at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
Keeper and Chancellour Speech at the sentence of Will Visc Stafford 7. Dec. 1680 Printed in one sh in fol. and in The Trial of the said Visc p. 212.213 At which time he performed the office of L. High Steward of England Answers by his Majesties command upon several Addresses presented to his Maj. at Hampton Court 19 May 1681. Lond. 1681. in 1. sh in fol. His Arguments upon which he made the Decree in the cause between the honorable Charles Howard Esq plaintiff Henry late Duke of Norfolk Hen. Lord Mowbray his Son Henry Marq. of Dorchester and Richard Marriott Esq Defendants wherein the several ways and methods of limiting a trust of a term for years are fully debated Lond. 1685 in 9 sh in fol. He also left behind him written with his own hand Chancery Reports MS in fol. in the hands of his Son Daniel Earl of Nottingham At length his body being worn out with tâ—o much business which his high station and office required he yeilded to nature in his house in Queen-street near Covent Garden on the 18. of Decemb. in the afternoon in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried on the 28 of the same month in the Church of Raunston before mention'd near Oulney in Bucks On the 20 of the said month his Majesty was pleased to commit the custody of the Great Seal to the right honorable Sir Francis North Lord Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas with the title of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and on the 22 he was sworn at the Council-board and took his place as Lord Keeper This noble Earl of Nottingham left behind him several Sons the eldest of which named Daniel who had been sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. succeeded his Father in his honors having been before a Parliament Man one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellour The second is named Heneage bred also in the said House and afterwards in the Inner Temple who became Sollicitor General in the place of Sir Franc. Winnington but removed thence about the 21 Apr. 1686 and Sir Tho. Powis put in his place about five days after He hath been several times elected Burgess by the University of Oxon. to serve in Parliaments for the members thereof ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER Baronet Son of Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne in Wilts Kt. and Bt by Anne his Wife Dau. and sole Heir of Sir Anth. Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire was born at Wimbourne on the 22. of July 1621 19. Jac. 1. became a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1636 under the tuition of Dr. Prideaux the Rector thereof and continued there about two years Afterwards he went to Lincolns Inn to study the municipal Law and in the latter end of 1639 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Tewksbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. In 1642 he sided with his Majesty being then as 't is said High Sherriff of Dorsetshire became Governour of Weymouth and raised some forces for his use But the mind of this person being mutable he left the royal cause went in to the Parliament and served them was made Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and took the Covenant But when the Presbyterians thought themselves sure of him whip he was gone as one saith and in a trice commenced a Brother Independent which was a wise part and no trick of a changling to shift principles like shirts and quit an unlucky side in a fright at the noise of a new prevailing party with whom he staid till he grew up to the size of a great Commonwealths man and made hay in the Sun shine until the Commonwealth and Cromwell were brought to bed of a strange new kind of Monarchy in the House of Commons a three or four hundred-headed Monarchy called The Fifth Monarchy and in those days it was also called Cromwells little Parliament in which his little Lordship became one of the Princes among a Drove of Changlings c. In 1645 he was elected Sherriff of Norfolk and the next year Sherriff of Wilts both approved of and consented to by the members of Parliament In Jan. 1651 he having before taken the Engagement he was one of those 21 persons who were appointed by Parliament to sit as a Committee to consider of the inconveniences which were in the Law c. and soon after he was chose one of the Council of State to Oliver in which high office he continued till that person was Protector In June 1653 he was constituted Knight for Wilts to serve in the said Little Parliament that began at Westm on the 4. of July the same year but therein having spied out Olivers purpose of matching to another sort of Monarchy of his own Sir Anthony then resolved like a constant steady man to his own main point to trepan his fellow members and strike in with him and lent him thereupon a helping hand towards the confounding of Fifth Monarchy to make way for a new one under the name of Protector in which seene of affairs he was made a Protectorian Privy-counsellour In Aug. 1654 he was appointed by ordinance