out that after the turn of the times it was by his means stocked with such a factious and fanatical Crew that all endeavours could not reform it nor ever as 't is thought will it continuing so to this day In 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant and sitting often with them at Westminster shewed himself one of the most learned and moderate among them and soon after did by order not only succeed Dr. Featley in the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey ejected thence but had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy it till such time Dr. Featley could get back our Authors from the Soldiers under Prince Rupert When the broils of the Nation were over he repaired to Dorchester and in Nov. 1647 was designed Warden of New Coll. upon the death of Dr. Pink by Will Lord Say and Nath. Fiennes his son but if I am not mistaken he refused that office He was a person of great gravity and presence and had always influence on the puritannical Party near to and remote from him who bore him more respect than they did to their Diocesan His works are these Commentary on the three first Chapters of Genesis with large Observations on the same Lond. 1656. 57. fol. Directions for the profitable reading of the Scriptures Printed in oct Of the Sabbath Printed in qu. Way to the tree of life in sundry directions Pr. 1647. oct 'T is the same I think which is called The Directory to perfection Several Sermons as 1 The troubles of Jerusalems Restauration or the Churches Reformation Fast-sermon before the H. of Lords 26 Nov. 1645. on Dan. 9.15 Lond. 1646. qu. with others which I have not yet seen Ten vowes to the Parishioners of Dorchester Ms written about the year 1628 answer'd by Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow in 1660. At length having lived beyond the age of man died suddenly on the 21 of July in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was inter'd in the Church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester which is a Chappel belonging to Trinity Church before mentioned Besides this John White was another of both his names a Ministers son Doctor of Divinity brother to Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely and a publisher of several books born at S. Neots in Huntingdonshire bred in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became Vicar of Eccles in Lancashire Whence after he had continued some years he was brought into Suffolk by Sir John Crofts who bestowed on him the best Living that he had to give He sent for him unknown from Eccles where he lived in those distresses which he was never able to look through He furnished him with books fit for his studies he honoured and countenanced him so much that all the Country was satisfied he had a love and respect for him He wrot a book called The way to the true Church and A defence of it against the two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit published and other things as the Oxford Cat. will tell you One T. W. P. Priest who had sometimes as it seems been of Cambridge wrot a book against Jo. White called White died black But John dying before he could make a reply his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the bucklers and forthwith published a book against the said T. W. intit Orthodox faith and way to the Church explained c. Lond. 1617. qu. In the last will and test of the said John White without date I find these things said of himself Whereas for 20 years past by preaching and writing published in two books I engaged my self against Papistry I profess I have done therein nothing against my Conscience but desire all men to assure themselves that if any error hath escaped me it hath passed me through oversight when I always bended my self to that work of writing with much humility to God and such diligence as I was able to use And having the books always by me I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity and in the writings publickly receiv'd in the Church of Rome it self and I constantly avouch that what I have writ is the truth and have been the more confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour of my Adversaries against me c. This Will was proved 21 Feb. 1619 being two or more years after his death at which time he was Chaplain in ordinary to the King and his Father living after he had spent 50 years in preaching the word of God EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert by Magd. his wife dau of Sir Rich. Newport of HighâArcall in Shropshire Knight was born in the sometimes most pleasant and Romancy place in Wales called Mountgomery Castle became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in 1595 aged 14 years where being put under the tuition of an eminent Tutor laid the foundation of that admirable learning whereof he was afterwards a compleat Master Thence he betook himself to travel as also to certain military exercises in foreign parts whereby he became much accomplish'd After his return he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. afterwards one of the Counsellors to that King for his military affairs and sent Embassador to Lewes 13. King of France to mediate for the relief of the Protestants in that Realm then besieged in several places In which service continuing about five years he was recalled in July 1621 because he had irreverently treated de Luyens the great Constable of France and Edw. Sackvile was sent in his place In the 22 of K. Jam. 1. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of the Realm of Ireland by the name of Lord Herbert of Castle Island and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Shropshire He was a person well studied in the Arts and Languages a good Philosopher and Historian and understood men as well as books as it evidently appears in his Writings the titles of which follow De veritate prout distinguitur à revelatione à verisimuli à possibile à falso c. Par. 1624 and 1633. Lond. 1645. qu. c. Translated into French and printed 1639. qu much valued by learned men and reposed as 't is said in the Popes Vatican Answered by P. Gassendus in his third Tome the title of which is Opuscula philosophica from p. 411. to p. 419. in an Epistle directed to our Author Herbert Lugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his More reasons for the Christian Religion c. Printed at Lond. in tw De causis errorum una cum tractatu de religione Laici appendice ad sacerdotes nec non quibusdam poematibus Printed with the book De veritate c. 1645. qu. Life and Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649 and 72. fol. Both which editions being collated with the original Ms in the Archives of Bodleys Library given thereunto by the Author in 1643 by certain
at Bridgnorth also and afterwards was Bishop of Cork Cloyne and Ross in the said Kingdom of Ireland who if I mistake not had received some of his Education in this University WILLIAM STAMPE son of Tim. St. of Brâwern-Abbey near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire Gent. was born in that County entred a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1626 and in that of his age 16. Afterwards being made Fellow of that House he proceeded in Arts entred into holy Orders and exercised his Function in S Aldates Church joyning to his Coll. in 1637. Some time before the Rebellion brake out he was made Vicar of Stepney near London where he was much resorted to by persons of orthodox principles for his edifying way of preaching But when the restless Presbyterians had brought all things into confusion he was violently thrust out imprison'd plunder'd and at length forced to get away and fly for the safety of his life At that time Oxford being the chief place of refuge for men of his condition he made shift to get there about the beginning of 1643 and his case being made known to the King then there this Order following was written by Lord Falkland his Secretary to the Vicechancellour of the University that he have the degree of Doctor of Div. confer'd on him The Kings Majesty taking into his princely consideration the great Sufferings of Mr. Will. Stampe who hath not only undergone a long and hard Imprisonment of 34 weeks but also is now outed of a very good Living and all this for preaching Loyalty and Obedience to a disaffected Congregation to the extream hazard of his life His Majesty being willing to repair these his Sufferings and to encourage his known Abilities for which by special favour and grace he is sworn Chaplain to his dearest son the Prince hath commanded me to signifie to you that you forthwith confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity c. In obedience to which order he was actually created Doctor of that Faculty in July the same year Afterwards upon the declining of the King and his Party he followed the Prince beyond the seas was afterwards made Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia and became a frequent Preacher among the Protestants at Charenton near to Paris and a zealous Assertor of the English Liturgy His works are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Serm. preached before his Maj. at Ch. Ch. in Oxford 28 Apr. 1643 on Isa 59.1.2 Oxon. 1643. qu. 2 Spiritual Infatuation delivered in several Sermons on Isa 6.9 c. printed at the Hague 1650. in oct Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of Engl. Whether printed I know not He died of a fever at the Hague in Holland about sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Church of Loesdune near that Town or City as I have been informed by the most rev and learned Dr. Morley late Bishop of Winchester In the said Church at Loesdune is a Bason wherein according to the vulgar tradition were baptized as many Children as there be days in the year born at one birth of the body of Margaret Countess of Hennenberg LANCELOT DAWES was born at Barton-Kirk in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1597 aged 17 and two years after being made a poor serving child was when Bach. of Arts standing made Tabarder and in the year 1605 M. of Arts and Fellow While he continued there he became by a studious retiredness and a severe discipline a singular Ornament of that House But being thence called to the pastoral charge of that place which first welcom'd him into the world he was quickly taken notice of as worthy of a more eminent station in the Church that is a Prebendship in the Cath. Church of Carlile to which he was accordingly prefer'd to the general liking of all the knowing and pious Divines in his Diocess with whom for a comprehensive and orthodox judgment adorned with all variety of learning he was ever held in great estimation About that time he was made Doctor of Div. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland and Rector of Ashby in his own County His works are these Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1653. qu. divided into two parts The first containeth six Sermons under this general title Gods mercies and Jerusalems miseries The first is on Jer. 5.1 c. In this first part are contained Two Sermons preached at the Assize holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times Oxon. 1614. oct The first is on Math. 26.15 the other on Psal 82.6.7 The second part containeth six more Sermons under this tit The healing of the plague of the heart The first is on Luke 12.32 c. Before this last part Tho. Tully M. A. of Queens Coll. hath an Epist to the Reader in commendation of them This Dr. Dawes who had submitted to the men in Authority during the time of Rebellion died in the month of Febr. as it seems in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel belonging to the Church at Barton Kirk before mentioned Over his grave was afterwards a plain stone laid with an Inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Pastor of the said Church 48 years and that he died in March 1654. Which last is false for in the Will Office near S. Pauls Cathedral I find that Letters of Administration were issued out to William his Brother dated the eleventh of March 1653 whereby he was impower'd to administer the Goods Debts Chattels of him the said Lanc. Dawes lately deceased Besides his Epitaph were made three copies of Verses viz. one in Greek by the said Tho. Tully another in Lat. and the third in English by Joseph Williamson and Clem. Ellis Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. All which being fairly transcrib'd were put in a frame and fastned to the Wall over the grave of the Defunct near whom was his son of both his names buried 18 May 1655. EDMUND CHILMEAD was born at Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire became one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 and not long after was made one of the petty Canons or Chaplains of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Whence being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he was forced such were the then times to obtain a living by that which before was only a diversion to him I mean by a weekly musick meeting which he set up at the Black Horse in Aldersgatâstreet in London He was a choice Mathematician a noted Critick and one that understood several Tongues especially the Greek very well He hath written De musicâ antiquâ Graecâ Published at Oxon at the end of Oxford Edition of Aratus an 1672. oct Annotationes in Odas Dionysii Printed also there in the
that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England THOMAS WIDDOWES Son of Thom. Wid. Brother I think to Giles mention'd under the year 1645. p. 44 was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire entred a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626 aged 14 years where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen President thereof Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Glocester in the place of Joh. Langley an 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there But Widdowes being soon after outed for his Loyalty he became Minister of Woodstock and Master of the School there founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire a place of more value He hath written The just Devil oâ Woodstock or a true narrative of the several apparitions the frights and punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to his Majestie Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction intending not to print it But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person 't was printed in Dec. 1660 and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title as if it had been then printed The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine Hart Unton Croke Careless and Roe Captains Rich. Croke the Lawyer afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor The Book is very impartially written and therefore worth the reading by all especially the many Atheists of this age Our Author also hath written A short survey of Woodstock Taken from antient Authors and printed with the former He hath also written as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar for the use of his Scholars which I have not yet seen He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit The Woodstock scuffle or most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Mannor-house of Woodstock near Oxford c. the beginning of which is It were a wonder if one writes c. but who the Author of it was I cannot tell JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly as I have been informed in S. Johns Coll where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple studied the municipal Laws but being very sickly lived a solitary and studious life and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit He hath written Reports of divers causes adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes as it seems in Middlesex in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried in the Church there Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion partly if not altogether by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey whose right Sirname was Hanmer a pretended Solicitor and a Broker for letting out money esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks What the event of the matter was I know not only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison for conveying away his Will and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629 was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts to Greys Inn where he studied the common Law several years but other learning more and wrot Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus or Joseph a Tragedie Lond. 1652. oct Which Trag. was with annotations printed then in English He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father in verse and prose with Epitaphs and also his Catechism into English verse intit Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five was I presume buried there leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd TOBIE MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester was born as it seems in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589 being then eleven years of age and the year following had a Students place conferred on him By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts he became a noted Orator and Disputant and taking the degrees in Arts he afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas At his return he was esteem'd a well qualified Gentleman and to be one well vers'd in the affairs of other Nations At length leaving the Church of England by the perswasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit to the great grief of his Father he entred himself into the Society of Jesus but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politicks he came into England upon invitation in January 1621 to the end that the King might make use of his assistance in certain matters of State On the 10. of Octob. 1623 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles at which time not only the King but the chief of the Nobility and others
I know not Sure I am that when the Presbyterians began to be dominant in 1641 he closed with them took the Covenant succeeded Joh. Owen in the Ministry of that factious Town in Essex called Coggeshall whence after he had exercised his parts there for a time he was translated to Winbourne-Minster in Dorsetshire of which County he was an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he became Rector of Fyfield in Essex where I find him in 1660 which is all I yet know of him only that he is reported by a Brother to be a learned faithful and suffering Servant and Minister of Jesus Christ and that he wrot these things following the last of which shews him to have been inclined to Arminianism The Angell of the Church of Ephesus no Bishop of Ephesus on Rev. 2.1 Lond. 1644. and 1660. qu. Concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace wherein is a discovery of the judgment of Dr. Twysse in the point of Justification clearing him from Antinomianism therein Lond. 1655. qu. Written by way of Preface to Joh. Grayles book intit A modest Vindication c. and contains 49 pages in a small character being more in matter than Grayles book that follows it He left behind him at his death a son of both his names and a true son of the Church of England who being importun'd when he proceeded D. of D. in this University 1685 to give the Author information concerning his Father and his Writings he seemed not to care to have the memory of him perpetuated otherwise the Author would have spoken more fully of him and his end JOSEPH BROOKBANK son of Georg. Br. of Halyfax in Yorkshire was entred a Batler in Bras Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts entred into the sacred Function and had some petite Cure bestowed on him At length retiring to London he taught School in Fleetstreet and exercised the Ministry there He hath written and published Breviate of our Kings whole Latine Grammar vulgarly called Lillies or a brief grammatical table thereof c. Lond. 1660. oct Well-tuned Organ or whether Musick be lawful in holy and public Assemblies Lond. 1660. qu. Rebells tried and cast in three Sermons on Rom. 13.2 c. Lond. 1661. in tw How long afterwards he continued among the living I know not nor any thing else of him BRIAN DUPPA or de Uphaugh was born at Greenwich in Kent on the tenth day of March an 1588 educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings Scholar in the College School at Westminster while Dr. Lanc. Andrews was Dean of that Church of whom he learned Hebrew From thence he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in the month of May 1605 and thence to be Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1612 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he took holy Orders travelled beyond the seas and in the year 1619 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University In 1625 he took the degrees in Divinity being then Chaplain to the Prince Palatine and in the year after he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. In 1632 and 33 he did execute the Office of Vicechanc. of the University with great moderation and prudence and in June 1634 he was made Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Franc. d ee promoted to the See of Peterborough Soon after he was made Tutour to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 2. which proved his future happiness being then accounted by all a most excellent man On the 19 of May 1638 he was presented to the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex and being elected to the See of Chichester upon the translation of Dr. Rich. Mountague to Norwych had restitution made to him of the Temporalities of that See on the 12 of June the same year which Church of Petworth he kept I presume for some time in commendam with his See In 1641 he was translated to Salisbury in the place of Dr. Jo. Davenant who died on the 20 of Apr. the same year but soon after Episcopacy being silenced by the Long Parliament which the Presbyterians called The blessed Parliam when a prevalent party therein turned the Nation topsie turvey he retired to Oxon for a time to wait on his Majesty and the Prince and left not the former till his last days After his Maj. was beheaded this our worthy Author and Bishop retired to Richmond in Surrey where spending most of his time in great devotion and solitude till the happy Restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 was translated to Winchester on the 24 of Sept. the same year to the great joy and comfort of many Lords and Gentlemen as well as the reverend Clergy who all had a deep sense and memory of his Prudence and Piety owing then a lasting tribute not only for his great example of vertue and godliness but for those excellent seeds and principles so happily laid in the youth of the then Sovereign Lord the King About that time he was made Lord Almoner and began that conspicuous monument of his charity an Almshouse at the said place of Richmond He was a man of excellent parts and every way qualified for his Function especially as to the comeliness of his person and gracefulness of his deportment which rendred him worthy the service of a Court and every way fit to stand before Princes He was beloved of K. Ch. 1. of happy memory who made use of his pious Conversation during his imprisonment in the Isle of Wight and so much respected by his son K. Ch. 2. that when this worthy Prelate laid on his death-bed at Richmond he craved his blessing on his bended knees by his bed-side He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Souls soliloquie c. preached before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight 25 Oct. 1648 being the monthly Fast during the Treaty there on Psal 42.5 Lond. 1648. qu. 2 Angells rejoycing for Sinners repenting on Luke 15.10 Lond. 1648. qu. c. A Guide for the penitent or a modell drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with sin Lond. 1660. Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice in 2 parts Lond. 1674 in tw with the Authors picture before them which book was published by Ben. Parry of C. C. Coll. 'T is said by some particularly the Bookseller that printed The Church Hist of Scotland pen'd by Dr. Joh. Spotswood Archb. of S. Andrews and printed at Lond. 1654. fol. c. that he Dr. Duppa did write The life of the said Archbishop which stands and is put before the said History But the Reader is to know that the person who wrot the Preface to the said History saith that the said life was pen'd by a reverend person of that Nation meaning Scotland So that if it be
Westminster near to the grave of his great Uncle Dr. Barnab Potter sometimes Bishop of Carlile While the said Ch. Potter was an Undergraduat of Ch. Ch Tho. Severne M. A. and Student thereof Son of Joh. Severne of Broadway afterwards of Powick in Woocestershire was his Tutor and wrot and composed the said Theses Quadragesimales and therefore he who is now living at Worcester is to be taken for the Author of that book much commended when it was first published JOHN HULETT Son of Silvester Hul. Gent. was born in London entred a Commoner in New Inn in the beginning of 1627 aged 20 took the degrees in Arts afterwards travelled into several parts of the World particularly into Russia and Muscovia and improved himself in several sorts of Learning especially in Geography and Mathematicks After his return he setled in Oxon taught Scholars those Arts and became a useful person in his generation He hath written and published Several Ephemerides Description and use of the Quadrant Quadrat Nocturnal Printed several times in octav He died in his Lodgings in Catstreet on the 21 day of December in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxford leaving then behind several written Specimens of his profession which without doubt might be useful if made extant JOHN TOY Son of Joh. Toy was born and bred in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became either a Servitor or Batler of Pembroke Coll. in 1627 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts entred into Orders and became Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford under which title he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1634. Afterwards he was made Master of the Free then of the Kings School within the place of his nativity which last he kept for 20 years space and furnished the Universities with several hopeful youths He hath written and published Worcesters Elegie and Eulogie Lond. 1638. quar a Poem Before which Will. Rowland the Poet mentioned among these Writers under the year 1659. hath two Lat. Copies of Verses Quisquiliae poeticae tyrunculis in re metrica non inutilis Lond. 1662. oct Fun. Serm. on Mrs. .... Tomkyns on Job 14.14 Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was Author of Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion in usum scholae Collegialis Wigooniae Lond. 1650. oct I know not yet to the contrary He gave up the ghost on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was a Mon. soon after put with an Inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Vir ingenii perpoliti industriae indefessae eruditionis singularis eximiae morum sanctitatis vitae integer pubis constituendae scientissimus pietate fide modestia gravitate nullâque non virtute spectabilis c. WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex applied his mind to Academical Studies in Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1606 aged 16 took the degrees in Arts and in the year 1619 was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. Afterwards by the favour of Dr. Laud Bishop of London he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Rectory of the Free-school at Reading and about the same time was presented by the Society of the said Coll. to the Rectory of East Lockyng near to Wantage in Berks which he kept to the time of his death but his School not for he was sequestred of it by the Committee of Parliament in 1644. In the year 1â34 he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at which time and after he was esteemed well vers'd in the Greek Fathers a good Preacher and Disputant He hath written A Treatise of justification of bowing at the name of Jesus by way of answer to an Appendix against it Oxon. 1631. qu. An examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widdowes concerning the same Argument Printed with the former Of which Treatise or Treatises I find in a letter written by Will. Baker Secretary to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury directed to the Author Page these passages following Good Mr. Page my Lord of Canterbury is informed that you are publishing a Treatise touching the question of Bowing at the name of Jesus an Argument wherein Mr. Giles Widdowes foolishly and Mr. W. Prynne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their pens His Grace hath formerly shewed his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the bucklers in a theam of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw a new Reply for Prynne will not sit down as an idle spectator and beget bitterness and intestine Contestations at home among our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may be better sopited and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings and partakings And therefore I am wished to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broyles and if your Treatise be at the press to gve it a stop and by no means suffer it to be divulged c. This Letter being written at Lambeth 31 May 1632 the Contents thereof flew to Fulham where finding Dr. Laud B. of London he wrot this following Letter to the Vicechanc. of the Univ. of Oxon dated 22 June following Sir these are to pray and require you in his Majesties name that a book lately printed at Oxon and made by Mr. Page of Allsoules College be presently set to sale and published It is as I am informed in defence of the Canon of the Church about bowing at the name of Jesus and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne against the Church should take place as the Churches opinion against her self or as unable to be answer'd by the Church c. What else our Author Page hath written are Certain Animadversions upon some passages in a Tract concerning Schisme and Schismatiques c. Oxon 1642. qu. Which Tract was written by J. Hales of Eaton The Peace-maker or a brief motive to Unity and Charity in Religion Lond. 1652. in 16o. He hath also published a Serm. on 1 Tim. 5.3.4.5 Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen and also translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. à Kempis his Treatise De imitatione Christi in 4 books Oxon. 1639. in tw Before which Translation by him amended and corrected he hath set a large Epistle to the Reader This Dr. Page departed this mortal life in the Parsonoge-house of Lockyng before mentioned on the 24 of Febr. being then Ashwednesday in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by Mr. George Ashwell who had the care of his Library and Interment committed to him See more in Dr. Sam. Page under the year 1630.
Marshall Edm. Calamy Calybute Downing c. did first whisper in their Conventicles then openly preach that for the cause of religion it was lawful for the Subjects to take up Arms against their lawful Soveraign Which doctrine being also followed by the rest of the Elders the People of London did violently rush into rebellion and were found pliable by the faction in Parliament to raise tumults make out-cries for justice call for innocent blood subscribe and prefer petitions against the holy Liturgy and the Hierarchy and to strike at root and branch especially if our Author Burges did but hold up his finger to his Mirmidons or Capt. afterwards Colonel John Venn sent his summons by his Wife to assemble the zealots of the City In the beginning of the Long Parliament he was appointed by the Lords one of the Sub-committee to settle Religion who meeting in Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster our Author Burges became speaker for his party the Presbyterians In which office he made a vehement invective against Deans and Chapters and the unprofitableness of such Corporations and did aggravate to debauchedness the lives of singing men and they not only useless but hurtful by their vitious conversation At the same time also being looked upon as a doughty Champion for the holy cause and a zealous Covenantier 't was usual with him and the said Venn to lead up the tumults of the City to the Parliament doors to see that the godly party for so their faction was call'd in the House might not be out-voted and then turning back and beholding the rabble would say These are my band-dogs I can set them on and I can take them off again c. by which means above four parts in five of the Lords and two parts in three of the Commons were frighted out of the house to leave the Faction absolute Masters thereof These things also he did when the most noble Earl of Strafford was tried for his life So that being the Ring-leader of the rout and the only scandal to his profession in all London was thought fit by the blessed Parliament as by the faction it was called to be one of those Godly Divines that were to hold forth before them to be one of the Sub-committee for the advancement of moneys to carry on the War against the King and to be with John White the Centurist Assessors to the Ass of Divines But before that time Essex the General finding him a zealous instrument to carry on the cause made him his Chaplain to that Regiment of Horse which was next under him In Dec. 1643 the Londoners sent Will. Gibbes and John Fowke Aldermen and others of the common Council to the House of Commons to desire that the Cath. Church of S. Paul might be set open again and that there might be a Lecture every Sunday night as was formerly used after the afternoons Sermon and another on the week day and that Dr. Corn. Burges might be the man who having been several times put to his compurgators in that consistory was the ablest and fittest for that Sunday-nights Lecture desiring their honors to allow the Doctor a pension of 400 l. per an out of the revenues of the Cathedral for his encouragement in that service Which being a poor pittance God wot they not only confirmed that pension but gave him the Deans house thereof for his habitation both setled soon after by Act of Parliament The first motion of this did proceed from the Militia of London among whom the Doctor used to ride with his case of pistols was called Colonel and shew'd himself very officious to assist plundering at the Globe Tavern in Holbourne Afterwards growing very rich he purchased several Lands as the mannour of Wells belonging to the Bishop thereof and the habitation of the Dean there which he mostly plucked down and rebuilt And being so done he wrot a book to shew that there was no sacriledge or sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops and Chapters which being taken into the hands of many curious readers had the licentiousness of a second impression an 1659. But upon the Kings restauration he lost all having about an year before been offer'd twelve thousand and odd pounds for his House and Lands at and near Wells whereupon retiring to Watford in Hartfordshire before mentioned lived obscurely there and died in a mean condition as I shall anon tell you He hath written and published these matters following A chain of Graces drawn out at length for reformation of Manners Lond. 1622. in tw New discovery of personal Tithes or the tenth part of mens clear gains proved due both in conscience and by the laws of this Kingdom Lond. 1625. oct The fire of the Sanctuary newly discovered or a compleat Tract of Zeal Lond. 1625. in oct Which book upon its Authors grand defect was answer'd by Anon. in a Pamphlet intit A whip c. printed 1643. Whereupon an old puritannical Poet named Francis Quarles the sometimes Darling of our plebeian judgments who seemed to have a great respect for our Author came out with a Reply intit The Whipper whip'd c. printed 1644 wherein in the first page he stiles Dr. Burges a man of singular parts c. Baptismal Regeneration of elect Infants professed by the Church of England according to Scriptures the primitive Church the present reformed Churches and many particular Divines apart Oxon 1629. qu. Vindication of the Reasons against Bishops Votes in Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Whether he was Author of the Reasons I know not Several sermons as 1 Sermon at a publick Fast before the House of Commons 17 Nov. 1640 on Jer. 50.5 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Sermon before the H. of Com. 5 Nov. 1641. on Psal 76.10 Lond. 1641. qu. Wherein are many things of and against the Papists and Jesuits 3 Serm. before the H. of Com. 30 March 1642 on Jer. 4.14 Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Vanity and mischief of the thoughts of an heart unwashed Serm. before the H. of Com. on their day of humiliation 30 of Apr. 1645. on Jer. 4.14 as before Lond. 1645. qu. 5 Necessity of agreement with God Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 29 Oct. 1645 on Amos 3.3 Lond. 1645. qu. besides others which I have not yet seen as Serm. on 2 Chron. 15.2 another on Ezra 10.2.3 a third called Prudent silence preached 12 Jan. 1648 whether the same with that against the destroying of Kings preached about the same time I cannot tell and lastly another on Amos 5.13 printed 1660. in octavo Sion Coll. what it is and doth A vindication of that Society against two Pamphlets c. Lond. 1648. qu. His case as Lecturer in Pauls This is a little Pamphlet By the way the Reader is now to know that it hath been confidently affirmed that our Author before he was engaged in buying Bishops Lands did concur with Dr. Joh. Hacket in his Answer to Dr. Hacket's Speech in 1641. that the alienating of any thing setled
Spiritualities did good service for his Majesty and the Church in several respects and therefore rewarded after his Majesties Restauration as I shall anon tell you While he lived at Llanymynech whence I think he was not ejected he wrot A modest Answer to a bold Challenge of an itinerant Preacher Vav Powell Printed 1652. The beginning of which is Accepi hodie chartulam c. To which Vav Powell making a reply in most false and barbarous Latine beginning Domine in quartam ultimae diei hebdomadae c. our Author made a Rejoynder beginning thus Ehem quid tandem video c. All which being in order to a publick Disputation Griffith afterwards when he saw himself abused thereby published Animadversions on an imperfect relation in the Perfect Diurnall numb 138. Aug. 2. an 1652. containing a narration of a Disputation between Dr. Griffith and Mr. Vavaser Powell near New Chappell in Montgomeryshire 23 Jul. 1652. Lond. 1653. qu. See more in Vav Powell an 1670. Our Author Griffith also wrot Some plain discourses on the Lords Supper instructing the ignorant in a due preparation for that holy sacrament and representing the great danger of communicating amiss Oxon. 1684. in tw It was then corrected and had an Epist to the Reader set to it by Andr. Allam M. A. and Vice-Principal of S. Edm. Hall Our Author also took upon him the Translation of the new Common-Prayer-book in the Welsh Tongue but whether he ever finished it I know not In a Convocation of the Clergy held 1640 he made a motion for a new Edition of the Welsh Bible set out many years before by Will. Morgan B. of S. Asaph At length having successfully asserted the Truth and Cause of the Ch. of England in Wales in the times of Usurpation in disputing with Itinerants keeping up the Offices and Ceremonies thereof c. he was by his Maj. grace and favour made Bish of S. Asaph to which being consecrated 28 of Oct. 1660 in K. Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm sate there till the time of his death and kept the Archdeaconry of S. Asaph in commendam with it In 1662 in a Convocation of the Clergy then held he concurred effectually in drawing up the Act of Uniformity and making certain Alterations in the Common Prayer then set out and 't is thought the form of baptizing those of riper years was of his composing He died on the 28 of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in the choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph Soon after was a Monument placed over his grave with this Inscription engraven thereon Hic jacet corp Rev. in Christo patris ac Dom. D. Georgii Griffith S. T. P. hujus Ecclesiae Asaph Episc sacratissimi cujus altera melier pars choro coelesti associata est 28 die Novembris an Dom. 1666 aetat 65 consecrationis 7 mo Qui plura desiderat facile investiget EDMUND GAYTON or de Speciosa villa as he intitled himself Son of George Gayton of Little Brittaine in London was born there elected scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merchant Taylors School in the year 1625 aged 16 became afterwards Fellow of that house Master of Arts superior Beadle of Arts and Physick of this University in the place of Joh. Bell deceased an 1636 Bachelaur of Phys actually created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates 1647 turn'd out of his Beadleship in the year following by the Parliamentarian Visitors lived afterwards in London in a sharking condition and wrote trite things meerly to get bread to sustain him and his wife After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his place by the Kings Commissioners but having got an itch in scribling followed that sometimes but more the Vices of Poets of which number he pretended to be one and one eminent he might have been had he not been troubled with the faculty of too much lifting He hath written some good others most vain and trashy things as you may partly see by the Catalogue following which according to method must be here set down tho rather fit to be buried in oblivion Epulae Oxonienses or a jocular Relation of a Banquet presented to the best of Kings by the best of Prelates in the year 1636 in the Mathematick Library at S. Jo. Bapt. Coll. This is a song and musical notes are set to it in two parts with this beginning It was my stuff upon 't in thirty six c. Chartae scriptae or a new Game at Cards called Play by the book Printed 1645 qu. Written if I am not mistaken in verse Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot Lond. 1654. fol. Written in prose mix'd now and then with verse which is accounted our Author's Master-piece Hymna de febribus Lond. about 1655. qu. in lat verse Will. Bagnals Ghost or the merry devil of Gadmunton in his perambulation of the prisons of London Lond. 1655. qu. Written mostly in verse the latter end in prose The title is in imitation of Shakespear's Comedy called The merry Devil of Edmonton which last word was changed into Gadmunton because it comes near the Authors name Wit revived or a new excellent way of divertisement digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers Lond. 1660. in tw Published under the name of Asdryasdust Tossoffacan Poem upon Mr. Jacob Bobards Yew-men of the Guards to the Physick garden to the tune of the Counter scuffle Oxon. 1662 on one side of a sh of paper He also was if I mistake not Author of A ballad on the Gyants in the Physick garden in Oxon who have been breeding feet as long as Garagantua was teeth Ox. 1662. on one side of a large sh of paper Diegerticon ad Britanniam Ox. 1662 on one side of half a sh of paper Poem written from Oxon to Mr. Rob. Whitehall at the Wells at Astrop Oxon. 1666 in half a sh of paper on both sides To which Robin made an Answer but 't was not printed The said Edm. Gayton did also collect and publish Harry Martens Familiar letters to his lady of delight c. with other things of that Author not without some enlargements of his own which hath made many to suppose that they were not written by Marten but devised by Gayton who also wrot a buffooning answer to a letter called A copy of Henry Martens letter in vindication of the murther of King Charles Which answer is printed with the letters before mentioned At length this our vain and impertinent Author Gayton dying in his lodgings in Catstreet near the publick Schooles on the 12 day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and six having had verses of his composition published but 7 days before was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon. near to the entrance thence into the lower part of the Steeple or near to the tomb of Edm. Croston with monies given for that purpose by the Vicechancellor Three days after his death there was a Convocation for the election of his successor
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
on the ââ of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause ãâã his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his ãâã against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
