University He was another Tully and Virgil as being most excellent for Oratory and Poetry in which faculties as also in the Greek tongue he was so full and absolute that those that best knew him knew not in which he most excell'd So admirably well vers'd also was he in Metaphysicks that when he was Reader of them in the University the exposition of them was never better performed than by him and his Predecessor Th. Barlow of Qu. Coll. His preaching also was so graceful and profound withal that none of his time or age went beyond him So that if the Wits read his Poems Divines his Sermons and Philosophers his Lectures on Aristotles Metaphysicks they would scarce believe that he died at a little above thirty years of age But that which is most remarkable is that these his high parts and abilities were accompanied with so much candour and sweetness that they made him equally beloved and admired of all persons especially those of the Gown and Court who esteemed also his life a fair copy of practick piety a rare example of heroick worth and in whom Arts Learning and Language made up the true complement of perfection He hath written The Lady-errant Trag. Com. Royal Slave Trag. Com. Oxon. 1640. second edit Acted before the K. and Q. by the Students of Ch. Ch. 30 Aug. 1636. See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 344. b. 345. a. The Ordinary Com. Siedge or Love's convert Trag. Com. Poems All which were gathered into one Vol. and printed at Lond. 1651. oct usher'd then into the world by many copies of Verses mostly written by Oxf. men among whom were Jasper Mayne D. D. Joh. Castilion B. D. afterwards Dean of Rochester Robert Waring Mart. Lluellin Joh. Fell Franc. Palmer Rich. Goodridge Tho. Severne c. all of Ch. Church Hen. Earl of Monmouth Sir Rob. Stapylton Edw. Sherbourn afterwards a Knight Jam. Howell Franc. Finch Joh. Finch of Ball. Coll. Brethren to Sir Heneage Finch sometimes Lord Chanc. of England Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. Joh. Birkenhead of All 's Coll. Hen. Vaughan the Silurist and Eugenius Philalethes his brother both of Jesus Coll. Josias How and Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. Mathew Smallwood of Brasnose Hen. Bold of New and Will. Bell of S. Johns Coll. c. Our Author Cartwright also wrot Poemata Graeca Latina An Off-spring of mercy issuing out of the womb of crueltie Or a passion serm preached at Ch. Ch. in Oxon on Acts 2.23 Lond. 1652. oct Of the signal days in the month of Nov. in relation to the Crown and Royal Family A poem Lond. 1671. in one sh in qu. besides Poems and Verses which have Ayres for several Voices set to them by the incomparable Henry Lawes servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private musick who outliving the tribulations which he endured for the royal cause was restored to his places after the return of K. Ch. 2. and for a short time lived happy and venerated by all lovers of musick He was buried by the title of Gentleman of his Majesties Chappel in the Cloister belonging to S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster 25 Octob. 1662. As for Cartwright who had the Succentors place in the Church of Salisbury confer'd on him by Bishop Duppa in the month of Octob. 1642 was untimely snatch'd away by a malignant fever call'd the Camp-disease that raged in Oxon. he being then one of the Proctors of the University to the great grief of all learned and vertuous men and to the resentment of the K. and Qu. then there who very anxiously enquired of his health in the time of his sickness on the 29 of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried on the first day of Dec. towards the upper end of the south isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church In his Proctorship succeeded Joh. Maplet M. A. of the same house who served out the remaining part of the year and in his Succentorship Rob. Joyner of Oxford THOMAS MASTER son of Will. Master Rector of Cote near to a mercate town call'd Cirencester in Glocestershire was born at Cote but descended from the gentile family of the Masters living in the said town of Cirencester initiated in Grammar learning by Mr. Henry Topp a noted Master of that place afterward ripened for the University in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1624 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1629 holy orders and at length in 1640 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At which time he was arrived to great Learning was esteemed a vast scholar a general Artist and Linguist a noted Poet and a most florid preacher He hath written Mensa lubrica Montgom illustriss Domino D. Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury Oxon. 1658. qu. second edit the first having been printed on one side of a large sheet of paper 'T is a poem written in Lat. and Engl. describing the game call'd Shovel-board play published with Sir Henry Saviles Oration to Qu. Elizab. by Mr. Tho. Baâ—low of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. an 1658. printed there again in Dec. 1690. in half a sh in qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Greek Poem which is printed with Mensa lubrica was made by him on the Passion of Christ 19 Apr. 1633. rendred into excellent Lat. verse by Hen. Jacob of Merton Coll. and into English by Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets of his time which Lat. and Engl. copies are printed with the Greek Oxon. 1â—58 qu. Monarchia Britannica sub auspiciis Elizabethae Jacobi in oratione quam pro more habuit in capella Coll. Novi 6 Kal. Apr. 1642. Oxon. 1661. qu. 1681. oct published by his friend and acquaintance Joh. Lamphire Doct. of Phys sometimes Fellow of New Coll afterwards Comdens Prof. of History Iter boreale Oxon. 1675 in two sheets and an half in qu. written in prose and verse and dedicated to his Father Will. Master beforemention'd 25 Sept. 1637. published by George Ent of the Middle Temple son and heir of Sir George Ent Kt. then a sojourner and student in Oxon being about that time entred a Member of Wadh. Coll. Which George Ent. the son wrot and published The grounds of Unity in religion or an expedient for a general conformity and pacification printed in 1679 in one sheet in qu. In which year in Aug. or thereabouts he departing this mortal life was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London Our Author Master also hath written other Poems as 1 Carolas redux 1623. 2 Ad regem Carolum 1625. 3 On Bish Lake 1626. 4 On Ben. Johnson 1637. and 5 On Vaulx but these I think are not printed He was a drudge to and assisted much Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury when he was obtaining materials for the writing the Life of K. Hen. 8. Four thick Volumes in fol. of
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
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
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
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Ox. Mr. Michael Theobalds of Trin. Coll. Oxon. Mr. Tyrwhitt of Pemb. Hall Camb. Mr. John Taylor Avery Thompson M. A. Mr. Haswell Tynt Esq of Ball. Coll. Thomas Tack M. A. Mr. John Trott V. JOhn Verney of Waseing in Berksh Esq Charles Vincent of the Middle Temple Esq John Vaughan Esq Maurice Vaughan M. A. Fell. Trin. Hall Camb. W. †CHARLES Earl of Winchelsea †PETER Lord Bishop of Winchester †Edw. Lord Bishop of Worcester †Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth Sir James Worseley Mr. Hen. Worseley Sir Charles Winley Alexander Windham of Felbridge Norf. Esq Edw. Williams of Mellionydd Esq John Willes D. D. John Williams Rector of Lonbedwick Mr. William Whitfield Rector of St. Martins Ludgate Mr. Thomas Walker Master of the Charterhouse Edw. Wake M. A. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. Mr. Jasper Ward of Widdall Hartfordshire Mr. Wharton Gent. Com. of St. Edm. Hall Oxon. Mr. Henry Worsley Edw. Whitfield M. A. Mr. Tho. Whitfield Scrivener Mr. John Woodward of Peter-house Camb. Mr. William Walker of Cliffords Inn. Mr. William Wickins Tho. Wyatt D. D. Rector of Bromhang Wiltsh Edm. Wayle M. A. Rector of Sommerfield magna VVilts Isaac VValton M. A. Rector of Polshott VVilts James Wight of the Middle Temple Esq Francis VVhite B. D. Fell. of Bal. Coll. Oxon. Robert VVinne B. D. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. John VVinne M. A. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. Mr. William Winne Mr. John Walker Mr. Williams Mr. John Williams of West-Chester Mr. Rich Walker of Oxford Vintner Mr. Christopher Wilkinson Bookseller Mr. Geo. West Bookseller in Oxon. Mr. Joseph Wats Bookseller Mr. Weld Bookseller Mr. Roger Warne of Chippenham Y. ARchibald Young Esq Mr. Charles Yardley Minister of Ex. Hall Warwicksh Charles Yaulding M. A. of Ch. Ch. in Ox. Matthew Yate A. M. Mr. Ch. Yeo. Bookseller in Exeter Z. MR. Zouch FINIS 1641. (a) Arth. d ee in his Preface to the Students in Chymistry to his Fasciculus Chimicus c. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. (a) Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37. 1641 2. 1641 2. 1641 2. Clar. 1641. (a) Pag. 123.124.125 (b) In his book intit Canterburies Doome c. p. 217. (c) pag. 123.124 (d) p. 51.54 Clar. 1641. Clar 1641. (e) By Anon. in a book intit The surfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. in tw p 22. (*) Id. Anon. (f) Ms in bib Cottoniana sub Tito A. 13. 1642. 1642. 1642. (a) Sir Joh. Borough in his book in t Impetus juveniles epistolae p. 136. 1642. 1642. 1642 3. 1642 3. (a) George Kendal in Tuissii Vita Victoria c. and Sam. Clarke in his Lives of Eminent persons c. printed 1683. fol. p. 16. 1642 3 Clar. 1642. Clar. 1642. 1643. 1643. (a) Reg. congreg Univ. Ox. notat in dors cum litera O fol. 3. a. (b) Sober sadness or historical observations c. of a prevailing party in both Houses of Parl. Lond. 1643. in qu. p. 33. (c) The Author of Merc. Aulicus in the fortieth week an 1643. p. 576. 1643. (d) Idem ibid p. 640. (e) The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph (f) Robert Earl of Essex 1643. (*) See in a book intit Ayres and Dialogues for one two and three Voices Lond. 1653. fol. composed by the said Hen. Lawes and in another intit Select Ayres and Dialogues to sing to the Theorbo-Lute and Bass Viol. Lond. 1669. fol. composed also by the said Hen. Lawes 1643. 1643. (a) Edw. Knott in his Direction to be observed by N. N. c. Lond. in oct p. 37. c. (b) Ibid. p. 40. (c) In the preface to the author of Charity maintain'd c. sect 43. (d) sect 42. (e) sect 44. (f) sect 29. 40. (g) Franc. Cheynell in his book intit A discussion of Mr. Joh. Fry's tenents lately condemned in Parliam c. p. 33. (h) Hug. Cressy in his Exomologesis chap. 22. (i) In his Epistle Apologetical to a person of honour sect 7. p. 82. (k) Tho. Long in his pref before Mr. Hales his
same Edition He had likewise translated the aforesaid Odes into Lat. but that vrrsion is omitted Versio Latina annotationes in Joh. Malalae Chronographiam Oxon. 1091. oct See in the Prolegomena to that Author written by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. and Fellow of Wadh. Coll. § 42. He hath written also a little thing De sonis which I presume is yet in MS as also Catalogus Manuscriptorum Graecorum in Bib. Bod. pro ratione Auctorum alphabeticus an 1636. MS. in Bodleys Library of great use to curious and critical Students He hath translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the Essence causes symptoms prognosticks and cure of Love or Erotique Melancholy Oxon. 1640. oct Written by Jam. Ferrand Doctor of Phys 2 Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians Lond. 1650. in a large oct Written by Jam. Gafferel Also from Lat. into English 1 Discourse touching the Spanish Monarchy Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Tho. Campanella Which Translation laying dead on the Booksellers hands Will. Prynne of Linc. Inn wrot an Epist and caused this Title to be printed and put before the remaining copies Thomas Campanella a Spanish Frier his advice to the King of Spayne for the obtaining of the universal Monarchy of the World Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Treatise of the Globes Lond. 1639 and 59. oct Written by Rob. Hues and lastly from Ital. into English The History of the rites customs and manner of life of the present Jews throughout the world Lond. 1650. oct Written by Leo Modena a Rabbin of Venice At length this curious person resigning up his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried in S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London having before with Joh. Gregory another Critick received relief in his necessities from Edw. Bysshe Esq then K. of Arms by the Parliaments Authority and also assisted Sir Hen. Holbroke Kt. by whom he had been exhibited to in his Translation of Procopius of Caesarea his History of the Warrs of the Emperor Justinian in 8 books c. Lond. 1653. fol. by exactly comparing the English with the Greek as it was written by David Hoeschelius who had it out of the Duke of Bavaria's library GEORGE JOLLIFF or Joyliff son of Joh. Jol. Gent. was born at East-Stower in Dorsetshire entred a Commoner in Wadham Coll. in Lent Term an 1636 7 but before he had spent two years there he retired to Pembr Coll. and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 being about that time a Lieutenant for the King under Ralph Lord Hopton Afterwards he entred on the Physick line and exercising himself much in Anatomy with the help of Dr. Clayton Master of his Coll. and the Kings Prof. of Physick he made some discovery of that fourth sort of Vessels plainly differing from veins arteries and nerves now called the Lympheducts Afterwards he went to Clare Hall in Cambridge took the degree of Doctor of Physick there and afterwards made a full and open discovery of the said Vasa Lymphatica in Anatomy Lectures in the Coll of Physitians