where he had run through so hard a Task with the Regius Professor though he missed Windsor took this occasion to make himself merry as the Poet did musa jocosa mea est Ov. And so fell into this vein of Poetry When Windsor Prebend late disposed was One ask'd me sadly how it came to pass Potter was chose and Heylyn was forsaken I answer'd 't was by Charity mistaken But this Fancy was soon turned into a mournful Elegy by the death of his noble Friend the Attorny General Mr. Noy whose memory he could never forget for the honour of delivering to him the gracious message from his Majesty and for the intimacy he was pleased to bear to him as a bosom friend that he imparted to the Doctor all the affairs of State and transactions of things done in his time which made him so perfect an Historian in this particular and shewed him his papers manuscripts and laborious Collections that he had gathered out of Statutes and ancient Records for the proof of the Kings Prerogative particularly before his death at his house in Brainford where the Doctor kept Whitsontide with him in the year 1634. he shewed to him a great wooden Box that was full of old Precedents for levying a Naval aid upon the Subjects by the sole Authority of the King whensoever the preservation and safety of the Kingdom required it of them Mr. Hammond L' Strange acknowledges that Mr. Noy was a most indefatigable plodder and searcher of old Records The learned Antiquary Mr. Selden though no friend to the King nor Church confesses in his excellent book entituled Mare Clausum That the Kings of England â—…sed to levy mony upon the Subjects without the help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other necessaries to maintain that Soveraignity which anciently belonged to the Crown Yet the honest Attorny General for the same good service to the King and Country is called by Hammond Le Strange The most pestilent vexation to the Subjects that this latter Age produced So true is the old Proverb some may better steal a Horse than others look on For it is usual with many not to judge according to the merits of the cause but by the respect or disrepect they bear to the Person as the Comedian once said Duo cum idem faciunt saepe possis dicere Hoc licet impune facere huic illi non licet Non quod dissimilis res sit sed quod qui facit When two does both alike the self same Act One suffers pain the other for the Fact Not the lest shame or punishment and why Respect of persons makes Crimes differently The death of Mr. Noy the more sadly afflicted the Doctor to lose so dear a Friend and an entire Lover of learned men during whose time no unhappy differences brake out betwixt the Dean of Westminster and the Prebends of that Church but all things were carried on smoothly by his Lordship because he knew well that Dr. Heylyn had a sure Advocate in Court both in behalf of himself and his Brethren if they stood in need of help that no sooner this worthy person departed the World but the Bishop so extremely tyrannized over the Prebendaries infringing their Priviledges violating their Customes and destroying their ancient Rights that for the common preservation of themselves and their Successors they were forced to draw up a Charge against his Lordship consisting of no less than thirty six Articles which were presented by way of complaint and petition of redress to his sacred Majesty who forthwith gave order for a Commission to be issued out unto the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York the Earl of Manchester Lord Privy Seal Earl of Portland the Lord Cottington the two Secretaries of State Sir John Cook and Sir Francis Windebank Authorizing them to hold a Visitation of the Church of Westminster to examine the particular charges made against John Lord Bishop of Lincoln and to redress such grievances and pressures as the Prebends of the said Church suffered by his misgovernment The Articles were ordered by the Council Table to be translated into Latin by Dr. Heylyn which accordingly he performed to avoid the common talk and scandal that might arise if exposed to the publick veiw of the vulgar on April 20. A. D. 1634. the Commission bore date which was not executed but lay dormant till December 1635 the Bishop expecting the business would never come to a hearing he raged more vehemently dispossessed the Prebends of their Seats refused to call a Chapter and to passe their Accounts conferred holy Orders in the said Church without their consent contrary to an ancient Priviledge which had been inviolably retained from the first foundation of the Church he permitted also Benefices in their gift to be lapsed unto himself that so he might have absolute power to dispose them to whom he pleased Quo teneam nodo With many other grievances which caused the Prebends to present a second Petition to his Majesty humbly beseeching him to take the ruinous and desperate estate of the said Church into his Princely consideration Upon which the former Commission was revived a day of hearing appointed and a Citation fixed upon the Church door of Westminster for the Bishops and Prebends to appear on Jan. 27. Upon the 25th instant The Prebends were warned by the Subdean to meet the Bishop in Jerusalem Chamber where his Lordship foreseeing the Storm that was like to fall upon his head carried