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
was esteemed by those thereof a learned man as were his contemporaries Jam. Birch Philip Flower and Dan. Evans all three Bachelaurs of Div. and fellows of the said Coll. No. 1. Jaspar Mayne of Ch. Ch. No. 1. Rob. Joyner of Pemb. Coll. The last succeeded Will. Cartwright in the Succentorship of Salisbury Jan. 16. Aylmer Lynch of Cambridge Jan. 16. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Henry Myriell of Cambr. Jan. 16. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. The first of these four was after his Majesties restauration made Prebend of Stratford in the Church of Salisbury and of Welton-Westhall in the Church of Linc. The third Hen. Myriell died 22. Apr. 1643 aged 33 years and was buried in Allsaints Church in Oxon. As for Fulham and Gurgany there will be mention made of them in these Fasti an 1660. Tho 't is said that Nath. Conopius a Greecian and about this time one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch. was actually created Bach. of Div yet no thing appears in the University register of that matter Doct. of Law From the first of Nov. to the 21. of Febr. were actually created 60 or more Doctors of the Civil Law the names of most of which do follow Nov. 1. Rob. Lord Pierpont Vicount Newark and Earl of Kingston upon Hull sometimes a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. was actually created Doct. of the said faculty He was now Lieutenant General of all his Majesties forces within the Counties of Lincolne Rutland Huntingdon Cambridge and Norfolk and lost his life in his service near to Gaynsborough in Lincolnshire 30 of July 1643. The most Loyal Sir Franc. Wortley hath an Elegy on him in his Characters and Elegies which being just and deservedly spoken of him I shall refer the Reader to it but the book I doubt is scarce to be seen or had This most noble Count Pierpont was Father to Henry Marq. of Dorchester born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire an 1606 educated for some time in Eman. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards was a hard Student for 10 or 12 hours every day Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty was with him at Oxon after the battel at Edghill and had a degree confer'd on him or at least was incorporated tho neglected to be registred by the common scribe of the University He was then esteemed a learned man as being well read in the Fathers Schoolmen Casuists the Civil and Can. Law and reasonably well vers'd in the common Law having about that time been admitted a Bencher of Greys Inn. In 1649 he applyed his study to Medicine and Anatomy and in 1658 he was admitted Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond and became their pride and glory He hath published 1 Two speeches spoken in the House of Lords One Concerning the rights of Bishops to sit in Parliament 21 of May and the other Concerning the lawfulness and conveniency of their intermedling in temporal affairs on the 24 of the same month Lond. 1641. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to the Trained-bands of Nottinghamshire at Newark 13 July 1642 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Letter to John Lord Roos written the 13 and printed on one side of a sheet of paper on the 25 of Feb. 1659. It was written upon occasion of some differences between the said Lord Roos and his Wife Anne Daughter of the said Marquess From which Lord the said Anne was afterwards for her whorishness lawfully divorced by sentence of the Court-Christian and then commonly known by the name of the Lady Anne Vaughan As soon as the said Letter was received by the Lord Roos he wrot another in answer to it in a buffooning stile 25 Feb. 1659 assisted therein by Sam. Butler afterwards known by the name of Hudibras which being printed also on one side of a sh of paper the Marq. made a reply with another paper entit 4 The reasons why the Marq. of Dorchester printed his letter 25. Feb. 1659 together with his answer to a printed paper called A true and perfect copy of the Lord Roos his answer to the Marquess of Dorchesters Letter written 25. Februar 1659. Printed 20. of March 1659 on one side of a sh of paper He the said Marquess hath as 't is probable other things extant or at least fit to be printed which I have not yet seen He died in his house in Charterhouse yard near London 8. Decemb. 1680 whereupon his body after it had laid in state for some time was conveyed to his antient Seat called Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire where it was buried in the Church of that place among the sepulchers of his name and family Soon after was published an Elegy on this noble and generous Marquess by John Crouch sometimes his domestick servant which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Rob. Dormer Earl of Caernarvan was actually created at the same time Nov. 1 This most loyal Count who was Mercurio magnus sed Marti major was kill'd the next year at Newbury fight and soon after had an Elegy made on him by Sir Francis Wortley before mention'd which is printed among his Characters and Elegies His body was for the present deposited in Jesus Coll. Chappel but soon after removed to his seat in Bucks James Lord Compton He was afterwards Earl of Northampton Lieutenant of the County of Warwick as also of the City of Coventry Recorder likewise of the said City as also of Northampton and of Tamworth and did excellent service for his Majesty in the time of the Rebellion especially by his routing the Parliament Forces near Banbury 6 of May 1643. He died at Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire 15 Dec. 1681 and was buried in a Vault by his Ancestors under the Church of Compton Winniate commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire He had a younger brother named Sir Charles Compton a most valiant person and one that had done his Maj. great service in the said Rebellion He died in the latter end of Nov. 1661 being then a Parl. man for the Town of Northampton and was buried at Sywell in Northamptonshire Robert Lord Rich. The same if I mistake not that was afterwards Earl of Holland Colonel Sir John Byron Knight of the Bath lately Lieutenant of the Tower of London He was about this time made Field-Marshal of all his Majesties Forces in the County of Worcester Salop Chester and North-Wales and in the 19 of Car. 1. was advanced to the title of Lord Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire Sir Will. Le Neve Kt Clarenceaux King of Arms. This person was of the antient family of his name living at Aslacton in Norfolk received some Academ education in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards by the favour of the Earl Marshal of England was created Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray 29 June 1624. Soon after he was made York Herald was imployed into France in the first of Car. 1 and from thence attended Qu. Henrietta Maria into
Cleypole a Gent. of Nâ—rthamptonshire made by Oliver Master of the Horse one of his House of Lords and a Knight and Baronet 16. of July 1657 he being then Clerk of the Hamper The said Elizabeth died 7. Aug. 1658 and was buried in Henry the Sevenths Chap. at Westm in a Vault made on purpose 5 Mary the second Wife of Thom. Bellasyse Vicount Fauconberg or Fauconbridge married to him with a great deal of state at Hampton-Court on the 18 of Nov. 1657 much about which time he was made one of Olivers Lords Several years after his Majesties restauration he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners 6 Frances the youngest Daughter was married to Mr. Rob. Rich the only Son of Robert Lord Rich Son of Robert Earl of Warwick on the 11 of Nov. 1657 and about the same time was made one of Olivers Lords or of the Other House This Mr. R. Rich died 16. of Feb. 1657 his Father on the 29. of May 1659 and his Grandfather on the 18 of Apr. 1658. Oliver Cromwell had also four Sisters one of which was married to John Desborow a Yeoman and a great lubberly Clown who by Olivers interest became a Colonel and if not of the Long yet of the Little Parliament which he helped to break About that time he became one of the Generals at Sea helped to set up his Brother in Law Protector for which he was made one of his Council Major General of divers Counties in the West one of the Lords of the Cinque-ports and of the other House c. Another Sister was married to Roger Whetstone an Officer in the Parliament Army but he dying before Oliver came to his greatness she was remarried to Joh. Jones a pretended Gent. of Wales a Recruiter of the Long Parliament and a Colonel afterwards one of the Kings Judges Governour of the Isle of Anglesie one of the Commissioners of Parliament for the government of Ireland in which office he acted tyrannically and one of the other House that is H. of Lords belonging to Cromwell c. He was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Charing-cross for having had a hand in the murder of his Prince on the 17. Oct. 1660. A third Sister was married to Valentine Walton of Stoughton in Huntingdonshire afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army and one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After her death he married the Daughter of one Pimm of Brill in Bucks Widow of Austen of the same place but upon the foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled from Justice to save his neck setled either in Flanders or the Low Countries and lived unknown for some time in the condition of a Gardiner with a certain Gentleman At length being sick and foreseeing he should die discovered himself to have been a man of fashion and desir'd that after his death his near relations in England might be acquainted with it His said second Wife retired after his Majesties restoration to Oxon and living in an obscure condition in Cat-street died meanly on the 14 Nov. 1662 and was buried in S. Mâ—ries Church A fourth Sister named Robina was married to Peter French D. D. and after his death to Dr. John Wilkins as I have told you elsewhere whereby she hung upon and was maintained by the revenues of the Church to her last Oliver Cromwell had several Uncles whose descendents taking not part with him only one or two they were not prefer'd by him He had also five Aunts the eldest of which named Joane was married to Francis Barrington whose Son Robert was countenanced by Oliver The second named Elizabeth was Wife of John Hamden of Hamden in Bucks Father of John Hamden one of the 5. members of Parliament excepted against by K. Ch. 1 and a Colonel for the Parliament in the beginning of the rebellion which John lost his life in their service in June 1643. By this match Oliver Cromwell came to be related to the Ingoldesbies and Goodwins of Bucks The third named Frances was the second Wife of Rich. Whalley of Kirton in Nottinghamshire Father to Edward Whalley a Colonel in the Parliament Army one of the Kings Judges Commissary General in Scotland one of Olivers Lords and a Major General He fled from justice upon the approach of the return of K. Ch. 2 and lived and died in a strange Land But now after these large digressions let 's return to the rest of the Creations this year Feb. 16. Joshua Cross lately of Linc. Coll and sen Proctor now Fellow of that of Magd and Natural Philosophy Reader of the University by the authority of the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon Soon after he left his Fellowship because he took to him a Wife but keeping his Readers place till his Majesties return was then discharg'd of it by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the regulation of the University He died in his house near Magd. Coll. 9. May 1676 aged 62 years and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In a meeting of the Delegates of the University the same day just before the Convocation began wherein Cross was created it was consulted among them that some Academical honour should be confer'd on Hierome Zanchy the Proctor then a Colonel in Ireland for the service of the Parliament At length it was Concluded that he should be adorned with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the beginning of the next year but whether it was done oâ— that he was diplomated it appears not Doct. of Phys June 13. Thomas Sclater M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was created by vertue of the Commendatory Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he was put upon this recommendation by Sir Thom. Widdrington c. This Thomas Sclater was Burgess for the University of Cambridge to serve in Richards Parliament an 1658. Feb. 16. John Wilkinson sometimes of Magd. Hall now one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates He was nephew to Dr. John Wilkinson President of Magd. Coll and Brother to Dr. Henry Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall lived afterwards at Doncaster in Yorkshire where he practiced among the Godly party and dying in 1655 was buried at Arksey near to that place I have made mention of two of both his names that were Writers in the Fasti of the first vol. pag. 816. 