of Aldermary while he was Chapl. to Archb. Laud. Which Serm. being esteemed a blasphemous piece by the puritanical party of the said Parish they complained of it to the said Archbish who instead of having him punished was made said they Canon of Windsore and afterwards when the Archbishop's Writings were seized on at Lambeth the Sermon was found lying on his Table But this I presume was never printed He hath also written A Key to the Kings Cabinet or animadversions upon the three printed speeches of Mr. L'isle Mr. Tate and Mr. Brown Members of the H. of Commons spoken at a Common hall in London 3 July 1645 detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous Observations upon the K. and Queens letters Oxon 1645. qu. The said Speeches were spoken by Joh. L'isle Zouch Tate and Mr. Browne Our Author Th. Browne wrot also a treatise in defence of H. Grotius against an Epistle of Cl. Salmasius De posthumo Grotii published under the name of Simplicius Virinus Hag. 1646. in oct But the said Treatise or Answer I have not yet seen nor was he known to be the Author of it till after his death at which time Isaac Vossius to whom he had sent a printed copy of it formerly but never told him who was the Author found the Manuscript of it written with his own hand with a Title page owning himself therein to be the Author of it Dissertatio de Therapeutis Philonis adversus Henricum Valesium Lond. 1687. oct Put at the end under the name of Tho. Bruno of the interpretation of S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians made by Pat. Junius Gottifredus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius published by Paulus Colomesius Our Author Browne also did translate from Lat. into Engl. Camden's second Vol. of the Annals of Qu. Elizabeth from the beginning of the year 1589 to the end of 1602 Which Translation bears this Title Tomus alter idem Or the history of the life and raigne of that famous Princess Elizabeth c. Lond. 1629. qu. To which Translation our Author Browne added An Appendix containing Animadversions upon several passages corrections of sundry errours and additions of some remarkable matters of the History before mention'd never yet printed He died at Windsore on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried without and on the south side of the Kings Free-Chappel there dedicated to S. George Over his grave was soon after erected at the charge of Dr. Isaac Vossius Canon of that Chappel sole Executor to our Author Browne a monument of free stone with a plank of marble thereon joyning to the south wall between two Buttresses of the Chappel and an inscription engraven upon it made by the said Vossius from which I am informed that he the said Browne was esteemed by all that knew him Vir apprimè doctus eruditus Criticus acutus facundus Orator felix Philologus Antiquitatum Chronologiaeque cultor solertissimus Aenigmatum Dilemmatumque conscientiarum dubitantium Oedipus admodum Christianus c. One Tho. Browne was elected from Eaton School into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1550. was afterwards Master of Westminster School Prebendary of the collegiat Church there 1565 Doctor of Div. and a worthy and learned Divine He wrot a Tragedy called Thebais and dying in 1584 or thereabouts was buried at Westminster What relation there was between this and the former Thom. Browne I know not nor whether he was related to another Thom. Browne whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1682. JAMES JANEWAY a Ministers son was born as it seems at Lilly or Lulley in Hertfordshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1655. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and became Tutor for a time to one George Stringer in his mothers house at Windsore the same I mean who was afterwards a Commoner and M. of A. of the said College So that our author who had all his education under Presbyterians and Independents did after his Majesties restauration set up a Conventicle at Redriff near London where to the time of his death he was much resorted to by those of his persuasion and admired for a forward and pretious young man especially by those of the female sex His works are Several Sermons as 1 Death unstung preached at the funeral of Tho. Mousley an Apothecary with a brief narrative of his life 2 Serm. at the funeral of Tho. Savage 3 The duties of Masters and Servants on Ephes 6. ver 5.6 7.8.9 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674 and 76. 4 Mans last end fun Serm. on Psal 89 48. Lond. 1675. oct Heaven upon Earth or the best friend in the worst of times Lond. 1670. c. oct Delivered in several Sermons A token for Children being an exact account of the conversion holy and exemplary Lives and joyful deaths of several young children Lond. 1671. the first part in oct The second part was printed there also in 8o. an 1672. Invisible realities demonstrated in the holy life and death of Mr. John Janeway Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Lond. 1673. c. oct This Jo. Janeway who was elder brother to James our author was born at Lilly in Hertfordshire 27. Oct. 1633 bred in Paules School under Mr. Joh. Langley became a zealous Presbyterian and dying in June 1657 was buried in Kelsall Church in Hertfordsh This life is recommended to the world with an Epistle written by Mr. Rich. Baxter The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service with motives and meanes to Christian activity To which is added as an example to prove the point handled The death-bed experiences of Mistris B. Lond. 1673. oct Legacie to his Friends containing 27 famous instances of Gods providences in and about Sea-dangers and deliverances with the names of several that were Eye-witnesses to many of them Lond. 1674. 75 oct Before which book is the authors picture in a cloak aged 38 years and at the end of it is a Sermon intit Sea-dangers and deliverances on Acts 27.18.19.20 by Joh. Ryther a Nonconformist of Wapping near London The said Legacie is several times made use of by Increase Mather in his Essay for the recording of illustrious providences Saints memorials or words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divers sentences Lond. 1674. oct Edm. Calamy Ralph Venning and Jos Caryl had a hand besides Janeway in the said memorials He died on the sixteenth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried 4 days after in the Church of S. Mary in Aldermanbury within the City of London near to the grave of his father At which time his friend Mr. Nath. Vincent preached his funeral Sermon which being extant the reader may satisfie himself more of the character of Mr. Janeway therein Several Elegies I have seen that were made on his death as that by Ralph Venning who saith
Coll Winton Socius Obiit 19 Junii 1676 anno aetatis suae 59 Moerens conjux posuit hoc HENRY STUBBE the most noted person of his age that these late times have produced received his first breath in an obscure Village called Partney near Spilsbye in Lincolnshire on the 28 of Febr. an 1631 at which place his Father who was a Minister then lived but he being Anabaptistically inclin'd was forced to leave it and thereupon he with his Wife and Children went into Ireland and there at Tredagh he found an Employment which was if you 'll believe a nameless satyrical Author the Office of Beadle of the Beggars as being well acquainted with the executive part of Power at the Carts tail Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in that Country in 1641 the Mother fled with our Author and another Child towards England and landing at Leverpoole in Lancashire they all beated it on the hoof thence to London where she gaining a comfortable subsistance by her needle sent her son Henry being then 10 years of age to the Coll. School at Westminster At that time Mr. Rich Busbie was the chief Master who finding the boy to have pregnant parts to a miracle did much favour and encourage him At length Sir Hen. Vane junior the same who was beheaded on Tower-hill 1662. coming casually into the school with Dr. Lamb. Osbaldeston he did at the Masters motion take a kindness to the said boy frequently reliev'd him with money and gave him the liberty to resort to his house and to fill that belly which otherwise had no sustenance but what one penny could purchase for his dinner and as for his breakfast he had none except he got it by making some bodies exercise Soon after Sir Henry got him to be a Kings scholar and his Master perceiving him to be beyond his years in proficiency he gave him money to buy books cloaths and his teaching for nothing In the beginning of the year 1649 Sir Henry got him to be sped for a Students place in Ch. Church where shewing himself too forward pragmatical and conceited being well stock'd with impudence at school was often kick'd and beaten And in the year after abusing the Censor morum Will. Segary that noted Disciplinarian in a speech that he utter'd was for so doing and his impudence in other respects whipt by him in the publick refectory The same year the Oath called the Engagement being fram'd by the then Parliament was some time after sent to the University by him 'T was I saith he that brought the Engagement down to Oxon though I took it net being then an Undergraduat and having got Dr. S. F. Sam. Fell as it should seem and Dr. R. Reynolds to be turned out I saved the remains of the Cavaliers of Ch. Ch. and Queens Coll and gave them opportunities to live securely and educate others in their principles c. While he continued Undergraduate it was usual with him to discourse in the publick Schools very fluently in the Greek Tongue as it was at the same time with one John Pettie of Balliol afterwards of Queens Coll and others whose names are forgotten But since the Kings restauration we have had no such matters which shews in some part that Education and Discipline were more severe then as indeed they were than after when Scholars were given more to liberty and frivolous studies After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and determined he went into Scotland and served in the Wars there for the Parliament from 1653 to 1655. Upon his return he took the degree of Master and in the beginning of the year following an 1657 he was upon the death of Mr. Franc. Yonge of Oriel Coll prefer'd upon the motion made of Dr. Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. to Mr. Thom. Barlow the Head-keeper of the Bodleian Library to be the second-keeper of the same Which Office he holding three years being all that time much favoured by the Head-keeper did by the benefit of a prodigious memory most wonderfully advantage himself in several sorts of Learning At length Dr. E. Reynolds being restored to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of 1659 a little before which time viz. in Feb. Stubbe was complained of in the Parliam house as one that palliated in print Sir Henry Vane's wickedness he not only ejected him from his Students place in the said house but found means to remove him from the Library and especially for this reason that he had written and published a most pestilent book called A light shining out of darkness wherein are many things said against the Universities and Clergy But if you 'll believe the Author he 'll tell you that that book which he calls the Invidious Queries was written to terrifie the Presbyterians and make them more complacential yet withall protests that they contained no tenets of his for he knew they were not defensible against the learned and judicious Episcoparians tho they had force and address enough against the more ignorant Presbyterians but were written to excuse those who had made those to be their Assertions which were his doubts and this he declared in the Preface to that book He tells us also that what he wrot in that book and others was against the Presbyterian Clergy the Presbyterian Universities and the Usurpations of Oliver and Richard After his Ejection he retired to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to practise the Faculty of Physick which he for some years had studied and after the Kings restauration he made early and voluntary Applications to Dr. Geor. Morley for his Protection in his retirement assuring him of an inviolable passive Obedience which was all he could or would pay till the Covenant was renounced When the restauration of the Bishops was made he at the first motion of the said Dr. Morley then his Diocesan received confirmation at his hands and soon after took occasion to publish a translation concerning the arts of Grandure and Submission which I shall anon mention and in the Dedication thereof to make this mention of himself I have at length removed all the Umbrages I ever laid under I have joyned my self to the Church of England not only upon account of its being publickly imposed which in things indifferent is no small consideration as I learned from the Scottish Transactions at Perth but because it is the least defining and consequently the most comprehensive and fitting to be national In the year following he took a journey to the Island of Jamaica being designed Physitian of that place by his Majesty who as he saith honored him with that title In which place having been mostly sick during his abode there he would have otherwise advanced himself much in the knowledge thereof and in experiments and things philosophical For which reason also it was why he did not accept of an invitation to go to Mexico and Peru to practise his Faculty there After his
ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month at Hampton Court But no Council being then held notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day the matter was defer'd till the 27 of the same month Another Council being therefore there held on that day the charges and answers were debated Which done and the Lords concerned being withdrawn this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty against his now Majesty and against the Government When the Parties or Lords concern'd were called in again the Lord Chancellour only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mention'd as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following but Anglesey continuing extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudg'd by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July he wrot a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty which being openly read in Council the next day he did in some manner as 't was said resent it for some passages therein yet nothing appear'd entred to be done thereupon Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven James Touchet was called in several times and question'd about his Memoires which he acknowledging to be his the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682 the Privy Seal by command from his Majesty was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State without any farther hearing and was given to George Marquess of Halyfax Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven containing Observations c. was another book published intit Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires c. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase Author of The Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion c. and printed at London 1682. oct But the said Author who commends Anglesey's Letter was not regarded Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrot A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council c. Lond. 1682 in 18 sh in fol. and A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian Lond. 1683. in two sh in qu which Jovian was wrot by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2 but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat died soon after as I shall anon tell you leaving behind him The History of Ireland MS. and The Kings right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nov. 1687. in 10 sh and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8 put at the bottom of the title So that that person who in the time of the Popish Plot had shew'd himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists and Duke of York by publishing The weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome and other things was when the said Duke came to the Crown taken so much into favour as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws the publishing of which book was one At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Polititian for more than 45 years he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster on Easter Tuesday the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire where he had an Estate was buried in the Church there He left behind him a choice Library of Books which were exposed to sale by way of Auction in Oct. Nov. c. following JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire of which his father was Rector elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school an 1640 aged 15 years bore arms for a time in Oxon when made a Garrison for his Majesty and having made proof of his Courage in that service he was appointed an Ensign and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty but after the surrender of Oxford the declension of the Kings Cause and his Army disbanded he returned to Christ Church again and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647 and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Soon after he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of All 's Coll. with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660 in the place of John Pointer then ejected and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King he was upon his recommendation deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster upon the promotion of Dr. Earle to the See of Worcester in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nov. the same year he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty and at that time and before that place was manag'd to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity At length upon the death of Dr. Sterne Archb. of York he was by vertue of the Kings Conge d'eslire elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683 and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth was on the 23 of the same month enthronized He was a man of a free generous and noble disposition and withall of a natural bold and happy Eloquence As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours both in his Deanery of Westminster and his Archbishoprick of York He was not very careful
c. Lond. 1677. oct c. 2 The common interest of King and people shewing the original antiquity and excellency of Monarchy compared with Aristocracy and Democracy and particularly of our English Monarchy and that absolute Papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative property and liberty Lond. 1678 oct 3 A true copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the trial of K. Ch. 1. as it was read in the H. of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps Clerk to that infamous court Lond. 1684. fol. With a large introduction by the said Nalson He hath also translated into Engl. The History of the Crusade or the expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land Lond. 1685 fol. Written originally in French by the fam'd Monsieur Maimbourgh What other things he hath written or translated I know not as yet or any thing else of him only that he died at or near the City of Ely on the 19. of March or thereabouts according to the English accompt an 1685. to the great loss of the true Sons of the Church of England of which he had been a zealous Member Our author Rushworth hath also written The History of the Civil War of England This which is the fift vol. is in MS and not yet published Several Letters to the Parliament and to particular Members thereof These he wrote while the War continued and were subscribed by himself and not by Gen. Fairfax as the printed copies shew What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he spent the six last years or thereabouts of his life in the Prison called the Kings bench in Southwark where being reduced to his second childship for his memory was quite decayed by taking too much Brandy to keep up his spirits he quietly gave up the Ghost in his lodging in a certain Alley there call'd Rules Court on Munday the twelfth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 83 years or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried on Wednesday following behind the Pulpit in the Church of S. George within the said Borough of Southwark He had no son only daughters virtuous women of which one was married to Sir Franc. Vane of the North. HENRY WILKINSON junior commonly called Dean Harry son of Will. Wilk of Adwick or Adwickstreet in the West Riding of Yorkshire Priest was born there an 1616 instructed mostly in Grammar learning in Edw. Sylvesters School in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon entred a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1631 took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in and moderator or Dean of his House At length upon the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 he left the University adher'd to the Parliament party took the Covenant and became a forward and frequent preacher among them After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament Forces he returned to the University and by the authority of the then dominant party he was created Bach of Divinity made Principal of his Hall and Moral Philosophy Reader of the University Afterwards we find him one of the most frequent and active preachers among the Presbyterians in the University whether at S. Maries S. Martin commonly called Carfax S. Pet. in the East c. being then Doct. of Divinity and took all the ways imaginable to make his House flourish with young Students At length the Act of Conformity being published in 1662 he rather than conform left his Principallity tho perswaded to the contrary by some of the Heads of the University purposely to keep him there because he was a good Disciplinarian and lived for some time in these parts Afterwards upon the receipt of a Call he lived by the help of the Brethren at Buckminster in Leycestershire where he exercised his gifts in Conventicles as he did afterwards at Gosfield in Essex and in 1673 and after at Sybill-Hennyngham near to that place and a length at Great Connard near Sudbury in Suffolke at which last place he finished this mortal life as I shall tell you by and by having before suffered by imprisonments mulcts and loss of his Goods and Books for preaching in Conventicles against the Act. He was a zealous person in the way he professed but oversway'd more by the Principles of education than reason He was very courteous in speech and carriage communicative of his knowledge generous and charitable to the poor and so publick spirited a rare thing in a Presbyterian that he alwaies minded the common good more than his own concerns His works as to learning are these Conciones tres apud Academicos Oxonii nuper habitae Oxon. 1654. oct The first is on Psal 119.9 The second on Eccles 2.1 and the third on 1. Pet. 4.11 Brevis tractatus de jure divino diei dominici Ibid. 1654. 58. oct Conciones sex ad Academicos Oxonienses Ib. 1658. oct Among which are the former three De impotentia liberi arbitrii ad bonum spiritale Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Epistolarum decas Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Oratio habita in schola moralis philosophiae Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Conc. duae ap Ox. nuper habitae Ibid. 1659. qu. Both on 1. Cor. 16.22 Concio de brevitate opportuni temporis Oxon habita ad Bac. die Cinerum 7. Mar. 1659. Ib. 1660. qu preached on 1. Cor. 7.29 Several English Sermons as 1 Sermon at Haseley in the County of Oxon at the funeral of Margaret late wife of Dr. Edw. Corbet Pastor of Hasely on Col. 1.27 Ox. 1657. oct 2 Three decads of Sermons lately preached to the University in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Ox. 1660. qu. 3 Several Sermons concerning Gods All-Sufficiency and Christs preciousness Lond. 1681. oct c. Catalogus librorum in Bibl. Aul. Madg. Oxon. Ox. 1661. oct The doctrine of contentment briefly explained and practically applied in a Treatise on 1. Tim. 6.8 Lond. 1671. oct Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the word of God Lond. 1674. oct Two treatises concerning 1 Gods All-Sufficiency 2 Christs Preciousness Being the substance of some Sermons long since preached in the Univ. of Ox. Lond. 1681. oct These two treatises are the same with the Several Sermons before mention'd with some alterations in and additions to them purposely to please his friend and favourer one of his perswasion called Joh. Clark of S. Edm. Bury Esq by a dedication to him set before them Praelectiones Morales MS. in Magd. Hall Libr. They are his Lectures that he read in the Moral Philosophy School while he was public Reader of that Lecture At length after the latter part of the life of this zealous Theologist had been spent in trouble and adversity for the cause he professed he very devoutly surrendred up his soul to God at Great Connard before mention'd on the 13 day
a constant Actor and as 't was observed had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as Comptroller Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks and in the same year he finished a new Chappel at Vgbrook which was consecrated and dedicated to S. Cyprian by Anthony Bishop of Exeter Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672 until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh and in June following he gave him and his heirs males the mannours of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire On the 28 of Nov. the same year his Maj. valuing his many eminent services and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton At which time his Maj. confer'd the place of Treasurer of the Houshold on the L. Newport beforemention'd and the place of Comptroller on Will Lord Maynard On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. pass'd for the entailing of Vgbrook and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesties hands his staff as L. Treasurer because he as 't was said refused the Test it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died and was as I suppose buried at Chudleigh â Not one Bach. of Law was admitted incorporated or created this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll. He afterwards lived a Nonconformist and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock mention'd among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others Quaere One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love describing the folly of Youngmen and the fallacy of Women Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this or of any other University I know not yet Nov. 19. Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll. 30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll. Jan. 14. Tho. Neast of New Coll. This person who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks Thence going to London lived for some time after his Majesties Restauration a Nonconformist and preached in Conventicles Afterwards conforming he became Minister of S. Martins Ch. in Ironmonger-lane and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet London He hath extant Serm. on Ephes 6.24 printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate c. Lond. 1661. qu published by Sam. Annesley or Anely and perhaps other things Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv Coll. Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. â Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty 10 Dec. Bach. of Div. ..... George Kendall of Exeter Coll was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year but the day or month when it appears not Doct. of Law Oct. 19. John Wainwright of All 's Coll Chancellour of the Dioc of Chester â Not one Doctor of Phys or Doctor of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May .... Christoph Tearne or Terne Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London hath published something of his faculty and died about 1685. He was as it seems originally of Cambridge May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys of Cambridge This person who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University was lately Fellow of that House also but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors Afterwards he travelled into remote parts of the World resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Mosco for the space of nine years and wrot The History of the present state of Russia in a letter written to a friend in London Lond. 1671. oct illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physitians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538 and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge This person who took that degree in Camb. 1649 was now or soon after Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Univ. See more in the year 1652 and 59. 18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Anger 's in France This Gent. who had that degree confer'd on him in the said Univ. in Nov. 1648 was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells was educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642 and travelled during the time of the War Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster became Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894. Nov. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr. The next day he was admitted M. of A as before I have told you Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell whose Sister he had married See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was now or soon after made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Univ. Creations Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne was created Master of Arts. 12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Univ. which partly run
and death of that great Cynick Diogenes whom Lucretius stiles Canis coelestis the heavenly dog c. Lond. 1615. in tw The guide of honour or the ballance wherein she may weigh her actions c. Lond. 1634 in tw written by the author in foreigne parts The female glory or the life of the Virgin Mary pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635 in oct This little book pen'd in a flourishing stile was in another impression intit The President of female perfection or the life c. But the said book being esteemed egregiously scandalous among the Puritans who look'd upon it as purposely publish'd to encourage the papists Hen. Burton Minister of Friday street in London did pretend to discover in his Sermon entit For God and the King several extravagant and popish passages therein and advised the people to beware of it For which and nothing else as W. Prynne tells us he was brought into the Starr-chamber and there censured But on the contrary this popish book of Staffords as he calls it with many scandalous passages in it were by the Archbishops special direction professedly justified both by Dr. Heylyn in his Moderate answer to Mr. Burton and by Christoph Dow in his Innovations justly charged and this book neither called in nor corrected so audaciously popish was he grown in this particular among many others c. See more in Canterburies Doome p. 215.216.217 Our Author Stafford hath also written A just apology or vindication of a book intit The female glory from the false and malevolent aspersions cast upon it by Hen. Burton of late deservedly censured in the Starr-chamber c. Whether this book was ever published I know not I once saw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr. Tho. Barlow given to him by Sir Joh. Birkenhead Honour and virtue triumphing over the grave exemplified in a fair devout life and death adorned with the surviving perfections of Henry Lord Stafford lately deceased which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sun sets in a serene sky c. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of which are divers Elegies upon the death of the said Lord mostly written by Oxford men especially those of S. Johns Coll. Our author A. Stafford who was Kinsman to the said Lord hath also translated from Latine into English The oration of Justus Lipsius against Calumny Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died as I have been informed in the time of the Civil Wars SHAKERLEY MARMION son and heir of Shak. Marm. Esq sometimes Lord of the Mannour of Ainoe near Brackley in Northamptonshire was born in the Mannour house at Ainoe in January 1602 and baptized there 21 of the said month educated in Grammar learning in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire under Rich. Boucher commonly called Butcher LL. Bac. the then Master thereof became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1617 took the degrees in Arts and soon after was cried up for a noted Poet and a copious writer of English comedy which appeared by these his writings following which afterwards were made public Hollands Leaguer or a discourse of the life and actions of Donna Britannica Hollandia the Archmistris of the wicked women of Utopia A comedy Lond. 1632. quart A fine Companion com Lond. 1633. qu. Cupid and Psiche or an Epick poem of Cupid and his mistress as it was lately presented to the Prince Elector Lond. 1637. qu. 'T is a moral poem contained in two books the first having in it four sections and the other three The Antiquary com Lond. 1641. qu. besides copies of verses dispersed in several books and other things in Ms which he left ready for the press but are either lost or in obscure hands This Poet Marmion who was descended from an antient and noble family was a goodly proper Gentleman and had once in his possession seven hundred pounds per ann at least but died as the curse is incident to all Poets poor and in debt about the beginning or in the height of the civil war JOHN BARCHAM second son of Laur. Barcham of S. Leonards in Devonshire by Joan his wife dau of Edw. Bridgman of the City of Exeter Son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorsetshire where his ancestors had lived more than three generations before him was born in the parish of S. Mary the Moore within the said City entred a sojourner of Exeter Coll. in Michaelm Term 1587 aged 15 years admitted scholar of Co. Ch. Coll. 24 Aug. in the year following Probationer-Fellow 21 June 1596. being then M. of A. and in orders Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was made Chaplain to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. as afterwards he was to his successour Rector and Dean of Bockyng in Essex and Doctor of his faculty He was a person very skilful in divers Tongues a curious Critick a noted Antiquary especially in the knowledge of Coins an exact Historian Herald and as 't is said an able Theologist He was also a strict man in his life and conversation charitable modest and reserv'd in his behaviour and discourse but above all he was remarkable for those good qualities which became a man of his profession He hath written The history or life of John King of England which is the same that is in the History of Great Britaine published by John Speed and the same which sheweth more reading and judgment than any life besides in that History 'T is reported also that he wrot or at least had a chief hand in composing The hist or life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl. Remitted by Speed also in his said History Which Hist. or Life Dr. Barcham wrot as my Author says in opposition or rather to suppress the same written by one Boulton a Rom. Catholick who did too much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket c. This Boulton was the same with Edmund Boulton who wrot The elements of Armorie Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulatorium de traductione corporis Mariae Reginae Scotorum à Petroburgo ad Westmonasterium Dr. Barcham hath also written The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. much used by Novices and the best in that kind for method that ever before was published This book being mostly composed in his younger years he deemed it too light a subject for him to own being then when published a grave Divine Chapl. to an Archb. and not unlikely a Dean Wherefore being well acquainted with John Guillim an Officer of Arms he gave him the copy who adding some trivial things to it published it with leave from the Author under his own name and it goeth to this day under the name of Guillims Heraldry Our Author also published Crackanthorps book against Marc. Ant. de Dominis and wrot a preface to it He also wrot a book concerning coins in Ms but
exercise for the degree of Bach. of Divinity Which being done to the great liking of all the auditory Prideaux openly said before them in the Divinity School thus Accepimus responsionem tuam mi fili tanquam ad ventantis Veris gratissimam primam rosam Our Author Primerose hath written Theses Theologicae de peccato in genere specie Genev. 1620. qu. Thes Theol de necessitate Satisfactionis pro peccatis per christum Sal âur 1 20. qu. Disputatio Theologica de divina praedestinatione et annexis articulis amplitudine mortis Christi vi et efficacia gratiae dei et usu liberi arbitrii in conversionis negotio c. Bas 1621. Treatise of the Sabbath and the Lords day the nature and the original of both printed 1636. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen After he had left Oxon he retired into France and became Minister of the Protestant Church at Roan in Normandy where I find him in sixteen hundred forty and two How long afterwards he lived or when or where he died I know not nor can I yet learn of any person tho many that have been in those parts have told me that he was esteemed one of the learnedst reformed Divines in France THOMAS SALESBURY son and heir of Sir Hen. Salesbury Bt was born of an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Leweni near Denbigh in Denbighshire became a Gent. Com. of Jesus Coll. about the beginning of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. but taking no degree he retired after he had seen the vanities of the great city to his patrimony and having a natural genie to Poetry and Romance exercised himself much in those juvenile studies and at length became a most noted poet of his time as it partly appears in this book following which he wrot and published The history of Joseph Lond. 163 ... printed in English verse in 13 chapters and all contained in about 16 sheets in quarto Daniel Cudmore Gent. did also exercise his muâe on the same subject some years after And in prose that history is written by several persons in divers languages especially in that of the French which being translated into English by Sir Will. Lower a Cornish Knight was printed at London 1655 oct This Sir William who was a noted poet was son of John Lower of Tremere a younger son of Sir Will. Lower of St. Winnow in Cornwal and died at London about the beginning of the year 1662 but where buried unless in the parish Church of S. Clements Danes within the Liberty of Westminster where his Uncle Tho. Lower Esq to whom he was heir was buried 21 of Mar. 1660 after he had laid dead since the 5 of Feb. going before I know not What other things our Author Salesbury hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he as formerly a member of Jesus Coll. was among several persons of quality actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University in the year 1642 he being then a Baronet and that departing this mortal life in the summer time before the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and three at which time he left behind him a widdow named Hester was as I suppose buried in the Vault in Whitchurch joyning to Leweni before mentioned near to the body of his Father Sir Henry who died 2 Aug. 1632. The reader is to know that there hath been one Thom. Salusbury who translated into English The learned man defended and reformed c. Lond. 1660. oct written originally in the Italian tongue by Dan. Bartolus a learned Jesuit as also Mathematical Collections from Gal. Galilaei c. but his sirname differing in one letter from Salesbury he must not be taken to be the same with Sir Thomas before mention'd who was in time before him and an active man in the Kings Cause in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642 for which tho he died soon after his Family notwithstanding suffer'd for it DUDLEY DIGGES the son of Sir Dud. Digges mention'd before under the year 1638. was born in Kent particularly as I conceive in Chilham became a Commoner of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1629 where by his wonderful pregnant parts overcoming the crabbed studies of Logic took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Lent term 1631 being then scarce 19 years of age In the year following he was elected probationer-Fellow of All 's Coll. as a Founders kinsman and in Octob. 1635 he was licensed to proceed in Arts at which time prosecuting his studies with unwearied industry advantaged by a great memory and excellent natural parts he became a great Scholar general Artist and Linguist In the beginning of the civil war he wrot An answer to a printed book entit Observations upon some of his Majesties late answers and expresses Oxon. 1642. qu. 1647. third edit He also wrot so subtile and solid a treatise of the differences between the King and Parliament that such Royalists that have since handled that controversie have come far beneath him The title of it is this The unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Arms against their Sovereign in what case soever with answers to all objections Oxon. 1643. qu. It was reprinted at Lond. 1647. whereupon a complaint being made to the Committee of Complaints the Printers and Publishers of it were to be tried at the Kings-bench It was also published again at Lond. 1662 in oct part of which impression lying dead there was a new title dated 16â9 put to it At length being untimely snatch'd away to the great sorrow of learned men by a malignant fever call'd the Camp disease raging in the Garrison of Oxon on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred forty and three was buried in the outer Chappel of All 's College Of the said Disease Doctor Edward Greaves Fellow of that house wrot a little treatise entit Morbus Epidemicus c. as I shall tell you when I come to him JOHN SEDGWICK son of Joseph Sedg a northern man born sometimes Vicar of S. Peters Church in Marlborough afterwards of Ogbourne S. Andrew in Wilts was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the said town of Marlborough educated in Grammar learning at that place and in Logic in Queens Coll into which he made his first entry in Easter term an 1619 and in that of his age 18. But making no long stay there he translated himself to Magd. Hall where he applyed his mind to Divinity before he was Bach. of Arts. In the time of Christmas 1621 he was admitted to the order of a Deacon by the Bishop of London and in Nov. and Dec. following being a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts had his Grace denied four times by the Regents because that when he was to be admitted to the order of Deacon he did belye the University in using the title of Bach. of Arts before he was
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiânne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
born in S. Michaels Parish in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622 became a sojourner of the said Coll. in the beginning of the year 1640 was elected Fellow soon after took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1644 and in the year following he by the name of Captain Mathias Prideaux was by vertue of the Chancellours letters actually created Master of Arts. Under the name of this person was publish'd after his death An easie and compendious introduction for reading of all sorts of Histories Oxon 1648. qu. There again 1655. qu. To which is added A synopsis of the Councils written by the Father of the Author Mathias who as 't is said had a considerable hand in the Easie and comp Introd This Mathias Prideaux who was esteemed by his contemporaries an ingenious man died at London of the Small pox in sixteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts to which place he receded after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Forces under the command of the Parliament He had written one or more trite things but were never published JOHN GREGORY the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning was born at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks on the 10 Nov. 1607 applied himself to academical learning in the condition of a Servitour in Ch. Ch. an 1624 being then put under the tuition with his Master Sir Will. Drake of the most ingenious and learned Mr. George Morley afterwards Bishop of Winchester where for several years spending sixteen of every 24 hours he arrived to great learning and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631. About which time being received into the favour of Dr. Duppa the vigilant Dean of his house he was by him made Chaplain or petty Canon of the Cathedral and after that his own Domestick and Prebendary of Chichester and Salisbury when he successively sate at those places as Bishop He attained to a learned elegance in English Latine and Greek and to an exact skill in Hebrew Syriack Chaldee Arabick Ethiopick c. He was also well vers'd in Philosophy had a curious faculty in Astronomy Geometry and Arithmetick and a familiar acquaintance with the Jewish Rabbines antient Fathers modern Criticks Commentators and what not His works are Notes on the View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law written by Sir Tho. Ridley Kt. Oxon. 1634. qu. second Edit Ox. 1662. oct there again 1675. 76. qu. In which notes he being scarce 26 years old when he wrot them he made an early discovery of his civil historical ecclesiastical ritual and oriental Learning through which he miraculously travel'd without any guide except Joh. Dod the Decalogist whose society and directions for the Hebrew tongue he enjoyed one Vacation at his benefice in Northamptonshire Notes and Observations upon some passages of Scripture Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1660. 65. 71. 83. qu. translated also into Lat. and remitted into the Critica sacra From âhich notes may easily be discovered his exact skill in the oriental Tongues Certain learned Tracts as 1 A discourse of the 70 Interpreters the place and manner of their interpretation 2 Discourse declaring what time the Niceen Creed began to be sung in the Church 3 Serm. upon the Resurrection on 1 Cor. 15. ver 20. 4 ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã or a disproof of him in the 3 of Luke ver 36. 5 Discovery of an antient custom in the Ch. of Sarum making an anniversary Bishop among the Choristers on Innocents day 6 The several accounts of time among all nations from the Creation to the present age 7 The Assyrian Monarchy being a description of its rise and fall 8 Descript and use of the terrestial globe Which eight Tracts were printed under the title of Gregorii posthuma at Lond. 1650. 64. 71. 83. qu. with a short account of the Authors life set before them written by his dearest friend John Gurgany son of Hugh Gurgany of London Priest sometimes a Servitour of Ch. Ch. afterwards Chaplain of Merton Coll. who dedicated them to Edw. Bysshe Clar. King of Arms a Patron not only to the Author but Gurgany in the time of their Afflictions Optica promota seu abdita radiorum reflexorum refractorum mysteria Geometricè enuclâata Lond. 1663. published then under the name of Jo. Gregorius Observationes in loca quaedam excerpta ex Joh. Malatae chronographia Ms which after his death came into the publick Library at Oxon where it now remains Edm. Chilmead having afterwards prepared the whole work of Malâta for the Press intended as it seems to prefix the said Observations as a Preface he having therein spoken something of the said Author but that Author being publish'd at Oxon in 1691 Gregories Observations were laid aside as containing things little material and instead of them there is added a Preface or Prolegomena to Malata by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. Fellow of Wadh. Coll. See the said Preface § xliii He the said Gregory did also translate from Gr. into Lat. 1 Palladius de gentibus Indiae Bragmanibus 2 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 3 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Which Translations coming after his death into the hands of Edm. Chilmead Chapl. of Ch. Ch. came after his into those of E. Bysshe Esq before mentioned who published them under his own name in 1665. as I shall tell you elsewhere At length after an industrious and short life he gave way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the left side of the grave of W. Cartwright in the isle joyning on the south side of the choire of the Cath. of Ch Church in Oxon. Some years before his death he being reduced to poverty because he was deprived of the benefit of his two Prebendships he retired to an obscure Ale house standing on the Green at Kidlington near Oxon kept by one Sutton Father to that Son whom our learned Author had bred up from a boy to attend him There I say spending some time in great retiredness died obscurely and by the contribution of one or more friends his body was conveyed to Oxon. CHARLES BUTLER was born at one of the Wycombs Great Wycombe I suppose in Bucks entred a Student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579 took a degree in Arts and being made one of the Bible Clerks of Magd. Coll. was translated thereunto Soon after proceeding in that faculty he became Master of the Free-school at Basingstoke in Hampshire where continuing 7 years with the enjoyment of a Cure of a little Church called Skewres was promoted to the Vicaridge of Lawrence-Wotton three miles distant thence a poor preferment God wot for such a worthy scholar where being setled he wrot and published these books following which shew him to have been an ingenious man and well skill'd in various sorts of learning The feminine Monarchy or a Treatise of Bees Ox. 1609. oct Lond. 1623. Ox. 1634. qu. translated into Latine by