himself very calmly towards them desiring to know what those things were that were amiss and he would presently redress them though his Lordship knew them very well without an Informer to which Dr. Heylyn replyed that seeing they had put this business into his Majesties hands it would ill become them to take the matters out oâ—… his into their own Therefore on Jan. 27th both Parties met together before the Lords in the Inner-star Chamber where by their Lordships Order the whole business was put into a methodical course each Mâ—…day following being appointed for a day of hearing till a Conclusion was made of the whole affair On February the 1st The Lords Commissioners with the Bishop and Prebends met in the Council-Chamber at White-hall where it was first ordered that the Plaintifs should be called by the name of Prebends supplicant Secondly they should be admitted upon Oath as Witnesses Thirdly they should have a sight of all Registers Records Books of account c. which the Bishop had kept from them Fourthly that the first business they should begin with should be about their Seat because it made the difference or breach more visible and offensive to the World than those matters which were private and domestick And lastly it was ordered that the Prebends should have an Advocate to plead their Cause defend their Rights and represent their Grievances Accordingly the Prebends unanimously made choice of Dr. Peter Heylyn for their Advocate The business now brought on so fairly
comâ—… by indirect means and not by merit to them Bellarmine also was of no poor and base extraction but better than his Fellows for which reason he was created Cardinal by Clement the Eight Hunc eligimus saith he quia est nepos optimi sanctissimi Poâ—…tificis because he was the Nephew of Marcellus the Second who said that he could not see how any could be saved who sate in the Pontifical Chair Non video quomodo qui locum hunc altissimum tenent salvari possunt After those heats of disputation were over Mr. Heylyn took a Journy to London where he waited on Bishop Lâ—…d then Bishop of Bath and Wells who had heard of all the passages that had hapned at Oxford of which Mr. Heylyn gave a more perfect account to his Lordship who was pleased to read over the Supposition at which Dr. Prideaux was so highly offended but the good Bishop on the other side commended it and encouraged Mr. Heylyn in his Studies saying that he himself had in his younger dayes maintained the same Positions in a disputation in St. Johns Colledge that Mr. Heylyns Hypothesis could not be overthrown in a fair way exhorting him to continue in that moderate course And that as God had given him more than ordinary gifts so he would pray to God that he and others might employ them in such a way and manner as might make up the breaches in the Walls of Christendom Mr. Heylyn to clear himself from the suspicion of Popery which Dr. Prideaux had most unjustly branded him with in November next following Preached before the King on those words Joh. 4. ver 20. Our Fathers Worshipped on this Mountain c. In which Sermon he declared himself with such smart zeal and with as quick Judgment against several errors and corruptions in the Church of Rome that his Sermon was otherwise resented by the King and Court then his supposition by the Kings Professor at Oxon. And when that clamour was revived again by his Enemies that he had some inclinations to the Romish Religion he gave such satisfaction in his third and fourth Sermon Preached at White-Hall in the year 1638. Upon the Parable of the Tares on these words Matth. 13. vers 26. Tunc apparuerunt Zizania Then appeared the Tares also that some of the Court did not stick to say that he had done more towards the Subversion of Popery in those two Sermons than Dr. Prideaux had done in all the Sermons which he had ever Preached in his Life For that Doctor was a better disputant than a Preacher and to give him his due a right Learned Man in his place of Regius Professor yet withal so Dogmatical in his own points that he would not abide to be touched much less contradicted by Mr. Heylyn Non aliam ob causam nisi quod Virtus in vtroque summa fuit More especially being a Great Man at that time very popular in the University profoundly admired by the Junior Masters and some of the Seniors inclined to Puritanism his own Colledge then observed to be Communis pestis Adolescentum the Common Nursery of West Country Men in Puritan principles so that Mr. Heylyn could expect no favour nor fair dealing in the way of his disputation when it ran contrary to the Professors humor After these Academical contests growing weary of Obs and Sols in Scholastical disputations which was ever opposite to his Genius and for this purpose being unwilling to be alwaies Cloystred up within the Walls of a Colledge where he must be tied to such Exercises besides a Man of an Aiery and active Spirit though studious and contemplative would not be perpetually devoted to a Melancholly recluse Life also emulation and envy the two inseperable evils that accompany Learned Men in the same Society hath frequently stirred up animosities and factions among them That I have known some ingenious persons for this reason have been wearied out of a Collegiat Life resolved therefore he was to Marry and alter the condition