about the year 1653 got to himself a great name and was for a time much retired to for his knowledge in Physick He lived mostly at Garlick hithe in London and dying before the immortal Harvey not without some perturbation of spirit as having been bound for the debts of his Brother was buried in the Church of S. James Garlick hithe about 1655. CUTHBERT SYDENHAM son of Cuthb Syd Gent. was born at Truro in Cornwall became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in Lent term 1639 aged 17 continued there till the City of Oxford was garrison'd for the King at which time being entertained by some of the godly party became a forward Zealot among them About the year 1644 he became Lecturer of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne without any orders unless those of the Presbytery confer'd upon him where by his constant and confident preaching he obtained more respect from the Brethren than any grave or venerable Minister in that or another Corporation could do In the latter end of 1650 he was actually created Master of Arts by vertue of Letters sent to the Members of Convocation from the Committee of Parliament for regulating the University of Oxon which partly say that he Mr. Cuth Sydenham hath long since full time for taking the degree of Master of Arts and is likewise of sufficient abilities in learning whereof he hath given large and publick evidence both by his Writings in asserting the cause of the Parliament and otherwise That though he cannot for his pressing occasions perform his Exercises for that degree yet he hath performed some part of them before the Enemies possessing Oxon c. Among several of his Writings only these following as yet have come to my hands viz. The false Brother or the Mapp of Scotland drawn by an English Pencil Printed in quar Anatomy of Joh. Lilbourn's Spirit and Pamphlets or a Vindication of the two honorable Patriots Oliver Cromwell Lord Governour of Ireland and Sir Arth. Haselrigg Knight and Baronet wherein the said Lilbourn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar and unworthy of civil converse Printed in qu. This Joh. Lilbourn being several times occasionally mention'd in this work I shall be more large of him by and by A Christian Sober and plain exercitation of the two grand practical controversies of these times Infant-baptisme and singing of Psalmes Lond. 1653. in tw Answer'd by Will. Kaye Minister of Stokesley in his book called Baptisme without bason c. Lond. 1653. qu. and by others The greatness of the Mysterie of godliness opened in several Sermons Lond. 1654. 56. and 1672. in oct and tw Which book is the sum of ten Sermons on 1. Tim. 3.16 and hath before the second Edition of it the Authors picture with this written under it Aet 31. 1654. Hypocrisie discovered in its nature and workings being the sum of seven Sermons on Luke 12. latter end of the first verse Lond. 1654. oct with his picture before it in a cloak Printed there again in 1657. and 71. oct This book was published by T. W. one of his perswasion who in his pref to it saith that Cuthb Sydenham was trained up under religious education from his Childhood which made him often profess his jealousie of professors especially such who had the advantage of a godly education through the many experiences and deceits of their own hearts That he was extreme painful even to the visible wasting of his own bodily strength in the work of the Ministry and his great care over his flock c. The said Sermons were taken from his mouth in short hand by the said T. W. who published them without any alteration At lengâ—h our Author retiring to London to gain health and to print some of his books took up his Lodging in
true which he delivers Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author yet Quaere He surrendred up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wonted piety and goodness He died as he lived honoured and beloved of all that knew him a person of so clear and eminent candor that he left not the least spot upon his life or function maugre the busie sedition of those Brethren who then as before black'd the very Surplice and made the Liturgy profane He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond where he privately resided several years in the late broken times as I have before told you but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand where it laid in state for some time was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chappel of S. Edward the Confessor At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory containing many Elogiums of the Defunct which as also his monuments of piety and charity I shall for brevity sake now pass by Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble fastned to the Wall over his grave with an inscription thereon In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580 having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa and Brian to be his elder brother deceased HAMLETT PULESTON was born at Old Ailresford in Hampshire admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 20 Aug. 1647 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow of Jesus Coll. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a Preacher in these parts He hath written a book intit Monarchiae Britannicae singularis protectio or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial Providence over the British Monarchy c. Lond. 1660. qu. He died at London in a poor condition and in an obscure house in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two but where buried I cannot tell His Father Rich. Puleston was a learned Doct. of Div. was Parson of Abbotsworthy in Hampshire and tho born at Bircot in the Parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire yet he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flintshire WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest Kinsman to William of Wykeham Founder of New Coll as being lineally descended from William Lord Say killed in the battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471 by his Wife Margaret dau and heir of Will. de Wykeham Lord of the Mannour of Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire Son of Sir Tho. de Wykeham Knight Son of Will. Perot by Alice his Wife Daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his Wife Sister to Will of Wykeham B. of Winton and Founder of New Coll. before mention'd This person Will. Fiennes whom we are farther to mention was born at Broughton aforesaid being the eldest Son of Sir Rich. Fiennes to whom King Jam. 1. in the first year of his Reign had recognized and confirmed the dignity and honour of the Baron Say and Sele was trained up in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Fellow Commoner of New Coll. at about 14 years of age in 1596 where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals was called home for a time Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas and at his return being invested in a fair Estate did some years after give and obtain a vast sum of money towards the Waâ— in the Palatinate which was very pleasing to his â— â— K. Jam. 1. yet shewing kindness to his neighbours by leaving it to their pleasure to pay towards that War what they thought fit he was on notice given to his Majesty committed to custody in the month of June 1â—22 whence being soon after released he was on the 7 of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624. advanced from a Baron â—o be Viscount Say and Sele at which time he stood up 〈◊〉 the Privileges of Magna Charta but after the grand Rebellion broke out he looked upon it as a ridiculous 〈◊〉 such was the mutability of the man The truth is he being ill natur'd cholerick severe and rigid and withal highly conceited of his own worth did expect great matters at Court but they failing he sided therefore with the discontented party the Puritan and took all occasions cunningly to promote a Rebellion For so it was that several years before the Civil War began he being looked upon at that time the Godfather of that Party had meetings of them in his house at Broughton where was a room and passage thereunto which his Servants were prohibited to come near and when they were of a compleat number there would be great noises and talkings heard among them to the admiration of those that lived in the house yet could they never discern their Lords Companions At other times he would be present at their meetings in the house of Knightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire where as at other places in the Kingdom they had their Council Chambers and chief Speakers And what Embryo's were conceived in the Country were shaped in Greys-Inn-Lane near London where the Undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet brought them to pass and put them out to Nurse in London In 1639 he was a great Favourer of the Scotch Covenant and had much correspondence with the Scotch Commissioners and when the Long Parliament began in 1640 for the continuance of which he perswaded as 't is said his Majesty to consent shewed himself soon after so active therein as in others before that he with Pym Hamden and Strode three of the five Members were esteemed Parliament-drivers or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat Whereupon his Majesty being fully satisfied that he was discontented as indeed he was for want of Offices he had ran himself much into debt he confer'd upon him the Mastership of the Court of Wards 17 May 1641 in the place of Francis Lord Cottington who some months before had given it up to please a new Favourite and admitted him to be one of his Privy Council But all this satisfying not he grew more active in the House when it was to be continued and when the King was forced from his Parliament to take up Arms in his own defence then did he cause his House at Broughton to be fortified for the use of the Parliament shewed himself an enemy to Prelacy to Archb. Laud an incliner to
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
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
Keeper and Chancellour Speech at the sentence of Will Visc Stafford 7. Dec. 1680 Printed in one sh in fol. and in The Trial of the said Visc p. 212.213 At which time he performed the office of L. High Steward of England Answers by his Majesties command upon several Addresses presented to his Maj. at Hampton Court 19 May 1681. Lond. 1681. in 1. sh in fol. His Arguments upon which he made the Decree in the cause between the honorable Charles Howard Esq plaintiff Henry late Duke of Norfolk Hen. Lord Mowbray his Son Henry Marq. of Dorchester and Richard Marriott Esq Defendants wherein the several ways and methods of limiting a trust of a term for years are fully debated Lond. 1685 in 9 sh in fol. He also left behind him written with his own hand Chancery Reports MS in fol. in the hands of his Son Daniel Earl of Nottingham At length his body being worn out with tâ—o much business which his high station and office required he yeilded to nature in his house in Queen-street near Covent Garden on the 18. of Decemb. in the afternoon in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried on the 28 of the same month in the Church of Raunston before mention'd near Oulney in Bucks On the 20 of the said month his Majesty was pleased to commit the custody of the Great Seal to the right honorable Sir Francis North Lord Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas with the title of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and on the 22 he was sworn at the Council-board and took his place as Lord Keeper This noble Earl of Nottingham left behind him several Sons the eldest of which named Daniel who had been sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. succeeded his Father in his honors having been before a Parliament Man one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellour The second is named Heneage bred also in the said House and afterwards in the Inner Temple who became Sollicitor General in the place of Sir Franc. Winnington but removed thence about the 21 Apr. 1686 and Sir Tho. Powis put in his place about five days after He hath been several times elected Burgess by the University of Oxon. to serve in Parliaments for the members thereof ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER Baronet Son of Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne in Wilts Kt. and Bt by Anne his Wife Dau. and sole Heir of Sir Anth. Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire was born at Wimbourne on the 22. of July 1621 19. Jac. 1. became a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1636 under the tuition of Dr. Prideaux the Rector thereof and continued there about two years Afterwards he went to Lincolns Inn to study the municipal Law and in the latter end of 1639 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Tewksbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. In 1642 he sided with his Majesty being then as 't is said High Sherriff of Dorsetshire became Governour of Weymouth and raised some forces for his use But the mind of this person being mutable he left the royal cause went in to the Parliament and served them was made Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and took the Covenant But when the Presbyterians thought themselves sure of him whip he was gone as one saith and in a trice commenced a Brother Independent which was a wise part and no trick of a changling to shift principles like shirts and quit an unlucky side in a fright at the noise of a new prevailing party with whom he staid till he grew up to the size of a great Commonwealths man and made hay in the Sun shine until the Commonwealth and Cromwell were brought to bed of a strange new kind of Monarchy in the House of Commons a three or four hundred-headed Monarchy called The Fifth Monarchy and in those days it was also called Cromwells little Parliament in which his little Lordship became one of the Princes among a Drove of Changlings c. In 1645 he was elected Sherriff of Norfolk and the next year Sherriff of Wilts both approved of and consented to by the members of Parliament In Jan. 1651 he having before taken the Engagement he was one of those 21 persons who were appointed by Parliament to sit as a Committee to consider of the inconveniences which were in the Law c. and soon after he was chose one of the Council of State to Oliver in which high office he continued till that person was Protector In June 1653 he was constituted Knight for Wilts to serve in the said Little Parliament that began at Westm on the 4. of July the same year but therein having spied out Olivers purpose of matching to another sort of Monarchy of his own Sir Anthony then resolved like a constant steady man to his own main point to trepan his fellow members and strike in with him and lent him thereupon a helping hand towards the confounding of Fifth Monarchy to make way for a new one under the name of Protector in which seene of affairs he was made a Protectorian Privy-counsellour In Aug. 1654 he was appointed by ordinance one of the Commissioners for Wilts Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time he was elected a. Burgess for Pool before mention'd and for Tewkesbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver then Protector that began at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year At which time he aspiring to become the Protectors Son-in-Law Cromwell who well enough understood him either disdaining or not daring to take him so near into his bosome took occasion also to quit him out of his Council So that being out of such publick employs he was at leisure to make court to all private Malecontents against the Protector and wheresoever he found a sore there he rub'd hardest till the end of the Raign of Richard In 1656 he was elected a Parliament man for Wilts to serve in that convention that met at Westminster 17 of Sept. the same year and in 1658 he was elected again for that which began at the same place 27. of January In both which the friends and favourites of Sir Anthony say that he endeavoured to cross the designs of Oliver and Richard But the last being soon after laid aside Sir Anthony thought it high time of necessity to turn back to the old honest point of the compass and get in again to be thought a new man of his Majesties party To this end notwithstanding he had been nominated one of the Council of State after the deposing of Richard May 15 1659 he joyned partly with the Presbyterians and privately engaged with Sir George Booth was of the Cabal kept intelligence with him and had a party in Dorsetshire which should be ready to assist him if little success
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168â— should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
as might have defrayed the charge of those Transcripts so made from Records and otherwise as hath been observed But the Booksellers not willing to adventure on them Mr. Dodsworth and Mr. Dugdale joined together and hired several sums of money to defray the cost and expence of them The care of which work as to the Printing lay totally on Mr. Dugdale because Mr. Dodsworth died in Lancashire about the midst of August an 1654 before the tenth part of the first vol. came off from the Press The first vol. being finished an 1655 a stop was made for some years of bringing the second to the Press until the greatest part of the impression was sold whereby money might be had to go on therewith Mr. Dugdale therefore having with no small pains and charge finished his Collections in order to his designed historical work of Warwicksh Antiquities and at length perfected the frame thereof was at the whole charge of Printing and Paper for publishing the same and continued in London to correct the Press himself by reason that the ordinary Correctors were not skil'd at all in the Pedigrees Which book was finished and expos'd to sale an 1656. In the time of his continuance in London he casually met with one Mr. Reading a Northamptonshire Gent who had been Clerk of the Nisi prius for the midland-Circuit and with whom he had been formerly acquainted This Mr. Reading knowing Mr. Dugdale to be an indefatigable searcher into Records he friendly invited him to his house at Scrivners Hall near Silverstreet promising to shew him divers old MSS original Charters and other ancient Writings So that he going thither accordingly he brought forth five antient MSS. in folio which were Chartularies of the Lordships and Lands first given to the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London All which he freely lent to carry with him to his house in Warwickshire till Mich. term ensuing and then upon the restoration of them he should have use of as many more But in the said Term when he went to London to restore them whence he had extracted what he thought fit as to any historical use he found that Mr. Reading was dead and had constituted one Mr. Williams a Barrister of the Temple his Executor Whereupon Mr. Dugd. addressing himself to that person to desire a sight of the rest he brought him to Scrivners Hall and there shew'd him many other Manuscript-books original Charters old Rolls and other very antient Writings in bags and hampers relating to the said Cathedral of S. Paul All which he freely lent to Mr. Dugdale amounting to no less than ten Porters burthens to be carried to his lodgings Being thus in his private custody he first bestowed pains to sort them into order and afterwards made extracts from them of what he found historical in reference to that Cath. Ch. And to the end that the memory of those many antient monuments therein which were afterwards utterly destroyed the Church also being made a Horse-garrison by the Usurpers might be continued to posterity Mr. Dugdale did by the help and favour of sundry worthy persons who voluntarily offered to be at the charge of the plates in which the Representations were cut in brass as also the prospects of that whole Fabrick inside and outside accomplish the same Further also having succinctly framed an historical narration of the first foundation and endowment of the said Church as also of all the Chantries and what else was most memorable therein or relating thereto made it publick by the Press an 1658. But as the longest day hath its evening so did it at last please the omnipotent to put a period to the tyrannous actions of the said Usurpers by the most miraculous Restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 which was about â—â— years after the most execrable murder of his royal Father At which time to prevent the importunity of others who aimed at the Office of Norroy King of Arms void by the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to the Office of Garter whom I shall mention by and by Sir Edw. Hyde Kt then Lord Chancellor and afterwards Earl of Clarendon having seen the Antiquities of Warwickshire and the first vol. of Monasticon did move the King on the behalf of Mr. Dugdale for the said place Whereupon it being readily granted there was a special Warrant made under the royal Signet to prepare a Patent for the same Which Patent after his Majesties return passed the Great Seal accordingly on the 18 of June 1660. At the same time the second vol. of Mon. Angl. was in the Press and the next year 't was published During the printing of which he laboured about his historical work of Imbanking and drayning the Fens and Marshes deduced out of public Records and antient MSS at the instance of the Lord Gorges and others who were the principal Adventurers in that costly and laudable Undertaking for drayning the great Level extending into a considerable part of the Counties of Cambridge Huntingdon Northampton Norfolk and Suffolk This book was adorned with several exact Maps of the parts and places so drayned and was published in 1662. Further also having been much importun'd by Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury and the Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour to perfect that Collection began by the learned Sir Hen. Spelman for his intended second vol. of the Provincial Councils in England Mr. Dugdale did in order thereunto make diligent search for all such materials that might be got either out of the Cottonian Library or otherwise Which being done he made Transcripts of them and methodized the same for the Press So that the whole vol. amounting to 200 sheets in folio all of it except 57 were totally of Mr. Dugdale's Collection It was printed in 1664 but very full of faults occasion'd if I am not mistaken by the absence of the said Mr. Dugdale Will. Somnore the Antiquary of Canterbury took a great deal of pains to correct a printed copy of it with his pen in the margin which copy is yet remaining in the Library belonging to the Ch. of Canterbury At the same time also the second part of Sir Hen. Spelmans Glossary which begins with the letter M was brought to Mr. Dugdale to have it fitted for the Press for so it was that Sir Henry having lest it very imperfect much of it being loosly written and in sundry bits of paper he took pains to dispose thereof into proper order by transcribing many of those loose papers and afterwards by marking such parts of it for differencing the character as needed The first part also that had been published by Sir Henry an 1626 was afterwards considerably augmented and corrected by its Author Which also being brought to Mr. Dugdale and by him review'd and made fit for the Press were both printed together an 1664. But the second part which Sir H. Spelman leâ—t imperfect as is before told you comes far short of the first After this Mr. Dugdale having in many years
Luton-Hoe in Bedfordshire Bt was afterwards one of the first members of the Royal Society a great pretender to Vertue and Astrology made a great noise in the world yet did little or nothing towards the publick He died in the house of Sir John Lenthall at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks 17 Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church at Linford before mentioned the Mannour of which did belong to him but after his death his son Thom. sold it for 19500 l. or thereabouts The said Sir Richard drew up a book containing A collection of Nativities which is now in MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq Nov. 1. Francis Smith of Brasn Coll. Nov. 1. Thom. Smith of Linc. Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Hinton Nov. 1. George Roe The said Joh. Hinton was afterwards a Kt and Physitian to K Ch. 2. and his Queen Dec. 20. Will. Hunt Dec. 20. Andr. Pindar Jan. 16. Joh. Merret a Captain in Cornwall Jan. 16. Walt. Charlton of Magd. Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Baylie lately of Hart Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Hayes a Physitian in the Kings Army Jan. 31. Sir Hen. Manwaring Kt. The first of these last three was son of Dr. Ralph Baylie sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Physitian of note at Bathe which Thomas practising afterwards at Newbury in Berks died there of a high infection in the prime of his years As for the last Sir H. Manwaring I find one of both his Names and a Knight too author of The Seamens Dictionary or an exposition and demonstration of all the parts belonging to a ship Lond. 1670. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sir Joh. Terryngham Kt. High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was created the same day He died on the second day of May 1645 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon. Sir John Stawell Kt. of the Bath sometimes Gent. Com. of Queens Coll was also created the same day He was one of the Knights for Somersetshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it when the King was forced to leave Westminster he retired to him at Oxon and sate there for a time in the Parliament conven'd there That which is chiefly memorable of this most worthy person is that he being one of the most eminent men in Somersetshire for Estate Wisdom and Prudence did after he had undergone all the principal services and employments for his Country viz. High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenant and Knight for the Shire in several Parliaments most loyally and courageously take up arms with three of his sons raised three Regiments of Horse and two of Dragoons and of Foot upon his sole charge in defence of his Maj. K. Ch. 1 as also of the Laws of this Kingdom and Rights of the Subject invaded by wicked Conspirators under colouâ— of reformation an 1642. He was then a Colonel of Horse and soon after was made Governour of Taunton and continued there till remanded Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he was not admitted to his composition as others were tho comprized within the Articles of Exeter upon the surrender of that City to the Powers at that time prevailing and the reason was because they thirsted not only after his large Estate but conspired also to take away his life He endured in those times of affliction long and tedious Imprisonments in the Press-yard in Newgate and other Goales and after in the Tower of London And did with admirable Wisdom and Courage approve himself an eminent Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom by making such a defence in their several bloody Tribunals viz. at their Vpper Bench bar and High Court of Justice as that he put to silence those bold Judges who sate there with design to take away his life And tho he was reduced to the greatest want and misery which his severe opposers by sale of his Lands cutting down his Woods and demolishing the principal Seat of his family at Cotholstone could bring upon him yet by the subsistance which his aged Mother the Lady Elizabeth