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Mr. William Walker of Cliffords Inn. Mr. William Wickins Tho. Wyatt D. D. Rector of Bromhang Wiltsh Edm. Wayle M. A. Rector of Sommerfield magna VVilts Isaac VValton M. A. Rector of Polshott VVilts James Wight of the Middle Temple Esq Francis VVhite B. D. Fell. of Bal. Coll. Oxon. Robert VVinne B. D. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. John VVinne M. A. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. Mr. William Winne Mr. John Walker Mr. Williams Mr. John Williams of West-Chester Mr. Rich Walker of Oxford Vintner Mr. Christopher Wilkinson Bookseller Mr. Geo. West Bookseller in Oxon. Mr. Joseph Wats Bookseller Mr. Weld Bookseller Mr. Roger Warne of Chippenham Y. ARchibald Young Esq Mr. Charles Yardley Minister of Ex. Hall Warwicksh Charles Yaulding M. A. of Ch. Ch. in Ox. Matthew Yate A. M. Mr. Ch. Yeo. Bookseller in Exeter Z. MR. Zouch FINIS 1641. (a) Arth. d ee in his Preface to the Students in Chymistry to his Fasciculus Chimicus c. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. (a) Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37. 1641 2. 1641 2. 1641 2. Clar. 1641. (a) Pag. 123.124.125 (b) In his book intit Canterburies Doome c. p. 217. (c) pag. 123.124 (d) p. 51.54 Clar. 1641. Clar 1641. (e) By Anon. in a book intit The surfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. in tw p 22. (*) Id. Anon. (f) Ms in bib Cottoniana sub Tito A. 13. 1642. 1642. 1642. (a) Sir Joh. Borough in his book in t Impetus juveniles epistolae p. 136. 1642. 1642. 1642 3. 1642 3. (a) George Kendal in Tuissii Vita Victoria c. and Sam. Clarke in his Lives of Eminent persons c. printed 1683. fol. p. 16. 1642 3 Clar. 1642. Clar. 1642. 1643. 1643. (a) Reg. congreg Univ. Ox. notat in dors cum litera O fol. 3. a. (b) Sober sadness or historical observations c. of a prevailing party in both Houses of Parl. Lond. 1643. in qu. p. 33. (c) The Author of Merc. Aulicus in the fortieth week an 1643. p. 576. 1643. (d) Idem ibid p. 640. (e) The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph (f) Robert Earl of Essex 1643. (*) See in a book intit Ayres and Dialogues for one two and three Voices Lond. 1653. fol. composed by the said Hen. Lawes and in another intit Select Ayres and Dialogues to sing to the Theorbo-Lute and Bass Viol. Lond. 1669. fol. composed also by the said Hen. Lawes 1643. 1643. (a) Edw. Knott in his Direction to be observed by N. N. c. Lond. in oct p. 37. c. (b) Ibid. p. 40. (c) In the preface to the author of Charity maintain'd c. sect 43. (d) sect 42. (e) sect 44. (f) sect 29. 40. (g) Franc. Cheynell in his book intit A discussion of Mr. Joh. Fry's tenents lately condemned in Parliam c. p. 33. (h) Hug. Cressy in his Exomologesis chap. 22. (i) In his Epistle Apologetical to a person of honour sect 7. p. 82. (k) Tho. Long in his pref before Mr. Hales his
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
and Commons dash'd that good intent by passing a Bill for taking away the Government of the Church by Bishops Yet before the passing thereof the Clergy being allowed liberty to speak for themselves they all with one consent made the said Dr. Hacket their mouth to speak their sense of the matter which being the next day perform'd with general applause of all except those that nothing could please it did for the present put a stop to that Bill yet soon after by a new question it past without a second hearing of the learned Doctor Afterwards he being silenced by them at S. Andrews in Holbourne he retired to Cheame where he also used the Liturgy till forbidden by the Parliament Afterwards he suffered by imprisonment by the Army under Robert Earl of Essex when they went to fight against their King and being released he retired to Cheame which he kept during the times of Usurpation After his Maj. restauration the Bishoprick of Gloc. was offer'd to him but he refusing it the then L. Chanc. made advantage of it and caused it to be confer'd on Dr. Nicolson Afterwards being made B. of Lichfield and Cov. as I have before told you as also in the Fasti an 1616 he repaired to Lichf in the Spring time an 1662 and finding the Cathedral there quite ruined in the time of the most wicked rebellion he set himself to the rebuilding thereof and finished the same in about eight years time making it far more beautiful than it was before with the expence of 20000 l a thousand of which he had of the Chapter and the rest was of his charge and of his procuring from Benefactors On Christmas Eve in 1669 the said Cathedral was dedicated by him with the usual ceremonies required in such a matter and in feasting three several parties of men for three days He also laid out a 1000 l. in repairing the house of his residence there that of his predecessors having been destroyed in the time of the said rebellion and did much endeavour to settle a pious and laborious Clergy in his Diocess by his own example of constant preaching This worthy Bishop died on the 28 of Oct. 1670 and was buried in his own Cathedral where is a very noble and conspicuous monument over his grave erected by his Son Sir Andrew Hacket of Moxhull in Warwickshire sometimes one of the Masters in Chancery After his death were A century of Sermons that had been preached by the said Bishop published with his life written at large set before them by Thomas Plume D. D. of Cambridge afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester WILLIAM BAYLY a Scotch man born obtained most of his learning in the University of Glascow compleated it in this University of Oxon returned to his native Country but outed thence by the Covenantiers Afterwards if I mistake not he went into Ireland whence being driven by the rebellion that broke out in 1641 retired to Oxon where his Majesty K. Ch. 1. had taken up his head quarter and was by his Maj. command actually created Doctor of Div. in Feb. 1642. In the next year Rob. Dawson Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland departing this mortal life at Kendal in Westmorland the place of his nativity his Majesty was pleased to grant the said Bishopricks to Dr. Bayly before mention'd Whereupon being consecrated at Oxon on the second day of May 1644 by Dr. Usher Archbishop of Armagh and two Irish Bishops sate there without any translation to another See till the time of his death which hapning at Clonfort before mention'd on the eleventh day of Aug in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Cathedral Church there In the said Sees of Clonfort and Kilmacogh succeeded Edw. Wolley Doctor of Divinity of whom I shall make mention in the Fasti among the created Doctors of Div. an 1642. WILLIAM PAUL a person of good parts and well vers'd in Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws was born in Eastcheap within the City of London became a student in this University an 1614 aged 15 years or thereabouts and soon after one of the Clerks of Allsouls Coll. About Allsaints time in 1618 he was elected Fellow of the said house and after he had proceeded in Arts he took holy Orders and preached frequently in these parts In 1632 he being then Rector of Brightwell alias Baldwin Brightwell near Watlington in Oxfordshire he proceeded in Divinity answered the Divinity Act with general satisfaction was about that time made one of the Chaplains to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and afterwards Residentiary of Chichester A little before the rebellion broke out he preached a Sermon at the Episcopal Visitation of Dr. Bancroft B. of Oxon on Acts 17.22 Then Paul stood up in the midst of Mars hill and said ye men of Athens I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious In the time of the rebellion he did suffer in some part for his loyalty and therefore upon his Majesties restauration an 1660 he was made one of his Chaplains and Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Griff. Higgs who died the year before Afterwards being esteemed wealthy and knowing in secular affairs he was by the endeavours of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Cant. somtimes his fellow Collegiat promoted to the See of Oxford upon the translation of Skinner to Worcester in hopes that he would rebuild the Bishops Pallace at Cudesden And having in part promised so to do he had liberty allow'd him to keep the rectory of Brightwell before mention'd and the rich rectory of Chinnor in Oxfordshire which he some years before had obtained in Commendam with his Bishoprick Soon after being consecrated but the day when I know not and installed or enthronized on the 7 of January 1663 he bought and laid in at Cudesden a considerable quantity of timber but before any thing else could be done in the matter he died which hapning at Chinnor on the 24 of May in sixteen hundred sixty and five his body was conveyed to Brightwell before mention'd and buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after was a comly monument set up against the wall over his grave at the charge of his disconsolate Widow the beginning of which is this Posteris aeternitati sacrum Hic subtus conduntur sacrae heu quantillae viri magni reliquiae Gulielmi Paul infans ad magna natus Londini an 1599. Clarus olim ex virtute suâ quam ex urbe nomen habiturus c. In the See of Oxon succeeded Walt. Blandford D. D. as I shall tell you elsewhere ROBERT PRICE the fourth Son of John Price of Runasse in Merionithshire Esq was born there or in that County educated in Westminster School elected Student of Ch. Ch. an 1625 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts entred upon the Law line and was adm Bach. of that faculty in 1632. Afterwards he took upon him the sacred function was made Chaplain to the most noble
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
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
this University was afterwards Vicar of Rodborne-Cheyney in Wilts and published A plot for a Crown in a Visitation Sermon at Cricklade 15 May 1682 on Luke 20.14 being a parallel between the Heir and the Husbandmen in the Parable and the rightful Prince and his Excluders in Parl. Lond. 1685. qu. in 5 sh Before which is a large Preface by the Author in vindication of himself for what he had preached in that nice time Nov. 11. Tho Alvey of Mert. Coll. See among the Doctors of Phys in 1672. 22. Will. Wyat of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1665. Jan. 17. Edw. Hinton of S. Alb. Hall lately of Mert. Coll. See also among the said Masters an 1663. Feb. 24. Will. Richards of Trinity Coll. Feb. 24. George Hickes of Magd afterwards of Linc. Coll. As for Will. Asshton and George Hicks they are hereafter to be mention'd at large and perhaps too Will. Richards with his Wallography and English Orator c. Adm. 120. ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was adm this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 16. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. May 5. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. He was Nephew to Sir Orlando Bridgman sometimes L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal by whose endeavours he was promoted to the Archdeaconry of Richmond His breeding in Grammar and trivial Learning had been at Harlem beyond the Seas where under his name was published in 1653 Carmen contra praecipua hujus saeculi vitia Printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper He died 26 Nov. 1678 aged 40 or thereabouts and was buried in the outer Chap. of Qu. Coll. Whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Hen. Dove B. D. of Cambr as I shall tell you elsewhere May 31. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Jun. 17. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Oct. 16. Tho. Bevan of Jes Coll. Oct. 16. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. 25. Sam Holding or Holden lately of Linc. now of New Coll. Jan. 14. Francis Turner of New Coll. 21. Rob. Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. Adm. 80. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year Bach. of Div. June 28. John Beeby of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Doctorated in Div. at Cambr but was no Author and dying 19 Oct. 1672 was buried in Qu. Coll. Chap. Jul. 12. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll. 15. Joh. Smart of Trin. Coll. The last was an excellent Preacher but no Author was frequented much by precise people when he held forth and dying 26 March 1666 was buried in Trin. Coll. Chap. Adm. 9. Doct. of Law Jul. 16. John Allmer of New Coll. Dec. 2. Richard Lloyd of All 's Coll. The last of these two was an Advocate in the Court of Arches afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Landaff a Knight Chanc. of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Tho. Iâ—eâ—and deceased Dean of the Arches and Judge of the Admiralty in the room of Sir Leol Jeâ—kins He died in Doct. Com. on the 28 of June 1686 and was buried on the first of July in the Yard belonging to the Church of S. Bennet near Paules Wharf in Lond. Soon after was a large monument of black marble breast high erected over his grave joyning to the north wall of the said Church ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Jul. 19. Jam. Farewell an English man D. of D. of Leyden Nov. 4. Geor. Croyden of Ch. Ch. Doct. of the Laws at Padua Which degree was confer'd on him at Pad 1656. He was afterwards Canon of the said House in the place of Dr. Joh Dolben promoted to the See of Rochester and dying on the 14 of June 1678 aged 60 years was buried in one of the north Isles joyning to the Choir of the Cath. of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Arthur Amherst a Gent. of antient and noble descent sometimes a Student for 4 years together in this University afterwards Doct. of Phys of Bourges in France and Practitioner of his Faculty at Hastings in Sussex was then incorporated Doctor He afterwards practiced at Timbridge in Kent where he died in 1680 or thereabouts 17. Pet. Richierius of Maremne in the dioc of Xantoigne in France Doct. of Phys of Bourdeaux Which degree he took at Bourd 1634. Feb. 7. George Glen M. A. of Edinburgh This person who had that degree confer'd on him there in 1624 was installed Preb. of Worcester 7 Sept. 1660 in the place of Anth. Tyringham some years before dead and dying in May 1669 Dr. Tho. Lamplugh of Oxon succeeded him Creations The Creations this year were but in two Faculties viz. Arts and Divinity as they follow Mast of Arts. May 7. Sir Francis Popham of Ch. Ch. Knight of the Bath was created by the decree of Convocation Mar. 2. Godfrey Earl of Montgomery in the Province of Gwienne in France Principal Commoner of Jesus Coll now about to return to his County was then created with liberty allowed him to suffragate in Congregat and Convocat In the Matricula under the title of Jesus Coll he is thus entred Jan. 15. an 1661. Godfredus de Duras an natus 16 filius Guy-aldenii Marchionis de Duras apud Aquitanos Bach. of Div. May 7. Dan. Estcot of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary and Archdeacon of Exeter Doct. of Div. Apr. 9. Rich. Watson of Caies Coll. in Cambr. and Chaplain to James Duke of York was declared Doctor in Convocation he being then absent whereupon a Diploma for it being drawn up it was sealed on the third of the Ides of the same month He had been Master of the Free-School in Cambr. while he was Fellow of the said Coll and being a most zealous man for the Ch. of Engl. preached A Sermon touching Schisme in S. Maries Church there an 1642 which being highly offensive to the Presbyterians he was ejected from his Fellowship and School Afterwards to avoid their barbarities he fled into France was patroniz'd at Paris by Sir Rich. Browne Clerk of his Majesties Council officiated for some months in his Oratory or Chappel there and was one of those English Divines who did many times argue with the contrary party concerning the visibility of their Church The said Sir Richard also endeavoured to have such an establishment made for him as thereby in the most difficult of times he might have had a comfortable subsistence and a safe protection under his sacred roof besides the other graces and civilities received from him Afterwards he became Chapl. to Ralph Lord Hopton in whose service he continued till that Lords death being then accounted one of the prime Sufferers of the English Clergy beyond the seas After his Majesties restauration he did not return with him but continued at Caen till 1661 and then repairing to his native place became Chaplain to the Duke of York Rector of Pewsie in Wiltshire in Septemb. 1662 Preb. of Warmister in the Ch. of Sarum by the ceasing of Rich. Hyde in the latter end of March 1666 Preb. of Bitton in
Axe-yard joyning to Kingstreet within the City of Westminster where he died in the very beginning of the year about 25 of March sixteen hundred fifty and four but where he was buried I cannot tell for the register of S. Margarets Church wherein Axe-yard is situated mentions him not to have been buried in that Parish Now as for John Lilbourne before-mention'd he having been very famous for his infamy I shall say these things of him He was born of a good Family at Thickley-Punchardon in the County Pal. of Durham and when very young was sent to London and bound an Apprentice to a packer of Cloth in S. Swithins-lane At which time and before he was esteemed a youth of an high and undaunted spirit of a quick and pregnant apprehension and of an excellent memory yet always after much addicted to contention novelties opposition of Government and to violent and bitter expressions About the year 1632 he upon the dislike of his trade had a mind to study the common Law and therefore upon his and the desire of his friends he was taken into the service of Mr. Will Prynne of Linc. Inn who shortly after suffering for his Histrio-Mastix as I shall tell you at large when I come to him his Servant Lilbourne took his Masters part imprinted and vended a book or books against the Bishops for which being committed Prisoner to the Fleet was afterwards whipped at a Carts tail from the said Fleet to Westminster the indignity of which he being not able to endure railed all the way against his Persecutors When he came to the Pallace yard he stood in the Pillory two hours and talking there to the People against the State was gagg'd In 1640 he was released from his Prison by the Members of the Long Parliament and soon after took upon him the place of a Captain in their Service and after the battle of Edghill being taken Prisoner at Brainford in the year 1642 was carried to Oxon and there arraigned for a Traytor for levying War against the Person of the King Afterwards he being released he was made a Lieutenant Colonel and became for a time the Idol of the factious party But he being naturally a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments became a hodg-podg of Religion the chief ringleader of the Levellers a great proposal maker and modeller of state and publisher of several seditious Pamphlets among which were 1 A Salva Libertate 2 Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his Son in Law Hen. Ireton Esq 3 The outcry of the young men and the Apprentices of Lond. or an inquisition after the loss of the fundamental Laws and Liberties of England c. 4 The legal fundamental Liberties of the People of England revived 5 Preparation to an hue and crie after Sir Arth. Haselrig c. For which and for his endeavors to disturb the peace and subvert the Government of this Nation he was committed Prisoner to Newgate in Aug. 1645 where continuing a considerable while several Petitions subscribed by hundreds of Citizens and others as also by his Wife and many Women were put up to the Parliament for his releasment Afterwards he was transmitted to the Tower where having too much liberty allowed him he and his party spake very disgracefully of the two Houses of Parliament to whom it appeared that there was a design of many thousands intended under a colour of Petition to dishonour the Parliament and their proceedings whereupon his liberty was restrained and he was ordered to appear at the bar of the H. of Commons This was in Jan. 1647 and accordingly appearing he made a large answer to the information against him at which time the reading of proofs and examination of the business held till six of the Clock at night and then the House ordered that he be remanded to the Tower and tried by the Law of the Land for seditious and scandalous practices against the State Which order being not obeyed for his party withheld him under a pretence of a great meeting to be at Deptford in Kent about their Petition that is The Petition of many thousands of the free-born People of England c. it was ordered that the Officers of the Guards do assist the Sergeant in carrying him and Maj. Jo. Wildman to Prison which was done and that the Committee of Kent take care to suppress all meetings upon that Petition and to prevent all tumults and that the Militia of London c. take care to suppress such meetings and to prevent inconveniencies which may arise thereby and upon the said Petition Afterwards he seems to have been not only set at liberty but to have had reparations made for his sentence in the Star Chamber and sufferings before the Civil War began But he being of a restless spirit as I have told you published a Pamphlet entit Englands new Chains discovered c. which was the bottom and foundation of the Levellers design of whom he was the Corypheus Whereupon being committed again about the beginning of 1649 was brought to his trial in the Guild-hall where after great pleadings to and fro he was quitted by his Jury to the great rejoycing of his party Afterwards he went into the Netherlands and there as 't is said became acquainted with the Duke of Buckingham Lord Hopton Captain Titus c. At length being desirous to see his native Country he returned into England where after he had continued some time in his projects to disturb the Government he was apprehended and committed to Newgate and at length brought to his trial at the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie 20. Aug. 1653. but quitted again by his Jury Soon after he was conducted to Portsmouth in order to his conveyance beyond the Seas but by putting in for his peaceable deportment for the future he return'd fell into the acquaintance of the Quakers became one of them setled at Eltham in Kent where somtimes he preached and at other times at Wollidge and was in great esteem among that party At length departing this mortal life at Eltham on Saturday 29. of Aug. 1657 his body was two days after conveyed to the house called The Mouth near Aldersgate in London which was then the usual meeting place of Quakers Whence after a great controversie among a strange medley of People there mostly Quakers whether the Ceremony of a Hearse-cloth should be cast over his Coffin which was carried in the negative it was conveyed to the then new burial place in Morefields near to the place called now Old Bedlam where it was interred This is the Person of whom the magnanimous Judge Jenkins used to say that if the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne Lilbourne would quarrel with John and John with Lilbourne This Jo. Lilbourne who was second Son of Rich. Lilbourne Esq by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Thom. Hixon of Greenwich in the County of Kent Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Qu. Elizabeth had
the same time was such a great party of that Faction present that Oliver being suspicious of some mischief that might arise sent Maj. General Joh. Bridges with eight Troops of Horse to those parts who taking up his quarters at Wallingford many of his men attended in and near Abendon during the time of Praying Preaching and Burying After the burial were tumults raised by Preaching which would have ended in blows had not the Soldiers intercepted and sent them home SIMON BIRCKBEK son of Tho. Birck Esq was born at Hornbie in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the year 1600 and that of his age 16 where he was successively a poor serving child Tabarder or poor child and at length Fellow being then Master of Arts. About which time viz. 1607. entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts was esteem'd a good Disputant and well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the year after became Vicar of the Church of Gilling and of the Chappel of Forcet near Richmond in Yorksh by the favour of his Kinsman Humph. Wharton Esq Receiver general of his Majesties Revenues within the Archd. of Richmond the Bishoprick of Durham and County of Northumberland In which place being setled he was much esteemed by the Clergy and Laity of the Neighbourhood for his exemplary life and conversation He hath written The Protestants evidence shewing that for 1500 years next after Christ divers guides of Gods Church have in sundry points of Religion taught as the Church of England now doth Lond. 1634. 