817 but this John the Physitian was no Writer Mar. 7. Will. Petty about this time Fellow of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates of the University who had received sufficient testimony of his rare qualities and gifts from L. Col. Kelsey the Deputy Governour of Oxford Garrison Doct. of Div. July 24. Daniel Greenwood Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll
there and I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same Franc. Fuller M. A. who published 1 A treatise of faith and repentance Lond 1684. 85. oct 2 Words to give to the young man knowledg and discretion or the law of kindness in the tongue of a Father to his Son Lond. 1685. oct c. These six last Masters were of the number of 31 Masters of Cambr. who were incorporated the next day after the conclusion of the Act July 14. Sept. 28. James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Visc Doncaster c. was incorporated M. A. as he had stood at Cambridge at which time the King Queen and their respective Courts were in Oxon He was presented by the University Orator with a flattering speech and in the plague year 1665 when the said King and Queen were at Oxon he was entred as a member in C. C. Coll. there This person who was the eldest natural Son of K. Ch. 2 was begotten on the body Mrs. Lucy Walters alias Barlow of Pembrokeshire as I have heard who as a spy was by Oliver imprisoned in the Tower of London in the beginning of 1656 but released thence in July the same year He was born at Roterdam in 1649 and for some time nurs'd there but when his Father K. Ch. 2. went into Scotland to be there crown'd by the Presbyterians he was being then known by the name of James Crofts committed to the care of his Grandmother Hen. Maria the Queen Mother of England then in France And what became of him afterwards a book written by S. T. a Novice and an unskilful author will tell you in his book entit An Historical Account of the heroick life and magnanimous actions of James Duke of Monmouth c. Lond. 1683. oct Which book câ—ming out in his life time I shall only add this that for raising a rebellion in the West parts of England in the beginning of K. Jam. 2 against whom he had acted several times very unworthily while he was Duke of York in order to the disinheriting him of the imperial Crown was taken carried to London committed to the Tower and at length on the 15 of July 1685 was beheaded on Tower-hill whereupon his body was buried in the Church or Chappel there dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula Having now this just opportunity laid before me I shall give you the names of all or most of the natural Children of the said K. Ch. 2. but before I begin with them you are to know that the said Mrs. Walters gave out that the said King did beget on her body a Daughter but because he would not own her I shall not number her among the Children She was first married to a Gentleman of Ireland and afterwards to Will. Fanshaw one of the Masters of the Requests The second was Charlott begotten on the body of ... Boyle Vicountess Shannon Sister to Tho. Killigrew Groom of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2 who was first married to .... Howard the only Son of Tho. Howard a younger Brother to the Earl of Suffolk and after his death to Will. Paston Son and Heir to Robert Vicount Yarmouth She died in her house in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westm 28. July 1684 and was buried without any Armes of her own because the King had not assign'd her any in the Abbey Church at Westminster 3 Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth begotten on the body of Mrs. Catherine Pegge of Leycestershire afterwards the Wife of Sir Edw. Green of Essex Bt. This Ch. Fitz-Ch who had married one of the Daughters of Tho. Earl of Danby died of a Bloody-flux at Tangier a City in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa which had been given to K. Ch. 2. when he took to Wife Catherine the Infanta of Portugal on the 17 of Octob. 1680 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried as I presume in the Abbey Ch. of Westminster Qu. 4 Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton begotten on the body of Barbara Wife of Roger Palmer Esq afterwards Earl of Castlemaine and Daughter of Will. Villiers Lord Grandison which Lord dying of his wounds received at Edghill Battle in 1642 was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon over whose grave a stately monument was erected some years after his Majesties restauration by his said Daughter Barbara This Charles Fitz-Roy who was born in Kingstreet in Westm and was for some time a Nobleman or Canon Commoner of Ch. Ch married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Wood sometimes one of the Clerks of the Spicery in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth by his second Wife the Daughter of Sir Tho. Gardiner sometimes Recorder of London This Dutchess of Southampton died without Issue near Whitehall in Nov. or Dec. 1680 and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster 5 Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewsion and Duke of Grafton begotten on the body of the said Barbara Wife of Rog. Palmer This Henry whom the K. for a considerable time would not own to be his Son and therefore the titles of Charles Fitz-Roy were in case he die without heirs male of his body to descend to George Fitz Roy whom I shall anon mention married Isabel the only Child of Henry Earl of Arlington He died at Cork in Ireland of a wound received while that place was besieged by the Forces of K. Will. 3 on the ninth of Octob. 1690 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried at Ewston in Suffolk near the body of the said Earl of Arlington 6 Geor. Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland begotten on the body of the said Barbara He was born in a Fellows Chamber in Merton Coll 28. Decemb. 1665 at which time the Queen and her Court lodged in that Coll as the King did at Ch. Ch to avoid the plague then raging in Lond. and Westm In the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1685 there was committed a clandestine marriage between him and a Woman of ordinary extract Widow of one Captain Lucy of Charlecot in Warwickshire a Captain in the Earl of Oxfords Regiment but were as it seems soon after parted 7 Charles begotten on the body of Eleanor Quinn or Gwinn a Comedian in the Kings Play-house c. was born in Lincolns-Inn-Fields about the 14 or 15 of May 1670 had the Sirname of Beauclere given to him 27. of Dec. 28 of K. Ch. 2 being then created Earl of Burford c. He is now Duke of S. Albans 8 Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond begotten on the body of Lovisa de Querovall a Lady of French extraction and an attendant on Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans when she came into England to give a visit to the K. her Brother an 1670. She was afterwards made Duchess of Portsmouth 9 Charlot a Daughter begotten on the body of Barbara before mention'd then Countess of Castlemaine afterwards Duchess of Cleveland The said Charlot was
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
in 1642. quarto 2 Speech in the House of Commons at the passing of two Bills Lond. 1641. qu. c. Several Arguments and Discourses See in Joh. Rushworths Append. p. 28. and in a book intit The Sovereigns Prerogative and Subjects Privileges discussed c. Lond. 1657. fol. Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in the 2.3.4.5.6 and 7. of King Charles I. Lond. 1683. fol. These things I think are all that he hath extant except his Humble submission and supplication to the House of Lords 28. Sept. 1642. which is more than once printed under his name yet whether genuine I cannot tell He was untimely taken from this world to the sorrow of his Majesty on the 27. of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and five being then a Colonel of a Foot Regiment in Oxon and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty and was buried between the two lower Pillars which divides the first North isle from the second on the North side of the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Hammond the University Orator did lay open to the large Auditory then present the great Loyalty prudence knowledge virtue c. that had been in the person that then lay dead before them Over his grave was a costly monument of black and white marble erected in the month of May an 1683 at the charge of his only daughter and Heir Anne Littleton the Widdow of Sir Thom. Littleton Bt with a noble inscription thereon wherein 't is said that this Edward Lord Littleton was descended from Tho. Littleton Knight of the Bath qui sub Edwardo IV. Justiciarius Leges Angliae municipales prius indigestas in Enchiridion feliciter reduxit Opus in omne aevum Jc tis venerandum c. GILES WIDDOWES was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1610 being then Bac. of Arts of that House of two years standing or more Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty entred into Orders and became a noted Preacher At length being made Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon he resign'd his Fellowship in 1621 and lived in the condition of a Commoner for several years in Gloc. Hall of which he was for the most part of his time Viceprincipal He was a harmless and honest man a noted Disputant well read in the Schoolmen and as conformable to and zealous in the established discipline of the Church of England as any Person of his time yet of so odd and strange parts that few or none could be compared with him He was also a great enemy to the schismatical Puritan in his Sermons and Writings which being much offensive to his quondam Pupil Will. Prynne a controversie therefore fell out between them an 1630 and continued for some time very hot till Prynne was diverted by other matters He hath written The schismatical Puritan Serm. at Witney concerning the lawfulness of