Griffin afforded him which was all he had he most chearfully underwent the same lived to see the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2 and to be again elected one of the Knights for the County of Somerset to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661. After he had continued there some months his urgent affairs drew him to his house at Ham three miles distant from Somerton in his own Country where dying 21 Feb. 1661 aged 62 years was buried on the 23 of Apr. following on the south side of the Chancel of the Church at Cotholstone five miles distant from Taunton There goes under the name of this most loyal person his Petition and Remonstrance to the Parliament and O. Cromwel as also his Vindication printed 1653 and 55. fol. In the latter end of Jan. 1682 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. was graciously pleased to create Ralph Stawell Esq a Baron of England by the name and stile of Lord Stawell of Somerton in consideration of the eminent Loyalty and Sufferings of his father before mention'd during all the time of the Troubles and the many good and acceptable Services performed by him Jan. 31. Sir Rob. Lee Knights Jan. 31. Sir Joh. Paulet Knights The last who had been sometimes of Exeter Coll as it seems was a younger son of the Lord Paulet James Young lately of Qu. Coll in Oxon eldest son of Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester was created the same day Jan. 31. Nathan Heighmore sometimes of Trin. Coll. Jan. 31. Christop Merret sometimes of Gloc. Hall Mar. 4. Rob. Bosworth of Brasn Coll. He was chose Burgess for the City of Hereford to sit in Richards-Parliament began at Wesâ—minster 27 of January 1658. Doct. of Div. From the 1 of Nov. to the 21 Feb. were between 40 and 50 Doctors of Divinity actually created most of whom follow Nov. 1. Rob. Payne Canons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. George Morley Canons of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester Barten Holyday sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Oxford was created the same day Nov. 1. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jer. Taylor of All 's Coll. The first of these last three had been Greek Professor of this University and was afterwards Warden of his Coll whence being ejected he retired to London where dying in Febr. 1657 was buried in the Church of the Black Fryers The second was now or about this time Fellow of Eaton Col and Master of Wigstons Hospital at Leycester from both which being ejected in the times of Usurpation he suffered equally with other Loyalists At length upon his Majesties return he was not only restored to his Fellowship and Hospital but elected Warden of All 's Coll. in the place of Dr. Sheldon promoted to the See of London and made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Dr. Nich. Monk
I shall anon set down In 1639 he was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland and when the Rebellion broke out there he suffered much in his Estate In 1644 he with the Lord Edward Brabason afterwards Earl of Meath and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt were sent by James Marquess of Ormonde then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon about the affairs of that Kingdom Which being concluded to their minds they returned but in their way they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship just after Sir James had flung over board the Kings packet of Letters directed to Ormonde Whereupon being all conveyed to London were committed Prisoners to the Tower where continuing eleven months were then released upon exchange Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin continued there for some time and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England Afterwards the said Colonel thinking it not convenient for several reasons that he should remain there commanded him to depart so that by vertue of his pass he went into France where he continued an year and an half mostly at Caen and partly at Paris In 1651 he left that Country went into England and setling in London wrot several books and published one or more there Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he went into Ireland and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General and continued a privy Counsellor there His works are these 1 Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium Tuamensium vitae duobus expressae commentariolis Dubl 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius 2 Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia c. 3 De praesulibus Lageniae sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus Dubl 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment de praesulibus Hib. 4 De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo Dubl 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit De script maj Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit The Description of Ireland 5 De Hibernia Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones Lond. 1654 and 1658. in a thick oct 6 De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora Dubl 1665. fol. 7 Note ad Bedae epist Apologeticam Dubl 1664. oct 8 Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium Girwicensium per Bedam composit Dubl 1664. oct 9 Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum Ib. eod an oct 10 Notae ad Egberti dialogum de institutione ecclesiastica Ib. eod an oct 11 Notae ad rem Historicam Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula S. Patricio qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit adscripta c. Lond. 1656. oct He also wrot and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante Annales Pr. at the end of his Disquisit de Hibernia and De praesul Hib. comment Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Maria regnantibus Annales which are at the end of the said book De praesul besides the publication of Campians Hist of Ireland the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer that of Hen. Marleburrough and The view of Ireland by Edm. Spenser At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first an 1666 and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City He had a choice Collection of antient MSS many of which related to Irâ—sh affairs procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an 1648. in â— sh and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an 1686 who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martins Church in the Fields in Westm a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox. This year also about the beginning thereof as it seems was a proposal made by vertue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellour that Rich. Fanshaw Esq Servant to Prince Charles should have the degr of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him but whether he was presented thereunto tho diplomated he might be it appears not in the publick Register Howsoever it is sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University did many years after report that he had that degree confer'd on him here yet whether personally presented thereunto they could not positively affirm This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw originally of the University of Cambr. was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire being the great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place brother of Henry Fanshaw and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615. father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland father of him who is now or at least was lately L. Visc Fanshaw Which three last have also been Remembrancers of the Exchecquer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw brother to Lord Thomas of whom we are farther to speak was for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an 1635 and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain Whence being recall'd in the beginning of the Troubles 1640 1 into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed and was employed in several weighty matters of State In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales afterwards King whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl and thence into the Isles of Scilly and Guernsey In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert which he managed till the year 1650 when then he was prefer'd by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain and being thence recalled into Scotland he there served in the quality of Secretary of State Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester was at the battel there 1651 taken Prisoner and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness had liberty allow'd him upon Bayle given for the recovery of his health to go to any place he
of Exemplars he had the assistance of several learned persons of whom Edm. Castle or Castell Bach. of Div. was the chiefest Vir in quo eruditio summa magnaque animi modestia convenere c. as he doth characterize him yet if you 'll believe that learned person who was afterwards Doctor of Div Arabick Professor of Cambridge and Preb. of Canterbury he 'll tell you in his Preface to his Lexicâ—n Heptaglotton printed in Lond. 1669 that he had more than an ordinary hand in that Work as indeed he had and therefore deserved more matter to be said of him than in the said Pref. to Bib. Polyglot is The other persons were Alex. Huish of Wadh. Coll. Sam. Clarke Clericus of Mert. Coll. of both whom I have spoken already and Thom. Hyde since of Qu. Coll. in this University He had also some assistance from Dr. D. Stokes Abr. Wheelock Herb Thorndyke Edw. Pocock Tho Greaves Dudly Loftus c. men most learned in their time Towards the printing also of the said great and elaborate work he had the contribution of moneys from many noble persons and Gentlemen of quality which were put into the hands of Sir Will. Humble Treasurer for the said Work as Charles Lodâ—wick Prince Elector William Marq. of Hertford Will. Earl of Strafford Will. E. of Bedford Will. Lord Petre Will. L. Maynard Arth. L. Capell John Ashburnham of his Maj. Bedchamber Sir Rob. Sherley Bt Will. Lenthall Mast of the Rolls Joh. Selden of the Inner Temple Esq Joh. Sadler of Linc. Inn Esq Joh. He le Esq Tho. Wendy Esq afterwards Kr. of the Bath and others as Mountague Earl of Lindsey L. Chamb. of England George E. of Rutland Mildmay E. of Westmorland John E. of Exeter Tho. L. Fairfax Bapt. L. Noel Visc Camden Sir Will. Courtney Sir Anth. Chester and Sir Will. Farmer Baronets Sir Franc. Burdet Kt. and Joh. Wall D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. After his Majesties restauration the Author Dr. Walton presented his said six vol. of Bib. Polyg to which being well received by him he not only made him his Chaplain in ordinary but for his great Vertues Learning Loyalty Sufferings and indefatigable industry for the public benefit of Learning did advance him to the See of Chester to which being consecrated in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the second day of December an 1660 sate there tho a little while to the time of his death In Sept. 1661 he with a good retinue went to take possession of his See and when he came to Lichfield many persons of very good worth who had ridden from Chester to that City which is 50 miles did meet and congratulate him there and very many others in his way thence to Chester On the tenth day of the said month all the Gentry almost of the whole County of Chester and the Militia both of Country and City went out to meet him and the day following the spiritual Militia the true Sons of the Church of England went to their reverend Diocesan upon the road All which and others having brought him to his Pallace with the loud acclamations of thousands of people blessing God for so happy a sight he forthwith put on his Episcopal robes and hasted to the performance of his devotions in the Choire When he entred the body of the Cathedral Church Dr. Hen. Bridgman the Dean and all the members of the Cathedral habited in their Albes received a blessing from his Lordship sung Te Deum and so compassing the Choir in manner of procession conveyed him to his chair This was on the eleventh of the said month of Sept. a day not to be forgotten by all the true Sons of the Church of England tho curs'd then in private by the most rascally faction and crop-ear'd whelps of those parts who did their endeavours to make it a maygame and a piece of foppery After his Lordship had made some continuance there and was highly caress'd and entertained by noble and generous spirits he return'd to London fell sick and died in his house in Aldersgate-street on the 29 of Nov. an 1661 to the great reluctancy of all learned and loyal persons On the 5 of Dec. following he was buried in the south side of the Cathedral Church of S. Paul of which he was Prebend opposite to the monument of Sir Christopher Hatton sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being then attended to his grave by three Heralds of Armes in their formalities Soon after was a noble monument put over his grave with a large inscription thereon running thus Manet heic novissimam c. Here awaiteth the sound of the last trump Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester Reader look for no farther epitaph on him whose very name was epitaph enough Nevertheless if thou lookest for a larger and louder one consult the vocal oracles of his fame and not of this dumb marble For let me inform thee if it be not a shame to be ignorant this was he that with the first brought succour and assistance to the true Church sick and fainting under the sad pressure of persecution This was he that fairly wiped of those foul and contumelious aspersions cast upon her pure and spotless innocence by those illiterate and Clergy-trampling Schismaticks This was he that brought more light and lustre to the true reformed Church here establish'd whilst maugre the malice of those hellish Machinators he with more earnest zeal and indefatigable labour than any carried on and promoted the printing of that great Bible in so many Languages So that the Old and New Testament may well be his monument which he erected with no small expence of his own Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles emblazoned or displayed in Heralds books whose name is written in the book of life He died on S. Andrews Eve in the 62 year of his age in the first year of his consecration and in the year of our Lord God 1661. This worthy person Dr. Walton hath written besides Bibl. Polyg these two books 1 Introductio ad Lectionem Linguarum Orientalium Lond. 1655. oct 2 The considerator considered or a brief view of certain considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof c. Ibid. 1659 oct See in Jo. Owen among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 561. Aug. 12. Richard Dukeson D. of D. of Cambr. He was Minister of the Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster of which being sequestred by the violent and restless Presbyterians because of his Orthodox principles as also plundered of his goods and forced to fly for his own security retired at length to Oxon where for a time he exercised his function After his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost and lived several years after in a quiet repose Aug. 26. William Brough D. of D. of the said University He had been educated in Christs Coll. there was afterwards Rector of