of his Life which he thought would prove more agreeable to the content and satisfactiof his mind Neque aliud probis quam ex Matrimonio solatium esse saith the good Author because Marriage is the only comfort of minds honestly given accordingly a fair Fortune was offered to him a Wife with a thousand pounds Portion and a Gentlewoman of a very Ancient Family and of as excellent Education Mrs. Letitia High-Gate third Daughter of Thomas High-Gate of Heyes Esq one of his Majesties Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex who in his younger dayes whilst his Elder Brother was alive had been Provost Marshal General of the Army under the Earl of Essex at the action of Cales and of Margery Skipwith his Wife one of the Daughters of that Ancient Family of the Skipwiths in the County of Leicester of which Family still there is a Worthy person living Sir Thomas Skipwith Knight a Learned Serjeant in the Law Which said Thomas High-Gate the Father beforementioned was second Son of that Thomas High-Gate who was field Marshal General of the English Forces before St. Quintine under the Command of the Earl of Pembrook Anno Dom. 1557. And of Elizabeth Stoner his Wife a Daughter of the ancient Family of the Stoners in the County of Oxon. To this young Gentlewoman Mrs. Letitia High-gate aforesaid Mr. Heylyn was no stranger for his Elder Brother Mr. Edward Heylyn had married some years before her eldest Sister His Seat was at Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire where his Son to whom Dr. Heylyn was Uncle now liveth viz. Hen. Heylyn Esq an ancient Collonel and an excellent Commander in the Army of King Charles the First and a most accomplished Gentleman in all respects to the honour of his Family Another of the Sisters of Mrs. Letitia High-gate married Robert Tirwhit Esq one of the ancient Family of the Tirwhits in the County of Lincoln Master of the Buck-hounds in the Reign of King Charles the First a Place of honour and of great Revenue Finally to the honour of that Family Sir Henry Bard of Stanes Knight who afterward was created Viscount Lord Bellamount did marry the Daughter of Sir William Gardiner whose Lady and Mrs. Letitia High-gate were Sisters Children that unfortunate Lord who is mentioned in the Marquesse of Worcesters Apothegmes for a brave Commander and Governour of Camden House in the time of War did attend his sacred Majesty all the time of his Exile until the Treaty at Breda when he was sent as I have heard on some Ambassage into the Eastern Countries where travelling in Arabia deserta for want of a skilful Guide was swallowed up in the Gulf of Sands These were the Relations and many others of Quality which I forbear to mention of Mrs. Letitia High-gate And whereas the late Writer disparages the young Gentlewoman that her Portion was never paid I am sure he has done her that Wrong which he can never recompence for her Elder
Brother did both pay her and the other Sisters Portions who were all married to Persons of Quality himself had an Estate left him by his Father to the value of 800l per Annum he married an Heiress whose fortune added to his Estate on which they lived nobly for many years before he fell into losses and misfortunes caused by his own extravigant Pleasures and chiefly of Gaming at Dice and Cards Quem damâ—…osa Venus quem Praeceps alea nudat To the said Letitia High-gate Mr. Heylyn was an earnest Sutor For indeed he could not make a better Choice for the excellency of her Person Wit and Friends all concentring together for his more happy Contentment she being also a discreet Religious young Lady which is a Blessing to a Clergy-man his Courtship of her was not after a Romantick manner nor as a Gallant of the times but like a Scholar and a Divine as appears by a Copy of Verses written upon a rich guilded Bible which he presented to her and the Verses are as followeth Could this outside beholden be To cost and cunning equally Or were it such as might suffice The Luxury of curious Eyes Yet would I have my Dearest look Not on the Cover but the Book If thou art merry here are Aires If melancholly here are Prayers If studious here are those things writ Which may deserve thy ablest Wit If hungry here is Food Divine If thirsty Nectar heavenly Wine Read then but first thy self prepare To read with zeal and mark with care And when thou read'st What here is writ Let thy best Practice second it So twice each Precept read shall be First in the Book and next in thee Much reading may thy Spirits wrong Refresh them therefore with a Soâ—…g And that thy Musick Praise may merit Sing David's Psalms with David's Spirit That as thy Voice do pierce Mens Ears So shall thy Prayer and Vows the Sphaears Thus read thus sing and then to thee The very Earth a Heaven shall be If thus thou readest thou shalt find A private Heaven within thy mind And singing thus before thou dye Thou sing'st thy Part to those on High The Verses with the Bible were most affectionately received by her as the best Tokens of Love that could be given to lay the Foundation of a future Happiness betwixt them that was now begun so Religiously with the Book of God which they both intended to make the Rule of their Life and Love Soon after the Solemnization of Marriage followed by the consent of Friends on both Parties in the presence of whom