35. qu. There again with many additions in fol. an 1657. This book was valued by Selden and other learned men because therein the Author had taken great and worthy pains in producing out of every Century Witnesses to attest the Doctrine of the Ch. of Engl. in the points by him produced against the contrary doctrine of the Trent Council and Church of Rome Answer to a Romish Antidotist Lond. 1657. at the end of the former book printed in fol. Treatise of Death Judgment Hell and Heaven He was buried in the Chappel of Forcet before mention'd on the 14 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six near to the Font there Over his grave was soon after a grey marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by and only tell you that this our Author Birckbek submitted to the men in power in the times of Usurpation and therefore kept his Benefice without fear of Sequestration RICHARD CAPEL was born of good Parentage within the City of Glocester educated in Grammar Learning there became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the beginning of the year 1601 and in that of his age 17 elected Demy of Magd. Coll. soon after and in the year 1609 he was made perpetual Fellow of that House being then Mast of Arts which was the highest degree he took in this University While he continued there his eminency was great was resorted to by noted men especially of the Calvinian Party had many Pupils put to his charge of whom divers became afterwards noted for their Learning as Accepted Frewen Archb. of York Will. Pemble c. Afterwards leaving the Coll. upon the obtaining of the Rectory of Eastington in his own Country became eminent there among the puritannical Party for his painful and practical way of preaching his exemplary life and conversation and in doing many good offices for those of his function When the book concerning Sports on the Lords day was ordered to be read in all Churches an 1633 he refused to do it and thereupon willingly resigning his Rectory obtained licence to practice Physick from the Bishop of Glocester so that setling at Pitchcomb near to Strowd in the said County where he had a temporal Estate was resorted to especially by those of his opinion for his success in that faculty In the beginning of the grand Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians was made one of the Ass of Divines but refused to sit among them and was as I conceive restored to his Benefice or else had a better confer'd on him He was esteemed by those of his opinion an excellent Preacher and one that kept close to the footings of Jo. Dod Rob. Cleaver Arth. Hildersham and Jo. Rainolds of the last of whom he would often say that He was as learned a man as any in the world as godly also as learned and as humble as godly He hath written God's valuation of mans soul in two sermons on Mark 8.36 Lond. 1632. qu. Tentations their nature danger and cure in four parts Lond. 1650. oct c. Each part came out by it self before that time Brief dispute touching restitution in the case of usury Printed with the Tentations This Brief dispute with the Short discourse of Usury by Rob. Bolton and the Usurer cast by Chr. Jellinger M. A. are replyed upon by T. P. Lond. 1679. Apology in defence of some Exceptions against some particulars in the book of Tentations Lond. 1659. oct Remaines being an useful Appendix to his excellent Treatise of Tentations c. Lond. 1658. oct He paid his last debt to nature at Pitchcomb before mention'd on the 21 of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried within the Precincts of the Church there His Fathers name was Christopher Capel a stout Alderman of the City of Glocester and a good friend to such Ministers that had suffer'd for Nonconformity He was born at Hoo-capel in Herefordshire and by Grace his Wife daughter of Rich. Hands had issue Rich. Capel before mention'd EDMUND WINGATE son of Roger Windg of Bornend and Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire Esq was born in 1593 became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in 1610 and took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he retired to Greys Inn where he had entred himself before that time a Student for the obtaining knowledge in the municipal Laws But his genie being more bent to the noble study of Mathematicks which had before been promoted and encouraged in Queens Coll. did at length arrive to great eminence in that faculty and was admired by those few in London that then professed it In 1624 he transported into France the Rule of Proportion having a little before been invented by Edm. Gunter of Gresham Coll and communicated it to most of the chiefest Mathematicians then residing in Paris who apprehending the great benefit that might accrue thereby importun'd him to express the use thereof in the French Tongue Which being performed accordingly he was advised by Mounsier Alleawne the Kings chief Engineer to dedicate his book to Mounsier the Kings only Brother since Duke of Orleance Nevertheless the said work coming forth as an Abortive the publishing thereof being somewhat hastned by reason an Advocate of Diion in Burgundy began to print some uses thereof which Wingate had in a friendly way communicated
to him especially in regard Gunter himself had learnedly explained its use in a far larger Volume For albeit it were great presumption in Wingate to assume to himself the reputation of having better abilities to describe any of the uses thereof yet he could averr upon his own knowledge that he did forbear to explain its use because he took it for granted none would meddle with it but such only who were already well able to understand how to number upon it having before hand acquainted themselves with the manner of numbring upon Scales and with the nature of Logarithms After our Author Wingates return from France where he taught the Kings daughter Henrietta Maria afterwards Queen of England and her Ladies the English Tongue he importun'd Gunter to make a fuller Explanation how to number upon it viz. the Rule of Proportion to the end that the use thereof might by that means be made more publick but his Answer was That it could not be expected that the rule should speak intimating thereby that the Practitioner should in that point rely much upon discretion and not altogether depend upon precepts and examples Some time before the grand Rebellion broke out he the said Wingate became a Bencher of Greys Inn having a seat then at Ampthill in Bedfordshire afterwards took the Covenant was made Justice of the Peace Recorder of Bedford and had other places of profit confer'd on him In 1650 or thereabouts he took the Oath called the Engagement became known to Oliver and was one of the six persons that were elected for the Town and County of Bedford to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver that met at Westminster 3 Sept. 1654 about which time he was appointed one of the Commissioners for his County of Bedford to eject such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written The use of the rule of Proportion in Arithmetick and Geometry wherein is inserted the construction and use of the same rule in Questions that concern Astronomy Dialing Geometry Navigation Gageing c. printed at Paris in the French Language 1624 in oct and at Lond. in 1645 and 58. in oct Of natural and artificial Arithmetick or Arithmetick made easie in two books Lond. 1630. oct with an Appendix concerning equation of time The first of which books which treats of natural Arithmetick is only a key to open the secrets of the other performed by Logarithms and both borrowed from John Neper Baron of Markiston in Scotland and Hen. Brigges But that way and method which our Author takes is not by Multiplication and Division but by Addition and Substraction by which a man may resolve more questions in one hour than by the other in a whole day In 1650 the first of the said books was reprinted at London in oct and enlarged with divers Chapters and necessary Rules and an Appendix of John Kersey Teacher of the Mathematicks in London and Surveyour born at Bodicot near Banbury in Oxfordshire an 1616 and died in Chandois street near S. Martins lane in Westminster of a Consumption about 1677 after he had published two volumes of Algebra in fol. c. The second book was enlarged and reprinted by our Author Wingate at London 1652. oct c. Tables of Logarithmes of the right Sines and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant To which is annexed their use for the resolution of all the most necessary Problems in Geometry Astronomy Geography and Navigation c. Lond. 1633. oct It is printed with the Table of Logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 100000. contracted by Nathan Roe Minister of Benacre in Suffolk The construction and use of the Logarithmetical Tables and resolution of Triangles c. This book was first written and published in French afterwards in English Lond. 1635. oct The said Treatise is nothing else but an orderly Compendium as well of the Construction as also of the joint and several uses of Briggs his Logarithmes of the Sines and Tangents of all the degrees and minutes of the Quadrant And altho this our Authors Tables be not the very same as theirs yet are they all taken and collected out of them and do all participate of the self same nature and operation An exact abridgment of all Statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Charta untill 1641. Lond. 1642 and 1655. oct continued under all their proper titles of all Acts in force and use untill the year 1670 c. by T. M. Lond. 1670 in a thick oct Thence continued to 1681. oct This abridgment hath been made use of upon divers occasions both in studies and employments especially at the Assizes and Sessions of Peace The body of the Common Law of England as it stood in force before it was altered by Statutes or Acts of Parliament or State together with a collection of such statutes as have altered or do otherwise concern the same Lond. 1655. oct 2d edit Ludus Mathematicus or an explanation of the description construction and use of the numerical table of proportion Lond. 1654. oct Construction and use of the line of proportion whereby the hardest questions of Arithmetick and Geometry in broken and whole numbers are resolved by addition and substraction Lond. in oct Tactometria seu Tetagne-nometria or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed after an exact and new manner with rules for gageing Vessels Lond. in oct The exact Surveighour of Land to plot all grounds to reduce and divide the same by the plain Table Theolodite and circumferentur c. Lond. in oct Maxims of reason or the reason of the common law of England Lond. 1658. fol. Justice revived Being the whole office of a Country Justice of Peace briefly and yet more methodically than ever yet extant Lond. oct said to be written in the title by E. W. of Greys Inn Esq which I take to be our Author Edm. Wingate Statuta Pacis or the table of all the Statutes which any way concerned the Office of a Justice of Peace the several duties of Sherriffs Head Officers of Corporations Stewards in Leets Constables c. Lond. in tw The exact Constable with his original and power in the Offices of Church Wardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyours of the High-wayes Treasurers of the County stock and other inferior Officers c. Lond. in tw said to be written by E. W. of Greys-Inn Esq which I take to be our Author He also published Britton sometimes Bishop of Hereford as 't is said an antient treatise of the Law Lond. 1640. oct 2d edit What other Books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing material of him besides only that he dying in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourne near London was buried in S. Andrews Church there on the 13. day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and six and that as I have been informed he was Master of Arts of this University and born at Sharpenho beforemention'd Both
before Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation is soon after as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times decryed and condemned by the same Persons as flat dull and insipid Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good yet Dr. Sandersons Sermons and indeed all his other genuine works have not by their age lost the least of their former repute For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings pen'd in such a manly and lasting a language that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judgings and censures as they do still so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers Two cases of conscience resolved Lond. 1628. oct Three more added Lond. 1667. 8. oct Another Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine and repr 1678 and 1685. in oct De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct This is the book which I have before hinted that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand and by him shew'd to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert commanding them then to examine it with the original which they did and found it accurately translated Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary but the particular time when I cannot tell Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur 26. oct 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct Censure of Mâ— A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon. De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae an 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct The same in English came out with this title Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct Published at the instant desire of Rob. Boyle Esq an encourager of Dr. Sandersons studies in the time of his affliction Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power c. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct His judgment for setling the Church in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit Reason and judgment or special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted I mean His judgment at Lond. 1678. oct Physicae scientiae compendium Oxon. 1671. oct Whether ever before printed I know not His judgment concerning submission to Usurpers Lond. 1678. oct Pax Ecclesiae Lond. 1678. oct in English These two with His judgment for setling c. before mention'd and the Oxford reasons are to be seen in his life printed in oct Discourse concerning the Church in these particulars 1 concerning the visibility of the true Church 2 concerning the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1688 in about 5 â—h in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn Coll. from a Ms copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon Domestick Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death He also had the chief hand in a book intit Reasonâ— of the University of Oxon against the Covenant c. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his yet notwithstanding tho Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part the whole goes under his name He also wrot 1 The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy entit The power communicated by God to the Prince and the obedience required of the Subjects Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh 2 The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of Clavi Trabales or nails fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies c published by Nich. Bernard D. D. Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Usher Mr. Ric. Hooker Lanc. Andrews Adr. Saravia c. 3 Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Printed in a book intit Fair warning the second part Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge Which challenge a certain Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry as was ever called Demonstration And tho the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed yet such is the pleasure of some men that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy an 1661 being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond in Dr. Hammonds works about those knotty points which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversie Several Treatises also he had laying by him which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication but a little before his death he caused them to be burnt least after they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mention'd in the 76 year of his age Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid with an Inscription engraven thereon made by himself a Copy of which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. shall be now omitted and in its room shall this be said that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation from his first book of Logick to his Divinity Lectures Sermons and other excellent discourses the vastness of his judgment the variety of his learning all laid out for publick benefit his unparallel'd meekness humility and constancy you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not loose a greater pillar a better man and more accomplish'd Divine Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincolne Lond. 1678. oct Written by Isaac Walton and in the book before mention'd entit Reason and judgment or special remarks c. ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time in the West parts of England Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City and educated there in Grammar
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
K. Ch. 1. and garrison'd for his use he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company consisting mostly of Scholars In which office doing good service had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him by the favour of his Majesty tho no such matter occurs in the public register of the University which was then somtimes neglected After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he by the name of Tho. Holyoake without the addition of Master Bac. or D. of D obtained a License from the University to practice physick whereupon setling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferr'd upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire which he had by the marriage of his Lady worth about 200 l. per an free from presentation institution and episcopal visitation but before he had enjoy'd it an year or thereabouts he died to the great grief of his family He hath written A large Dictionary in three parts 1. The English before the Latine 2. The Latine before the English 3. The proper names of Persons places and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets Lond. 1677 in a thick larg folio Before which is an Epistle written by the authors son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincolne wherein are many things said of the work and its author But this the reader is to know that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mention'd and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England The said Dr. Holyoake who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived for his ingenuity and humanity died of an high Feaver at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father in the great Church there dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire as it seems became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall 1648 trained up there acording to the presbyterian way took a degree in Arts afterwards had a cure in the interval and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching He hath extant Fideles aquae or some pious tears drop'd upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother Lond. 1661. oct Dust returning to the earth Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles 12.7 Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things as t is said which I have not yet seen He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention'd near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife dau of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb 1665. BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight by Elizab. his wife daugh of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks Esq was born in Fleetstreet in London in the house of Sir George Croke Serjeant at Law his Mothers Uncle on the 6 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term an 1620 at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his fathers contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud then President of that House who shewing to him several fatherly kindnesses our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor then Archb. of Cant was to be brought to a trial for his life especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners or number of the Committee appointed by Parl to draw up a charge against him But before our author had taken a degree he went to the Middle Temple where by the help of his father he became a noted proficient in the Common Law well read also in other studies and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation At length when the Long Parliament was to sit he being then a Counsellour at Law he was chose a Burgess for Marlow in Bucks to serve therein and shewing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford became noted in the House for a man of parts In 1642 he for his activeness for the cause then driving on was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass of Divines In 1644 he became Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Commissioner again for peace and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design he being privy to it and thenceforth he became very gratious with that most active person who with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the Kings party was in danger to have lost all had he not freed himself from that suspicion especially by his urging his losses that he had sufferd by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces who being admitted one of his Council of War he did oftentimes being a friend to the Univ. of Oxon express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it and pressed for honorable tâ—â—ms to be offer'd to the Garrison there In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembrok who was then lately made Constable of Windsore Castle and keeper of the Forest adjoyning constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary entit Misnae pars ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq with an inscription thereon beginning thus MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti è Coll. Oriel in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti Linguar praecipue Orientalium peritissimi Critici Rhetoris Mathemat Theologi in omnibus adeò eximii ut raro quisquam in singulis in juventute ut raro quisquam in senio quem ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret c. HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire sometimes Capt. of a Foot company descended from the antient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire was born in Hampshire elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School 1645 or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 and afterwards going to the great City became a member of the Examiners office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latine verse He hath written Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique c. Lond. 1664. oct Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton and to The ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read so if not so it is so so and so farewell Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides or Virgil Travestie c. He hath also written Latine Songs with their English and Poems Lond. 1685. oct Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns inn on the 23. of Oct. being the first day of the Term in sixteen hundred eighty and three aged 56 or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Twyford West Twyford near Acton in the County of Middlesex I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an 1657. WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor became Master of a good Latine stile and a considerable Disputant Soon after tho the Civil War broke forth and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars yet he continued there bore arms for his Majesty and had so much time allowed him that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage but so it was that he being engaged in that honorable tho unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 wherein as I have been credibly informed he was a Captain of a Foot Company he was thereby disingaged from enjoying it So that entring himself into Greys inn studied the municipal Law went through the usual Degrees belonging to it was made Serjeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted and the same year on the 2 of Nov. he was sworn his Majesties Serjeant In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford but not long after his advancement the Popish conspiracy was discovered So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concern'd therein to publick justice he in several trials of them behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country whose all seem'd then especially to the fanatical party to lay at stake and to be threatned with apparently impendent ruin But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possess'd with an opinion that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him read in the H. of Commons and ingrossed and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 meerly to stop their mouthes and so obtain quietness Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day as it seems and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts a good Orator and a fluent Speaker but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy his Speeches effected more in the reading than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery Under his name were printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech before the L. Chancellor when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench Printed in half a sh in fol. 2 Sp. in the Kings Bench in Westm hall on the first day of Mich. term 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow and remarks made on it in one sh in fol. entit A New years gift for Justice Scroggs c. He hath other Speeches extant as I shall tell you by and by Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill when he and R. Green were executed 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh in fol. Answer to the Articles against him given in by Titus Oates and Will Bedlow in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses arguings and speeches printed in divers Tryals and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in 1 The Tryal of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty c. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 2 Tryal of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King subversion of the government c. 28. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was as I have heard a Ministers Son had been
