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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
H. N. O. J. Oxon. which whether meant by Henry HickmaN I know not as yet Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol. Aërius redivivus or the Hist of the Presbyterians c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. Historical and miscellaneous Tracts Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention'd before as 1 Eccl. Vindicata 2 Hist of the Sabbath in 2 parts 3 Hist Quinqu articularis 4 Stumbling block c. 5 Tract de jure paritatis c. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire sometimes one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll. Which life being alter'd and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. T. Barlow and the Bookseller that printed it Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn made a protestation against it and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter'd and Vernon wrot another published in oct Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church Both which things the said Dr. Laud intended as materials towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit which came out the year following He also I mean Heylyn did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath as I have before told you and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an 1639 partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland that then before brake out had been raised At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day May 8. in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire a copy of the inscription on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205. JOHN LEY was born in the antient Borough of Warwick on the 4 of Feb. an 1583 but descended from the Leys of Cheshire educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601 where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicaridge of Great Budworth in Cheshire and there continued several years a constant Preacher Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester Sub-dean thereof 1605 a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peters Church in the said City and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice But he having always been puritanically inclined he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1641 took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines Examiner in Latine to the said Assembly Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers and of the Committee for Printing one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way c. President of Sion Coll. about 1645 and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee which if I mistake not he kept with other Benefices for a time In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of publick Ministers and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Soon after upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight before the year 1656 where he continued for some time At length breaking a vein within him by overstraining himself in speaking became very weak thereupon So that being not able to go on in the Ministry he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County where after he had lived privately for a short time gave up the ghost in a fair age He was esteemed in his time a man of note especially by those of the Presbyterian perswasion well vers'd in various Authors and a ready Preacher His works are these An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible which were in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon publickly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson When printed I know not 'T was written about 1612 and submitted to the judgment of Bish Usher who did well approve of it Pattern of piety or the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow and Citizen of Chester Lond. 1640. oct Several sermons as 1 Serm. on Ruth 3.11 Lond. 1640. oct 2 A monitor of mortality in two funeral sermons occasion'd by the death of Joh. Archer son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh Knight and of Mrs. Harper of Chester and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old The first on Jam. 4.14 and the other on Gen. 44.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Fury of war and folly of sin Fast serm before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22 Lond. 1643. qu. c. Sunday a sabbath or a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Usher The Christian Sabbath maintained in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no Sabbath Defensive doubts hopes and reasons for refusal of the Oath imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod Lond. 1641. qu. Letter against the erection of an Altar written 29 June 1635 to John Bishop of Chester Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper These two last things were printed and go with Defensive doubts Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath and the difference between them as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome c. Lond. 1641. quar Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed with the Comparison Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query and determination upon it published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose in his other and
put an Introduction to the book He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in one of the Chappels joyning to the Cath. Church Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley a true and zealous son of the Church of England was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a non-conforming Minister and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow one or more of whose Sermons you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4 July 1682 aged 61 and was inter'd in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London in the presence of 500 Persons who accompanied him to his grave Of the same family tho remote was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark p. 153. JOHN WARNER received his first breath as 't is said in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an 1599 aged 16 years where being put under the tuition of a careful Person made a considerable progress in his studies took the degrees in Arts and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house being then esteemed a witty man a good Logician and Philosopher In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesties Chaplains Prebendary of Canterbury Governour of Sion Coll Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell promoted to the See of Peterborough an 1633 and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles was consecrated thereunto on the 14th and installed 21 of January the same year being then noted for a good School Divine and one well read in the Fathers In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury built one at his proper charge which whether more curious or more costly was difficult to judge and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishops votes in the H. of Parliament Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren by having the Lands of his See taken away but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable He hath written Church Lands not to be sold or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold Printed 1646. 48. qu. Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium Printed in the said Dr. Taylor 's Collection of Polemical discourses See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen and perhaps other things Quaere At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave with a large Epitaph thereon wherein 't is said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test he left his personal estate for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows tho himself had always led a single life the Relicts of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an always reserving so much out of their exhibition as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon and not out of any other House And the election of the said 20 Widows is to be made by his Executors for the time being and after their decease by such Trustees as they shall appoint In his life time and at his death he gave a 1000 l. for the encrease of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more To the repair of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To â—he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l to Bromley where his Bishops seat is 20 l and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an to issue out of his mannour of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of Gods word c. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them thoughts were had of making Glocester Hall a College for them and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter the Scholars for the present time were placed there At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol which was in 1672 he took order that they should be translated thither where they yet remain JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1604 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Chaplain as I conceive to Philip Lord Stanhop and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased which he kept to his dying day notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time In Nov. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof which also keeping till his
sermon is numbred among those before mention'd Discourse upon the Beatitudes Left by the Author unfinish'd Christian consolation taught from five heads 1. Faith 2. Hope 3. Holy Spirit 4. Prayer 5. The Sacraments Lond. 1671. oct Contemplations of the state of Man in this life and in that which is to come Lond. 1684. oct Moral demonstration proving that the Religion of Jesus Christ is from God Lond. 1687. oct set at the end of A copy of a letter written to a Gentlewoman newly seduced to the Ch. of Rome printed then again at Lond. being one of the five letters before mention'd with some other little works of the said Author The said Moral demonstration had before been printed with one of the edit of his Cases of Conscience These are all the books and sermons as I conceive that this most worthy and eminent Author hath written and therefore I shall only add that he being overtaken with a violent fever surrendred up his pious soul to the omnipotent at Lisburne alias Lisnegarvy on the thirteenth day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in a Chappel of his own erection on the ruins of the old Cathedral of Dromore In that See succeeded his most dear and excellent friend who preached his funeral sermon and afterwards made it publick named George Rust D. D. sometimes Fellow of Christs Coll. in Cambridge a learned Divine and an eloquent Preacher who dying in Dec. about S. Thomas day in 1670 was buried in the same Vault wherein the said B Taylor had been deposited After him succeeded in the same See Drâ—more Dr. Essex Digby and him Capel Wisemâ—n Dean of Raphoe sometimes Fellow of All 's College an 1683. STEPHEN SKINNER Son of Joh. Skin of London Gent. was born either in that City or in the County of Middlesex applied his studies to academical learning in the condition of a Communer as it seems in the royal foundation called Christ Church an 1638 aged 16 years or thereabouts but before he could take one degree the most unnatural Rebellion broke out to the great horror and reluctancy of all good men so that travelling beyond the seas he made progress in the studies of Arts and Philosophy in several Universities with very great improvement In 1646 or thereabouts he returned to his native Countâ—y and the Garrison of Oxford being that year reduced for the use of the Parliament he returned to the then disconsolate Muses and took both the degr in Arts that year Afterwards he finished his rambles in several Countries as in France Italy Germany the Spanish Netherlands c. visited the Courts of diveâ—s Princes frequented several Universities and obtained the company and friendship of the most learned men of them At length upon the renovation of the University of Heidelberge by Charles Lewis Elector Palatine he was adorned there with the degr of Doctor of Physick and held in admiration by all learned men at that place Afterwards returning once more to his native Country and to his Mother the Univ. of Oxon then quite alter'd to what he had left it was there incorporated in the same degr an 1654. About which time setling within the City of Lincoln practised his faculty there and in the neighbourhood with good success and therefore much resoâ—â—ed to by persons of all quality and beloved of the Gentâ—y He was a person well vers'd in most parts of learning understood all books whether old or new was most skilful in the oriental Tongues an excellent Greecian and in short a living library He hath written Prolegomena Etymologica with a large preface to it and these things following Etymolâ—gâ—con linguae Anglicanâ—e Eâ—ym Botanicum Eâ—ymolâ—gica Expâ—sitio vocum forensium Etymol vocum omnium Anglicarum Etym Onomasticon c. He died of a malignant fever at Lincolne before mention'd on the fifth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Cath. Church there After his death his before mention'd Works which had been by him left imperfect came into the hands of Thomas Henshaw of Kensington near London Esq who correcting and digesting them and adding many words to them of his own were publâ—â—hed 〈…〉 with an Epistle before them to the Reader of Mâ— Hâ—â—shâ—w's writing an 1671. fol. with this 〈◊〉 Eâ—yâ—â—lâ—gicon linguae Anglicanae c. In which book 〈◊〉 Woâ—ds and Additions and Explanations that have 〈…〉 H put to them were done by the said Th. 〈◊〉 a noted Critick sometimes a Communer of Univ. 〈◊〉 and therefore hereafter to be numbred among the 〈◊〉 Wâ—â—tâ—rs See more of Dr. Skinner in Hist 〈◊〉 Univ. Oxâ—n lib. 2. pag. â—80 JOHN READING born of sufficient Parents in Buckinghamshire was admitted a Student in Magd. Hall in 〈…〉 of the year 1604. aged 16 years took the 〈…〉 that of Master being compleated in 1610 〈…〉 a little bâ—fore the Camiâ—ia he had 〈◊〉 â—imself a 〈◊〉 of S. Alb. Hall On the last 〈…〉 1612 â—he was ordained Deacon by John Bishop of 〈◊〉 in the Church of Nowenham Courtney and on the 〈◊〉 of June 1614 he was made a Priest by the said Bishâ—p in the Church of Dorchester in the County of Oxon. 〈◊〉 that time he became Chaplain to Edward Lord 〈◊〉 of Harâ—â—gworth Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governour of Dover Castle with whom going to Dâ—ver where he preached divers Sermons he was at the instant request of the Parishioners of S Maries who 〈◊〉 very much taken with his preaching made Miniâ—â—â—â— of that Church â— Dec. 161â— So that being setled there he was very much resorted to for his frequent and edifying Sermons and held in great esteem by the neighbourhood especially by the puritanical party Afterwards he was made Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 1. and Bach. of of Divinity but whether of this University it appears not Upon the change of the times occasion'd by the violent Presbyterians he seemed much to discountenance them in his Sermons and Discourses and therefore in Apr. 1642 his study of books at Dover was plundered by one .... Sandys of Northborne in Kent a Militia Officer who usually shew'd his valour by plundring several of the loyal inhabitants in the County of Kent and in Nov. following he was by the command of Sir Edw. Boys a Parliamenteer taken violently by Soldiers out of his study being then upon his Paraphrase upon the whole Evangelist of S. John and had gone as far as the 8 and 9 verse of the 5 chap. and sent to prison and banishment for a year and seven months and not at all restored to his Cure of Souls at Dover Which Sir Edward that he might comply with the Schismaticks did prosecute so long as he lived our Author Reading to his utter undoing On the 27 of Jan. following 1642 his Majesty having had notice of his Sufferings sent his letters to Archb. Laud then a prisoner in the Tower that he bestow the Parsonage of Chartham in Kent upon him then void
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
of May in sixteen hundred and ninety Whereupon his body being conveyed to Mildin or Milding near Lavenham in Suffolk by very many persons of his perswasion and by some others too was buried in the Church there on the 15 day of the same month Soon after was a stone laid over his grave with a short inscription thereon EZEKIEL HOPKINS son of the Curat of Sandford a Chappel of ease to Crediton in Devonshire was born there became a Choirister of Magd. Coll. 1649. aged 16 years or thereabouts Usher of the School adjoyning when Bach. of Arts Chaplain of the said Coll. when Master and would have been elected Fellow had his County been elegible in all which time he lived and was educated under Presbyterian and Independent discipline About the time of his Majesties restauration he became Assistant to Dr. Will. Spurstow Minister of Hackney near London with whom he continued till the Act of Conformity was published in which time being noted for his fluent and ready preaching some of the parishioners of S. Mattew Fridaystreet in London would have chosen him to be their Rector but Mr. Henr. Hurst another Candidate carried that place away from him by a majority Afterwards the parishioners of Allhallows or else of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet did elect him to be their Preacher but the Bishop of London would not admit him because he was a popular preacher among the Fanaticks Afterwards he went to the City of Exeter where he became Minister of S. Maries Church there and much approved and applauded for his elegant and dexterous preaching by Seth Bishop of that City At length John Lord Roberts hearing him accidentally preach to his very great delight he did afterwards freely offer to him the place of Chaplain when he went in the quality of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland an 1669. Which Office he very freely accepting went accordingly with him and in the latter end of that year or in the beginning of the next he was by that Lord made Dean of Raphoe Soon after the said Lord being recalled into England he recommended his Chaplain to his Successor who also taking especial notice of confer'd on him the Bishoprick of Raphoe an 1671 so that by vertue of Letters Pat. dat 27. of Oct. the same year he was Consecrated thereunto 29. of the same month In the latter end of Octob. 1681 he was translated to London Derry in the place of Dr. Mich. Ward deceased where continuing till the Forces in Ireland under the Earl of Tirconnel stood up in the defence of K. Jam. 2. against K. William 3 he retired into England in 1688 and in Sept. 1689 he was by the parishioners of S. Mary Aldermanbury in London elected to be their Minister upon the removal of Dr. Stratford to the See of Chester He hath written Several Sermons as 1 The Vanity of the World on Eccles 1.2 Lond. 1661. oct 2 Serm. at the funeral of Algernon Grevill Esq second brother to the right hon Rob. Lord Brook who departed this life Jul. 21. at Magd. Coll. in Oxon and was buried at Warwick on the 6. of Aug. 1662 on Ecles 9.5 Lond. 1663. qu. 3 Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin Jan. 31. an 1669. on 1. Pet. 2.13.14 Dubl 1671. qu. All which were reprinted at Lond. 1685. oct 4 Serm. on John 7.19 5 Serm. on Gal. 3.10 These two last were printed at the end of the Exposition fâ—llowing An Exposition on the 10 Commandments Lond. 1692. qu. Published in the beginning of Aug. 1691. with his picture before it by the care of Dr. Edw. Wetenhall Bishop of Cork and Ross author of the Epistle before it dated at Peckham place 3. Jul. 1671. This Bishop Hopkins died on the 19. day of June in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried on the 24. of the said month in the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury before mention'd He had an elder brother named John Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll who died before he took the degree of Master and a younger called James Bach. of Arts of Corp. Ch. Coll. who dying also before he was Master of Arts in Octob. or thereabouts an 1663 was buried at Hackney near London They were all three comly and ingenious persons and beloved of their Contemporaries in their respective Colleges THOMAS FRANKLAND a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose Coll. on the first of May an 1649 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and in 1654 was made Fellow thereof Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he became a preacher tho not in Episcopal Orders in these parts In 1662 he was admitted one of the Proctors of the University and in the year after being then in holy Orders he was with much adoe his Grace being denied three times as I shall till you elsewhere admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards he applied his studies to the Faculty of Physick setled in London and pretended to be a Doctor of that Faculty of Oxon when he was in the company of Cambridg men and to be Doctor of Cambridg when in the company of Oxford men At length being a Candidate to be Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians which he could not be without being Doctor he produced a forged Certificate or Diploma to attest that he was Doctor of that Faculty and thereupon he was at length admitted Fellow of the said Coll and afterwards was Censor thereof But he being of an haughty turbulent and huffing spirit and therefore much dislik'd by the Society especially the Juniors some of them whom he had much displeased were resolv'd to take him shorter and humble him Whereupon they having received a hint that he was no Doctor they sent privately to Dr. Jam. Hyde the Kings Professor of Physick and Mr. Ben. Cooper the public Registrary of the Univ. of Oxon that they would search the Registers thereof and certifie them whether he the said Tho. Frankland ever took the degree of Doctor of Phys among them whereupon they upon their search finding no such matter did accordingly certifie them of it Afterwards they sent a Latine Letter to the Vice-chancellour Doctors Proctors and Masters of the University to acquaint them with the forgery of the said Thom. Frankland desiring them withall that they would certifie the President and Community of the Coll. of Physitians that he was no Doctor of Phys of their University which they accordingly did in Nov. 1677. However this being a just reason for his ejection yet notwithstanding by the connivance of the Seniors of the said College he did continue afterwards among them but lost much of his Credit and Practice too as I have heard This person who was esteemed a good Scholar while he continued in Oxon hath written and published The Annals of K. James and K. Charles the first containing a faithful History and impartial account of the great affairs of State and transactions of Parliament in England from the tenth of K. James 1612 to the eighteenth of K. Charles
his Gangraena (b) Ibid. in Gangr edit 1646. p. 78. (c) Vide Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. sub an 1646. 1654. 1654. (a) Reg. Matric Univ. Ox. PP fol. 22. b. (b) Memorials of Engl. Affaires under the 1648. p. 359. a. 1654 1654. (a) Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragmenta aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. in oct p. 7. (b) See in Pet. Heylyns book intit The History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury lib. 4. sub an 1636. (c) Ibid. (d) In Aist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 30.31 1654. (a) See Mr. R. Baxter's book intit Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Math. Hale Lond. 1682. in oct p. 40. 1654. 1654. (*) Edw. Knott Jesuit went sometimes by the name of Nich-Smith Quaere Clar. 1654 Clar. 1654. Clar. 1654. Clar. 1654. (*) Vide in Append. illustrium Angliae scriptorum per Jo. Pitseum cent 4. nu 9. (*) The Wife of Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Greencloth to K. Ch. 2. 1655. 1655. 1655. (a) T. B. in the pref to The right Government of the thoughts c. (b) Tho. Case in his pref to The morning exercise or some short notes c. 1655. 1655. 1655. 1655. (a) Camd. in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1622. (b) See in Romes Master-peece c. publish'd by W. Prynne 1643. p. 19.20 (c) 'T was the word that he often used in company (d) 'T was his custome always to be whispering in company (e) Joh. Gee in a Cat. of Popish Books at the end of his Book called The foot out of the snare 1655. (f) Pastor vigilantiss doctrina pietate insignis c. So Fred. Lossius a Physician of Dorchester in his Observationes Medicinales Lond. 1672. oct lib. 2. observat 7. p. 121. 1655. 1655. Clar 1655. Clar. 1655. (a) See in the Rehearsal transpros'd written by Andr. Marvell pr. 1672. p. 175. (b) Dr. Jo. Pearson B. of Chester in his Preface to Jo. Hales his Remaines (c) Pet. Heylyn in his Life and death of Dr. W. Laud Archb. of Cant. under the year 1638. (d) Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragm aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. p. 10. (e) Lucius Lord Falkland (f) Sam. Parker in his Reproof to the Rehearsal transpros'd p. 135. (g) Pet. Heylyn as before an 1638. (h) Printed at Lond. 1677. oct 1656 1656. 1656. 1656. 1656. (*) This Rule of Proportion in Arithm. and Geometry was rectified by Mr ..... Browne and Mr. Jam. Atkinson Teachers of the Mathematicks pr. at Lond. 1683. in tw 1656. 1656. Clar. 1656. Clar. 1656. 1657. 1657. 1657. (*) See Baconica or the Lord Bacons Remaines Lond. 1679. in oct p. 26.27 1657. (†) In Canterburies Doome p. 75. c. 1657. 1657. 1657. (*) Reg. Visit p. 182.194 1657. (*) Appollonia the Wife of one Calverley of Pewter-street in Westminster 1657. 1657. (*) Br. Ryves in his Merc. Rusticus printed 1647. p. 212. 1657 8. 1657 8. (a) Th. Fuller in his Worthies of England in Cumberland followed without acknowledgment by his Plagiary David Lloyd in his Memoires c. p. 518. (b) See his Divine purity defended chap. 6. p. 53. (c) ibid p. 54. 1657 8. Clar. 1657. Clar. 1657. (*) Reg. Matric P. P. fol. 24. b. 1658. 1658. 1658. 1658. 1658. (*) Second Narrative of the late Parliament so called c. printed 1658. p. 17. 1658 9. (a) In lib. 2. Asfaniarum (b) Vide Hist antiq Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. p. 334. 1658 9. 1659. 1659. 1659. 1659. 1659. (*) Rome is a piece of Land so called near to the end of the walk called Non ultra on the north side of Oxon. 1659. 1659. 1659. 1659 60. 1659 60. 1659 60. Clar. 1659. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660 1661. 1661. 1661. 1661. 1661. (*) Serenus Cressy in his Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Ch. by Dr. Stillingfleet printed 1672 p. 13. 1661. 1661. (*) Reg. Matric P. pag. 436. 1661. 1661 2. Clar. 1661. (*) Ben. Woodbridge in his Pref. to his Justification by Faith Clar. 1661. Clar. 1661. (†) Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 19. 1662. 1662. (†) Persecutio undecima Printed 1648. p. 103. (*) Bulstr Whitlock in his Memorials of English Affairs an 1642. p. 60. b. (a) Arth. Wilson in his Hist of Great Britain c. an 1621. p. 162. 1662. (b) Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd c. Lond. 1672. pag. 299. (c) Will. Prynne in Canterburies Doom p. 245. 1662. (d) In lib. 3. sub an 1627. (e) See more in Canterburies Doom written by Will. Prynne p. 386. Also in Dr. Heylyns Life of Archb. Laud. lib. 3. p. 210. (*) See a book intit Several conferences between a Rom. Priest a Fanatick Chaplain and a Divine of the Church of England c. in answer to Th. Goddens Dialogues Lond. 1679. oct written by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet (†) See in Will. Sandersons book entit Post-hast A reply to Peters Dr. Heylyns appendix to his treatise entit Respondet Petrus c. Lond. 1658 qu p. 13. (a) See Dr. Pet. Heylyns Life written by Joh. Barnard D. D. Lond. 1683. p. 224.225 (b) See in the pref to the reader before a book entit A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen c. written by Hen. Hickman also in the said life written by Dr. Barnard p. 237. (c) The Author here means the Appendix to Resp Petrus (d) This hath no Appendix and therefore the Author Sanderson is mistaken being it self an Append. to Examen Historicum or advertisements on three Histories 1660. (a) Rich. Moore a Nonconformist Minister living at Wetherock hill in Worcestershire (b) Tho. Fuller in his Worthies of England in Yorksh. 1662. 1662. 1662. 1662. 1662. (*) Printed at Gronning an 1651. qu. (*) Tho. Tany Goldsmith who by the Lords voice that he heard changed his name from Thomas to Theauraw John Tany on the 23. of Nov. 1649 living then at the Three Golden Keys without Temple-bar London He was then and before a blasphemous Jew (a) Edit Groning an 1654. in qu. (b) Edit Amstel 1654 in qu. 1662. (c) Joannis Biddelli Angli Acad. Oxoniensis quondam Artium Magistri celeberrimi vita Lond. 1682. in 3. sh and an half in oct The Author of which was as I have been informed for there is no name set to it one Joh. Farrington J C T. of the Inner Temple (d) Jam. Heath in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine war c. in the latter end of the year 1654. (e) The said Will. Lenthall died on the 28. June 1497. 12. Hen. 7. and was buried in the South Isle joyning to the body of the Church of Great Haseley in Com. Oxon. (f) So John Leland in his Second Vol. of Itineraries p. 8. but in a Visitation book of Oxfordshire made by one of the Heralds I find that Will. Lenthall of Lachford married Catherine Dau. of John Badby by Jane his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Rich. Pyperd (g) Ibid. in 2. Vol.