Holdenby in Northamptonshire there to continue during the Treaty because it was a more convenient place for his Majesty and much more near to London than the former place On the 3 of Feb. therefore an 1646 he was conveyed thence by certain Forces appointed by Parliament and on the 16 of the said month he arrived at Holdenby with the Commissioners viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke Basil Earl of Denbigh Edward Lord Mountague of Boughton with double their number of some eminent members of the H. of Commons namely Sir Jam. Harrington Sir John Holland and Sir Joh. Coke Baronets Sir Walter Earle Kt Joh. Crew Esq and Serg. Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne Being all setled there the Treaty went on with fair hopes of a conclusion but by the diabolical machinations of O. Cromwell and his confederates the Adjutators it was after this manner dissolved and the King by force taken thence On the 3 of June 1647 his Maj. being in the afternoon at Bowls in the Green at Aâ—thorp near Holdenby belonging to the Lord Spencer Earl of Sunderland it was whisper'd among the Commissioners then there with him that a party of Horse obscurely headed were marching towards Holdenby and for no good it was presumed in regard that neither the Commissioners nor Colonel Rich. Greaves a most confiding Presbyterian who kept the Guard at Holdenby and was an Officer in the Army nor the Commissioners servants had the least notice of it from any Officer or other correspondent in the Army other than that the General had removed his Head-quarter from S. Edmunds Bury to Newmarket when the Army entred into an Engagement not to suffer themselves to be disbanded such a motion having been made by the Commons in Parliament Whereupon his Majesty so soon as he was acquainted with it he immediately left the Green and returned to Holdenby where the Commissioners after consultation had with Col. Greaves resolved to stand upon their guard and accordingly they forthwith doubled their guards for the defence of his Majesties person and Serg. Maj. Gen. Browne calling all the Soldiers together acquainted them with the occasion who promised to stand by him and not to suffer any attempt upon the Kings person or affront on the Commissioners as I have been informed by one then present on the place whom I shall anon mention But the difference is great 'twixt saying and doing as soon appeared for about midnight came that party of Horse which in good order drew up before the House or Pallace at Holdenby and at all avenews placed guards This done the Officer that commanded the party alighted and demanded entrance Whereupon Greaves and Browne asked him his name and business he answer'd his name was Joyce a Cornet in Col. Edw. Whalleys Regiment and his business was to speak with the King From whom said they From my self said Joyce at which they laughed and thereupon Joyce said 't was no laughing matter They advised him to draw off his men and in the morning he should speak with the Commissioners I came not hither said he to be advised by you nor have I any business with the Commissioners my errand is to the King and speak with him I must and will presently c. They then bad the Soldiers within stand to their Arms and be ready to fire when ordered But during this short Treaty between the Cornet and Greaves and Browne the Soldiers on each side had conference together and so soon as they understood that they were Fellow-Soldiers of one and the same Army they quickly forgot what they had promised for they opened the gates and doors shoke one another by the hand and bad them welcome so little regard had they to their promises either in reference to the Kings safety or the Commissioners that attended him Entrance being made strict search was made after Col. Greaves who tho faultless yet was it suggested that he would privately have conveyed away the King to London got happily out of their reach Sentinels were ordered by Joyce to be set at the Commissioners chambers doors that he might with less noise carry on his design and find way to the Back-stairs where the Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber attended Cornet Joyce being come unto the door he in rude manner knock'd Those within asked who it was that in such an uncivil manner and unseasonable time came to disquiet the Kings rest The Cornet answer'd My name is Joyce an Officer of the Army and sorry I am that I should disquiet the King but I cannot help it for speak with him I must and that presently c This strange confidence of his and the posture he was in having a cock'd Pistol in his hand amazed the four Grooms of the Bedchamber Jam. Maxwell Patr. Maule Jam. Harrington and Thom. Herbert from the last of which I had this story in writing whose duty it was and care to preserve his Majesties person and were resolv'd to sacrifice their lives rather than give him admittance They therefore in the first place ask'd Joyce if he had the Commissioners approbation for his intrusion he said no for I have ordered a guard to be set at their doors and have orders from those that feared them not They then perswaded him to lay aside his arms and to forbear giving disturbance the K. being then asleep assuring him that in the morning he should have his Majesties answer to his errand The Cornet refused to part with either Sword or Pistol and yet insisted to have the Chamber door opened But the Grooms of the Bedchamber keeping firm to their resolution that he should not enter the noise was so loud which in this contest could not be avoided that it awakened his Majesty who thereupon rung his silver bell Upon which Maxwell went into the Bedchamber to know the Kings pleasure the other three Grooms in the mean time securing the door The K. being acquainted with the business and uncivil carriage of the Cornet he sent word he would not rise nor speak with him until morning Which being told the Cornet he huff'd and seeing his design could not be effected in the night he retired so as for a few hours there was silence Morning being come the K. arose a little sooner than ordinary and having performed his morning devotions he sent for Joyce who with no less confidence than if he had been a supreme Officer approached the King and acquainted him with the commands he had concerning his removal The K. desired that the Commissioners might be sent for and his orders communicated to them the Cornet made answer that they were to return back to the Parliament by whose appointment said the King to which the Cornet made no answer The K. then said Let them have their liberty and give me a sight of your instructions That said Cornet Joyce you shall see presently And forthwith drawing up the greatest and best part of his party into the inner Court as near as he could unto the King said These
Charles was afterwards Burgess for the Town of Cambridge to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 19 May 1685 1 Jac. 2. He and his brother at the time of their Creation and before were Sojourners for a time in the Univ. of Oxon. Aug. 23. Joh. Drope of Magd. Coll. This person who was son of Tho. Drope Vicar of Cumnore near Abendon in Berks was born in the Vicaridge-house there became Demy of Magd. Coll an 1642 aged 16 years or thereabouts bore arms for the King soon after within the Garrison of Oxon made true and perpetual Fellow of his Coll. in 1647 and ejected thence in the year following Afterwards he was made the first Master of the Free-School in Dorchester in Oxfordshire founded by Sir Joh. Fetiplace but leaving it soon after he was succeeded therein by Dav. Thomas Usher of Thame School After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship studied Physick and practised it afterwards in a Mercate Town in Lincolnshire called Burrough He hath written 1 An Hymenaean Essay or an Epithalamy upon the royal Match of Ch. 2. and Katherine Infanta of Portugal 1662. Oxon. 1662. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 A Poem upon the most hopeful and ever flourishing Sprouts of Valour the indefatigable Centrys of the Physick Garden in Oxon. Oxon. 1664. on one side of a broad sh of paper in two Columes See more among the Works of Edm. Gayton his jocular friend and companion p. 271. 3 Poems on several occasions These I have seen ready written for the Press and tho commended by several persons yet they are not printed He died in the beginning of Octob. 1670 and was buried in the Church at Burrough before mention'd Franc. Drope brother to John before mention'd was created the same day Aug. 23. I have mention'd him already among the Writers p. 357. Aug. 23. James Metford of C. C. Coll. He was the son of Joh. Metford of Crookhorne in Somersetshire was elected Scholar of the said Coll from that of Merton in Jan. 1647 ejected soon after thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors but being restored in 1660 was after he had been created M. of A made Fellow of his house Afterwards by the presentation of the President and Society thereof he became Rector of Bassingham in Lincolnshire where he now lives and in Aug. 1687 he became Preb. of Bole in the Ch. of York by the resignation of Rob. Powell He hath published A general discourse of Simony Lond. 1682. oct having been put upon the writing of it by Dr. Mich. Honywood Dean of Linc who was pleased to inform the author with some resentment of the too great progress of it in the Nation bewailing the fatal consequence of it in the Church and commanding him to say something if possible to stop its growth Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. was created the same day I have at large made mention of him among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 624. Philip Fell of Trin. Coll. was created also the same day This person tho he was no sufferer for the Kings Cause or ever took the degree of B. of A as having before left his Coll. abruptly upon no good account yet by the favour and interest of his elder Brother Dr. Joh. Fell he was not only created M. of A but also sped Fellow of All 's Coll had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him without any Exercise for it as having been nominated by his said brother while he was Vicechancellour to answer the Doctors in Comitiis when there was no Act and at length to be Fell. of the Coll. at Eaton He was always esteemed a most excellent Latin Poet as his copies of Verses in several books occasionally published in the name of the University and in others do manifestly shew He died at Hereford in the house of Dr. George Bensâ—n Dean of the Church there who had married his sister on the 26 of Febr. 1682 aged 49 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was conveyed to Worcester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there among the graves of his Mothers relations Sept. 20. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll. 28. Dennis Greenvill of Exet. Coll. The last who had been no Sufferer for the Kings Cause nor ejected his Coll because entred therein after the Parl. Visitors had turn'd all the Royalists out thence was created by the favour of his great Relations and at length by their endeavours he became Dean of Durham He hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred See among the created Doct. of Div. 1670. Nov. 29. George Brereton of Qu. Coll a younger son of Will Lord Brereton This person who had been no Surferer or was expel'd was not only created among the Sufferers but also made soon after Fellow of All 's Coll which place he being in a manner forced to leave was by the favour of Dr. Cosin made Prebendary of Durham He died in the beginning of March 1672. Dec. 15. Clem. Couteur a Jersey man born of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. Dav. Whitford of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. Will. Godolphin of Ch. Ch. The last which had not any way suffer'd I shall mentâ—on hereafter Feb. 14. Henry Hyde eldest son of Edward Lord Hyde of Hindon Chanc. of this Univ. afterwards Earl of Clarendon was diplomated M. of A. This Henry who was afterwards Lord Cornbury and after his fathers death Earl of Clarendon became L. Chamberlain to Q. Catherine in which office I find him in 1665 was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and took his place at the board 26 May 1680. In the middle of Febr. 1684 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of George Marquess of Hallifax made L. President of the Privy Council and about the beginning of Dec. 1685 K. James 2. being then in the throne he was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which honorable office he keeping a full year was recalled and soon after the Privy Seal was taken from him as being a person that answer'd not that Kings expectation c. About the time of his recalment he was elected High Steward of this University and after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he suffered in several respects without offence let it be spoken because he was a Non-juror He is a true son of the Ch. of Engl a lover of the regular Clergy c. Laurence Hyde younger Brother to Henry before mentioned was also diplomated M. of A. the same day In Apr. 1661 he was elected one of the Burgesses for this University to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year and on the 30 of Oct. following he with Will Lord Croft and Sir Charles Berkley Groom of the Stole and Gent of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York began their Journey for France the two former being sent by his Majesty and the latter by the said Duke to the K. of France to congratulate the happy birth of the