one of the Commissioners for Wilts Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time he was elected a. Burgess for Pool before mention'd and for Tewkesbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver then Protector that began at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year At which time he aspiring to become the Protectors Son-in-Law Cromwell who well enough understood him either disdaining or not daring to take him so near into his bosome took occasion also to quit him out of his Council So that being out of such publick employs he was at leisure to make court to all private Malecontents against the Protector and wheresoever he found a sore there he rub'd hardest till the end of the Raign of Richard In 1656 he was elected a Parliament man for Wilts to serve in that convention that met at Westminster 17 of Sept. the same year and in 1658 he was elected again for that which began at the same place 27. of January In both which the friends and favourites of Sir Anthony say that he endeavoured to cross the designs of Oliver and Richard But the last being soon after laid aside Sir Anthony thought it high time of necessity to turn back to the old honest point of the compass and get in again to be thought a new man of his Majesties party To this end notwithstanding he had been nominated one of the Council of State after the deposing of Richard May 15 1659 he joyned partly with the Presbyterians and privately engaged with Sir George Booth was of the Cabal kept intelligence with him and had a party in Dorsetshire which should be ready to assist him if little success
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
some respects he understood so well in short time at 12 years of age that he could work at them At that time he went to the Grammar School there had some smattering in the latin and at about 15 years of age he entred into the Greek tongue Soon after he went to Caen in Normandy and with a little stock of Merchantdizing that he then improved maintained himself there learned the French tongue and at 18 years of age the Arts and Mathematicks Afterwards he retired to Paris studied Anatomy and read Vesalius with Hobbes of Malmsbury who lov'd his company exceeding well and was not wanting on all occasions to forward his pregnant genie So that in short time being accomplished with such parts of learning that began then to be in great esteem in England he returned after he had visited the Netherlands into England and on the 6. of March 1647 a patent was ordered for him by the members of Parliament to endure for 17 years to teach his art of double writing At that time being a man of fortune he sided with the people then in authority went to Oxon when the great rout of loyal Scholars was made by the Parliamentarian Visitors setled there for some time followed the faculty of Physick exercised Anatomy and Chymistry much among young Scholars to his and their great benefit and became deputy professor of Anatomy for Dr. Thom. Clayton who being possest with a timorous and effeminate humour could never endure the sight of a mangled or bloody body On the 7. of March 1649 he by the commendatory letters of certain persons then in authority written to the Delegates of the University was actually created Doctor of Physick he being about that time made Fellow of Brasn Coll. in the place of Nath. Hoyle Bach. of Divinity and in Dec. 1650 his name was wonderfully cried up for being the chief person in the recovery to life of one Anne Green who was hang'd in Oxford Castle on the 14 of the same month for making away her bastard child at which time instead of recovering her he intended to have her made an Anatomy In the beginning of January following he was unanimously elected Anatomy professor of the University upon Claytons renouncing his interest therein purposely to serve him and shortly after he was not only made one of the Coll. of Physitians at London but Musick professor of Gresham Coll which last place he obtained by the interest of his dear friend Capt. Joh. Graunt In 1652 he being recommended to the Parliament to be one of the surveyors of Ireland he procured a patent for that purpose and in Aug. the same year he took a voyage thither practiced his faculty in Dublin among the chief of that City got to be Clerk of the Council there and Secretary to the L. Lieutenant In Dec. 1654 he began to survey for which he received 365 l. per an which was done in ten months time or thereabouts with that exactness that there was no estate to the value of 60 l. per an but he did exactly shew it to its true value and made maps of all that he had done Those that he employed for the Geometrical part were ordinary persons that circumambulated with their box and needle not knowing what they did but our author Petty knew right well how to make use of their Labours 'T is said that by this employment he obtained an estate in Ireland worth about 10000 l. per an but a great part of it being refunded because their former owners were declared innocent as to the then late rebellion he had left him about 5 or 6000 l. yearly and could from Mount-Mangorton in Kerry behold 50000 acres of his own Land But this survey was but a single proof of the great elâ—vation of his understanding genius which like a meteor moved above the spheer of other Mortals In Jan. 