all likelyhood in a certain possibility of rising higher if the times had not interrupted him In the beginning of 1640 he was elected Burgess for Q. Mynhead in Somersetshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. the same year and soon after siding with his Maj. in the rebellious times suffer'd much in his estate having 300 l. at one time given thence to one Serle a widdow In the month of Sept. in 1648 he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to Newport in the Isle of Wight by his Majesty to be assisting to him in his Treaty with the Commissioners sent from Parliament But that Treaty taking no effect he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near London where living to see his Master murdered before his own door he soon after ended his life He was a person of smooth Language was an excellent Civilian and a tolerable Poet especially in his younger days and well vers'd in Histories whether ecclesiastical or civil He hath extant Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis sub Regibus Henric. V. VI. Oxon. 1617. qu. remitted into the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Bates an 1681. De usu authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Christianorum lib. 2. Lond. 1â—53 and 79. oct Leydâ—â— 1654. Lips 1668. in tw c. In which book Dr. Gerard Langbaines labours were so much that he deserved the name of Co-author Dr. Duck paid his last debt to nature in the month of May in sixteen hundred forty and nine and was buried in the Church at Chiswick in Middlesex to the poor of which place he gave 10 l. He left considerable legacies to Exeter and All 's Colleges and 10 l. to the poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire besides other gifts of charity elsewhere which for brevity sake I now pass by RICHARD ALLEN was born in or near to Abendon in Berks was originally of Ball. Coll. and as a member of that house he took one degree in Arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first Scholars of Pembr Coll proceeded in his faculty was made Fellow and at length beneficed near Ewelme in Oxfordshire He hath written An antidote against heresie or a preservative for Protestants against the poyson of Papists Anabaptists c. Lond. 1648. dedicated to his Uncles Sir Tho. Gainsford Kt and Humph. Huddleston Esq One of both his names but after in time was Pastor of Henfield in Sussex and Author of Englands Distemper their cause and cure according to the judgment of famous Princes Peers Parliaments c. occasion'd by a learned Frier accusing the whole Nation of Perjury for abjuring Transubstantiation and sent to the Author for a reply Lond. 1677. qu. in 3 sh and an half Whether this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know not I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among these Writers under the year 1681. NICHOLAS DARTON a Cornish man born was entred into Exet. Coll. either in the condition of a Batler or Servitour in Mich. term 1618 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts afterwards holy orders and at length became Minister of Killesbye in Northamptonshire He hath extant Several sermons as 1 The true and absolute Bishop with the Converts return unto him on 1 Pet 2.25 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to Will Lord Say at which time the Author who was always before esteemed a Puritan closed with the Presbyterian Party He hath one or more extant which I have not yet seen Ecclesia Anglicana or his clear and protestant Manifesto as an evangelical key sent to the Governour of Oxford for the opening of the Church doors there that are shut up without prayers or preaching Printed 1649. qu. JOHN PRIDEAUX was born in an obscure town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devon on the 17 of Sept. 1578 became a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme Bach. of Div. in Act term 1596 and in 1602 was elected probat Fellow of that house being then Bach. of Arts. In the year after he proceeded in that Faculty and thereupon entred into holy Orders so that being soon after noted for his great Learning and profound Divinity he was elected Rector of his Coll. upon the death of Holland in 1612 he being then Bach. of Div. and the same year proceeded in the same faculty In 1615 he was upon the promotion of Dr. Abbot to the See of Sarum made the Kings Professor of Divinity by vertue of which he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire And afterwards did undergo the Office of Vicechancellour of this University for several years as I have elsewhere told you In the Rectorship of his College he carried himself so winning and pleasing by his gentle government and fatherly instruction that it flourished more than any house in the University with Scholars as well of great as of mean birth as also with many Foreigners that came purposely to set at his feet to gain instruction So zealous he was also in appointing industrious and careful Tutors that in short time many were fitted to do service in the Church and State In his Professorship he behaved himself very plausible to the generality especially for this reason that in his Lectures Disputes and Moderatings which were always frequented with many Auditors he shew'd himself a stout Champion against Socinus and Arminius Which being disrellish'd by some who were then rising and in authority at Court a faction thereupon grew up in the University between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side and the Remonstrants commonly called Arminians on the other which with other matters of the like nature being not only fomented in the University but throughout the Nation all things thereupon were brought into confusion to the sorrow of the Puritan who had with all his might opposed Canterbury in his generous designs of making the English Church glorious At length after he had sate 26 years Professor he was one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late made a Bishop by the endeavours as some say of James Marq. of Hamilton his somtimes Pupil The See which he was design'd to govern was Worcester to which being elected 22. of Nov. was consecrated at Westminster on the 19. of Dec. following an 1641 but received little or no profit from it to his great impoverishment So that upon that account and for his adhering to his Maj. in the time of the Civil War wherein he pronounced all those of his diocess that took up arms against him excommunicated he became at length Verus Librorum helluo for having first by indefatigable studies digested his excellent Library into his mind was after forced again to devour all his books with his teeth turning them by a miraculous faith and patience into bread for himself and his children to whom he left no legacy but pious poverty Gods blessing and a Fathers prayers as it appears in
the aforesaid Merchants as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshall lately Rector of Linc. College who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606 took a degree in Arts as a member of that House made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof an 1613 and the year after proceeded in Arts being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree Afterwards he entred into the sacred function was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor in 1621 had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him by the presentation of his Majesty an 1627 and three years after that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices had the Rectory of Odcombâ— in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644 Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong being then in his minority and a Ward Which three Benefices or at least two he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire He was a Person of a quaint and curious stile better at practical than School Divinity and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham He hath published these Sermons following Five Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1627. qu. 1 The Athenian Babler on Acts 17.18 2 Jacob and Esau c. on Rom. 9.18 3 Arraignment of an Arrian on Joh. 8.58 4 Moses and Aaron c. on Exod. 4.12 5 Natures overthrow and deaths triumph on Eccles 12.5 preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625. Other Sermons Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell on Psal 32.6 2 The rich mans warning peece on Psal 62.10 3 The waters of Marah and Meribah on Rom. 12.1 Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number and the first is entit The well-tun'd Cymbal on Psal 15.16 preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers as they please to like or dislike He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty or thereabouts but where buried unless at Dulverton I cannot tell nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire and wrot A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct What other things he hath publish'd I know not nor any thing else of him SAMUEL YERWORTH or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following was born in Dorsetshire became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students and for their benefit wrot Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta complectens c. Oxon. 1650. oct At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader that if the said introduction should be kindly received he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter as need should require but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars and so consequently the Author stood to his promise I know not WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakespear was born in London elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 and at hours of recess from happier employments than the delight of poetry composed The fatal contract comedie Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived not many years since under the title of Love and revenge with some alterations and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle was said in the first edition of it 1653. to be a French Comedie The Jewes Tragedy or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick History of Josephus Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability but whether they are yet published I cannot tell However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgments by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire became a Servitour of New Inn in Midsommer or Act term 1635 aged 17 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the said Inn and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical as well as Lay auditors In 1642 he proceeded Master of Arts and was Junior of the Act then celebrated at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly He himself tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts he was the first Scholar that he knew of or ever heard of in Oxon that did publickly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer For which tho they would not denie him his degree yet he was expelled the congregation never to sit as a member among them c. About that time he left the University went to or near London and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion About the beginning of the Wars saith he I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenterden the lawfulness of a defensive War at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles c So that being
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167â— fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
Theologicae Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu. These were defended by him when he was made Doctor at Leyden 12. Feb. 1630. according to the accompt there followed He wrot other things worthy of the Press but are not yet made publick At length after he had spent most of his time in prosperity and part in adversity yet all in celebacy he surrendred up his pious Soul to God at South Stoke beforemention'd on the 16 day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there About that time was a comly mon. set up in the wall over his grave with a large inscription thereon written mostly by himself the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted By his last Will and Test he gave 5 l. to the Church of S. Stoke and 100 l. to buy Land for the poor of that town Six hundred pounds also he gave to purchase free land of soccage to the value of 30 l. per an for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster there to be purchased by the Warden and Fellows of Mert. Coll. whom he appointed Patrons of the School to be erected there He also gave several Books to the publick Library at Oxon was a benefactor to S. Johns Coll. and a greater to Merton to the last of which he gave all his Library that had been for the most part plundered in the time of rebellion and put into the Library at Stafford But upon several attempts that the members of that house made to gain it they were as often repuls'd by the Staffordians to their great charge He gave to the said Coll. also as much money that would clearly purchase 10 l. per an to be bestowed on one of the society thereof to be keeper of the Library there THEOPHILUS HIGGONS Son of Rob. Higgons was born at Chilton near Brill in Bucks educated partly in the Freeâ—school at Thame in Oxfordshire made Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592 aged 14 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 he being then noted to be a young man of pregnant parts and a tolerable lat Poet. During his residence in the said house he was esteemed a Person to be much stained with Puritanisme and to be violent against all such that were suspected to favour the Romish See When he was Censor also he was so zealous as to saw down a harmless maypole standing within the precincts of the said house because forsooth he thought it came out of a Romish Forest Upon the promotion of Dr. Ravis Dean of Ch. Ch. to the See of Glocester he was honoured so far by him as to be taken into his service and to be made his domestick Chaplain with whom continuing till about the time he was translated to London made sute to be Lecturer at S. Dunstans Ch. in Fleetstreet Which desire of his being obtained he was much followed there by all sorts of People for his sweet and eloquent way of preaching But so it was that many of his contributary auditors thought that his long prayers and spitting pauses were too short because the reverend Bishops yea his own Lord and Master were ever left out for wranglers and Antichristian Hierarchies After he had been setled for some time in that place he married a Wife but in such a clandestine manner that his Father Relations and many of his Admirers did much blame him for it So that being sensible of the disrespect that followed and neglect of many that loved him before he left his Wife and went into the north parts of England From whence returning soon after to London he published a small book in print flatly against the absurdities which he afterwards strongly seemed to maintain But all this availed nothing for being a Person very ambitious and finding not preferment sutable as he thought to his merits did thereupon and by a contraction of debts occasion'd by his marriage fall into a deep discontent Which being quickly perceived by some especially by one called Fludde a Priest the same I suppose with Joh. Floyd a Jesuit a Person excellently learned as well in Philosophy as Theology was by his endeavours drawn over to the Church of Rome and forthwith did write a little Pamphlet Of venial and mortal sin flat as 't is said by some against the principles of the Romish profession but of this Pamphlet I can give no account because I have not yet seen it Afterwards he ship'd himself for France and being setled at S. Omers to which place his Father went afterwards to fetch him home but could not he wrot His first motive to adhere to the Roman Church c. with an appendix against Dr. Laur. Humphrey Dr. Ric. Field and Dr. Tho. Morton c. printed 1609. in oct Which motive as he saith was drawn up chiefly upon the detection of some egregious falshoods in the said Humphreys perverting S. Austin and Fields traducing S. Ambrose and learned Protestants in their writings touching the question of purgatory and prayer for the dead But this was otherwise made apparent by Sir Edward Hoby's letter to him in answer to his motive to which if it may be seen I refer the Reader Afterwards he went to Roan where he lived for some time but finding not that which he expected namely Respect Preferment and I know not what was at length regained to the English Church by Dr. Tho. Morton Dean of Winchester afterwards Bishop of Durham who had answer'd one of his books as I shall tell you anon A scholastical examination of Mans iniquity and Gods justice Lond. 1608 written before he turned Papist Apologie refuting Sir Edw. Hoby's Letter against his first motive Roan 1609 in oct Sermon at S. Pauls Cross 3 March 1610 on Ephes 2.4 5 6 7. in testimony of his hearty re-union with the Church of England and humble submission thereunto Lond. 1611. qu. This recantation Sermon he made upon his being regained by Dr. Morton Reasons proving the lawfulness of the oath of allegiance Lond. 1611. qu. Mystical Babell or Papal Rome A treatise on Apocalips 18.2 in two Serm. Lond. 1624. qu. After his regainment to the Ch. of England he was promoted to the rectory of Hunton near to Maidston in Kent lived there till the Rebellion brake out and afterwards being sequestred as I have heard lived in the house of one Dan. Collins of Maidston where dying in sixteen hundred fifty and nine a little before the Kings restauration as the said Collins who was afterwards Jurat of Maidston told my friend for his name stands not in the register there was buried in the Cemitery belonging to the Church of that place near to the S. E. door of the Chancel but hath no stone or mon. over his grave WILLIAM ROWLAND Son of Griffin Rowland of the City of Worcester was born there became either a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1627 aged 17 years took the
I know not Sure I am that when the Presbyterians began to be dominant in 1641 he closed with them took the Covenant succeeded Joh. Owen in the Ministry of that factious Town in Essex called Coggeshall whence after he had exercised his parts there for a time he was translated to Winbourne-Minster in Dorsetshire of which County he was an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he became Rector of Fyfield in Essex where I find him in 1660 which is all I yet know of him only that he is reported by a Brother to be a learned faithful and suffering Servant and Minister of Jesus Christ and that he wrot these things following the last of which shews him to have been inclined to Arminianism The Angell of the Church of Ephesus no Bishop of Ephesus on Rev. 2.1 Lond. 1644. and 1660. qu. Concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace wherein is a discovery of the judgment of Dr. Twysse in the point of Justification clearing him from Antinomianism therein Lond. 1655. qu. Written by way of Preface to Joh. Grayles book intit A modest Vindication c. and contains 49 pages in a small character being more in matter than Grayles book that follows it He left behind him at his death a son of both his names and a true son of the Church of England who being importun'd when he proceeded D. of D. in this University 1685 to give the Author information concerning his Father and his Writings he seemed not to care to have the memory of him perpetuated otherwise the Author would have spoken more fully of him and his end JOSEPH BROOKBANK son of Georg. Br. of Halyfax in Yorkshire was entred a Batler in Bras Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts entred into the sacred Function and had some petite Cure bestowed on him At length retiring to London he taught School in Fleetstreet and exercised the Ministry there He hath written and published Breviate of our Kings whole Latine Grammar vulgarly called Lillies or a brief grammatical table thereof c. Lond. 1660. oct Well-tuned Organ or whether Musick be lawful in holy and public Assemblies Lond. 1660. qu. Rebells tried and cast in three Sermons on Rom. 13.2 c. Lond. 1661. in tw How long afterwards he continued among the living I know not nor any thing else of him BRIAN DUPPA or de Uphaugh was born at Greenwich in Kent on the tenth day of March an 1588 educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings Scholar in the College School at Westminster while Dr. Lanc. Andrews was Dean of that Church of whom he learned Hebrew From thence he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in the month of May 1605 and thence to be Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1612 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he took holy Orders travelled beyond the seas and in the year 1619 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University In 1625 he took the degrees in Divinity being then Chaplain to the Prince Palatine and in the year after he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. In 1632 and 33 he did execute the Office of Vicechanc. of the University with great moderation and prudence and in June 1634 he was made Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Franc. d ee promoted to the See of Peterborough Soon after he was made Tutour to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 2. which proved his future happiness being then accounted by all a most excellent man On the 19 of May 1638 he was presented to the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex and being elected to the See of Chichester upon the translation of Dr. Rich. Mountague to Norwych had restitution made to him of the Temporalities of that See on the 12 of June the same year which Church of Petworth he kept I presume for some time in commendam with his See In 1641 he was translated to Salisbury in the place of Dr. Jo. Davenant who died on the 20 of Apr. the same year but soon after Episcopacy being silenced by the Long Parliament which the Presbyterians called The blessed Parliam when a prevalent party therein turned the Nation topsie turvey he retired to Oxon for a time to wait on his Majesty and the Prince and left not the former till his last days After his Maj. was beheaded this our worthy Author and Bishop retired to Richmond in Surrey where spending most of his time in great devotion and solitude till the happy Restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 was translated to Winchester on the 24 of Sept. the same year to the great joy and comfort of many Lords and Gentlemen as well as the reverend Clergy who all had a deep sense and memory of his Prudence and Piety owing then a lasting tribute not only for his great example of vertue and godliness but for those excellent seeds and principles so happily laid in the youth of the then Sovereign Lord the King About that time he was made Lord Almoner and began that conspicuous monument of his charity an Almshouse at the said place of Richmond He was a man of excellent parts and every way qualified for his Function especially as to the comeliness of his person and gracefulness of his deportment which rendred him worthy the service of a Court and every way fit to stand before Princes He was beloved of K. Ch. 1. of happy memory who made use of his pious Conversation during his imprisonment in the Isle of Wight and so much respected by his son K. Ch. 2. that when this worthy Prelate laid on his death-bed at Richmond he craved his blessing on his bended knees by his bed-side He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Souls soliloquie c. preached before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight 25 Oct. 1648 being the monthly Fast during the Treaty there on Psal 42.5 Lond. 1648. qu. 2 Angells rejoycing for Sinners repenting on Luke 15.10 Lond. 1648. qu. c. A Guide for the penitent or a modell drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with sin Lond. 1660. Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice in 2 parts Lond. 1674 in tw with the Authors picture before them which book was published by Ben. Parry of C. C. Coll. 'T is said by some particularly the Bookseller that printed The Church Hist of Scotland pen'd by Dr. Joh. Spotswood Archb. of S. Andrews and printed at Lond. 1654. fol. c. that he Dr. Duppa did write The life of the said Archbishop which stands and is put before the said History But the Reader is to know that the person who wrot the Preface to the said History saith that the said life was pen'd by a reverend person of that Nation meaning Scotland So that if it be