bred in Cambridge and was some years before reconcil'd to the Ch. of Rome by a R. Priest 3 Tr. of Will Ireland Thomas Pickering and Jo. Grove for conspiring to murder the King c. 17. Dec. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 4 Tr. of Rob. Green Hen. Berry and Laur. Hill for the murder of Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey Kt. c. 10. Feb. 1678. Lond. 1679. fol. 5 Try. and condemnation of Tho. White alias Whitebread Provincial of the Jesuits in England Will. Harcourt pretended Rector of London John Fenwick Procurator of the Jesuits in Engl. John Gavan alias Gawen and Ant. Turner all Jesuits for High Treason in conspiring the death of the K. the subversion of government c. 13. and 14. of June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. 6 Try. of Rich. Langhorne Esq Counsellor at Law for conspiring the death of the King c. 14. June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. 7 Tr. of Sir George Wakeman Bt. Will. Marshall Will. Rumley and Jam. Corker Benedictine Monks for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King c. 18. Jul. 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. But the generality of people supposing that Scroggs had dealt very unjustly with Wakeman in letting him go free and not condemning him to be hang'd came out Observations on the tryals of the said persons by one that called himself Tom Tickle foot the Tabourer late Clerk to Justice Clodpate Lond. in 3 sh in fol. In which pamphlet the author intimates as if Scroggs was a Butchers Son Soon after this came out two other Pamphlets to the same purpose one entit The Tickler tickled in 2. sh and an half in fol. and the other A dialogue between Clodpate and Ticklefoot in 3 sh in fol. both reflecting on Scroggs as also a piece of poetry that was published at that time called Scroggs upon Scroggs in tw sh and an half in fol. 8 Tr. conviction and condemnation of Ad. Brommich and Will Atkins for being Romish Priests at Stafford Assize 13. Aug. 1679 and Of Charles Kerne another R. Priest at Hereford Assize 4. of Aug. the same year Lond. 1679. in 5. sh in fol. 9 Tr. and condemnation of Lionel Anderson alias Munson Will. Russel alias Napier Charles Parris alias Parry Hen. Starkey Jam. Corker and Will Marshall for High Treason as Romish Priests c. together with the trial of Alex. Lumsden a Scotch man and the arraignment of David Joseph Kemish for the same offence c. 17 Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. 10 Tr. of Sir Tho. Gascoigne Bt. for High Treason in conspiring c. 11. Feb. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. Which Sir Thomas being found guiltless and set at liberty he left the Nation and feeling for a time among the Engl. Benedictine Monks at Lambspring in Germany was there seen and visited by Will. Carr an English Gent. sometimes Consul for the English Nation in Amsterdam in his rambles in those parts of whom he makes this mention From the Princes Court meaning of Hessen I directed my journey to Hanover taking Lambspring in my way a place where there is a Convent of English Monks and there I met with a very aged worthy and harmless Gent. Sir Tho. Gascoigne a person of more integrity and piety than to be guilty so much as in thought of what Miscreants falsly swore against him in the licentious time of plotting c. 11 Tr. of Roger Earl of Castlemaine for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King c. 23. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1681. fol. The reader is to note that this tryal was not published immediatly after it was done as all others were but in Janu. following which was more than half an year after the said Trial had been passed And 't is thought that it would never have been printed had it not been to bring an odium upon Scroggs to the end that he might be turned out of his office for his partiality as 't was by many thought in the said Tryal for his too much baiting of Titus Oates endeavouring as they farther added to lessen his evidence 12 Tr. of Hen. Care Gent. upon information brought against him c. charging him to be the author of a scandalous false and malicious book entit The weekly pacquet of advice from Rome or the History of Popery particularly of that of the first of Aug. 1680 wherein Scroggs is scandalized as to the Tryal of Sir Geor. Wakeman c. 2. Jul. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. 13 Tr. of Elizah Cellier c. 11. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. in 4 sh In all which Tryals our author Scroggs being chief Judge and Speaker they were by his authority printed At length he giving up the ghost at Weald-hall before mention'd on Thursday the 25 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and three was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto Southweald The late Industrious Garter Sir W. D. informed me by his Letters dat 28. Jun. 1684 that the said Sir Will. Scroggs was the son of an one ey'd Butcher near Smithfield Bars and his Mother was a big fat Woman with a red face like an Alewife that he was a very ill humour'd man and as I have heard he would never pay his tithes His boldness got him practice by the Law and some wealth wherewith he purchased a Lordship called Weald c. But the Reader must know that the said person Sir W. D. never speaking well of him after he had refused to pay the Fees of his Knighthood to the Coll. of Armes of which he was to have had a considerable share he is therefore desir'd to suspend his belief of the said character given of him the said Sir W. Scroggs till farther proof may be made to the contrary JOHN OLDHAM son of Joh. Oldham a Nonconformist Minister and he the son of Joh. Oldham sometimes Rector of Nun-eaton near Tetbury in Glocestersh was born at Shipton of which his Father was then Minister near the said Town of Tetbury and in the same County on the ninth day of Aug. 1653 bred in Grammar learning under his Father till he was nigh fit for the University afterwards sent to the School at Tetbury where he spent about two years under the tuition of Henry Heaven occasion'd by the desire of one Yeat an Alderman of Bristow who had a Son then there under the said Master whom Oldham accompanied purposely to advance him in his learning This occasion'd his longer stay at School than else he needed but conduced much to his after advantage In the beginning of June 1670 he became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall under the tuition of Will. Stephens Bach. of Div where he was observed to be a good Latinist and chiefly to addict himself to Poetry and other studies tending that way to which the bent of his Genius led him more naturally than to any other Four years after he took the degree of Bach. of Arts but went away and did not compleat it by Determination So that living for some time after with his
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
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 Irâ—sh 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
The other ... Harding was a most violent Presbyterian an indefatigable Preacher against the King and his cause and because he would not conform after his Majesties restauration tho courted to it he was turned out of his Rectory This year the generality of the Heads of Houses Professors and Lecturers Doctors and Bach. of Divinity Masters and Bachelaurs of Arts Undergraduats Beadles College Servants and sometimes Bedmakers and scrapers of Trenchers to the number of several hundreds were thrown out of their respective places and soon after banished the University by the Visitors for not submitting to their power from Parliament and acknowledging their Covenant c. An. Dom. 1649. An. 1. Car. 2. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who dying at the Cock-pit near Whitehall on the 23 of January this year was buried in the Cathedral Church at Salisbury among the graves of those of his family on the 8. of Febr. following From which time till Jan. ensuing the Chancellours place laid void Soon after the said Earls death came out against him several Satyrical prints among which were 1 His last Will and Testament Printed in one sheet in fol 2 Pembrokes Pass from Oxford to his grave 'T is a Poem printed on one side of a sheet of paper and hath this beginning Hence Mountebank of honour hence away c. At the end is his Epitaph 3 The life and death of Philip Herbert the late infamous Knight of Berkshire once Earl of Pembroke and Mountgom c. having by a degenerate baseness betrayed his Nobility and entred himself a Commoner amongst the very scum of the people Printed in one sheet in qu. by way of interlude with Poetry Vicechanc. Edw. Reynolds D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. was re-admitted Aug. 30 having been nominated a little before by the Chancellour Proct. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. Apr. 4. Hierome Zanchy of All 's Coll. Apr. 4. The last was elected contrary to the Caroline Cycle because it did appoint Queens Coll to joyn with the said Coll. of Exeter but so it was that that Coll. being not in a capacity of yielding a person zealous and sutable to the times the members of All 's therefore did choose by recommendations of the Committee and Visitors one of their number lately made Fellow thereof but whether incorporated M. of Arts as he had stood in another University it appears not in the publick register and therefore what I have to say of him shall be set down here This Hierome Zanchy who was born of a gentile family was bred in Cambridge but being more given to manlie exercises than Logick and Philosophy he was observed by his contemporaries to be a boisterous fellow at Cudgelling and Foot-ball-playing and indeed more fit in all respects to be a rude Soldier than a Scholar or man of polite parts In the beginning of the rebellion he threw off his gown and took up armes for the Parliament and soon after became a Captain a Presbyterian an Independent a Preacher and I know not what When the War was ceased and the Kings cause declined he obtained a Fellowship of All 's Coll. from the Committee and Visitors and was the first or senior of those many that were by them put into the said Coll in the places of Loyallists ejected by them an 1648 and 49. But before he had served the least part of his Proctorship about a month only he returned to his Military employment went in the quality of a Commander into Ireland to fight against those that were then called Rebels and doing good service in short time was made a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and as a Colonel he had 474 l. and 10 s. per an for his Salary besides other advantages In 1651 and 52 I find him Commander in chief of the Parliament forces in the County of Tipperary where as those of his party said he did excellent service for the cause being then a thorough-pac'd Anabaptist and in 1654 he with Joh. Reynolds Commissary General were elected Knights for the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford to serve in the Parliament that assembled at Dublin that year In 1658 he being then a Knight by the favour of Hen. Cromwell he was by the endeavours of Col. Charles Fleetwood a pitiful Anabaptist and son-in-Son-in-law to Ol. Cromwell chosen Burgess for Woodstock in Oxfordshire to serve in Richards Parliament that began at Westm 27. Jan. that year at which time living much as he had done some time before in the house of the said Fleetwood in Westminster did often hold forth in Conventicles among the Anabaptists It was observed then that he was a dull man as indeed he was ab origine for by his rebaptization when he went into Ireland and his herding among the Anabaptists he did improve it to the purpose otherwise had he continued among the Presbyterians or Independents who were accounted a more ingenious sort of people he might have improved himself perhaps in something of ingenuity Under this personâ— name was published 1 A Sermon on 1. of John 2.18 c. printed in oct but when I know not for I have not yet seen it 2 Speech in Parliament in Dublin printed in Sir Will. Petty's book intit Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland c. p. 70 71 c. It is a most rude and nonsensical thing and only fit to be read to make people laugh at the absurdity of the person See more in Sir Will. Petty among the Writers an 1687. p. 611. where you 'll find this Zanchy to concern himself much meerly out of envy against that curious and polite Gentleman What other things he hath extant I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about the latter end of K. Charles 2. as I have been informed by those that knew him Bach. of Arts. June 5. Joh. Rotheram of Linc. Coll. June 5. Charles Perot of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1652 and of the other among the Mast in 1653. June 11. Henry Hurst of Magd. Hall He was soon after made Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. by the Visitors 27. Charles Potter of Ch. Ch. 27. John Tickell of New Inn. The last who was afterwards made Student of Ch. Ch by the Visitors is said in the publick register of Convocation to be Vir provectioris aetatis firmatae eruditionis This person who is now or at least was lately living did afterwards publish several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers of this University July 6. Walter Pope of Wadh. Coll. See among the created Doct. of Phys 1661. Nov. 6. Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. Nov. 6. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1651. Dec. 17. Theophilus Gale of Magd. Coll. He is said in the pub reg of Convoc to be Vir provectioris aetatis uberioris spei juvenis Jan.