market Town in Glocestershire called Tewkesbury But being schismatically inclined he refused to conform to certain Ceremonies in the Church of England whereupon being silenced by Goodman his Diocesan he lived by the helps of the Brethren At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he was restored by the Committee of Religion to his said Cure where continuing till about 1645 became Preacher of the Word at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and in two years after or less at S. Faiths under Pauls in London At all which places he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian Perswasion He hath written and published these things following Several Sermons viz. 1 The downfal of Antichrist c. Sermon on 2 Thes 2.8 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to John White Esq and the rest of the Committee for Religion 2 Judahs joy at the oath Covenant Serm. on 2 Cor. 15.15 Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The red horse or the bloodiness of war Serm. at Pauls 16 Jul. 1648. on Rev. 6.4 Lond. 1648. qu. c. Vindiciae voti or a Vindication of the true sense of the national Covenant in answer to the Protestation protested Lond. 1641. qu. Vindiciae Eccles Anglicanae or ten cases resolved which discover that tho there be need of Reformation in yet not of Separation from the Churches of Christ in England Lond. 1644. qu. ded to Mr. Rich. Capell sometimes of Magd. Coll. Proofs that the King may without impeachment of his Oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy and the Objections against it in two several Treatises printed at Oxon fully answered Lond. 1646. qu. in one sheet Or thus as 't is in another Title Case of Conscience resolved Wherein it is cleared that the King may without impeachment of his oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1646. qu. in one sh and half Astrologo-mastix The vanity of judicial Astrology Lond. 1646. qu. Vindiciae Paedo-Baptismi or a Vindication of Infant Baptism in a full answer to Mr. Tombes 12 Arguments alledged against it in his Exercitation c. Lond. 1646. quart Character of an old English Puritan or Nonconformist Lond. 1646. in 1 sh in qu. Vindiciae vindiciarum or a Vindication of his vindication of Infant Biptism from the Exceptions of Mr. Harrison in his Paedo-Baptisme oppugned and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes c. Lond. 1647. qu. A Catechisme in brief questions and answers c. Lond. 1647. oct Touching Supremacy in Causes ecclesiastical shewing how that the Power civil and ecclesiastical may act without encroachment of each other Written 1647. printed in qu. An Exercise wherein the evil of Health-drinking is by clear and solid Arguments convinced Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. The Sifters sieve broken or a Reply to Dr. Boughen's sisting his Case of Conscience c. touching the Kings Coronation Oath Lond. 1648. qu. Answer to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Right well met wherein is cleared that the action of the Army in secluding many Parliament men from the place of their discharge of trust and the imprisoning of some of them is neither defensible by the rules of solid reason nor religion Lond. 1649. qu. in 5 sheets Whereupon Jo. Goodwin came out with a Reply the same year intit Might overcoming Right c. What other things our Author Joh. Geree hath written I know not See more of him in Will. Pemble among these Writers in 1623. p. 405. All that I have more to say of him is that he died in his house in Ivey lane near to Pater-noster-row in London in the latter end of the year in Febr. as it seems sixteen hundred forty and eight but where buried unless in S. Faiths Church before mentioned I cannot tell The Minister who preached his funeral Sermon told the Auditory that he died poor whereupon there was a Collection of money made among the Brethren for his Children This is the same Mr. Geree a Minister whom a noted Author reports to have died with grief and trouble for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during his stay in the University took the degrees in Arts as a Student of Ch. Ch. that of Master being compleated in 1615. Afterwards he became Rector of Stony-Stratford in Leicestershire wrot and published The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the original of Dominion Wherein Gods perpetual propriety in the sovereignty of the whole earth and the Kings great charter for the administration thereof by authoritative Records in both the Testaments c. is jure divino Lond. 1648. qu. In which book the Author shews himself to be well read in various sorts of Learning and by some passages therein a Loyalist and a sufferer for the Kings cause GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hakewill of the City of Exeter Merchant was born in the parish of S. Mary Arches within the said City and educated in Grammar learning there became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in the beginning of the year 1595 and in that of his age 16 where he became so noted a Disputant and Orator that he was unanimously elected Fellow of Exeter Coll. at two years standing Afterwards he proceeded in Arts applyed himself to the deep researches in Philosophy and Divinity entred into the sacred function travelled beyond the seas and at his return became as noted for his Preaching and Disputes as before he was for Philosophy In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the next year proceeded in Divinity Afterwards he became the first sworn Chaplain that attended Prince Charles by whose endeavours I presume he became Archdeacon of Surrey an 1616 which was the highest dignity that he enjoyed being hindred I presume from rising higher for his zealous opposing the match of the Infanta of Spain with his Master the Prince The story of which was this After he had with some pains written a small Tract against that match not without some Reflections on the Spaniard which could not be pleasing to the King he caused it to be fairly transcribed by another hand Which done he unknown to the King presented it to the Prince The Prince after he had perused it shew'd it to the King who being offended at it commanded Tho. Murrey the Princes Tutor and Secretary the Author Hakewill William his brother and all others who knew of or were consenting to it to be committed to custody in Aug. 1621 whence being soon after released our Author Hakewill was dismist from his attendance on the Prince So that tho his Learning was accounted by the generality polite his Philosophy subtile and Divinity profound yet in this particular he was esteemed very rash and imprudent A certain Author tells us that when he presented the said MS. to the Prince he should say Sir I beseech you make use of this by reading it your self but if you shew it to your Father I shall be undone for my
good will The Prince returned him many thanks and assured him it should never go farther than the cabinet of his own breast but withall he asked him to whom he had shew'd it Hakewill replied the Archbishop Abbot hath read it who returning said to him Well done thou good and faithful servant Besides him he told the Prince he had shewed it to Mr. Murrey his Tutor who belike being better acquainted with his Masters perfidious disposition so are the words of the libellous Author than the other did then disswade him from delivering it to the Prince for saith he he will betray you And it so fell out for within less than two hours after his said engagement to the Doctor he presented it to his Father upon which he or any thro whose hands or cognizance it had passed before were all under a disgrace and banished the Court c. The works of this our Author Hakewill are these The vanity of the eye Oxon. 1608. in oct Written for the comfort of a young Gentlewoman who became blind by the Small pox Scutum Regium adversus omnes Regicidas Regicidarum patronos ab initio mundi usque ad interitum Phocae Imperatoris c. lib. 3. Lond. 1612. oct The antient and ecclesiastical practice of Confirmation confirmed by Arguments drawn from Scripture Reason Councils Fathers and later Writers c. Lond. 1613. qu. Answer to a Treatise written by Dr. B. Carier by way of letter to his Majesty wherein he layeth down sundry politick considerations by which he pretendeth himself was mov'd and endeavoureth to move others to be reconciled to the Ch. of Rome c. Lond. 1616. qu. Treatise against the match with the Infanta This little thing which is in MS. I have not yet seen But another of the like nature I have lying by me written by one Thomas Allured sometimes Secretary to Ralph Lord Ever President of Wales the beginning of which is this Though to advise may seem presumptuous yet what is well intended I am more than confident will be neither offensive to your Lordship c. 'T was written to the Marquess of Buckingham who communicating it to the King he was so much displeased that the Author Allured was committed to custody 10 June 1620 being a full year before Hakewill had written his Tract Twelve Sermons concerning Davids vow to reform himself his Family and his Kingdom on Psal 101. Lond. 1621 22. oct Besides which he hath other Sermons extant as 1 Serm. preached at Barnstaple on Judg. 5.51 Lond. 1632. qu. 2 Serm. at the funeral of John Downe Bac. of Div. Rector of Instow in Devon sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. on Dan. 12.3 Oxon 1633. quart Comparison between the days of Purim and that of Powder Treason Printed 1626. qu. An Apology or Declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World proving that it doth not decay c. in four books Lond. 1627. To which were added two more Lond. 1635. fol. 3d Edit In the first of which are Hakewills Replyes to Bishop Goodmans Arguments and Digressions which he had made on the first four books of the before mentioned Apol. or Declar. having been incited thereunto by Hakewills former confutation of some passages in Bish Goodmans Fall of man c. relating to the eternity of the world or for the universal and perpetual decay thereof whereby Goodman would prove the fall of man But this confutation made by our Author whether in MS. or printed I know not I have not yet seen Discourse of the Lords day on Rev. 1.10 Lond. 1641. quart Dissertation with Dr. Heylyn concerning the pretended Sacrifice in the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. A Treatise rescuing Dr. Joh. Rainolds and other grave Divines from the vain assaults of P. Heylyn touching the History of S. George pretendedly by him asserted This I have seen in a MS. fol. but whether ever printed I cannot tell Quaere He also translated into Latine The life of Sir Tho. Bodley his Kinsman which is in MS. in the publick Library At length upon the promotion of Dr. Prideaux to the Bishoprick of Worcester he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. to which he had before been an especial benefactor but did little or not at all reside upon it for the Civil War breaking then forth he receded to his Rectory of Heanton near to Barnstaple in Devon where he lived a retired life to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred forty and nine was buried on the fifth day of the same month in the chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone afterwards laid with this Inscription ingraven thereon Reliquiae Georgii Hakewell S. Th. D. Archidiaconi Surriae collegii Exoniensis hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris in spem resurrectionis hic repositae sunt an 1649. aetatis suae 72. I have seen a copy of his last will and testament proved 2 May 1649 wherein he desires that his body might be buried in Exeter Coll. Chappel if it could conveniently be if not at least his heart under the Communion table or under the desk where the Bible lays with this Inscription on a brass plate to be put on it Cor meum ad te Domine But this I presume was not done because no such Inscription appears However the Society of Ex. Coll. did afterwards in honor to his memory hang up his Picture painted to the life in his doctoral formalities on the Organ-loft at the east end of the isle joyning to the south side of the Chappel In the Rectory of the said Coll. succeeded Mr. afterwards Dr. John Conant and in his Archdeaconry Joh. Pearson D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26 Sept. 1660 a learned man and famous for his Exposition of the Creed and other books He was afterwards the worthy Bishop of Chester and died about the middle of July 1686. ARTHUR DUCK was born of a wealthy family living at Heavytre in Devonshire the place where afterwards his Father built an Hospital became a Student in Exeter Coll. in the year 1595 and that of his age 15 took one degree in Arts in June 1599 and then was made Commoner of the said Coll. Afterwards he translated himself to Hart Hall and as a member thereof proceeded in the said faculty an 1602 and two years after was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. But his genie leading him to the study of the Civil Law he took the degrees in that faculty and much about the same time travelling into France Italy and Germany was after his return made Chancellour of the dioc of Bathe and Wells In which office behaving himself with great integrity prudence and discretion was honoured by and beloved of Lake Bishop of that place and the more for this reason because he was beholden to him for the right ordering of his jurisdiction Afterwards he was made Chancellour of London and at length Master of the Requests and was in
Decemb. 1643. Lond. 1644. qu. The said Prynne was his co-operator in this work also Declaration and protestation against the actings and proceedings of the Army and their Faction now remaining in the H. of Commons This was written on the 19 of Jan. 1648 the Author being then a member of that house secured after he with many of his fellows had been by force taken thence Six serious Queries concerning the Kings tryal by the High Court of Justice The Authors name is not set to them but by all believed to have been written by Walker The mysterie of the two Juntoes Presbyterian and Independent Lond. 1647. in 3 sh in qu. Historie of Independency with the rise growth and practices of that powerful and restless faction Lond. 1648. qu. A list of the names of the members of the H. of Commons observing which are Officers of the Army contrary to the self denying ordinance together with such sums of money Offices and Lands as they have given to themselves for service done or to be done against the King and Kingdom Lond. 1648. This being printed in one sh in qu. was soon after remitted into the first part of the Hist of Independency See more in George Wharton Appendix to the Hist of Independency being a brief description of some few of Argyles proceedings before and since he joyned in confederacy with the Independent Junto in England Lond. 1648. qu. Parallel between Argyle and Cromwell This is printed with the Appendix Anarchia Anglicana Or the history of Independency the second part Lond. 1649. qu. Put out as the former part was under the name of Theodorus verax The High Court of Justice or Cromwells slaughter house being the third part of the Hist of Indep Lond. 1651. qu. Out of which as also the two former parts were many things translated into Latine and printed beyond the seas in a manual 1653. After the Kings Restauration one T. M. added a fourth part which with all the things before mentioned from The mysterie of the two Juntoes c. were printed in one thick volume in qu. Lond. 1661. Upon the coming out of the sec part of the Hist of Independency the Author being discover'd by Cromwell was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 13 Nov. 1649 where having got allowance of pen ink and paper he wrot the third part of that history He gave way to fate there to the great grief of the Presbyterian Party in the month of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and one whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of Allhallowes Barkin near to the said Tower and there buried as I have been informed by his said son John Walker The next Writer that must follow according to time was the greatest Royalist in the age he lived and a person much reverenced by those who knew his Vertues and Piety RICHARD STEUART was born of a gentile family in Northamptonshire at Patishul I think became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1608 aged 14 or thereabouts elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1613 being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in his Faculty studied the Civil Law for a time and took one degree therein In 1624 he proceeded in the said Faculty and in 1628 he was made Preb. of Worcester on the death of Rich. Potter Bach. of Div. About the beginning of March 1629 he had the Prebendship of North Aulton in the Church of Sarum confer'd upon him and about that time was made Chapl. in ord to his Majesty In 1634 he became Dean of Chichester in the place of Dr. Franc. d ee promoted to the See of Peterborough and soon after Clerk of the Closet in the room of Dr. Math. Wren and Prebendary of Westminster in his place an 1638. In which year he resigned his Prebendship of Worcester and was succeeded therein by Will. Smith D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. About the same time he was made Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral and in Dec. or Jan. 1639 Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Sir Hen. Wotton deceased He was also at the same time Dean of the Chappel Royal and when Dr Williams Bishop of Linc. who kept the Deanery of Westminster in commendam with that See was translated to York he was made Dean of that Collegiat Church not in 164â but in 1645. While he remained in the University he was accounted a good Poet and Orator and after he had left it a noted Divine eloquent Preacher and a person of a smart fluent stile In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffer'd much for the Kings cause lost all and at length retiring to France became a great Champion for the Protestant cause at Paris where at le Hostle de Blinville he preached an excellent sermon of the English case or Hezekiahs reformation in vindication of ours So that whereas Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his publick Writings doth most uncharitably suggest as if he Dr. Steuart when at Paris had a design to introduce the French Popery by preaching it appears to the contrary not only in that but in another sermon preached in defence of the Protestants against the Papists in an Auditory of Prelatists there Besides also he with that publick spirited man Sir George Ratcliff did go very far in making an accommodation between the Jansenists and the reformed Party our Author being then Chaplain to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. His works are these An answer to a letter written at Oxford and superscribed to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and Revenues thereof Printed 1647 in 5 sheets and an half in qu. This afterwards came out under this title A discourse of Episcopacy and Sacrilege by way of letter written 1646. Lond. 1683. qu. The said letter was written not at Oxon but rather at Ailesbury by Joh. Fountaine lately a Royalist but then a Turn-coat Three Sermons 1 On 1 Cor. 10.30 2 On Mat. 28.6 3 On 1 Cor. 15.29 Lond. 1656 and 58. in twelv Trias sacra A second Ternary of sermons Lond. 1659 in tw Catholique Divinity or the most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive Doctors of the Church with other ecclesiastical and civil Authors c. Lond. 1657. oct Other sermons as 1 The English case exactly set down by Hezekiahs reformation in a Court sermon at Paris on 2 Kings 18.22 Lond. 1659. oct and before published for the full vindication of the Church of England from the Romanists charge of Schism and commended to the consideration of the late Author of The Grotian Religion discovered The picture of K. Ch. 2. is set before the title 2 Golden remains or three sermons the first on Phil. 4.17 the second on Mark 6.20 and the third on Heb. 10.1 2. Lond. 1661. in tw c. The old Puritan detected and defeated or a brief treatise shewing how by the artifice of pulpit Prayers our Dissenters at all times have endeavoured to undermine the Liturgy of the reformed Church of England Together with the fault and danger of such Prayers
whether vented ex tempore or forethought by a speaker Lond. 1682 in one sh in qu. said by the Bookseller who printed it that Dr. Rich. Steuart was the Author See more in Rich. Sherlock an 1689. The design of this small treatise is as also another of the same subject viz. about the meaning of the 55 Canon published by Dr. Heylyn to make out and evidence that the 55 of K. Jam. 1. enjoyns only an exhortation to or bidding of Prayer and that that Canon contains an express and precise form of Prayer not in the least to be deviated from by Ministers and that the primary design and scope of this Canon was not barely to lay down and prescribe matter heads and contents of Prayer which were to be left to be worded and expressed according to the discretion of the Minister which last is owned to be the more general practice of our Divines tho he saith it is directly against the intendment of the Canon These are all the things that Dr. Steuart hath written as I conceive and therefore I shall only say that when he lay upon his Death-bed at Paris in Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and one K. Ch. 2. gave him two visits being then newly arrived there from his escape from Worcester Fight and his concealment in England and that he was interred in an open burying place in the suburbs of S. German walled in and some time before granted to those of the reformed Religion to bury the bodies of their deceased His Epitaph over his grave made some years after his decease tells us that he died on the 14 of Nov. 1652 but false for it should be 1651 for every one of the English Nation that was then at Paris saith that he died shortly after K. Ch. 2. came into France after his Escape from Worcester Fight which was in the month of Octob. 1651. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 182. HENRY IRETON eldest son and heir of German Ireton of Attenton in Nottinghamshire Esq and brother to Sir Jo. Ireton Lord Mayor of London 1658 was born there or at least in that County became a Gent. Com. of Trinity Coll. in the year 1626 and in that of his age 16 took one degree in Arts in 1629 but left the University without compleating that degree by Determination At which time he had the character in that house of a stubborn and sawcy fellow towards the Seniors and therefore his company was not at all wanting Afterwards he went to the Middle Temple learned some grounds of the common Law became a man of a working and laborious brain which in the end led him into some errors When the grand Rebellion broke out he as a person natur'd to mischief took up Arms against the King and about that time married Bridget one of the daughters of Oliv. Cromwell then a Colonel of a Regiment afterwards Lord Protector of England By whose endeavours he became first a Captain afterwards a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and at length Commissary General upon the new modelling of the Army in the beginning of the year 1645. About that time I find him an active man and one very busie in breaking the Presbyterian Faction in the House of Commons to the end that the Independents might get the King into their own clutches His parts and abilities were such his dissimulation so profound and his mischievous designs had so clean a conveyance that his Father-in-law Cromwell made frequent use of him when he was put to a push to compleat his wicked designs And having always found him to be very capacious of overthrowing Monarchy and a thorow-pac'd dissembler under the mask of Religion being absolutely the best Prayer-maker and Preacher in the Army he with Col. Joh. Lambert who had likewise studied in the Inns of Court and was of a subtle working brain did put him upon writing a Remonstrance on the Armies behalf for justice to be done on the King Whereupon retiring in private for some days to Windsore Castle as I have been informed he drew up the Remonstrance and after he had communicated it to Fairfax the Generalissimo whom he and Cromwell made a stalking horse and to believe any thing and the prime Officers of the Army they caused it to be delivered to the H. of Commons by the hands of Col. Isaac Ewer and seven other Officers Which done it was printed under this title A Remonstrance of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax Lord General of the Parliament Forces and of the general council of Officers held at S. Albans the 16 of Nov. 1648. presented to the Commons assembled in Parliament the 20 instant and tendered to the consideration of the whole Kingdom Lond. 1648 in 9 sheets in qu. Which Remonstrance being read to his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight he propounded four Queries thereupon against the power of the Army which may be seen in his Works printed 1662. p. 671. The said Ireton also who was about that time one of the Commissioners of the Navy did write or at least had a chief hand in a certain Pamphlet called The Agreement of the people meaning of the Army published in the month of Jan. 1648 judiciously answer'd by Will. Ashurst Esq a Parliament man for Newton in Lancashire and a Presbyterian The said Agreement with a Petition was presented to the Parliament in the name of all the Army by Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond and divers chief Officers thereof on the 20 day of the same month of Jan. He the said Ireton was chiefly employed also and took upon him the business of the pen in all the Declarations Desires Modules and Transactions of the Army nay and in all or most Letters written by Fairfax the General to the Parliament before the K. was beheaded being esteemed a person full of invention and industry and skill'd in the common Law About that time he became a busie man to bring his Maj. to his Tryal had a hand in drawing up the Ordinance for it and the Precept for proclaiming the High Court of Justice sate as a Judge among the rest when he was tried and was one of the Committee that appointed the time and place of his Execution Afterwards in June 1649 he was appointed by Parliament the next Commander in chief under Cromwell in his Expedition for Ireland that is to be Maj. General and after his arrival a Commission and Patent was sent to him to be President of Mounster After Cromwell the Lord Lieutenant had given an account to the Parliament of affairs done there he returned into England in June 1650 at which time he left Ireton his Deputy to prosecute the Parliaments Interest there and acting highly against such that they called Rebels was in his way to Limerick taken with a sudden disease some said the plague on the 16 day of November whereupon being conveyed in all hast to Limerick died there on the 26 of the said month in sixteen
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
same Edition He had likewise translated the aforesaid Odes into Lat. but that vrrsion is omitted Versio Latina annotationes in Joh. Malalae Chronographiam Oxon. 1091. oct See in the Prolegomena to that Author written by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. and Fellow of Wadh. Coll. § 42. He hath written also a little thing De sonis which I presume is yet in MS as also Catalogus Manuscriptorum Graecorum in Bib. Bod. pro ratione Auctorum alphabeticus an 1636. MS. in Bodleys Library of great use to curious and critical Students He hath translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the Essence causes symptoms prognosticks and cure of Love or Erotique Melancholy Oxon. 1640. oct Written by Jam. Ferrand Doctor of Phys 2 Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians Lond. 1650. in a large oct Written by Jam. Gafferel Also from Lat. into English 1 Discourse touching the Spanish Monarchy Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Tho. Campanella Which Translation laying dead on the Booksellers hands Will. Prynne of Linc. Inn wrot an Epist and caused this Title to be printed and put before the remaining copies Thomas Campanella a Spanish Frier his advice to the King of Spayne for the obtaining of the universal Monarchy of the World Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Treatise of the Globes Lond. 1639 and 59. oct Written by Rob. Hues and lastly from Ital. into English The History of the rites customs and manner of life of the present Jews throughout the world Lond. 1650. oct Written by Leo Modena a Rabbin of Venice At length this curious person resigning up his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried in S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London having before with Joh. Gregory another Critick received relief in his necessities from Edw. Bysshe Esq then K. of Arms by the Parliaments Authority and also assisted Sir Hen. Holbroke Kt. by whom he had been exhibited to in his Translation of Procopius of Caesarea his History of the Warrs of the Emperor Justinian in 8 books c. Lond. 1653. fol. by exactly comparing the English with the Greek as it was written by David Hoeschelius who had it out of the Duke of Bavaria's library GEORGE JOLLIFF or Joyliff son of Joh. Jol. Gent. was born at East-Stower in Dorsetshire entred a Commoner in Wadham Coll. in Lent Term an 1636 7 but before he had spent two years there he retired to Pembr Coll. and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 being about that time a Lieutenant for the King under Ralph Lord Hopton Afterwards he entred on the Physick line and exercising himself much in Anatomy with the help of Dr. Clayton Master of his Coll. and the Kings Prof. of Physick he made some discovery of that fourth sort of Vessels plainly differing from veins arteries and nerves now called the Lympheducts Afterwards he went to Clare Hall in Cambridge took the degree of Doctor of Physick there and afterwards made a full and open discovery of the said Vasa Lymphatica in Anatomy Lectures in the Coll of Physitians about the year 1653 got to himself a great name and was for a time much retired to for his knowledge in Physick He lived mostly at Garlick hithe in London and dying before the immortal Harvey not without some perturbation of spirit as having been bound for the debts of his Brother was buried in the Church of S. James Garlick hithe about 1655. CUTHBERT SYDENHAM son of Cuthb Syd Gent. was born at Truro in Cornwall became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in Lent term 1639 aged 17 continued there till the City of Oxford was garrison'd for the King at which time being entertained by some of the godly party became a forward Zealot among them About the year 1644 he became Lecturer of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne without any orders unless those of the Presbytery confer'd upon him where by his constant and confident preaching he obtained more respect from the Brethren than any grave or venerable Minister in that or another Corporation could do In the latter end of 1650 he was actually created Master of Arts by vertue of Letters sent to the Members of Convocation from the Committee of Parliament for regulating the University of Oxon which partly say that he Mr. Cuth Sydenham hath long since full time for taking the degree of Master of Arts and is likewise of sufficient abilities in learning whereof he hath given large and publick evidence both by his Writings in asserting the cause of the Parliament and otherwise That though he cannot for his pressing occasions perform his Exercises for that degree yet he hath performed some part of them before the Enemies possessing Oxon c. Among several of his Writings only these following as yet have come to my hands viz. The false Brother or the Mapp of Scotland drawn by an English Pencil Printed in quar Anatomy of Joh. Lilbourn's Spirit and Pamphlets or a Vindication of the two honorable Patriots Oliver Cromwell Lord Governour of Ireland and Sir Arth. Haselrigg Knight and Baronet wherein the said Lilbourn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar and unworthy of civil converse Printed in qu. This Joh. Lilbourn being several times occasionally mention'd in this work I shall be more large of him by and by A Christian Sober and plain exercitation of the two grand practical controversies of these times Infant-baptisme and singing of Psalmes Lond. 1653. in tw Answer'd by Will. Kaye Minister of Stokesley in his book called Baptisme without bason c. Lond. 1653. qu. and by others The greatness of the Mysterie of godliness opened in several Sermons Lond. 1654. 56. and 1672. in oct and tw Which book is the sum of ten Sermons on 1. Tim. 3.16 and hath before the second Edition of it the Authors picture with this written under it Aet 31. 1654. Hypocrisie discovered in its nature and workings being the sum of seven Sermons on Luke 12. latter end of the first verse Lond. 1654. oct with his picture before it in a cloak Printed there again in 1657. and 71. oct This book was published by T. W. one of his perswasion who in his pref to it saith that Cuthb Sydenham was trained up under religious education from his Childhood which made him often profess his jealousie of professors especially such who had the advantage of a godly education through the many experiences and deceits of their own hearts That he was extreme painful even to the visible wasting of his own bodily strength in the work of the Ministry and his great care over his flock c. The said Sermons were taken from his mouth in short hand by the said T. W. who published them without any alteration At lengâh our Author retiring to London to gain health and to print some of his books took up his Lodging in
was usually stiled the great Dictator of Learning of the English Nation The truth is his great parts did not live within a small ambit but traced out the Latitudes of Arts and Languages as it appears by those many books he hath published He had great skill in the divine and humane Laws he was a great Philologist Antiquary Herald Linguist Statesman and what not His natural and artificial memory was exact yet his fancy slow notwithstanding he made several sallies into the faculties of Poetry and Oratory to ease his severer thoughts and smooth his rough stile which he mostly used in the Books by him published in Latine The verses that he wrot scatter'd in various books were in Latine and English and sometimes in Greek and was thereupon numbred among our Poets which perhaps may be the reason why he is brought into the Session of them thus There was Selden and he sate close by the Chaire Wainman not far off which was very faire He seldom or never appeared publickly at the Bar tho a Bencher but gave sometimes Chamber-Counsel and was good at conveyance He was chosen a Burgess for several Parliaments wherein he shewed himself profound by speeches and debates yet mostly an enemy to the Prerogative The first Parliament he appeared in was that which began at Westm 19. Feb. 1623. wherein he served for the Burrough of Lancaster And in another which began 6. Feb. 1625. he served for Bedwin in Wilts and was a constant member in all or most Parliaments following during the Reign of K. Ch. 1. But that in which he became most noted was held in the beginning of 1628 wherein for contemptuous and seditious words then uttered he was imprisoned for several months to the great regret of his fellow Members He was a Burgess also of that unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Novemb. 1640 which breaking forth into a rebellion Selden adhered to it and accepted from the members thereof a Commission to do them service In 1643 he was one of those Lay-men that were appointed to sit in the Assembly of Divines at which time he took the Covenant and silenced and puzled the great Theologists thereof in their respective Meetings In Nov. the same year he was appointed by Parliament Chief Keeper of the Rolls and Records in the Tower of London and on the 15. of Apr. 1645 he was one of the 12 Commoners appointed to be a Commissioner of the Admiralty In Jan. 1646 it was voted that 5000 l. should be given to him for his sufferings that he endured for what he had said or done in Parliament an 1628 which money was paid in May following tho some there are that say that he refused and could not out of conscience take it and add that his mind was as great as his learning full of generosity and harbouring nothing that seemed base He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law wherein arriving to eminence as in other Learning he is oftentimes mention'd not only by learned Authors of our own Nation but by Foreigners He had a very choice Library of Books as well Mss as printed in the beginning of all or most of which he wrot either in the title or leaf before it ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Above all liberty to shew that he would examine things and not take them upon trust His works are these Original of a Duel or single combate Lond. 1610. qu. Jani Anglorum facies altera Lond. 1610. oct rendred into English with large notes on it by Redman Westcot alias Adam Littleton Gent. Lond. 1683. fol. Notes and Illustrations on the first eighteen Songs in Mich. Draytons Poly-olbion Lond. 1612. fol. The second part of this Poly-olbion was printed at Lond. in 1622 but without any notes or illustrations Titles of honour Lond. 1614. in qu. There again in 1631 and 1671. fol. This book is in great esteem with Lay-Gentlemen Analect ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Anglo-Britannic ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c. lib. 2. Francof 1615. qu. c. Notes on Joh. Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae Lond. 1616. oct c. Which book having been before translated into English by Rob. Mulcaster a Lawyer had notes then put to it by our Author Selden Notes on the sums of Sir Ralph Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Ed. 1. These are printed with the former notes This Sir Ralph died 1308 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul within the City of London De Diis Syris Syntagmata duo Lond. 1617. corrected and amended with additions of copious indices thereunto by M. Andr. Beyer Lugd. Bat. 1629. in oct Lips 1672. Amst 1680. in oct History of Tithes Lond. 1618. qu. In the preface the Author reproaches the Clergy with ignorance and laziness and upbraids them with having nothing to keep up their credit but beard title and habit and that their studies reached no farther then the Breviary the Postills and Polyanthea But the best of the Clergy being provoked by those expressions he was so effectually answer'd by Tillesley of Oxon Rich. Montague and Steph. Nettles of Cambridge that he never came off in any of his undertakings with more loss of credit There were Arguments about tithes written against it by Will. Sclater of Cambridge and printed 1623. qu. but such I have not yet seen Soon after Mr. Selden had published his History he was called before the High Commission about the 22 of Dec. 1618. and forced to make a publick acknowledgment of his error and offence given unto the Church in the said book Which usage sunk so deep into his stomack that he did never after effect the Bishops and Clergy or cordially approve their calling tho many ways were tried to gain him to the Churches interest The said Book or History was reprinted in 1680 in qu. with the old date put to it at which time the press and fanatical Party were too much at liberty occasion'd by the Popish Plot. Whereupon Dr. Thom. Comber answer'd it in a book intit An historical vindication of the Divine right of Tithes c. Lond. 1681. qu. Spicilegium in Edmeari 6 libros Historiarum Lond. 1623. fol. Which book is much commended by Antiquaries and Criticks Marmora Arundelliana cum aliquot inscriptionibus veteris Latii Lond. 1628. in qu. Involved into Marmora Oxoniensia publish'd by Humph. Prideaux M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. now Prebendary of Norwych Mare clausum seu de dominio maris lib. 2. Lond. 1635. fol. c. First written as 't is said in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. in answer to a book published by Hugo Grotius called Mare liberum But the Author Selden stomaching the submission and acknowledgment which he was forced to make in the High Commission for his book of Tithes as I have before told you did not only suppress his Mare clausum which he had written in the Kings defence but carried an evil eye to the Court
the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
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 coârected 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. Answerâd 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
stile him in his works the learned Salkeld of which character he would often glory His works are A Treatise of Angels c. Lond. 1613. oct dedic to K. Jam. 1. Treatise of Paradise and the principal contents thereof c. Lond. 1617. oct ded to Sir Franc. Bacon L. Keeper of the Great Seal He gave way to fate at Uffculme in Devonshire having for 14 years before been sequestred of Church Taunton in the month of February in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 84 years or more and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by his son John Salkeld of Uffculme before mention'd Gent. He then left behind him several things of his composition fit for the Press among which were two concerning Controversies between Rome and the Church of Engl. and another of the end of the world which last and one of the former were conveyed to London by his son to his Kinsman Sir Edw. VValker Garter K. of Arms who communicating one of the said former things to Dr. Sam. Parker Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury to know of him whether it was fit to be printed he found it a solid piece and the Author of it learned but the design Cassandrian c. as by his letters I was informed WILLIAM HICKS son of Nich. Hicks Gent. was born at Kerris in the Parish of S. Paulin near to the Mount in Cornwall an 1620 and baptized there on the second day of January the same year After he had been instructed in Grammaticals in the high School at Exeter under Mr. Will. Hayter and partly at Liskerd under one Granger he became a Commoner of Wadham Coll. in Lent Term 1637 and there ran thro the Classes of Logic and Philosophy But being taken thence in the beginning of the Civil War before he could be honored with a degree he was by his Relations put in Arms against the King and in short time became so fanatical in his opinion that he was esteemed by some to be little better than an Anabaptist So that being looked upon as a zealous brother for the Cause he was made a Captain in the Trained Bands and became very forward against those of the loyal party He hath published Revelation revealed being a practical Exposition on the Revelation of S. John Lond. 1659. fol. Which book laying dead on the sellers hands was a new title afterwards put bearing date 1661. with the Authors picture before it in a clock Quinto-Monarchia cum quarto ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã or a friendly compliance between Christs Monarchy and the Magistrates being a glass for the Quinto-Monarchians and all others that desire to know under what dispensations of Providence we now live c. printed and bound with Revelation revealed c. which was written as the common report went in Exet. Coll. and Cornwall by a Kinsman of Will. Hicks called Alexander Harrie a Ministers son in Cornwall Bachelaur of Divinity and sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of Exeter which book Revelation rev coming after his death into Hicks's hands he published it under his own name without any mention of A. Harrie who was a learned man and had in great veneration by those that knew him This Mr. Hicks died at Kerris in the very beginning of March in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried on the third day of the same month in the Parish Church of S. Paulin before mention'd Besides this Will. Hicks was another of both his names Author of Oxford Jests and afterwards of Oxfords Drollery Which books several times printed in oct answering not the expectation of Cambridge men because they have supposed that they were written by a scholastical Wit I desire therefore that they should know that the said Will. Hicks who stiles himself in the titles of his books a Native of Oxon as having been born in S. Thomas Parish of poor and dissolute Parents was bred a Tapster under Tho. Williams of the Star Inn Inholder where continuing till after the Rebellion broke out became a Retainer to the family of Lucas in Colohester afterwards Clerk to a Woodmonger in Deptford where training the young men and putting them in a posture of defence upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 obtained the name of Captain Hicks and was there living in 1669 when his book of Jests was published which gave occasion of other books of the like nature to be afterwards made extant as Cambridge Jests London Jests Englands Jests Poor Robins Jests Westminster Quibbles in verse c. This Hicks who was a sharking and indigent Fellow while he lived in Oxon and a great pretender to the art of Dancing which he forsooth would sometimes teach was also Author of Coffee-house Jests the third Edition of which came out in 1684 and of other little trivial matters meerly to get bread and make the pot walk PHILIP TAVERNER son of Joh. Taverner of Wycombe Great Wycombe in Bucks was born in that County admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. 12 May 1634 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts holy Orders and was made Vicar of West Drayton and afterwards Minister of Hillingdon both in Middlesex He hath written The Quakers rounds Reply to Edm. Burrough Quaker Both which are animadverted upon by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 283 and 308. The Grandfathers advice directed in special to his Children Lond. 1680 81. oct published after the Authors death for the common good What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Hillingdon as I have been informed by those of the neighbourhood TOBIE VENNER was born of gentile Parents at Petherton near to Bridgwater in Somersetshire became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in 1594 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts entred upon the Physick line practis'd that fac for some time in these parts afterwards at Bridgwater and lastly in the City of Bathe and near thereunto In 1613 he took both the degrees in Medicine had then and always after the name of a plain and charitable Physitian was resorted to by rich and poor and venerated by all persons for his happy and successful practice in his faculty He did not only shew the right way for living long but acted it himself confirming the theory of the one with the practice of the other for near 60 years He hath written and published these things following Via recta ad vitam longam or a Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthful life is clearly demonstrated Lond. 1620. 1650 c. in qu. This plain book which was written in condescension to mean capacities got him most of his practice Compendious treatise concerning the nature use and efficacy of the Bathes at Bathe Advertisement concerning the taking of Physick in the Spring Censure