before he took a degree entred into holy Orders and taking to wife the daughter of Sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire Chancellour of Peterborough and afterwards Dean of the Arches was put into the Commission of Peace being then Rector of Water-Stratford in Bucks by the gift of Sir Arth. Throcmorton of Paulerspury About that time shewing himself a fierce Persecutor of the Puritans living near him was thro the means of his Father-in-law made Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and by the endeavours of Dr. Piers Vicechanc. of this University Doctor of Divinity an 1624 being then a Member of Linc. Coll. tho he before had not been honoured with any degree in this or as I presume in any other University He with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors of the Kings Cause and Prerogative and great promoters for the raising a Loan of money without the knowledge and assistance of his Parliament an 1626. For which service both had preferment Manwaring being afterwards made Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex c. and Sibthorpe Chaplain in ord to his Maj. Prebendary of Peterborough and Rector of Burton Latimers in Northamptonshire from which two last he was violently ejected in the beginning of the Civil Wars He was a person of little learning and of few parts only made it his endeavours by his forwardness and flatteries to gain preferment If you 'll believe one that was no great friend to the Church of England he 'll tell you that Sibthorpe and Manwaring were exceeding pragmatical so intollerably ambitious and so desperately proud that scarce any Gentleman might come near the tail of their Mules c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A counterplea to an Apostates pardon on Jerem. 5.7 Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Apostolical obedience an Assize Serm. at Northampton on Rom. 13.7 Lond. 1627. qu. The whole scope of which is to justifie the lawfulness of the general loan then set on foot by the Kings ill Counsellors as one saith to keep off Parliaments and of the Kings imposing publick taxes by his own regal Power without consent in Parliament and to prove that the People in point of conscience and religion ought chearfully to submit to such loanes and taxes without any opposition For which matters he was called into question and censured by the Parliament He hath other things extant as I have been informed but such I have not yet seen and therefore can only say that in the time of the Rebellion he suffered very great calamities for his Majesties cause but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. in 1660 he was restored to his Prebendship Rectory of Burton Latimers and other Ecclesiastical Benefices if he had any besides them and that dying in a good old age was buried on the 25 of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two in the Chancel of the Church of Burton Latimers One Robert Sibthorpe Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Northcadbury in Somersetshire became a Student of Ball. Coll. in 1613 aged 18 years which is all I know of him being not to be understood to be the same with the former And another Rob. Sibthorpe I find to have been M. of A. of Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland See more in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1619. PETER HEYLYN Son of Henry Heylyn descended from an antient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire on the 29 of Nov. 1599 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first and after under Mr. Edw. Davys where profiting in Trivials to a miracle especially in Poetry in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offer'd was in the year 1613 plac'd by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors viz. Mr. Joseph Hill and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll but being then put by was the year following elected by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts which was in Oct. 1617 he read every Long vacation till he was Master Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618 it was so well approved that for that and his other learning he was chose Probationer and the year following perpetual Fellow of the said house On the 22 of Feb. 1619 he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following In Nov. the same year it was printed and being dedicated to Prince Charles he presented him being then at Theobalds with a copy of it which was very graciously received In 1623 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates Church and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography 't was printed again and presented to the Prince the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers who then spake very affectionately in his commendations About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King he approved of it well but unfortunately falling on a passage therein whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England he became so much offended that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book whereupon the Author then at Oxon being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean that the King perusing it rested very well contented with the matter In 1625 he went into France where spending about six weeks in several placâ—â— wrot the particulars of the said journey in a Book the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers but a copy of it he kept by him which at length 30 years after or thereabouts he publish'd to correct a false copy that had crept abroad On the 24 April 1627 he answer'd pro forma on these questions 1 An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis 2 An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgment of Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae who thereupon fell foul upon him calling him Bellarminian Pontifician and I know not what and did his best to beat him from his grounds but he held his own This raised great clamour for the present which Prideaux increased the munday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the publick School of Divinity which might have done him more mischief among his friends but that as he saith God stood with him On the
all of them with great respect save only by Archb. Abbot and William Earl of Exeter the first of which disliked the argument and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar which he was after much asham'd of when it came to be known Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill which was as Heylyn saith full of most base and malicious calumniations both against the Person and Religion of the Author Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there Which command he accordingly obeying occasioned a second edition of the said History an 1633 as I have before told you wherein he answer'd all Hakewills allegations letting pass his slanders Upon the coming out of which Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature entit An Apol. or Declaration of the Power c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist of S. George in several letters sent abroad one of which speaketh thus In the second impression of his book The Hist of S. George where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he villifies them more than he did in his first edition But the matter is not much what he saith of the one or of the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander c. From the said Hist of S. George written by Heylyn is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln entit The Hist of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part intit The Hist of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also with due acknowledgment by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632 since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography History of the Sabbath in two books Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply entit A coal from the Altar or an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return'd an answer under this title The holy table name and thing c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons Can. 55. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636 and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636 and in the Apologie set before them Lond. 1637. qu. Antidotum Lincolniense or an answer to a book entit The holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table c. entit Two looks over Lincolne or a view of his holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh and an half written by Rich. Day who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar is sometimes animadverted upon An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations Lond. 1640 qu. De jure paritatis Episcoporum MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill under the year 1649. An help to English history containing a succession of all the Kings of England and the English Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales c. As also of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said dominions In three tables Lond. 1641 c. in oct Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book were made by Christop Wilkinson a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street London the first edition of which additions with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England in his succession of Archb. and Bishops and of Ralph Brook and August Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls c. 'T is said also that in the same year 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit Persecutio Undecima c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary which I have several times perused I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author History of Episcopacy in two parts Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata c. Lond. 1657. qu. Historical narration of Liturgies c. written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata c. Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642 3. in one sh in qu. Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland
his good service by Philip Earl of Pembroke as I have been informed for from thence a loyal person had been ejected In 1648 he was actually created Doctor of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation and had several boones bestowed on him by that Convention called by the Presbyterian the Blessed Parliament After the Kings Restoration he was suffer'd to keep his Parsonage because no body laid claim to it he being then accounted the prime leader of the Faction in those parts but when the Act of Conformity was published he quitted it and his life together He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Divine ballance to weigh religious Fasts in Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 27 Sept. 1643 on Zach. 7.5.6.7 Lond. 1643. qu. He was also one of three that preached before the House of Lords on the 22 of Oct. 1644 being a Fast sermon upon the uniting of the Army together but whether 't was printed I find not 2 Pauls sad farewell to the Ephesians preached at the funeral of Mr. Joh. Grayle Minister of Tidworth in Wilts on Acts 20.37.38 Lond. 1655. quart and others which I have not yet seen Motive to peace and love Printed 1649. qu. Animadversions on Mr. W. Dells book intit The crucified and quickned Christian Lond. 1653. qu. Apology for the Ministers of the County of Wilts in their meetings at the election of Members for the approaching Parliament In answer to a letter sent out of the said County pretending to lay open the dangerous designs of the Clergy in reference to the approaching Parliament by some of the defam'd Ministers of the Gospel of the same County Lond. 1654 in 4 sh in qu. In the writing of which Apol. Dr. Chambers was assisted by Joh. Strickland Adoniram Byfield and Pet. Ince Presb. Ministers Answer to the charge of Walt. Bushnel Vicar of Box in Wilts published in a book of his intit A narrative of the proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers c. Lond. 1660. quar Vindication of the said Commissioners Printed the former He was one of the number of Assistants belonging to the said Commissioners and carried himself very severe against the Ministers What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of Pewsey before mention'd on the eighth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two with no other ceremony than that we would use to a dog and about the same time was his wife buried there also In the said Rectory succeeded Rich. Watson D. D. sometimes Fellow of Gonvill and Caies Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to James Duke of York and afterwards Prebendary of Wells and Salisbury as I shall elsewhere at large tell you JOHN GAUDEN Son of the Minister of Mayland in Essex was born there or at least in that County educated in Grammar learning at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk and afterwards at about 16 years of age was admitted a Student of S. Johns College in Cambridge under one Mr. Wright where making great proficiency in academical learning took the degrees in Arts. In 1630 or thereabouts he removed to Wadham Coll. in this University where he became Tutor to Francis and Will Russell sons of Sir Will Russell Baronet into whose family he about that time had matched and after their departure to other Gentlemen of quality While he continued there the greatness of his parts were much improved by the greatness of industry bestowing the most part of the day and night too in the study of divine matters In 1635 he took the degree of Bach. of Div was afterwards Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks beneficed in Cambridgeshire D. of D. and when the Assembly of Divines was to be setled in 1643 he was nominated one of them to the Parliament by Sir Dudley North and Sir Thom. Chichley Knights for Cambridgeshire to serve in the Long Parliament to sit among them but by what trick Mr. Tho. Goodwin was substituted in his place as a person more fit for the great designs then carrying on you may see in our Author Dr. Gaudens book intit Anti-Baal-Berith c. printed at Lond. 1661. p. 89 90. At that time 1643. he being a Covenantier as the Presbyterians and fanatical people generally affirm tho positively denied by himself he had the Rectory and Deanery of Bocking in his own Country confer'd upon him which he kept during the time of Usurpation and was as before at Brightwell and elsewhere much resorted to for his most admirable and edifying way of preaching After the death of Dr. Brownrig Bishop of Exeter which was in Decemb. 1659 he became Preacher of the Temple at London and after the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. Chaplain in ordinary to him who taking notice that he upon all occasions had taken worthy pains in the pulpit and at the press to rescue his Majesty and the Church of England from all the mistakes and heterodox opinions of several and different Factions as also from the sacrilegious hands of those false brethren whose scandalous conversation was consummate in devouring Church-lands and then with impudence to make sacrilege lawful I say for these his services his Majesty confer'd upon him the Bishoprick of Exeter to which being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent in the year 1660 sate there but little more than an year and a quarter Afterwards he was translated thence to Worcester on Dr. Morleys Translation to Winchester in the beginning of the year in the month of May I think 1662 where he soon after ended his course having been esteemed by all that knew him a very comely person a man of vast parts and one that had been strangely improved by unwearied labour His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The love of truth and peace on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Three Sermons preached upon several publick occasions Lond. 1642. qu. The first of which preached before his Maj. is on Heb. 12.14 The second before the Judges at Chelmsford in Essex is on Zach. 8.16 and the third at S. Maries in Oxon on Act Sunday 11 July 1641 is on Ephes 4.23 3 Funeralls made cordials Sermon prepared and in part preached at the solemn interment of the corps of Rob. Rich heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick who died at Whitehall 16 of Feb. an 1657 aged 23 years and was honorably buried on the 5 of March following at Felsted in Essex Lond. 1658. qu. 4 Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bishop of Exeter 17 Dec. 1659 on 2 Kings 2.12 Lond. 1660. oct 5 Slight healing of publick hearts c. Serm. in S. Pauls Cathedral before the Lord Mayor Lord General Aldermen c. 26 Feb. 1659 being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the secluded Members of
who was of antient and gentile extract had run out of his estate and being a Prisoner in the Kings-bench could give his Son but little education at School however the youth being very industrious obtained some knowledge in the latine Grammar and afterwards so much money as not only to relieve his Father and get him out of Prison but also to bind himself an Apprentice to one Draper a Dancing master living in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourn near London Soon after he being dextrous in that art and by insinuation into and complying with his Masters customers got so much money from them as to buy out the remaining paâ—t of his time and set up for himself But so it was that he being afterwards selected from the company of Masters to be one of those that should dance when the Duke of Buckinghams great Mask was to be represented it hapned that by his high dancing and cutting of Capers according to the then mode he did by a false step sprain a vein in the inside of his leg which ever after occasioned him to go lamish Afterwards he taught to dance the Sisters of Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton at Wytham in Somersetshire where at leisure hours he learned from that generous and accomplish'd Kt how to handle the pike and musquet and all postures belonging to them When Thomas Earl of Strafford became L. Lieutenant of Ireland he was entertained by him to teach his art in his family and having a command of his pen as to the writing a good hand was also employed sometimes to transcribe several matters for that most noble Count. In his family it was that he first of all gave proof of his inclinations to Poetry by translating some of Aesops Fables in verse which afterwards when he came to understand latin better and had communicated them to several Scholars he made publick And being then one of the Troop of Guard belonging to his Lord he composed in English verse a witty thing entit The character of a Trooper About that time he became by the favour of the said Lord Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland built a little Theater to act plays in in S. Warburghs-street in Dublin and was then and there valued by all ingenious men for his great industry in promoting morality and ingenuity But the rebellion breaking out soon after in that Kingdom he lost all and was several times in jeopardy of his life particularly when he had like to be blown up by gunpowder in the Castle of Refernam near Dublin Much about the time that the war was terminated in England he left Ireland and in his return being wreckt at Sea went to London in a poor condition Thence after some short stay he footed it to Cambridge where his great industry and greater love to learning being discovered was encouraged by several Scholars there who in compliance to his zeal resolved his many doubts put to them and in fine made him so great a Master of the Latine tongue that he translated The works of Pub. Virgil Maro which he published with his picture before them in a large oct Lond. 1649. 50. and dedicated them to his most noble Patron William Marquess of Hertford and thereupon obtained a considerable sum of money in his pocket At that time living in London Aesop the Prince of Mythologists became his quarry descanted on his plain song and paraphras'd his short and pithy sayings whereby he rais'd his voice to such an heigth that he took the degree among the Minor Poets after the publication of that author with this title Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse and adorn'd with sculptures Lond. 1651. qu. In commendation of which Sir Will. D'avenant then a Prisoner in the Tower and Jam. Shirley made verses Hitherto his translation of Virgil continuing in a mean oct he printed it in a royal folio with this title The works of Publius Virgilius Maro translated adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1654. It was the fairest Edition that till then the English Press ever produced and hath his picture before it also as most of the books which he published have The said sculpture and the very same cuts were also by him put into the bare Latin Edition of that author without annotations which was by him published at London in 1658 in a large fol. He also published the said author with sculpture and annotations in a large oct Lond. 1675. and 85. Which was much bought up by young Scholars and Gentlemen such who could not spare money to purchase the folio that being reserved for libraries and the Nobility By the publication with annotations of that most noble author Mr. Ogilby obtained the reputation of a good translator a faithful interpreter and of one that had dabled well in anothers Helicon About that time viz. 1654 he by his great and unwearied diligence accompanied with an unsatiable desire of obtaining knowledge did learn the Greek tongue of one of his Country-men called David Whitford at that time Usher to Jam. Shirley before mention'd And being in a manner Master of it he put out Homer his Iliads translated adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1660. fol. This author the King of Pernassus being by him performed with great cost and labour was by him dedicated to his most gracious Majesty K. Ch. 2. In the same year he put out The Holy Bible according to the translation set forth by special command of K. Jam. 1. with the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England with chorographical sculpture This was printed at Cambr. in a large fol. and on very large paper In the beginning of the year following he received orders from the Commissioners for the solemnity of his Maj. Coronation for the conduct of the poetical part thereof as Speeches Emblems Mottoes and Inscriptions and thereupon drew up for the present The relation of his Majesties entertainment passing through the City of London to his Coronation with a description of the triumphal Arches and solemnity Lond. 1661. in 10. sh in fol. This I say was put out for the present but by command from his Majesty the author did with most admirable sculpture and speeches at large publish it soon after in a royal folio and it hath been much made use of in succeeding coronations About the same time 1662 he went into Ireland being then by pattent made Master of the Revels there after Sir Will. D'avenant had made some strugling for that place And at Dublin he built a noble Theater which cost him about 2000 l the former being ruined in the troubles Afterwards he put out Homer his Odysses translated adorned with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1665. fol. dedicated to his most noble Lord James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of Ireland He then a second time betook himself to Aesop became a Mythologist and not only paraphrased it but was a designer of his own or new Fables therein This was called
and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there In 1609 May 17 he was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England This person Will. Thomas being always a Puritan closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty 1642 was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that perswasion in the neighbourhood where he lived He afterwards took the Engagement as before he had the Covenant and in 1654 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to Olivers Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he ran thro the remaining part of the changes and took the Oaths again after his Maj. return of Allegiance and Supremacy His works are these The dead speaking or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells and Mr. Sam. Croke c. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them Lond. 1653 qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristow Rayling rebuked or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristow unhappily became the Quakers Advocate c. Lond. 1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. c. The Protestants practice or the compleat Christian being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw A vindication of Scripture and Ministry in a rejoynder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed formerly but unsutably Merchant in the City of Bristol and a Preacher lately but more sadly Merchant and Quaker c. Lond. 1657. qu. Answer'd also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book p. 104 105. c. A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness c. Lond. 1662. qu. Exposition on Ruth Lond. 166 ... in tw The Countries sense of Londons sufferings in the late most lamentable fire discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah Lond. 1667. oct Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Salomon Jerem. Lam. Ezeck and Daniel Lond. 1675 and 83. oct He died at Ubley before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quà m quadragenarius qui populum docuit publicè domatim sermone exemplo Quem non tam mors rapuit quà m ille mortem munere scilicet priùs cedere coactus quà m mundo vitam quam pro grege diutius insumere ut Pastor non potuit avidissimè summo pastori reddidit Nov. 15. an dom 1667. aetat 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas under the year 1689. WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire at which time his father who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest by which employment gaining a considerable subsistance lived in a fashionable condition and bred up his children very well This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term 1634 aged 15 years being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house and shewing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek Latine and Physicks was elected Prob. Fell. an 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow he was prefer'd to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country and soon after to a rich Wife tho the Daughter of a plain country man which school he brought into great credit during his abode there In 1641 he proceeded in Arts and having not long after buried his wife he removed to London where having obtained a considerable practice in Physick he married a young lass daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physitian son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mention'd who brought him forth a child that lived within the seventh month after marriage In 1649 and 52 he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it doth not appear in our Registers Afterwards as before being a man of those times and a sider with factious people he was prefer'd to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 was then as it seems forced to leave that place So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City taught there privately to the time of his death He hath writen Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico geographico in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt explicantur obscura plurima elucidantur ac tabulis illustrata Lond. 1658. 59. 1663. 1679. c. in a large oct used in many schools and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physitian which I have not yet seen nor a certain MS. of his which he wrot to justifie his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself which MS. he shewed to two Physitians for their approbation before it went to the press but they looking upon the work as done by a meer scholar unknowing in the world returned it with seeming content and afterwards jeer'd him behind his back for an antidated Cuckold He died of a pestilential fever which took away most of his family in the month of November in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 29 of the said month just before the Ministers seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned I find another Will. Hill of Merton Coll. also the son of a Committee-man a notorious Schismatick of Herefordshire who