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of Nâ—rfolk Earl Marshal of England and Hâ—nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
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
died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
the place of Dr. Joh. Lloyd sometimes of All 's Coll. deceased and was about that time Rector of Hartley Westpoll in Hampshire 27. Sam. Jackson M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Practitioner in Physick for several years in this University and near it was created Doct. of that faculty by vertue of the Kings Letters This person who had been an Officer in the Kings Army during the grand Rebellion died 3 of March 1674 and was buried in the body of S. Maries Church in Oxon near that of his Father sometimes an Apothecary of that City Joh. Henr. Otho of Berne in Switzerland became a Sojournour in the University in the latter end of this year where improving himself much in Literature by the use of the public Libr. did afterwards write a Talmudical Lexicon and a book De autoribus Mishnae that is of the Talm. Text or of those old Jewish Doctors who wrot the parts of the Mishna which is the Text of the Talmud and other things An. Dom. 1672. An. 24 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews made this year Bish of Bathe and Wells Proct. George Verman of Ex. Coll. Apr. 19. Tho. Crosthwaite of Qu. Coll. Apr. 19. Which Proctors were not admitted till the third day of Easter term because on the first was observed a public Fast for a prosperous War against our Enemies the Dutch and on the second was preached a Lat. Sermon and other Preparations made for the beginning of the Term. Bach. of Arts. May 14. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters an 1682. Jun. 22. Jonath Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Jun. 22. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristow and Exeter the other hath published several books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Adm. 213. Bach. of Law Eight were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them Rob. Rigby of Ch. Ch. was one a person of good rank and a Traveller as the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf tell us Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Rich. Lucas of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Joh. Williams of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. The second of these three was afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan 19. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Curate for Dr. George Hooper at Woodhay in Hampshire and Author of The Antidote or a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13.1 shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher Powers with an account of the divine right or original of Government Lond. 1684. oct Mar. 22. Joh. Rogers of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to George Earl of Berkley and published A Sermon preached before the Corporation of Trinity-House in Deptford Strand at the election of their Master 30 May 1681 on Jonah 1.6 Lond. 1681. quart Adm. 120. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted this year but neither of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. Henr. Rose of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Minister of Allhallowes Church in Oxon and afterwards wrot A philosophical Essay for the re-union of the Languages or the art of knowing all by the Mastery of one Oxon. 1675 in about 5 sheets in oct He afterwards went into Ireland and whether he be there now living I cannot tell Jul. 10. Moses Pengry of Brasn Coll. He was about this time Chaplain to Will Earl of Devonshire to whose son Will. Lord Caâ—endish he dedicated his Translation into excellent Latin Verse of Sir John Denham's English Poem called Coopers hill which Mr. Pengry intituled Coopers hill latine redditum c. Oxon 1676. in 3 sh 〈…〉 This Mr. Pengry who was born in the City of Glocester was an ingenious man well read in the Poets and humane Literature And had not death untimely snatch'd him away he might have given us larger Specimens of his curious fancy He died on the fourth day of Octob. an 1678 being then Minister of Gillingham in Kent and was buried in the Cath. Church of Rochester Jul. 10. Will. Ashton of Brasn Coll. Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Adm. 8. This year Oct. 22 Anth. Saunders M. A. of Ch. Ch. was created Bach. of Div. by the Diploma of Gilbert Archb. of Canterbury See among the Doct. of Div. 1677. Doct. of Law May 11. Hugh Wynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chanc. of the dioc of S. Asaph and is now a Non-juror 14. Hen. Jones of Magd. Coll. He was now Chanc. of the dioc of Bristow Jun. 7. Franc. Lennard of All 's Coll. 12. Joh. Edisbury of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 6 Mar. 1678 and was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Joh. Master of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Physick and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Doct. of Div. Jun. 27. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. The two last were Accumulators Incorporations Jun. 22. Edward Chamberlayne Doctor of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated as he had stood at Cambridge This person who was originally of S. Edm. Hall and M. of A. of this University hath written several things among which is Angliae Notitia and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers In the month of July were 15 Masters of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among which were Nathan Bacon of Qu. Coll. Joh. Gregory of Pemb. Hall The first of which was a Writer as it seems for one of both his names hath published several things The other is the same I presume with Joh. Gregory mention'd among the Creations of D. of D. in Franc. Gregory an 1661. Besides them was one Bach. of Phys and two Bach. of Div. of the same University incorporated also Creations Jul. 17. Thom. Skynner of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon was actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that he was for some time bred in Cambridge but was forced to leave that Vniversity in the times of Vsurpation by reason of the illegal Oaths and other impositions offer'd to him whereby he was prevented the taking his degree c. This Doctor hath added a third Lat. part to Dr. G. Bate his Elenchus motuum c. Lond. 1676. oct which he calls Motus compositi afterwards translated into English by another hand with a Preface to it by a person of quality Lond. 1685. oct See in George Bate among the Writers in this vol. p. 304. Mar. 19. Edmund Webbe of Ball. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellors Letters which say that he is Master of Arts and now Chaplain in ord to his
the Elector of Brandeburg as also of the Hall and Judicial Chamber Chamberlain and Chieftain of the Province or County of Ruppin Knight of the order of Johamites and Envoy extraordinary to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said Elector of Brandeburg was created the same day Sir Joseph Williamson Kt Mast of Arts and Fellow of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son of the County of Cumberland had been Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas and afterwards under Hen. Earl of Arlington while they were Principal Secretaries of State and on the 24 Jan. 1671 he was sworn one of the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary and Knighted About that time he was Clerk of the papers or Keeper of the Paper Office at Whitehall and a Recruiter for Thetford in Norfolk to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661. Afterwards he was sent twice in the quality of a Plenipotentiary once to Holland and another time to Colen in Germany and after his return he was sworn Principal Secretary of State upon the promotion of Henry Earl of Arlington to be Lord Chambeâ—lain of his Majesties Houshold and a Privy Counsellour on the eleventh of Sept. 1674. Both which offices he keeping till Feb. 1678 did on the 9 of the same month resign the seals of his Secretaryship into the hands of his Majesty who forthwith giving them to Rob. Earl of Sunderland he was sworn the next day Secretary and Privy Counsellour This Sir Jos Williamson who was then President of the Royal Society hath been a great Benefactor to his Coll. and may be greater hereafter if he think fit The illustrious Lord Ignatius Vitus Baron ot Vicque a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under his Catholick Majesty in Flanders was created the same day June 27. One Ignatius Vitus alias White second Son of Sir Dominick White of Limerick in Ireland was created a Baronet on the 29 of June 1677 and for want of issue male that title was to descend to his Nephew Ignatius Maximilian Vitus and to the heirs male of his body This Sir Ignat. White is the same as I conceive with him that was Baron of Vicque D. Car. Gabr. de la Salle Eq. Grome of the Chamber to the King of Sweedland was also then created In a Convocation held 30 of May this year were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Sam. Speed formerly a Student now Canon of Ch. Ch. to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him but whether he was created or admitted notwithstanding he had formerly suffer'd for his loyalty it appears not On the sixth of the said month of May this year he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Seb. Smith deceased and dying at Godalming in Surrey of which he was Vicar about the 22 of January 1681 Henry Aldrich M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was installed Canon in his place on the 15. of Febr. following One Sam. Speed a pretender to Poetry hath written Prison-piety or meditations divine and moral c. Lond. 1677. in tw and other trivial things but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former In the month of January this year came to this University J. Secbaldus Frabricius an old Professor of Heidelberg who was forced to leave his Country because of the Wars between the Emperour and the King of France He lived for some time here in a studious condition had a collection of moneys made throughout the University to relieve his wants And while he continued among us he published De unitate Eccles Britannicae Meditationes Sacrae Oxon. 1676 oct and wrot and drew up another book entit Dissertatio Historica Dionis Cassii Scriptoris Graec. Selectiora Commata c. Lond. 1678. oct An. Dom. 1675. An. 27. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Ralph Bathurst Oct. 7. Proct. Joh. Jones of Ch. Ch. Apr. 14. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. June 8. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall See among the Masters an 1678. 10. Will. Gough commonly called Goff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Exeter Coll. Oct. 26. Will. Hallifax of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Pigott of Wad Coll. 29. Joh. Bagley of Ball. Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1687 and of the other two among the Masters 1678. Feb. 23. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll. He hath written and published several things and therefore he ought at large to be remerabred among the Oxford Writers hereafter Adm. 149. Bach. of Law Four were only admitted of whom Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. was one See among the Doct. of Law following Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Jonathan Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. June 8. Joh. Knight of New Inn He afterwards was made Vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire upon the removal thence of Richard Knight sometimes Proctor of the University of Oxon to a good Parsonage in Worcestershire and was author of The Samaritan Rebels perjur'd by a Covenant of Association in a Sermon at the Assizes held at Northampton 30 March 1682 on Hosea 10 the former part of the 4th vers Lond. 1682 qu. He is a good Scholar very loyal and of good name and esteem where he lives and might have been Preb. of Linc. which he much deserves had not Dr. B. Bish thereof shew'd him a Dog-trick Nov. 23. Jam. Parkinson of Linc. Coll. Jan. 19. Joh. Massey or Measey of Mert. Coll. This person who was originally of Vniv Coll was one of the Proctors of the University in 1684 and then and after did not look for or expect preferment At length after K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown he was by the endeavours of Mr. Obad. Walker Master of Vniv Coll advanced by his Majesty on the death of Dr. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon about the middle of Octob. 1686. Whereupon renouncing his religion for that of Rome which he was so to do before he could be setled in it he received the Patent for it on his bended knees from his Majesty on the 19 of Decemb. and on the 29 of the same month 1686 he was installed in that Dignity in his own person Afterwards he set up and furnished a Chappel for the R. Cath. use in Canterbury Quadrangle within the Precincts of Ch. Ch and was put into the Commission of Peace for the County of Oxford At length upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in the West parts of England and the committing thereupon by the Mobile great outrages in several parts of the Nation on R. Catholicks and their Houses the said Mr. Massey did to avoid them together with Mr. Thom. Deane a R. C. Fellow of Vniv Coll. withdraw himself privately before break of day on the 30 of Nov. 1688 went to London and there continued privately till an opportunity carried him over the Sea to France where I think