of Faith and Works Oxon. 1665. oct Answer to Mr. Rich. Smiths Letter concerning the sense of that Article in the Creed He descended into Hell dated 29 Apr. 1659. Lond. 1684. oct The said R. Smiths letter was dated from Little More-fields near Lond. in the said month 1659. This R. Smith being a curious person in matters of that nature did make A Collection of several Expositions and Opinions of Christs descent into Hell and had several Conferences with the learned Selden upon that Argument which he left in writing behind him as I shall elsewhere tell you Paraphrase and Annotations upon the ten first Chapters of the Proverbs Lond. 1683. fol. All or most of which books here set down were by the care of Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. published in four volumes in fol. at Lond. 1684. and at the latter end of the fourth Vol. was put an Appendix to the second vol. At length after this most famous and celebrated Author had spent his life in great retiredness lucubration and devotion he surrendred up his most pious soul to God in the house of Sir John Packington before mention'd on the 25 day of April in sixteen hundred and sixty aged 55 years whereupon his body was on the morrow in the evening buried in the Chancel of Hampton Church near to Westwood before mention'd with the whole office and usual rites of the Church of England not at that time restored or practised by publick command Over his grave was soon after a comely Monument erected with an inscription thereon composed by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of London a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 203. a. But a larger than that was made by the affectionate pen of Mr. Tho. Pierce afterwards President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon a copy of which you may see in the beginning of the first vol. of Dr. Hammonds works published by W. Fulman before mentioned The Reader is to know that one Hen. Hammond wrote a book intit Ouragraphy or Speculations on the excrements of Urine c. Lond. 1655. oct c. But this Hen. Hammond who seems to have been a Physician is not to be understood to be the same with our most celebrated Author before mention'd who was brother to Tho. Hammond sometimes a Colonel and afterwards a Lieutenant General in the Army that the Long Parliament raised against K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Judges of that blessed Prince but died before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and so escaped the halter or at least perpetual imprisonment and confiscation of estate The said Dr. Hen. Hammond was also Uncle to Robert Hammond a Colonel of Foot in the said Army made Governour of the Isle of Wight in the beginning of Sept. 1647 and about the 14 of Nov. following his Majesty put his person in trust under the protection of him in the said Isle after he was frighted away from Hampton Court In the middle of July 1648 his Majesty declared to divers of his party about him that the said Colonel was a man of honour and had carried himself civilly and respectively to him Afterwards it was believed that he forfeited the Kings good opinion of him by that uncomely act of looking into his Majesties scrutore of letters with a design to discover something but did not At that time his Majesties servants Mr. Ja. Harrington and Mr. Th. Herbert were in the Bowlingâgreen at Carisbrook waiting upon the King who finding the weather somewhat cold bid Herbert go for his Cloak Herbert therefore entring the Bed-chamber found Hammond the Governour ready to come forth with an Officer in his company and Mr. Humph. Rogers who waited as Page at the Back-stairs and by insinuation had let the said Governour come in Herbert being informed of their designs was afraid to reprove the Governour but as he return'd to the Green with his Maj. Cloak he gave the Page a sharp rebuke with which the Governour being acquainted threatned Herbert with a dismiss for censuring that act of his and had doubtless expel'd him the Castle if his Maj. out of his goodness had not past it by without reproaching the Governour or taking notice thereof as I have been informed by letters from the said Tho. Herbert created a Baronet after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. JAMES CHALONER a younger son of Sir Tho. Chaloner mention'd before under the year 1615 was born in London and at 13 years of age 1616 became a Communer of Brasnose Coll where continuing 3 or 4 years went afterwards either to travel or to the Inns of Court Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he sided with the Parliament and being a person of a mean fortune and ready to run with all Parties he was chosen a Recruiter for Auldborough or Oldburg in Yorksh to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 upon the receeding of two loyal persons who had been elected by the Members of that Borough to his Majesty at Oxon. About the same time he took the Covenant and afterwards siding with the Independents was by the power of Fairfax the Generalissimo appointed Secretary to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon in 1647 and in the year following upon Cromwells Invitation one of the Judges of King Ch. 1. Afterwards he was appointed one of the three Commissioners by the said Fairfax to survey and take an account of the Isle of Man an 1652. which Isle had been given to him the said Fairfax by the Parliament for the great service he did them against the King and at length was made Governour of one of the Castles there known if I mistake not by the name of Peel Castle He hath written A short Treatise of the Isle of Man Lond. 1656. fol. divided in six Chapters Illustrated with Cuts and published by Daniel King of Cheshire at the end of the survey of Cheshire intit The Vale Royal of England written by Will. Smith and Will. Webb Gentlemen This Dan. King who was a pitiful pretender to Antiquities was a most ignorant silly Fellow as Sir Will. Dugdale hath informed me by letters an errant Knave and not able to write one line of true English Afterwards he married a light Huswife who stealing that money from him which for many years before he had been scraping together by his progging and necessitous tricks and shifts died heart-broken for his loss near York house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster about 1664. As for Chaloner who was esteemed by some an ingenious man and a singular lover of Antiquities he had made divers Collections of Arms Genealogies Seals Monuments c. from antient Evidences which being so done were fairly written by him in paper books and afterwards perused by the learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson an eminent Antiquary as some of his Collections from the said books inform me The said Chaloner also had made Collections of Arms
Monuments c. in Staffordshire Shropshire and Chester which coming into the hands of John son of Augustine Vincent Windsore Herald were by him intit Chaloners Collections for Staffordshire Salop and Chester marked with J. C. What became of them after his death which hapned in Drewry-lane in January 1671 I know not In Mar. or Apr. in sixteen hundred and sixty were Messengers sent from the superior Power then in being to take into their custody the said James Chaloner and to secure his Castle for the use of his Majesty but he having received timely notice of their coming he dispatched away himself by poyson taken as 't is said in a Posset made by his Concubine whom he there for several years had kept leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of about 19 years of age begotten on the body of his lawful wife named Ursula daughter of Sir Will. Fairfax of Steeton in Yorkshire EDWARD GEE Son as I conceive of Edward Gee mentioned among the Writers in the first Vol. under the year 1618. p. 377 was born at a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Banbury an 1613 bred in Newton School in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire became a Communer of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1626 took one degree in Arts and left the University for a time At length entring into the sacred Function he proceeded Master in the said faculty 1636 being about that time Chaplain to Dr. R. Parr Bishop of the Isle of Man and a Minister in Lancashire Afterwards when the Rebellion broke out he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and for his great activity in prosecuting the holy cause he became Rector of the rich Church of Eccleston in the said County in the place of Dr. Parr before mentioned and an active man while he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 an 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written A Treatise of Prayer and of divine Providence Lond. 1653. 61. oct The divine right and original of the civil Magistrate from God grounded on Rom. 13.1 Lond. 1658. in a large oct Soon after was another part of this put out concerning the Oath of Allegiance which I have not yet seen He died 26 of May in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Parish Church of Eccleston before mentioned NICHOLAS GREY was born in London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell took the degrees in Arts and being noted for a pure Latinist and Greecian was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons Hospital School After he had taught there some years he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital so that thereby being made uncapable of the place the Governours thereof gave him a Benefice Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think where for some time he lived as 't were out of his Element On the 29 of January 1624 he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Taylors School where continuing till 1631 he was then or soon after made chief Master of the School at Eaton Coll and at length Fellow of that house but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Univ. of Oxon which degree was confer'd on him about that time I know not for it appears not so in the publick Register In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians was put to difficult shifts and with much ado rub'd out for some years At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent in or before the Reign of Oliver in the place of Tho. Horne made Master of Eaton School continued there till the Kings return and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship was in hopes to spend his old age in peace retiredness and plenty but he died soon after as I shall anon tell you His works are these Dictionary in English and Latine Lat. and English Several times printed at London but when first of all published I know not This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider had many additions put to it by Grey but a second or third edit of Holyok's Dict. coming out prevented as 't is said the publication of them He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem Lond. 1647. 50. 55. c. oct Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latine Verse turned into Gr. Verse by Christ Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys Inn Esq This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eaton Coll. by Dr. Grey who hath also published Parabolae Evangelicae lat redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis Lond. in oct when printed I know not for 't is not put down in the tit or at the end He gave way to fate in a poor condition at Eaton in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Choire of the Church or Chappel there near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft on the fifth day of October as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards School-master of Eaton Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton College EDWARD TERRY was born at Leigh near Penshurst in Kent educated in Grammar in the Free School at Rochester entred into Ch. Church in 1607 and in the year after was elected Student thereof where with incredible industry going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1614. In the year following he took a Voyage with certain Merchants into East India where after his arrival he was sent for by Sir Tho. Roe Embassador from the King of England to the Great Mogul with whom he lived as Chaplain in the Court of that mighty Emperor for more than two years At his return he retired to his College and having some small Cure bestowed on him became at length Rector of Great Greenford in Middlesex which he enjoyed about 30 years and submitted to the men that bore sway in the time of Rebellion He was an ingenious and polite man of a pious and exemplary conversation a good Preacher and much respected by the Neighbourhood where he lived He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Lawless liberty preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. in the Cath. of S. Paul on Psal 2.3 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving preached 6 Sept. 1649 to the East India Company upon a late return of their Ships on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1649. qu. and other Sermons published in
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â 1â aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury THOMAS CHALONER a younger son yet elder than James Chaloner before mention'd of Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight was born in Buckinghamshire at Steeple-Claydon near Buckingham as it seems became a Sojournor of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of 1611 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left the College and what was fit to accomplish his natural parts which were good were not omitted by his Father He afterwards travelled into France Italy and Germany and returned a well bred Gentleman but ting'd as it seems with antimonarchical Principles if not worse About that time he setled at or near Gisburgh in Yorkshire where there is an Estate belonging to the Name and Family was elected a Burgess for a Corporation in Yorksh to serve in the Long Parliament about 1643 wherein he became a frequent Speaker an enemy to the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their new Utopian Commonwealth All which he did partly out of his natural inclination and partly out of revenge for the loss which his Father endured and so consequently he for being deprived of the propriety of the Alum Mines in Yorkshire which he had discovered about the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth In 1647 he with Col. Jo. Temple were appointed Commissioners of Parliament in Mounster was one of the Kings Judges in 1648 and soon after made a member of the Council of State In 1658 he was elected a Burgess for Scarborough in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament called by Richard to meet at Westm 27 of Jan. but afterwards shewing himself a zealous Rumper upon the turning out of the Fag end of that Parliament called the Rump by Col. Jo. Lambert and his Party on the 13 of Oct. 1659 he was committed to Prison by Ch. Fleetwood then made Commander in chief of all the Forces in England where continuing till 27 of Decemb. following was then released by the Members of the Rump Parliament who had retaken their places the day before and on the 2 of Jan. following he was appointed by the House one of the Council of State This Tho. Chaloner was as far from a Puritan or Presbyterian as the East is from the West for he was a boon Companion was of Harry Marten's gang was of the natural Religion and loved to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life without any regard of laying up for a wet day which at his last he wanted The things that he hath published are these An Answer to the Scotch Papers delivered in the H. of Commons concerning the disposal of the King's person Lond. 1646. qu. In answer to which divers did exercise their pens some scoffingly and some in earnest whereupon came out this Pamphlet intit The justification of a safe and well-grounded Answer to the Scottish papers printed under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech or Answer which doth maintain the honour of the Parliament and interest of the Kingdom of England Lond. 1646. qu. Written as 't was usually said by Tho. Chaloner Afterwards came out against Chaloner Lex talionis or a Declaration against Mr. Chaloner the Crimes of the times and the Manners of you know whom Lond. 1647. in one sh in qu. and also An answer to a Speech without doers or animadversions upon an unsafe and dangerous Answer to the Scotch Papers under the name of Mr. Chaloner his Speech c. in one sh in qu. A true and exact relation of the strange finding out of Moses his tomb in a Valley near unto Mount Nebo in Palestina c. Lond. 1657. in about 3 sheets in oct This book at its first appearance made a great noise and pusâed the Presbyterian Rabbies for a time at length the Author thereof being known and his story found to be a meer sham the book became ridiculous and was put to posteriour uses At length in the beginning of the year 1660 upon a foresight that King Ch. 2. would be restored he therefore knowing very well that his former actions would not enduâe the touchstone withdrew himself beyond the seas and setling in a fearful condition at Middleburgh in Zeeland died and was buried there about sixteen hundred sixty and one Since my writing of this I find that this Mr. Chaloner published A speech containing a plea for Monarchy an 1â59 But therein being several Restrictions came out an Answer to it by way of Address to General George Monke THOMAS CULPEPER or Colepeper was born of a gentile Family at Harietsham in Kent became a Communer of Hart Hall in 1591 aged 13 years departed thence without a degree went to the Inns of Court and afterwards to his Patrimony which is all I know of him only that first he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. on the 23 of Sept. 1619 secondly that he wrot A Tract against the high rate of Usury presented to the Parliament in 1623 printed several times the fourth Edit of which came out at Lond. 1668 prefac'd with a discourse by his son Sir Tho. Culpeper and thirdly that dying at Hollingbourne in Kent in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church there on the 25 of January the same year leaving then behind him the character of a good man There is a stone over his grave but hath no Inscription on it CHRISTOPHER HARVEY a Ministers son of Cheshire was born in that County became a Batler of Brasenose Coll. in 1613 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1620 holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Clifton in Warwickshire His works are these The right Rebell A treatise discovering the true use of the name by the nature of Rebellion with the properties and practices of Rebells Appliable to all both old and new Phanatiques Lond. 1661. oct Faction supplanted or a caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebells in two parts 1. A discourse concerning the nature properties and practices of Rebells 2. Against the inconstancy and inconsistent contrariety of the same mens pretensions and practices principles and doctrines Lond. 1663. oct pen'd mostly in 1642 and finished 3 Apr. 1645. This book I suppose for I have not seen it or the other is the same with the former only a new title put to it to make it vend the better Another book goes under his name called Conditions of Christianity printed at Lond. in tw but that or any other besides I have not yet seen CONSTANTINE JESSOP son of Joh. Jess of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire Minister of Gods Word was entred a Student in Jesus Coll. in 1624 aged 22 years whence after he had gone a course he went into Ireland and was made Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin At his return he was incorporated in this University an 1â31 and in the year following proceeded in Arts being about that time in holy Orders but what his Employment was between that time and 1640
before he took a degree entred into holy Orders and taking to wife the daughter of Sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire Chancellour of Peterborough and afterwards Dean of the Arches was put into the Commission of Peace being then Rector of Water-Stratford in Bucks by the gift of Sir Arth. Throcmorton of Paulerspury About that time shewing himself a fierce Persecutor of the Puritans living near him was thro the means of his Father-in-law made Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and by the endeavours of Dr. Piers Vicechanc. of this University Doctor of Divinity an 1624 being then a Member of Linc. Coll. tho he before had not been honoured with any degree in this or as I presume in any other University He with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors of the Kings Cause and Prerogative and great promoters for the raising a Loan of money without the knowledge and assistance of his Parliament an 1626. For which service both had preferment Manwaring being afterwards made Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex c. and Sibthorpe Chaplain in ord to his Maj. Prebendary of Peterborough and Rector of Burton Latimers in Northamptonshire from which two last he was violently ejected in the beginning of the Civil Wars He was a person of little learning and of few parts only made it his endeavours by his forwardness and flatteries to gain preferment If you 'll believe one that was no great friend to the Church of England he 'll tell you that Sibthorpe and Manwaring were exceeding pragmatical so intollerably ambitious and so desperately proud that scarce any Gentleman might come near the tail of their Mules c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A counterplea to an Apostates pardon on Jerem. 5.7 Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Apostolical obedience an Assize Serm. at Northampton on Rom. 13.7 Lond. 1627. qu. The whole scope of which is to justifie the lawfulness of the general loan then set on foot by the Kings ill Counsellors as one saith to keep off Parliaments and of the Kings imposing publick taxes by his own regal Power without consent in Parliament and to prove that the People in point of conscience and religion ought chearfully to submit to such loanes and taxes without any opposition For which matters he was called into question and censured by the Parliament He hath other things extant as I have been informed but such I have not yet seen and therefore can only say that in the time of the Rebellion he suffered very great calamities for his Majesties cause but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. in 1660 he was restored to his Prebendship Rectory of Burton Latimers and other Ecclesiastical Benefices if he had any besides them and that dying in a good old age was buried on the 25 of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two in the Chancel of the Church of Burton Latimers One Robert Sibthorpe Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Northcadbury in Somersetshire became a Student of Ball. Coll. in 1613 aged 18 years which is all I know of him being not to be understood to be the same with the former And another Rob. Sibthorpe I find to have been M. of A. of Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland See more in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1619. PETER HEYLYN Son of Henry Heylyn descended from an antient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire on the 29 of Nov. 1599 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first and after under Mr. Edw. Davys where profiting in Trivials to a miracle especially in Poetry in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offer'd was in the year 1613 plac'd by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors viz. Mr. Joseph Hill and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll but being then put by was the year following elected by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts which was in Oct. 1617 he read every Long vacation till he was Master Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618 it was so well approved that for that and his other learning he was chose Probationer and the year following perpetual Fellow of the said house On the 22 of Feb. 1619 he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following In Nov. the same year it was printed and being dedicated to Prince Charles he presented him being then at Theobalds with a copy of it which was very graciously received In 1623 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates Church and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography 't was printed again and presented to the Prince the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers who then spake very affectionately in his commendations About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King he approved of it well but unfortunately falling on a passage therein whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England he became so much offended that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book whereupon the Author then at Oxon being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean that the King perusing it rested very well contented with the matter In 1625 he went into France where spending about six weeks in several placââ wrot the particulars of the said journey in a Book the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers but a copy of it he kept by him which at length 30 years after or thereabouts he publish'd to correct a false copy that had crept abroad On the 24 April 1627 he answer'd pro forma on these questions 1 An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis 2 An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgment of Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae who thereupon fell foul upon him calling him Bellarminian Pontifician and I know not what and did his best to beat him from his grounds but he held his own This raised great clamour for the present which Prideaux increased the munday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the publick School of Divinity which might have done him more mischief among his friends but that as he saith God stood with him On the
Prince of Poets fell into the hands of the Satyrical wits of this University who having easily got some of his prose and poetry served him as the wits did Tom. Coryat in his time and published them under these titles Naps upon Pernassus A sleepy muse nipt and pincht though not awakened c. Lond. 1658. oct Characters Printed with the former Both which were usher'd into the world by more than twenty Copies of verses advantaging the sale of the book by such that had the name of or at least pretended to be Poets Among them were Tho. Flatman Tho. Sprat and Sam. Woodford since noted and famed for their Poetical works Silvanus Taylour and George Castle of All 's Coll the former better at Musick the other at lying and buffooning than Poetry And among others not now to be named must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a Jew and Florentine born then a Teacher of Hebrew and other tongues in the University afterwards a converted Christian and Reader of a Hebrew Lecture in Sion Coll. Lond. Our Author Austin hath also written and published A Panegyrick on K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1661. oct wherein just after the Preface he promised to publish more Poems conditionally the said Paneg. took the Subjects of which are there set down But what prevented him unless death which hapned about the plague year in 1665 I cannot tell JOHN OSBORNE a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous cause was the Son of John Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire whence after he had been trained up in trivial learning he was sent to New inn in the year 1634 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and became a frequent Preacher up of the Presbyterian design At length having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire in the place of a Loyalist ejected where continuing till the Act of conformity put him out preached in Conventicles in the Neighbourhood and thereupon was imprison'd for several weeks in Oxford Castle Afterwards being let loose he retired to the great City taught School and lived in S. Barthelmews Parish near little Britaine to the time as I take it of his death He hath published The Mysterie of the resurrection on Acts 24.15 Lond. 1651. qu. Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of Westwell near Burford at Burford in Oxfordshire concerning the resurrection of the Body Printed with The mysterie c. He also took a great deal of pains in making A catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament and had printed about 8 sheets of it but Will. Crowe of Suffolk Schoolmaster of Croyden in Surrey the same I mean who hung himself about the latter end of 1674 coming out before him on the same subject in 1659 prevented him from going any farther This Cat which hath been several times since printed is called by some Osbornes but by the generality Crowes Catalogue One John Osborne hath translated into English for the use of Schools Comenius his Vestibuli linguarum auctuarium c. Printed several times and in 1670 it was printed at London in oct Whether this Jo. Osborne be the same with the former I cannot yet tell GEORGE KENDALL son of Rich. Kendall of Rowel in Northamptonshire was born in that County became Batler of New inn in the year 1630 and that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards was actually created Master of that faculty when K. Ch. 1. was entertained at Oxon an 1636. He hath written a book entit An Appendix to the unlearned Alchymist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent Diopharetick and Diuretick pill purging by sweat and urine commonly known by Matthews Pill c. Lond. 1664. At which time he practiced Physick but whether graduated here in that faculty or licensed to practice it it appears not What other things he hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of the Author THOMAS HALL son of Rich. Hall clothier by Elizabeth Bonner his Wife was born in S. Andrews Parish within the City of Worcester about the 22 of July 1610 bred up to Grammar learning in the Kings School there under the famous Hen. Bright who perceiving him to be a youth of pregnant parts was by his perswasion sent to Ball. Coll. in 1624 But being his chance to be put under the tuition of a careless Tutor he was removed to Pembroke Coll. then newly founded and became Pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington reputed by the generality of Scholars eminent for his Philosophical learning After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and had compleated it by publick Determination he returned to his Country and for a while taught a private School and preached in the Chappels belonging to Kings Norton in Worcestershire Afterwards being a frequenter of the Lectures at Bermingham in Warwickshire maintained and held up by old Puritans they so much operated on his spirit that he relinquished his former principles adhered to that party and in many respects became an enemy to the Church of England and in fine so rigid in his perswasion that he was disliked by the Brethren Much about the same time he served the cure of Kings Norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who at length resigned it all unto him and for his farther encouragement got the Free-school adjoyning to be added to it Both which employments took up most of his time and were all the preferments he ever had in the Church For being a single person a lover of books and learning and of a retired and obscure life never looked farther than his beloved Kings Norton At the turn of the times in 1641 he shew'd himself openly a Presbyterian and complied altogether with that party not for preferment sake but because they were against Bishops and Ceremonies At length in 1652 having the testimony of godly and able men had the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd upon him by the then members of the University but with this condition that he should preach a Latine Sermon as part of his exercise and an English Sermon instead of his other exercise Both which were as I conceive accordingly done tho his admission appears not He was accounted a Person by those of his own perswasion of great integrity and single-heartedness in his Ministry of a free and liberal heart just and one that lived much by faith of an holy and unblamable life of humble deportment and carriage a great lover of peace a plain and profitable Preacher that he was much in communion with God in publick abundant in thansgiving to God careful how to spend his time c. His works are these The Pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publick preaching and expounding the Scriptures without a Call c. Lond. 1651. qu. Answer'd by one Tho. Collier of whom more anon Six arguments to
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUEâ FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Ch. yard there belonging to S. Maries Church aforesaid In his Rectory succeeded his Kinsman Tho. Ellis Bac. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll Son of Griffin Ellis of Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire who having been well vers'd in British Histories and a singular lover of Antiquities made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell as I have before told you which being so done the book was licensed and put into the Press at Oxon. But by that time he had printed 20 sheets or more out came Percie Enderbie with his book entit Cambria triumphans c. Or antient and modern British and Welsh Historie Lond. 1661. fol. In which book Tho. Ellis finding that Enderbie had seized upon those materials that he had collected for the fabrick of his work he did desist from going any further and caused what had been printed of his work to be sold for wast paper He died at Dolbehman in the beginning of the year in Apr. 1673 and was buried in the Church belonging to that town As for Enderbie who was an Author of no considerable note as having not had that just education which is requisite for a genuine Historian hath done his work but very meanly being mostly a scribble from late Authors and gives not that satisfaction which curious men desire to know And therefore I am perswaded that had Ellis finished his work 't would have been more acceptable to Scholars and intelligent Persons as having had more opportunities and advantages by reason of his birth and a continual succession of his family in Wales to know such matters than Enderbie who was a stranger for he was born at or near to the City of Lincoln and knew little or nothing of Wales till he setled there by a clandestine Marriage with the Daughter of Sir Edw. Morgan of Lantarnam in Monmouthshire Baronet but upon some encouragement received from certain Gentlemen and from the Library at Lantarnam he undertook it partly for fame but more for money sake This Person who translated into English The Astrologer anatomiz'd or the vanity of Star-gazing Art discovered written by Benedict Pererius died at or near Carleon in Apr. 1670 leaving some other things as 't was said fit for the press but if they be no better than his Cambria triumphans 't is no matter if they suffer the same fate as the papers of Tho. Ellis did Besides the before-mention'd John Ellis was another of both his names and a writer bred in Cambridge and afterwards Vicar of Waddesdon in Bucks Father to Philip Ellis bred in Westminster School but in no University in England because he had changed his Religion for that of Rome consecrated a titular Bishop in the Chappel belonging to S. James house in Westminster on Sunday 6. of May 1688. MATTHEW GRIFFITH was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of May 1615 aged 16 years or more took one degree in Arts as a member of Glouc. Hall then holy Orders and soon after became Lecturer of St. Dunstans Church in the West under the inspection as 't is said of Dr. John Donne whose favourite he was Afterwards he was made Rector of S. Mary Magd. near Old Fish-street in London by the presentation of the Dean and Chapt. of S. Paul where shewing himself a grand Episcoparian was in the beginning of the rebellion sequestred from his Rectory plundered and imprison'd in Newgate whence being let out he was forced to fly but taken and afterwards imprison'd in Peter-house At length getting loose thence he retired to the King at Oxon by virtue of whose letters he was actually created D. of D. in June 1643 and made one of his Chaplains Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and there by stealth read and continued prayers and other ordinances according to the Ch. of England to the poor Cavaliers during the Usurpation for which he suffer'd seven violent assaults as 't is said and five imprisonments the last of which was in Newgate in the beginning of the year 1660. After the Kings return he was restored to his Rectory was made Preacher to the honorable Societies of the Temples and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire but whether he was made a Prebend of a Church or a Dean which he much deserved I know not He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Sermon on Psal 37. ver 1. Lond. 1633. oct 2 Pathetical perswasion to pray for publick peace on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1642. qu. For several passages in which Sermon he suffered imprisonment 3 Sermon touching the power of the King on Eccles 8.4 Lond. 1643. qu. His name is not set to it but the general report then and after was that 't was his 4 The fear of God and the King pressed in a Serm. at Mercers Chappel 25. March 1660 on Prov. 24.21 Lond. 1660. qu. c. In which Serm. shewing himself too zealous for the Royal cause before Gen. George Monk durst own it was to please and blind the fanatical party imprison'd in Newgate but soon after released There was an answer made to this by John Milton entit Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God c. Whereupon came out a little thing called No blind guides c. addressed to the Author in two sheets in Rog. Lestrange his Apologie Lond. 1660. qu. 5 Communion Serm. preached at Serjeants inn before the Judges on Rom. 12.4.5 Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Catholic Doctor and his spiritual Catholicon on 1. John 1.7 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 The Kings life-guard an anniversary Sermon preached to the honorable society of both the Temples 30. Jan. 1664. on 1. Sam. 26.9 Lond. 1665. qu. Besides which he hath others that are extant but such I have not yet seen as The Samaritan revived another called The blessed birth c. He hath also written Bethel or a forme for families in which all sorts of both sexes are so squared and framed by the word as they may best serve in their several places for useful pieces in Gods building Lond. 1654. qu. Brief historical account of the causes of our unhappy distractions and the only way to heal them Lond. 1660. oct This is added to a second edition of the Sermon called The fear of God and the King c. This most zealous and loyal Person departed this mortal life at Bladon before mention'd on the 14. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there He had before broken a vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point study to be quiet and follow your own business In the said Rectory of Bladon Woodstock being a Chappel of ease to it succeeded Henry Savage D. D. Master of Balliol Coll. of whom I shall make mention among these writers under the year 1672. THOMAS WARMESTRY son
of Will. Warm Registrary of the Cath. Church at Worcester was born and educated in Grammar learning in that City became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1624 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631 and had some spiritual cure in his own Country confer'd upon him soon after In 1640 he was Clerk for the Diocess of Worcester in the two Convocations of the Clergy held that year and in 1642 he retired for security sake the Nation being then in a combustion to the King at Oxon where he was actually created D. of D. the same year and afterwards lost what he had before obtained in the Church notwithstanding he had always before been accounted a Puritan After the Kings cause declined he lived mostly in London was the distributer of money obtained from generous Loyalists to sufferers for the royal interest was chief confessor to loyal Martyrs a constant and indefatigable visiter and comforter of sick and distressed Cavaliers for so the Royalists were called very zealous also in converting Infidels industrious in reclaiming the loose and establishing the wavering zealous and careful in preparing his auditors for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost was made Prebendary of Glocester and in the year following Dean of Worcester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Oliver in which Dignity he was installed 27. Nov. 1661. He hath written and published A convocation speech against images altars crosses the new canons and the oath Lond. 1641 in 3. sh in qu. Pax vobis or a charm for tumultuous spirits being an advice to the City of London to forbear their disorderly meetings at Westminster Lond. 1641. qu. Ramus Olivae or a petition for peace to his Maj. and the Houses of Parliament Oxon. 1642. qu. Answer to one W. Bridges concerning the present war and taking up Arms against the King Printed 1643. qu. This W. Bridges I take to be the same with him who wrot Some short annotations on The loyal convert Lond. 1644. in 4. sheets in qu. but not the same I presume with Will. Bridges Preacher at S. Dunstans in the East London Author of Joabs counsel and Davids seasonable hearing it serm before the H. of Com. at the publick fast 22. Feb. 1642 on 2. Sam. 19.5.6.7.8 Lond. 1643. qu. and of other things I find one Will. Bridge to have been fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Minister in Norfolk but to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories he with Jerem. Burroughes withdrew themselves into the Low countries Upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians Bridge returned became Minister at Yarmouth in Norfolk a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament a notorious Independent and a keeper up of that faction by continual preaching during the time of Usurpation silenced upon his Majesties return carried on his cause with the said Jer. Burroughs in Conventicles at Clapham in Surrey till about the time of his death which hapned in 1670. I say this Will. Bridge who while he lived published several Sermons and Theological Tracts and after his death had 8 of his Sermons made publick which are entituled Bridges remains c. Lond. 1673. oct with his picture before them is not to be taken to be the same with Will. Bridges before mention'd because of the different writings of their names Dr. Warmestry hath also written An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London before their meeting in their common Hall 24 1648. whereby they have an opportunity to become the happy instruments of their own safety and the peace and preservation of the Kingdom Lond. 1648 in two sheet in qu. Vindication of the solemnity of the nativity of Christ Printed 1648. qu. Answer to certain Queries propounded by one Joseph Hemming in opposition to the practice of the Church in the solemnity of the said nativity Printed with the Vindication Sighs of the Church and Commonwealth of England Lond. 1648. in tw A box of Spiknard or a little manual of Sacramental instruction and devotion especially helpful to the People of God at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper Lond. 1664 third edit in 12o. printed there again in 1671. and 74. in 24o. The baptized Turk or a narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo the only Son of a silk Merchant in the isle of Tzio c. and of his admission unto Baptisme by Mr. Pet. Gunning at Exeter house Chappel 8. Nov. 1657. Lond. 1658. oct This narrative was drawn up by our Author Warmestry who caused the picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit to be put before it The countermine of union or the Jesuits mine of division being a short platform of expedients for peace Lond. 1660. What other books he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 30. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 60 or thereabouts was buried by his Father Grandfather and other relations in the body of the Cathedral at Worcester not far from the north door Over his grave is an inscription engraven on a black marble the copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 279.6 In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas of whom I shall make mention in his proper place ROBERT POINTZ son of Sir John Pointz was born of and descended from an antient and noble family of his name living at Iron-Acton in Glocestershire was educated for a time in the quality of a Gent. Com. in this University but in what Coll. unless in that of Lincoln for I cannot find him matriculated as yet I know not Afterwards he studied for a time in one of the Temples and when K. Ch. 1. was crown'd in 1625 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath He hath written A vindication of Monarchy and the government long established in the Ch. and Kingdom of England against the pernitious assertions and tumultuous practices of the Innovators during the last Parliament in the raign of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. He was buried in the Church of Iron-Acton among the graves of his ancestors on the tenth day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 79 years or thereabouts leaving then behind him a Son named John a Knight who died in the Middle Temple at London in 1680 and left behind him a relict named Anne but not the estate at Iron-Acton because it had been conveyed away by his Father One of his name and family called Captain John Pointz wrot and published The present prospect of the famous and fertile Island of Tobago c. with Proposals for the encouragement of all those that are minded to settle there Lond. 1683. in 7 sh in qu. Whether he was of any University I know not JOHN EARLE received his first being in this vain and transitory