to some Women actors mentioned in his book as he affirmeth It hapned that about six weeks after this the Queen acted a part in a Pastoral at Somerset-house and then the Archbishop Laud and other Prelates whom Prynne had angered by some books of his against Arminianism and against the jurisdiction of the Bishops and by some prohibitions which he had moved and got to the High Commission Court These Prelates and their instruments the next day after the Queen had acted her Pastoral shewed Prynne's book against Plays to the King and that place of it Women actors notorious Whores and they informed the King and Queen that Prynne had purposely written this book against the Queen and her Pastoral whereas it was published six weeks before that Pastoral was acted Yet the King and Queen though thus exasperated did direct nothing against him till Laud set Dr. Heylyn who bare a great malice to Prynne for confuting some of his doctrines to peruse Prynne's books and to collect the scandalous points out of them which Heylyn did though as Prynne affirms not at all warranted by the text of his book but these two Gentlemen were well matched and alike in other things though so much different in Divinity or shew of it c. Thus our Author here quoted of whom I shall hereafter make large mention Upon the said Complaints concerning that book Heylyn being appointed to collect such passages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the King Queen State and Government of the Realm did after some time deliver them in writing to Sir John Coke or Cook Secretary of State and to Dr. Laud Bishop of London the last of which did soon after on a Sabbath-day morning go to Will. Noy Attorney Gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne for the said book which Noy did rigorously enough Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the Lords in the Inner Star Chamber where being examined about the said matters was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London on the first day of Febr. 1632 where remaining without permission of Bayle till the month of Feb. 1633 was at last brought to a Trial in the Court of Star Chamber having been first pre-condemned by the Gentlemen of his own profession and afterwards sentenced by that Court on the 17 day of the said month thro the eager prosecution of the said Noy to be fined 5000 l. to the King expelled the University of Oxford and Lincolns Inn degraded and disinabled from his profession in the laws to stand in the Pillory first in the Pallace-yard in Westminster and three days after in Cheapside in each place to loose an ear tho this last part of his censure was much moderated in the execution to have his book called Histriomastix publickly burnt before his face by the hand of the Hangman and remain prisoner during life After this sentence was executed which was in May an 1634. he was remitted to his prison But all this was so far from working any remorse in him that it rather hardned him in his ways for on the 11 of June following as soon as he could provide himself of pen ink and paper he wrot a most sharp and libellous Letter to Dr. Laud then Archb. of Cant. touching his censure in the said Court and that which the Archb. in particular had declared against him With this letter the Archb. acquainted his Majesty who thereupon commanded him to refer it to Attorney Noy Noy sent for Prynne from his prison and demanded of him whether the letter was of his own hand-writing or not to which Prynne cunningly replied that he could make no answer to that demand unless he could see the letter and might read the same No sooner was the letter put into his hands and Noy's back turn'd a little towards him but presently he tore it to pieces and flung the pieces out of the window to the end that the said letter might not rise in judgment against him if the Attorney should proceed to an Ore-tenus as he meant to do For this affront and the principal passages of the letter the Attorney acquaints their Lordships in open Court but there was no remedy for being there was no proof of the misdemeanour but the letter it self and that the letter could not be brought in evidence as it should have been the Archb. thought it a more noble act to remit the Crime than trouble the Court or any of his Majesties Ministers in the prosecution of it But herein Prynne sped better than some others who had before been snarling at him and laboured to expose him to scorn and danger In Apr. the same year which is a step back in this discourse he was solemnly degraded in the Univ. of Oxon and his name dashed out of the Matricula In 1636 he published two books at once or immediately after each other One of them was called The Quench Coal in answer to that called A coal from the Altar against placing the Communion-table altarwise The other named The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus against the Apostolical institution of Diocesan Bishops But that which was entituled to him by the name of a Libel was his Pamphlet called News from Ipswich intended chiefly against Dr. Wrenn then Bishop of Norwych who had taken up his dwelling in that Town and fell as scandalously foul on the Archb. himself and some of the other Bishops also and such as acted under them in the present Service For therein he descants very trimly as he conceived on the Archb. himself with his Arch-piety Arch charity Arch-agent for the devil c. With like reproach he fell on the Bishops generally calling them Luciferian Lord Bishops execrable Traytors devouring Wolves c. with many other odious names not fit to be used by a Christian and more particularly on Wrenn c. In Midsummer term he was brought to his Trial in the Star Chamber for what he had done but his Answer was so libellous and full of scandal that no Counsellor could be found to put his hand to it according to the course of that Court. So that instead thereof he exhibited a cross bill against the Archb. and his Confederates as he called them charging them with the greatest part of those Reproaches which had been made the subject matter of his former libels which being signed by no hands but by his own and tendred so to the Lord Keeper was by him rejected and himself taken pro confesso his obstinacy in not answering in due form of Law being generally looked upon by the Court as a self conviction On the 14 of June an 1637 he received his sentence which briefly was to this effect that he be fined 5000 l. to the King to loose the remainder of his ears in the Pillory to be branded on both cheeks with the letters S. L. for a schismatical libeller and to be perpetually imprison'd in Caernarvan Castle At the pronouncing of which sentence the Archb. made a long and elaborate
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâ—e in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
other uses belonging to different Glands as well for conservation of the individual as propagation of the species Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth He hath also given an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae how new Glands are often generated as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery Pancreas c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations What else he hath written I find not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three was as I suppose buried in the Church of S. Bottolph situat and being without Aldersgate in London GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the antient Borough of Maidstone in Kent an 1627 brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647 at which time he entred himself a Communer of Magd. Hall Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll and on the sixth day of Octob. following 1648 he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nov. the same year took the degree of Master of Arts six days after In 1660 or thereabouts he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks and in Aug. 1662 being ejected tor nonconformity he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain At length upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death His works are these The dore of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration or a Treatise containing the nature necessity marks and means of regeneration Lond. 1660. c. in oct and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct The Christian mans calling or a treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered c. Lond. 1661. c. qu. The second part of this book which directeth Parents Children Husbands Wives Masters Servants in prosperity and adversity to do their duties was printed at Lond. 1663 c. qu. and the third part there in 1665 c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The Pastors farewell and wish of welfare to his people or a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32 Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached as it seems at Gr. Kimbell before mention'd 2 The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith or one cast for eternity c. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone on Psal 73.26 Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion 3 Men are Gods Gods are Men two Assize sermons These I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts Heaven and Hell epitomized the true Christian characterized as also an exhortation with motives to be speedy about the work of Conversion Lond. 1663. qu. The beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660. c. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235. Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being attributes works and word opened and applied Lond. 1672. oct The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment for sins of omission wherein is discovered the nature causes and cure of those sins Lond. 1675 and 79. oct What other things this Mr. Swinnock who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his perswasion hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mention'd In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martins lane near Canon street in London sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England and for wearing a Surplice which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662 after he had often said among the brethren he would rather burn than conform c. as the Author of the said Mirab. an saith it pleased the Lord as he further adds to strike him with sickness which proved a violent burning feaver whereof within a few days after before another Lords day came about he died c. Who this Mr. Swinnock was I cannot tell neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name otherwise we might have said something more of him and something to the disproof of that most vile Author THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620 aged sixteen years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1627 made Proctor of the University in 1636 and the year after domestick Chaplain to Archbishop Laud and Bach. of Divinity Soon after he became Rector of S. Mary the Great called Aldermary in London Canon of Windsore in 1639 and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians he retired to his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain at Oxford By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Div. in Feb. 1642 having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did After the return of his Majesty he was restored to what he had lost kept some of his Spiritualities especially Windsore to the time of his death without any other promotion in the Church He hath written and published A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Maries in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 on Psal 130.4 Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4 preached before his Parishiones
his employments and grew thereupon discontented In 1662 or thereabouts he had an impulse or a strange perswasion in his mind of which he was not able to give any rational account to another which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil which for the extraordinariness of he thought fit to conceal it for some time but at length he communicated it to his wife and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil for whether he were in private or publick sleeping or waking still he had the same impulse but her reply was to him that she conceived this was a strange imagination yet to prove the contrary a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house desiring his wife to cure him who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours according to her small skill in Chirurgery On which his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes cheek and throat whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again which he accordingly did and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg was suppurated and the throat strangely amended and in a month discharged it self quite and was perfectly healed Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore who had had the Evil seven years and upwards far worse than the former whom he cured to the wonder of all and soon after his fame increasing he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following not medling with any other distempers till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues all done by stroaking with his hands Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing which the morning following he told to his wife and brother but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day 2 Apr. 1665 early in the morning and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore where there came into the house to him a poor man that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black wherein were five ulcers who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him and do him what good he could Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank and immediately run the pains out of him so that he was released and could stand upright without the least trouble Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg which forthwith changed colour and became red and three of the five ulcers closed up and the rest within few hours afterwards so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in and in two days after he fell to his labour being a Mason by trade After this he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking and his name was wonderfully cried up But the Clergy being jealous of these matters he was cited to the Bishops court and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course In Jan. 1665 he went into England and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire to cure by stroaking his Lady who for many years had laboured under a most violent Head-ach but with all his endeavours he could not cure her yet continuing there three weeks he cured innumerable people in those parts which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County and was dayly at â—agley with the Lord and an eye-witness of the cures to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London but more mistakes as 't is said caused Dav. Lloyd a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles or Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking March 7. an 1665 at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation making him but little better than a Cheat that person therefore came out with his vindication intit A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related From this digression let 's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands and in Jamaica c. Remitted into the Philosoph Transact num 27 an 1667 and num 36. an 1668. Legends no Histories or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter pen'd by Mr. Tho. Henshaw Printed and bound with Legends no Histories c. Animad upon The Hist of making of Gunpowder written also by the said Mr. Henshaw Pr. and bound with Legends c. also and to it is added An additional review written by Hen. Stubbe The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos Glanvill c. with divers enquiries made about several matters Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society c. Oxon. 1670 in about seven sh in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe Campanella revived or an enquiry into The Hist of the Roy.
II. felicissimo Norvicensis Episcopus quod honoris fastigium uti minime ambivit ita pietate prudentiâ comitate modestiâ loco non animo elatus maxime decoravit Pastorum merentium pater amantissimus pacis pietatisque culior devotissimus potestatis arbiter equus mitissimus Quantus fuerit Theologus tam multifaria lectione instructus quam Scripturis potens tam felix eorundem interpres fidelis Praeco silente hoc marmore Scripta eloquuntur caput eruditum os facundum cor caeleste spirantia expirante authore suavissimo cui nihil inerat duri acerbi praeter calculi stranguriaeque cruciatus quos christiana adeo atque invicta tulit side patientia ut albi lapilli licet mortis instrumenta tessera forent vitae victoriae immortalitatis ascriptus est Jul. XXIIX A. D. 1676 aetatis suae 76. Mortalitatis exuviae prope hinc depositae Augusti IX Sacellum hoc ab ipso fundatum dicatumque denuo consecravit In his Deanery of Ch. Ch. succeeded Dr. George Morley afterwards the most worthy Bishop of Winchester in his Wardenship of Merton Coll. Sir Tho. Clayton a Physitian and in his Bishoprick Dr. Anthony Sparrow of Cambridge translated from the See of Exeter THOMAS BRANKER son if I mistake not of Tho. Branker somtimes Bach. of Arts of Exeter Coll. was born in Devonshire admitted Batler of said Coll. 8. Nov. 1652 aged 17 years or thereabouts elected Probationer Fellow 30. June 1655 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards taking the degree of Master he became a Preacher but refusing to conform to the Ceremonies of the Church of England left his fellowship in 1662 retired into Cheshire where conforming and takâ—ng upon him Orders from a Bishop became Minister of Whitegate At which time being well known to William Lord Brereton for his sufficiencies in Mathematicks and Chimistry he gave him the Rectory of Tilston but he keeping that not long was afterwards made master of the well endowed School at Macclesfield in the said County where he finished his course He hath written Doctrinae Sphaericae adumbratio Ox. 1662. Usus Globorum artificialium Ox. 1662. A Table of odd numbers less than one hundred thousand shewing those that are incomposit and reâ—â—â—ving the rest into their Factors or coefficients c. This is added by Branker to a translation which he made from High-Dâ—â—ch into English of An introduction to Algebra Lond. 1668. qu. written by Rhonnius A laudable account of which Table and of the translation you may see in the Philosophical Transactions num 35. p. 688.689 See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 871. He gave way to fate in Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church at Macclesfield before mention'd leaving then behind the character of an able Mathematician WILLIAM MORICE son of Evan alias John Morice a Native of Caernarvanshire and Chancellour of the Diocess of Exeter by Mary his wife daugh of Joh. Castle of Devonshire was born in the Parish of S. Martin in the City of Exeter educated in Grammar learning there and in the beginning of the year 1619 or thereabouts he was sent to Exeter Coll. through his Mothers motion by Sir Nich. Prideaux of Souldon in that County who some years before had taken her to be his third wife where continuing in the state of a Sojourner under the tuition of Mr. Nath. Carpenter not without considerable proficiency in learning till he was Bach. of Arts was sent for home and married to one of the Grand-daughters of the said Sir Nicholas by Humph. Prideaux his eldest son deceased In the year 1640 he was put into the Commission of Peace for the aforesaid County and five years after was elected Knight for that Shire upon a recruit to serve in the Long Parliament In 1651 he was made High Sheriff of the said County in 1656 he setled himself and his family at Werington which he then or lately had purchased of Sir Franc. Drake and in 1658 he was chose a Burgess for Westport in Cornwall to serve in Richard's Parliament that began at Westminster 27. of Jan. the same year And being related by his wife to General George Monke he was intrusted by him with all his concerns in Devonshire while he was Governour of Scotland and discharged himself so faithfully and prudently therein as to recommend himself so far to the Generals esteem that on his coming into England he made choice of him for his chief if not only Confident in the management of that great affair of the Kings restauration and the rather for this reason that our author being generally esteemed a Presbyterian it would please the great Masters at Westminster who were most of that Religion Upon the said Monke's coming to London the secluded Members from all parts of the Kingdom came thither and were by his means restored to the House of Commons of which number our author Mr. Morice was one This Gentleman was somewhat allied to him as I have told you but more in his favour than his blood for he had a great opinion of his prudence and integrity He was one that much conversed with books and had then lately written one against the practice of Independent teachers who would admit none in Parochial Cures to the Lords Supper but such only as being distinguished by their separation were most peculiarly their own flock This had rendred him very grateful to the Presbyterians whose cause he seemed most to serve for the Ministers of the Church of England were generally contented with the exercise of their Religion in private Houses tho even these also were often disturbed by Soldiers and Constables who used to hale them from their very Communion Tables upon the more solemn Festivals of their despised Church rending their Surplices where any were used and tearing their Mass-Book for that was the name by which the crafty Statesman and the more jugling Gospeller taught the undiscerning multitude to call the English Liturgy into pieces The General from and before the beginning of his enterprize had pretended to be a Presbyterian and had not then renounced his faith but at that time it most behoved him to appear one and to act his part well in it for it was his last wherefore our author Morice was received into his house which much pleased the Masters at Westminster who were mostly of that Religion as I have before told you some few only excepted who by beholding the calamities of the Church and their own errors had been converted to a better esteem of Episcopacy which the learning of our author could not but favour So that he was looked upon to have the good repute only of a Presbyterian Him the General retained as his Elbow-Counsellor and a State-Blind concealing his own sense of things and very often speaking contrary to his own thoughts that so he might better understand the sense of others and take his measures accordingly About the same time Mr.