Church authority for ordaining c. on 1. Cor. 14. ver ult Oxon. 1630. qu. Which being unadvisedly written and much displeasing to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. was as scurrilously answer'd by Prynne in his appendix to his Ante Arminisme The lawless kneeless schismatical Puritan Or a confutation of the Author of an appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus Oxon. 1631. qu. and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He was buried in the Chancel of S. Martins Church before-mention'd on the fourth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and five having been before much valued and beloved and his high and loyal Sermons frequented by the Royal Party and Soldiers of the garrison of Oxford to the poorer sort of whom he was always beneficial as also ready at all turns to administer to them in their distressed condition CHRISTOPHER POTTER Nephew to Dr. Barn Potter mention'd under the year 1641 received his first breath within the Barony of Kendall in Westmorland became Clerk of Queens Coll. in the beginning of 1606 and in that of his age 15 afterwaâ—ds Tabarder M. of Arts and Chaplain in 1613 and at length Fellow of the said College He was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray Provost of that House some of whose works he published and a zealous puritanical Lecturer at Abendon in Berks. where he was much resorted to for his edifying way of preaching In 1626 he succeeded the said Dr. Barn Potter in the Provostship of his Coll. and the next year proceeded in Divinity Soon after when Dr. Laud became a rising favourite in the Royal Court he after a great deal of seeking was made his creature and therefore by the precise Party he was esteemed an Arminian In the latter end of 1635 he being then Chapl. in Ord. to His Maj. he was made Dean of Worcester upon Dr. Rog. Manwarings promotion to the See of S. David having before had a promise of a Canonry of Windsore but never enjoyed it and in the year 1640 he executed the office or Vicechancellour of this University not without some trouble from the members of the Long Parliament occasion'd by the puritanical and factious party of the Univ. and City of Oxon. Afterwards the grand rebellion breaking out he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and therefore upon the death of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall he was designed and nominated by his Maj. to succeed him in the Deanery of Durham in the month of January 1645 but died before he was installed He was a Person esteemed by all that knew him to be learned and religious exemplary in his behavior and discourse courteous in his carriage and of a sweet and obliging nature and comely presence He hath written and published A Sermon at the consecration of Barnab Potter D. D. Bish of Carlile at Ely House in Holbourne 15. March 1628 on John 21.17 Lond. 1629. oct It must be now noted that a certain Jesuit known sometimes by the name of Edw. Knott and sometimes by that of Nich. Smith and at other times by Mathew Wilson which was his true name born at Pegsworth near Morpeth in Northumberland did publish a book intit Charitie Mistaken c. whereupon our Author Potter answered it in another intit Want of charity justly charged on all such Romanists as dare affirme that protestancie destroyeth salvation c. Oxon. 1633. oct Which book being perus'd by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. he caused some matters therein to be omitted in the next impression which was at Lond. 1634. oct But before it was quite printed Knott before-mention'd put out a book intit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholiques By way of reply upon an answer fram'd by Dr. Potter to a treatise which had formerly proved that charity was mistaken by Protestants c. printed beyond the Sea 1634. in qu. Whereupon Will. Chillingworth undertook him in his book called The religion of Protestants c. which contains an answer only to the first part of Mercy and truth c. For tho Chillingworth had made
whether vented ex tempore or forethought by a speaker Lond. 1682 in one sh in qu. said by the Bookseller who printed it that Dr. Rich. Steuart was the Author See more in Rich. Sherlock an 1689. The design of this small treatise is as also another of the same subject viz. about the meaning of the 55 Canon published by Dr. Heylyn to make out and evidence that the 55 of K. Jam. 1. enjoyns only an exhortation to or bidding of Prayer and that that Canon contains an express and precise form of Prayer not in the least to be deviated from by Ministers and that the primary design and scope of this Canon was not barely to lay down and prescribe matter heads and contents of Prayer which were to be left to be worded and expressed according to the discretion of the Minister which last is owned to be the more general practice of our Divines tho he saith it is directly against the intendment of the Canon These are all the things that Dr. Steuart hath written as I conceive and therefore I shall only say that when he lay upon his Death-bed at Paris in Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and one K. Ch. 2. gave him two visits being then newly arrived there from his escape from Worcester Fight and his concealment in England and that he was interred in an open burying place in the suburbs of S. German walled in and some time before granted to those of the reformed Religion to bury the bodies of their deceased His Epitaph over his grave made some years after his decease tells us that he died on the 14 of Nov. 1652 but false for it should be 1651 for every one of the English Nation that was then at Paris saith that he died shortly after K. Ch. 2. came into France after his Escape from Worcester Fight which was in the month of Octob. 1651. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 182. HENRY IRETON eldest son and heir of German Ireton of Attenton in Nottinghamshire Esq and brother to Sir Jo. Ireton Lord Mayor of London 1658 was born there or at least in that County became a Gent. Com. of Trinity Coll. in the year 1626 and in that of his age 16 took one degree in Arts in 1629 but left the University without compleating that degree by Determination At which time he had the character in that house of a stubborn and sawcy fellow towards the Seniors and therefore his company was not at all wanting Afterwards he went to the Middle Temple learned some grounds of the common Law became a man of a working and laborious brain which in the end led him into some errors When the grand Rebellion broke out he as a person natur'd to mischief took up Arms against the King and about that time married Bridget one of the daughters of Oliv. Cromwell then a Colonel of a Regiment afterwards Lord Protector of England By whose endeavours he became first a Captain afterwards a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and at length Commissary General upon the new modelling of the Army in the beginning of the year 1645. About that time I find him an active man and one very busie in breaking the Presbyterian Faction in the House of Commons to the end that the Independents might get the King into their own clutches His parts and abilities were such his dissimulation so profound and his mischievous designs had so clean a conveyance that his Father-in-law Cromwell made frequent use of him when he was put to a push to compleat his wicked designs And having always found him to be very capacious of overthrowing Monarchy and a thorow-pac'd dissembler under the mask of Religion being absolutely the best Prayer-maker and Preacher in the Army he with Col. Joh. Lambert who had likewise studied in the Inns of Court and was of a subtle working brain did put him upon writing a Remonstrance on the Armies behalf for justice to be done on the King Whereupon retiring in private for some days to Windsore Castle as I have been informed he drew up the Remonstrance and after he had communicated it to Fairfax the Generalissimo whom he and Cromwell made a stalking horse and to believe any thing and the prime Officers of the Army they caused it to be delivered to the H. of Commons by the hands of Col. Isaac Ewer and seven other Officers Which done it was printed under this title A Remonstrance of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax Lord General of the Parliament Forces and of the general council of Officers held at S. Albans the 16 of Nov. 1648. presented to the Commons assembled in Parliament the 20 instant and tendered to the consideration of the whole Kingdom Lond. 1648 in 9 sheets in qu. Which Remonstrance being read to his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight he propounded four Queries thereupon against the power of the Army which may be seen in his Works printed 1662. p. 671. The said Ireton also who was about that time one of the Commissioners of the Navy did write or at least had a chief hand in a certain Pamphlet called The Agreement of the people meaning of the Army published in the month of Jan. 1648 judiciously answer'd by Will. Ashurst Esq a Parliament man for Newton in Lancashire and a Presbyterian The said Agreement with a Petition was presented to the Parliament in the name of all the Army by Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond and divers chief Officers thereof on the 20 day of the same month of Jan. He the said Ireton was chiefly employed also and took upon him the business of the pen in all the Declarations Desires Modules and Transactions of the Army nay and in all or most Letters written by Fairfax the General to the Parliament before the K. was beheaded being esteemed a person full of invention and industry and skill'd in the common Law About that time he became a busie man to bring his Maj. to his Tryal had a hand in drawing up the Ordinance for it and the Precept for proclaiming the High Court of Justice sate as a Judge among the rest when he was tried and was one of the Committee that appointed the time and place of his Execution Afterwards in June 1649 he was appointed by Parliament the next Commander in chief under Cromwell in his Expedition for Ireland that is to be Maj. General and after his arrival a Commission and Patent was sent to him to be President of Mounster After Cromwell the Lord Lieutenant had given an account to the Parliament of affairs done there he returned into England in June 1650 at which time he left Ireton his Deputy to prosecute the Parliaments Interest there and acting highly against such that they called Rebels was in his way to Limerick taken with a sudden disease some said the plague on the 16 day of November whereupon being conveyed in all hast to Limerick died there on the 26 of the said month in sixteen
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâ—over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the â—â—ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