Coll. a Compounder He was now one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess obtained on the death of Mr. Tho. Cook the father of his wife an 1669. and Can. resid of Hereford He died 20 Aug. 1684 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Bampton In his Archdeaconry succeeded one .... Wheeler and him .... Oatley Jul. 3. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. Ant. Saunders of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The other who was Chapl. to the Archb. of Cant was now 1677 Chanc. of S. Paul in Lond. and Rector of Acton in Middlesex John Fitzwilliams of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of York Rector of Cotenham near Cambridge and Preb. of Windsore He hath published A Sermon preached at Cotenham near Cambridge on the 9 of Sept. 1683 being the day set apart for publick Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his sacred Majesty and the Government from the late treasonable Conspiracy on Prov. 24.21.22 Lond. 1683. qu. He is now a Non-juror and therefore hath lost his Spiritualities Incorporations May 14. Walt. Leightonhouse Bac. of Art of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was soon after elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. See among the Masters in 1679. After the conclusion of the Act were 23 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated Jul. 10 among which was Aylett Sams of Christs Coll. This person published under his own name Britannia antiqua illustrata or the Antiquities of antient Britaine derivâ—d from the Phoenicians Wherein the original trade of this Island is discovered the names of Places Offices Dignities as likewise the Idolatry c. are clearly demonstrated from that Nation many old monuments illustrated c. Together with a chronological History of this Kingdom from the first traditional beginning until the year of our Lord 800 when the name of Britaine was changed into England c. Lond. 1676. vol. 1. fol. An account of this book is in the Philosophical Transactions num 124. p. 596 wherein tho the Author of them Mr. Oldenburg doth stile Mr. Sams the learned and curious Vndertaker of that great work yet the common report then was that not he but his quondam Uncle was the Author and to confirm it was his great ignorance in matters and books of Antiquity I was several times in his company when he spent some weeks this year in Oxon and found him to be an impertinent girning and pedantical Coxcomb and so ignorant of Authors that he never heard of before I mention'd it to him of the great Antiquary Joh. Leland or of his printed or manuscript Works nor any thing of Baleus nor could he give any account of Authors that are quoted in the said Britannia antiqua illustrata c. He died in the year 1679 or thereabouts perhaps in the Inner Temple where he had a Chamber but where buried I know not nor is it material to be informed I find one Rob. Aylett Mast of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated at Oxon an 1608. Quaere whether he was his Uncle Jul. 10. Will. Birstall D. D. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. Feb. 19. Patrick Dunn Physitian in ord to James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut. of Ireland Doct. of Phys of Aberdene in Scotland Valentia in Dauphiny and of Dublin in Ireland was declared he being then absent incorporated Doctor of the said faculty of this Univ. of Oxon and on the 23 of March following a Diploma of his Incorporation was sealed and sent to him Creations The most noble James Duke of Ormonde Chancellor of the University coming to Oxon in the beginning of Aug. this year where he was splendidly entertained by the Academians with Treats in several Colleges and Speeches in the Theater it was his desire that there should be a Creation of Doctors of the Civil Law and a Creation of two persons in Divinity Those that were created in the former faeulty which was on the sixth day of Aug. in the Theater were these Doct. of Law Richard Boteler Earl of Arran in Ireland and Baron Boteler of Weston in Huntingdonshire in England second son of James Duke of Ormonde This noble and courageous person who had done good service against the Rebels at Carickfergus in Ireland and in that perilous Sea-sight against the Dutch when James D. of York was General at Sea for which and other Services he was made Baron of Weston died on the 26 of Jan. 1685. Whereupon his body was deposited in the same Vault in the Abbey Church at Westminster where that of his elder brother Thom. E of Ossory and their mother Elizab. Dutchess of Ormonde had been laid which Dutchess died in her house in S. James's Square within the Liberty of Westminster on the 21 of July 1684. But whether their bodies were afterwards removed to Kilkenny in Ireland there to be deposited in the Vault among the bodies of the Ormondian family I know not as yet Pierce Boteler Visc Galmoy in Irel. of the Ormondian family Francis Aungier Viscount afterwards Earl of Longford in the same Kingdom Robert Fitz-Gerald son of the Earl of Kildare Sir Kingsmill Lucy Bt. Sir Thom. Erscott Kt. Sir James Boteler Kt. He was natural son of James Duke of Ormonde by Isabel daugh of Henry Earl of Holland and wife of Sir James Thynne of Langleate in Wilts This person who was bred up to the Common Law in Linc. Inn succeeded Will. Lord Brouncker in the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near the Tower of London c. Sir Edw. Scott Kt. Sir Rob. Southwell Kt. This most worthy and accomplish'd person who was son of Rob. Southwell of Kinsale in the County of Cork in Irel. Esq Vice-Admiral of Mounster and of the Privy Council there descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in Kinsale educated in Queens Coll. in this University where he was Bach. of Arts and afterwards became a Barrister of Linc. Inn On the 27 of Sept. 1664 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Majesties Privy Council and on the 20 of Nov. 1665 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty being then accounted a Gent. of known worth and abilities and fitted every way for the Service of his Majesty who then thought good to give him the character of his Envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal whether he was to go in few days after In the latter end of Octob. 1671 he was sent Envoy extraordinary to Count de Monterey Governour or Vice-Roy for his Catholick Maj. of the Spanish Netherlands and in the beginning of Decemb. 1679 the Presbyterians and Fanaticks being then rampant upon the account of the Popish Plot he resigned his Clerkship of the Council In Feb. following he was sent Envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Brandeberg and after his return he was much respected for the Services he had done for
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and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23 was buried at the upper end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Christian put up a monument over his grave which is yet remaining but defaced Mark Zeiglier a German was entred into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Jansonius Artopaeus Finsoendensis Civis Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Ernesti Erffurtoâ—Thuringus was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638 and continued in the College till July 1641. Besides these and many more which shall now be omitted have been several of the Scotch nation that have been received into the said House upon the same account among which have been 1 Joh. Balcanquall see in the Fasti 1612. among the Incorporations 2 .... Gilman who studied there 1613 and some time after 3 Sam. Balcanquall 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after See in the Fasti 1618 among the Incorporations 4 Rob. Spotswood M. of Arts of Glascow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours as his singular virtues did merit K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counsellour K. Charles advanced him to be Lord President of the Sessions and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland in the place of William Earl of Lanerick afterwards Duke of Hamilton when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom After James Marquess of Montross had gained great victories against the said Cov. the said Sir Rob. Spotswood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the said Montross letters pattents whereby he was made Vice-Roy of Scotland and General of the Army there But being soon after taken prisoner upon the defeat of Montross near Silkerke he was conveyed to S. Andrews where at length they found him guilty of High Treason lamented by many because he never bore arms against them for his eminency laid in the way of peace and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword His treason being for conveying the said let pat he was beheaded at S. Andrews in 1645 leaving then behind him the general character of a most excellent and good man He was a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and study of the law hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotswood the famous and orthodox Theologist of Scotland consecrated Archbishop of Glascow in the Archbishps Chappel at Lambeth near London according to the ceremonies of the Church of England on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was consecrated Bishop of Galloway and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin The said Dr. Spotswood was afterwards translated to St. Andrews and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an 1639. aged 74 years was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster 5 James Hamilton Earl of Arran Baron of Evenu in Scotland and of Ennerdale in Cumberland eldest Son of James Marquess of Hamilton was admitted a Noble man under the said Dr. Prideaux his tuition 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marquess and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge 6 James Baylie Governour to the said Count was admitted at the same time to the Fellows table with him See in the Fasti 1621. among the Creations It is farther also to be noted that as the said College did send out many eminent men into the Church and State that had been under the Government of Prideaux so also many that did great mischief and were enemies to them as you may see at large in this work in the lives and characters of several that had been educated in the said College Some also of the English Nobility having been sent thereunto have by the Principles that they have sucked in proved no great friends either to the Church or State Among such have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a severe predestinarian and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury of whom shall be large mention made elsewhere Philip the second Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who lived and died little better than a Quaker c. HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonshire entred into Exeter Coll. in 1619 and in the year of his age 17 took one degree in Arts and then was made Prob. Fellow of his House 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty took holy orders and became a useful and necessary Person in the society by moderating reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chappel At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div became an able and painful Preacher had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons and seem'd to be a most precise Puritan in his looks and life which was the true reason why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines but refused to sit among them choosing rather to exercise his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament or in his cures there than venture himself among rigid Calvinists In 1646 a little before the garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he was one of those noted Theologists who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majesty or at S. Maries before the Parliament that were nominated by the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of D. of D. bestowed upon them but that also he as others refused In 1647. and 48 he behav'd himself a stout Champion against the unreasonable proceedings of the Visitors appointed by Parliament For which being by them posted up for an expell'd Scholar revoked their sentence so far that by an order dated 2. Nov. 16â—8 they impower'd him to have liberty to use his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as also that he enjoy a Travellers allowance for three years Afterwards he went into Holland and became Minister to the worshipful company of English Merchants at Roterdam His works are these Directions for a godly life especially for communicating at the Lords table Oxon. 1628. oct There again the tenth time 1680. oct Several Sermons as 1 A Christian amendment Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17 Oxon. 1633. oct 2 Christian Wisdom or the excellency c. of true wisdom Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24 Oxon. 1639. oct 3 Sermon on Joh. 18.3 Ox. 1640. c. Dicta facta Christi ex quatuor Evangelistis collecta in ordme disposita Oxon. 1634. oct He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred and fifty old stile and was buried in the English Church at Roterdam appropriated to