the second Vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts and printed at Lond. 1665. fol. having been by him performed during his retirement in the time of sickness at Kingston upon Thames This author was afterwards published in lesser volumes with this title The Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse adorned with sculptures and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1673. 74. in two vol. in oct The next things that he composed were The Ephesian Matron and The Roman Slave two heroick poems dedicated to Thomas Earl of Ossory And altho a second part met with a fate not common yet it was esteemed equal with the former Afterwards he wrot Carolies an Epick poem in 12. books so called from our miracle of Heroes K. Ch. 1. being the best pattern of true prudence valour and christian piety This was utterly lost in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 when then the habitation of our author Ogilby in the White friers near Fleet-street was burnt and he himself undone having but 5 l. left to begin the world again But so it was that he had such an excellent invention and prudential wit and was Master of so good addresses that when he had nothing to live on he could not only shift handsomly but would make such rational proposals which were embraced by rich and great men that in short time he would obtain an estate again He never failed in what he undertook but by his great industry and prudence went through it with profit and honor to himself Soon after the said conflagration he had his house in the White friers before mention'd rebuilt set up a Printing-house therein employed able workmen became his Majesties Cosmographer and Geographick Printer and by proposals printed several books that he and his Assistants had translated and collected as 1 An Embassy from New Batavia to the Emperor of China c. Lond. 1669. fol. adorned with Maps prospects and various sculptures as all the books following which he published were 2 Description of Africa c. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first part of his English Atlas 3 Descript of America c. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second 4 Atlas Japanensis Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassie from the East India Company of the Unital Provinces to the Emperour of Japan c. Lond. 1670. fol. 5 Atlas Chinensis Being the second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two Embassies from the East India Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simlamong c. Lond. 1671. fol. 6 Asia the first part being an accurate description of Persia and the several Provinces thereof c. Lond. 1673. 74. fol. The 2d part the author did not live to finish however this is looked upon as another part of the English Atlas 7 Description of Europe not finished by the Author who intended it to be the fourth part of the Engl. Atlas 8 Britannia An Historical and Geographical description of Britanie c. The first part fol. All which are printed on imperial paper adorned with maps and most curious sculptures and were carried on and sold by way of standing Lotteries There also goes under his name A pocket book of Roades in England and a new map of the City of London as it is new built c. Printed in one sheet of large paper He also and Will. Morgan made A new and accurate Map of the City of London distinct from Westminster and Southwark c. which is six foot long and six foot deep with a long narrow book to describe the places therein as also A Map of London Westminster and Southwark and A survey of Essex with the roads therein exactly measured c. At length Mr. Ogilby having lived to a fair age gave way to fate on the fourth day of Sept. 1676. and was buried in the Vault under part of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London At which time many Persons of great knowledg usually said that had he been carefully educated when a young man in an University might have proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch Nation JAMES HOWELL was born in Caermerthenshire particularly as I conceive at Abernant of which place his Father was Minister In what year he was born I cannot precisely tell you yet he himself saith that his ascendant was that hot constellation of Cancer about the midst of the Dog-days After he had been educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Hereford he was sent to Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1610 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then being a pure Cadet a true Cosmopolite not born to land lease house or office was in a manner put to it to seek his fortune but by the endeavours of friends and some money that his Father assisted him with he travelled for three years into various Countries whereby he advantaged himself much in the understanding of several languages Some years after his return he was sent into Spain 1622 to recover of the King of that place a rich English Ship seized on by his Vice Roy of Sardinia for his Masters use upon some pretence of prohibited goods therein Three years after his return in which interval he was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1623 he was entertained by Emanuel Lord Scrope Earl of Sunderland and Lord President of the North and by him was made his Secretary So that residing in York for that purpose he was by the Mayor and Aldermen of Richmond chose a Burgess for their corporation to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster in the year 1627. Four years after he went Secretary to Robert Earl of Leycester Embassador extraordinary from our King to the King of Denmark before whom and his Children he shew'd himself a quaint Orator by divers lat speeches spoken before them shewing the occasion of their Embassie to condole the death of Sophia Qu. Dowager of Denmark Grandmother to Ch. 1. K. of England Afterwards going through several beneficial employments particularly the assisting the Clerks of the Council was at length in the beginning of the Civil War made one of those Clerks but being prodigally inclined and therefore running much into debt he was seized on by order of a certain Committee after the King was forc'd from his Parliament and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. So that having nothing to trust to but his wits and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Pernassus which he held in fee of the Muses he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books which tho several of them are meer scribbles yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistance during his long stay there After the Kings return in 1660 we never heard of his restauration to his place of Clerk of the Council having before flatter'd Oliver and sided with the Commonwealths men only that he was made the Kings Historiographer being the first in England that bore that title and having no
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
oct Which first book is the same I suppose with Abuses whipt and stript which stands first in the six of his poetical pieces that he published in 1622 of which the said Satyr is one intit in the first edit A Satyr dedicated to his most excellent Majesty Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct at the end of The Sheppards pipe written by Will. Browne of the Inner Temple to whom one of the said Egl. is dedicated The Sheppards hunting being certain Eglogues made during the time of the Authors imprisonment in the Marshalsea Lond. 1615 and 22. oct Which book as 't is said contains more of poetical fancy than any other of his writings Preparation to the psalter Lond. 1619. in a thin fol. in prose Soliloquy or the Authors preparation of himself unto the study and use of the psalter This written in verse is printed at the end of Prep of the psal Hymne of thanksgiving after sickness This also is printed with it Fidelia a Poem Lond. 1619. sec edit and 22. oct Exercises on the first psalme both in prose and verse Lond. 1620. oct Withers motto Nec habeo nec careo nec curo Nor have I nor want I nor care I. Lond. 1618. and 21. in oct written in verse and dedicated to any body Whereupon Joh. Taylor a Water poet came out with a book intit Taylors motto Et habeo careo curo I have I want I care Lond. 1621. oct dedic to every body This Joh. Taylor was born in the City of Glocester went to school there and having got into his Accidence was bound an Apprentice to a Waterman in London which tho a laborious employment yet such was his prodigious genie to Poetry that he wrot very many things in that faculty that made great sport in their time and were most of them esteemed worthy to be remitted into a large folio Had he had learning bestowed on him according to his natural parts which were excellent he might have equalled if not excelled many who claim a great share in the temple of the muses Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1642 he left London retired to Oxon where ha was much esteemed by the Court and poor remnant of Scholars for his facetious company kept a common Victualling-house and did great service for the royal Cause by writing bitter Pasquils against the Roundheads After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred he retired to Westminster kept a publick house in Phenix Alley near Long-Acre and continued constant in his loyalty to the King After whose murder he set up a sign over his door of a Mourning Crown but that being esteem'd malignant he pulled it down and hung up his own picture under which were these Verses written There 's many a head stands for a signe Then gentle Reader why not mine On the other side Though I deserve not I desire The laurel wreath the Poets hire He died in the year 1654 aged 74 years and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden as I have been informed hy his Nephew a Painter of Oxford who gave his picture to the School Gallery there where it now hangs shewing him to have been of a quick and smart countenance But all this of Taylor do I speak by the by Now let 's proceed to the rest of the Works of G. Wither which are these Epithalamia or nuptial Poems upon the most blessed and happy Marriage between Frederick the 5. Count Palatine of the Rhine and Princess Elizabeth sole daughter of K. James Lond. 1622. oct Canonical Hymnes and Songs Hymnes and Songs of the Church Lond. in tw Songs of Moses and other Hymnes of the old Test The scholars Purgatory discovered in the Stationers Commonwealth and described in a discourse apologetical as well for the publick advantage of the Church the State and whole Commonwealth of England as for the remedy of private injuries Where or when printed it appears not 'T is written in prose and printed in octavo Britains remembrancer containing a narration of the Plague lately past a declaration of mischiefs present and a prediction of Judgments to come c. Lond. 1628. oct Written in verse 1625. Psalmes of David in lyrick verse illustrated Lond. 1632. oct or tw Prophecy of our present calamity and except we repent future misery Written 1628. Emblems illustrated or a collection of Emblems antient and modern Quickned with metrical illustrations both moral and divine and disposed into lotteries that instruction and good counsel may be fathered by an honest and pleasant recreation in 4 books Lond. 1634. 35. fol. Apology to the Lords of the Council in justification of the reproof of Vices in his poems Discourse concerning the plantations of Ulster in Ireland with pre-conjectures of what consequences would probably ensue Printed in prose Meditations on the ten Commandments Printed in verse with sculptures This was lately published again under this title Divine Poems by way of paraphrase on the ten Commandments illustrated with 12 Copper plates shewing how personal punishments have been inflicted c. Lond. 1688. oct Haleluiah or Britains second Remembrancer bringing to remembrance in praisful and penitential Hymns spiritual Songs and moral Odes Meditations advancing the glory of God c. composed in a threefold Volume The first contains Hymns occasional 2. Hymns temporary 3. Hymns personal c. Lond. 1641. in tw The doubtful Almanack or very suspitious presages of great calamities yet to come Printed in one sh in qu. but when unless in 1641. it appears not Proclamation in the name of the King of Kings to all the Isles of Great Britaine Printed in a large oct Campo-Musae or the Field-musings touching his military engagement for the K. and Parl. Lond. 1643. 44. octavo Mercurius Rusticus Print 1643. This was written in imitation of the weekly intelligences then published offering between jest and earnest some particulars to consideration relating both to Civil and Military transactions and hinted notions then pertinent to those times c. The beginning of this Merc. Rust. to distinguish Merc. Rust written by Dr. Ryves is this By your leave Gentlemen when seriousness takes not effect perhaps trifling may c. Letter of advice touching the choice of Knights Cit. and Burgesses in Parl. c. Printed 1644. Vox pacifica A voice tending to pacification of Gods wrath and offering those propositions or conditions by the acceptation or performance whereof in some good measure a firm and continual peace may be obtained c. Lond. 1645. oct in 6. Books or Cantoes What peace to the wicked Pr. 1646. This which is a Poem is an expostulatory answer to a derisory question concerning peace Justiciarius justificatus Lond. 1646. This being an apologetical discourse in English reflecting upon Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey Kt and Parliam man arose a debate in Apr. the same year in the H. of Commons occasion'd by the said Sir Richard concerning several unhandsome expressions therein against him At length in
unicâ felicissime temperavit Infelices sui seculi errores non effugit modo sed strenuè fugavit c. JEREMY TAYLOR tumbled out of his mothers womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge was educated in Gonvill and Caius Coll. there till he was M. of A. Afterwards entring into holy orders he supplied for a time the Divinity Lecturers place in the Cath. of S. Paul in London where behaving himself with great credit and applause far above his years came to the cognisance of that great encourager of learning ingenuity and virtue Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. who thinking it for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course or constant preaching would allow of he caused him to be elected Fellow of All 's Coll. an 1636 Where being setled love and admiration still waited upon him while he improved himself much in Books But this the Reader is to know that tho he came in meerly by the paramount interest of the said Archb yet it was done against the statutes of the Coll in these two respects First because he had exceeded the age with in which the said statutes make Candidates capable of being elected and secondly that he had not been of three years standing in the University of Oxon only a week or two before he was put in However he being a Person of most wonderful parts and like to be an ornament thereunto he was dispenced with and thereby obtained in that house much of that learning wherewith he was enabled to write casuistically About the same time he was in a ready way to be confirmed a member of the Church of Rome as many of that perswasion have said but upon a Sermon delivered in S. Maries Church in Oxon on the 5. of Nov. Gun-powder-treason day an 1638 wherein several things were put in against the Papists by the then Vicechanc he was afterwards rejected with scorn by those of that party particularly by Fr. à S. Clara his intimate acquaintance to whom afterwards he expressed some sorrow for those things he had said against them as the said S. Clara hath several times told me About that time he became one of the Chaplains to the said Archb. of Cant who bestowed upon him the rectory of Uppingham in Rutlandshire and other matters he would have done for him in order to his advance in the Church had not the rebellion unluckily broke out In the year 1642 he was with others by virtue of his Maj. letters sent to this University actually created D. of D. in that noted Convocation held on the first day of Nov. the same year he being then Chaplain in Ord. to his said Majesty and a frequent Preacher before him and the Court in Oxon. Afterwards he attended in his Majesties Army in the condition of a Chaplain where tho he had not a command of his time and books yet he laid the foundation of several Treatises in defence of Episcopacy the Liturgy Ministry and Church of England Upon the declining of the Kings cause he retired into Wales where he was suffer'd under the Loyal Earl of Carbury of the Golden Grove in Caermerthenshire to officiat and keep School to maintain him and his Children From which tho it continued but a few years were several youths most loyally educated and afterwards sent to the Universities In this solitude he began to write his excellent discourses which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library and will be famous to all succeeding generations for the exactness of wit profoundness of judgment richness of fancy clearness of expression copiousness of invention and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian By which he soon after got a great reputation among all Persons of judgment and indifferences and his name grew greater still as the world grew better and wiser When he had spent some years in this retirement in a private corner as 't were of the world his family was visited with sickness and thereby lost the dear pledges or Gods favour three sons of great hopes within the space of two or three months And tho he had learned a quiet submission unto the divine will yet the affliction touched him so sensibly that it made him desirous to leave the Country And going to London he there for a time officiated in a private Congregation of Loyalists to his great hazard and danger At length meeting with Edward Lord Conway a Person of great honour and generosity that Lord after he had understood his condition made him a kind profer which our author Taylor embracing it carried him over into Ireland and setled him at Portmore a place made for study and contemplation which he therefore dearly loved And there he wrot his Cases of conscience a book that is able alone to give its author immortality By this time the wheel of providence brought about the Kings happy restauration and out of a confused Chaos beauty and order began to appear Whereupon our loyal Author went over to congratulate the Prince and Peoples happiness and bear a part in the universal triumph It was not long after his sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church and Dr. Taylor being resolved upon for the Bishoprick of Downe and Connor was consecrated thereunto at Dublin on the 27. of January 1660 and on the 21. of June 1661 he had the administration of the See of Dromore granted to him by his Majesty in consideration that he had been the Churches Champion and that he had suffer'd much in defence of its cause With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office all upon the place knew well and what good rules and directions he gave to his Clergy and how he taught them the practice of them by his own example Upon his being made Bishop he was constituted a Privy Counsellor and the University of Dublin gave him their testimony by recommending him for their Vicechancellor which honorable office he kept to his dying day He was esteemed by the generality of persons a compleat Artist accurate Logician exquisite quick and acute in his reasonings a Person of great fluency in his language and of prodigious readiness in his learning A noted Presbyterian also his Antagonist doth ingeniously confess that Dr. Taylor is a man of admirable wit great parts hath a quick and elegant pen is of abilities in critical learning and of profound skill in antiquity c. and another who knew him well tells us that he was a rare Humanist and hugely vers'd in all the polite parts of learning and had throughly concocted all the antient Moralists Greek and Roman Poets and Orators and was not unacquainted with the refined wits of the later ages whether French or Italian c. But he had not only the accomplishments of a Gentleman but so universal were his parts that they were proportion'd to every thing And tho his spirit and humour were
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at JusticeâHall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâover in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
being seconded with judgment and experience when he began to serve at the altar made him like a burning and shining light and to be looked upon as the most acute and eminent preacher of his age Much about the time that he took the degree of Bach. of Div. an 1612 he was called home into his own Country and succeeded his Father in the rectory of Luckham before mention'd and Will. Fleet in that of Selworthy adjoyning From which time till the rebellion broke out nothing occurs memorable of him only that about the year 1636 he became Prebendary of Exeter and when a Parliament afterwards was conven'd he was by the unanimous consent of the Clergy of the Diocess wherein he liv'd elected to be their Clerk in convocation In the beginning of the Civil War he was the first person that was seised on in the parts where he lived by Rob. Blake then a Captain of Dragoons afterwards General at Sea under Oliver from whom after some time of imprisonment making an escape he fled to the King at Oxon where among many Loyalists he was actually created Doct. of Divinity Before that time he had raised both men and horse for his Majesty and then or after had engaged his five Sons in that just quarrel of which four were Captains exposing all his estate whether spiritual or temporal which was not inconsiderable to rapine plunder and sequestration his children to distress and danger and himself to many grievous shifts and exigencies His wife and daughter also that were left at home were so much troubled by the Rebels that they endeavouring to avoid their cruelties by flight over the Sea into Wales were both drowned All these sufferings our author Dr. Byam patiently endured that he might keep a good conscience not out of any base or greedy desire of reward but meerly out of generous and religious principles When the Prince of Wales afterwards K. Ch. 2. fled from England this our author went with him first to the Island of Scilly and afterwards to that of Jersey where the Prince left him as his Chaplain to preach in his Chappel in the Castle called Elizabeth and there he remained till that garrison was taken by the Parliament forces From which time till the Kings return he lived in a poor and obscure condition but as soon as that glorious star appeared in the British firmament he was made Canon of Exeter and Prebendary of Wells And then when he might have obtained what he would have asked he contented himself only with what his Majesty was pleased freely to bestow upon him However had not his own modesty stood in the way 't is well known his Maj. bounty towards him had not rested here but he must have died a Bishop Which honorable function he really deserved not only for sanctity of life but for learning charity and loyalty scarce to be equall'd by any in the age he lived His works are these Thirteen Sermons most of them preached before his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in his exile Lond. 1675. in oct They were deliver'd before the K. in the Island of Scilly and Jersey at which time this worthy Dr. was Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty who was his constant Auditour admiring equally his learning and his loyalty Among them are these two lat sermons Osculum pacis concio ad clerum habita Exoniae in trien visitat D. Jos Hall Episc Exon in S. Marc. cap. 9. ver ult And Nativitus Christi conc in ad S. Mar. Ox. habita pro gradu an 1612 in Matth. cap. 1. ver 18. Also if I mistake not is his Sermon entit A return from Argier preached at Minhead in Somers 16. Mar. 1627 at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Ch. on Rev. 2. part of the 5. vers Lond. 1628. qu. All which 13 Sermons were published by Hamnet Ward M. D. Vicar of Sturmister-Newton-Castle in Dorsetshire He the said Dr. Byam hath other elaborate pieces that were fairly written with his own hand and ready for the press if the Executor will oblige posterity so far as to publish them but these I have not yet seen At length after he had lived to a great age and had seen many changes in the world concluded his last day on the 16. of June and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Luckham on the 29 of the same month in sixteen hundred sixty and nine On the wall near to his grave is a comely monument fastned with this inscription thereon made by Dr. Ward before mention'd Non procul hinc sub marmore congenito sepultum jacet corpus Henrici Byam ex antiquiss Byamorum familiâ oriundi SS Theologiae Doctoris insignissimi hujus ecclesiae proximae Selworthianae Rectoris Pastorisque vigilantissimi ecclesiae Cath. Exon. Canonicâ ecclesiaeque Wellensis Prebendarii sereniss Majestatis Car. II. Regis Capellani Concionatoris ordinarii necnon ejusdem saeviente illâ tyrannide semper execrandâ Phanaticorum rebellione terrâ marique comitis exulisque simul Ex meliore luto ejus constructum corpus post annos tandem octoginta novem an sal Millesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo nono morti non triumphanti quam invitanti placide cessit Sed extat adhuc viri hujus optimi celebrius multo hoc ornatius monumentum non marmore perituro sed typis exaratum perpetuis scripta scilicet ejus plane divina ubi animi vires summum ejus ingenii acumen intueberis simul miraberis Lugubrem hunc lapidem honoris reverentiae indicem posuit filius ejus obsequentiss Franciscus Byam RICHARD SAMWAIES son of Ric. Sam. was born at Illminster in Somersetshire of which his Father was Vicar was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 26. Mar. 1630 aged 16 years was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and in holy Orders In 1648 he was ejected his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliament and afterwards being a shiftless person suffer'd great misery and hardship for his loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by the Kings Commissioners was actually created Bach. of Div and on the death of Hen. Jackson became Rector of Meisey-Hampton in Glocestershire He hath written Englands faithful reprover and monitor under 9 heads directed first to the Church of England 2 to the inferior Ministers of the Gospel 3 to the Nobility and Gentry c. with a postscript Lond. 1653. in oct Besides which he had one or more books fitted for the press but were lost He died 21. Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meisey-Hampton near to the grave of his predecessor H. Jackson before mention'd Whereupon Will. Fulman succeeded him in that rectory as I shall tell you hereafter One Peter Samwaies hath written An exposition on Catechistical principles but whether he was related to the former or was of this University I cannot yet tell HENRY KING the eldest Son of Dr. John King whom I
have mention'd in the first vol. of this work under the year 1621 by Joan his wife daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire was born in the same house and chamber at Wornal in Bucks wherein his father had received his first breath in the month of January 1591. and was baptized there on the 16 of the said month educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordsh and partly in the College School at Westminster from which last he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1608 being then put under the tuition of a noted Tutor Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders became a most florid preacher and successively Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. 1. of pious memory Archdeacon of Colchester Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral Canon of Ch. Ch Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 D. of D. and Dean of Rochester in which Dignity he was installed 6. Febr. 1638 but whether in the room of Dr. John Richardson who occurs Dean of that Church in Apr. 1636 in which month and year he died or in that of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall who had the grant of the Deanery of Durham made to him in 1638 but not installed therein till May 1639 I cannot justly tell In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester being one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late promoted to that honorable office to which being consecrated at Westminster as it seems on the 19. of Decemb. the same year sate there without any removal saving only that by the members of the Long Parliament to the time of his death When he was young he delighted much in the studies of Musick and Poetry which with his wit and fancy made his conversation much accepted When he was elder he applied himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity in which faculty he became eminent as his Sermons partly shew which remain'd fresh in the minds of his Auditors many years after his death His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached at Pauls cross 25. Nov. 1621. upon occasion of that false and scandalous report lately printed touching the supposed apostacy of Dr. John King late B. of Lond. on Joh. 15.20 Lond. 1621. qu. To which is added The examination of Tho. Preston taken before the Archb. of Cant. at Lambeth 20. Dec. 1621 concerning his being the author of the scandalous report of Bishop Kings apostacy 2 Davids enlargement the morning Sermon on Act Sunday on Psalm 32.5 Oxon. 1625. qu. See more in John King in the first vol. an 1638. p. 526. 3 Sermon of deliverance at the Spittle on Easter Munday on Psal 91.3 Printed 1626. qu. 4 Two Sermons at Whitehall in Lent on Eccles 12.1 and on Psal 55.6 Printed 1627. in qu. 5 Serm. at Pauls on his Maj. inauguration on Jer. 1.10 Printed 1640. in qu. 6 Sermon at Whitehall 29. May being the happy day of his Maj. inauguration and birth on Ezek. 21.27 Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Serm. at the funeral of Brian Bishop of Winchester in the Abbey Ch. of Westm 24. Apr. 1662 on Psal 116.15 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 Visitation Serm. at Lewis 8. Oct. 1662 on Titus 2.1 Lond. 1663. qu. 9 Sermon preached 30. Jan. 1664 at Whitehall being the day of the Kings Martyrdome on 2 Chron. 35.24.25 Lond. 1665. qu. Exposition on the Lords Prayer delivered in certain Sermons on Matth. 6.9 c. Lond. 1628. qu. It must be now observed that this worthy Bishop being at divine Service on Sunday in a certain Church at Langley I think in Bucks and hearing there a Psalm sung whose wretched expression quite marr'd the Pen-mans matter and his devotion he did at his return home that evening try whether from the version of our Bible he could not easily and with plainess suiting the lowest understanding deliver it from that garb which indeed made it ridiculous From one to another he passed on until the whole book was run through Which done he could not resist the advice and importunity of better judgments than his own to put it to the press He was as he confess'd discouraged knowing that Mr. George Sandys and then lately one of our pretended Reformers had failed in two different extremes The first too elegant for the vulgar use changing both meter and tunes wherewith they had been long acquainted the other as flat and poor as lamely worded and unhandsomly rimed as the old which with much confidence he undertook to amend He therefore ventur'd in a middle way as he himself said aiming without affectation of words and endeavouring to leave them not disfigur'd in the sense This version soon after came out with this title The Psalmes of David from the new translation of the Bible turn'd into meter to be sung after the old tunes used in Churches Lond. 1651. 54. in tw c. He hath also written Poems Elegies Paradoxes and Sonnets Lond. 1657. oct When these poems were first published all the report was that Dr. Philip King Brother to the said Hen. King was the author and thereupon it was put into the Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philips name Several letters Among which are extant one or more to the famous Dr. Usher Primat of Ireland and another to Isaac Walton concerning the three imperfect books of Rich. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie dat 13. Nov. 1664. Pr. at Lond. 1665. oct Divers Lat. and Gr. poems Many of which are extant in several books What remains to be observ'd of this Prelate is that he was always puritannically affected and therefore to please the Puritan he was promoted to the See of Chichester That after Episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament he mostly lived in the house of Sir Rich. Hobart who had married his Sister at Langley near to Colebrook in Bucks That being restored to his See at the return of K. Ch. 2. became esteemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and diocess the Epitome of all honors virtues and generous nobleness and a person never to be forgotten by his Tenants and by the Poor That also being not removed to a better See became discontented as I have heard and a favourer thereupon of the Presbyterians in his Diocess And lastly that dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried on the South side of the Choir near the Communion Table belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester Soon after was a comly monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was antiquâ eâque regiâ Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi prosapiâ oriundus that he was natalium splendore illustris pietate doctrinâ virtutibus illustrior c. Near to his body was in short time after buried his eldest Son named John to whose as also to the memory of the said Bishop King did his Widow Anne Daughter of Sir Will. Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh
to some Women actors mentioned in his book as he affirmeth It hapned that about six weeks after this the Queen acted a part in a Pastoral at Somerset-house and then the Archbishop Laud and other Prelates whom Prynne had angered by some books of his against Arminianism and against the jurisdiction of the Bishops and by some prohibitions which he had moved and got to the High Commission Court These Prelates and their instruments the next day after the Queen had acted her Pastoral shewed Prynne's book against Plays to the King and that place of it Women actors notorious Whores and they informed the King and Queen that Prynne had purposely written this book against the Queen and her Pastoral whereas it was published six weeks before that Pastoral was acted Yet the King and Queen though thus exasperated did direct nothing against him till Laud set Dr. Heylyn who bare a great malice to Prynne for confuting some of his doctrines to peruse Prynne's books and to collect the scandalous points out of them which Heylyn did though as Prynne affirms not at all warranted by the text of his book but these two Gentlemen were well matched and alike in other things though so much different in Divinity or shew of it c. Thus our Author here quoted of whom I shall hereafter make large mention Upon the said Complaints concerning that book Heylyn being appointed to collect such passages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the King Queen State and Government of the Realm did after some time deliver them in writing to Sir John Coke or Cook Secretary of State and to Dr. Laud Bishop of London the last of which did soon after on a Sabbath-day morning go to Will. Noy Attorney Gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne for the said book which Noy did rigorously enough Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the Lords in the Inner Star Chamber where being examined about the said matters was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London on the first day of Febr. 1632 where remaining without permission of Bayle till the month of Feb. 1633 was at last brought to a Trial in the Court of Star Chamber having been first pre-condemned by the Gentlemen of his own profession and afterwards sentenced by that Court on the 17 day of the said month thro the eager prosecution of the said Noy to be fined 5000 l. to the King expelled the University of Oxford and Lincolns Inn degraded and disinabled from his profession in the laws to stand in the Pillory first in the Pallace-yard in Westminster and three days after in Cheapside in each place to loose an ear tho this last part of his censure was much moderated in the execution to have his book called Histriomastix publickly burnt before his face by the hand of the Hangman and remain prisoner during life After this sentence was executed which was in May an 1634. he was remitted to his prison But all this was so far from working any remorse in him that it rather hardned him in his ways for on the 11 of June following as soon as he could provide himself of pen ink and paper he wrot a most sharp and libellous Letter to Dr. Laud then Archb. of Cant. touching his censure in the said Court and that which the Archb. in particular had declared against him With this letter the Archb. acquainted his Majesty who thereupon commanded him to refer it to Attorney Noy Noy sent for Prynne from his prison and demanded of him whether the letter was of his own hand-writing or not to which Prynne cunningly replied that he could make no answer to that demand unless he could see the letter and might read the same No sooner was the letter put into his hands and Noy's back turn'd a little towards him but presently he tore it to pieces and flung the pieces out of the window to the end that the said letter might not rise in judgment against him if the Attorney should proceed to an Ore-tenus as he meant to do For this affront and the principal passages of the letter the Attorney acquaints their Lordships in open Court but there was no remedy for being there was no proof of the misdemeanour but the letter it self and that the letter could not be brought in evidence as it should have been the Archb. thought it a more noble act to remit the Crime than trouble the Court or any of his Majesties Ministers in the prosecution of it But herein Prynne sped better than some others who had before been snarling at him and laboured to expose him to scorn and danger In Apr. the same year which is a step back in this discourse he was solemnly degraded in the Univ. of Oxon and his name dashed out of the Matricula In 1636 he published two books at once or immediately after each other One of them was called The Quench Coal in answer to that called A coal from the Altar against placing the Communion-table altarwise The other named The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus against the Apostolical institution of Diocesan Bishops But that which was entituled to him by the name of a Libel was his Pamphlet called News from Ipswich intended chiefly against Dr. Wrenn then Bishop of Norwych who had taken up his dwelling in that Town and fell as scandalously foul on the Archb. himself and some of the other Bishops also and such as acted under them in the present Service For therein he descants very trimly as he conceived on the Archb. himself with his Arch-piety Arch charity Arch-agent for the devil c. With like reproach he fell on the Bishops generally calling them Luciferian Lord Bishops execrable Traytors devouring Wolves c. with many other odious names not fit to be used by a Christian and more particularly on Wrenn c. In Midsummer term he was brought to his Trial in the Star Chamber for what he had done but his Answer was so libellous and full of scandal that no Counsellor could be found to put his hand to it according to the course of that Court. So that instead thereof he exhibited a cross bill against the Archb. and his Confederates as he called them charging them with the greatest part of those Reproaches which had been made the subject matter of his former libels which being signed by no hands but by his own and tendred so to the Lord Keeper was by him rejected and himself taken pro confesso his obstinacy in not answering in due form of Law being generally looked upon by the Court as a self conviction On the 14 of June an 1637 he received his sentence which briefly was to this effect that he be fined 5000 l. to the King to loose the remainder of his ears in the Pillory to be branded on both cheeks with the letters S. L. for a schismatical libeller and to be perpetually imprison'd in Caernarvan Castle At the pronouncing of which sentence the Archb. made a long and elaborate
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâe in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
he became in a manner craz'd To conclude I must now let the Reader know that there was no Writer of his time nor ever before except Bale that was given more to calumny and railing in his Writings than he especially against the Bishops true Churchmen of England Episcoparians and Papists while in the mean time his Brethren that deserved justly to be chastised by his pen were omitted As for his railing at the Episcoparians all readers of his books pen'd against Dr. Laud and the Bishops may in a plentiful manner behold and what he says against the Papists let it be truth or not truth may also in them be easily discern'd But for these last the Papists let one of their number who is a grave Writer characterize our Author Prynne for an egregious lye that he hath committed against a red-letter'd-man and against the English Papists when he would have them all massacred in 1666. Yet of late this poysonous humour of calumniating Gods Saints is become the principal character of the new reformed Gospel I will add one example more of a Calumniator at least parallel to these viz. Mr. Will. Prynne a late stigmatized Presbyterian who in his not long since published censure of Archb. Whitgift charges S. Anselme that he induced Sir Walt. Tyrrell to murder K. Will. Rufus Now by the consent of all Historians Tyrrell himself was no murderer for it was by the unhappy casual glancing of an arrow that the King was slain However it hapned yet certain it is that at that time S. Anselme was an exil'd person in France and whereas at the Kings burial many noble men met but few mourn'd for his death yet saith a late Protestant Historian of all mourners Anselme expressed most cordial sorrow at the news That blasphemous tongue therefore must expect that such envenomed darts as these shot against heaven it self will if he repent not one day descend upon his own head and the wounds made by them never be cured But alas what repentance can be expected in such a person who is inveteratus dierum malorum when we see in his decrepit age his rancorous tongue against innocent Catholicks yet more violently set on fire of hell so far as to sollicite a general Massacre of them by publishing himself and tempting others to damn their souls also by publishing through the whole Kingdom that in the last fatal calamity by fire hapning to London 1666 they were the only Incendiaries This he did tho himself at the same time confessed that not the least proof could be produced against them But said he it concerns us that this report should be believed Complaints of this most execrable Attentate were made and several Oaths to confirm this were offer'd but in vain However surely there is a reward for the innocent oppressed And whatsoever Mr. Prynne may think doubtless there is a God who judges the World Let him therefore remember what the spirit of God says Quid detur What must be given to thee and what must be assigned to thee for thy portion O deceitful Tongue Sharp darts cast by an almighty arm with devouring coals of Juniper c. The books and pamphlets that this unwearied Writer hath published are these The perpetuity of a regenerate mans estate against the Saints total and final Apostacy Lond. 1627. qu. Healths sickness Or a compendious and brief discourse proving the drinking and pledging of healths to be sinful and utterly unlawful unto Christians c. Lond. 1628. qu. The un-loveliness of Love-locks and long womanish hair Ibid. 1628. qu. Brief survey and censure of Mr. Cozens his couzening devotions Ibid. 1628. qu. This was written against the Private devotions that were published by John Cosin afterwards Bishop of Durham as containing Arminianisme in them as Prynne says who adds that it was one of the reasons why Laud Archb. of Cant. did malign him and caused his Histrio-mastix to be called into question Anti-Arminianisme or the Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme c. Lond. 1630. It was twice pr. that year in qu. Appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus See more in Giles Widdowes under the year 1645 who by the strangeness of his parts was fitted as 't were on purpose to duell with Prynne as Don Quixot with the Wind-mill which no man else was Knight errant enough to encounter about the said matter God no impostor or deluder or an answer to a Popish and Arminian cavil in defence of free will and universal Grace wherein Gods tender of Grace c. Lond. 1629. 30. qu. Lame Giles his haultings together with an appendix concerning the popish original and progress of bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1631. qu. Written against Giles Widdowes before mention'd Histrio-mastix The playes scourge c. against the intollerable mischief and abuses of common playes and play-houses Ibid. 1633. qu. Books written during his imprisonment in the Tower of Lond. Appendix supplementum Epilogus ad Flagellum Pontificis touching the parity of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino An. 1635. This Flagellum was written by Joh. Bastwick Dr. of Phys of Padua sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Practitioner at Colchester in Essex in which County he was born A breviate of the Bishops intollerable usurpations and encroachments upon the Kings prerogative and Subjects liberties with an appendix to it An. 1635. Certain Queries propounded to the bowers at the name of Jesus and the Patrons thereof An. 1636. The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus proving them no diocesan Bishops of Ephesus and Crete and that Presbyters have a divine right to ordain Ministers as well as Bishops with a Postscript Print 1636 reprinted with additions at Lond. 1660. qu. the Bishops then being about to be restored by K. Ch. 2. Lookingâglass for all Lordly Prelates An. 1636. Certain Queries propounded to Bishops c. An. 1636. Instructions for Church Wardens concerning visitatation articles fees oathes c. An. 1636. News from Ipswich discovering certain late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our Church c. Printed as 't is said at Ipswich but false an 1636 in one sh in qu. Published under the name of Matthew White three times in that year and another time in 1641. He the said Prynne had also a special hand in the writing of a book intit A divine Tragedy lately acted or a collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgment upon Sabbath breakers c Printed by stealth an 1636. qu. At the end of which is an Appendix pr. in another character containing the sufferings of Prynne for his Histrio-mastix and the miserable end as 't is there said that befel Will. Noy the chief instrument of his sufferings Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence Bishops and Presbyters to be both one equal and the same in jurisdiction office c. by divine law and institution c.