prospect of Qu. Cath. the Royal Consort of K. Ch. 2 she found means to have it pluck'd down Some time after his Majesties restauration he invented a new way of farthings of which he made demonstration to the King and Council so plainly that they were satisfied that they could not possibly be counterfeited and that one farthing could not be like another but that they should differ in some little thing And having then a design to get a patent for the making of them for England was put aside by Pr. Rupert and at length was content with one only for Ireland To which place taking a journey soon after died there before he could effect his design He hath written and published A design for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles in the Fields near London The benefits of it declared and the objections against it answerâ—d Lond. 1641. in 5. or 6. sh in qu. Experimental proposals how the K. may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets with ease to the people London may be rebuilt and all proprietors satisfied money may be lent at 6 l. per cent on pawns and the fishing trade set up and all without straining or thwarting any of our laws and customs Lond. 1666. qu. Defence of Bill-credit Printed at the end of the former pamphlet About the year 1663 he printed an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by bills of exchange which should pass current instead of money to prevent robbery but this I have not yet seen He died in Ireland on the 3. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and seventy and his body being brought into England was buried in the Church at Harting by its Ancestors He was a great Virtuoso of his time yet none of the Royal Society and might have done greater matters if that he had not been disincouraged for those things he had done before HENRY YELVERTON Baronet was born of an antient and gentile family at Easton Manduit or Mauduit in Northamptonshire baptized there 6 of July 1633 educated in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London admitted a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1650 where he made as great proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age was capable of and became so exact a Latinist and Greecian that none of his time went beyond him He hath written A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ Wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled the miracles done by our Saviour Apostles and Christians c. Lond. 1662. oct To which is added A disquisition touching the Sybils and Sybilline writings c. Written by John Twysden Broth. to Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent both the Uncles of Sir H. Yelverton who hath also written something in vindication of the Church of England against Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. which I have not yet seen and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish of Durham entit The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the authority of the Primitive Church c. Pr. in oct Which Bishop Sir Hen. had kept in his family several years in the time of that Bishops persecution and was as tender of him as of his parent shewing thereby as indeed he was a true Son of the Church of England He died in the flower of his age on the 3. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at Easton Manduit among the graves of his relations leaving then behind him by Susan his wife sole daughter and heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen Charles his eldest Son afterwards a Noble-man of Ch. Ch. and called up to the House of Lords where he took his place as Lord Grey of Ruthen He died of the small pox unmarried in his Lodgings in the Pall-mall within the liberty of Westm on the 17. of May 1679 and was as I suppose buried at Easton Manduit CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1621 where going through the servile offices was made Fellow when Master of Arts About which time entring into holy Orders according to the statutes of that House he became a Preacher was actually created Bac. of Div. in 1642 and afterwards made Vicar of Milford in Hampshire He hath written Fasciculus Praeceptorum Logicalium in gratiam juventutis Academiae Oxon compositus Oxon. 1660. sec edit in oct and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died on S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Milford before mention'd· Over his grave was soon after put this epitaph Memoriae sacrum Christopheri Airay S. T. Bac. olim Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii hujus ecclesiae Vicarii vigilantissimi viri summae integritatis judicii acerrimi ingenii literarum omnium capacis qui deficillimo seculo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit Mortalitati tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. c. SAMUEL KEME or Kem was born according to the Matricula in the City of London became a Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Act term 1621 aged 16 years but how long he continued there I know not Sure I am that a certain author tells us that for those few weeks he wore a gown in Magd. Hall he obtained the title of a most notorious lyer that ever wore long ears In 1624 he was elected Demie of Magd. Coll at which time he said that he was born in Surrey and that he was in the nineteenth year of his age In that House he continued till after he was Bach. of Arts and then taking holy Orders he had a cure bestowed on him In 1636 the King being then in Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Divinity about which time he became Rector of the Church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near Ricot in Oxfordshire and a retainer if I mistake not to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot Esq Patron of the said Church by virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth the dau and heir of Francis L. Norris Earl of Berks. At the turn of the times in 1641 he put a Curate into his Living sided with the Rebels took the Covenant was made Chaplain to and Captain of a Troop of Horse in the Regiment of Basil Earl of Denbigh prayed and preached often to encourage the Soldiers to fight laid open to them the righteousness of their cause preached against the K. and his followers and endeavoured to make them believe that all that were about him were Papists or at least popishly affected When any Officer of the Regiment was kill'd he was ready to preach his funeral Sermon particularly that of Major Pinkney slain in the beginning of July 1644 and was ready at all hours to do the like provided the party died not a natural death When he
The faithful Shepherd on Psal 80.1 Ibid. 1665. qu. 6 The flying Sea on Psal 114.5 Printed 1665. qu. 7 The only way to preserve life preached before the House of Commons at Oxon on Amos 5. ver 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these he hath several other Sermons which I have not yet seen He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion which was published in English an 1664 but this neither have I yet seen At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny By his last Will and testam dat 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile worth forty pounds per an to be setled upon eight poor distressed Widows for whom he had erected eight several Alms-houses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocess In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut of Ireland for not promoting him as 't is thought to a higher Bishoprick Which being esteemed scandalous was struck out of his Will when proved JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents in Hampshire as it seems educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1652 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1663 being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet as it appears by this book which he composed when a young man Musae sacrae seu Jonas Jeremiae threni Daniel Graeco redditi carmine Oxon. 1652. oct and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses dispersed in various books He died at Petersfield on Good Friday Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton dated at Farnham 26. May 1683. HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sav. was born of a gentile Family at Dobs hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nov. 1625 was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that 1630 he was compleated Master of his faculty In the beginning of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with William Lord Sandys whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married and by the opportunity of that journey he not only learned the Language of that Country saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities but learn'd to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students Soon after his return he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity After the restauration of K. Ch 2 and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Glocester an 1665 and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith He hath written and published Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae an 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus aff c. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after these questions were answer'd by John Tombes of Magd. Hall Thesis Doctoris Savage nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum c. Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombes Printed at the end of Thesis Confirmatio c. Reasons shewing that there is no need of such reformation of the publick 1. Doctrine 2. Worship 3. Rites and Ceremonies 4. Church Government and 5. Discipline as is pretended c. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson since B. of Chester the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii c. entit No necessity c. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage were wrot against a Pamphlet called Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges an 1665. Which tho in the title it is said to have been wrot by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England yet Mr. Baxter saith that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation c. meaning I conceive the said Reasons which so much as he farther affirms offended the Episcopal party This is yet further rendred the more probable because that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. Pearsons No necessity c. Cornel. Burges as possibly judging himself more concern'd than any body else in the success of these Reasons c. in a Postscript to a Treatise of his annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity c. The said Reasons shewing c. were answer'd again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis Dr. Savage hath also written The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion or an answer to a book entit Sions groans for her distressed c. Offered to the Kings Majesty Parliament and People Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book The dew c. have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted or an answer to a book entit Sions groans c. Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation founders and affairs of Balliol College gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities c. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History neither a timing head nor indeed record enough from his Coll. for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 12. Hen. 8. nor no antient rolls of Accompts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented as also the names of the Fellows he hath committed many foul errors therein especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men which never studied or were conversant with the muses therein as Joh. Duns Scotus Dr. Tho. Gascoigne Steph. de Cornubia c. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus Tho. de Wylton Rich. Rotheram Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham c. Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani
and mostly lived in Somerset house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster c. One of his Adversaries tell us that Cressy was an author grave and sober whose reason was very keen and sharp one that he was the Coripheus of the Roman party which is true but I must take leave here to tell the reader that while he continued in Oxon he was accounted a quick and accurate Disputant a man of a good nature manners and natural parts and when in Orders no inconsiderable preacher But after he had spent diâ—ers years in a religious order and was returned into England his former acquaintance found great alterations in him as to parts and vivacity and he seemed to some to be possest with strange notions and to others a reserved Person and little better than a Melancholick Which mutation arose not perhaps known to him upon his solely giving himself up to religion the refinedness of his soul and the avoiding of all matters relating to humane and profane learning as vanities His works are these Exomologesis or a faithful narration of the occasions and motives of his conversion to Catholick unity Paris 1647. and 53. in oct In the last edition is an Appendix in which are cleared certain misconstructions of his Exomologesis published by J. P. author of the Preface to the Lord Falklands Discourse of infallibility This Exomologesis was the golden calf which the English Papists fell down to and worshipped They brag'd that book to be unanswerable and to have given a total overthrow to the Chillingworthians and book and tenents of Lucius Lord Falkland Sancta Sophia or directions for the prayer of contemplation c. extracted out of more than XL treatises written by the late rev Father Aug. Baker a Monk of the English congregation of the holy Order of S. Benedict Doway 1657. in 2. vol. in a large oct Certain patterns of devout exercises of immediate acts and affections of the will Printed with S. Sophia Roman-Catholick doctrines no novelties or an answer to Dr. Pierces Court Sermon miscalled The primitive rule of reformation Print 1663. in oct A non est inventus returned to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw's enquiry and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the Churches infallibility Pr. 1662. oct Letter written to an English Gent 16. July 1662 wherein Bishop Morley is concern'd Printed among some of the said Bishops treatises Lond. 1683. qu. The Church History of Britanny from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest c. Printed at Roan in Normandy 1668. fol. 'T is mostly taken from 1 Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae Printed at Leodes 1663 in 4. vol written by Mich. Alford alias Griffith a Jesuit 2 The first and 2 vol. of Monast Anglic. Printed at Lond. 1655. and 1661. fol. 3 The Decem Scriptores Hist Anglicanae Printed there also in 1652. fol. and the collection in Ms contained in several folios made from several antient Mss relating to English antiquities chiefly in the Cottonian Library by Aug. Baker before mention'd Many severe censures have been given by learned men of the author Cressy for publishing many Miracles and Monkish stories in the said Ch. Hist of Britanny particularly by that great Master of the English language Edward somtimes Earl of Clarendon who knew him well in the University to be much averse to such matters as also the author of Reflexions upon the devotions of the Rom. Church c. Lond. 1674. oct Yet let this be said of him that forasmuch that he doth mostly quote his authors for and leaves what he says to the judgment of the Readers he is to be excused and in the mean time to be commended for his grave and good stile proper for an Ecclesiastical Historian After it was published he went forward with a second volume which was to conclude about the time of the dissolution of Monasteries made by K. Hen. 8 but before he had finished 300 years after the Norman Conquest he died Answer to part of Dr. Stillingfleets book entit Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome Printed 1672. in oct Fanaticisme fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted c. Printed 1672. oct Question why are you a Catholick Pr. 1673. oct Qu. why are you a Protestant Pr. 1673. oct Epistle Apologetical to a Person of honour touching his vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet Print 1674. oct The Person of honour was Edw. E. of Clarendon Reflections on the Oath of Supremacy This I have not yet seen He also published Sixteen revelations of divine love shewed to a devout servant of our Lord called mother Juliana an Anchorete of Norwych who lived in the days of K. Ed. 3. Printed 1670. oct and dedic by Cressy to the Lady Mary Blount of Sodington Widow of Sir George Blount and also changed from old into modern English more compendiously a book written before the change of religion entit An abridgment of the book called the cloud of unknowing and of the counsel referring to the same This is not printed but in Ms and was shewed to me by Fath. Wilfrid R a Benedictine Monk See more in Maur. Chawney in vol. 1. p. 160. At length Mr. Cressey having lived to about the age of man he surrendred up his last breath at East Greensted in Sussex in the house of Rich. Caryl Esq on the tenth day of Aug. S. Laurence day in the year sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by the Superior of his order on this side of the river Trent in England named Gregory Mallet alias John Jackson who dying in the Sheldonian Family on the 10. Sept. 1681 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Long Compton in Warwickshire THOMAS TRAHERNE a Herefordshire man born was entred a Communer of Brasn Coll. on the first day of March 1652 took one degree in Arts left the house for a time entred into the sacred function and in 1661 he was actually created Mast of Arts. About that time he became Rector of Credinhill commonly called Crednell near to the City of Hereford afterwards Domestick Chaplain to S. Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Minister of Tuddington called by some Teddington near Hampton Court in Middlesex and in 1669 Bach. of Divinity He hath written Roman forgeries or a true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome Lond. 1673. oct Christian Ethicks or divine morality opening the way to blessedness by the rules of virtue and reason Lond. 1675. oct He died at Teddington before mention'd in the house of S. Orl. Bridgman and was buried on the tenth day of Octob. in the Church there under the reading desk in sixteen hundred seventy and four This Person who always led a single and a devout life was well read in primitive antiquity as in the Councils Fathers c. DAVID WHITFORD a
K. Ch. 1. and garrison'd for his use he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company consisting mostly of Scholars In which office doing good service had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him by the favour of his Majesty tho no such matter occurs in the public register of the University which was then somtimes neglected After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he by the name of Tho. Holyoake without the addition of Master Bac. or D. of D obtained a License from the University to practice physick whereupon setling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferr'd upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire which he had by the marriage of his Lady worth about 200 l. per an free from presentation institution and episcopal visitation but before he had enjoy'd it an year or thereabouts he died to the great grief of his family He hath written A large Dictionary in three parts 1. The English before the Latine 2. The Latine before the English 3. The proper names of Persons places and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets Lond. 1677 in a thick larg folio Before which is an Epistle written by the authors son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincolne wherein are many things said of the work and its author But this the reader is to know that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mention'd and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England The said Dr. Holyoake who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived for his ingenuity and humanity died of an high Feaver at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father in the great Church there dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire as it seems became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall 1648 trained up there acording to the presbyterian way took a degree in Arts afterwards had a cure in the interval and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching He hath extant Fideles aquae or some pious tears drop'd upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother Lond. 1661. oct Dust returning to the earth Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles 12.7 Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things as t is said which I have not yet seen He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention'd near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife dau of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb 1665. BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight by Elizab. his wife daugh of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks Esq was born in Fleetstreet in London in the house of Sir George Croke Serjeant at Law his Mothers Uncle on the 6 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term an 1620 at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his fathers contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud then President of that House who shewing to him several fatherly kindnesses our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor then Archb. of Cant was to be brought to a trial for his life especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners or number of the Committee appointed by Parl to draw up a charge against him But before our author had taken a degree he went to the Middle Temple where by the help of his father he became a noted proficient in the Common Law well read also in other studies and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation At length when the Long Parliament was to sit he being then a Counsellour at Law he was chose a Burgess for Marlow in Bucks to serve therein and shewing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford became noted in the House for a man of parts In 1642 he for his activeness for the cause then driving on was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass of Divines In 1644 he became Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Commissioner again for peace and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design he being privy to it and thenceforth he became very gratious with that most active person who with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the Kings party was in danger to have lost all had he not freed himself from that suspicion especially by his urging his losses that he had sufferd by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces who being admitted one of his Council of War he did oftentimes being a friend to the Univ. of Oxon express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it and pressed for honorable tâ—â—ms to be offer'd to the Garrison there In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembrok who was then lately made Constable of Windsore Castle and keeper of the Forest adjoyning constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the
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.