person of Quality to his friend in the Country c. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and its author you may see in another intit An account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England Lond. 1678. in a thin fol. p. 22. Written by Andr. Marvel Esq A second Pacquet of Advices c. occasion'd by several seditious Pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former Pacquet c. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a Pamphlet intit Some considerations upon the question whether the Parliament be dissolved by its prorogation for 15 months 2 Another intit The long Parliament dissolved written by Denzill L. Holles the author of which being sought after his Chaplain a Nonconformist named Cary or Carew own'd it to free his Lord whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London in the beginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his Lords death lived in Hatton Garden in Holborne and practised Physick 3 A letter from a person newly chosen to sit in this Parliament to a Bencher in the Temple with a pretended answer of the Bencher to the same 4 A narrative of the cause and manner of the imprisonment of the Lords now close prisoners in the Tower of London The said two Pacquets of Advices were written as 't is said by Nedham and he encouraged thereunto by Edm. Warcup a Justice of Peace and Thomas Earl of Danby Christianissimus Christianandus or reasons for the reduction of France to a more Christian state in Europe Lond. 1678. in 10 sh in qu. Besides all these he hath written several other small things which I have not yet seen He hath translated into English Mare clausum printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts but he being then no way affected to Monarchy gave himself therefore the license to foist in the name of a Commonwealth instead of the Kings of England and also to suppress the Epist ded to the King He also added an Appendix to it concerning the Soveraignty of the Kings of Great Britaine on the sea intit Additional Evidences which he procured as 't was thought of Joh. Bradshaw All which besides treasonable Comments and false Glosses were done in the life time of the learned author Joh. Selden After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. the English copy was corrected perfected and restored by J. H. Gent. and pr. at London 1662. fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a Preface before the book intit A new idea of the practice of Physick written by Frane de le Boe Sylvius published in English at London in 1675. oct In which Pref. towards the latter end our author Nedham saith that he had then 1675 and before a purpose to publish some Essays to discover what may be done by able men towards an advancement of knowledge in the power of Plants by the examining their natures by the principles and operations of the Chymists also that he was about to form divers Treatises for publick view c. By the way it must be known that our author in the said Preface doth shew himself a great disliker of the common way of the first studying of Physick in the Universities and seems also to run down University promotions or degrees calling them in derision the doctoral confederates the scholastic family of a fine breed who come to town with the learned Cushion Cap and Scarlet The Apothecaries boys are able to tutour them in Town-practice They vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle spend much time in Anatomy neglect the chymical way c. Several things are fathered also upon him of which he was not in the least the author as the publication of The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Hen. Ireton and Joh. Bradshaw intended to have been spoken at their execution at Tyburne 30 Jan. 1660 c. Lond. 1660. in one sh and half in qu. said in the title to be published by Marcham Nedham and Payne Fisher Servants Poets and Pamphleteers to his infernal Highness At length this most seditious mutable and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the house of one Kidder in D'eureux Court near Temple bar London in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 29 of Novemb. being the Vigil of S. Andrew at the upper end of the body of the Church of S Clements Danes near the entrance into the chancel Soon after that Church being pull'd down and rebuilt and the letters on his grave taken away or defaced you shall have in their place this Epitaph made on him an 1647 printed at the end of Merc. Britanicus his welcome to hell Here lies Britanicus Hell's barking Cur That son of Belial who kept damned stir And every Munday spent his stock of spleen In venomous railing on the King and Queen Who though they both in goodness may forgive him Yet for his safety we 'll in hell receive him With this person may well be coupled Henry Care several times reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange in his Observators for a poor sniveling Fellow who after he had wrot several things in the behalf of the Church of England and the Presbyterians and had reflected on both the Universities in several of his Writings as popishly affected was at length prevail'd upon in the time of King Jam. 2. to write for the Rom. Catholicks against the Church which he before had eagerly defended where by it was made manifest that what he wrot was not for Religion or Conscience sake which he before did pretend but meerly for Interest After his death which hapned in Aug. 1688 was an Elegy written in his commendation printed on one side of a sheet of paper and a satyrical thing called Henry Cares last Will and Testament JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton of Oundle in Northamptonshire and he the second son of Joh Newt in Axmouth in Devoâ—sh was born in Northamptonshire became a Communer of S. Edm. Hall in Mich. term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1641 and in the year following was actually created Master of that faculty among several Esquires Gentlemen and Soldiers that belonged to the K. and Court then residing in this University At which time his genie being naturally inclined to Mathematicks and Astronomy he by continual industry made great proficiency in them which he found advantageous to him in the times of Usurpation After his Majesties return he was actually created Doct. of Div made one of the Kings Chaplains and Rector of Rosse in Herefordshire in the place I think of Mr. Joh. Tombes ejected which he kept to his dying day He hath written these things following mostly printed in qu. Astronomia Britannica Exhibiting the doctrine of the Sphere and theory of Planets decimally by Trigonometry and by Tables c. in 3 parts Lond. 1656. 57. qu. Help to calculation with tables of Declinat Ascensions c. Lond. 1657. qu. Trigonometria Britannica shewing the construction of the natural
leading into Whitehall he passed along thro the Galleries to his Bed-chamber where after a little repose the Bishop went to Prayer which being done his Maj. bid Mr. Herbert bring him some bread and wine which being brought the K. broke the manchet and eat a mouthful of it and drank a small glass full of Claret and then was sometime in private with the Bishop expecting when Hacker would the third and last time give warning In the mean time his Maj. told Mr. Herbert what sattin cap he would use which being provided Mr. Herbert after prayer addrest himself to the Bishop and told him the K. had ordered him to have a white sattin night-cap ready but he being not able to endure the sight of the violence that they would offer to the K. on the Scaffold he could not be there to give it to the K. when he should call for it The good Bishop bid him then give him the cap and that he should wait at the end of the Banquetting house near to the Scaffold to take care of the Kings body for said he that and his interment will be our last office Colonel Hacker came soon after to the Bed-chamber door and gave his last signal The Bishop and Mr. Herbert weeping they both fell upon their knees The K. thereupon gave them his hand to kiss and help'd the Bishop up for he was aged Col. Hacker attending still at the chamber door the K. took notice of it and said Open the door and bid Hacker go he would follow him A Guard was made all along the Galleries and the Banquetting house but behind the Soldiers abundance of men and women crowded in tho with some peril to their persons to behold the saddest sight that England ever saw And as his Maj. passed by with a cheerful look he heard them pray for him The Soldiers did not rebuke any of them for by their silence and dejected faces they seemed rather afflicted than insulting There was a passage broke thro the wall of the Banquetting house by which the K. passed unto the Scaffold where after his Maj. had spoken and declared publickly that he died a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England the Contents of which have been several times printed the fatal stroke was given by a disguised person Mr. Herbert during this time was at the door leading to the Scaffold much lamenting and the Bishop coming from the Scaffold with the royal corps which was immediately coffin'd and covered with a velvet Pall he and Mr. Herbert went with it to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with the Lord Fairfax the General that person asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert being something astonished at that question told him the King was beheaded at which he seemed much surpriz'd See more in the said Gen. Fairfax in the Fasti following among the Creations of Doctors of Civil Law under the year 1649. The royal Corps being embalmed and well coffin'd and all afterwards wrapt up in lead and covered with a new velvet Pall it was removed to S. James's where was great pressing by all sorts of people to see the King a doleful spectacle but few had leave to enter or behold it Where to bury the K. was the last duty remaining By some Historians 't is said the K. spoke something to the Bishop concerning his burial Mr. Herbert both before and after the Kings death was frequently in the company with the Bishop and affirmed that he never mentioned any thing to him of the Kings naming any place where he would be buried Nor did Mr. Herbert who constantly attended his Maj. and after his coming from Hurst Castle was the only person in his Bed-chamber hear him at any time declare his mind concerning it Nor was it in his life time a proper question for either of them to ask notwithstanding they had oftentimes the opportunity especially when his Maj. was bequeathing to his royal children and friends what is formerly related Nor did the Bishop declare any thing concerning the place to Mr. Herbert which doubtless he would upon Mr. Herbert's pious care about it which being duly considered they thought no place more fit to interr the Corps than in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at the end of the Church of Westm Abbey out of whose Loyns K. Ch. 1. was lineally extracted c. Whereupon Mr. Herbert made his application to such as were then in power for leave to bury the Kings body in the said Chap. among his Ancestors but his request was denied for this reason that his burying there would attract infinite numbers of all sorts thither to see where the K. was buried which as the times then were was judged unsafe and inconvenient Mr. Herbert acquainting the Bishop with this they then resolved to bury the Kings body in the royal Chap. of S. George within the Castle of Windsore both in regard that his Maj. was Soveraign of the most noble Order of the Garter and that several Kings had been there inter'd namely King Hen. 6. K. Ed. 4. and K. Hen. 8. c. Upon which consideration Mr. Herbert made his second address to the Committee of Parliament who after some deliberation gave him an Order bearing date 6 Feb. 1648 authorizing him and Mr. Anth. Mildmay to bury the Kings body there which the Governour was to observe Accordingly the Corps was carried thither from S. James Feb. 7. in a Hearse covered with black Velvet drawn by six Horses covered with black cloth in which were about a dozen Gentlemen most of them being such that had waited upon his Maj. at Carisbrook Castle and other places since his Majesties going from Newcastle Mr. Herbert shew'd the Governour Col. Witchcot the Committees Order for permitting Mr. Herbert and Mr. Mildmay to bury him the late King in any place within Windsore Castle that they should think fit and meet In the first place in order thereunto they carried the Kings body into the Deans House which was hung with black and after to his usual Bed-chamber within the Pallace After which they went to S. George's Chap. to take a view thereof and of the most fit and honorable place for the royal Corps to rest in Having taken a view they at first thought that the Tomb-house built by Card. Wolsey would be a fit place for his interment but that place tho adjoyning yet being not within the royal Chappel they waved it For if K. Hen. 8. was buried there albeit to that day the particular place of his burial was unknown to any yet in regard his Maj. K. Ch. 1. who was a real Defender of the Faith and as far from censuring any that might be would upon occasional discourse express some dislike in K. Henry's proceedings in misemploying those vast Revenews the suppressed Abbeys Monasteries and other religious Houses were endowed with and by demolishing those many beautiful and stately Structures which
both express'd the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendor of the Kingdom which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses Upon consideration thereof those Gent. declined it and pitch'd upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been inter'd being on the north side of the Choire near the Altar that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honorable mention of and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoyning having a range of iron bars gilt curiously cut according to Church work c. But as they were about this work some Noble-men came thither namely the Duke of Richmond the Marq. of Hertford the Earl of Lindsey and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London who had license from the Parliament to attend the Kings body to his grave Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Paâ—ement with his staff perceived a hollow sound and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another the one very large of an antique form and the other little These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife as indeed they were The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh tho they had laid there above 100 years The Lords agreeing that the Kings body should be in the said Vault inter'd being about the middle of the Choir over against the eleventh stall upon the Soveraigns side they gave order to have the Kings name and year he died cut in lead which whilst the Work-men were about the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chappel door and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice The Sexton did his best to clear the Chappel nevertheless Isaac the Sextons man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself so as he was not discern'd and being greedy of prey crept into the Vault and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body as he judged would hardly be missed and wimbled also a hole thro the said Coffin that was largest probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person who being searched a bone was found about him with which he said he would haâ—t a knife The Governour being therefore informed of he gave him his reward and the Lords and others present were convinc'd that a real body was in the said great Coffin which some before had scrupled The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the Kings Coffin had only these words King Charles 1648. The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber down into S. George's Hall whence after a little stay it was with a slow and solemn pace much sorrow in most faces being then discernable carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall and the Governour with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after It was then observed that at such time as the Kings body was brought out from S. George's Hall the sky was serene and clear but presently it began to snow and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corps came to the west end of the royal Chappel the black velvet Pall was all white the colour of innocency being thick covered over with snow The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer which the Lords likewise desired but would not be suffer'd by Col. Whitchcot the Governour of the Castle by reason of the Directory to which said he he and others were to be conformable Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign To let pass Merlins Prophecy which some allude to the White Sattin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm Abbey former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus Crownes and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honor and reputation Those must have a period with my life but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity MARTIN LLEWELLIN Lluellyn or Lluelyn so many ways I find him written the seventh son without any daughter between of Mart. Lluellyn was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616 and on the 22 of the said month was baptized in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 at which time he bore arms for his Majesty and was at length a Captain In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that afterward going to the great City he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physick as before it had to Poetry In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power then in the University to be admitted Doctor of Physick and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians In 1660 he was sworn Physitian to his Majesty at that time newly return'd to his Kingdoms and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Mary the Virgin but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon in which office he shew'd himself active enough In 1664 he left the University and setling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks called Great Wycombe practised his faculty there was made a Justice of the Peace for that County and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation in which offices he behaved himself severe against the Phanaticks He hath written Men-miracles A Poem Printed 1656. in oct Divers Poems Printed 1656. in oct Satyrs Printed 1656. in oct Elegies Printed 1656. in oct Divine Poems Printed 1656. in oct Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright a third upon Dr.
of Boston 9 Oct. 1663 at the Archd. Visitation on Isa 16.13 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Elohim or God and the Magistrate on Psal 82.6 Ibid. 1663. qu. c. In 1674 our author Howe accumulated the degrees in Divinity became much respected for his learning in Lincolnsh and dying in the winter time in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in his Church at Boston before mentiond I find one Will. Howe to have been Minister of Gedney in Linc. a grand Presbyterian and Independent in the time of Oliver but what he hath written I know not Since I wrot this I find one O. H. Minister of the Gospel to have written Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations on Col. 1.12 c. Lond. 1690. in tw Designed for a funeral Legacy by the said O. H. but whether the same with Ob. Howe I know not Qu. HENEAGE FINCH the eldest Son of Sir Heneage Finch of Kensington in Midd. Kt Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London by Frances his Wife Dau. of Sir Edm. Bell of Beaupre in Norfolk Kt was born in Kent particularly I presume at Eastwell on the 23. of Dec. 1621 educated in Westminster School became a Gent. Communer of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1635 continued there two or three years went to the Inner Temple where by his sedulity and good parts he became a noted proficient in the municipal Laws was successively Barrester Bencher Treasurer Reader c. In 1660 on the 6 of June he was made Sollicitor general to his Majesty and on the day after being then a Knight he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Sir Heneage Finch of Raunston in Buckinghamshire The next year he was Autumn or Summer Reader of the Inner Temple choosing then to read upon the Statute of 39. Elizab. concerning The payment and recovery of the debts of the Crown which Statute tho ever seasonable and then most necessary was never before read upon as 't was then reported by any but himself The reading and entertainment lasted from the 4th to the 17 of Aug. The former was with great strength of reason depth of Law and admirable sense and the other with as great variety as could be imagined carried on The first days entertainment was of divers Peers of the Realm and Privy Counsellors with many others of his noble friends The second of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London The third which was two days after the former of the whole College of Physitians who all came in their caps and gowns The fourth was of another long robe for all the Judges and Advocates Doctors of the Civil Law and all the Society of Doctors Commons The fifth was of the Archbishops Bishops and chief of the Clergy and the last which was on the 15 of Aug. was of the King Duke of York Lord Chancellour most of the Peers and great Officers or Court the Lords Commissioners of Scotland and Ireland c. In Apr. the same year 1661 he was chosen Parliament man for this University but did us no good when we wanted his assistance for the taking off the tribute belonging to Hearths In 1665 after the Parliament then sitting at Oxon had been prorogued he was created in a full Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law he being then one of the four members of Parliament that had communicated the thanks of the honorable H. 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. Which creation being concluded in the presence of several Parliament Men besides the said four the Vicechancellour stood up and spoke to the publick Orator to do his office Whereupon he making a most admirable harangue said among other things to this effect that the University wished they had more Colleges to entertain the Parliament men and more Chambers but by no means no more Chymneys c. at which Sir Heneage changed his countenance and drew a little back In 1670 he was constituted the Kings Attorney General and upon the removal of Shaftesbury from being Lord Chancellor he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 9. Nov. 1673. Shortly after which he was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this realm by the title of Lord Finch of Daventre in Northamptonshire and upon his surrender of the Great Seal to his Majesty on the 19. of Dec. 1675 he received it immediatly back again with the title of Lord high Chancellor of England In the most boisterous and ticklish times when the swoln waves beat highest occasion'd by the Popish Plot he behaved himself with so regular exactly pois'd and with such even steadiness whilst others whose actions not being so justly ballanced either were discharged from their Offices or else they themselves by an ungenerous cowardise voluntarily resign'd them up as unwilling manfully to encounter approaching difficulties of which they pretended to have prospects that he still stood firm in the good opinion of his Prince and which is more to be admired at that time when many worthy Ministers of State were by the malice of designing men branded with the old infamous character of Evil Counsellours in order to have them to be run down and worried by the violent outrages of the unthinking giddy and head-strong multitude During all which time and clamour against persons which continued from Oct. 1678. to the beginning of the year 1681 after the Oxford Parl. was dissolved he was neither bandied against or censur'd in the more private seditious Cabals nor was his Master publickly addressed to for his removal In 1681. May 14 or thereabouts he was created Earl of Nottingham as a mark of the great satisfaction his Majesty had in the many faithful services which his Lordship had rendred the Crown being then a person of so eloquent and fluent speech and of so great sapience that he was usually stiled the English Roscius and the English Cicero A noted author tells us that his great parts and greater vertues are so conspicuous that it were a high presumption in him to say any thing in his commendation being in nothing more eminent than in his zeal for and care of this Church of England See his character most excellently described under the name of Amri in the second part of a poem entit Absalom and Achitophel Lond. 1682. first edit p. 30. Under the name of this worthy person are published Several speeches and discourses in the trial of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. He being then Sollicitor General See in the book entit An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment arraignment trial and judgment according to Law of 29 Regicides c. Lond. 1660. qu. 1679. oct Speeches to both Houses of Parliament 7. Jan. 1673 13. of Apr. and 13. Oct. 1675. 15. Feb. 1676. 6. March 1678 and 30. of Apr. 1679. These were spoken while he was Lord
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