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of Westlow in Cornwall to serve in Richards Parliament which began at Westm on the 27 of the same month wherein he was a considerable actor as I have heard but that Parliament being soon after dissolved and Richard laid aside he went into Ireland whence returning after his Majesties restauration and introduced into his presence his Majesty was much pleased with his ingenious discourses and seemed to be delighted in him About that time the Royal Society being instituted he was appointed one of its first members and afterwards one of the Council belonging thereunto being then esteemed the prime person to advance experimental Philosophy and Mechanicks On the 11. of Apr. 1661 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and did afterwards as some say design to be Earl of Kilmore in Ireland but that project which he knew the effect would cause great envy came to nothing In the beginning of the year 1663 he became famous in Ireland by the success of his new invention of the Double bottom'd Ship against the judgment and resolution of almost all mankind for in July the same year when first the Ship adventur'd from Dublin to Holyhead she stayed there many days before her return and 't was pleasant to consider how her Adversaries insulted and having first established the conclusion that she was cast away did afterwards discourse the several necessities why it should be so Some said it was impossible her Mast could be sufficiently planted against a strong gale others said she was gone to Land at O Brasile c. But her return in triumph with those visible advantages above other vessels did check the derision of some and becalm'd the violence of others the first point having been clearly gain'd that she could bear the Seas She then turned in against wind and tide into that narrow harbour Holyhead amongst the rocks and ships with such dexterity as many antient Sea-men did then confess they had never seen the like About the same time Thomas Earl of Ossory and other persons of honour were imbarqued in her and drove to and again within the bar near Dublin It then blew very hard insomuch that a small Holland vessel famous for a good sailer which set sail with her was in appearance after looked upon to be over set whilst she inclined not above half a foot more to one side than another so that it was truly then called The pad of the Sea It appeared very much to excel all other forms of ships in sailing in carriage in security and many other such benefits but at length in its return home from a certain voyage it was destroyed by a common fate and by such a dreadful tempest as overwhelmed a great Fleet the same night So that the antient fabrick of Ships had no reason to triumph over that new model when of 70 sail that were in the same storm there was not one escaped to bring the news In a word tho this invention succeeded not while it was only supported by private purses it will as one observes undoubtedly produce
then arrived in the West parts of England In the month of Feb. following the said Prince being then K. of England by the name of Will 3. he was by him appointed to be one of his Privy Council among divers honorable persons then named and appointed also and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was created Earl of Marlborough at which time were also created and advanced to great honours these persons following viz. 1 Prince George of Denmark and Norway to be Baron of Okingham Earl of Kendal and Duke of Cumberland 2 Charles Marquess of Winchester to be Duke of Bolton 3 William Bentick Esq a Dutch man Groom of the stole to his Maj. to be Baron of Cirencester Visc Woodstock and Earl of Portland 4 Thom. Visc Fauconberg to be Earl of Fauconberg 5 Charles Visc Mordant to be Earl of Monmouth 6 Ralph L. Mountague Visc Mount Hermer to be Earl of Mountague 7 Henry Sidney Esq to be Baron of Milton and Visc Sidney of Sheppy in the County of Kent 8 Rich. Visc Lumley of Waterford in Ireland to be Visc Lumley of Lumley Castle in the County Pal. of Durham and 9 Hugh Visc Cholmondley of Kellis in Ireland to be Baron Cholmondley of Namptwich in Cheshire Afterwards John Earl of Marlborough went into Ireland was a Lieut. Gen. there and did his Maj. good service in the Wars had against the Army of K. James 2. in that Country and afterwards returned full fraught with honour and glory and continued in the good opinion of many for some time At length upon some distast taken against him the reason why let the Statesmen and Polititians tell you he was deprived of all his Places and Employments by his Maj. K. Will. 3 about the middle of January 1691 viz. of his place of Lieut. General his command of Captain of the third Troop of Guards of his Reg. of Phusileers and of his place of Gent. of the Bedchamber GEORGE STRADLING fourth son of Sir John Stradling of S. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire Kt was born there became a Com. of Jesus Coll. in Lent term 1636 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts was elected junior Collector of the Bachelaurs in Lent 1640 1 chosen Fellow of All 's Coll. two years after proceeded in Arts and kept his Fellowship during the times of trouble and usurpation being then accounted a rare Lutinist and much valued by Dr. Wilson the Musick Professor After the Kings Restauration he was made Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon B. of London and was actually created D. of D. in 1661. On the 30. of July 1663 he was install'd a Preb. of Westminst On the 22 of Jul. 1671 he was installed Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Chichester and on the 21 of Dec. 1672 he was installed Dean thereof in the place of Dr. Nath. Crew promoted to the See of Oxon. He hath written Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions Lond. 1692. oct Sermon on Joh. 19.15 Lond. 1675. qu. He died on the 19 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was buried near the choire of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church within the City of Westminster In his Deanery succeeded one Dr. J. Hawkins Minister in the Tower of London HENRY KEEPE son of Charles Keepe sometimes an Officer in the Exchecquer and in the Army of K. Ch. 1. against his Rebels was born in Feuter commonly called Fetter lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London entred a Gent. Com. in New Inn in Midsomer term an 1668 aged 16 years departed without a degree confer'd on him went to the Inner Temple studied the municipal Law and wrot Monumenta VVestmonasteriensia or an historical account of the original increase and present state of S. Peter's or the Abby-church of Westminster With all the Epitaphs Inscriptions Coats of Armes and Atchivements of honour to the tombes and grave-stones c. Lond. 1682. oct In which book is involved Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Ecclesia collegiatâ B. Petri VVestmonasterii sepulti usque ad an 1600 published by VV. Camden as I have elsewhere told you These Monumenta VVestm were afterwards describ'd at full with a pencil and were design'd to be engraven on copper plates and the book to be enlarged to a folio Which work being very chargeable to be carried on there were papers of proposals printed to obtain money from such that would subscribe to them but what the event of the matter was I cannot tell The Genealogies of the high-born Prince and Princess George and Anne of Denmark c. shewing the lineal descent of those two noble and illustrious families c. from the year of Grace M to this present year MDCLXXXIV c. Lond. 1684. oct A true and perfect Narrative of the strange and unexpected finding the Crucifix and gold chain of that pious Prince St. Edward the King and Confessor which was found after 620 years interment c. Lond. 1688. in 5 sh in qu. Published under the name of Charles Taylour Gent and by him dedicated to K. James the 2 by an Epist set before it wherein the Author tells us that his father had served in the quality of a Cornet of Horse in Sir VV. Courtney's Regiment in all the Wars against his Enemies And in the book it self p. 5 he tells us that he had belonged to the Quire of VVestminster 18 years He the said H. Keepe hath also made some collection of Antiquities relating to York as some Booksellers have told me but such I have not yet seen He died in Carter lane near S. Pauls Cath. in London about the latter end of the month of May in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was buried in the Church of S. Gregory joyning to the said Cathedral This person had changed his name with his Religion for that of Rome in the Raign of K. Jam. 2 his lodgings also several times and died as I have heard but in a mean condition JOHN BARBON son of Euseb Barbon of Holcott in Northamptonshire was born there admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll 7 Sept. 1640 aged 16 years and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd on him in Febr. 1647. The next year he was expel'd by the Visitors and living afterwards in a mean condition became much about the time of his Majesties Restauration Vicar of Dallington and at length Rector of Pitchford commonly called Pisford in Northamptonshire where he ended his days He hath written The Liturgie a most divine service in answer to a late Pamphlet stiled Common prayer-book no divine service Wherein that Authors 27 reasons against Liturgies are wholly and clean taken away his 69 Objections against our ven Service-book are fully satisfied c. Oxon. 1663. qu. with a large preface to it Defence of Episcopacy This is printed with the former and was wrot in way of answer to the said author's 12 Arguments against the Bishops This Writer Mr. Barbon who was well read in various