A new magna charta Lond. 1648. The County of Somerset divided into several Classes Ibid. 1648. Mercurius Rusticus containing news from several Counties of England and their joynt addresses to the Parliament Ibid. 1648. Just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the Lord Mayor Common-council-men and Free-men of Lond. Ibid. 1648. The substance of a speech made in the H. of Com. on Munday 4. Dec. 1648 touching the satisfactoriness of the Kings answer to the propositions of both houses for settlement of a firm lasting peace c. Lond. 1648 in 18. sh in qu. Three editions of which came out in less than within the compass of one year This Speech as those of Prynnes opinion say did so admirably well state the said Kings answer with such solid reasons arguments and precedents out of Divinity Law and History that no man took up the bucklers against him Appendix for the Kingdoms better satisfaction of some occurrences since the said speech This was printed with and added to one of the editions of the said Speech True and perfect narrative of the Officers and Armies forcible seizing divers members of the Commons house Dec. 6. and 7. Lond. 1648. Second part of the narrative concerning the Armies force upon the Commons house and members Ibid. 1648. Protestation of the secured and secluded members Ibid. 1648. Vindication of the imprison'd and secluded members of the H. of Com. from the aspersions cast upon them in the majority of the House in a paper lately printed and published intit An humble answer of the general counsel of Officers of the Army under Thom. Lord Fairfax c. Lond. 1649. in 5 sh in qu. Demand of his Prynnes liberty to the General 26. Dec. 1648 with his answer thereto and his answer and declaration thereupon Remonstrance and declaration of several Counties Cities and Boroughes against the unfaithfulness of some of their Knights Citizens and Burgesses Lond. 1648. Brief memento to the present un parliamentary Juncto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute K. Charles Jan. 1. an 1648. Ibid. 1649. in tw sh in qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1660. qu. Impeachment of high treason against Lieutenant Gen. Cromwell and other Army-Officers ... Jan. 1648. Four considerable positions for the sitting members Judges and others to ruminate upon ... Jan. 1648. Six propositions of undoubted verity fit to be considered of in our present exigency by all loyal Subjects and conscientious Christians Six serious Queries concerning the Kings trial by the new high Court of Justice Lond. 1648. Books written by the said W. Prynne after the murder of K. Ch. 1. Proclamation proclaiming Charles Pr. of Wales King of Gr. Britaine France and Ireland 1. Feb. in the first year of his raign An. 1648. Declaration and protestation of the Peers Lords and Barons against the Usurpations of some members of the Common House 8. Feb. 1648. Publick declaration and protestation of the secured and secluded members of the H. of Com. against the treasonable and illegal late acts and proceedings of some few confederate members of that House since their forcible exclusion 13. Feb. 1648. New Babele's confusion or several votes of the Commons assembled in Parliament against certain papers intit The agreement of the People c. Lond. 1649. in one sh in qu. See in Hen. Ireton under the year 1651. Prynne the member reconcil'd to Prynne the Barrester Or an answer to a scandalous pamphlet intit Prynne against Prynne Wherein is demonstrated that Will Prynne Utter Barrester of Linc. Inn in his Soveraign power in Parliaments and Kingdoms is of the same judgment with and no ways contradictory to Will. Prynne Esq a member of the H. of Commons in his Memento c. Lond. 1649 in 4 sh in qu. First part of an historical collection of the antient Councils and Parliaments of England from the year 673 till an 1216 c. Ibid. 1649 in 4. sh in qu. Legal vindication of the liberties of England against illegal taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people or reasons assigned why he Prynne can neither in conscience law or prudence submit to the new illegal tax and contribution of 90 thousand pounds the month lately imposed on the Kingdom Lond. 1649 in 8. sh in qu. Reprinted with additions in 1660. Arraignment conviction and condemnation of the Westmonasterian Junctoes engagement Ibid. 1650. Brief apologie for all Non-subscribers and looking-glass for all apostate Prescribers and Subscribers of the new engagement c. Ibid. 1650 in 2 sh qu. The time serving Proteus and Ambidexter Divine uncased to the world Lond. 1650. qu. This was written against one John Durie as I have told you in the Fasti in the first vol. an 1624. Sad and serious considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Brethren of Scotland Written in Dunster Castle during his close imprisonment there in Sept. 1650. A Gospel plea interwoven with a rational and legal for the antient setled maintenance and tenths of the Ministers of the Gospel Lond. 1653. Reprinted with the second part thereof an 1659. Jus Patronatus or a brief legal and rational plea for Advowsons and Patrons antient lawful just and equitable rights and titles to present Incumbents to Parish Churches or Vicaridges upon vacancies c. Ibid. 1654. in 7. sh in qu. Declaration and protestation against the illegal detestable and oft condemned tax and extorsion of Excise in general and for hope in particular Ibid. 1654. qu. First part of a seasonable legal and historical vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties rights laws government of all English Free-men Lond. 1654. 55. qu. The second part of this was printed at Lond. 1655. qu. New discovery of free-state tyranny containing four letters in his own vindication sent to John Bradshaw and his Associates Ibid. 1655. qu. Brief polemical dissertation concerning the true time of the inchoation and determination of the Lords day sabbath from evening to evening Lond. 1655. qu. The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs Jesuits and Franciscan Fryers sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation c. Ibid. 1655 in 5. sh in qu. printed there again in 1664. An old Parliamentary prognostication made at Westminster for the present new year and puny members there assembled Lond. 1655. Seasonable vindication of free admission to and frequent administration of the holy Communion to all visible Church members regenerate or unregenerate c. Ibid. 1656 qu. New discovery of some Romish Emissaries Quakers as likewise of some popish errours unadvisedly embraced persued by our anti-communion Ministers Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent administration of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. Legal vindication of two important Queries of present general concernment clearly discovering from our statute common and cannon laws the bounden duty of Ministers and Vicars of parish Churches to administer the Sacraments as well
restauration for want of conformity He was a conceited whimsical person and one very unsetled in his opinions sometimes he was a Presbyterian sometimes an Independent and at other times an Anabaptist Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people At other times having received revelations as he pretended he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses and upon pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire whose daughter Henry the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week At which the Gentlemen being well pleased they and others always after called him Doomesday Sedgwick and the rather for this reason that there were others of his sirname that pretended to prophecy also He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Zions deliverance and her friends duty or the grounds of expecting and means of procuring Jerusalems restauration Preached at a publick Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons on Isaiah 62.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man in eleven Sermons Lond. 1648. oct These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22 c. The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the nations opening all wounds of this Kingdom and of every party and applying a remedy to them c. Lond. 1648 qu. This book as soon as 't was published which was in the latter end of 1647 the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal which as he said if his Majesty would please to read might as he imagined be of much advantage to him and comfort in that his disconsolate condition The King thereupon came forth and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book After he had read some part thereof he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment By what I have read in this book I believe the author stands in some need of sleep These words being taken by the author in the best sense he departed with seeming satisfaction The next day came one John Harrington Esq Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account desired to have some discourse with his Majesty but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mention'd that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian thanked him likewise for his good intentions without discoursing with him upon any point Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness withdrew Justice upon the Army-remonstrance or a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways c. Lond. 1649 qu. A second view of the Army-remonstrance or justice done to the Army wherein their principles are new model'd brought out of obscurity into clearer light c. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former but in such a canting fashion that I know not what to make of it unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way Animadversions on a letter and paper first sent to his Highness Oliv. Cromwell by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers c. Lond. 1656 qu. Animadversions upon a book intit Inquisition for the blood of our Soveraign Lond. 1661. oct What other things this our author hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent but leaving that place about 1668 retired to London where he soon after died I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Baylie in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London on the 14 of Sept. 1618 became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632 where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline went thence to Hart Hall for a time and took the degree of Mast of Arts an 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders Afterwards he retired to the great City became a florid and very ready Preacher and at the turn of the times was insnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King and those by the Parliament to treat about Peace an 1644 he was present and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversie he was fully convinced of his error chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond So that then being in the 26 year of his age he immediately as 't is said upon his return to London preached a Recantation Sermon and ever after even in the worst of times he attested his loyalty to the King and conformity to the Church in discipline as well as in doctrine in his ministerial function Of these matters I have been informed by his friend but this must be known that in all or most of the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London and tho frequented by some Loyalists yet by more Presbyterians His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church which was called The Loyal Lecture whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2 he preached his funeral Sermon In the year 1660 he by his forward endeavours got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners appointed by the City of London to the Hague in order to his Majesties restauration And being there on a Sunday 20. May he with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly that there was not any one present but admired his elegancy and learning and
The faithful Shepherd on Psal 80.1 Ibid. 1665. qu. 6 The flying Sea on Psal 114.5 Printed 1665. qu. 7 The only way to preserve life preached before the House of Commons at Oxon on Amos 5. ver 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these he hath several other Sermons which I have not yet seen He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion which was published in English an 1664 but this neither have I yet seen At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny By his last Will and testam dat 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile worth forty pounds per an to be setled upon eight poor distressed Widows for whom he had erected eight several Alms-houses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocess In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut of Ireland for not promoting him as 't is thought to a higher Bishoprick Which being esteemed scandalous was struck out of his Will when proved JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents in Hampshire as it seems educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1652 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1663 being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet as it appears by this book which he composed when a young man Musae sacrae seu Jonas Jeremiae threni Daniel Graeco redditi carmine Oxon. 1652. oct and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses dispersed in various books He died at Petersfield on Good Friday Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton dated at Farnham 26. May 1683. HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sav. was born of a gentile Family at Dobs hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nov. 1625 was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that 1630 he was compleated Master of his faculty In the beginning of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with William Lord Sandys whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married and by the opportunity of that journey he not only learned the Language of that Country saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities but learn'd to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students Soon after his return he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity After the restauration of K. Ch 2 and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Glocester an 1665 and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith He hath written and published Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae an 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus aff c. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after these questions were answer'd by John Tombes of Magd. Hall Thesis Doctoris Savage nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum c. Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombes Printed at the end of Thesis Confirmatio c. Reasons shewing that there is no need of such reformation of the publick 1. Doctrine 2. Worship 3. Rites and Ceremonies 4. Church Government and 5. Discipline as is pretended c. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson since B. of Chester the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii c. entit No necessity c. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage were wrot against a Pamphlet called Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges an 1665. Which tho in the title it is said to have been wrot by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England yet Mr. Baxter saith that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation c. meaning I conceive the said Reasons which so much as he farther affirms offended the Episcopal party This is yet further rendred the more probable because that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. Pearsons No necessity c. Cornel. Burges as possibly judging himself more concern'd than any body else in the success of these Reasons c. in a Postscript to a Treatise of his annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity c. The said Reasons shewing c. were answer'd again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis Dr. Savage hath also written The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion or an answer to a book entit Sions groans for her distressed c. Offered to the Kings Majesty Parliament and People Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book The dew c. have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted or an answer to a book entit Sions groans c. Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation founders and affairs of Balliol College gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities c. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History neither a timing head nor indeed record enough from his Coll. for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 12. Hen. 8. nor no antient rolls of Accompts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented as also the names of the Fellows he hath committed many foul errors therein especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men which never studied or were conversant with the muses therein as Joh. Duns Scotus Dr. Tho. Gascoigne Steph. de Cornubia c. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus Tho. de Wylton Rich. Rotheram Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham c. Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâm Tongue c. were executed but how he
he bound himself by oath to observe the four vows Afterwards he taught Humanity for some years at S. Omers or was as a certain author tells us Reader of Poetry and Master of the Syntax an 1622. About that time being sent on the mission into England he setled in the City of Oxon. where and in the Neighbourhood he administred to the R. C. till towards the latter end of his life He lived many years in a poor cottage without the east gate of that City standing on the site of the habitation sometimes belonging to the brethren of the Holy Trinity In the said cottage did then live two Ro. Cath. Virgins of mean condition named Mary and Joan Meakyns who from their Childhood had dedicated themselves to piety and good works always lived singly and arrived both of them beyond the age of man These two antiquated Virgins were owners of the cottage and did very carefully attend this Father and took as much care of him as if he had been their own Father or Brother His fare was course his drink of a penny a gawn or gallon his bed was under thatching and the way to it was up a ladder With these two I say he lived in a most retir'd and devout condition till God was pleased to translate them to a better place and then the Father was removed to the Dolphin Inn in Magd. Parish in the suburb of Oxon the Hostes of which was one of his perswasion where he ended his days He was esteemed by all especially by those of his opinion a learned Man well vers'd in the Poets of a quiet disposition and gentile behaviour which made him therefore respected and his company to be desired by certain Scholars of the University especially by Tho. Masters and other ingenious men of New Coll. But this their civility to and esteem of him was not while the Presbyterians governed who made it a most dreadful and damnable thing to be seen in the company of Papists especially of Romish Priests but before the rebellion broke forth upon their account when then the Men of the Church of England had a respect for Papists as they now have for Presbyterians The things that this Father hath written are The judgment of an University man concerning Mr. Will. Chillingworth his late Pamphlet in answer to charity maintained Printed 1639. qu. Reprinted at Camb. in 1653 in oct in a preface to a book then and there published The character that Edw. Knot the Jesuit gives of this book is that it is a witty erudite and solid work Heantomachia Mr. Chillingworth against himself The total sum These two are printed at the end of The Judgment c. At length this Father Lacey who had lived to be twice a child died in the Dolphin Inn before mention'd on the seventeenth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and three aged 89 years and two days after his body being carried to Somerton near Dedington in Oxfordshire to which place he usually retired was buried in the Church there noted for the splendid monuments of the Fermours Lords of that Town and Roman Catholicks From the same family of this Will. Lacey was descended John Lacey the Comedian born near Doncaster in Yorks originally an apprentice to John Ogilby a Dancing master afterwards one of the best and most applauded of our English actors belonging to the Kings Play-house and from an Actor to be Author of these Comedies 1 The Old Troop or Monsieur Raggou Lond. 1672. qu. 2 The dumb Lady or the Farrier made Physitian Lond. 1672. qu. 3 Sir Hercules Buffoon or the poetical Squire Lond. 1684. qu. This Person who was of a rare shape of body and good complexion and had served his Majesty in the time of the rebellion in the quality of a Lieutenant and Quarter-master under Coll. Charles Gerard afterwards Earl of Macclesfield died on the 17. of Sept. 1681 and was two days after buried in the farther Church-yard of S. Martin in the Fields I mean in that yard on the other side of S. Martins-lane within the liberty of Westminster His Maj. Ch. 2. who had a great respect for caused several pictures of him to be drawn according to several postures which he acted in several parts and do now or else did lately remain at Windsore and Hampton Court JOHN THEYER was born of gentile Parents at Cowpers-hill in the Parish of Brockworth near to and in the County of Glocester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. an 1613 aged 16 years or thereabouts where continuing about three years partly under the tuition of John Harmur retired to an Inn of Chancery in London called New Inn where spending as many years in obtaining knowledge in the Common Law he receeded to his patrimony and as years grew on gave himself up mostly to the study of venerable antiquity and to the obtaining of the antient monuments thereof Manuscripts in which he did so much abound that no private Gentleman of his rank and quality did ever I think exceed him He was a bookish and studious Man a lover of learning and the adorers thereof a zealous Royallist and one that had suffer'd much in the rebellion that began 1642 for the Kings and Churches cause He hath written Aerio-Mastix or a vindication of the Apostolical and generally received government of the Church of Christ by Bishops against the scismatical Aerians of our time Wherein is evidently demonstrated that Bishops are jure divino c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Dedicated to King Ch. 1. who afterwards made use of it in his Writings to Alexander Henderson a Presbyterian Scot who died at Edenburg 31. Aug. 1646 of grief as some then said because he could not perswade the said King to sign the propositions for peace which the members of Parliament sent to him at Newcastle by their Commissioners to treat with him for that purpose In the same year 1643 our author Theyer was adorned with the degree of Master of Arts Ob merita sua in Rempub. literariam ecclesiam by virtue of the Kings Letters sent to the Vicechanc and Convocation dat 6. July the same year About which time he the said Theyer being discovered to be a man of parts was perswaded to embrace the Rom. Catholick Religion by Father Philipps a Scot confessor to Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort He hath also written A friendly debate between the Protestants and the Papists MS. But before it was quite fitted for the Press the author died and what became of it afterwards I know not His death hapned at Cowpers hill on the 25 of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and two days after was buried among his Ancestors in the Church yard at Brockworth before mention'd particularly near to the grave of his Grandfather ... Theyer who had married the Sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near Glocester He then left behind him a Library of antient Manuscripts consisting of the number
return in 1665 he lived for some time in and near London and thence going to Stratford before mentioned and afterwards to Warwick setled in the last of the said places practised Physick and in the Summer-time retired to Bathe at both which places he gained repute and many Patients by the diligence and care he took in his Profession As for his Writings they are many and of various subjects some of which that he published before the Kings restauration were against Monarchy Ministers Universities Churches c. provoking all men to whom those interests were dear He then trampled as one that wrote against him saith on the ashes of his martyr'd Sovereign defended and adored his murtherers stiled all our Kings a succession of Usurpers endeavoured the extirpation of Monarchy and planting a Democracy of Independents Anabaptists Fifth-monarchy men and Quakers in its room He hath represented the meekest justest and best of Kings as an hateful Tyrant and called our now Soveraign Ch. 2. an Usurper He then did write malitiously against Ministry Universities c. and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks c. But why our Author Stubbe did write so he 'll tell you 't was to serve his Patron Sir Hen. Vane and to express his gratitude to him who relieved him when he was a child and after and that because the quarrels and animosities grew high betwixt the Presbyterians and Sir H. Vane's Friends he sided therefore with him My youth saith he and other circumstances incapacited me from rendring him any great services but all that I did and all that I wrot had no other aim nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings as long as that they were subservient to him c. The truth is all that knew him here in Oxon knew this of him for certain that he was no frequenter of Conventicles no taker of the Covenant or Engagement no contracter of acquaintance with notorious Sectaries that he neither enriched or otherwise advanced himself during the late troubles or shared the common odium and dangers or prosperity of his Benefactor Some years after the Kings restauration he took pet against the Royal Society for which before he had a great veneration and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell no admirer of that Society became in his Writings an inveterate Enemy against it for several pretended reasons among which were first that the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon antient and solid Learning upon Aristotle to undermine the Universities and reduce them to nothing or at least to be very inconsiderable Secondly that at long running to destroy the established Religion and involve the Nation in Popery and I know not what c. So dextrous was his pen whether pro or con that few or none could equal answer or come near him He was a person of most admirable parts had a most prodigious memory tho his enemies would not acknowledge it but said he read Indexes was the most noted Latinist and Greecian of his age and after he had been put upon it was so great an enemy to the Virtuosi of his time I mean those of the R. Society that as he saith they alarm'd him with dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and fortunes He was a singular Mathematician and thoroughly read in all political matters Councils ecclesiastical and profane Histories He had a voluble tongue and was very seldom known to hesitate either in publick disputes or common discourse His Voice was big and magisterial and his mind was equal to it He was of a high generous nature scorn'd money and riches and the adorers of them which being natural to him was one of the chief reasons why he hated the Presbyterians whom he always found to be false undermining poor spirited void of generous souls sneaking sniveling c. He was accounted a very good Physitian and excellent for those matters that compleat it as Simpling Anatomy and Chymistry and in the times of Usurpation that is while Oliver and Richard ruled when then he thought it the Nations interest to subvert the true Monarchy of England he was passionately addicted to the new Philosophy and motion'd several ways for the introducing it amongst the Gentry and Youth of this Nation and the reason was as he l saith that it would render all the Clergy contemptible lessen the esteem and reverence in the Church and make them seem egregious Fools in matters of common discourse But as he was so admirably well qualified with several sorts of Learning and a generous Spirit so he was very unhappy in this that he was extream rash and imprudent and wanted common discretion to manage his parts He was a very bold man utter'd any thing that came into his mind not only among his Companions but in publick Coffey-houses of which he was a great frequenter and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present without examining the company he was in for which he was often repremanded and several times threatned to be kick'd and beaten He had a hot and restless head his hair being carret-colour'd and was ever ready to undergo any enterprize which was the chief reason that macerated his body almost to a Skeleton He was also a person of no fix'd Principles and whether he believed those things which every good Christian doth 't is not for me to resolve Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant Fellow he would have been admired by all and might have pick'd and choos'd his Preferment But all these things being wanting he became a ridicule and undervalued by sober and knowing Scholars and others too His Writings and Translations are these Horae subsecivae seu Prophetiae Jonae Historiae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis Lond. 1651. oct To which are added his Translation into Greek of Miscellanea quaedam Epigrammata à Th. Randolpho W. Chrashavio c. Epistola Lat. cum Poematibus Lat. Graec. ad D. Hen. Vane Domini Hen. Vane de Raby Eq. aur fil promogen Ox. 1656. printed on one side of a sheet The said Hen. Vane was then a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. of Oxon. but wore not a gown and soon after died Otium literarum Sive Miscellanea quaedam poemata Ox. 1656. oct They are printed with the Poems of Hen. Birchead of All 's Coll. In the said vol. are our Author Stubbe his Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum translatae which were printed again at Oxon. 1658. in oct and had at the end added to them by him Elogiae Romae Venetiarum A severe enquiry into the late Oneirocrita or an exact account of the grammatical part of the Controversie between Mr. Thom. Hobbes and John Wallis D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. In the said book the Author Stubbe
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
weavers beam And certainly he that will or can peruse those his Intelligences called Merc. Politici will judge that had the Devil himself the Father of all lies been in this Goliahs office he could not have exceeded him as having with profound malice calumniated his Soveraign scurrility abused the Nobility impudence blasphemed the Church and Members thereof and industry poysoned the People with dangerous principles At the happy return of the times in 1660 he being conscious to himself that he might be in danger of the halteâ once more sculk'd some said fled into Holland till sâch time he could get his pardon or that the Act of Oblivion should pass In the mean time were not wanting some forward Loyallists to complain of and write against him Among which was a nameless author entit A rope for Pol. or a hue and crie after March Nedham the late scurrulous News-writer print in May 1660. qu wherein he sheweth to the world the horrid blasphemies and revilings against the Kings Majesties Person his cause and his friends published in his weekly Politicus In Apr. also the same year was put forth A conference between Tho. Scot and March Nedham concerning the present Affairs of the Nation wherein many of Nedhams rogueries are ript up and laid open to the world In the beginning also of Jan. before going when great hopes depended upon Monks proceeding a poem entit A New-years gift for Politicus said to be written by Will. Kilburne flew about wherein he tells you that Nedham wrot Politicus Intelligencer As famous as old Meg Spencer Pragmaticus The Spy what not Britanicus The Counter plot Of Hell c. But notwithstanding all verbal and printed complaints he for money given to an hungry courtier obtained his pardon under the Great Seal which was his defence oftentimes particularly at Oxford Act in 1661 when then several set upon him in S. Maries Church to hale him before a Justice and so to prison for treason so that I say being free and at liberty by vertue of that Seal which he several times produced he exercised the faculty of physick to his dying day among the Brethren which was a considerable benefit to him He was a person endowed with quick natural parts was a good humanitian Poet and boon Droll And had he been constant to his Cavaleering principles he would have been beloved by and admired of all but being mercenary and valuing money and sordid interest rather than conscience friendship or love to his Prince was much hated by the Royal Party to his last and many cannot yet endure to hear him spoken of Among several things that he hath written and published these following have only come to my sight Mercurius Britanicus communicating the affairs of Great Britaine for the better information of the people These Mercuries began about the middle of Octob. 1643 and were carried on thence week by week every Munday in one sh to the latter end of 1646 or beginning of 1647. I have seen a Trag. Com. intit Merc. Britanicus or the English intelligencer reprinted in 1641. qu. but the author of that was Rich. Brathwayte A check to the checker of Britanicus or the honour and integrity of Coll. Nath. Fiennes revived re-estated from certain prejudices and mistakes occasion'd by late misreports Lond. 1644. qu. A Hue and crie after the King c. Generally reported to have been written by this author particularly 1 By the writer of the Brief Chron. of the late intestine war c. who tells us that when the King fled from Hampton Court in Nov. 1647 to the Isle of Wight one Nedham published a most execrable and blasphemous paper called A hue and crie after the King c. But how it can be so I cannot judge unless our author Nedham could write treason and loyalty in one breath for at that time and some weeks before he wrot Merc. Pragm as I shall anon tell you 2 The writer of the witty Poem entit Merc. Britanicus his welcome to Hell wherein reckoning up most of the Intelligencies that were wrot for the Parliament saith thus Amongst all these dear son Britanicus Thou hast shew'd thy self the best Mercurius Thou hast out-slander'd Slander and prevail'd And every railing Rogue thou hast out-rail'd Thou bravely didst thy Soveraigne vilifie Persu'dst his honour with an Hue and Cry Abus'd the Queen with scandals c. But the Reader is to know notwithstanding these Writers that the Hue and Cry was not written when the K. left Hampton Court but after his defeat at Naseby an 1645. Our author Nedham hath also written The case of the Kingdom stated according to the proper interests of the several parties engaged c. When first published I know not the third edition was printed at Lond. 1647. in qu. The Levellers level'd or the Independents conspiracy to root out Monarchy An interlude Lond. 1647. in two sh in qu. Said in the title to be written by Merc. pragmaticus See in Will. Prynne under the year 1669. p. 320. Mercurius pragmaticus communicating intelligence from all parts touching all affairs designs humours and conditions throughout the Kingdom especially from Westminster and the Head-quarters There were two parts of them and they came out weekly in one sheet in qu. The former part commenced the 14 Sept. 1647 and ended the 9 Jan. 1648. The other which was intit Merc. pragm for K. Ch. 2 c. commenced 24 Apr. 1649 but quickly ended There were now and then other Pragmatici that peeped forth but they were counterfeit A plea for the King and Kingdom by way of answer to a late remonstrance of the Army Lond. in Nov. an 1648 in 3 sh in qu. Digitus Dei or Gods Justice upon treachery and treason exemplified in the life and death of the late James Duke of Hamilton being an exact relation of his traiterous practices since the year 1630 c. with his epitaph Lond. 1649. in 4 sh in qu. In the year before came out a book intit The manifold practices and attempts of the Hamiltons and particularly of the present Duke of Hamilton now General of the Scottish Army to get the Crown of Scotland in a letter from a Malignant in London to his friend in Scotland Lond. 1648. qu. But who the author of this was I cannot tell Mercurius Politicus Comprising the sum of forein intelligence with the affairs now on foot in the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland These Mercuries came out weekly every Wednesday in two sheets in qu. commencing with the 9 of June 1649 and ending with the 6 of June 1650. At which time being Thursday he began again Now appeared in print saith a certain writer as the weekly Champion of the new Commonwealth and to bespatter the King Ch. 2. with the basest of scurrulous raillery one Marchamont Nedham under the name of Politicus a Jack of all sides transcendently gifted in opprobrious and treasonable droll and hired therefore by
Bradshaw to act the second part to his starcht and more solemn treason Who began his first Diurnal with an invective against Monarchy and the Presbyterian Scotch Kirk and ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwell who in the beginning of June returned by the way of Bristoll from Ireland to London c. These Mercurii Politici wherein were many discourses against Monarchy and in behalf of a Free-state especially in those that were published before Ol. Cromwell gaped after the Supremacy were constantly carried on till about the middle of Apr. 1660 when then as several times before the author was prohibited by order of the Council of State By vertue of which order Hen. Muddiman and Giles Dury were authorized to publish their Intelligence every Munday and Thursday under the titles of Parliamentary Intelligencer and Mercurius Publicus which continued Dury soon after giving over till the middle of Aug. 1663 and then Rog. L'estrange published the Intelligence twice every week in quarto sheets under the titles of The publick Intelligencer and The News The first of which came out 31 of Aug. and the other on the 3 of September an 1663. These continued till the 29 of Jan. 1665 at which time L'estrange desisted because in Nov. going before were other kind of News-papers published twice every week in half a sheet in folio These were called The Oxford Gazette and the first commenced 7 Nov. 1665 the King and Queen with their Courts being then in Oxon. These for a little time were written I think by Hen. Muddiman But when the said Courts removed to London they were intituled and called The London Gazette the first of which that was published there came forth on the 5 of Feb. following the King being then at Whitehall Soon after Mr. Joseph Williamson Under-Secretary of State procured the writing of them for himself and thereupon employed Charles Perrot M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. in Oxon who had a good command of his pen to do that office under him and so he did tho not constantly to about 1671. After which time they were constantly written by Under-Secretaries belonging to those that are Principal and do continue so to this day The publick Intelligencer communicating the chief occurrences and proceedings within the Dominions of England Scotland and Ireland c. These Mercuries came out weekly every Munday but contained mostly the same matter that was in the Politici The case of the Commonwealth of England stated or the equity utility and necessity of a submission to the present Government against all scruples and pretences of the opposite parties viz. Royalists Scots Presbyterians Levellers c. Lond. 1649. in two parts in quarto There again in 1650 in qu. also Discourse of the excellency of a Free-state above Kingly government Lond. 1650. qu. published with the former An appendix added out of Claud. Salmasius his Defensio Regis and Mr. Hobbes De corpore politico Tryal of Mr. Joh. Goodwin at the bar of religion and right reason c. Lond. 1657. qu. The great accuser cast down c. An answer to a scandalous book intit The Triers or Tormentors tried and cast c. Written by Mr. Joh. Goodwin Lond. 1657. qu. The said Goodwin did not reply in another Pamphlet only in a book which he the year after published against other persons doth characterize our author Nedham as having a foul mouth which Sathan hath opened against the truth and mind of God c. as being a person of an infamous and unclean character for the service of the Triers c. A man that curseth whatsoever he blesseth and blesseth whatsoever he curseth c. That his book hath a double image visibly stampt upon it like our Philip and Mary Coine and therein is a Nye of Oxford learning as well as a Mouth of Oxford railing in the composition c. Interest will not lye or a view of Englands true interest in reference to the Papist Royallist Presbyterian c. in refutation of a treasonable Pamphlet intit The interest of England stated Lond. 1659. in 6 sh in large quarto paper The moderate informer communicating the most remarkable transactions both civil and military in the Commonwealth of England c. It commences with the 12 of May 1659 but not carried on for above two or three weeks Nedham it seems was put out of his place of writing the weekly news in the time of Richard L. Protector occasion'd by the Presbyterians yet notwithstanding tho Joh. Can was put in his place yet in spight of opposition he carried on the writing of his Mercuries Newes from Brussels in a Letter from a near Attendant on his Majesties person to a person of honour here dat 10 March stil vet 1659. There is no name to this Letter full of rascallities against K. Ch. 2. and his Court but the general report was then that it was written by M. Nedham and conveyed to the Printer or Bookseller by that notorious Schismatick and grand Zealot for the Good Old Cause called Praise-God Barebone It was answer'd about a week after in another thing in qu. intit The late news or message from Brussels unmasked but by whom it was written I know not A short History of the English Rebellion completed in verse Lond. 1661. qu. 'T is a collection of all such verses which he before had printed before each of his Merc. pragmat and was then by him published to curry favour with the Royallists This short History was printed again in 1680. qu. when the Presbyterians were busie to carry on their designs under the pretence of the Popish Plot. He did prefix to it The true character of a rigid Presbyter and added the Coat of Arms of Sir John Presbyter to that edit of 1661 but the said character was not of his writing Discourse concerning Schooles and Schoolmasters Lond. 1663. in one sh and an half in qu. Medela medicinae A plea for the free profession and renovation of the art of Physick c. Lond. 1665 in a large oct Answer'd by two Doctors of that faculty Fellows of the Coll. of Physitians at London namely Joh. Twysden in his Medicina veterum vindicata c. and Rob. Sprackling in his Medela ignorantiae c. Our Author Nedham saith that four Champions were employed by the Coll. of Physitians to write against this book Two of which he saith are gone already The third I hear saith he is often buried in ale at a place called The hole in the Wall and the fourth hath asked me pardon before company confessing that he was set on by the brotherhood of the confederacy An epistolary discourse before Medicina instaurata or a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of Physick c. by Edw. Bolnest M. D. Lond. 1665. A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftsbury c. Occasioned by a seditious Pamphlet intit A Letter from a
person of Quality to his friend in the Country c. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and its author you may see in another intit An account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England Lond. 1678. in a thin fol. p. 22. Written by Andr. Marvel Esq A second Pacquet of Advices c. occasion'd by several seditious Pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former Pacquet c. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a Pamphlet intit Some considerations upon the question whether the Parliament be dissolved by its prorogation for 15 months 2 Another intit The long Parliament dissolved written by Denzill L. Holles the author of which being sought after his Chaplain a Nonconformist named Cary or Carew own'd it to free his Lord whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London in the beginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his Lords death lived in Hatton Garden in Holborne and practised Physick 3 A letter from a person newly chosen to sit in this Parliament to a Bencher in the Temple with a pretended answer of the Bencher to the same 4 A narrative of the cause and manner of the imprisonment of the Lords now close prisoners in the Tower of London The said two Pacquets of Advices were written as 't is said by Nedham and he encouraged thereunto by Edm. Warcup a Justice of Peace and Thomas Earl of Danby Christianissimus Christianandus or reasons for the reduction of France to a more Christian state in Europe Lond. 1678. in 10 sh in qu. Besides all these he hath written several other small things which I have not yet seen He hath translated into English Mare clausum printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts but he being then no way affected to Monarchy gave himself therefore the license to foist in the name of a Commonwealth instead of the Kings of England and also to suppress the Epist ded to the King He also added an Appendix to it concerning the Soveraignty of the Kings of Great Britaine on the sea intit Additional Evidences which he procured as 't was thought of Joh. Bradshaw All which besides treasonable Comments and false Glosses were done in the life time of the learned author Joh. Selden After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. the English copy was corrected perfected and restored by J. H. Gent. and pr. at London 1662. fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a Preface before the book intit A new idea of the practice of Physick written by Frane de le Boe Sylvius published in English at London in 1675. oct In which Pref. towards the latter end our author Nedham saith that he had then 1675 and before a purpose to publish some Essays to discover what may be done by able men towards an advancement of knowledge in the power of Plants by the examining their natures by the principles and operations of the Chymists also that he was about to form divers Treatises for publick view c. By the way it must be known that our author in the said Preface doth shew himself a great disliker of the common way of the first studying of Physick in the Universities and seems also to run down University promotions or degrees calling them in derision the doctoral confederates the scholastic family of a fine breed who come to town with the learned Cushion Cap and Scarlet The Apothecaries boys are able to tutour them in Town-practice They vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle spend much time in Anatomy neglect the chymical way c. Several things are fathered also upon him of which he was not in the least the author as the publication of The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Hen. Ireton and Joh. Bradshaw intended to have been spoken at their execution at Tyburne 30 Jan. 1660 c. Lond. 1660. in one sh and half in qu. said in the title to be published by Marcham Nedham and Payne Fisher Servants Poets and Pamphleteers to his infernal Highness At length this most seditious mutable and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the house of one Kidder in D'eureux Court near Temple bar London in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 29 of Novemb. being the Vigil of S. Andrew at the upper end of the body of the Church of S Clements Danes near the entrance into the chancel Soon after that Church being pull'd down and rebuilt and the letters on his grave taken away or defaced you shall have in their place this Epitaph made on him an 1647 printed at the end of Merc. Britanicus his welcome to hell Here lies Britanicus Hell's barking Cur That son of Belial who kept damned stir And every Munday spent his stock of spleen In venomous railing on the King and Queen Who though they both in goodness may forgive him Yet for his safety we 'll in hell receive him With this person may well be coupled Henry Care several times reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange in his Observators for a poor sniveling Fellow who after he had wrot several things in the behalf of the Church of England and the Presbyterians and had reflected on both the Universities in several of his Writings as popishly affected was at length prevail'd upon in the time of King Jam. 2. to write for the Rom. Catholicks against the Church which he before had eagerly defended where by it was made manifest that what he wrot was not for Religion or Conscience sake which he before did pretend but meerly for Interest After his death which hapned in Aug. 1688 was an Elegy written in his commendation printed on one side of a sheet of paper and a satyrical thing called Henry Cares last Will and Testament JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton of Oundle in Northamptonshire and he the second son of Joh Newt in Axmouth in Devoâsh was born in Northamptonshire became a Communer of S. Edm. Hall in Mich. term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1641 and in the year following was actually created Master of that faculty among several Esquires Gentlemen and Soldiers that belonged to the K. and Court then residing in this University At which time his genie being naturally inclined to Mathematicks and Astronomy he by continual industry made great proficiency in them which he found advantageous to him in the times of Usurpation After his Majesties return he was actually created Doct. of Div made one of the Kings Chaplains and Rector of Rosse in Herefordshire in the place I think of Mr. Joh. Tombes ejected which he kept to his dying day He hath written these things following mostly printed in qu. Astronomia Britannica Exhibiting the doctrine of the Sphere and theory of Planets decimally by Trigonometry and by Tables c. in 3 parts Lond. 1656. 57. qu. Help to calculation with tables of Declinat Ascensions c. Lond. 1657. qu. Trigonometria Britannica shewing the construction of the natural