Smerne about the year 1651. While he was in Oxon he had a book of Musick laying by him which as he said was of his own composition And being well skill'd in that faculty his Countryâ—men in their Letters sent to stil'd him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the notes were such as are not in use with or understood by any of the Western Churches When he died or what he wrot after he had left England I know not It was observed that while he continued in Ball. Coll. he made the drink for his own use called Coffey and usually drank it every morning being the first as the Antients of that House have informed me that was ever drank in Oxon. You may see more of this Conopius in the Epistles of Ger. Joh. Vossius written to learned men lately published part 2. p. 145. RICHARD PARR sometimes Fellow of Brasnose College was made Bishop of Sodor or the Isle of Man about the year of the Lord 1635 and dyed in the times of Usurpation but the year when I cannot tell tho several times I have sent Letters to know it See more of him among the Writers p. 96. The See of Man laid void till 1662 and then in June Dr. Isaac Barrow being elected to govern it was consecrated thereunto in K. H. 7. Chap. at Westm on the 5. of July 1663 and not before at which time his Nephew Son of his Brother Thomas called Dr. Isaac Barrow Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. preached the Consecration Sermon This worthy and godly Bishop who was Son of Isaac Barrow of Spiney-Abbey in the County of Cambridgeshire Esq was educated in S. Peters Coll. commonly called Peter House in Cambridge of which he became Fellow but turn'd out thence by the Presbyterians an 1643 or thereabouts whereupon going to Oxon and his eminency being known there he was made one of the Chaplains of New Coll by the most loyal and generous Warden thereof Dr. Pink where continuing till after the garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament shifted afterwards from place to place and suffered with the rest of the loyal and orthodox Clergy till the most blessed return of K. Ch. 2. At which time he was not only restored to his Fellowship but also made one of the Fellows of Eaton Coll. near Windsore which he held in Commendam with the Bishoprick of Man In Apr. 1664 he was made Governour of the Isle of Man by Charles Earl of Derby governed it piously and prudently held that office all the time he was Bishop of Man and sometime after his translation to S. Asaph He was a great benefactor to the Island especially to the Clergy did collect by his great care and pains from pious persons one thousand eighty one pounds eight shillings and four pence with which he bought all the impropriations in the Island from the Earl of Derby and setled them upon the Clergy as every one had need He ordered them all to teach School in their respective Parishes and allowed 30 l. per an for a Free-school and 50 l. per an for Academical learning He got also one hundred pounds a year setled which was like to have been lost upon the Clergy which was given by K. Ch. 2 and gave 135 l. of his own money for a lease upon lands of twenty pounds a year which is setled towards the maintenance of three poor Manks Scholars in the College at Dublin that in time there might be a more learned Clergy in the Island He gave likewise 10 l. towards the making a bridge over a dangerous water and did many other good works there Afterwards going into England for healths sake and continuing in a house of the Countess of Derby in Lancashire called Cross-hall he received the news of his Majesties conferring on him the Bishoprick of S. Asaph See more of him in Hen. Glemham among these Bishops under the year 1667. p. 670. ROGER MANWARING was born at Stretton in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School at Worcester under Hen. Bright entred a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1604 and soon after was made one of the Clerks of All 's Coll. After he had run through the usual courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts being about that time as I conceive one of the Chaplains of that House At length being made Vicar of S. Giles in the fields near London he took the degrees in Divinity and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to K. Ch. 1 before whom while he was in his attendance at Oatlands he preached two Sermons in July 1627 entit Religion and Allegiance on Eccles 8.2 Lond. 1627. qu. and about the same time preached them at his Country cure In the year following on the fourth of May he preached on the same subject in his Church of S. Giles before mention'd for which as also for his former Sermons he was the same year June 14 censur'd in Parliament to be imprisoned fined 1000 l to make submission and to be disinabled to have or enjoy any preferment or office At that time John Pym a busie Man in the House of Commons brought into the House a charge against him that he endeavoured to destroy the King and Kingdom by his Divinity c. On the 21 of the said month he made his submission and in the next month following he was presented by the King to the rich rectory of Stanford Rivers in Essex void by the promotion of Dr. Richard Mountague to the See of Chichester with license to hold it and his other Living with it On the 9. of Jan. following he procured his pardon which in the next month made some stir in the Session of Parliament that then was In the month of May 1633 he was made Dean of VVorcester in the place of Dr. VVill. Juxon promoted to the See of Hereford where he made some alterations for the better in that Church and in Dec. 1635 he was nominated Bishop of S. David on the translation of Dr. Theoph. Field to Hereford On the 28 of February following he was consecrated thereunto by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants in the Chap. at Lambeth where he sate till his function was silenced On the 22. Feb. 1640 were several complaints made against him in the Long Parliament but not for the present prosecuted because the members thereof were employed on greater matters Afterwards the rebellion breaking out he was imprison'd violently persecuted from place to place lost all his Spiritualities and had only some small temporal Estate left to maintain him and his Family He was a person that had some curiosity in learning but greater zeal for the Church of England He was of a pious life and conversation charitable and tho with Sibthorpe accounted a Sycophant by the Puritans yet by the Royallists he was esteemed worthy of the function of a Bishop He finished his course at Caermerthen after he had
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Mossâ—m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
security thereof So that Mr. Dugdale being bound by his place to attend his Majesty he setled for a time in Hart Hall and on the 1 of Nov. 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts as I have before told About that time he committed to writing the most memorable passages in the battel at Edghill and that the relation of all particulars might be the better understood he went to that place in Feb. following being accompanied with some Gentlemen of note At which time taking with him a skilful Surveyor he rode to Banbury the Castle there being then his Majesties Garrison and thence to the field where the battel was fought which he exactly surveyed and noted where each Army was drawn up where the Canons were placed and the graves where the slain persons were buried observing also from the relation of the neighbouring Inhabitants the certain number which lay buried in each pit or grave Which by a just computation did not amount to full one thousand tho the report of the Vulgar made them at least five thousand Returning thence to Oxford he continued there by his Majesties command until the surrender of that Garrison for the use of the Parliament 24 June 1646 which wanted not 4 months of 4 years his Estate in the Country being all that while sequestred in which time he notwithstanding got a subsistance by attending the Funerals of several noble persons and of others of great quality some of which were slain in the Wars according to the duty of his Office On the 16 of Apr. 1644 he was created Chester Herald upon the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to be Norrey and soon after he took a journey to Worcester within which Diocess the southern parts of Warwickshire lye where having perusal of the Registers both of the Bishop and Dean and Chapter he thence extracted several Collections in order to his historical work of Warwickshire as he before had done at Lichfield within which Diocess the rest of the said County lies as by the quotations in the elaborate work of The Antiq. of Warwicksh afterwards made public it appears While he continued in Oxon. where he had leisure enough to follow his studies he applied himself to the search of such Antiquities as were to be found in the famous Bodlelan Library as also in the Libraries of certain Colleges and in private hands as he thought any way conduceable to the furtherance of the work designed by Rog. Dodsworth and himself touching the Monastery-foundations before mention'd as also of whatsoever might relate to matter of History in reference to the Nobility of this Kingdom in which he found very much for that purpose whereof he made great use in his Volumes intit The Baronage of England since published After the surrender of Oxford Mr. Dugdale repaired to London and made his Composition in Goldsmiths Hall for at least 168 l. After which having proceeded very far in collecting materials in the Country for his designed work of Warwickshire he repaired again to London for the farther perusal of the Records in the Tower and other places and there perfected his Collection touching the Antiquities of that County where hapning to meet with Mr. Dodsworth he told him how he had bestowed his time in Oxon and elsewhere by gaining materials in order to that work of the Monasteries and Mr. Dodsworth did the like to him whereby Mr. Dugd. did understand that he had transcribed many Foundation-Charters and other Grants of consequence relating to the Monasteries of Yorkshire and some other northern Counties which he copied for the most part from the Originals remaining in sundry large chests deposited in S. Maries Tower at York This Tower with all such evidences therein was accidentally blown up in the War time so that had not Mr. Dodsworth made his Collections thence before that accident fell out the loss would have been irreparable Other matters that he collected thence are now in many volumes remaining in the Bodleian Library by the gift of Thomas Lord Fairfax who also to his great honour be it spoken shew'd himself very generous to all such Soldiers at York that could retrieve any of the said Charters that were so blown up After Mr. Dugdale's communication with Mr. Dodsworth concerning each others Collections he waited upon the Lady Eliz. Hatton to Calais in the month of May 1648 there to meet with the Lord Hatton her husband from Paris which being so done he went back with that Lord thither and making stay there about three months he thro the favour of Monsâ—er Franc. du Chesne son to the learned Andr. du Chesne deceased had a view of divers excellent Collections made by the said Andrew relating to divers Monasteries in France Normandy and other parts of that Kingdom Among which discovering divers things of note touching divers Religious Houses in England formerly called Priories Aliens which had been Cells to sundry great Abbies in foreign parts he took copies of them of which he made good use in those volumes called Monasticon Anglicanum afterwards published and then returned into England having Letters of safe conduct under the Sign manual and Signet of the then Queen of England Henrietta Maria bearing date at S. Germans in Lay upon the third of Aug. This so fair and industrious Collection being got together by Mr. Dodsworth as hath been observed as also that made by Mr. Dugdale gathered out of divers Leiger-books and other authentick MSS. at Oxon did encourage them to proceed in perfecting the work Whereupon they resolved to go to the Records in the Tower of London to which having free admission they made a perfect and thorough search and took copies of all that they deemed most material for their work Which being done they retired to the Cottonian Library making the like search there and left nothing omitted from the multitudes of Leiger-books there that might serve them in that most elaborate work Their business being there finished Mr. Dugdale discovered many bundles of papers of State which were original Letters and other choice memorials obtained by Sir Rob. Cotton from sundry hands some whereof were the Transactions between Cardinal Wolsey Thom. Cromwell afterwards Earl of Essex Secretary Will. Paget Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh Secretary Francis Walsingham and others relating as well to foreign as domestick affairs As also the Letters and Papers of Mary Qu. of Scots Thomas Duke of Norfolk c. All which Mr. Dugdale sorted methodically both as to time and otherwise and caus'd them to be bound up with clasps and Sir Tho. Cotton's Arms impressed on each side of every book with the Contents in the beginning what each book contained All which amounted to 80 volumes and were made useful to all lovers of historical learning The Collections of the two volumes of the Monastery Foundations intit Monast Anglic. being thus compleated and the publishing of them by the Press desired an offer was made to several Booksellers of the Copies upon such different terms
of March 1674 aged 74 years was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mention'd Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet This person who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet was born in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in London not bred in any University only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any now 1642 in Oxon when then he assisted in all Councils and was in all Treaties particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament an 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty and at length was permitted a quiet retirement He hath written 1 An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars 2 Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their dayes concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion viz. Adoration Almes Fasting and Prayer Printed with the former book 3 Supream power and common right c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title nor the time when printed He died in the year 1684 aged 84 or more and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned among the graves of his Ancestors The report among his Relations at this day is that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physick but false for he being versed in the Common thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil Law and among those doth his name stand Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643 and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Houshold he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England for which he suffered in a high degree Some time after the restauration his Majesty was pleased of his own accord in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty to make him one of his privy Council and as a testimony of further favour he not only made him Governour of the Isle of Guernsey for his life but confer'd the reversion of that Government on his son as a lasting mark of honour on his family This Christop L. Hatton was a principal Mecaenas of Learning and more especially of Antiquities wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb the Nobility that I know Sir Brian Palmes of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt. This loyal Knight son of Sir Guy Palmes who had been educated in Trin. Coll was chose a Burgess for Aldbuâ—g in Yorkshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 13 Apr. 1640 but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not He died in 1654. Sir Will. Brounker Kt late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1 was then also Nov. 1. actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This loyal Knight who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker President of Mounster in Ireland by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley was created Vicount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645 and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nov. following was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joyning on the west side to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon leaving then behind him a son named William aged 25 years or thereabouts of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker dau of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire died 20 July 1649 after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon and buried by that of her husband Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their Statua's sitting both leaning on a table that stands between them Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk was also then created Doctor of the Civ Law He was Uncle to John Lord Byron was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot K. Ch. 1. did so much value him that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him I have been told by persons that had degrees confer'd upon them in these Creations that Thomas Robert and William Byron all Knights valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most couragious Lord Byron before mention'd had degrees confer'd on them but in what faculty they knew not nor are they registred For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him Nay those also that are by him remembred have only their bare names and sometimes only their Sirnames set down without the addition of their Titles Quality Office or place of habitation Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joyning on the south side of the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 9 Feb. 1643. Wingfield Lord Cromwell He was after the death of his father Earl of Arglas in Ireland Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University Will. Chadwell Esq He was a Burgess for Michel in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein retired to his Majesty at Oxon and sate in the Parl. there Ferdinando Stanhope Esq He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament but leaving it he retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliament This worthy person who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield was made a Colonel of Horse in the Kings Army and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door as other Royalists were he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon and sate there He was a learned and a prudent man and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England He was active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxon when the Garrison was to be surrendred to the Parliament for which and his steddy Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmiths Hall at London John Lufton of S. Johns Coll.
in our fortifications c. among the created Doctors of Div. 1661. Oct. 17. John Poston Oct. 17. Cave Beck The last of these two hath published The universal character by which all nations may understand one another Lond. 1657. oct and perhaps other things Dec. 9. John Coke or Cook Jan. 31. Dan. Southmead Bac. of Arts of this University was then created Master Mar. 18. Will. Zanchie who had rendred both his life and fortunes in the Kings service under the command of Richard Vicount Molineaux and thereby had lost time in the University was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of the Kings Letters dat 10. of Jan. this year Bach. of Phys Oct. 17. Franc. Metcalf of S. Maries Hall Feb. 8. John Catchpole of Christs Coll. in Cambridge Bach. of Div. Oct. 17. James Bardsey He was a stranger as it seems and the only Bach. of Div. that was created this year In the month of May it was granted to Edw. Willisford then absent that he might be created when he came to the University but whether he came or was admitted it appears not perhaps he was the same Mr. Willisford who was lately ejected from Peter house in Cambridge for denying the Covenant Doct. of Law Apr. 12. George Owen one of the Heralds of Armes by the title of York May 29. Rich. Colchester was then also actually created He is stiled in the publick reg dignissimus vir and de republica optime meritus One Rich. Colchester of Westbury in Glocestershire Esq was one of the six Clerks in the High Court of Chancery and died in the troublesome times about 1646 whether the same Quaere June 16. Jeffry Palmer of the Middle Temple Esq This worthy Gentleman who was son of Thom. Palmer of Carleton in Northamptonshire by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Edw. Watson of Rockingham Kt sister to the first Lord Rockingham was chosen Burges for Stanford in Lincolnshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he was a manager of the evidence against Thomas Earl of Strafford and seemed to be an enemy to the prerogative But afterwards he perceiving full well what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took he boldly delivered his mind against the printing of that Declaration called the Grand remonstrance for which he was committed to custody in Nov. 1642. Afterwards being freed thence he retired to Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was esteemed a loyal and able person in his profession Upon the declining of the Kings cause he suffered as other Royallists did lived obscurely in England and upon pretence of plotting with the Cavaliers against Oliver the Protector he was imprison'd in the Tower of London in the month of May 1655. On the 31. of May 1660 his Majesty being then newly restored he was made Attorney General and about that time chief Justice of Chester and a Knight and on the 7 of June following he was created a Baronet He hath collected and written Reports bearing this title Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer Chevalier Baronet c. Lond. 1678. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hamsted in Middlesex on the fifth day of May an 1670 aged 72 whereupon his body being conveyed to the Hall of the Middle Temple laid there in state for a time attended by three Heralds of Armes Afterwards it was conveyed to the Seat of his Ancestors at Carleton in Northamptonshire before mention'd and there buried in a Vault under part of the Parish Church What inscription there is for him over his sepulcher I cannot tell sure I am that Dr. Thom. Pierce hath composed a most noble epitaph on him as also on his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Franc. More of Fawley in Berks who died on the 16. of the Cal. of May 1655 aged 47 years but it being too long for this place I shall only give you the beginning Galfridus Palmer vir ad omnia praesertim optima usque quaeque comparatus c. July 18. John Philipot Herald of Armes by the title of Somerset This person who was of Eltham in Kent was born at Folkston in that County and having a genie from his childhood to Heraldry and Antiquities was from being an Officer of Armes extraordinary called Blanch Lyon created Officer in ordinary called Rouge-Dragon 19 of Nov. 1618 and on the 8. July 1624 Herald by the title of Somerset In which capacity he was employed by his Majesty to make a presentation of the most noble Order of the Garter to his Highness Charles Lodowick Prince Elector in the Army at Bockstell or Bockstall in Brabant In the beginning of the Presbyterian rebellion in 1642 he was one of those Loyal Heralds who followed his Majesty was with him at Oxon but took up his quarters two miles distant thence at a place called Chawley in the Parish of Comnore where being seized on by certain Parliament Soldiers of the Garrison of Abendon was conveyed thence a Prisoner to London in 1644 or thereabouts But being soon after set at liberty he spent the short remainder of his days in London in great obscurity At length yielding to nature I cannot say in want was buried within the precincts of S. Bennets Church near to Paulswharf on the 25 of Nov. 1645. He hath written 1 Catalogue of the Chancellours of England the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurers of England With a collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolls Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Additions to Will Camdens Remains concerning Britaine Lond. 1637 c. qu. 3 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the Parishes Boroughs Villages and Mannours of the County of Kent Lond. 1659. fol. Published by and under the name of Thom. Philipot his Son as I have told you among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1640. 4 An Historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent This is added to the said Villare Cautianum He the said Joh. Philipot hath also written as 't is said a book proving that Gentry doth not abate with Apprenticeship but only sleepeth during the time of their indentures and awaketh again when they are expired But this book I have not yet seen Aug. ... Sir John Borough Kt Garter Principal King of Armes His Grace did then pass in a Convocation to be Doctor of the Civil Law but whether he was admitted it appears not as several Creations do not in the publick register This person who was the Son of a Dutch man a Brewer by trade living in Sandwych in Kent as I have been informed at the Office of Armes was educated a Scholar and afterwards in the com Law in Greys Inn but his genie inclining him much to the study of Antiquity he obtained the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London where by his searches he laid the foundation of certain books In 1623 he by the favour of the
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