depos'd from his Protectorship in the beginning of this year Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Conant 8. Oct Proct. George Philipps of Qu. Coll. Ap. 13. Thomas Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Ap. 13. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 14. Franc. Turner of New Coll. July 11. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. Oct. 12. Joh. Lloyd of Mert. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards successively B. of Rochester and Ely and having written and published several things he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers and Bishops The second was afterwards an Archdeacon as I shall tell you among the Masters an 1662 and the last who was afterwards of Jesus Coll was at length B. of S. David Oct. 12. Jam. Janeway of Ch. Ch. 14. Sam. Hardye of Wadham Coll. He was the author of The Guide to Heaven c. printed at several times in two parts in oct the last part of which was published 1687. 88. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 1. Benj. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. He hath published several things and therefore he is also hereafter to be remembred Jan. 16. Thom. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 28. Sam. Parker of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two who is now a Physitian of note is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers The other who was afterwards of Trin. Coll. was at length B. of Oxon. I have mention'd him at large among the Writers in this vol. Feb. 28. Joh. Langford of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Ruthyn man born in Denbighshire did afterwards translate into good welsh The whole duty of man Lond. 1672. oct He took no higher degree in this University but elsewhere and is now living and beneficed in Wales Mar. 15. Sam Holding or Holden or Linc. Coll. This person who hath published several things is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Adm. 148. Bach. of Law May 18. Thomas Jones of Mert. Coll. Oct. 12. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doct. of the Civil Law 1667. Adm. 4. Mast of Arts. June 2. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. 4. Joh. Skelton of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Barlow Bishop of Lincolne who collating him to the Archdeaconry of Bedford was installed therein 22. Mar. 1678 and afterwards to the Prebendship of Biggleswade in the Church of Linc. was installed also therein 3. May 1684. June 21. Thomas Hockin of Magd. Coll. This person who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll hath written A discourse of the nature of Gods decrees Being an answer to a Letter from a person of quality concerning them Lond. 1684. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Bach. of Div sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and late Preacher at Great S. Barthelmews in London But whether he took the said degree of B. of D in this University it appears not June 21. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and at length Rector of Stockport in Cheshire and author of The Christians triumph over death Sermon at the funeral of Rich. Legh of Lime in the County Pal of Chester Esq at Winwick in Lancashire 6. Sept. 1687 on 1. Cor. 15.55 Oxon. 1688. qu. He is Doct. of Divinity not of this University but by the Diploma if I mistake not of Dr. W. Sancroft Archbishop of Canturbury June 25. Henry Foulis of Qu. Coll. June 25. Capel Wiseman of Qu. Coll. June 25. Henry Denton of Qu. Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas Denton of the antient and gentile family of his name living at Warnel-Denton in Cumberland travelled afterwards to Constantinople in the quality of a Chaplain to the English Embassador and after his return did translate into English A description of the present state of Samos Nicaria Patmos and Mount-Athos Lond. 1678. oct Which book was written by Joseph Georgirines Archbishop of Samos living then 1678 in London who the year before had for some weeks been in Oxon about the Act time to obtain money from the Academians towards the finishing the Greek Church in London This Mr. Denton who was Fellow of Queens Coll and presented by the Provost and Fellows thereof to the Rectory of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire on the death of Joh. Hook B. D. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll which hapned 20. of Feb. 1673 was buried in the Church there 19 Aug. 1681. July 2. Arthur Brett of Ch. Ch. 4. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 8. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Adm. 78. Bach of Phys June 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch Ch. July 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Adm. 6. Two also were licensed to practise Physick of whom Hen. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall was one ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Law May 18. Nicholas Staughton of Exet. Coll. Esq was adm Doctor of the Civ and Can. Law being then dispensed with for certain Terms and on the 27 of June following after he had spoken a formal Speech before the Members of the University for which he was laughed at because not at all desired or required he was admitted ad suffragandum in domo Convocationis Congreg About a month or two after was printed a sharp Libel intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the Vniversity of Oxford c. And at the end of it were printed 25 Queries the last of which runs thus Whether the Boy Dr. Staughton of Exeter Coll. did well to lye in his scarlet Gown that night he was made Doctor since his degree was a thing he ought not to have dreamed of He was then Lord of the ancient Mannour of Staughton in Surrey which unexpectedly fell to him after the death of divers persons of that name and on the 29 of January 1660 he was created a Baronet May 18. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll who accumulated the degrees of Law by vertue of the Chanc. Letters was then adm to proceed Doct. of Phys Jun. 2. Thom. Jeanes of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. did while he was a Junior there with Joh. Fidoe and Will. Shaw his Contemporaries of the said House write and publish The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charles Stuart Or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of Government together with the abuse of it in Tyranny and the peoples reserve To which is added An answer to a certain paper entit The humble advice to the Lecturers of Banbury in Oxfordshire and of Brackley in Northamptonshire Lond. 1648 in 2 sh and an half in qu. Afterwards Jeanes going to Oxon was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors and always after during his stay there he was esteem'd by all that knew him a good Scholar and a generous and stour man But so it fell out that after Dr. Tho. Pierce became President of the said Coll. he found means to expell him thence an 1662 under pretence of
him Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath Will. Blathwait and Charles Montague Esquires This Rich. Cooling was originally as it seems of All 's Coll. The said nine persons were actually created on the 8 of Sept. Doct. of Law Sept. 8. Sir Cyrill Wyche Kt son of Sir Pet. Wyche sometimes Controller of his Majesties Houshold now a Burgess in Parliament for Kellington in Cornwall He was M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in the times of Usurpation was afterwards Secretary to the Lieutenancy in Ireland one of the Royal Society and a Burgess in other Parliaments Nov. 7. Sir Henneage Finch Kt Sollicitor General and one of the Burgesses of the Univ. to sit in Parliament Col. Giles Strangwaies sometimes of Wadh. Coll. now a Knight for the County of Dorset to serve in Parl was created the same day This most loyal and worthy Gent. who was of Melbury Samford in the said County died 1675. The said two persons were created Doctors of the Civil Law in a Convocation held on that day Nov. 7. after they had communicated the thanks of the honorable House of Commons lately sitting in the said Convocation-house to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant negative Oath c. made 1647. Laurence Hyde Esq another Burgess for the University and Sir Joh. Birkenhead were the other two that were besides the two former appointed to return thanks and were then present in Convocation but the first of these last two was not created Doctor of the Civ Law because he had before been diplomated M. A which he then thought was sufficient and the other created Doctor as I have before told you Doct. of Phys Sept. 8. Robert Boyle Esq was created after Edw. E. of Manchester had been incorporated This honorable person who was the fourth son of Richard the first Earl of Cork was born at Lismore in Ireland whence after he had been well grounded in juvenile Learning he went to the Univ. of Leyden and spent some time there in good Letters Afterwards he travelled into France Switzerland Italy c. and spending some time in Rome he was so much satisfied with the curiosities there that afterwards he never had any desire to see or view the Curiosities or Antiquities of other places After his return into England being then accounted a well bred Gentleman he setled in Oxon in the time of Oliver about 1657 where he carried on his great delight in several studies especially in experimental Philosophy and Chimistry spent much money entertained Operators to work in his Elabratory which he had built for his own use and often did repair to the Club of Virtuosi in the Lodgings of Dr. Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll and they to him in his joyning to Vniv Coll. and opposite to that of Allsoules After his Majesties restauration when the Royal Society was erected he was made one of the first members thereof was one of the Council belonging thereunto and the greatest promoter of new Philosophy of any among them After he had left Oxon for London he setled in the house of his sister Catherine Lady Ranelaugh where he erected an Elaboratory kept men at work and carried on Chimistry to the last The books that he hath written are many some of which are printed beyond the Seas and are there highly valued In all which he hath done such things for the benefit of the world and increase of knowledge that none hath yet equall'd much less gone beyond him In them you 'll find the greatest strength and the gentilest smoothness the most generous knowledge and the sweetest modesty the noblest discoveries and the sincerest relations the greatest Self-denial and the greatest love of men the profoundest insight into philosophy and nature and the most devout affectionate sense of God and of Religion as in any Works whatsoever written by other men c. This worthy person died 30 of Decemb. 1691 aged 64 years or thereabouts and was buried on the 7 of Jan. following at the upper end on the south side of the Chancel of the Church of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster near to the body of his sister the Lady Ranelaugh before mention'd who dying about a week before him the grief for her death put him in convulsion fits which carried him off Soon after were Elegies and Epitaphs on him made public as also the Sermon at his funeral preached by Dr. Gilb. Burnet Bish of Sarum in all which you 'll find just Encomiums of him as no doubt you will in the life of him the said Mr. Boyle about to be published by the said Doctor The eldest brother of this Mr. Rob. Boyle was Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork The next was Roger Earl of Orery a great Poet Statesman Soldier and great every thing which merits the name of great and good He hath published four Plays in heroick verse highly valued and commended by ingenious men and died in Octob. 