and other Witnesses they were married by Dr. Allibone his faithful Friend upon the Festival day of St. Simon and St. Jude in Magdalen Colledge Chappel where he was Fellow but now the Husband of a good Wife of whom we may say as the Poet Felices Quos irrupta tenet copula nec malis Divulsis querimoniis Suprema citius solvet die Most happy is the Marriage-tye Where Love abideth â—…onstantly No sad Complaints or Cryes whilst Breath Remains but true Love unto Death At his Marriage with this vertuous Gentlewoman he had a good Estate of his own besides her Portion to begin the World with for he had a Rent Charge of Inheritance paid him out of the Manor of Lech-led in the County of Glocester and the Adv ousan of Bradwel living near Lech-led both which were left him by his Father as a Competent Portion for a younger Brother but he wisely parted with the Advousan resolving not to bury his Parts in a Country Parish where if he had been once setled possibly his Fortune might have proved like other Mens never to have been Master of more Lands or Goods than the Tythe or Glebe of his own Parsonage Therefore he took the first opportunity offered to him as a more probable means of his future preferment and that was to attend the right Honourable the Earl of Danby to the Isles of Guernsie and Jersie of which afterward he writ a Description And for this gooâ—… Service he so much endear'd himself to his Lordship who took great notice of his extraordinary merits that at their return back the Noble Lord commended him not only to some Lords in Court but presented him to Arch-Bishop Laud then Bishop of London who had cast a singular Eye of favour upon him before but now reminded by the Earl he presently got him admitted Chaplain to the King knowing that step to Preferment would carry him on further because the rise of the Clergy is either from the Press or the Pulpit in both which Mr. Heylyn was exercised The good Bishop instructed him with Counsel and wise Cautions how to behave himself in all Circumstances sutable to the Calling and Dignity of his Place telling him amongst other things That the King did not love Silk nor Sattin Chaplains which Mr. Heylyn ever observed both young and old never ruffling in Silks like some of his Brotherhood but went alway in a plain grave and decent habit In humble gratitude to the Earl his original Patron who first recommended him to the Bishop and afterward brought him to the honour of acquaintance with Noble-men among whom he found such a general love and respect that their Lordships would often call him to a familiar Conversation with them by which means Mr. Heylyn acquired more than an ordinary Interest in Court He could not study out a more ingenious way to please and oblige all their Lordships than the Vindication of the most noble Order of the Garter and that by writing his History of the famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Jesus St. George of Cappadocia which Work he performed so admirably well for History Learning and Language all these not vulgar but incomparable in their kind that I would fain see the Fellow that can second it especialy considering that never any one before Mr. Heylyn durst attempt the work by reason of the many difficulties occurring in Story But what could re sist the Authors Ingenuity and Industry who had importunum Ingenium a restless working Head and a Mind indefatagable for Study Perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor Hor. So various and perplexed are the infinite stories that go of this Saint that one would think it were an impossible thing to find out the Truth Great care was taken by Anterus Bishop of Rome An. Dom. 238. who was a Martyr himself to preserve the Memory of the Christian Martyrs by causing all their Acts and Passions to be written by publick Notaries and afterwards laid up in the Register of the Church as Platina tells us and we find in Gregories Epistles that in the Ancient Martyrologies the time of their death and place where they suffered is described but not the circumstance and manner of their deaths whereby hath risen so many Fables and incredible stories especially of St. George which the Monks of old hath filled their Legends with And on the other side some because they would be contradictory to them
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi When will they find another such his Fall Was most by me lamented much by All God Almighty had blessed him with eleven Children four of which are still living His Monument is erected on the North side of the Abbey in Westminster over aganst the Sub-Deans Seaâ—… with this following Epitaph which the Reverend Dean of the Church then Dr. Earl did himself compose in honour of his Memory DEPOSITUM MORTALE PETRI Heylyn S. â—… P. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecaniâ—…s Viri plane memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantihus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia Plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et. Majestatis Regiae assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictâ—… Idemque perduellium Schismâ—…ticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit silentium Ut sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Etat 63. In English A Monument of Mortality Of Peter Heylyn Doctor of Divinity Prebendary and Sub-Dean of this Church A man truly worthy of remembrance Endowed with excellent parts Of sharp and pregnant Wit A solid and clear Judgement A memory tenacious to a Miracle Whereunto he added an incredible Patience in Study And therein still persisted when his Eye sight ceased He Writ many Books upon various Subjects that are now in mens hands containing in them nothing that 's Vulgar either for Style or Argument On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches Right and the Kings Prerogative as well in their afflicted as prosperous estate Also he was a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks A despiser of Envy and a man of undaunted Spirit While he was seriously intent on these and many more like Studies Death commanded him to be silent but could not silence his Fame He died in the Sixty third year of his Age. A Catalogue of such Books as were written by the Learned Doctor SPurius a Tragedy M. S. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy M. S. 1619. Geography printed at Oxon twice A. D. 1621. and 1624. in Quarto and afterwards in A. D. 1652. inlarged into Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay called Augustus 1631. since inserted into his Cosmography The History of St. George Lond. 1631. reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1631. reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. twice reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burton's two Seditious Sermons A. D. 1637. A short Treatise concerning A Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the Fifty fifth Canon written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester 1637. Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Book entituled Holy Table Name and Thing 1637. reprinted 1638. An uniform Book of Articles fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations 1640. De Jure paritatis Episcoporum or concerning the Peerage of Bishops 1640. M. S. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist M. S. 1641. The History of Episcopacy first under the Name of Theoph. Churchman afterwards in his own Name reprinted 1657. The History of Liturgies written 1642. A Relation of the Lord Hoptons Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in thâ—… â—…est for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Lincolnshire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir John Gell. A Relation of the Queens Return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the Cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Chatechism All these printed at Oxon. 1644. An Answer to the Papists groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by the Name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of Will. Laâ—…d Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The stumbling Block of Disobedience removed written 1644. printed 1658. The Promised Seed in English Verse Theologia Veterum or an Exposition of the Creed Fol. 1654. Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey 1656. Quarto Exâ—…men Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Falsities and Defects in some Modern Histories Lond. 1659 Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman Oct. Lond. 1659. Historia Quinque-Articularis Quarto Lond. 1660. Respondet Petrus or the Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernard's Book entituled the Judgment of the late Primate c. Quarto Lond. 1658. Observations on Mr. Hamond L' Estrange's History of the Life of King Charles the First 1648. Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations Lond. 1658. A short History of King Cbarles the First from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares printed at London 1659. and again 1661. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales first written in the year 1641. under the 〈◊〉 of Robert Hall but now enlarged and in Dr. Heylyn's Name Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified c. Quarto 1657. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library Octavo Ecclesia Restaurata or the History of the Reformation Folio Lond. 1661. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Folio Aerius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians Folio FINIS S. Jer. Com. in cap. 2. Esdr. Instit. lib. 1. cap. 9. Pref. to Hist. of Ref. Hor. de Ar. po Berâ—… Epis 135. Mart. Piaut His Preface Preface Pag. 59 60 61 62 63. Pag. 101. 102. 103. 104. Cic. de orat ftom p. 67 to 89. from p. 212 to p. 227. from p. 228 to 236. p. 61 to 174. pag. 241. Plat. in Parmen p. 38. p. 35. p. 123. p. 31. p. 120. pag. 13. Arist. Eth. lib. cap. 10. A. Gell. lib. 12. cap. 11. pag. 32. pag. 14. Pag 43. Pag. Epist. deep Jact lib. 7. c. 14. pag. 1. pag. 7. pag. 2. Chr. Astrol. lib. 1. cap. 11 pag. 2. Diog. Laer in vit Tacit. Annal lib. 6. Trith de Scrip. Eccl. pag. 86. Suid. Hist. Luth. colliq Vindicat. of the sincerity of the Prot. Rel. p. 11 12. Arch Bish. Life p. 5 6. At the Tryal of Pickering Groâ—… and Ireland 1678. David Par. Comment in Evang. S. Mat. Cap. 23. Maph in vita Ign. Oplat l. 5. c. 29. Lact. Instit. lib. 4. cap. 30. Thu. Hist. l. 22. Theod. Bez. de Minist Evang. Grad Pag. 91. Thu. Hist. â—… 13. Chr. Ocland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Elizab. Diodor. Sicul l. 3. Tacit. l.