S. Michaels Ch. in Cornhill London Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Canon of Windsore in which Dignity he was installed on the first of Feb. 1638. This person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and therefore esteemed by the Puritans an Arminian popishly affected and I know not what was in the beginning of the rebellion raised by them sequestred of his Rectory plundered his Wife and Children turned out of doors and he himself forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxon the common mother and refuge in those times of afflicted Royallists he was in considerations of his sufferings and loyalty promoted by his Majesty to the Deanery of Glocester upon the nomination of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield and Cov. in Aug. 1643 and was possest of it as much as then could be in Apr. following in which month Dr. Frewen was consecrated He hath written 1 The holy Feasts and Fasts of the Church with meditations and prayers proper for Sacraments and other occasions leading to Christian life and death Lond. 1657. in tw They are grounded on certain texts of Scripture 2 Sacred principles services and soliloquies or a manual of devotions made up of three parts 1. The grounds of the Christian Religion c. 2. Dayly and weekly forms of prayer 3. Seven charges to conscience delivering if not the whole body the main Limbs of Divinity c. Lond. 1659. 1671. c. in tw and other things as it seems Quaere After the Kings return he had restored to him what he had lost had other preferments given to him and dying on the fifth day of July an 1671 was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Thomas Vyner and in his Canonry Peter Scott LL. D both of Cambridge CREATIONS The Creations made this year did partly consist of Military Officers and partly of Cantabrigians that had taken Sanctuary at Oxon most of all which follow Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Charles Fox Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Payne Fisher Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Joh. Beeton Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Nich. Bertie Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Rob. Johnson Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. The said Payne Fisher who was Son of Sir Will. Fisher and one of the Captains of the Life-guard to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon was Father to Payne Fisher an Officer also in the Kings Army and afterwards Poet Laureat to Oliver Protector being now living an aged man Nich. Bertie was of the noble Family of Bertie Earl of Lindsey and all afterwards sufferers for the royal cause Alexander Walwyn another Captain was also created the same day Aug. 26. Joh. Squire B. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Aug. 26. Joh. Pattison B. A. of S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. These two Bachelaurs were then created Masters because they before had as they did this year bear armes for his Majesty in Oxon. Dec. 3. Matthias Prideaux of Exet. Coll. a Capt. in his Majesties service Mar. ... Rob. Bingham Secretary to the Marquess of Dorchester Bach. of Phys Dec. 3. Will Sparke of Magd. Coll. See more of him among the created Doctors of Physick an 1661. Bach. of Div. Feb. 21. John Barwick Mast of Arts of 19 years standing Priest and late Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge did then supplicate the ven congregation that he might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him Which being granted simpliciter he was without doubt then admitted and created tho it appears not in the register so to be He had been lately turn'd out of his fellowship being then I suppose Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Morton Bishop of Durham who as 't is said gave him about this time a Prebendship in that Church After his Majesties return he became Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and was in consideration of his great sufferings installed Dean of Durham on the first of Nov. 1660 in the place of Dr. Will. Fuller who died in the year before going On the 15 of Oct. 1661 he was elected Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral in Lond in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas deceased whereupon being installed in that Dignity on the 19 day of the same month his Deanery of Durham was confer'd on Dr. Joh. Sudbury and accordingly was installed therein on the 15 of Feb. following This worthy person Dr. Barwick hath published 1 The fight victory and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Duresme in a Sermon preached at his funeral in the par Church of S. Peter at Easton-manduit in Northamptonshire on Mich. day on 2. Tim. 4.7.8 Lond 1660. qu. 2 A summary account of the holy life and death of Thomas late Lord Bishop of Duresme printed with the said Sermon which Bishop died at Easton-manduit before mention'd on S. Matthews day an 1659. aged 95 years 3 Deceivers deceived or the mistakes of wickedness c. Sermon at S. Pauls Cathedral 20. Oct. 1661 on Prov. 14. part of the 8 ver Lond. 1661. qu. See more of him in Peter Gunning among the Writers an 1684. p. 577. and in his epitaph following which was set over his grave in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul within the City of London S. Amori Aeternitati c. in English thus that it might be understood by vulgar capacities Sacred to Love and to generations to come Thou that passest by whosoever thou art bring hither thine eyes and understanding also intuitively both to look and lament For within this marble Wardrobe are folded up the thin worn weeds of the valuable substantial and well accountred Soul of John Barwick Doctor of Divinity to whom Westmorland may well boast to have given first breath and being Next Cambr. may boast to have given him his first admission and S. Johns Coll. there a Fellowship in that foundation From which Fellowship which still makes more for his honour he was unjustly ejected by a pack of Parricides who notwithstanding regardless of the rage of those bloody times or his own blood-spitting malady equally pernicious boldly attempted and successfully managed matters of the greatest difficulty and danger in the behalf of the King and Church And for that cause was shut up in a dire and loathsome prison where he suffered inhumane and barbarous usage yet with a constant and undaunted spirit And in the end he saw by the miracle as it were of a new creation the revisal of both Crown and Mitre himself playing the Man-midwives part and vigorously assisting at the new birth of both Last of all for his active services and passive sufferings he was
his proceedings James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors was created the same day He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion got besides his Readers place to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy After his Majesties restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at or near Bunhill He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet entit Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657 And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried as I have been informed near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields and the New Artillery-yard John Dale of Magd. Coll was created the same day June 8. As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Div. but Doct. of the Civil Law as I shall anon tell you Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates On the 12. of Jan. going before the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall who had been expelled the Vniversity with great injury as they said should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity c. He proceeded Doct. of Div. in 1665. Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates Doct. of Law May 19. Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England and Constable of the Tower of London was created Doctor of the Civil Law being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were The ceremony of the Creation was thus After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation but without hood or cap the new Beadles who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House the members thereof then standing up bare whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat which pro tempore was supplied by a Master and going to and standing on his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing with a short flattering Lat. speech such as 't was Which being done and he who then held the Chancellours Chair Dr. Chr. Rogers admitting him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellours Chair This person who made a great noise in his time not only in England but throughout a great part of the world was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busie and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647 aged 64 years was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire As for his Son Thomas whom we are farther to mention he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County in January 1611 9. Jac. 1. and was baptized at Denton on the 25 of the said month After he had spent some time in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which afterwards in his latter days he was a benefactor he went beyond the Seas and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries was at the considerable action of the taking of Busse in Flanders but had no command while he was there Afterwards he retired to his Fathers house and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere by whom he had issue Mary born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham 19. Nov. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642 when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces he did accordingly deliver it but his Majesty refusing it as a Parliamentarian Writer tells us he press'd it with that instance and intention following the King so close therewith in the Field call'd Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire that he at last did tender the same upon the pomel of his saddle But finding no propitiatory as the said author tells us and seeing a War could not be avoided he early paid the vows of his martial education and as soon as the unhappy troubles brake forth he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mention'd whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North deserves a story of it self He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General 31. Dec. 1644 at which time they cashier'd Robert Earl of Essex of that high command with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642 to live and dye This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modell'd So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand he vigorously proceeded and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause which is too much here to be set down let the author of Englands recovery c. tell you who tho in the latter end of that book p. 321. he doth highly characterize him especially for his religion but little for policy yet a severe Presbyterian will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour fitter to follow another mans counsel than his own and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another mans faction c. adding these matters but what will not a fool in
to be celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the Country to whom the Bankers case was formerly sent In 1680 was a book published entit The rights of the Bishops to judge in Capital cases in Parliament cleared Being a full answer to two books lately published the first entit A letter from a Gentleman to his friend c. The other A discourse of the Peerage and jurisdiction of the Lords spiritual in Parliament endeavouring to shew the contrary Lond. in oct Tho no name is set to this book yet it was commonly then reported to have been written by Thom. Turner the same I suppose who was author of The Case c. Sir Tim. Turner before mention'd died very aged in 1676. and his Son Thom. the Writer about the beginning of the year 1680. Qu. Jan. 25. Lancelâ—t Addison of Qu. Coll. 29. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll. Both these are Writers and now living and therefore are to be remembred hereafter The first is Dean of Lichfield the other B. of Rochester Feb. 13. Tho. Tomkins of Ball afterwards of All 's Coll. 24 Rob South of Ch. Ch. He is also living and hath published several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers Adm. 147. Bach. of Law Oct. 12. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. Dec. 14. Nath. Bond of All 's Coll. Mar. 15. Joseph Keble of All 's Coll. As for Nath. Bond who was of the same family with Dennis Bond mention'd in the first vol. p. 323 he was as I conceive Recorder afterward of Weymouth being then a man of those times In the latter end of Apr. 1689 he being by writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law by K. Will. 3 was sworn on the 2 of May at the Bar of the Common-pleas in Westm Hall with several others that had been with him called to that degree Afterwards he was Knighted made one of the Kings Serjeants c. The last of the said three Joseph Keble is living in Greys Inn and hath published several things and therefore he ought hereafter to be mentioned among the Writers Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. May 30. Benj. Parry of Jesus Coll. 31. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. June 1. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 13. John Cawley of All 's Coll. July 6. Zachary Mayne of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Ch. Ch. and afterwards made by the Visitors first Demie of Magd. Coll and then Fellow took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1652 at which time he had the letters of the Chancellour O. Cromwell for the dispensation of the want of two or three terms in which letters he is stiled eminently godly and of able parts Afterwards he was senior Collector of the Lent in 1652 and when Master of Arts a godly preacher in these parts After his Majesties restauration he conformed and wrot 1 Treatise of Justification c. Lond. 1662. oct 2 S. Pauls travelling pangs c. Pr. 1662. oct and perhaps other things He is now living a School-master in or near Exeter as I have lately been informed by one of his contemporaries in Magd. Coll. July 6. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall He accumulated the degrees in Arts and was admitted in Convocation Adm. 65. Bach. of Phys Apr. 11. Joh. Betts of C. C. Coll. June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. These were both learned Physitians the former of which hath published several things of his faculty the other not but left his profession for his original fac of Div. as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Two were admitted this year as Jam. Stopes of Magd. Hall and Thomas Harward of Trin. Coll. but neither of them were Writers ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Apr. 11. John Arnold of Mert. Coll. He afterwards withdrew himself and stood not in the Act to compleat his degree went to York and there practised his faculty to the time of his death Joh. Betts of C C. Coll was adm the same day He accumulated the degrees in Phys June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He accumulated having before been employed in the service of the State as Physitian to the sick and wounded of the Navy which work he managed with much diligence and success to the full satisfaction both of the Generals at Sea and also of the Commissioners of the Admiralty c. After his Majesties restauration he reassumed his former fac of Divinity became one of the Royal Society President of his Coll one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 28. June 1670 was installed Dean of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Rob. Creighton to the See of B. and Wells In Apr. 1691 he was nominated by their Majesties Bishop of Bristow with liberty to keep his Deanery in Commendam but he refused it because he was minded to carry on his benefaction to his Coll being then about to reedifie the Chappel thereof and to do good thereunto and his Church of Wells He is accounted a most celebrated Latine Poet as it appears by those many Copies of verses of his that are extant some of which are made publick in a book lately printed at the Theater in Oxon entit Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta c. printed in oct Doct. of Div. May 29. Joh. Conant M. A. Rector of Exeter Coll. was then admitted in Convocation In 1662 he left his Rectory because he refused to subscribe to the Act of conformity but afterwards upon better thoughts conforming he became a Minister in Northampton where he now continues an aged man In 1676 June 8. he was installed Archdeacon of Norwich in the place of Mr. John Reynolds deceased which Dignity was confer'd upon him by Dr. Edw. Reynolds B. thereof whose Daughter he formerly had married and on the 3. of Dec. 1681 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Nath. Tomkins deceased He is a learned pious and meek Divine but hath published nothing Seth Ward of Wadham Coll Savilian professor of Astron was admitted in the same Convocation May 31. Joh. Wallis of Exeter Coll. Sav. Prof. of Geom. About this time arose a controversie between Dr. Wallis and Dr. Ward before mention'd concerning seniority in Doctorship Wallis he aver'd that he was incorporated Mast of Arts of this University before Ward and therefore 't was his but it appearing that Ward stood first in the Proctors book at Cambridge for they proceeded in Arts both in one year the Vicechancellour Dr. Owen decided the matter on Wards behalf Whereupon Wallis went out Grand compounder and so got seniority not only of Ward but of the rest that proceeded in Div. this year Dr. Wallis was afterwards against oath and statute elected Custos Archivorum in the place of Dr. Langbaine at which time stood for that office one every way capable of it viz. Dr. Rich. Zouche which being a most unjust act as being carried on and done by the godly
Marble and a stately urn placed thereon On the pedestal is a most elegant and befitting inscription engraven made by his great admirer Dr. Tho. Sprat before mention'd and all inviron'd with an iron grate where we shall now leave him Petrus Schumacherus a young Dane was a sojournour this and several years after in Oxon purposely to obtain literature in the publick library and was much favour'd and encouraged by Mr. Tho. Barlow the Keeper thereof Afterwards he became a man of note in his own Country and tho the Son of a Vintner Chancellour of Denmark c. He hath lately sent his picture to the University of Oxon and it now hangs in the School-Gallery An. Dom. 1658. An. 10. Car. 2. An. 5 1 Oliv. Protect An. 5 1 Rich. Protect Chanc. Rich. Cromwell usually called Lord Rich. Cromwell who on the death of his Father Oliver was proclaimed Protector of England c. 4. Sept. this year Vicechanc. Joh. Conant D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll Oct. 9. Proct. Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8. Sam. Conant of Exet Coll. Apr. 8. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 25. Nich. Billingsley of Mert. Coll. He was a Ministers Son at or near Bristow as I suppose and having had a long sickness hanging upon him was dispenced with by the Ven. Congreg for the absence of eight Terms In which time living in his Fathers house he wrot in vers Hagio Martyrologia Or an exact epitome of all the persecutions which have befall'n the People of God in all ages Lond. 1657. oct Of which Poetry and its author you may take this character from a very conceited Writer who was his contemporary thus Stand off thou Poetaster from the press Who pygni'st Martyrs with thy dwarf-like verse Whose white long bearded flame of zeal aspires To Wrack their ashes more than did their fiers Jun. 11. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Coll. Jun. 11. John Cave of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two who was senior collector of the determining Bachelaurs this year you may see more among the Masters an 1661. July 6. Sam. Jemmat of Vniv Coll. See among the Masters in 1661. Oct. 12. Rich. Burthogge of All 's Coll. He went afterwards to Linc. Coll compleated his degree by Determination as a member thereof and soon after left the University Afterwards he was doctorated in Physick elsewhere at Leyden I think lived at Bowden near Totness in Devonshire wrot several books of Divinity but nothing of his own faculty is a sider at this time with the fanatical crew and therefore he is hereafter to be number'd among Oxf. Writers Feb. 12. Nathaniel Alsop of Brasn Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1670. Joseph Constable of Magd. Hall He translated into English The Works of Jo. Bapt. Van Helmont Lond. 1664. fol. Feb. 12. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Feb. 12. Joh. Troughton of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these last two was lately one of the Savilian Professors and hath written and published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers Adm. 137. Bach. of Law Three were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards either a Writer or a Bishop Mast of Arts. Mar. 25. Joh. Franklin of C. C. Coll. Apr. 22. Tho. Branker of Exet. Coll. Jun. 11. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll. Jun. 11. Joh. Williams of Magd. Hall 29. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll. 29. Thom. Pittis of Linc. Coll. 29. Jos Glanvill of Linc. Coll. July 6. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. July 6. Will. Annand of Vniv Coll. July 6. Tho. Tomkins of All 's Coll. 9. Joh. Price of Vniv Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son became soon after Curate of S. Cross alias Haâ—ywel in the Suburbs of Oxon where preaching many Sermons he published four of them the titles of which follow 1 The Christians excellency on Matth. 5.47 2 Truth begets Eternity on Gal. 4.16 3 A Nations happiness in a good King on Eccles 10.17 4 The praise of charity on Heb. 13.16 These four Serm. were printed at Oxon. 1661. in oct and by him dedic to Dr. Hen. King Bishop of Chichester who taking him into his patronage confer'd a Cure on him near that City where soon after he finished his course in a craz'd condition occasion'd by a high conceit of his own worth and parts July 9. Rich. Stretton of New Coll. This person who was Chaplain of the said House was afterwards Chaplain to the L. Fairfax a Nonconformist Divine and a Traveller He hath written A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the Englâ—sh Prisoners of War being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany to Thoulon and back again With a description of the situation and fortifications of all the eminent Towns on the road of their Prisons and Hospitals the number and names of them that dâ—ed with the charity and sufferings of the Protestants Lond. 1690 qu. c. published under the name of Rich. Strutton an eye-witness of those things who perhaps hath written other matters Quaere This person who held forth among the godly for a time in an antiquated Dancing-school without the north gate of Oxon in the Winter season 1689 K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne lives now a Nonconformist-Preacher in Warwick lane in London Mar. 17. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll. Adm. 81. Bach. of Phys Three were admitted this year and one to practice Chirurgery but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Man of note Bach. of Div. May 29. Henry Hickman of Magd. Coll. Beside him were but two admitted but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was this year admitted nor one of Phys or of Divinity Incorporations These Cambridge men following were incorporated 13 July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act was finished Benedict Rively M. A. of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Reynolds Bishop of Norwich and a Preacher in that City and author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich at the funeral of Dr. Edw. Reynolds Lord Bish of Norw on Job 30.23 Lond. 1677. qu. Joh. Dowell M. A. of Christs Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leicestershire and author of The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified by the refutation of his book entit The historical narration of heresie and the punishments thereof Lond. 1683 in tw See more in Tho. Hobbes among the Writers an 1679. p. 481. Robert Sprackling M. of A. of Peter House This person who was born of a gentile family living at S. Lawrence and Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet in Kent became afterwards Doctor of Physick at Anger 's in France in which degree being incorporated in Cambridge became one of the Coll. of Physitians and author of Medela ignorantiae or a just and plain vindication of Hypocrates and Galen from the groundless imputations of M. N wherein the
married to Sir Edw. Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordsh Bt afterwards Earl of Lichfield 10 Mary begotten on the body of Mary Davies a Comedian in the Duke of Yorks Play-house She had afterwards the Sirname of Tuder given to her and on the 18 of Aug. or thereabouts an 1687 she was married to the Son of Sir Francis Radcliffe afterwards Earl of Derentwater 11 James begotten on the body of the said Eleanor Quinn was born in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westminster on Christmas day or thereabouts an 1671 and died in France of a sore leg about Michaelmas in 1680. Here are eleven natural Children set down but whether in order according to Birth I cannot justly tell you There was another Daughter begotten on the body of the said Barbara Duchess of Cleveland which the King would not own because supposed to be begotten by another and whether he own'd it before his death I cannot tell He also adopted for his Daughter the Daughter of the said Rog. Palmer E. of Castlemaine which was born of Barbara his Wife before she had knowledge of his Majesty After her adoption she was married to Thomas Lennard Lord Dacres Earl of Sussex But now after this digression le ts proceed to the rest of the incorporations Feb. 13. Joh. Heaver D. D. of Cambr. He had been Fellow of Clare Hall in that University was now Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton Coll and dying 23 of June 1670 was succeeded in his Canonry by Tho. Viner Bach afterwards Doct. of Div. Mar. 15. Anthony Horneck a German of Qu. Coll Mast of Arts of Wittemberg He is now an eminent Minister in Lond hath published several books of Divinity and Sermons and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers CREATIONS By the command of the Chancellour of the University were Creations made in all faculties in the latter end of Sept. at which time the King and Queen were in Oxon. Bach. of Law Sept. 28. Joh. Baylie of S. Johns Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Dr. Rich. Baylie President of that Coll was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of B. and Wells He died at or near Wells about the 20. of Jan. 1688. Mast of Arts. These following persons were created on the 28 of Sept. in a full Convocation then celebrated James Howard Earl of Suffolk John Greenvill Earl of Bathe chief Gentleman of his Majesties Royal Bedchamber He was before the Wars began a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall and after they began a Commander of note in his Majesties Army against the Rebels and at length entrusted by his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in the great affair of his restauration c. John Middleton Earl of Middleton in Scotland and L. High Commissioner thereof Henry Hamilton a young Nobleman of Ch. Ch E. of Clanbrazill Son of James sometimes E. of Clanbrazill Henry Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland He was afterwards Marq. of Worcester and Duke of Beaufort Charles Berkley Visc Fitz-Harding He was now Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold and one of the Lords of the Privy Council and dying in Whitehall of a short apoplectical distemper on the 12 of June 1668 Sir Thomas Clifford succeeded him in his Treasurership William Lord Cavendish Son of the Earl of Devonshire He was afterwards Earl of Devonshire Joh. Hales of Ch. Ch. Bts. Franc. Hen. Lee of Ditchley Bts. Sir Allen Apsley Kt. He was originally as 't is said of Trinity Coll. in this University and afterwards a faithful adherer to his Majesties cause in the worst of times After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Captain Lieutenant in the Regiment of James Duke of York Falconer to his Majesty and Treasurer of the Houshold and Receiver general to the said Duke This person who died in S. James Square near London about the 15 of Octob. 1683 hath written and published a Poem entit Order and disorder or the world made and undone Being meditations upon the Creation and the Fall as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis Lond. 1679. in five Cantoes He was a Burgess for Thetford in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. May 1661. Henry Guy Esq sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Cup-bearer to the Qu. He was afterwards an Officer of the Excise in the North was a Recruiter for Headon in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became Secretary to the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury 26. Mar. 1679 and in the same year one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber upon the resignation of Col. Silas Titus Afterwards he was made a Commissioner of the Custom-house c. Sidney Godolphin Esq This person who is of the antient family of Godolphin in Cornwall was afterwards a Recruiter for Helston in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber and the last of the four Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury on the 26. Mar. 1679 about which time Thomas Earl of Danby was discharg'd of his place of Lord Treasurer In the middle of Apr. 1684 he succeeded Sir Leol Jenkyns in the place of Secretary of State and on the 17 of that month he was sworn to that office at a Council held at Hampton Court On the 24 of Aug. following he was by his Majesty declared the first Commissioner of the Treasury and thereupon Char. Earl of Middleton succeeded him in his Secretaryship and in the beginning of Sept. following he was by his Majesty created a Baron by the title of Lord Godolphin of Rialton in Cornwall About the 16 of Feb. 1684 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then newly dead he was by K. Jam. 2. made Lord Chamberlain to his Queen and about the 5 of Jan. 1686 he with John Lord Bellasyse Henry Lord Dover Sir Joh. Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were appointed Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer of England Laurence Earl of Rochester being about that time removed from that great office On the 15 of Nov. or thereabouts an 1690 his Majesty K. Will. 3. was pleased to order a new Commission to pass the Great Seal constituting the said Sidney Lord Godolphin the first Commissioner of the Treasury The other Commissioners then appointed were Sir Joh. Lowther of Lowther Bt. Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold Richard Hamden Esq Chanc. of the Exchecquer Sir Steph. Fox Kt. and Tho. Pelham Esq Sir Franc. Drake of Exeter Coll. Bts. Tho. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bts. Charles Berkley Knight of the Bath a Noble man of Ch. Ch. and eldest Son to George Lord Berkley Grevill Verney of Compton Murdack in Warwickshire Knight of the Bath He died at Lond. 23. July 1668. Bernard Greenvill Esq He was afterwards a Recruiter for Leskard in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 and one of the Groomes of his Majesties Bedchamber Sir