labours in the search of Records for those works already published perused the notes that he had taken of the Lord Chancellours L. Treasurers Masters of Rolls Judges of all the Courts in Westminster Hall Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors as also of the Serjeants at Law Courts of â—usâ—ice and Inns of Court and Chancery for Students in that excellent Profession he compiled that historical work intit Origines Juridiciales adorned with exact cuts in copper plates of the Arms in the windows throughout all the Inns of Court and Serjeants Inns which was first made public by the Press an 1666 but the grand Conflagration soon after hapning many of the copies were burnt Further also he having in the course of his Collections formerly made at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion extracted from sundry choice MSS. divers special notes relating to antient Nobility of this Kingdom and being not ignorant that those Volumes of Monasticon would yield many excellent materials of that kind he then became encouraged to go to the Tower of London Exchequer Office of the Rolls in Chancery lane which were the chief treasures of Records as also to the Archbishops principal Registers and Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of Wills and Testaments Dispensations for Marriages c. Whence and out of sundry MSS. in private hands monumental inscriptions and other Authorities which after the greater part of 30 years labour he had got together he at length compiled that large work intit The Baronage of England In making which Collections he omitted nothing of consequence which related to the Foundations and Endowments of the Cathedral and Collegiat Churches in England and Wales consisting of secular Canons as also of what else he could observe concerning those Monasteries that were already published to the end that use might be made of them as Additaments to those volumes And in the year 1673 he published all those Additaments together with what he had so gathered for those cathedral and collegiate Churches before specified But the said Volumes of the Baronage hanging long at the Press came not out till the year 1675 and 1676 being then and soon after taken into the hands not only of his Majesty and royal issue but also by the prime Nobility of the Nation Towards the end of the said year 1676 Sir Edw. Walker Garter Principal K. of Arms departing this mortal life at Whitehall Mr. Dugd. being then in Warwickâ—hire much dispute grew between Henry then Earl of Norwich afterwards Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal of England and the King for the nomination of a person unto whom his Majesty should by his Letters Patents make a grant of that Office the Chancellour of the Garter on the Kings behalf as Soveraign of that most noble Order strenuously insisting upon his Majesties right to nominate by reason that the said Office of Garter was an employment meerly belonging to that Order and chiefly for attending at all Installations and Festivals and performing other services unto the Soveraign and Knights Companions thereof The Earl on his part as Earl Marshal and chief Superintendent of the Office and Officers of Arms pleading the usage of his Predecessors in that honorable Office of Earl Marshal to nominate and recommend to the King upon the death and vacancy of any King of Arms Herald or Pursevant such person or persons to supply the place as he shall think most fit and most properly qualified for that service In which contest one Sir Will. Haward Knight a person well accomplish'd with learning especially in point of Honour and Arms having obtained the favour of divers great men to move his Majesty on his behalf the K. did thereupon much incline to to have that office confer'd upon him The Earl of Norwych on the other part accounting it no little derogation to his Office of Earl Marshal to be refused the like privilege as his Predecessors in that great place had been permitted to enjoy for which he produced some late Presidents acknowledging tho he had nothing to do as to any superintendency over him as an Officer of the Garter yet as Garter was Principal K. of Arms he was subordinate to his authority did obtain the favour of the Duke of York upon this great dispute to speak to his Majesty on his behalf The King therefore asked the said Count Earl Marshal whom he had a design to nominate and recommend he answer'd Mr. Dugdale tho 't is well known he had another person Th. Leigh Chest Her in his eye against whom such objections might have been justly taken as that he would have failed of his aim had he stuck to him whereupon his Maj. immediately replied Nay then I am content So that the matter being thus ended the Earl Marshal caused his Secretary to advise Mr. Dugdale thereof by the Post that night and earnestly to press his speedy coming up to London he then being at Blythe Hall in Warwickshire This news did not a little surprize him because he was so far from any thoughts of that Office that upon some Letters from certain honorable persons ensuing Sir E. Walkers death earnestly desiring his speedy repair to London in order to his obtaining that Office he excused himself in respect of his