1679. The third was Francis Viscount Shannon whose Pocket Pistol as he stiled his book may make as wide breaches in the walls of the Capitol as many Canons These were his elder brothers and besides them he had seven Sister all married to noble persons This year in the month of Septemb. Andr. Marvel a Burgess for Kingston upon Hull to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became a Sojourner in Oxford for the sake of the public Library and continued there I presume some months See in Sam. Parker among the Writers an 1687 p. 619 where you 'll find an account of him and his Works In the beginning of Dec. following was entred into the said Library Arthur Trevor an eminent and famous common Lawyer c. In January following Francis Sandford an Officer of Arms attending the King now in Oxon was entred also in the said Library with the liberty then allowed to him of a Student This person having published several books I must according to the method that I have hitherto followed let the Reader know that tho he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Sandfords of Sandford in Shropshire yet he was born in the Castle of Carnow in the County of Wicklow in Ireland and half Barony of Shelelak which half Barony was purchased of K. Jam. 1. by his mothers father called Calcot Chambre When the Rebellion broke out in Ireland Francis being then about eleven years of age his Relations carried him thence into England setled themselves at Sandford with intentions to breed him a Scholar but then the Rebellion breaking out there and his family afterwards Sufferers for the Royal Cause he had no other education than what Grammar Schools afforded On the 6 of June 13 Car. 2. he was by Letters Patent created Pursuivant at Arms by the name and title of Rouge Dragon and afterwards on the 16 of Nov. in the 27 of the said Kings Reign he was created Lancaster Herald of Arms Which office he held
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Brucâ— These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Ossâ—ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depoâ—ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was
the Elector of Brandeburg as also of the Hall and Judicial Chamber Chamberlain and Chieftain of the Province or County of Ruppin Knight of the order of Johamites and Envoy extraordinary to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said Elector of Brandeburg was created the same day Sir Joseph Williamson Kt Mast of Arts and Fellow of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son of the County of Cumberland had been Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas and afterwards under Hen. Earl of Arlington while they were Principal Secretaries of State and on the 24 Jan. 1671 he was sworn one of the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary and Knighted About that time he was Clerk of the papers or Keeper of the Paper Office at Whitehall and a Recruiter for Thetford in Norfolk to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661. Afterwards he was sent twice in the quality of a Plenipotentiary once to Holland and another time to Colen in Germany and after his return he was sworn Principal Secretary of State upon the promotion of Henry Earl of Arlington to be Lord Chambeâ—lain of his Majesties Houshold and a Privy Counsellour on the eleventh of Sept. 1674. Both which offices he keeping till Feb. 1678 did on the 9 of the same month resign the seals of his Secretaryship into the hands of his Majesty who forthwith giving them to Rob. Earl of Sunderland he was sworn the next day Secretary and Privy Counsellour This Sir Jos Williamson who was then President of the Royal Society hath been a great Benefactor to his Coll. and may be greater hereafter if he think fit The illustrious Lord Ignatius Vitus Baron ot Vicque a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under his Catholick Majesty in Flanders was created the same day June 27. One Ignatius Vitus alias White second Son of Sir Dominick White of Limerick in Ireland was created a Baronet on the 29 of June 1677 and for want of issue male that title was to descend to his Nephew Ignatius Maximilian Vitus and to the heirs male of his body This Sir Ignat. White is the same as I conceive with him that was Baron of Vicque D. Car. Gabr. de la Salle Eq. Grome of the Chamber to the King of Sweedland was also then created In a Convocation held 30 of May this year were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Sam. Speed formerly a Student now Canon of Ch. Ch. to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him but whether he was created or admitted notwithstanding he had formerly suffer'd for his loyalty it appears not On the sixth of the said month of May this year he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Seb. Smith deceased and dying at Godalming in Surrey of which he was Vicar about the 22 of January 1681 Henry Aldrich M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was installed Canon in his place on the 15. of Febr. following One Sam. Speed a pretender to Poetry hath written Prison-piety or meditations divine and moral c. Lond. 1677. in tw and other trivial things but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former In the month of January this year came to this University J. Secbaldus Frabricius an old Professor of Heidelberg who was forced to leave his Country because of the Wars between the Emperour and the King of France He lived for some time here in a studious condition had a collection of moneys made throughout the University to relieve his wants And while he continued among us he published De unitate Eccles Britannicae Meditationes Sacrae Oxon. 1676 oct and wrot and drew up another book entit Dissertatio Historica Dionis Cassii Scriptoris Graec. Selectiora Commata c. Lond. 1678. oct An. Dom. 1675. An. 27. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Ralph Bathurst Oct. 7. Proct. Joh. Jones of Ch. Ch. Apr. 14. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. June 8. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall See among the Masters an 1678. 10. Will. Gough commonly called Goff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Exeter Coll. Oct. 26. Will. Hallifax of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Pigott of Wad Coll. 29. Joh. Bagley of Ball. Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1687 and of the other two among the Masters 1678. Feb. 23. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll. He hath written and published several things and therefore he ought at large to be remerabred among the Oxford Writers hereafter Adm. 149. Bach. of Law Four were only admitted of whom Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. was one See among the Doct. of Law following Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Jonathan Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. June 8. Joh. Knight of New Inn He afterwards was made Vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire upon the removal thence of Richard Knight sometimes Proctor of the University of Oxon to a good Parsonage in Worcestershire and was author of The Samaritan Rebels perjur'd by a Covenant of Association in a Sermon at the Assizes held at Northampton 30 March 1682 on Hosea 10 the former part of the 4th vers Lond. 1682 qu. He is a good Scholar very loyal and of good name and esteem where he lives and might have been Preb. of Linc. which he much deserves had not Dr. B. Bish thereof shew'd him a Dog-trick Nov. 23. Jam. Parkinson of Linc. Coll. Jan. 19. Joh. Massey or Measey of Mert. Coll. This person who was originally of Vniv Coll was one of the Proctors of the University in 1684 and then and after did not look for or expect preferment At length after K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown he was by the endeavours of Mr. Obad. Walker Master of Vniv Coll advanced by his Majesty on the death of Dr. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon about the middle of Octob. 1686. Whereupon renouncing his religion for that of Rome which he was so to do before he could be setled in it he received the Patent for it on his bended knees from his Majesty on the 19 of Decemb. and on the 29 of the same month 1686 he was installed in that Dignity in his own person Afterwards he set up and furnished a Chappel for the R. Cath. use in Canterbury Quadrangle within the Precincts of Ch. Ch and was put into the Commission of Peace for the County of Oxford At length upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in the West parts of England and the committing thereupon by the Mobile great outrages in several parts of the Nation on R. Catholicks and their Houses the said Mr. Massey did to avoid them together with Mr. Thom. Deane a R. C. Fellow of Vniv Coll. withdraw himself privately before break of day on the 30 of Nov. 1688 went to London and there continued privately till an opportunity carried him over the Sea to France where I think
his body was conveyed to Windsore and buried in the Chap. or Church of S. George within the Castle there In the year following was a table of white marble fix'd to the wall near his grave with this inscription thereon M. S. Francisco Junio Francisci Junii Biturig is filio nobilitate generis integritate morum omnigenâ doctrina conspicuo viro nato Heidelbergae anno salutis MDLXXXIX qui per omnem aetatem sine quaerelâ aut injuriâ cujusquam Musis tantum sibi vacavit Vniversitas Oxoniensis cui scripta monumenta laboris sui moriens pene nonagenarius commisit in grati animi significationem lubens meritoque titulum posuit an MDCLXXVIII The titles of some of the books that he published you may see in the Bodleian or Oxf. Catalogue To this learned person I must add another of less name much noted in his time but since not for the art and fac of Poetry who had spent about eight years in Oxen partly in custody but mostly in liberty and freedom in the public Library and conversation with ingenious Scholars The Anagram of his sirname is Benevolus given to him by Flatterers and Pretenders to Poetry for his Benevolence to them His Christian Name was Edward Son and heir of Andr. Bendlowes Esq Son of Wâ—ll Bendlowes Esq Son and heir of Andrew Bendlowes Serjeant at Law c. all Lords of Brent Hall and of other Lands in Essex but descended from those of their name of Bendlowes in Yorkshire When he was young he was very carefully educated in Grammar learning and when at about 16 years of age he became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which he was afterwards a Benefactor Thence he was sent to travel with a Tutor or Guide and having rambled thro several Countries and had visited seven Courts of Princes he returned a most accomplished person as to behaviour and discourse yet ring'd with Romanism But being a very imprudent man in matters of worldly concern and ignorant as to the value or want of money he did