by his wife daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire Esq younger brother to John Lord Harrington sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. by Lucie his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sydney Kt. son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Rogers before mention'd whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit c. as 't is before told you his Christian name was John a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist living in Aldersgatestreet in London and the title of his book which was answered runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busie pragmatical man and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands and then to leave them with scorn He with Christop Feake as impudent and forward as himself were the Coryphaei of their party as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure Oliver caused them to be imprison'd at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark After they had remained there for some time Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address which he himself had drawn up to the said Oliver for his enlargment Whereupon on the 7 of Feb. the same year Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall who told him what a high charge there was against him and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ but suffered as a busie body and an evil-doer c. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself it was with his Highness his consent granted Whereupon in the evening of the said day Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness's presence where being told of an high charge exhibited against him Rogers charged them that brought it in to be Drunkards and Swearers The Protector asked him which of them was so that brought it in but he could name none of them that he knew The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings He said the Scripture was positive and privative And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mention'd that God destroyed he would parallel to this present State he gave no positive but privitive answer Whereupon the Protector shewed what a disproportion there was those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God but his work speaking of himself was to preserve them from destroying one another and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians they would force all to their way and they the Fifth Monarchy men would do the like and so the re-baptized persons also And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgments in peace c. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church mention'd to be antichristian the Protector told him that it was not so for that was to force all to one form that was national which was then done as he said in this Commonwealth c. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him Feake and others or to try them The Protector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of mercy because if they were tried the Law would take away their lives So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue On the 30 of March 1655 Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle whereupon the next day he was carried there and his wife rode after him RICHARD ATKYNS whose birth was neither glorious nor contemtible as having been descended from Gentry on his fathers side and Nobility on that of his mother His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq at which place this our author as I conceive was born chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeths Council of the Marches of Wales and brother to Sir Edward Atkyns of Lincolns Inn one of the Barons of the Exchecquer His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks Baronet by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau and heir of Will Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire descended from the Bray's Barons After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters he was sent to the College School at Glocester where being compleated for the University he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll an 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner studying the Zegardines Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus Thence he went to Lincolns Inn and soon after travelled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture but that son dying there before they went farther he returned improv'd himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier and then married which towards his latte◠end proved his ruin Afterwards upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King and did him good service for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate After his Majesties restauration he was made being then a Colonel one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire where and in that capacity he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions but an affectionate son of the Church of England He was an ingenious and observing man and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others tho of elder years which fitted him the better for another He hath written and published The original and growth of Printing c. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh in qu. His Vindication Lond. 1669. qu. Relation of several passages in the western War of England wherein he was concerned Sighs and Ejaculations These two last were printed with the Vindication At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and two days after was buried without any publick solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr within the said Borough of Southwark by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Edw. Atkyns Esq afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer both nearly related to the defunct WILLIAM LUCY descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire was
to print his Sermons which much deserve to be publish'd but such as are set forth are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon before his Majesty on Good Friday at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1664. on Joh. 19. part of the 19 ver Lond. 1665. qu. 2 Serm. before the K. on Tuesday 20 June 1665 being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the late Victory at sea on Psal 54.6.7 Lond. 1665. qu. 3 Serm. before the K. 1666 on the like occasion on Psal 18.1.2.3 Land 1666. qu. c. He died of the Small Pox on the eleventh day of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed from Bishops Thorp to York and there inter'd in the Cathedral When he was promoted to the See of York Dr. Franc. Turner succeeded him in Rochester and Dr. Tho. Sprat in the Deanery of Westminster and an year and a half after his death Dr. Tho. Lamplugh B. of Exeter succeeded him in the See of York as I shall tell you elsewhere Soon after was put a large and comely Monument over his grave with this inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Dolben filius Gulielmi S. Th. Professoris Ex antiqua familia in Cambria septentrionali oriundus Natus Stanvici in Agro Northampton Mart. 20. A. D. 1624. Anno aetatis 12 Regiam scholam Westmonast auspicato ingressus Singulari istius loci genio plenus 15 exivit In numerum Alumnorum Aedis Christi Oxon electus Exardente bello civili Partes regias secutus est in pugna Marstonensi Vexillarius In defensione Eboraci graviter vulneratus Effuso sanguine consecravit locum Olim morti suae destinatum A. D. 1656. à Rev. Episc Cicestrensi sacris ordinibus initiatus Instaurata Monarchia factus est Aedis Christi Canonicus Deinde Decanus Westmonasteriensis Mox Carolo II. Regi optimo ab Oratorio Clericus Episcopus postea Roffensis Et post novennium Regis Eleemosynarius Anno denique 1683. Metropol Eboracens honore cumulatus est Hanc provinciam ingenti animo pari industria administravit Gregi Pastoribus exemplo Intra 30 circiter menses seculi laboribus exhaustis Caelo tandem maturus Lethargia Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus A. D. 1686 aet 62 Potentis Princ. Jac. II. altero die dominico Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes In Eccles sua Cathed septimanatim celebrandas instituerat Caelo fruebatur Maestissima conjux magni Gilberti Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis Ex qua tres liberos suscepit Gilbertum Catharin Johan Monumentum hoc posuit Desideratissimo Marito In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructâ Bromleiensi Palatio reparato in Caenobio Westmon conservato In Senatu Ecclesiis Eloquentiae gloriâ In Diocoesibus suis Episcopali diligentia In omnium priorum animis justâ veneratione semper Victuro WILLIAM COVENTRIE fourth son of Tho. Lord Coventrie sometimes Keeper of the Great Seal of England by Elizabeth his wife daughter of John Alderley of London was born either in the City or Suburb of London became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 14 years but leaving that house without a degree he travelled beyond the Seas and at his return seemed to adhere to the cause of K. Ch. 2. After his restauration he was elected a Burgess for the Town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 and two years after was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University being about that time Secretary to his Royal Highness James Duke of York In 1665 Jun. 26 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and was afterwards sworn one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council being then esteemed upon all accounts qualified for noble employments for at that time if I mistake not he was Secretary to the Navy the said Duke being then General at Sea in the Wars against the Dutch by which employment he got a considerable estate in money which ever after kept up his port according to his quality But at length behaving himself displeasing to the said Duke when there was need of him he was removed from his service whereupon setling at Minster Lovel near Witney in Oxfordshire became much respected by the neighbouring Gentry for whose sake he was the first that found out a way for the ease of him or them that should bear the Office of Shrievelty For whereas before it was usual for the High Sheriff to expend four or five hundred pounds ere he could be quit of his Office he then in Octob. 1675 by certain Articles which he framed and were afterwards subscribed by the Gentry to stand to brought that sum to 50 or 60 l and the first High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that enjoyed the benefit of the said Articles was Sir Edm. Fetyplace of Swinbroke near Burford Baronet who was elected to that office in Nov. the same year Among several things which the said Sir Will. Coventrie wrot and published without his name set to them were these Englands appeal from the private Cabal at Whitehall to the great Council of the Nation the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Printed 1673. in 7 sh in qu. Letter written to Dr. Gilb. Burnet giving an account of Cardinal Pole's secret powers From which it appears that it was never intended to confirm the alienation which was made of the Abbey-Lands To which are added two Breves that Card. Pole brought over and some other of his Letters that were never before printed Lond. 1685. in 5 sh in qu. He hath also written another thing to which his name was set intit The Character of a Trimmer His opinion of 1. The Laws and Government 2. Protestant Religion 3. The Papists 4. Forraign Affairs Lond. 1689. in 6 sh in qu. sec edit the first of which had not his name set to it At length this honorable Knight retiring to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the sake of the Water there to cure his distemper died at Somerhill near thereunto of the gout in the Stomach which the Physitians took to be the Stone on Wednesday 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to Penshurst in the said County and buried in the Church there He bequeathed 2000 l. to the French Protestants that were then lately come into England upon their expulsion from their own Country upon account of Religion and 3000 l. for the redemption of Captives at Algiers as the current report then went appointing Dr. Compton B. of London and Dr. Jo. Fell B. of Oxon Overseers of his gift JOHN FELL son of Dr. Sam. Fell sometime Dean of Ch. Ch. by Margaret his wife daughter of Tho. Wyld of the Commandery in the Suburbs of Worcester Esq was born at Suningwell near to Abendon in Berks educated mostly in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire founded by John Lord Williams made Student of Ch.
