. Oxon 1676. in 3 sh 〈…〉 This Mr. Pengry who was born in the City of Glocester was an ingenious man well read in the Poets and humane Literature And had not death untimely snatch'd him away he might have given us larger Specimens of his curious fancy He died on the fourth day of Octob. an 1678 being then Minister of Gillingham in Kent and was buried in the Cath. Church of Rochester Jul. 10. Will. Ashton of Brasn Coll. Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Adm. 8. This year Oct. 22 Anth. Saunders M. A. of Ch. Ch. was created Bach. of Div. by the Diploma of Gilbert Archb. of Canterbury See among the Doct. of Div. 1677. Doct. of Law May 11. Hugh Wynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chanc. of the dioc of S. Asaph and is now a Non-juror 14. Hen. Jones of Magd. Coll. He was now Chanc. of the dioc of Bristow Jun. 7. Franc. Lennard of All 's Coll. 12. Joh. Edisbury of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 6 Mar. 1678 and was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Joh. Master of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Physick and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Doct. of Div. Jun. 27. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. The two last were Accumulators Incorporations Jun. 22. Edward Chamberlayne Doctor of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated as he had stood at Cambridge This person who was originally of S. Edm. Hall and M. of A. of this University hath written several things among which is Angliae Notitia and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers In the month of July were 15 Masters of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among which were Nathan Bacon of Qu. Coll. Joh. Gregory of Pemb. Hall The first of which was a Writer as it seems for one of both his names hath published several things The other is the same I presume with Joh. Gregory mention'd among the Creations of D. of D. in Franc. Gregory an 1661. Besides them was one Bach. of Phys and two Bach. of Div. of the same University incorporated also Creations Jul. 17. Thom. Skynner of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon was actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that he was for some time bred in Cambridge but was forced to leave that Vniversity in the times of Vsurpation by reason of the illegal Oaths and other impositions offer'd to him whereby he was prevented the taking his degree c. This Doctor hath added a third Lat. part to Dr. G. Bate his Elenchus motuum c. Lond. 1676. oct which he calls Motus compositi afterwards translated into English by another hand with a Preface to it by a person of quality Lond. 1685. oct See in George Bate among the Writers in this vol. p. 304. Mar. 19. Edmund Webbe of Ball. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellors Letters which say that he is Master of Arts and now Chaplain in ord to his
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Afterwards Sir Edw. was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of indempnity or pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23. May 1690. May 6. Thomas Adderley of S. Johns Coll. This person who was a Warwickshire man born was a Servitour of the said Coll and after he had taken one degree in Arts he left it and became Chaplains as it seems to Sir Edw. Boughton of Warwickshire Bt. He hath written and published The care of the peace of the Church the duty of every Christian In a discourse on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1679. qu. To which is added A Letter shewing the great danger and sinfulness of popery written to a young Gentleman a Roman Cath. in Warwickshire May 27. Rich Roderick of Ch. Ch. May 27. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682 of the second among the Masters 1672 and of the third among the Bach. of Div. 1681. June 19. Rich. Leigh of Qu. Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Edw. Leigh mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 351. hath Poetry and other things extant and therefore he is to crave a place hereafter among the Writers Oct. 19. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. He was afterwards B. of Bangor 26. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Dec. 11. Richard Forster of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1673. Feb. 1. Joh. Clerk of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. See among the Mast an 1673. Mar. 15. Joh. Rogers of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Mast an 1672. Admitted 208 or thereabouts Doct. of Mus July 8. Benj. Rogers Organist of Magd. Coll was then admitted Doctor of Musick which degree he compleated in that great and solemn Act celebrated in Sheldons Theater on the 12 of the same month being the third day after the opening and dedication of the said Theater for a learned use This person who was Son of Peter Rogers belonging to his Majesties Chap. of S. George at Windsore in Berks was born at Windsore was when a boy a Choirester and when a Man Clerk or Singing-man of the said Chap. at Windsore Afterwards he became Organist of Ch Ch. in Dublin where continuing till the rebellion broke out in 1641 he was forced thence and going to Windsore he obtained a Singing mans place there But being soon after silenced by the great troubles occasion'd by the Civil Wars in England he taught his profession at Windsore and in the neighbourhood and by the favour of the men then in power got some annual allowance in consideration of his