age he being then above 20 years older than any other Officer in the Coll. of Arms then living as he then told me being then with him at Blythe Hall when those Letters came to him After serious consideration what to resolve on therein having a far greater desire to wave it than otherwise as he then said he grew fearful that his Majesty so readily assenting to the Earl Marshal's nomination of him should not take it well in case he did refuse what was so intended him as a favour And doubting also the Earl Marshal's displeasure for not complying with him therein did at length conclude with himself that it was by God Almighties disposal thus cast upon him and therefore he resolved to accept of it So that within few days after repairing to London he was welcom'd by the Earl Marshal with many noble Expressions for his ready acceptance of his Lordships favour herein On the 26 of Apr. 1677 was passed the Patent for his Office of Garter and on Thursday 24 of May following being then Holy Thursday he was solemnly created Garter in the College of Arms by Henry Earl of Peterborough who then exercised the Office of Earl Marshal as Deputy to the Earl of Norwych by vertue of his Majesties immediate Warrant for that purpose And the day following 25 May Mr Dugd. being brought before the King in the old Bed-chamber at Whitehall by the Earl Marshall he then received the honor of Knighthood much against his will because of his small estate at which time his Majesty put the badge of his office hung in a gold chain usually worn by Garter K. of Armes about his neck On the first of June following he took his oath of Garter Principal K. of Armes
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then â—n Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
The other ... Harding was a most violent Presbyterian an indefatigable Preacher against the King and his cause and because he would not conform after his Majesties restauration tho courted to it he was turned out of his Rectory This year the generality of the Heads of Houses Professors and Lecturers Doctors and Bach. of Divinity Masters and Bachelaurs of Arts Undergraduats Beadles College Servants and sometimes Bedmakers and scrapers of Trenchers to the number of several hundreds were thrown out of their respective places and soon after banished the University by the Visitors for not submitting to their power from Parliament and acknowledging their Covenant c. An. Dom. 1649. An. 1. Car. 2. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who dying at the Cock-pit near Whitehall on the 23 of January this year was buried in the Cathedral Church at Salisbury among the graves of those of his family on the 8. of Febr. following From which time till Jan. ensuing the Chancellours place laid void Soon after the said Earls death came out against him several Satyrical prints among which were 1 His last Will and Testament Printed in one sheet in fol 2 Pembrokes Pass from Oxford to his grave 'T is a Poem printed on one side of a sheet of paper and hath this beginning Hence Mountebank of honour hence away c. At the end is his Epitaph 3 The life and death of Philip Herbert the late infamous Knight of Berkshire once Earl of Pembroke and Mountgom c. having by a degenerate baseness betrayed his Nobility and entred himself a Commoner amongst the very scum of the people Printed in one sheet in qu. by way of interlude with Poetry Vicechanc. Edw. Reynolds D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. was re-admitted Aug. 30 having been nominated a little before by the Chancellour Proct. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. Apr. 4. Hierome Zanchy of All 's Coll. Apr. 4. The last was elected contrary to the Caroline Cycle because it did appoint Queens Coll to joyn with the said Coll. of Exeter but so it was that that Coll. being not in a capacity of yielding a person zealous and sutable to the times the members of All 's therefore did choose by recommendations of the Committee and Visitors one of their number lately made Fellow thereof but whether incorporated M. of Arts as he had stood in another University it appears not in the publick register and therefore what I have to say of him shall be set down here This Hierome Zanchy who was born of a gentile family was bred in Cambridge but being more given to manlie exercises than Logick and Philosophy he was observed by his contemporaries to be a boisterous fellow at Cudgelling and Foot-ball-playing and indeed more fit in all respects to be a rude Soldier than a Scholar or man of polite parts In the beginning of the rebellion he threw off his gown and took up armes for the Parliament and soon after became a Captain a Presbyterian an Independent a Preacher and I know not what When the War was ceased and the Kings cause declined he obtained a Fellowship of All 's Coll. from the Committee and Visitors and was the first or senior of those many that were by them put into the said Coll in the places of Loyallists ejected by them an 1648 and 49. But before he had served the least part of his Proctorship about a