of Vitae Hobbianae auctarium Historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof Lond. 1680 in 4. sh and an half in fol. There again in 1682 oct It is mostly taken out of the second chapter De Haeresi of his Appendix to the Leviathan in latine and seems to have been wrot purposely to vindicate its author from all default in the publication of the Leviathan For after he hath deduced from our Saviours time the different punishments by way of History by laws enacted and inflicted on those who were declared Hereticks throughout the several ages of the Church having told what was done in other parts of the world relating to this point he proceeds to reckon up the many laws here in force against Hereticks from the first profession of Christianity down to the âate Civil Wars and saith that the Court of High Commission had the sole power of declaring what was heresie according to the mind of the first four general Councils that is according to the faith declared in the Nicene Creed as is manifest from the Councils themselves invested in them in all Qu. Elizabeths Raign that after this Court was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles thereby to satisfie the restless clamours of the Presbyterian party against it no body stood then empowered by lawful authority either to declare what was heresie or to punish any one proved to be this way obnoxious At this time he saith his Leviathan came forth for the writing of which he could not be deemed heretical And the reasons which moved him to compose and publish that book so much justly excepted against he there gives and then concludes So that 't is manifest he aimes and levels at this as his end in this narration viz. to vindicial himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace contrary to the known laws of the realm by his setting forth such monstrous and dangerous tenets and principles in his Leviathan He addeth also that at the first Parliament after the Kings restauration the Episcoparians and Presbyterians accused it of heresie and yet there was no law then which declared what it was The falsity of the said Historical narration of Heresie is shewn in a small treatise entit The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified c. written by John Dowell Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leycestershire Oxon. 1683. in tw In which book p. 137 the author saith that Oliver gaining ths Protectorship was so pleased with many of his principles laid down in the Leviathan which tended to justifie and support his usurpation that the great place of being Secretary was profer'd to him Vita Thomae Hobbes Written by himself in prose and printed at Caropolis alias London before Vitae Hobbianae auctarium an 1681. oct There again 1682. qu. A brief of the art of Rhetorick containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books of that subject Printed in tw but not said when Afterwards it was published in two books Lond. 1681. oct The first bearing the title of The Art of Rhetorick and the other of The Art of Rhetorick plainly set forth with pertinent examples for the more easie understanding and practice of the same To which is added A dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England He hath also written An answer to Archb. Bramhalls book called The catching of the Leviathan Lond. 1682. oct Seven philosophical problems and two propositions of Geometry Lond. 1682. oct Dedicated to the King in the year 1662. An apology for himself and his writings In which he sets forth that those things he delivered in the Leviathan were not his own opinions but submitted to the judgment of the Ecclesiastical power and that he never maintained any of them afterwards either in writing or discourse Adding also that what is in it of Theology contrary to the general warrant of Divines was not put in as his own opinion but propounded with submission to those who had the Ecclesiastical power Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata Aug. Trinob i. e. Lond. 1688. oct Besides all these he hath other things in Ms not yet printed among which is His defence in the matter relating to Dan. Scargil Bach. of Arts of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge written in one sheet a copy of which Sir John Birkenhead had in his possession which after his death came into the hands of Hen. Birkenhead See in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium p. 108.109 Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English 1 The History of the Greecian War in eight books Printed in 1628. and afterwards at Lond. in 1676. fol. Written originally by Thucidides 2 The Voyage of Ulysses or Homers Odysses book 9.10.11.12 Lond. 1674. oct in English verse 3 Homers Iliads and Odysses Lond. 1675. and 77. c. in tw in Engl. vers Before which is a preface concerning the virtues of heroick Poesie What other things go under his name I know not as yet sure it is if several persons of credit may be believed that a certain Scholar who was made a Bishop sometime after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 did say it openly in the time of Oliver he having been bred under Presbyterians and Independents that he had rather be author of one of Mr. Hobbes his books than to be King of England To conclude about two months before the death of this noted author he was seized with an acute pain in making water caused by a strangury or ulcer in the bladder which continuing for a considerable time he made use of some medicines by the advice of a Chirurgion yet the Physitian judged it incurable by reason of his great age and natural decay But he finding little benefit of the said medicines he asked the Chirurgion whether he thought his distemper curable to which being answered it would be very difficult to make a perfect cure and the best that could be expected was ease for the present he thereupon made this expression I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at seeming then to be more afraid of the pains he thought he should endure before he died than of death About the 20. of Nov. his Patron the Earl of Devons being to remove from Chatsworth to Hardwyke in Derbyshire Mr. Hobbes would not be left behind and therefore with a feather-bed laid in a coach upon which he lay warm clad he was safely conveyed to Hardwyke and was in appearance as well after that little journey being but 10. miles as before it But within few days after he was suddenly stricken with a dead Palsie which stupified his right side from head to foot and took away his speech and 't is thought his reason and sense too which continued about 7 days before he died So that being so suddenly seized he did not take the Sacrament nor seem to desire the company of any Minister which in charity may be imputed to his
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
learn to admiration JOHN CORBET Son of Rog. Corb. Shoomaker was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Glocester became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years and in 1639 he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made a Master of one of the Schools and a Lecturer in that City but when it was garrison'd for the Parliament use he became Dinner-Chaplain to Col. Edw. Massey Governour thereof preached seditiously vilified the King and his party in a base manner and would several times say in common discourse and in the Pulpit sometimes that nothing hath so much deceived the world as the name of a King which was the ground of all mischief to the Church of Christ When the War was terminated he was called to be a Preacher at Bridgwater in Somersetshire whence after some time spent in holding forth he went to the City of Chichester where he was frequented by schismatical people At length being called to a richer Cure he went to Bramshot in Hampshire where being setled it was his desire made to the Delegates of the Convocation of this University that they would dispence with him for ten terms absence and give him leave to accumulate the degree of Bach. of Divinity Which desire being granted his supplicate in order thereunto followed 14 May 1658 and granted simpliciter conditionally that he perform all exercise requisite for the said degree But whether he did so or was admitted to that degree it appears not in the Register At Bramshot he continued till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662 and then he retired to London as most Nonconformists did where he lived privately taking no employment till his first wife died and then he lived in the house with Sir Joh. Micklethwaite President of the Coll. of Physitians and afterwards with Alderm Webb about which time he married a daughter of Dr. W. Twyss and then lived privately with Mr. Rich. Baxter at Totteridge in Hertfordshire At length the Kings license or toleration being published in the middle of March 1671 he was invited by the godly party to Chichester where he preached till a month before his death at which time removing to London to be cut of the stone in the bladder he died as soon as he came to that City without effecting his desire One of his perswasion tells us that he was a man so blameless in all his conversation that he never heard one person accuse or blame him except for Nonconformity that he was of so great moderation and love of peace that he hated all that was against it and would have done any thing for concord in the Church except sinning against God and hazarding Salvation c. He hath written and commended to posterity An historical relation of the military Government of Gloucester from the beginning of the Civil Warr between King and Parl. to the removal of Col. Massie from that Government to the command of the Western Forces Lond. 1645. in 18 sh in qu. A Vindication of the Magistrates of the City of Gloucester from the calumnies of Robert Bacon printed in his relation of his usuage there which he intitles The Spirit of Prelacy yet working or truth from under a cloud Lond. 1646. qu. Ten questions discussed which tend to the discovery of close Antinomianisme Printed with the Vindication The interest of England in the matter of religion unfolded in the solution of three questions c. Lond. 1660. oct in two parts Answer'd first by Râg L'Estrange in his Interest mistaken or the holy cheat c. Lond. 1661 and 62. in oct Wherein it appears that our author Corbet justifies in his said book the Presbyterian cause of 1641 that he excludes the Royal Party that served the late King from having any hand in the restoring of this that he revives the pretended misdemeanours of the Bishops as occasioners of the last Warr that he maintains the actings of the Presbyterians according to the Covenant that he makes the two Houses participate of the Soveraignity and denies the lawfulness of the English Ceremony c. 2 By an Anonymus in his book intit The Presbyterians unmasked c. Lond. 1676. oct Which book came out again in 1681 under the title of The Dissenter disarmed c. supposed verily to be written by Sam. Thomas Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. This is the author whom Mr. Baxter stiles A shamless Writer who published a bloody invective against Mr. Corbets pacificatory book called The Interest of England as if it had been written to raise a War The Kingdom of God among men a tract of the sound state of Religion c. Lond. 1679. oct The point of Church-unity and schisme discussed An account of himself about conformity These two last are printed with The Kingdome of God c. Discourse of the Religion of England asserting that reformed Christianity setled in its due latitude is the stability and advancement of this Kingdome In 2 parts Self-employment in secret containing 1 Evidences upon self-examination 2 Thoughts upon painful afflictions 3 Memorialls for practice Lond. 1681. in tw Published after the Authors death with a prefatory Epistle by Joh. How An account given of the principles and practices of several Nonconformists Wherein it appears that their Religion is no other than what is profest in the Church of England c. Lond. 1682. qu. An Enquiry into the oath required of Nonconformists by an Act made at Oxon. Wherein the true meaning of it and the unwarrantableness of taking it is consider'd Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. An humble endeavour of some plaine and brief explications of the decrees and operations of God about the free actions of men more especially of the operations of divine grace Lond. 1683. qu. Remaines Lond. 1684. in tw being most of the 9 Tracts which he left behind him to be published He the said J. Corbet had also laboured much in compiling the first vol. of Historical Collections published by Joh. Rushworth and dying on the 26 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and eighty was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne near London as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Rich. Baxter dated 22 of Feb. following Besides this Jo. Corbet was another of both his names Minister of Bonyl one of the collegiat Churches of the Provostry of Dunbarton in Scotland who for not submitting to the Covenant was ejected from that Kingdom and went into Ireland where he published The ungirding of the Scotish armour c. Dubl 1639. qu. and The Epistle congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor to the Covenanters in Scotland c. printed the year following in qu. Which Mr. Corbet who was an ancient man and a Minister of Galloway had his head cut off by two Swiniards in the time of the Rebellion in Ireland an 1641. See more in the Epistle to the Reader written by Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall set
before the said Epistle congratulatory c. Printed at Oxon 1684. qu. Which Epistle was written as I have been informed by a Scottish Writer since I wrot these things by John Maxwell Bishop of Ross in Scotland who therein compares the Presbyterians to the Jesuits Sed qu. ANTHONY SADLER son of Tho. Sadl of Chilton in Wilts was born in that County entred in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler in Lent term 1627 admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders an 1631 being then 21 years of age Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire and in the beginning of the Civil War Curat of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire was refused to pass by the Triers an 1654 and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey where I find him in much trouble an 1664 occasion'd by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place and afterwards to be Doctor of Div. and Chapl. extraord to his Majesty He hath written and published Inquisitio Anglicana or the disguise discovered shewing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers c. Lond. 1654. in three sh in qu. Several Sermons as 1 Benedictio Valedictio or the remembrance of thy friend and thy end being a farewell serm preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased on 2 Cor. 13.11 Lond. 1655. oct 2 Mercy in a miracle shewing the deliverance and duty of the King and People on Matth. 8.25 Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660 in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne c. A divine Masque Lond. 1660. qu ded to the Lord Gen. Monke Strange news indeed from Mitcham and Surrey of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham c. Lond. 1664. in one sh in qu. Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper written in English partly in verse and partly in prose This is the second or third edition but when the first came out I know not nor any thing else of the author only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty or thereabouts leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit RICHARD ALLESTRY or Allestree son of Robert son of Will. Allestry of Alveston in Derbyshire was born at Uppington near to Wreken in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning mostly in the Free-school at Coventry where Philem. Holland taught became a Commoner of Ch. Ch. in Lent term an 1636 aged 15 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Busby and about half an year after was made Student of that House In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for his Maj. under Sir Joh. Byron and when Oxford was garrison'd for the King he bore a musket among the Scholars for his service In 1643 he proceeded Master of Arts and the same year had like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon after he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the House but when the Parliament Visitors came under pretence of reforming the University he with hundreds more were ejected So that being put to his shifts he was soon after entertained as Chaplain to Francis Newport of Shropshire Esq afterward L. Newport of High-Arcal with whom continuing till Worcester fight he did after the Kings miraculous escape from the Rebells there attend him at Roan in Normandy and received his dispatches to the managers of his Affairs in England Soon after coming to Oxon where he found his friends Mr. Joh. Dolben and Mr. Jo. Fell living privately and performing the Offices of the Church of England to the loyal party there he joyned with them and continued there till Sir Anth. Cope of Hanwell near Banbury prevailed with him to live in his family which for several years he did having liberty allowed him to go or stay as his occasions required By which advantage he was enabled to step aside upon Messages from the Kings friends which he managed with courage and dexterity But in the Winter of 1659 being snapt at Dover in his return from his Majesty in Flanders he was examined by the Committee of the Council of Safety and committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he continued till things moved towards his Maj. restauration In 1660 he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and soon after actually created D. of Div and about that time made one of the Lecturers of the City of Oxon to instill principles of Loyalty among the Citizens who before had been led aside by schismatical Teachers In 1663 he being then one of the Kings Chaplains in ordinary became Reg. Prof. of Div. upon the death of Dr. Creed and two years after he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore upon the death of Dr. Joh. Miredith which was all the preferment he enjoyed being little enough for such a sufferer as he had been and one that had often ventured his neck to do his Majesty service He was a good and most affectionate Preacher and for many years by his prudent presiding in the Professors chair he did discover perhaps as much learning as any and much more moderation as to the five controverted points than most of his Predecessors He was also a person richly furnished with all variety of choice solid learning requisite to recommend him with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent Divines of our age He hath written and transmitted to posterity The privileges of the Univ. of Oxford in point of Visitation in a letter to an honorable personage Pr. in one sh and an half in qu. 1647. Whereupon W. Prynne came out with his University of Oxfords plea refuted c. and in answer to that R. Waryng wrot An account of Mr. Prynns refutation c. and Ed. Bagshaw sen with his Short censure c. Eighteen Sermons whereof 15 were preached before the King and the rest upon public occasions Lond. 1669. fol most of which had been before published singly Of the authority and usefulness of the Scripture serm on 2 Tim. 3.15 Oxon. 1673. qu. Forty Sermons whereof twenty one are now first published the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions Oxon. 1684. fol. These were published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxford and had the 19 sermons before mention'd added to with his picture before them He died in January in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in Eaton Coll. Chappel on the north side of the high Altar or Com. table Over his grave was
followed the Court from Newcastle and having received satisfaction concerning their sobriety and education he was willing to receive them as Grooms of his Bedchamber to wait upon his person with Mr. Maule and Mr. Maxwell which the Commissioners approving they were that night admitted and by his Majesty instructed as to the duty and service he expected from them So as they thenceforth attended his Royal Person agreeable to that great trust with due observance and loyalty and were by Maule and Maxwel affectionately treated Being thus setled in that honorable office and in good esteem with his Maj. Mr. Herb. continued with him when all the rest of the Chamber were removed till his Majesty was to the horror of all the world brought to the block It was then that Mr. Herbert was fully satisfied that the King was not the Man that the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people who obtained their ends by lies and slanders made him to be He clearly found that he was no Papist no obstinate Person no cruel or bloody Man no false dealer c. but purely a man of God which made him in an high manner lament his untimely death His Majesty tho he found him to be Presbyterianly affected yet withal he found him very observant and loving and therefore entrusted him with many matters of moment among which was his sending by him from the Isle of Wight his gracious Message to the Parliament which in the evening he gave it sealed up to him directed to the Speaker of the Lords House with a Letter to his Daughter the Princess Elizabeth who was then at S. James's with her Governess The wind was then averse and much ado Mr. Herbert had to cross the Sea But no delay was suffer'd in regard the King had commanded him to hasten away that his Letters might be delivered next day before the Lords rose When he was Landed at S. Hampton he took post and it may not be forgotten that at one stage the Postmaster a malevolent person understanding from whom the pacquet came and that it required extraordinary speed he mounted him upon an horse that had neither good eyes or feet so as usually he stumbled much which with deep ways and dark weather would have abated his hast and endanger the Rider Yet so it fell out by good providence that the horse albeit at full Gallop most of that 12 miles riding neither stumbled nor fell at which the People at the next stage admired The Kings pacquet was within the time limited delivered to William Lord Grey of Werk at that time Speaker Which done Mr. Herbert waited on the young Princess at S. James's who gave him her hand to kiss and was overjoyed with his Majesties kind Letter to which her Highness the next day returned an answer by the said Mr. Herbert who at his arrival at Carisbroke had the Kings thanks for his diligence And for a badge of the fair esteem that K. Ch. 2. had of him for faithfully serving his royal Father during the two last years of his life he did after his restauration by Lett. Pat. dat 3. July 1660 advance him to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne in Monmouthshire because Little Tinterne about half a mile from Tinterne Abbey was his own estate and the seat of Tho. Herbert before mention'd He hath written A relation of some years travels into Africa and the greater Asia especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy and some parts of the oriental Indies and Iles adjacent Lond. 1634. 38. c. 1677. which is the fourth impression wherein many things are added which were not in the former All the impressions are in fol. and adorn'd with Cuts He also at the proposal of John de Laet his familiar friend living at Leyden did translate some books of his India occidentalis but certain business interposing the perfecting of them was hindred He left behind him at his death an historical account of the two last years of the life of K. Ch. 1. the Martyr which he entit Threnodia Carolina written by him an 1678. in qu. on this account viz. that the Parliament a little before taking into their consideration of appointing 70 thousand pounds for the funeral of the said King and for a monument to be erected over his grave Sir Will. Dugdale then Garter King of Armes sent to our author Sir Thomas living at York to know of him whether ever the said King spoke in his hearing where he would have his body bestowed in burial to which Sir Tho. returning a large answer with many observations and things worthy of note concerning that King Sir William thereupon being much taken with it as containing many things which he never heard of before did desire him by another Letter to write a Treatise of the actions and sayings of the said King from his first confinement to his death which he did accordingly About the same time the author of this book having occasion to write to Sir Thomas for information of certain persons then or about that time attending the King he thereupon sent him several Letters in answer to his Queries with divers other matters by way of digression which Letters contain as it seems the chief contents of Thren Car. and are several times quoted in this work He also assisted the said Sir Will. Dugdale in his compiling the third vol. of Monast Anglic. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Knight in the Fasti an 1642. At length this worthy person Sir Thomas Herbert who was a great observer of men and things in his time died in his house at York on the first day of March S. Davids day in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 76 years and was buried in the Church there commonly called S. Crux or S. Cross situated in the street called Fossegate Over his grave was a monument soon after erected by his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Gervas Cutler of Stainborough in Yorksh Knight with a large inscription thereon Wherein we are instructed that he took to his first Wife Lucia Daughter of Sir Walt. Alexander Servant to K. Ch. 1 by whom he had issue Philip Henry Heir to his Father Montgomery Thomas William c. This Sir Thomas a little before his death gave several Mss to the publick Library at Oxon and others to that belonging to the Cathedral at York and in the Ashmolean Musaeum there are certain collections of his which he made from the registers of the Archbishops of York given thereunto by Sir W. Dugdale Knight I find one Tho. Herbert to be author of a poem entit An Elegy upon the death of Thomas Earl of Strafford c. Printed in one sh in qu. an 1641. but him I take not to be the same with our author Sir Thomas nor to be the same with Sir Tho. Herbert Knight Clerk of the Council at Dublin of Hen. Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland an 1657. 58.
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
1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168â should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament
Ministers thereof just under the Communion Table ROBERT SHARROCH a Ministers son was born at Adstock near to and in the County of Buckingham educated in Wyekhams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1649 or thereabouts took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1661 became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire a Justice of Peace for that County and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684 being then accounted learned in divinity in the Civ and Com. Law and very knowing in Vegitables and all pertaining thereunto He hath published The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrence of Art and Nature shewing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England as they are increased by Seeds Off-sets Suckers c. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 84. p. 5002. Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint c. Oxon. 1660. oct In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury belonging to Ethicks and Politicks This book came out at Oxon again in 1682 in a large octavo with many additions to it with the title a little alter'd and enlarg'd and dedicated to the King Judicia seu Legum censurae de variis in continentiae speciebus c. Oxon. 1662 in a large oct De finibus virtutis Christianae The ends of Christian religion c. justified in several discourses Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mention'd In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. somtimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumont by the said Bishop WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight was born there admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University 25. Mar. 1650 being then an Undergraduat took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following he being then 26 years of age Essayes and observations Theological and Moral Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized c. Lond. 1653. oct Drops of Myrrhe or Meditations and Prayers These are printed with the former book and are fitted to divers arguments in that work Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex was Bach. of Divinity Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral but what else he published I cannot yet find He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention'd By his last will and test he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq by Sarah Denham his wife sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchecquer was born in Cheapside within the City of London on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age his mother when 12 and that little Patrimony that he was born to by his father's being engaged in other mens debts At 14 years of age or thereabouts he was elected one of Kings Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch where with very great industry running thro all the Classes of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house where he lived till he was 43 years of age without having or seeking any preferment in the Church After this he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex which being a Sinecure he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Steuart then Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire But before he had that charge he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. to whom he was Chaplain in Ord. an 1641 which was the only preferment he ever desired and of which he gave the first years profit to the King towards the charge of his wars which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons but so little to their gust and liking that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons but not his to be printed Yet after this he being then Doctor of Divinity he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester Dr. H. Hammond c. were but neither he or either of them appeared among them As for his part he always remained with his Majesty did him what service he could as long as the war continued After which he was employed by his Majesty then a prisoner at Hampton Court to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation that had been began but for the present intermitted because of the violent proceedings of the Army Which affair he managed with such success that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose but with one dissenting voice only tho they were then under the power of the enemy that is the Parliament forces After this he was chosen by the Members of the University with some other Assistants named by himself to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the said forces which he did to that degree as to gain time for the getting in of their rents and to dispose of themselves I mean as many of them as were
talking about these Papers that I find him not a little angry with Dr. Joh. Hinckley barely for being so bold and daring as to pretend to write somthing relating to them for he himself saying that he believed no man then viz. 1671. living could give an account of them besides himself he judged questionless that the Doctor herein had too rudely invaded his sole Province Yet notwithstanding this together with a great deal of talk about their Sentiments and reception of his Majesties Declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs the reduction and model of Episcopacy made by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland and that other of Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwych subscribed to by Dr. Rich. Holdesworth either of which they would as he saith have willingly allowed of he with a great deal of confidence repeated in the preliminary introductions to most of his very many late most bitter pieces against the Church as if he could not otherwise by any means begin a treatise unless these hughly beloved relations did kindly usher the following very uneven unconcocted roving often repeated and medley stuff will hardly perswade us to believe that he hath been so little conversant with books especially such as have been wrot against his own party and himself as not to have very well known that Roger L'estrange in a book of his entit The relapsed Apostate c. published not long after those three Papers above mention'd had fully and at large answered his Petition for peace animadverted on many parts of the reformed Liturgy and that moreover he had in a Supplement to his Relapsed Apost refuted the Two papers of proposals concerning the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church together with a single sheet in form of petition to his Majesty and that the Papers compriz'd in The great debate c. were briefly also touched and reflected on in the same Supplement c. Mr. L'estrang taketh notice also of this unwarrantable boast and vaunt of Mr. Baxter concerning these Papers in a late preface to the third edit of The relapsed Apostate c. Lond. 1681. qu therein citing Baxters words to that purpose out of the Preface to his answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Charge of Separation c. Mr. Baxter indeed altho in some of his books he saith expresly that none of the above named Papers were ever answer'd by any confesseth that two small treatises one entit Pulpit conceptions popular deceptions or the grand debate resum'd in the point of Prayer viz in defence of prescribed forms c. Lond. 1662. qu. and the other Concerning Lent-Fast had been wrot against some single parts occurring in those three Papers above mention'd as also that L'estrange had said somthing against their Liturgy and that he had no more to say this last in his answer to a Letter of Dr. Hinckley yet mentions nothing even there of L'estranges answers to any of their other Papers But all this being spoken by the way lets now return to our author Morley and his other writings Epistola apologetica paraenetica ad Theologum quendam Belgam scripta Lond. 1663. in two sh and an half in qu written at Breda 7. Jun. 1659. This came out again with several of our authors treatises which I shall anon mention under this title Epistola ad virum clariss D. Cornelium Triglandium unum ex Pastoribus Hagiensibus Principi Auriaco à studiis conscripta in quâ agitur de sereniss regis Car. 2. erga reformatam religionem affectu c. Lond. 1683. qu. The author of this as writing to a Protestant who was a favourer of his Masters interest and with whom he had before held some correspondence by Letters fully clears K. Ch. 2. from all the least ground of suspicion of his enclining to Popery throughout his whole time of exile contrary to what some English men had reported either thro ignorance or hatred and which was by an easie credulity too greedily entertain'd by some foreigners After this he vehemently presseth the Dutch as desiring that this his Epistle might be communicated to other Dutchmen of the like perswasion with the person to whom it was immediatly directed with strong reasons drawn from the several perswasive heads vigorously to employ their speedy and utmost endeavours to restore his Majesty to his lawful throne and just rights The Summe of a short conference betwixt Fath. Darcey a Jesuit and Dr. Morley at Bruxells 23 June 1649. Stil Nov. Lond. 1683. qu. An argument drawne from the evidence and certainty of sense against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Vindication of the argument drawne from sense against Transubstantiation from a pretended answer to it by the author of a pamphlet called A treatise of the nature of Catholick faith and heresie Answer to Father Cressy's Letter This which is about religion and the Clergy of England was written in 1662. Sermon before the King at Whitehall 5. Nov. 1667 on 1. Cor. 14.33 Answer to a Letter written by a Rom. Priest 1676. Letter to Anne Duchess of York some few months before her death written 24 Jan. 1670. This Duchess who was dau of Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England afterwards E. of Clarendon was carefully principled in the doctrine of the Protestant faith by our author Morley while he continued at Antwerp in the family of her father yet died in the faith of the Rom. Church Ad clarissimum virum Janum Ulitium Epistolae duae de invocatione Sanctorum Written on the first of July 1659. The aforesaid Summe of a short conference c. with all the things that follow to these two Epistles were with the Epistle to Corn. Trigland c. printed together in one vol. in qu. an 1683. Soon after was published by L. W. a book entit A revision of Dr. Morley's Judgment in matters of religion or an answer to several treatises of his written on several occasions concerning the Church of Rome Which book was answer'd by another called The revision revised or a vindication of the right rev father in God George L. Bish of Winton against c. Lond. 1685. qu. Letter to the Earl of Anglesey of the meanes to keep out Popery and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof Lond. 1683 At the end of A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesey Printed in fol. Vindication of himself from divers false scandalous and injurious reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his writings Lond. 1683. qu. What else he hath published I know not unless A character of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. then vulgarly reported to be by him written much about which time other Characters were published as that by Dr. Wall Charlton c. He made also an Epitaph on K. Jam. 1. an 1625 which was afterwards printed at the end of Dr. John Spotswood's Church Hist of Scotland At length after this most worthy and pious Bishop had
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
his books p. 234 and in Will. Erbury an 1654. p. 104. In Thomae Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio Epistolica ad D. Joh. Wilkinsium Guardianum Coll. Wadhami Ox. 1656. octav Appendicula ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio in sex documentis nuperrimè editis in authorem congestas responsoria Printed with the Exercitatio epistolica Astronomia Geometrica ubi methodus proponitur qua primariorum Planetarum Astronomia sive Elliptica sive circularis possit Geometricè absolvi Lond. 1656. oct Several Sermons as 1 Against resistance of lawful powers preached 5 Nov. 1661. on Rom. 13.2 2 Against the Antiscripturists pr. 20 Feb. 1669 on 2 Tim. 3.16 3 Concerning sinfulness danger and remedies of infidelity pr. 16 Feb. 1667 on Heb. 3.12 4 Sermon before the H. of Peers at Westm 10 Oct. 1666 on Eceles 11.9 5 Serm. concerning the strangeness frequency and desperate consequence of impenitency preached 1 Apr. 1666 soon after the great Plague on Rev. 9.20 6 Serm. against Ingratitude on Deut. 32.6 7 An Apologie for the mysteries of the Gospel preached 16. Feb. 1671 on Rom. 1.16 Some of which Sermons having been severally printed at several times were all printed in one vol. at Lond. 1673 74. oct and then said to have been all preached at Whitehall except the fourth 8 The Christians victory over death preached at the funeral of George Duke of Albemarle c. in the collegiat Church of S. Pet. Westm 30 Apr. 1670 on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1670. qu. 9 The Case of Joram preached before the House of Peers 30. Jan. 1673 on 2. Kings 6 last vers Lond. 1674. qu. He also collected viewed and reviewed the Determinationes Theologicae Tractatus de justificatione and Praelectiones de peccato originali of Dr. Samuel Ward before mentioned which he caused to be printed and published at London In the beginning of the year 1683 arose a controversie between him the said Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of the Cathedral Church there occasion'd by the denial upon the first asking of Pierce for a Prebendship in the said Church for his Son Robert which denial being much resented by Pierce notwithstanding the reversion of it had been before promised by the Bishop he studied revenge and forthwith rais'd a controversie by maintaining that the King had right of giving and bestowing of the Dignities in the Church of Salisbury and not the Bishop Which controversie being laid before his Majesties Commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs they ordered Dr. Pierce to write a Narrative of that matter which being done Dr. Ward answered it but 't was not printed Whereupon Pierce wrot A Vindication of the Kings Soveraign rights c. which was printed at Lond. 1683 in 12. sh in fol. Afterwards the controversie being carried on by the black and dismal malice of Pierce it did so much discompose the Bishop especially by the several journies to London in unseasonable time and weather that by degrees his spirits were exhausted his memory gone and totally unfit for business About a month before he died he took very little sustenance and lived only on the stock and died a Skeleton which hapning in his house at Knightbridge near London on Sunday morn the sixth of January being the day of Epiphany in sixteen hundred eighty and eight his body was afterwards conveyed to Salisbury and buried in the Cathedral there What epitaph he hath over his grave I know not notwithstanding I have more than once sent for it and therefore take this character of him given by Mr. Oughtred in his pref to Clavis mathem running thus Vir prudens pius ingenuâs nec mathesi solum sed omni politioris literaturae genere cultissimus c. He tells us there that he was the first in Cambr. that expounded his Clav. Math. and that he had taken a large journey to see him in his hidden and retired condition at which time by his importunate desire he did correct add many things to and republish his said book of Clav. Math. There had been formerly several learned Letters passed between him and Ballialdus and Hevelius which are yet kept private THOMAS CARTWRIGHT son of Tho. Cartwright sometimes Schoolmaster of Brentwood in Essex was born in the antient Borough of Northampton on the first of Sept. 1634 educated in the School there and being puritanically educated under Presbyterian Parents was sent to Magd. Hall where spending two terms in the study of Logick was forcibly put into Queens Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 and at that time was put under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully Afterwards he was made Tabarder and Chapl. of the Coll. for a time but before he was elected Fellow he left the House having before been ordained Priest by Dr. Robert Skinner B. of Oxon. and became Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex and a very forward and confident preacher for the cause then in being In 1659 I find him Chaplain to Joh. Robinson Esq Alderman and then Sherriff of London and a Preacher at S. Mary Magd. in Milkstreet but whether he did then enjoy the Vicaridge of Barking in Essex which he did after his Majesties restauration I cannot tell After the Kings return he shew'd himself very forward to express his loyalty was made domestick Chaplain to Henry Duke of Glocester procured himself to be actually created D. of D tho not of full standing for it was made Preb. of Twyford in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul Minister of S. Thomas Apostle in London Preb. of Shalford in the Church of Wells and Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In Nov. 1672 he was installed Prebend of Durham struck in on the death of Dr. Tully his quondam Tutor and was made Dean of Rippon in the latter end of 1675. Afterwards putting in with great boldness before his Seniors for a Bishoprick particularly for that of S. David but put aside by Dr. L. Womack was at length made Bishop of Chester on the death of the most learned and religious Dr. John Pearson to which See being consecrated with Dr. Lloyd to S. David and Dr. Parker to Oxon at Lambeth on the 17. of Octob. 1686 had liberty then allowed to him to keep the Vicaridge of Barking and the Rectory of Wigan in Lanc. which he before had obtained in commendam with his Bishoprick In the next year he being then in favour with K. James 2 and ready upon all occasions to run with his humour purposely to obtain a translation to a better Bishoprick he was by him not only added to the number of Ecclesiastical Commissioners but also appointed one of the three Delegates or Commissioners Sir Rob. Wright Ch. Just of the Kings-Bench and Sir Thomas Jenner one of the Barons of the Exchecquer being the other two to go to Oxon to examine and determine the affairs relating to Magd. Coll and what they did there in ejecting the President and Fellows thereof a book entit An impartial relation of the
Majesties restauration He died on the nineteenth day of June 1668 aged 69 years and was buried in one of the Cloisters belonging to the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. at Westminster Jul. 8. Edw Greaves of All 's Coll. Jul. 8. Joh. Sambach of Gloc. Hall 10. Edw. Lenton of Magd. Hall 10. Franc. Goddard of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Div. Jul. 8. John Gauden of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards successively B. of Exet. and Worc. Mar. 13. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Lichf and Cov. and being now living he is hereafter to be remembred among the Bishops Incorporations April 2. Henry Stanley Doctor of Physick of Padua He was the Son of Henry Stanley and took that degree in the said University 1637. Ap. 3. Edw. Dynham Doct. of Phys of Mountpâlier He was a Londoner by birth and took that degree in the said Univ on the 19 of March 1639. Feb .... Miles Martin B. A. of Dublin Mar. 3. Tho. Locke B. A. of Dublin The last was lately Scholar of Trin. Coll. there And whether either of them were afterwards men of note I know not This year Rich Crashaw of Cambridge was incorporated not that it appears so in the publick register but in the private observations of a certain Master of Arts that was this year living in the University but in what degree he was incorporated those observations mention not This person who was the Son of an eminent Divine named Will. Crashaw was educated in Grammar learning in Suttonâ Hospital called the Charter-house near to London and in Academical partly in Pemb. Hall of which he was Scholar and afterwards in Peter House of which he was Fellow where as in the former House his admirable faculty in Latin and English Poetry was well known Afterwards he was Master of Arts in which degree 't is probable he was incorporated But being soon after thrown out of his Fellowship as many others of the said University of Cambridge were for denying the Covenant in the time of the rebellion he was for a time put to his shifts At length upon an infallible foresight that the Church of England would be quite ruined by the unlimited fury of the Presbyterians he changed his religion and went beyond the Seas and took up his abode for a time in the great City of Paris But being a meer Scholar and very shiftless Mr. Abr. Cowley the Poet did upon intimation of his being there find him out in a sorry condition an 1646 or thereabouts Whereupon exhibiting to him as much as laid in his power for the present did afterwards obtain for him Letters of commendation from Henrietta Maria Queen of England then in those parts and some relief Afterwards he journied into Italy and by virtue of those Letters he became Secretary to a Cardinal in Rome and at length one of the Canons or Chaplains of the rich Church of our Lady at Loretto some miles distant thence where he died and was buried about 1650. Before he left England he wrot certain Poems which were intit Steps to the Temple because in the Temple of God under his wing he led his life in S. Maries Church near to Peter House before mention'd There as 't is said he lodged under Tertullians roof of Angels There he made his nest more gladly than Davids swallow near the House of God where like a primitive Saint he offer'd more prayers in the night than others usually offer in the day There he pen'd the said Poems called Steps to the Temple for happy Souls to climb Heaven by To the said Steps are joyned other Poems intit The delights of the Muses wherein are several Latin Poems which tho of a more humane mixture yet they are sweet as they are innocent He hath also written Carmen Deo nostro being Hymns and other sacred Poems addressed to the Countess of Denbigh He was excellent in five Languages besides the Mother Tongue viz. in Hebrew Greek Latin Italian and Spanish the two last whereof tho he had little use yet he had the knowledg of them c. Creations Nov. 18. James Casaubon of Exeter Coll. was actually created Master of Arts which is all I know of him only that he studied for some time in that House for the sake of the Rector Dr. Prideaux meerly to advance himself in the knowledge of Divinity This year was a Student and Sojournour in the University for the sake of the Bodleian Library one Fabian Philipps of the Middle Temple Barrister who some years before in times of vacation had also studied there under the title of Juris studiosus This person who was eminent in his time considering that his parts were never advanc'd when young by Academical education was born at Prestbury in Glocestershire on the Eve of S. Michael an 1601. His Father was Andrew Philipps of an antient family in Herefordshire born to a good estate in Lempster and near it and his Mother was a Bagehott of a good family also and heir to one of her Brothers When he was very young he spent some time in one of the Inns of Chancery and thence translated himself to the Middle Temple where by his assiduity and continual lucubration accompanied with a happy memory he became a Proficient in some sorts of learning and at length a great lover and adorer and well vers'd in some parts of and in ven antiquity He was always a zealous Assertor of the Kings prerogative and so passionate a lover of K. Ch. 1. that two days before he was beheaded he wrot a Protestation against his intended murder which he printed and caused to be put on posts and in all common places He was afterwards if not before Philizer for London Middlesex Cambridgshire and Huntingdonshire and did spend much money in searching and writing for the asserting of the Kings prerogative yet got nothing by it only the employment of one of the Commissioners appointed for the regulation of the Law worth 200 l. per an which lasted only for two years Among many things that this worthy person hath written are these 1 Considerations against the dissolving and taking away the court of Chancery and the Courts of Justice at Westminster c. Lond. 1653 Written when all the Courts of Justice in Westm hall were voted down by the Little called by some Barebones Parliament for which he had the thanks of Lenthall the Speaker and Keepers of the Liberties of England 2 Tenenda non tollenda or the necessity of preserving tenures in capite by Knights service c. Lond. 1660. 3 Restauranda or the necessity of publick repairs by setling of a constant and royal yearly revenue for the King c. Lond. 1662. qu. 4 The Antiquity legality reason duty and necessity of prae-emption and pourveyances for the King or compositions for his conveyance c. Lond. 1663. 5 The antiquity and legality of Fines upon original writs in Chancery c. Ibid. 1663. 6 The mistaken recompence by the