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
written to James Lane of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. eldest Son of Geor. Visc Lanesborough Peter Worm a Dane son of the great Antiquary Olaus Worm was a Student this year and after in Oxon where obtaining several accomplishments became after his return to his Country Secretary to the K. of Denmarke c. In the beginning of July Joh. Rodolph Westenius and Sebastianus Feschius both of Basil in Germany were entred Students in the publick library and continued in Oxon about two years The first was afterwards Professor of the Greek tongue at Basil and a publisher of several noted books the other also a publisher of certain curious and critical matters which are now highly valued by Scholars oâ— his Country c. An. Dom. 1670. An. 22 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews now Dean of Rochester Sept. 16. Proct. Alex. Pudsey of Magd Coll. Apr. 13. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. June 18. Benj. Hoffman of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters 1673. Oct. 10. Walt. Harrys of New Coll. 20. Robert Cooper of Pemb. Coll. 31. Gilbert Budgell of Trinity Coll. Of the last of these three you may see more among the Masters an 1673. Jan. 18. Austin Freezer of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 8. Edward Tyson of Magd. Hall Of A. Freezer you may see more among the Masters an 1879. Mar. 4. John Hughes of Ball. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1684. W. Harrys R. Cooper and Edw. Tyson have published several things and therefore they are to be remembred hereafter Admitted 240. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. This ingenious person hath translated from English into Latin a book written by the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq entit The Origine of formes and qualities See more of him the said Mr. Russell in William Russell among the Writers p. 150. Apr. 22. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Anne the Countess Dowager of Hâ—nry Earl of Rochester and Curat of Adderbury in Oxfordshire for Dr. Bâ—aw Bishop of Landaff who gave him a Preb. in that Church Rector of Shabington and at length one of the Vicars of Waddesdon in Bucks on the death of Joh. Ellis He hath published A Sermon preached at the funeral of John Earl of Rochester 9. Aug. 1680. on Luke 15.7 Oxon. 1680 qu. A discourse it is so excellent that it hath given great and general satisfaction to all good and judicious readers May 11. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 11. Tho. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. June 8. Will. Pindar of Vniv Coll. This person who was son of Nich. Pindar was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire bred in Grammar learning there and for a time was an Apprentice to an Oil-drawer in that Town as Rich. Thompson mention'd under the year 1667 was Afterwards entring into Holy Orders he succeeded Joh. Inett in the Rectory of S. Ebbes Church in Oxon which place he keeping but for a little time was made Chaplain to Ford Lord Grey of Werke in whose service he died He was a very ready Disputant and a noted preacher and might if life had been spared been very serviceable to the Church of England He hath published 1 A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Guildhall Chappel on Prov. 17.27 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 Sermon of divine providence in the special preservation of government and Kingdoms on Psalm 127.1 This Sermon being prophetically delivered a little before his death concerning some change that would follow was upon the discovery of the Popish Plot in the latter end of Sept. 1678 published in the beginning of Nov. following in qu. with the date at the bottom of the title of 1679. He died 23 Sept. 1678 and was buried as I have heard at Gosfield in Essex where the Lord Grey hath a Seat June 8. Jam. Lane of Ch. Ch. He was the eldest son of Sir Geor. Lane Bt Visc Lanesborough in Ireland 28. Thomas Crane of Brasn Coll. This Divine who was son of a Father of both his names of Lathom in Lancashire was afterwards Curat at Winwick in his own Country for Dr. Sherlock and published Job's assurance of the resurrection Sermon at Winwick in Lancashire 25. June 1689 at the funeral of Rich. Sherlock D. D. late Rector there on Job 19.25.26.27 Lond. 1690. qu. He is now living in Lancashire a Non-juror July 5. Maurice Wheeler of Ch. Ch. He afterwards had a hand in translating from Greek The second Vol. of Plutarch's Morals Lond. 1684. oct That part which he performed bears this title Of curiosity or an overbusie inquisitiveness into things impertinent He is now Master of the College School in Glocester and is in a capacity of doing greater matters July 7. Edward Drew of Or. Coll. July 7. Tho. Salmon of Trinity Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Exeter Coll. was afterwards Can. resid of the Church of Exeter and Archdeacon of Cornwall Oct. 20. Joh. Grayle of Exet. Coll. Mar. 1. Joh. Floyr of Queens Coll. Adm. 81. or thereabouts ☞ But one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year Bach. of Div. Apr. 16. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. This Divine who had been Proctor of the Univ. was afterwards Rector of Church-Laugton in his native Country of Leycestershire and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester for that County 23. Mar. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. May 11. Joshua Stopford of Brasn Coll. July 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. John Mayow of All 's Coll. He was now and after a profess'd Physitian Doct. of Phys Dec. 17. David Thomas of New Coll. Doct. of Div. June 25. Thomas Pitâ—is of Linc. Coll. July 2. Giles Hinton of Mert. Coll. 9. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll. The second was an Accumulator and the last a Compounder 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Accumulator His Letters Test under the hand of Humphrey B. of London which he brought with him when he was to take his degree partly run thus Vir egregiè doctus multiplici literatura excultus eoque doctis bonisque plurimi factus est adamatus tum ob singularem eruditionem humanitatem morumque suavitatem tum ob vitam inculpatam pie institutam in concionando facultatem promptam exquisitum ingenium His nominibus apud nos claret c. Incorporations July 12. Joh. Bonwick Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was of Christs Coll. in that University Octob. 26. Will. Briggs M. A. of C. C. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of Phys Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian to the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark and author of Opthalmographia sive oculi ejusque partium descriptio Anatomica Cui accessit nova visionis Theoria Camb. 1676 in tw c. An account of this book is in the Philos
Rhine and Prince Elector of the Empire elder Brother to Pr. Rupert and he the Son of Frederick Co. Pal. of the Rhine Pr. Elect. of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of King Jam. 1. of England was received with solemnity the day before in the University and took up his Lodgings in the Deans apartment in Ch. Ch. The next day being conducted to the publick Schools by the Bishop and others and thence to the Apodyterium he was there habited in scarlet with some of his retinue Thence he was conducted by the Beadles and Dr. Morison the Botanick Professor who at that time executed the office of the Kings Professor of Phys then absent to the Theater where the Convocation was solemnized And coming near to the Vicech Seat the said Doctor presented him with a little Speech which being done the Vicech created him with another and then was conducted to his seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellour All which with the Creation of some of his retinue being finish'd the Orator complemented him with another Speech in the name of the University The next day his Highness left Oxon went to Hampton Court and just at his arrival there Sept. 12 news was brought him that his Father died suddenly at Edingen between Manheim and Frankendale on the 7 of the said month according to the account there followed Philip Christopher de Koningsmarck Count or Earl of Westerwick and Stegholme Lord in Rotenburg and New-house was created Doct. of Physick the same day Sept. 9. as one of the retinue of the aforesaid Electoral Pr. He was Brother if I mistake not to Charles John Count of Koningsmarck who in the latter end of 1681 was committed to Newgate and brought to a publick trial of his life for a deep suspicion of having a signal hand in the murder of Tho. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Esq in revenge as 't was then said for depriving him of his Mistress called Elizabeth Countess of Ogle dau and heir of the antient and illustrious family of Piercy Earl of Northumberland William Dutton Colt an Engl. man Master of the Horse to Prince Rupert Uncle to the Elect. Pr. He is now or else was lately his Majesties Resident at Lunenberg and Brunswick Eberhardus Frederic à Venningen of Alsatia in Germany Master of the Game or Hunting to the Elect. Prince Abraham Dorr a German of Hanaw Joh. Bernhardus Ferber a Saxon. These four last were of the retinue of his Electoral Highness Feb. 25. Andr. de Mellevil a Knight and Colonel Feb. 25. Anton. de Saictot These last two who were of the retinue of the Prince of Hannover were created Doct. of Phys after the said Prince had been created Doct. of the Civil Law Doct. of Div. Sept. 9. Fred. Christian Wincherus Professor of Medicine in Heidelberg as in the pub reg 't is said was created in the same Convocation wherein the Electoral Prince was created being one of his retinue Oct. 21. Thom. Hinde Bach. of Div. of Brasn Coll. and Chaplain to James Duke of Ormonde He succeeded in the Deanery of Limerick in Ireland one Dr. Will. Smith promoted to the See of Killala and died in his house in Limerick in the month of Nov. 1689. An. Dom. 1681. An. 33. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde who being as yet in Ireland did on the 2 of June this year upon notice received that some of the delegated power were dead appoint new Delegates to manage and execute in his absence all powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton again nominated by the Chanc. Letters dat at Kilkenny 27. Sept. confirmed by Convocation 2. Oct. Proct. Joh. Halton of Qu. Coll. Apr. 13. Rich. Oliver of S. Jo. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Hudson of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters 1684. 5. Will. Digby of Magd. Coll. He succeeded his Brother Simon sometimes of Magd. Coll. in the honour of Baron of Geashill in Ireland which Simon who had succeeded in the said Barony his elder Brother Robert mention'd in these Fasti an 1676 died on the 19 of January 1685 and was buried in the Church of Coleshull in Warwickshire among the graves of his Ancestors Oct. 27. Rich. Stafford of Magd. Hall Soon after he went to one of the Temples to study the Law and is now a frequent Writer See in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 829. Dec. 1. Joh. Jones of Trin. Coll lately of New Inn. 17. Leopold William Finch of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsey Adm. 177. Bach. of Law June 6. Joh. Northleigh of Exet. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. and a publisher of certain books Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. June 10. Tho. Bent of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in or near Friday-street in London bred in the quality of a Com. in the said Coll and afterwards travelled but died before he had consummated his intended journey He hath translated from French into English An historical defence of the Reformation in answer to a book entit Just prejudices against the Calvinists Lond. 1683 in a pretty large qu originally written by Monsieur Claud Minister of the reformed Church at Charenton The Translator hath a preface to this book wherein he saith that the Romanists caused the said book of Claud to be burned in France This Mr. Bent died at Geneva 21. of May 1683 aged 23 years and was buried in the Cemitery or Yard on the south side of the Church of S. Gervaice there Soon after was a monument fixed on the wall of that Church near his grave with an Epitaph thereon made by Richard Blackmore M. A. of S. Edm. Hal◠which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Adm. 95. Bach. of Phys Feb. 9. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall Adm. 4. Bach. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Hugh Barrow of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. March 2. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. Mr. Barrow who is now Rector of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad Pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire hath written A brief account of the Nullity of K. James's title and of the obligation of the present Oathes of Allegiance Lond. 1689. qu. He is a learned man and able to write other things which would without doubt be more pleasing to the sober part of Scholars As for Mr. Cade who was now or about this time Rector of Allington and Vicar of Smeeth in Kent hath published The foundation of Popery shaken or the Bishop of Romes Supremacy opposed in a Sermon on Matth. 16.18.19 Lond. 1678. qu. Mar. 2. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain of S. Saviours in Southwark and author of A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Lond. in Guild-hall Chappel on Sunday 20.
and Astrology He is now Schoolmaster of Carlile Adm. 266. Bach. of Law Four were admitted this year of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one June 14. He was afterwards Secretary to the Royal Society for a time and wrot the Philosophical Transact from numb 167. to num 178 inclusive at which time followed Mr. Ed. Halley who began with nu 179. This Mr. Musgrave was afterwards Doctor of Physick Mast of Arts. May 24. Rawlins Dring of Wadh. Coll. June 19. Humph. Hody of Wadh. Coll. July 5. Thomas Rogers of Hart Hall Author of a Poem called Lux occidentalis c. 6. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. 6. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll. The first of these two is Vicar of Totness the other of Dartmouth in Devonshire and both authors and writers and persons of good repute in that Country for their learning and zeal for the Ch. of England Mar. 6. Hen. Hellier of C. C. Coll. Adm. 101. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Apr. 3. Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. Compounder July 18. George Walls of Ch. Ch. He hath published A Sermon preached to the Natives of the City and County of Worcester in the Church of S. Lawrence Jewry at their solemn meeting 28 June 1681. on Nehem. 8.10 Lond. 1681. qu. He was afterwards or about that time Chaplain to the Company of English Merchants trading at Hamborough Nov. 15. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. Mar. 12. Rich. Roderick of Ch. Ch. The last of these two who was Vicar of Blandford forum in Dorsetshire published A Serm. preached 19 of Aug. 1684 at the consecration of the Lord Weymouths Chappel in Longleat on 2. Chron. 7.16 Lond. 1684 qu. Dedicated to Thom. L. Thynne Baron of Warmister Viscount Weymouth c. Adm. 16. Doct. of Law Apr. 26. Thomas Wainewright of All 's Coll. July 21. Rich. Maris of S. Johns Coll. The first of these two is Chancellour of the Diocess of Chester Doct. of Phys May 24. Joh. Bateman of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow and Censor of the Coll. of Phys July 5. Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll. July 5. Charles Lybbe of Magd. Hall The first of these two is now Fellow of the said Coll. of Physitians Dec. 1. Phineas Ellwood of C. C. Coll. Doct. of Div. Apr. 3. Thom. Hyde of Queens Coll an Accumulator and Compounder July 5. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. 7. Thom. Seddon alias Sidney of All 's Coll. The first of these two is now the worthy Bishop of Bangor Incorporations Three and twenty Masters of Arts of Cambridge were incorporated this year mostly after the Act among whom I find these July 11. Charles Mountague of Trin. Coll a younger Son of Edward Earl of Sandwich He was this year Gent. Com. for a time of Linc. Coll afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Sir R. Lloyd deceased and is now High Sherriff of Durham Michael Altham of Christs Coll. was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Vicar of Latton in Essex and author of A dialogue between a Pastor and Parishioner touching the Lords Supper c. printed several times in tw As also of 3. or more Discourses against Popery in the raign of K. Jam. 2. Tho. Browne of S. Johns Coll was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and published Concio ad clerum habita coram Acad. Cantab. 11. Junii 1687 pro gradu Bach. in S. Theol. ubi vindicatur vera valida Cleri Anglicani ineunte reformatione ordinatio Lond. 1688. qu. To which is added an English Sermon of the same author turn'd by him into Lat. intit Concio habita 3 Julii 1687 de Canonica Cleri Anglicani Ordinatione as also the Instruments of the consecration of Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury Besides the said Masters were also incorporated these persons following Jul. 11. James Fulwood Doctor of the Laws of Queens Coll. in Cambridge John Worth Doct. of Div. of Dublin and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick there was incorporated the same day c. Creations Jul. 11. John Pooley M. of A. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of Kilkenny in Ireland was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the said Duke Chanc. of this Univ. Hugh Drysdale of the Univ. of Dublin Preacher in the Cath. Ch. at Kilkenny Chapl. to the said Duke and Archdeacon of Ossory was actually created Doct. of Div. on the same day by vertue of the Letters of the said Duke Feb. 12. Samuel De Langle or Del ' Angle was actually created D. of Div. without paying any fees by vertue of Chancellours Letters written in his behalf which partly runs thus Mr. Sam. De Langle Minister of the reformed Church at Paris is retired into England with his whole family with intentions to live here the remainder of his time He hath exercised his function 35 years partly at Roven and partly at Paris He is only Mast of Arts which the Protestant Divines usually take and no farther c. When he was conducted into the house of Convoc by a Beadle and the Kings Professor of Div all the Masters stood up in reverence to him and when the Professor presented him he did it with an harangue Which being done and Mr. De Langle had taken his place among the Doctors he spoke a polite Oration containing thanks for the honour that the most famous University of Oxon had done unto him c. He had been Preacher of the chief Church of the reformed Religion in France called Charenton near Paris and was afterwards made Prebendary of Canterbury c. This year was a Sojourner in the University and a Student in the public Library Fredericus Deatsch of Conigsberg in Prussia who is now or at least was lately Professor of Divinity and of the Tongues at Conigsberg and there held in great esteem for his learning c. An. Dom. 1683. An. 35 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Lloyd Princ. of Jes Coll. Proct. Henr. Gandy of Oriel Coll. Apr. 18. Arthur Charlet of Trin. Coll. Apr. 18. Bach. of Arts. May 9. Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Sowtherne of Pemb. Coll. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. 26. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters in 1686. Nov. 27. Will. Nicholls of Wadham afterwards of Merton Coll. Adm. 161. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Charles Finch of All 's Coll. was one a younger son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch. Apr. 24. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Brasnose Coll. Jun. 13. Thom. Creech of Wadh afterwards of All 's Coll. Oct. 10. Miles Stapylton of All 's Coll. The last of these two hath translated into English The Life of Caius Marius Printed in the Third vol. of Plutarch's Lives Lond. 1684. oct Dec. 13. Tho. Lane of Mert. Coll. Mar. 22.
Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law July 27. Edward Filmer of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll. Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Doct. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. and is now Bishop of Gloc. 20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 hath published 1 The State-informer enquired into Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15 part of the 3. and 4. verses Lond. 16â—4 qu. 2 Englands restauration parallel'd in Judges or the Primitive Judge and Counsellour Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689 on Isay 1.26.27 Lond. 1689. qu. July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch. He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington and after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680. Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. This learned Divine who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam in a Greek fol according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition an 1550 wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with both at home and abroad Also the Readings of the Fathers Greek and Latine with a judgment upon such Lections as are more considerable with large annotations upon them together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture and other places illustrative of particular words or passages in each verse placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference by which in every verse may be seen what part of each verse the said places of Scripture do refer to This most elaborate work was began above 15 years since and without intermission carried on with great industry and care He hath consulted all the antient Mss of the whole or any part of the New Test now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentick Ms copies at Rome Paris and Vienna The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon and the impression began at his charge in his Lordships Printing-house near the Theater After the said Bishops death his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking the author Dr. Mill refunded the prime costs and took the impression on himself and at his proper expence it is now so near finish'd that the publication is expected within an year with very learned Prolegomena that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test and other most early records of the Church Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nov. going before In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div. but whether he did so it appears not Incorporations Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year mostly after the Act but not one of them is yet a Writer as I can yet find Among them was Byron Needham Brother to Tho. Visc Kilmurrey in Ireland July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge This person who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsore about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh as it seems is a learned man as divers books published by him in English and Lat. shew the titles of which are now too many to be here set down See before in p. 286. Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year May 2 he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire Creations Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton of Ch. Ch being about to leave the University was actually created Mast of Arts. Charles Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland of Ch. Ch the eldest Son of Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquess is now Duke of Beaufort These two young Noblemen were presented by the publick Orator each with a little speech This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the publick Library one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things and afterwards became Professor of Div. in the University of Altorf Rector of a Church in Nuremberg c. An. Dom. 1682. An. 34. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Oct. 6. Proct. Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll. The first of these two who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl was born and bred in the Free-school there and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll when Bach. of Arts he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh in oct Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson To this Letter are added Two Prayers one for the submission to the divine Will another for contentment This ingenious and religious young man died in his Fathers house 20. Decemb. 1684 and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mention'd on the W. side of the Pulpit The other Rob. Harrison who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest which hapned at Oxford May 31. an 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book which is not yet extant entit Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus c. taken mostly from Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. and said to be written by a well-wisher to Astron