month only he returned to his Military employment went in the quality of a Commander into Ireland to fight against those that were then called Rebels and doing good service in short time was made a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and as a Colonel he had 474 l. and 10 s. per an for his Salary besides other advantages In 1651 and 52 I find him Commander in chief of the Parliament forces in the County of Tipperary where as those of his party said he did excellent service for the cause being then a thorough-pac'd Anabaptist and in 1654 he with Joh. Reynolds Commissary General were elected Knights for the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford to serve in the Parliament that assembled at Dublin that year In 1658 he being then a Knight by the favour of Hen. Cromwell he was by the endeavours of Col. Charles Fleetwood a pitiful Anabaptist and Son-in-law to Ol. Cromwell chosen Burgess for Woodstock in Oxfordshire to serve in Richards Parliament that began at Westm 27. Jan. that year at which time living much as he had done some time before in the house of the said Fleetwood in Westminster did often hold forth in Conventicles among the Anabaptists It was observed then that he was a dull man as indeed he was ab origine for by his rebaptization when he went into Ireland and his herding among the Anabaptists he did improve it to the purpose otherwise had he continued among the Presbyterians or Independents who were accounted a more ingenious sort of people he might have improved himself perhaps in something of ingenuity Under this personâ— name was published 1 A Sermon on 1. of John 2.18 c. printed in oct but when I know not for I have not yet seen it 2 Speech in Parliament in Dublin printed in Sir Will. Petty's book intit Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland c. p. 70 71 c. It is a most rude and nonsensical thing and only fit to be read to make people laugh at the absurdity of the person See more in Sir Will. Petty among the Writers an 1687. p. 611. where you 'll find this Zanchy to concern himself much meerly out of envy against that curious and polite Gentleman What other things he hath extant I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about the latter end of K. Charles 2. as I have been informed by those that knew him Bach. of Arts. June 5. Joh. Rotheram of Linc. Coll. June 5. Charles Perot of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1652 and of the other among the Mast in 1653. June 11. Henry Hurst of Magd. Hall He was soon after made Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. by the Visitors 27. Charles Potter of Ch. Ch. 27. John Tickell of New Inn. The last who was afterwards made Student of Ch. Ch by the Visitors is said in the publick register of Convocation to be Vir provectioris aetatis firmatae eruditionis This person who is now or at least was lately living did afterwards publish several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers of this University July 6. Walter Pope of Wadh. Coll. See among the created Doct. of Phys 1661. Nov. 6. Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. Nov. 6. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1651. Dec. 17. Theophilus Gale of Magd. Coll. He is said in the pub reg of Convoc to be Vir provectioris aetatis uberioris spei juvenis Jan.
Sir are my instructions The K. took a view of and finding them proper men well mounted and armed smilingly told the Cornet His instructions were in fair characters and legible without spelling The Cornet then pressed the King to go along with him no prejudice being intended but rather satisfaction The King told him he would not stir unless the Commissioners went along with him The Cornet replyed that for his part he was indifferent However the Commissioners in this interim had by an Express acquainted the Parl. with this violence and so soon as they perceived his Majesty was inclinable to go with Joyce and that it was the Kings pleasure they should follow him they knew not whither they immediately made themselves ready And after that they had put several questions to the Cornet whose answers were insignificant and saw full well that reason was of no force to disswade nor menaces to affright they were willing to attend the K. at all adventures This audacious attempt exceedingly troubled the Commissioners and the more for that they knew not how to help it as well appeared by their countenances for indeed it sadned the hearts of many The K. was the merriest in the company having it seems some confidence in the Army especially from some of the greatest there as was imagined The K. being in his coach call'd the Earls of Pembroke and Denbigh as also the L. Mountague into it The other Commissioners members of the H. of Commons being well mounted followed leaving Holdenby languishing for that beautiful and stately structure was in two years after pulled down among other Royal Houses whereby the splendor of the Kingdom was not a little ecclips'd as it since appeared His Majesty following his guide the confident Cornet he