after he was invested in his Estate at Brent hall and elsewhere which amounted to seven hundred some say a thousand pounds per an make a shift tho never married to squander it mostly away on Poets Flatterers which he loved in buying of Curiosities which some call'd Baubles on Musitians Buffoones c. He also gave from his said Estate a large Portion with a Neice who was married to one Blount of Mapledurham in Oxfordshire Esq supposing thereby that so long as they lived he should not want but the case being otherwise he lived afterwards in a mean condition He also very imprudently entred himself into Bonds for the payment of other mens debts which he being not able to do he was committed to prison in Oxford which was the matter that first brought him thither but being soon after released he spent the remainder of his days there in studies till the time of his death This person who was esteemed in his younger days a great Patron of Poers especially of Franc. Quarles Will. D'avenant Payne Fisher c. who had either dedicated books or had written Epigrams and Poems on him hath several things whereby he hath obtained the name of a Divine Author extant among which are these 1 Sphinx Theologica seu Musica Templi ubi discordia concors Camb. 1626. oct 2 Theophila or Loves Sacrifice A divine Poem Lond. 1652. fol. with his picture before it Several parts thereof had Aires set to them or were fitted for Aires by the incomparable Musitian Job Jenkyns who had been favoured much and patronized by Benevolus A whole Canto of this Theophila consisting of above 300 verses was turn'd into elegant Latin Verse in the space of one day by that great prodigy of early parts John Hall of Durham mentioned in the first vol. p. 455. having had his tender affections ravish'd with that divine piece 3 Summary of divine Wisdome Lond. 1657. qu. 4 A glance at the glories of sacred friendship Lond. 1657 printed on one side of a large sheet of paper 5 De sacra Amicitia Printed with the former in Lat. verse and prose 6 Threnothriambeuticon Or Latine Poems on K. Ch. 2. his restauration Lond. 1660 pr. on a side of a large sheet of paper Some he caused to be printed on white Sattin a copy of which in a frame sutable to it he gave to the public Library at Oxon. 7 Oxonii Encomium Ox. 1672. in 4 sh in fol. It is mostly in Lat. verse 8 Oxonii Elogia Oxon 1673. on one side of a large sh of paper They consist of 12 Stanzaes and afterwards follow 1. Oxonii Elegia 2. Academicis serenitas 3. Academ temperantia 4. Studiosis cautela and other things 9 Magia Coelestis Oxon 1673. 'T is a Lat. Poem pr. on one side of a large sh of paper These three last under the 7.8 and 9 heads were with other things composed at Oxon while he was conversant there He hath also a Mantissa to Rich. Fenns Panegyricon inaugurale intit De celeberrima florentiss Trinobantiados Augustae civ Praetori reg senatui populoque Lond. 1637 qu. In the title of which Mr. Bendl. stiles himself Turmae equestris in Com. Essex praefectus He hath other things extant which I have not yet seen and therefore I shall only tell you that after he had been courted and admired for his antient Extraction Education and Parts by great men of this Nation and had been a Patron to several ingenious men in their necessities and by his generous mind void of a prudential foresight had spent a very fair Estate without keeping little or any thing to support him did spend his last days at Oxon but little better than in obscure condition in which for want of conveniencies required fit for old age as Clothes Fewel and warm things to refresh the body he marched off in a cold season on the 18 of Decemb. at eight of the clock at night an 1676 aged 73 years or more Whereupon by a collection of money among certain Scholars who knew what he had been he was decently buried with Escocheons in the north isle or alley joyning to the body of S. Maries Ch. in Oxon near to the door that leads thence into Adam Brome's Chappel In his younger years he was esteemed a Papist or at least Popishly affected but being drawn off from that Opinion in his elderly years he would take occasion oftentimes to dispute against Papists and their Opinions which was not at all acceptable to his Nephew and Neice Blount before mentioned which was the cause that his room rather than company was desired by them and could not endure any person that seemed to favour the Opinions of Arminius or Socinus His picture now hangs in the Gallery belonging to the public Library at Oxon. This year one Joh. Wulferus of Nuremberg became a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library went
Coll. a Compounder He was now one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess obtained on the death of Mr. Tho. Cook the father of his wife an 1669. and Can. resid of Hereford He died 20 Aug. 1684 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Bampton In his Archdeaconry succeeded one .... Wheeler and him .... Oatley Jul. 3. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. Ant. Saunders of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The other who was Chapl. to the Archb. of Cant was now 1677 Chanc. of S. Paul in Lond. and Rector of Acton in Middlesex John Fitzwilliams of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of York Rector of Cotenham near Cambridge and Preb. of Windsore He hath published A Sermon preached at Cotenham near Cambridge on the 9 of Sept. 1683 being the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his sacred Majesty and the Government from the late treasonable Conspiracy on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1683. qu. He is now a Non-juror and therefore hath lost his Spiritualities Incorporations May 14. Walt. Leightonhouse Bac. of Art of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was soon after elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. See among the Masters in 1679. After the conclusion of the Act were 23 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated Jul. 10 among which was Aylett Sams of Christs Coll. This person published under his own name Britannia antiqua illustrata or the Antiquities of antient Britaine derivâ—d from the Phoenicians Wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered the names of Places Offices Dignities as likewise the Idolatry c. are clearly demonstrated from that Nation many old monuments illustrated c. Together with a chronological History of this Kingdom from the first traditional beginning until the year of our Lord 800 when the name of Britaine was changed into England c. Lond. 1676. vol. 1. fol. An account of this book is in the Philosophical Transactions num 124. p. 596 wherein tho the Author of them Mr. Oldenburg doth stile Mr. Sams the learned and curious Vndertaker of that great work yet the common report then was that not he but his quondam Uncle was the Author and to confirm it was his great ignorance in matters and books of Antiquity I was several times in his company when he spent some weeks this year in Oxon and found him to be an impertinent girning and pedantical Coxcomb and so ignorant of Authors that he never heard of before I mention'd it to him of the great Antiquary Joh. Leland or of his printed or manuscript Works nor any thing of Baleus nor could he give any account of Authors that are quoted in the said Britannia antiqua illustrata c. He died in the year 1679 or thereabouts perhaps in the Inner Temple where he had a Chamber but where buried I know not nor is it material to be informed I find one Rob. Aylett Mast of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated at Oxon an 1608. Quaere whether he was his Uncle Jul. 10. Will. Birstall D. D. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. Feb. 19. Patrick Dunn Physitian in ord to James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut. of Ireland Doct. of Phys of Aberdene in Scotland Valentia in Dauphiny and of Dublin in Ireland was declared he being then absent incorporated Doctor of the said faculty of this Univ. of Oxon and on the 23 of March following a Diploma of his Incorporation was sealed and sent to him Creations The most noble James Duke of Ormonde Chancellor of the University coming to Oxon in the beginning of Aug. this year where he was splendidly entertained by the Academians with Treats in several Colleges and Speeches in the Theater it was his desire that there should be a Creation of Doctors of the Civil Law and a Creation of two persons in Divinity Those that were created in the former faeulty which was on the sixth day of Aug. in the Theater were these Doct. of Law Richard Boteler Earl of Arran in Ireland and Baron Boteler of Weston in Huntingdonshire in England second son of James Duke of Ormonde This noble and courageous person who had done good service against the Rebels at Carickfergus in Ireland and in that perilous Sea-sight against the Dutch when James D. of York was General at Sea for which and other Services he was made Baron of Weston died on the 26 of Jan. 1685. Whereupon his body was deposited in the same Vault in the Abbey Church at Westminster where that of his elder brother Thom. E of Ossory and their mother Elizab. Dutchess of Ormonde had been laid which Dutchess died in her house in S. James's Square within the Liberty of Westminster on the 21 of July 1684. But whether their bodies were afterwards removed to Kilkenny in Ireland there to be deposited in the Vault among the bodies of the Ormondian family I know not as yet Pierce Boteler Visc Galmoy in Irel. of the Ormondian family Francis Aungier Viscount afterwards Earl of Longford in the same Kingdom Robert Fitz-Gerald son of the Earl of Kildare Sir Kingsmill Lucy Bt. Sir Thom. Erscott Kt. Sir James Boteler Kt. He was natural son of James Duke of Ormonde by Isabel daugh of Henry Earl of Holland and wife of Sir James Thynne of Langleate in Wilts This person who was bred up to the Common Law in Linc. Inn succeeded Will. Lord Brouncker in the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near the Tower of London c. Sir Edw. Scott Kt. Sir Rob. Southwell Kt. This most worthy and accomplish'd person who was son of Rob. Southwell of Kinsale in the County of Cork in Irel. Esq Vice-Admiral of Mounster and of the Privy Council there descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in Kinsale educated in Queens Coll. in this University where he was Bach. of Arts and afterwards became a Barrister of Linc. Inn On the 27 of Sept. 1664 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Majesties Privy Council and on the 20 of Nov. 1665 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty being then accounted a Gent. of known worth and abilities and fitted every way for the Service of his Majesty who then thought good to give him the character of his Envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal whether he was to go in few days after In the latter end of Octob. 1671 he was sent Envoy extraordinary to Count de Monterey Governour or Vice-Roy for his Catholick Maj. of the Spanish Netherlands and in the beginning of Decemb. 1679 the Presbyterians and Fanaticks being then rampant upon the account of the Popish Plot he resigned his Clerkship of the Council In Feb. following he was sent Envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandeberg and after his return he was much respected for the Services he had done for