Rights and Privileges of the Subject 3 Apr. 4 Car. 1. Lond. 1641. qu. Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he fled beyond the sea being an excepted person by the Parliament and died at Caen in Normandy about the end of Aug. 1649 leaving then behind him a son named Edward who had his fathers estate restored to him after his Majesties return from his exile One Rob. Heath Esq wrot and published Clarestella together with other occasional Poems Elegies Epigrams and Satyrs Lond. 1650. in tw but what kin he was to Sir Rob. Heath the Judge or whether he was of this University I know not as yet Sir Sampson Emre Knight sometimes written Evers Serjeant at Law was created the same day This person who was the third son of Sir Franc. Ewre Kt Brother to Ralph Lord Ewre had been his Majesties Attorney Gen. in Wales was now with him in Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause Rob. Holbourne a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was also created Doct. of the Civ Law the same day In 1640 he was chose Burgess for Michel in Cornwal to serve in that Parl that began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year and on the 15 of Dec. following he argued two hours in the H. of Com. in justification of the Canons In 1641 he was Lent Reader of the same Inn and soon after leaving the Parl. because of their desperate proceedings he retired to his Maj. at Oxon sate in the Parl. there 1643 and in the latter end of that year was made the Prince's Attorney in the place of Sir Ric. Lane one of his Majesties Privy Council and a Knight In the latter end of 1644 he was present at the Treaty at Vxbridge in behalf of his Majesty as he was afterwards at that in the Isle of Wight About which time retiring to London he was forced to compound for his Estate but not permitted to abide in any of the Inns of Court He hath published The Reading in Lincolns Inn 28 Feb. 1641 upon the Statute of the 25 of Ed. 3. cap. 2. being the Statute of Treasons Oxon. 1642. in two sh in qu. and revived The transactions of the high Court of Chancery both by practice and president c. originally collected and written by Will. Tothill Esquire Feb. 7. Charles Roser Esq Feb. 7. Degory Collins Esq Sir Troylus Turbervill Kt was created the same day This most valiant person who was of the Turbervills of Moreden in Dorsetshire was afterwards Captain Lievtenant of the Kings Life-guard of Horse and was slain at his Majesties going from Newark to Oxon towards the latter end of August 1645. Sir Thom. Thynne Kt was also created the same day I take this to be the same Sir Thom. who was a younger son of Sir Thom. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Kt and the same who was father by his wife the daughter of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall sometimes Dean of Durham to Thom. Thynne of Longleat who was murdered in the Pall-Mall at Westm. on the 12 of Feb. 1681. Feb. 21. John Penruddock of Compton-Chamberlaine in Wilts Esq was then being in the service of his Majesty actually created Doctor of the Civ Law and three days after had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Majesty He was father to Colonel John Penruddock who when a youth at Blandford school and after when a Fellow Com. of Qu. Coll. in this University delighted in books when a man in arms which in his maturer years he willingly put on to redeem the liberties of three enslaved Kingdoms tho with the loss of his own life by the axe in the Castle of Exeter 16 May 1655. Let therefore all military men of Honour approach with devotion his altar-tomb and offer up their tributary tears as due victims to distressed valour Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Esq was actually created the same day This most valiant person who was son of Sir Jervais Scrope of the same place and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1634 did most loyally attend his Majesty at the fight at Edghill where receiving several wounds was left among the dead as a dead person there but recovered by the immortal Dr. Will. Harvey who was there but withdrawn under a hedge with the Prince and Duke while the battel was in its height 'T is reported that this Adr. Scrope received 19 wounds in one battel in defence of his Majesties Cause but whether in that fought at Edghill I cannot justly say it sure I am that he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. an 1661. There was another Adrian Scrope a Soldier also but taking part with the Parliament became one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. as I shall elsewhere tell you Feb. 21. Franc. Baker Esq Feb. 21. Edw. Bosworth Gent. Feb. 21. Tho. Bosworth Gent. Feb. 21. Joh. Wentworth Gent. Feb. 21. Thom. Morrys Gent. Mar. .... John Godolphin of Glouc. Hall This year but the month week or day when I know not being omitted by the Registrary was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law Rob. Levinz M. A. of Linc. Coll. now in arms for his Majesty and a very zealous person for his Cause He was son of Will. Levinz of Seukworth joyning to Botley near Abendon in Berks who exercised the trade of Brewing in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie within the City of Oxon and he the son of Will. Levinz sometimes Alderman and Apothecary of the said City This Robert who was afterwards a Captain did considerable service according to his capacity but upon the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament he betook himself to his book again as some hundreds of Scholars did that had bore arms After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he engaged himself for his son received a Commission from him for the raising of Forces and blank Commissions for divers Officers But he being at length discovered by certain inquisitive persons employed purposely to find out plots against the State he was hurried before a Court-Marshal where acknowledging their allegations against him and the justice of his Cause was by them sentenced to be hang'd Whereupon he was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse guarded by a Troop of Horse to the Exchange in Cornhill where he was executed about noon on the 18 of July 1650 aged 35 years leaving a widow behind him daugh of Sir Peregrin Bertie son of Robert Earl of Lindsey These things I here set down because the said Dr. Levinz was afterwards numbred among the Loyal Martyrs Doct. of Phys From the 1 of Nov. to the 31 of Jan. were more than 20 Doctors of Physick actually created of which number were these that follow Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Napier Kt originally of Wadh. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules was then actually created Doctor of Phys This person who was Nephew and Heir to Rich. Napier Rector of Linford in Bucks a younger son of Sir Rob. Napier of
in our fortifications c. among the created Doctors of Div. 1661. Oct. 17. John Poston Oct. 17. Cave Beck The last of these two hath published The universal character by which all nations may understand one another Lond. 1657. oct and perhaps other things Dec. 9. John Coke or Cook Jan. 31. Dan. Southmead Bac. of Arts of this University was then created Master Mar. 18. Will. Zanchie who had rendred both his life and fortunes in the Kings service under the command of Richard Vicount Molineaux and thereby had lost time in the University was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of the Kings Letters dat 10. of Jan. this year Bach. of Phys Oct. 17. Franc. Metcalf of S. Maries Hall Feb. 8. John Catchpole of Christs Coll. in Cambridge Bach. of Div. Oct. 17. James Bardsey He was a stranger as it seems and the only Bach. of Div. that was created this year In the month of May it was granted to Edw. Willisford then absent that he might be created when he came to the University but whether he came or was admitted it appears not perhaps he was the same Mr. Willisford who was lately ejected from Peter house in Cambridge for denying the Covenant Doct. of Law Apr. 12. George Owen one of the Heralds of Armes by the title of York May 29. Rich. Colchester was then also actually created He is stiled in the publick reg dignissimus vir and de republica optime meritus One Rich. Colchester of Westbury in Glocestershire Esq was one of the six Clerks in the High Court of Chancery and died in the troublesome times about 1646 whether the same Quaere June 16. Jeffry Palmer of the Middle Temple Esq This worthy Gentleman who was son of Thom. Palmer of Carleton in Northamptonshire by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Edw. Watson of Rockingham Kt sister to the first Lord Rockingham was chosen Burges for Stanford in Lincolnshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he was a manager of the evidence against Thomas Earl of Strafford and seemed to be an enemy to the prerogative But afterwards he perceiving full well what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took he boldly delivered his mind against the printing of that Declaration called the Grand remonstrance for which he was committed to custody in Nov. 1642. Afterwards being freed thence he retired to Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was esteemed a loyal and able person in his profession Upon the declining of the Kings cause he suffered as other Royallists did lived obscurely in England and upon pretence of plotting with the Cavaliers against Oliver the Protector he was imprison'd in the Tower of London in the month of May 1655. On the 31. of May 1660 his Majesty being then newly restored he was made Attorney General and about that time chief Justice of Chester and a Knight and on the 7 of June following he was created a Baronet He hath collected and written Reports bearing this title Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer Chevalier Baronet c. Lond. 1678. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hamsted in Middlesex on the fifth day of May an 1670 aged 72 whereupon his body being conveyed to the Hall of the Middle Temple laid there in state for a time attended by three Heralds of Armes Afterwards it was conveyed to the Seat of his Ancestors at Carleton in Northamptonshire before mention'd and there buried in a Vault under part of the Parish Church What inscription there is for him over his sepulcher I cannot tell sure I am that Dr. Thom. Pierce hath composed a most noble epitaph on him as also on his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Franc. More of Fawley in Berks who died on the 16. of the Cal. of May 1655 aged 47 years but it being too long for this place I shall only give you the beginning Galfridus Palmer vir ad omnia praesertim optima usque quaeque comparatus c. July 18. John Philipot Herald of Armes by the title of Somerset This person who was of Eltham in Kent was born at Folkston in that County and having a genie from his childhood to Heraldry and Antiquities was from being an Officer of Armes extraordinary called Blanch Lyon created Officer in ordinary called Rouge-Dragon 19 of Nov. 1618 and on the 8. July 1624 Herald by the title of Somerset In which capacity he was employed by his Majesty to make a presentation of the most noble Order of the Garter to his Highness Charles Lodowick Prince Elector in the Army at Bockstell or Bockstall in Brabant In the beginning of the Presbyterian rebellion in 1642 he was one of those Loyal Heralds who followed his Majesty was with him at Oxon but took up his quarters two miles distant thence at a place called Chawley in the Parish of Comnore where being seized on by certain Parliament Soldiers of the Garrison of Abendon was conveyed thence a Prisoner to London in 1644 or thereabouts But being soon after set at liberty he spent the short remainder of his days in London in great obscurity At length yielding to nature I cannot say in want was buried within the precincts of S. Bennets Church near to Paulswharf on the 25 of Nov. 1645. He hath written 1 Catalogue of the Chancellours of England the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurers of England With a collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolls Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Additions to Will Camdens Remains concerning Britaine Lond. 1637 c. qu. 3 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the Parishes Boroughs Villages and Mannours of the County of Kent Lond. 1659. fol. Published by and under the name of Thom. Philipot his Son as I have told you among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1640. 4 An Historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent This is added to the said Villare Cautianum He the said Joh. Philipot hath also written as 't is said a book proving that Gentry doth not abate with Apprenticeship but only sleepeth during the time of their indentures and awaketh again when they are expired But this book I have not yet seen Aug. ... Sir John Borough Kt Garter Principal King of Armes His Grace did then pass in a Convocation to be Doctor of the Civil Law but whether he was admitted it appears not as several Creations do not in the publick register This person who was the Son of a Dutch man a Brewer by trade living in Sandwych in Kent as I have been informed at the Office of Armes was educated a Scholar and afterwards in the com Law in Greys Inn but his genie inclining him much to the study of Antiquity he obtained the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London where by his searches he laid the foundation of certain books In 1623 he by the favour of the
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 ân 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
the Army landed in the Isle of Wight under the command of the said Lieut. Col. Cobbet and coming unexpectedly to Newport the Lieut. Col. did in the first place make enquiry for the quarter of the Governour of that Isle called Col. Rob. Hammond for there at Newprrt he continued while his Majesty was present albeit he was under no restraint to the end that he might secure him and put his Lieut. Col. Is Ewre in his place of trust and government The reason for this intended seizure was not then known for Col. Hammond had all along managed his trust with sufficient circumspection and asperity so as it continued him in the applause of most men in power both in the two Houses of Parl. and the Army insomuch as 't was believed this alteration proceeded principally from the apprehension either the Adjutators or some that influenc'd them had and were not a little jealous that he was at length too much a Courtier which they by no means approved of and from that supposition they thought it the safest way to remove him yet he being premonish'd he evaded Cobbet and at his coming to Westminster had a fair reception by the members of Parliament In this conjecture his Opposits in the Army were mistaken for albeit by his constant attendance most times walking and discoursing with the King whensoever he walk'd for refreshment about the out-works of Carisbrook Castle before he went to Newport to treat with the Commissioners there being none in the Garrison so fit and forward as Hammond it gave him opportunity to ingratiate himself into his Majesties favour yet it made the Army Officers jealous he being solely intrusted with the Person of the King And the truth is he did never forfeit the Kings good opinion of him only when he peep'd into his Scrutore for no good end as 't was supposed which as I have been told by one then present with some aggravations from other hands made the King to design an escape For soon after he made way for his descent out of his Chamber as he farther told me and Horses were provided and placed near the works and a vessel ready for his imbarking but by a corrupted Corporal of the Garrison it took no effect c. Now to return L. Col. Cobbet failing of his first enterprise he made a higher flight for in the morning of the 30. of Nov. 1648 being S. Andrews day he just at break of day did with other Officers in his Company come to the door of the Kings Dressing-room with Anth. Mildmay the Kings Carver Brother to Sir Henry a Parliamentarian and making a great knocking there the King sent James Duke of Richmond then in attendance as Gentleman of the Bedchamber to know what it meant and he enquiring who was there was answer'd by Mildmay that there were some Gentlemen from the Army that were desirous to speak with the King The Duke returned and gave an account to the King but the knocking increasing the King commanded the Duke to let them into his Dressing-room No sooner was that done but Cobbet in the head of them went into his Chamber and made an abrupt and unexpected address to the King letting him know that he had orders to remove him forthwith from Newport The King beheld him with astonishment and interrogated him whether his orders were to remove him to his prison at Carisbroke the Lieut. Col. said no whither then said the King out of the Isle of Wight replied the Lieut. Col but the place he was to remove him to he was not to communicate Vnder favour said the King let me see your orders as to which the L. Col. desired to be excused this business said he is of no ordinary concernment I am not to satisfie any mans enquiry until a fitter season Now was verified his Majesties Maxim that such as will assume the boldness to adventure upon a King must not be thought over modest or timorous to carry on his design His Majesty being thus denied a sight and answer demanded if his orders and instructions were from the Parliament or General of the Army the Lieut. Col. answer was he had them from neither said the King thereupon it may be so seeing you are afraid to shew them But that he had orders or secret instructions for this bold act is not to be doubted for tho there was but one General yet things were at that time so much out of frame both in the Commons House and Army that there were many Commanders The Duke of Richmond Mountague Earl of Lindsey Thomas Earl of Southampton Gentlemen of the Bedchamber and other Nobility several venerable Persons his Chaplains and many of the Kings Houshold servants at that time attending were in a manner confounded at this surprise and unexpected accident yea not a little affrighted with idea's and apprehensions of danger to his Majesties person and the more for that Cobbet refused to satisfie any to what place he would go or what he intended to do with the King other than that no harm or violence should be offer'd to him The Lieut. Col. Cobbet did press the King to take Coach with what convenient speed he could The Coach accordingly was made ready and brought to the door where the King lodged Never at one time was beheld more grief in mens faces or greater fears in their hearts the King being at such a time and in such a manner hurried away they knew not whether But no remedy appearing the Noble men venerable persons and other his Majesties servants approached to kiss the Kings hand and to pour forth their supplications to Almighty God to safeguard and comfort his Majesty in that disconsolate condition His Majesty who at other times was cheerful did at this parting from his friends shew sorrow in his heart by the sadness of his countenance a real sympathy and wrot unto the Lords in Parl. acquainting them with this fresh violence and complaining of the Armies severity to his person The King being now ready to take Coach he asked Cobbet whether he was to have any servants with him To which he made answer only such as were most useful The King then nominated James Harrington and Tho. Herbert to attend him in his Bedchamber and scarce a dozen more for other service And at that time his Majesty taking notice that Herbert had for three days absented himself Harrington told his Majesty that he was sick of an Ague His Majesty then desir'd the Duke of Richmond to send one of his servants to see in what condition he then was and if any thing well to come along with him The Gent. that the Duke sent found him sweating but as soon as he received the message he arose and came speedily to his Majesty who presently took Coach and commanded Harrington Herbert and Mildmay his Carver to come into his Coach and L. Col. Cobbet offering to enter the Coach uninvited his Majesty by opposing with his foot made him sensible of
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected âch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Petâr Eâioâ of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
D. of D. and Bish of Cloyne in Irel. 1679 on the death of Dr. Edw. Singe who being Bish of Cloyne Cork and Ross the two last Sees were then the same year confer'd on Dr. Edw. Wâtenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll. Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys of Leyden 7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these two who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mention'd among the Writers p. 195 was Fellow of New Coll and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys of Leyden was incorporated the same day Aug. 7. This person who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643 Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other was educated in the Coll. near Dubl and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr of Doct. of Phys confer'd on him there 1650. Afterwards he setled in the City of Chester where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these 1 Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1670. oct dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby 2 The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England With the Governours since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2 an 1172 with some passages in their Government A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also the original of the Vniv of Dublin and the Coll. of Physitians Lond. 1675. in a large oct 3 The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion traced from many preceeding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit The Irish Rebellion or the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland 23 Oct. 1641 c. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties honorable privy Council in Irel. 4 Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are vindicated from aspersions cast on both Lond. 1682. oct In the third p. of the Epist to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit A short view of the late Troubles in England as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend upon notice of a book entit A short view c. Wherein in the eigth Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken This Letter which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681 was printed at Lond. in 1 sh in fol. the same year What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Chester after the year 1682. Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys of Padua was âhen incorporated This person who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl first for Non-submission and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers This last reason was mention'd in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mention'd which is under the ninth But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty he upon the perusal of that passage did falsly unknowing to the author acquaint by another hand the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it Whereupon Bidgood a covetous person fearing that such a passage as that might when made public hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History to have it taken out Whereupon Dr. Fell wondring that he should scruple at such a passage which made much for his Loyalty the sheet wherein it was was reprinted and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a was made the tenth in its place This Health tho said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers yet the author of the aforesaid History finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions but as it is word by word before mention'd therefore did he set it so down without any invention of his own as some did surmise This Dr. Bidgood who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690 after he had cashier'd and disinherited his nat son call'd Joh. Sommers sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman and some to pious uses And having been a person of a surley and proud nature and offensive in word and action he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys of Padua Oct. 17. Christop Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two who was son of Onuphrius Henchman had the degree of Doct. confer'd on him at Pad an 1654 the other in 1659 and afterwards practised his fac in Lincolnshire Nov. 19. Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr One of both his names and Mast of Arts hath written and published The wicked Petition or Israels sinfulness in asking a King explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments CREATIONS After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 it was his and the pleasure of the Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox and of Sir E. Hyde who succeeded him in that Office this year that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffer'd for his Majesties Cause and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an 1648. 49. c. Mast of Arts. Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created among whom some that had not been Sufferers thrust themselves into the crowd for their money Others yet few were Gentlemen and were created by the favour of the Chancellours Letters only Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created I shall mention these following Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely
Chaplain to his Majesty in his Exile was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury by Bishop Duppa in January 1657 in the place of Will. Buckner deceased and about the same time to a Prebendship in the same Church After his Majesties restoration he was installed Canon of Windsore 18. July 1660 in the place of Joh. Hales some years before dead and had two good rectories bestowed on him in Wilts He died on the 16 of Jan. 1663 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Josh Childrey and his Canonry on Joh. Durell Joh. Lloyd M. A. of All 's Coll. Chaplain also to his Majesty in his Exile who on the 18 of July going before had been installed Canon of Wind. in the place of Hugh Cressey who in the War time had changed his Religion This Dr. Lloyd died on the 9 of April 1671 and thereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Joh. Saumares M. A. of Pemb. Coll and Dean of Guernsey One Joh. Lloyd wrot A Treatise of Episcopacy Liturgies and Ecclesiastical Ceremonies Pr. in 1660. qu. but whence he was I cannot yet tell And Joh. Lloyd D. D. was of Hombleston in Kent and died about the beginning of the year 1679. Joseph Crowther Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll and Chaplain to James Duke of York He was about this time Chantor and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the diocese of Worcester On the 7. of March 1661 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Herbert Croft promoted to the See of Hereford and on the 26. of Dec. 1664 he was admitted Principal of S. Maries Hall In his last days he was committed Prisoner to the Prison call'd the Fleet in London by the endeavours of Sir Tho. Draper because he refused to renew a Corps belonging to S. Pauls Cath. then in the possession of Sir Thomas which the Doctor intended to wear out for the benefit of the said Cathedral He died in the Fleet on the 16 of Dec. 1689 and was buried in S. Pauls Cathedral Whereupon his Chantorship was bestowed on Dr. Tho. Turner President of C. C. Coll his Preb. of Worc. on Jonathan Blagrave of Magd. Hall Sub-Almoner to the Queen his rectory of Tredington on Tho. Kerry of Ch. Ch. and his principality on Will. Wyat M. A. of the same House George Benson M. A. of Qu. Coll and about this time Archdeacon of Hereford On the 16. of June 1671 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Dowdeswell deceased and in the year following he became Dean of Hereford on the death of Tho. Hodges Ralph Brideoake M. A. of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Chichester Edw. Fulham Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. This person who had been Rector of Hampton Poyle in Oxfordshire in the times of Usurpation was installed Canon of Windsore on the 12 of July this year in the place of Dr. Thomas Some some years before deceased who had been of Peter House in Cambridge and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and about the same time he became Preb. of Chichester George Hall of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester Nath. Hardy of Hart sometimes of Magd. Hall Joh. Townson of Magd. Coll. Joh. Lee M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Thom. Lee of London by Anne his Wife Daughter of Harman Warner and Sister and Heir of Dr. John Warner Bishop of Rochester was now Preb. of Rochester and Archdeacon thereof in the place of Elizeus Burges some years before deceased He afterwards wrot himself Joh. Lee alias Warner because he was heir to the said Bishop hath published one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen and dying about the beginning of June 1679 at which time he left behind him a Son named Hen. Lee Esq was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Thom. Plume D. of D. of Cambr installed therein on the 10 of the said month and in the same year Henry Bridgman M. A. of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he hath done his Majesty faithful service c. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Mich. Woodward B. D. Warden of New Coll. Tho. Barlow B. D. Provost of Qu. Coll. Rob. Say M. A. Provost of Oriel Coll. Walt. Blandford M. A. Warden of Wadham Coll. Thomas Yate B. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. The first of these five dying on the 16 of June 1675 was succeeded in his Wardenship by Joh. Nicholas M. A. and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester The second was afterwards B. of Linc and was succeeded in his Provostship by Tim. Halton D. D. The third dying on the 24 of Oct. 1691 was succeeded in his Provostship by George Royse D. D. The fourth was afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Worcester and was succeeded ih his Wardenship by Gilbert Ironside Bach. of Div and the last dying on the 22 of Apr. 1681 was succeeded in his principality by Joh. Meare M. A. But this the Reader is to know that tho all five were created as Loyalists yet none of them suffered for their Loyalty in the times of Rebellion and Usurpation only the last Rob. Davenant of S. Johns Coll Bach. of Div. of 28 years standing and now Preb. elect of Salisbury as 't is said in the publick register He was Brother to Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet. Ralph Cooke of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester Rich. Harwood B. D. of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in the City of Glocester educated in Grammar learning there became a Com. of the said Hall in Mich. term 1631. aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and being accounted a learned Preacher was appointed by the Delegacy of the Univ. to be one of those persons to preach before K. Ch. 1 at Ch. Ch. in the time of the rebellion Afterwards upon the death of that King he suffer'd as all Divines that adhered to him did but upon his Sons restauration he became Chaplain in Ord. to him was created Doctor as before 't is said made Preb. of Glocest and Rector of a Church near Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 King Davids Sanctuary Sermon before his Majesty at Ch. Ch. on Psal 73.25 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 The Royal Subjects retiring-room Serm. at S. Maries 13. July being Act Sunday on Esay 26.20.21 Oxon. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the year 1669 and was succeeded in his Preb. by Will. Washbourne M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. Rich. Hyde M. A. of S. Edm. Hall He was sometimes a Chaplain in the Kings Army was now Preb. of Warmister in the Church of Salisbury afterwards Sub-dean of the said Church by the resignation of
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
till 1689 and then surrendred it up He hath written and published 1 A genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal c. Lond. 1664. fol. 'T is partly a Translation 2 The Order and Ceremonies used at the funeral of his Grace George Duke of Albemarle c. with the manner of his Effigies lying in state in Somerset house the whole proceeding to the Abbey of Westminster the figure of his hearse in the said Abbey c. Printed in the Savoy near Londân 1670 in a thin fol all exactly represented in Sculpture with the form of the offering performed at Westm 3 A genealogical history of the Kings of England and Monarchs of great Britain c. from the Norm Conq. an 1066 to the year 1677 in seven parts or books with their effigies seals tombs cenotaphs devises arms c. Pr. in the Savoy 1677. in fol. 4 The History of the Coronation of K. Jam. 2. and Qu. Mary solemnized in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster on Thursday 23 of Apr. 1685 with an exact account of the several preparations in order thereunto c. the whole work illustrated with sculptures Pr. in the Savoy 1687 in a large fol. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him besides only that he now lives in or near Bloomsbury in Middlesex An. Dom. 1666. An. 18 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. John Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch Aug. 3. Proct. Nathan Hodges of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Walt. Baylie of Magd. Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 3. Jam. Fen of Ch. Ch. He hath extant A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall Chap. 18 Jul. 1686. Lond. 1686 at which time the author was Vicar of Goudhurst in Kent Apr. 5. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 3. John Miln or Mill of Queens Coll. 8. Abraham Markland of S. Johns Coll. Of Joh. Mill you may see among the Doct. of Div. 1681. 31. Tho. Bennet of Ch. Ch. 31. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. 31. Joh Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. Of the first of these last three who were afterwards Writers you may see among the Masters an 1669. Jul. 14 Sam. Master of Ex. Coll. He hath published several Sermons and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 20. Joh. Cook of Ch. Ch. 27. John Inett of Vniv Coll. Of these two last you may see more among the Masters in 1669. Dec. 13. Charles Powell of Ch. Ch. This person who was son of Edw. Pow. of the Burrough of Stafford Minister became Student of the said House under the tuition of Mr. Benj. Woodroff in 1662 aged 17 years or thereabouts and after he had taken one degree in Arts became Curat of South Marston in Wilts and afterwards Chapl. to John Earl of Bridgwater who prefer'd him to the Rectory of Cheddington near Aylesbury in Bucks He hath published A sermon preached at South Marston near Hyworth in Wilts 9 Sept. 1683 being the day appointed for a Thanksgiving from the horrid plot of the Presbyterians on Psal 10.10 Lond. 1683. qu. This being all that he hath published I can only say that he died at Cheddington in the latter end of 1684. Jan 26. Hugh Barrow of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Feb. 12. Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. He hath published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers 14. William Williams of Jesus Coll. See among the Masters an 1669. In a Convocation held 31 of Octob. were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Will. Gould formerly of Oriel Coll. that he might accumulate the degree of Bach. of Arts that so he might be enabled to take the degree of Master c. but whether he was admitted to either I find not Adm. 170. Bach. of Law Seven were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Mar. 29. Will. Richards of Trin. Coll. Apr. 7. George Howell of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was son of Dr. Tho. Howell sometimes Bishop of Bristow was afterwards Rector of Buckland in Surrey and Author of A sermon preached July the first 1683 on Matth. 10.33 Lond. 1684. qu. May 3 ââ Jonas Proast lately of Qu. Coll. now 1666 of Gloc. Hall This person who is a Ministers son and a Colchester man born was afterwards one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll and Author of 1 The argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly consider'd and answer'd Oxon at the Theat in 3 sh and an half in qu. an 1690 published in Apr. that year Afterwards was written and published by the same hand who wrot the said Letter a Pamphlet intit A second Letter concerning Toleration London 1690 in 9 sh and an half in qu. This second Letter which is dated 27 of May 1690 doth reflect much upon The argument c. before mention'd Whereupon our Author Proast came out with 2 A third Letter concerning Toleration In defence of the argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly considered and answered Oxon 1691. in 11 sh in qu. Jun. 27. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. 30. Will. Richardes of Allsoules Coll. The last of these two who was Chapl. of his Coll became Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Dr. John Sharp when he was translated from the Deanery of Norwych to that of Canterbury 1689. Jan. 17. Steph. Penton of New Coll. Feb. 12. Thom. Staynce of Trin. Coll. The first of these two who hath published several books was admitted Principal of S. Edm. Hall in the place of Dr. Tully deceased 15 Feb. 1675 Which place he at length resigning was succeeded therein by Thom. Crosthwait See among the Doct. of Div. 1684. Mar. 7. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll. 21. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 70. Bach. of Phys Jul. 14. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 8. Bach. of Div. Jân 22. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. Jul. 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. Oct. 16. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law Jun. 19. Thom. Sargeant of All 's Coll. Jul. 6. Thom. Style of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys Jun. 19. Will. Levinz of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 19. Edw. Exton of Magd. Coll. Jun. 19. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these three who hath written Appendicula de rebus Britannicis plac'd at the end of a book intit Flosculi historici delibati nunc delibatiores facti c. Oxon 1663 in tw fift edit was afterwards President of his College Subdean and at length Can. resid of Wells And the last Practitioner of his faculty at Southampton and a publisher of one or two trivial things of Poetry Jun. 19. Henr. Danvers of Trin. Coll. Jun. 19. Rich. Torless of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh. Parys of C. C. Coll. 5. Will. Cole of Glocest Hall Doct. of Div. May 31. Rich. Clayton Master of Vniv Coll. He
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born aâ Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated
1641. in qu. which I have not yet seen Catechisme for the use of the Parishoners of Gr. Greenford Lond. 1646. oct Sum of Religion Printed 1647. qu. Characters of a wicked heart hypocritical and sincere heart Printed in one shâ Voyage to East India Wherein some things are taken notice of in his passage thither but many more in his abode there within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul Lond. 1655. oct with the Authors picture before it The narrative of this voyage was written and disgested into order by the Author after his return thence and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to Prince Charles an 1622. Afterwards it was added to the Travels of Pet. de la Valle and abridged in Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims book 9. Corolarie of serious and heedful but sad conclusions Printed at the end of the Voyage before mention'd Character of K. Ch. 2. with a short Apologie before it an introduction to it and conclusion after it Lond. 1660. qu. From which King he expected the Deanery of Windsore to be confer'd upon him but upon what ground seeing that he suffer'd neither for his or his fathers cause I know not He departed this mortal life on the 8. day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Greenford beforemention'd as I have been informed by his Son Edw. Terry a Non-conformist Divine somtimes Master of Arts and Fellow of University College THOMAS POWELL Son of Joh. Pow. Rector of Cantreffe near to and in the County of Brecknock was born there in 1608 made his first entrie into this University in 1625 elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. in 162â took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Fellow of that House About which time applying his mind to the faculty of Theologie he entred into the sacred function and at length became Rector of the place of his nativity In the time of the Civil War he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and being sequestred of his spiritualities ship'd himself beyond the Seas for a time After the return of Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms he was restored to them was actually created D. of D. and made Canon of S David and would without doubt have risen higher in the Church had he not been untimely snatch'd away from it He was a Person well vers'd in several sorts of learning was an able Philosopher a curious Critick was well skill'd in various languages and not to be contemn'd for his knowledge in Divinity He hath written Elementa Opticae nova facili compendiosâ methodo explicata c. Lond. 1651. oct Commended to the World by the copies of verses of Olor Iscanus and Eugenius Philalethes his Brother Quadriga Salutis or the four general heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained Lond. 1657. oct At the latter end of which are some annotations of the same Author in the Welsh tongue A Catechistical Tract of the Lords Prayer the Creed and ten Commandements This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not to the contrary but that it may be the same with his Catechisme in Welsh and English Humane industry or a history of most manual Arts deducing the original progress and improvement of them c. Lond. 1661. in oct This I have in my study but his name is not set to it He translated from Ital. into English Stoa Triumphans Two letters of the noble and learned Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi one in praise of banishment the other in contempt of honor and from French into English 1 Recueil de novellis Lettres or the last letters of Monsieur de Balsac 2 The unfortunate Politick or the life of Herod He left behind him a Ms of his composition unpublished intit Fragmenta de rebus Britannicis A short account of the lives manners and religion of the British Druids and the Bards c. As also two translations one from the Latine and another from the Italian tongue That from the Latine hath this title The Insubrian Historie containing an exact account of the various fates civil commotions battles and seiges acted upon the theater of Lombardie and the adjacent parts of Italy c. written originally by the learned Puteanus And that from the Ital. hath this The Christian politic Favourite or a vindication of the politic transactions of the Count-Duke de S. Lucar the great Minister of State and favourite counsellour to Philip the 4. of Spayne Written originally by Virg. Malvezzi before mention'd it was before traduced but in this translation all things were righted therein by our Author T. Powell who giving way to fate at London on the last day of December in sixteen hundred and sixty was the next day buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. leaving then behind him the character of a most ingenious and polite Person WALTER RUMSEY an Esquires Son was born in Monmouthshire at Llannover as I have been informed became a Gent. Com. of Glocester Hall in 1600 aged 16 years but leaving that house without a Scholastical degree retired to Greys-inn studied the municipal Law was made Barrester Bencher Lent-Reader 9. Car. 1 and at length a Judge in South Wales being then so noted for his profession that he was usually called The picklock of the Law In 1640 he was elected one of the Knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. and might have been chosen again to serve in the Long Parliament but refused it He was an ingenious man had a Philosophical head was a good Musician and most curious for graftng inoculating and planting and also for ordering of Ponds But that which he is to be most noted for is that he having been always much troubled with flegme was the first that invented the Provangg or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomack which hath not only been since used by noted Physicians and Vertuosi at home but by those beyond the Seas At length he wrot a book of it and its use entit Organon Salutis An instrument to cleanse the stomach Lond. 1657. 59 oct To which he added Divers new experiments of the vertue of Tobacco and Coffey Before both which are two Epistles written to the Author one by Sir Hen. Blount in praise of Tobacco and Coffey and the other by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the Provangg What other books our Author Rumsey hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in his house at Llannover about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried in the Parish Church there near to the bodies of his Relations He had a Son named Edward who was entred a Gentleman Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1623 21. Jacobi 1. RICHARD ZOUCHE or Zouchaeus as he somtimes writes himself the Cadet of an antient and noble Family was born of worthy parents in the Parish
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 Jenkâns 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
I shall anon set down In 1639 he was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland and when the Rebellion broke out there he suffered much in his Estate In 1644 he with the Lord Edward Brabason afterwards Earl of Meath and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt were sent by James Marquess of Ormonde then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon about the affairs of that Kingdom Which being concluded to their minds they returned but in their way they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship just after Sir James had flung over board the Kings packet of Letters directed to Ormonde Whereupon being all conveyed to London were committed Prisoners to the Tower where continuing eleven months were then released upon exchange Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin continued there for some time and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England Afterwards the said Colonel thinking it not convenient for several reasons that he should remain there commanded him to depart so that by vertue of his pass he went into France where he continued an year and an half mostly at Caen and partly at Paris In 1651 he left that Country went into England and setling in London wrot several books and published one or more there Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he went into Ireland and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General and continued a privy Counsellor there His works are these 1 Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium Tuamensium vitae duobus expressae commentariolis Dubl 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius 2 Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia c. 3 De praesulibus Lageniae sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus Dubl 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment de praesulibus Hib. 4 De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo Dubl 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit De script maj Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit The Description of Ireland 5 De Hibernia Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones Lond. 1654 and 1658. in a thick oct 6 De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora Dubl 1665. fol. 7 Note ad Bedae epist Apologeticam Dubl 1664. oct 8 Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium Girwicensium per Bedam composit Dubl 1664. oct 9 Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum Ib. eod an oct 10 Notae ad Egberti dialogum de institutione ecclesiastica Ib. eod an oct 11 Notae ad rem Historicam Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula S. Patricio qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit adscripta c. Lond. 1656. oct He also wrot and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante Annales Pr. at the end of his Disquisit de Hibernia and De praesul Hib. comment Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Maria regnantibus Annales which are at the end of the said book De praesul besides the publication of Campians Hist of Ireland the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer that of Hen. Marleburrough and The view of Ireland by Edm. Spenser At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first an 1666 and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City He had a choice Collection of antient MSS many of which related to Irâsh affairs procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an 1648. in â sh and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an 1686 who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martins Church in the Fields in Westm a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox. This year also about the beginning thereof as it seems was a proposal made by vertue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellour that Rich. Fanshaw Esq Servant to Prince Charles should have the degr of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him but whether he was presented thereunto tho diplomated he might be it appears not in the publick Register Howsoever it is sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University did many years after report that he had that degree confer'd on him here yet whether personally presented thereunto they could not positively affirm This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw originally of the University of Cambr. was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire being the great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place brother of Henry Fanshaw and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615. father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland father of him who is now or at least was lately L. Visc Fanshaw Which three last have also been Remembrancers of the Exchecquer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw brother to Lord Thomas of whom we are farther to speak was for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an 1635 and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain Whence being recall'd in the beginning of the Troubles 1640 1 into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed and was employed in several weighty matters of State In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales afterwards King whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl and thence into the Isles of Scilly and Guernsey In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert which he managed till the year 1650 when then he was prefer'd by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain and being thence recalled into Scotland he there served in the quality of Secretary of State Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester was at the battel there 1651 taken Prisoner and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness had liberty allow'd him upon Bayle given for the recovery of his health to go to any place he