lost place In 1653 or thereabouts he being then famed for a most admirable Composer did at the request of great personages compose several sets of Airs of four parts to be performed by Violins and an Organ which being esteem'd the best of their kind that could be then composed were sent as great rarities into Germany to the Court of Archduke Leopold now Emperour and were tried and often played by his own Musitians to his very great content he himself being then a Composer and a great Admirer of Musick In 1658 his great favourer and encourager of his profession Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo Fellow of Eaton conducted him to Cambridge got the degree of Bach. of Mus to be confer'd on him as a member of Qu. Coll that Doctor having been sometimes Fellow thereof and at that time a Proceeder in Div. and giving great content by his song of several parts which was his exercise performed in the Commencement that year by several voices he gained the reputation there of a most admirable Musitian and had the greater part of his fees and entertainment defray'd by that noble and generous Doctor After his Majesties restauration the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London being unanimously dispos'd to entertain the King the two Dukes and both Houses of Parliament with a sumptuous Feast it was ordered among them that there should be added to it the best Musick they could obtain And B. Rogers being then esteemed the prime Composer of the Nation he was desir'd of them to compose a song of several parts to be performed while the King and company were at dinner Whereupon in order to it Dr. Ingelo made Hymnus Eucharisticus the beginning of the prelude to which is Exultate Justi in Domino c. This also he translated into English and both were printed in single papers These things being done B. Rogers composed a song of four parts to that Hymne which was more than once tried in private At length on the 12. of July Thursday 1660 being the day that his Majesty James Duke of York Henry Duke of Glocester and both Houses of Parliament were at Dinner in the Guild-hall of the City of London the said printed papers in Latin and English being delivered to the King the two Dukes and dispersed among the Nobility c. purposely that they might look on them while the performance was in doing the song was began and carried on in Latin by twelve Voices twelve Instruments and an Organ mostly performed by his Majesties Servants Which being admirably well done it gave very great content and Mr. Rogers the author being present he obtained a great name for his composition and a plentiful reward Much about that time he became Organist of Eaton Coll where continuing till Theodore Colby a German was prefer'd to be Organist of Exeter Cathedral Dr. Thomas Pierce who had a great value for the man he himself being a Musitian invited him to Magd. Coll. and gave him the Organists place there and there he continued in good esteem till 1685 and then being ejected the reason why let others tell you the Society of that house allow'd him an yearly pension to keep him from the contempt of the world In which condition he now lives in his old age in a skirt of the City of Oxon unregarded He hath extant certain compositions in a book entit Cantica Sacra Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Latin and English Lond. 1674. fol. As also in The Latine Psalmes and Hymns of four parts published by Joh. Playford His compositions for instrumental Musick whether in two three or four parts have been highly valued and were always 30 years ago or more first called for taken out and played as well in the publick Musick school as in private Chambers and Dr. Wilson the Professor the greatest and most curious Judge of Musick that ever was usually wept when he heard them well perform'd as being wrapt up in an extasie or if you will melted down while others smil'd or had their hands and eyes lifted up at the excellency of them c. But now le ts go on with the admissions Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of
them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 3. Thom. Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was born at Windsore in Berks elected Student of the said House from Westminster School an 1663 and when Master he became corrector of the Press at the Theater and after Vicar of Steventon near Abâ—ndâ—n and Minister of Hungerford in Berks. He hath written Many useful observations by way of Comment out of antient and learned Grammarians on Lillyes Grammar Oxon. 1673 c. oct This Grammar is in some Auction Catalogues called Dr. Fells Grammar and Oxford Grammar and the Observator elsewhere is called the Oxford Grammarian by which name he and his Oxford Grammar were afterwards answer'd or animadverted upon by John Twells Schoolmaster of Newark upon Trent in his Grammatica reformata or a general examination of the Art of Grammar c. Lond. 1683 in oct Mr. Bennet died and was buried at Hungerford in the month of Aug. 1681. Apr. 3. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. Apr. 3. Will. Clement of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Rector of Bathe Master of an Hospital there and Archdeacon of Bathe in the place of John Selleck deceased in Sept. 1690. Apr. 27. Sam. Master of Exet. Coll. June 15. Joh. Cook of Ch Ch. This Divine who was Son of Thom. Cook of Bromsgrave in Worcestershire became after he was Master one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of his House and afterwards Rector of Kuckstone and of Mersham in Kent He hath published 1 A Sermon on Joh. 8.34 preached Dec. 19. an 1675 in Bow Church before the L. Mayor and Alderman of the City of London Lond. 1676. qu. 2 Serm. preached 13. May 1683 at the Guildhall Chappel before the Lord Mayor c. on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1683. qu. July 8. Joh. Inett of Vniv Coll. This worthy Divine who was Son of Rich. Inett of Beawdley in Worcestershire became a Leycester exhibitioner of the said Coll an 1663 and after he had taken the degree of Master was made Rector of S. Ebbes Church in Oxon which place he keeping about 3 or 4 years became Vicar of Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire where he continued in good repute for some time At length upon the resignation of Will. Wyat he was installed Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Lincoln 27. Feb. 1681 and became Residentiary thereof He hath published 1 Sermon preached at the Assizes held in Warwick 1. Aug. 1681 on Prov. 14. part of the 34. vers Lond. 1681. qu. 2 A guide to a devout Christian in three parts The first containing meditations and prayers c. Lond. 1688. oct e. Nov. 9. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. 16 Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. 16 Will. Williams of Jes Coll. The last was afterwards Vicar of Haverford west in Pembrokeshire and author of The necessity and extent of the obligation with the manner and measures of restitution in a Sermon preached 9 of Octob. 1681 before the corporation of Haverford-west at S. Maries in Haverford on Luke 19.8 Lond. 1682. qu. What other things he hath published I know not Mar. 23. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch. Adm. 110. Bach. of Phys Four were admitted whereof Thomas Alvey of Mert. Coll. was one Bach. of Div. May 26. Hen. Compton of Ch. Ch. May 26. Edw. Wetenhall of Linc. Coll. These two were afterwards Bishops and are now living July 3. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll. 6. Franc. Turner of New Coll. 6. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops and are now living Oct. 26. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. This Divine who was Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers an 1684. p. 580 was born in Glocestershire educated in Charter-house School was afterwards Scholar and Fellow of his House Proctor of the University Rector of Letcombe Basset in Berks and Chaplain to James Duke of Monmouth Chancellour of the University of Cambridge by whose recommendations he was actually created D. of D. of that University an 1676. He hath published Encouragement to Charity Sermon preached at the Charter-house Chappel 12. Dec. 1678 at an anniversary meeting in commemoration of the Founder on Heb. 13.16 Lond. 1679. qu. He died of an Apoplexy in his Rectory House at Letcombe Basset before mention'd on the 18 of June an 1686 and was buried in the Church there Dec. 11. Joseph Guillim of Brasn Coll. Dec. 11. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. The first of these two was a Herefordshire man born became a poor Scholar of Mert. Coll. in 1653 and thence elected Fellow of that of Brasnose in the place of Joh. Carpender deceased an 1655. He hath written The dreadful burning of London described in a Poem Lond. 1667 in two sh and an half in qu. He died in Greys-Inn-Lane in Holbourne near London on the 10. of Sept. 1670 but where buried unless in the Yard or Church of S. Andrew or at Highgate where his constant place of residence was I know not Mar. 15. Joh. Lloyd of Jes Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. David Adm. 26. Doct. of Law Jun. 22. Joseph Taylor of S. Joh. C. Jun. 22. Charles Perott of S. Joh. C. The first was a Compounder The other was several times a Burgess for this University to serve in several Parliaments and dying in S. Joh. Coll. on the 10. of June 1686 aged 45 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at Fyfield near Abendon in Berks where there is Land belonging to his name and Family Jan. 28. Richard Osgood of New Coll. Jan. 28. Gabr. Thistlethwayte of New Coll. The last of these two was now Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmâ—ton in the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. Hyde deceased and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester Doct. of Phys July 7. Edward Jones of Mert. Coll. July 7. Nich. He le of Exet. Coll. July 7. Tho. Hayes of Brasn Coll. July 7. Pet. Gerard of Brasn Coll. Doct. of Div. June 26. Joh. Price of New Coll. Accum and Compounders 28. Henry Compton of Ch. Ch. Accum and Compounders 28. Will. Bethel of S. Alb. Hall Accum and Compounders 28. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. 28. Joh. Hall of Pembr Coll. 28. Joh. Darby of Vniv Coll. July 3. Tho. Sprat Accumulator of Wadh. Coll. 6. Franc. Turner Compounder of New Coll. 6. Joh. Barnard Accum of Linc. Coll. Four of these Doctors were afterwards Bishops viz. Compton Hall who succeeded Dr. Barlow in the Margaret Professorship 24. of May 1676 Sprat and Turner Incorporations May 4. Joh. Bapt. Gornia Doct. of Phys of Bononia publick prof at Pisa and Physitian to Cosmo de Medicis Prince of Tuscany was incorp Doct. of Phys In a Convocation held in the afternoon of that day the said Prince who was entertained by the University was then sitting when the ceremony of Incorp was performed in a chair of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellour The said Prince is now the Great Duke of Tuscany May 6. Hen. Dove M. A. of Cambr.