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
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
dinner when he convey'd him to Windsore he appointed several of his Officers to ride close to the King least he should make an escape from them Fourthly that after the K. had continued at Winds for some days keeping his last but very sad Christmas he conveyed him in a Coach thence to S. James's in order to his trial at which time Harrison was with him in the said Coach with his head covered talked with little or no reverence to him And when the King proposed to him What do they intend to do with me whether to murther me or not the Major made answer that there was no intention to kill him me have no such thoughts yet the Lord hath reserved you for a public example of justice c. Fifthly That when the King was to be brought to his Trial there was a Committee sate in the Exchecquer Chamber at which the Major being present he used these expressions before them Gentlemen it will be good for us to blaken him meaning his Majesty what we can pray let us blacken him or words to that purpose Sixthly that he was one of the hellish crew that sate publickly in judgment on his Majesty when he was by them tried for his life in Westm Hall was there when sentence passed for his decollation and stood up as the rest did as consenting thereunto and did afterwards set his hand to the bloody Warrant for his Execution c. For these his services he was soon after made a Colonel and at length a Major General and on the 24 of Nov. 1652 he was one of those that were elected to be members of the Council of State While he was Major Gen. and in favour with Oliver the Principality of Wales was appointed to be under his command where the then Laws appointed were by him put in full force No orthodox Minister could there be suffered but whom he pleased to allow and with the assistance of his Chaplain Vav Powell a giddy-headed person and second brother to Hugh Peters he endeavoured the modelling of that Country so as that none but their own Proselytes should teach and instruct the people c. At length he perceiving full well that Cromwell gaped after the Government by a single person he with great scorn and indignation left him and became the Ring-leader of all the Schismaticks especially of that dangerous party called the Fift-monarchy men and great with Joh. Lilbourne as mad as he Whereupon Cromwell to be quick with committed him to safe custody and put him out of all commission Afterwards he was set at liberty but committed again and again upon every suspicious account and in Feb. 1657 he was re-baptized purposely to gain the Anabaptists to his party At length engaging himself with Maj. Gen. John Lambert newly escaped from his Prison in the Tower to raise Forces against the King who was then voiced in most parts of the Nation to be returning from his exile to take possession of his Kingdom he was snapt in the very point of time wherein he intended to have headed a party and was conveyed Prisoner to the Tower of London for the same After his Majesties restauration a greater matter being laid to his charge viz. of having a very deep and signal hand in the murder of his Prince his imprisonment was made more close At length being conveyed thence to Newgate and so to Hicks Hall and afterwards to the Sessions house in the Old Bayly was after a long Trial condemned to dye for the same 11 Octob. 1660 and thereupon was sent to the said Prison of Newgate On the 13 of the same month he was conveyed thence on a Hurdle guarded by a Troop of Horse and some of the Trained Bands to the rail'd place where Charing Cross stood within which railes a Gibbet was set up on purpose whereon he was hanged with his face towards the Banquetting house at Whitehall where the pretious and innocent blood of K. Ch. 1. was spilt by the said Harrison and the rest of the bloody Regicides When he was half hanged he was cut down his bowels burned his head severed from his body and his quarters carried back on the same Hurdle to Newgate to be disposed at his Majesties pleasure On the 16 of the same month his head was set on Westminster Hall and his quarters exposed to public view on some of the Gates of the City of London Soon after was published under his name Some occasional Speeches and memorable Passages after his coming to Newgate with his Speech upon the Ladder Printed at London in qu. With The Speeches and Prayers of other Regicides as also Observations upon the last actions and words of Maj. Gen. Harrison Written by a Minister to a Country-Gentlewoman who seemed to take some offence at the same Lond. 1660. in two sh and an half in qu. May 19. Colonel Richard Ingoldesbie now Governour of the Garrison of Oxon was also then presented Master by Proctor Zanchy and by him conducted to the other Officers just before presented sitting in the Doctors seats This person who was the second son of Sir Rich. Ingoldesbie of Lethenborough in Buckinghamshire Kt by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Sir Oliv. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingtonshire was born of a good family at Lethenborough educated in the Free School at Thame as the rest of his brethren were founded by Joh. Lord Williams and being a stout young-man when the Civil War began he betook himself by the perswasions of his puritanical Parents to the Parliament Cause was a Captain in Col. Joh. Hamdens Regiment when he first of all appeared in Arms against his Majesty and in short time after he was made by the endeavours of his Kinsman Ol. Cromwell afterwards Protector a Colonel of Horse and at length by his allurements one of the Judges of the said King in that bloody Court called The High Court of Justice where he was present and stood up as consenting when Sentence passed for his decollation and afterwards set his hand to the Warrant for his Execution He was a Gentleman of courage and valour and tho he could neither pray preach or dissemble being rather a boon companion yet complying very kindly with Oliver's new Court and being in his Principles for Kingship he was reckoned fit to be taken out of the House of Commons having before been one of the Council of State and to be made a Member of the other House that is House of Lords by his cosin the Protector who about that time committed him to the Tower but soon released him thence for beating the honest Inn-keeper of Ailesbury in Whitehall In the beginning of the year 1660 when Colonel commonly called Maj. General Joh. Lambert broke loose from his prison in the Tower to which he some time before had been committed by the restored Members of the Long Parliament least he and his Party should hinder their intended settlement of the Nation and thereupon had got into the
authority do when he is possest by knaves Miserable man His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his bable Elsewhere he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness of his being a Cypher or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army while Cromwell was Head-master and Ireton Vsher c. that he was a stalking horse a Brute c. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once at least in his works stile him the brutish General as being a person not fit to hearken to reason When the War was terminated and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left he went to London in Nov. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth and nothing was thought too good or great for him After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley Newmarket c. he expressed himself civil to him as he did afterwards at Hampton-court but then having no pious frauds in him or dissimulation for a good end he did not or could not endeavour as being no politician to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew He did not endeavour to repell or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members the Agreement of the People c. but was lull'd on in a kind of stupidity 'T is true that before the King was beheaded in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit he did use his power and interest to have the execution defer'd for some days forbearing his coming among the Officers and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution or have it defer'd till he could make a party in the Army to second his design But behold his policy all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded and the time when he was beheaded he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse or both in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden and knew nothing of it as it doth appear by this passage When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joyning to the Banquetting-house at Whitehall and his Corps thereupon immediatly coffin'd and covered with a black velvet Pall Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left did go with the said Corps to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with Fairfax the General Fairfax asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him he told him that the King was beheaded at which he seem'd much surpriz'd Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell who knew what had lately past for he told them unasked that they should have orders for the Kings burial speedily as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert In little more than a fortnight after viz. Feb. 14. an 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State consisting of 30 persons and soon after when K. Ch. 2. ship'd himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right he laid down his Commission as General being influenc'd thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers because he would not engage against him whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place and how he afterwards acted against that King especially when he went into England to obtain his right all Histories will tell you Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver was ready to rise with the people of his County to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire if any ways successful and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him when they were about to fight Gen. Monke at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot. to restore the Rump but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659 against illegal taxes and free-quarter as also for the freedom of a Parliament as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659 the Rump Parliament then sitting he was by them appointed one of the Council of State and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland for the greater solemnity and luster of his Court there On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyeâ— of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army And when the first ceremony was past he desired as 't is said to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences which accordingly he did with all submission After the said Parliament was dissolv'd he retired to his seat lived retiredly and dying there was buried in an Isle joyning on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York Over his grave was soon after pur this Epitaph Here lye the bodies of the right honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton Baron of Camerone who died Novemb. the 12 an 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore armes for the Parliament especially when General Many Letters of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons some Relations concerning skirmishes battles taking of Castles Towns c. As also Remonstrances Declarations Speeches Messages c. He was a great lover of learning religious in the way he professed and when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took great care for the preservation of the publick Library which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possest by the Royal Party And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you May 19. Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ Law He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation the members thereof then standing bare and was presented by