went that night to Hinchingbroke where he lodged in the fair mansion house of Col. Edw. Mountague made Earl of Sandwich after the restauration of K Ch. 2. whose Lady was daughter to Joh. Crew Esq then one of the Commissioners and afterwards created a Baron by K. Ch. 2. in which House his Maj. was treated with honour and welcome as were also the Commissioners From Hinchingbrooke the K. went next night to Childerley a house of Sir Joh. Cutts not far from Cambridge to which during his Majesties three days stay many Doctors Graduats and Scholars of that University repaired To most of whom the K. was pleased to give his hand to kiss for which honour they returned their gratulatory and humble thanks with a Vâ—vat Reâ— Thither also came Fairfax the General of the Parl. Army Lieut. Gen. Cromwell Commissary Gen. Hen. Ireton Maj. Gen. Philip Skiâ—pon Lieut. Gen. of the Ordnance Tho. Hammond Col. Joh Lambert Col. Edw. Whalley Col. Rich. Deane Col. Charles Rich and several other Field and Commission Officers some of which as soon as they came into the presence kist his Majesties hand after the General who had began the way These things being done the K. took the General aside in the first place and discours'd with him the General unask'd disavowed his Majesties seizure by Joyce at Holdenby as done without his order and approbation but probably by some other powerful Officer in the Army seeing that Joyce was neither at a Council of War or otherwise called into question for it and by his Letter declared no less to the Parliament Whereupon as 't is farther reported the K. made answer that unless he would hang up Joyce he would not believe him c. From thence he went to Newmarket where he made a considerable stay and thence to Royston where continuing two or three days a certain Envoy from some German Prince whose dead father had been a Companion to the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter made an Address to his Majesty with a Letter and a return of the George and Garter richly set with Diamonds according to the usual custom and to receive his Majesties direction with whom to be deposited A military Officer Whalley before mention'd afterwards one of the Kings Judges being in the room was so malepert as to interpose and would be privy to what the Envoy had to communicate to the King who by his frown expressing his displeasure at so great rudeness towards him and incivility to a stranger Mr. Babington the Kings Barber instructed the Officer better by a removal which the King was pleased with and the Officer had a reproof from the General for his disrespect to his Majesty Afterwards his Majesty by easie journeys went to Hampton Court where he continued in great splendour near a quarter of an year in which time there were great hopes of an accommodation and conclusion of peace between him and his Parliament but being frighted thence by the endeavours of the Adjutators of the Army at Putney he retired obscurely to the Isle of Wight and how he was violently taken thence and hurried to Hurst Castle you shall hear more anon As for Joyce before mention'd a pragmatical and busie person who had been a godly Taylor in London and perswaded and egg'd on by a godly Minister of that City to take up arms for the righteous Cause had soon after the said audacious act was by him performed his Arrears paid and was made at least a Captain and at length a Colonel But after Oliver had advanc'd himself to the Protectorate and thereupon had cashier'd and imprison'd divers prime Officers who worse than malign'd him for so doing an 1654 this Col. Joyce became a Malecontent at the change and signified so much to Olivers face whom he upbraided with his own service and his faithfulness but escaped any other censure than a bidding him be gone Cromwell well knowing him to be one of those mad men that would say and do any thing they were bid The next that I am to mention who had the degr of M. of A. confer'd on him if he would please to accept of it was Lieut. Colon. Ralph Cobbet an Officer in Col. Faithful Fortescue's Regiment The Reader may be pleased now to observe that the Treaty for Peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight between the Commissioners appointed by Parliament and his Majesty being in a manner concluded insomuch that it was voted by the members thereof that his Majesties answers and concessions were a ground sufficient and satisfactory to both Houses of Parliament to proceed upon in order to a settlement of a peace of the Kingdom the Adjutators of the Army did thereupon conclude that if a Peace was setled the said Army should be disbanded and become useless and therefore they framing Cases and a Remonstrance setting forth their grievances and that the principal Actors of the Kings party in the late War should be proceeded against according to justice his Majesty not being excepted they ordered among themselves that the said Treaty should be broken off and the King's person secured for their own ends thus In the latter end of Nov. 1648 a considerable party of Horse and Foot belonging to