10. Peter Vasson was created Bach. of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours O. Cromwell Letters dat 25 Mar. this year which say that he the said Chanc. had received very good satisfaction from several hands touching Mr. Vasson as to his suffering for his Religion in his own Nation his service in the late Wars to the Commonwealth his skill in the faculty he professeth and success through the blessing of God in the practice of it together with the unblameableness of his conversation c. 25. Oliver Pocklington M. of A. of Cambr. now a practitioner of Physick at Nottingham was created Doct. of Physick by vertue of the said Chancellours Letters written in his behalf May 6. Thom. Tiszaebetsi or Tizabetsi a Transylvanian Hungario Transylvanus was created M. of A. Dec. 29. Faustus Morsteyn a Noble man of the Greater Poland was created M. of A. by vertue of a Dispens from the Delegates He was a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. several years purposely to obtain learning from the publ Libr. Jan. 29. Abrah Conyard of Roan in Normandy who had studied Divinity several years in Academies in France and Switzerland was created Bach. of Div. by the decree of the Members of Convocation who were well satisfied with his Letters testimonial under the hands of the Pastors of the reformed Church of Roan written in his behalf In the beginning of this year studied in Ox. in the condition of a Sojourner Henry Oldenburg who wrot himself sometimes Grubendole and in the month of June he was entred a Student by the name and title of Henricus Oldenburg Bremensis nobilis Saxo at which time he was Tutor to a young Irish Noble man called Henry ô Bryen then a Student also there He had been Consul for his Country-men in the Duchy of Breme in Lower Saxony to reside in Lond in the time of the Long Parl. and Oliver and acted for his Country men in that Office for some years At length being quitted of that Employment he continued in Engl was Tutor to L. O Bryen before mention'd and afterwards to Will. L. Cavendish and at length upon the foundation of the Royal Society Fellow and Secretary thereof He hath written Philosophical Transactions commencing from 6 March 1664 and carried on to Numb 136 dated 25 June 1677 all in qu. By which work he rendred himself a great benefactor to mankind by his affectionate care and indefatigable diligence and endeavours in the maintaining philosophical intelligence and promoting the designs and interests of profitable and general Philosophy And translated into English 1 The prodromus to a dissertation concerning Solids naturally contained within Solids c. Lond 1671. oct Written by Nich. S. Steno 2 A genuine explication of the book of Revelation full of sundry new christian considerations c. Lond. 1671. oct Written by the learned and pious A. B. Peganius 3 The life of the Duchess of Mazarine Printed in oct and other things which I have not yet seen This Mr. Oldenburg died at Charlton near Greenwich in Kent in Aug. 1678 and was buried there leaving then behind him issue by his wife the dau and only child of the learned Joh. Dury a Scot by whom he had an Estate of 60 l. per an in the Marshes of Kent a son named Rupert God-son to Pr. Rupert and a daughter called Sophia As for Henry Lord O Bryen before mention'd he was the eldest son of Henry Earl of Thomond and was afterwards one of his Majesties Privy Council in Irel. He died in Aug. 1678 to the very great grief of his Relations Whereupon his widow Catherine Baroness Clifton Sister and Heiress to Charles sometimes Duke of Richmond was married to Sir Joseph Williamson one of the principal Secretaries of State in Decemb. following By which match tho he lost his place of Secretary by the endeavours of Tho. Earl of Danby who intended her for one of his sons yet he obtained large possessions in Kent and elsewhere and the hereditary High Stewardship of Gravesend in the said County An. Dom. 1657. An. 9 Car. 2. An. 4 5 Oliv. Prot. Chanc. the same viz. Oliver Cromwell c. but he resigning on the 3 of July his eldest son commonly called Lord Rich. Cromwell was elected into his place on the 18 and installed at Whitehall the 29 of the said month Vicechanc. Joh. Conant Doct. of Div. 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. Apr. 20. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. May 28. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. The first of these two was afterward a celebrated Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred Of the other you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1669. Jun. 8. Joseph Guillim of Brasn Coll. 12. Jenkin Christopher of Jes Coll. Of the first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll you may see among the Bach. of Div. 1669 and of the other among the Masters of Arts 1660. Jul. 7. Rich. Griffith of Vniv Coll. He was lately Censor of the Coll. of Phys and hath published one or more things of his faculty See among the Masters an 1660. Oct. 10. Joh. Quick of Exet. Coll. This person who was a Servitour of that House and afterwards beneficed in the West parts of England I take to be the same Joh. Quick who published The Test of true godliness Sermon preached at the Funeral of Philip Harris late of Alston in the County of Devon Esq 10 Aug. 1681. Lond. 1681. 2. qu. Oct. 15. Tho. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. Oct. 15. George Vernon of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more under the tit of Doct. of Phys 1668. The other is now living in Glocestersh and hath published several things 24. Philip Marinel of Pemb. Coll. 24. Capell Wiseman of Qu. Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1660. The other who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll is now Bishop of Dromore in Ireland Dec. 17. Edm. Thorne of Or. Coll. Jan. 15. Tim. Hall of Pemb. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see among the Masters an 1661. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ. was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. Jan. 28. Franc. Vernon of Ch. Ch. Feb. 4. Nath. Bisby of Ch. Ch. The last of these two did afterwards publish several Sermons and is now I suppose living and beneficed near Sudbury in Suffolk 9. Tho. Marsden of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1661. 12. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. 12. Narcissus Marsh of Magd. Hall The first hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The last was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll Principal of S. Alb. Hall Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin and at length Archb. of Cashells in Ireland He hath written and published certain matters and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Writers and Bishops Feb. 19. Tim. Nourse of Vniv
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
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
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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
Upminster in Essex and he the son of Adrian D'ewes a lineal descendant of the antient Family of Des Ewes Dynasts or Lords of the dition of Kessell in the Dutchy of Gelderlandht who came first thence into England in the time of K. Hen. 8. when that Dutchy had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued between Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his son 3 That he was educated in the University of Cambridge the antiquity of which he zealously asserted against that of Oxon. in a Speech spoken in a grand Committee of Parliament in Jan. 1640 as I have elsewhere told you and afterwards retired to his estate called Stow hall in Suffolk 4 That he was a Burgess for Sudbury in the same County to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 and soon after he was made a Baronet and in 1643 he took the Covenant I find going under his name these things following viz. 1 The Greek Postscripts of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus cleared in Parliament And an occasional Speech concerning the Bill of Acapitation or Poll money printed 1641 in one sheet and half in qu. 2 Speech in a grand Committee touching the antiquity of Cambridge 3 Sp. touching the priviledge of Parliament in Causes criminal and civil Which two Speeches were printed in 1641. 42. qu. 4 Sp. in Parl. on the xi of January concerning the proceedings against the eleven Bishops accused of High Treason an 1641 2. 5 The primitive practice for preserving truth or an historical narration c. Lond. 1645. qu. 6 Sp. in the H. of Commons 2â— Jul. 1644. qu. at the end of which is a Postscript by way of advice to all those who have gotten into their possessions either the Church Revenues or other mens Estates Lond. 1646. qu. in 2 sh 7 Journal of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and H. of Commons Lond. 1682. fol. Revised and published by Paul Bowes of the Middle Temple Esq This person D'ewes who was a great searcher into Records and the best of his time for the knowledge of Coins and Coinage yet of a humourous and minical disposition died in the beginning of the year 1650 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Stowlangâ—oft in Suffolk I have seen a copy of his Will written by himself in Latine wherein are most particulars of his life recited But let 's go forward with the Works of Great Selden who hath also written Of the Judicature of Parliaments wherein the Controversies and Precedents belonging to the Title are methodically handled Lond. 1681. oct Englands Epinomis Of the original of ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Testaments Of the disposition or administration of Intestates goods These three last were published by Redman Westcot before mention'd with the English Translation of Jani Anglorum c. Lond. 1683. fol. Under his name is also published Table-talke being the discourses or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State Lond. 1689. qu. published by Rich. Milward who had observed his discourses for 20 years together Letters to learned men Among which are several to the learned and godly Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland as at the end of his life printed in fol. you may see Speeches Arguments Debates c. in Parliament He also had a great hand in and gave directions and advice towards that Edition of Plutarchs Lives printed 1657 with an addition of the year of the World and the year of our Lord together with many chronological notes and explanations out of divers Authors He left behind him also divers MSS. of his own writing some of which are since published as before you may see among these are 1 The life of Rog. Bacon 2 Collections of many Records and Antiquities 3 Collection of Notes and Records of various Subjects marked with M. 4 Extracts out of the leiger books of Battel Evesham Winton c. 5 Vindication of his history of Tithes This last I once saw in the library of MSS. belonging to his Godson named Joh. Vincent son of August Vincent sometimes Windsore Herald but where it is now I cannot tell At length after this great light of our Nation had lived to about the age of man was extinguished at Lond. on the last of Nov. being S. Andr. day in sixteen hundred fifty and four in the large house called the Carmelite or White Fryers then belonging to Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Henry Earl of Kent whose estate he for several years had managed and commanded which was the reason he died very wealthy whereupon on Thursday the 14 of Decemb. following he was magnificently buried in the Temple Church on the south side of the round walk in the presence of all the Judges some of the Parl. men Benchers and great Officers His grave was nine foot deep at least the bottom pav'd with bricks and walled about two foot high with grey marble coarsly polished each piece being yoated that is fastned with lead molted in with iron champs Into this repository was the Corps in a woodden Coffin covered with a black cloth let down with a pulley or engine Which being done a stone of black polish'd marble six inches thick was let down also and made fast to the top of the repository with champs of iron yoated in to the end that in future ages when graves are dug there it might not be remov'd Upon the said marble stone was this engraven Hic inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni or to that effect Over the said sepulchre and stone was turned over or made an arch of brick the diameter being about three foot and above was left room to bury other bodies in future time On the surface of the earth even with the pavement of the Church was soon after laid a plain marble with the Bakers Arms engraven thereon and this Inscription Johannes Seldenus J. C. heic situs est Over which in the wall was fastned a white marble table and thereon an Epitaph made by himself a copy of which with encomiastical Verses under his printed picture made by Dr. Ger. Langbaine you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 350. The learned Usher Primate of Ireland preached his funeral Sermon but did not or could not say much of his sound Principles in Religion Mr. Ric. Johnson Master of the Temple buried him according to the Directory and said in his Speech with reference to the saying of a learned man that When a learned man dies a great deal of Learning dies with him and added that if Learning could have kept a man alive our brother had not died But notwithstanding the said Usher's silence concerning our Author's Religion Sir Matth. Hale one of his Executors hath often profess'd that Selden was a resolved serious Christian and that he was a great