the aforesaid Merchants as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshall lately Rector of Linc. College who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606 took a degree in Arts as a member of that House made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof an 1613 and the year after proceeded in Arts being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree Afterwards he entred into the sacred function was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor in 1621 had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him by the presentation of his Majesty an 1627 and three years after that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices had the Rectory of Odcombâ— in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644 Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong being then in his minority and a Ward Which three Benefices or at least two he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire He was a Person of a quaint and curious stile better at practical than School Divinity and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham He hath published these Sermons following Five Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1627. qu. 1 The Athenian Babler on Acts 17.18 2 Jacob and Esau c. on Rom. 9.18 3 Arraignment of an Arrian on Joh. 8.58 4 Moses and Aaron c. on Exod. 4.12 5 Natures overthrow and deaths triumph on Eccles 12.5 preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625. Other Sermons Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell on Psal 32.6 2 The rich mans warning peece on Psal 62.10 3 The waters of Marah and Meribah on Rom. 12.1 Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number and the first is entit The well-tun'd Cymbal on Psal 15.16 preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers as they please to like or dislike He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty or thereabouts but where buried unless at Dulverton I cannot tell nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire and wrot A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct What other things he hath publish'd I know not nor any thing else of him SAMUEL YERWORTH or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following was born in Dorsetshire became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students and for their benefit wrot Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta complectens c. Oxon. 1650. oct At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader that if the said introduction should be kindly received he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter as need should require but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars and so consequently the Author stood to his promise I know not WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakespear was born in London elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 and at hours of recess from happier employments than the delight of poetry composed The fatal contract comedie Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived not many years since under the title of Love and revenge with some alterations and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle was said in the first edition of it 1653. to be a French Comedie The Jewes Tragedy or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick History of Josephus Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability but whether they are yet published I cannot tell However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgments by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire became a Servitour of New Inn in Midsommer or Act term 1635 aged 17 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the said Inn and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical as well as Lay auditors In 1642 he proceeded Master of Arts and was Junior of the Act then celebrated at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly He himself tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts he was the first Scholar that he knew of or ever heard of in Oxon that did publickly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer For which tho they would not denie him his degree yet he was expelled the congregation never to sit as a member among them c. About that time he left the University went to or near London and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion About the beginning of the Wars saith he I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenterden the lawfulness of a defensive War at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles c So that being
and Church for a long time after But being a man of parts and eminent in the retired Walks of Learning he was looked upon as a person worth the gaining Whereupon Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. took upon him to do and at last effected it and to shew what great esteem his Maj. and the Archb. had for the book then lately published Sir Will. Beecher one of the Clerks of the Council was sent with a copy of it to the Barons of the Exchequer in the open Court an 1636 to be by them laid up as a most inestimable Jewel among the choice Records which concerned the Crown In this book he did not only assert the Sovereignty or dominion of the British Seas to the Crown of England but clearly proved by constant and continual practice that the Kings of England used to levy money from the Subjects without help of Parliament for the providing of Ships and other Necessaries to maintain that Sovereignty which did of right belong unto them This he brings home to the time of King Hen. 2. and might have brought it nearer to his own times had he been so pleased and thereby paved a plain way to the payment of Ship-money but then he must have thwarted the proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament going before wherein he had been a great Stickler voting down under a kind of Anathema the Kings pretensions of right to all help from the Subject either in Tonage or Poundage or any other ways whatsoever the Parliament not co-operating and contributing towards it But howsoever it was the Service was as grateful as the Author acceptable from thenceforth both a frequent and welcome guest at Lambeth house where he was grown into such esteem with the Archbishop that he might have chose his own preferment in the Court as it was then generally believed had he not undervalued all other Employments in respect of his Studies But possibly there might be some other reason as my Author saith for his declining such Employments as the Court might offer He had not yet forgotten the Affronts which were put upon him about the Hist of Tithes for in the notion of Affronts he beheld them always and therefore he did but make fair weather for the time till he could have an opportunity to revenge himself on the Church and Churchmen the King being took into the reckoning For no sooner did the Archb. begin to sink in power and credit under the first pressures of the Long Parliament but he published a book in Greek and Lat. by the name of Eutychius with some notes upon it in which he made it his chief business to prove that Bishops did not otherwise differ from the rest of the Presbyterrs than doth a Master of a College from the Fellows thereof and so by consequence that they differ'd only in degree not order And afterwards when his Majesty began to decline in the love of the Parliament and that the heats grew strong between them he was affirmed to have written An answer to his Majesties Declaration about the Commission of Array which in effect proved a plain putting of the sword into the hands of the people So hard it is for any one to discern the hearts of men by their outward actions but the God that made them But now let 's proceed to the other books that our learned Author hath written De successionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum leges Hebraeorum Lond. 1631. 36. Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct Franc. ad Oderam 1673. qu. De successione in Pontificatum Hebraeorum lib. duo This is printed and goes with the former book De jure naturali gentium juxta disciplinam Hebraeorum lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. Argentor 1665. qu. Brief discourse concerning the power of Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature Lond. 1640. in two sh in qu. Written either by Selden or by Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Baronet Answer to Harbottle Grimston's Argument concerning Bishops Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses an 1628. Lond. 1642. in qu. Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament Lond. 1642. in oct Versio comment ad Eutychii Ecclesiae Alexandrinae Origines Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are added the said Eutychius his Annals with Comments thereon by Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Oxon. De anno civili calendario judaico Lond. 1644. qu. Lugd. Bat. 1683. oct Uxor Hebraica sive de nuptiis ac divortiis lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc. ad od 1673. qu. Fleta seu comment juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus Lond. 1647. qu. Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agendi excipiendique formulis Dissertatio historica ad Fletam These two last are printed and go with Fleta Prefatio ad Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem Lond. 1652. fol. De Synedriis Praefecturis veterum Hebraeorum lib. 3. Lond. 1650. qu. Amst 1679. qu. Which last Edition had divers corrections made to purge out the errors of the former by reason of the many languages 20 in number therein Vindiciae secundum integritatem existimationis suae per convitium de scriptione Maris clausi Lond. 1653. qu. In which are many things said of himself God made man A Tract proving the Nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25 of December Lond. 1661. oct with the Authors picture before it This posthumous book was answer'd in the first Postscript after a book intit A brief but true account of the certain year month day and minute of the birth of Jesus Christ Lond. 1671. oct written by John Butler Bach. of Div. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormond and Rector of Liechborow in the dioc of Peterborough The second Postscript is against Mich. Seneschal D. D. his tract on the same subject This Butler whom I take to be a Cambridge man is a great Pretender to Astrology and hath lately some sharp debates in print in reference thereunto with Dr. Hen. More of the same University Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellour of England Lond. 167â— fol. To which is added W. Dugdales Cat. of Lord Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Norman Conquest De nummis c. Lond. 1675. qu. Bibl. nummaria Lond. 1675. qu. Both which are dedicated to that sometimes curious Antiquary for Coynes Sir Simonds D'ewes Kt. and Bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies which he professed and therefore much respected by our Author Selden I shall say these things following of him viz. 1 That he was born at Coxden the inheritance of his Mother near to Chardstock in Dorsetshire on the 18 of Decemb. 1602 according to the Julian Accompt 2 That he was son of Paul D'ewes Esq one of the six Clerks in Chancery by Cecilia his Wife daughter and heir of Rich. Symonds of Coxden before mentioned Which Paul was son of Gerard D'ewes of
set forth It is a thousand pities that so worthy a piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill expositor since those Persons who read that translation taking it for genuine and upon that presumption not regarding the Latine Edition are thereby rob'd of that benefit which if you would please to undertake the business they might receive This tendeth to the dishonour of that noble Lord and the hindrance of the advancement of learning c. The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital. into Engl. Davila's book containing The History of the Civil Wars of France but Sir Ch. Cotterell and William Aylesbury Esq having had the start of him in that work prevented him from printing it He died at Erinsham near to Oxon in his return from the City of Bathe where he had overcome his antient body by too much sweating on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in that Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon commonly called the College Chancel as belonging to Linc. Coll. and not to the Parish of Allsaints At which time he left behind him these three MSS. of his composition which would have been published by the Author had he lived a little longer viz. 1 Digressions on the advancement to learning 2 An Apologie for the instauration of sciences 3 Imperial Politicks JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Com. or Batler of Magd. Hall about the year 1612 took the degrees in Arts and some years after was made Master of the College School in and Prebendary of the Cath. Church of Glocester In which School teaching about 20 years was elected Chief Master of that of S. Paul in Lond. in the room of Dr. Alex. Gill in Jan. 1640 where as at Gloc. he educated many who were afterwards serviceable in Church and State He was learned in the whole body of learning and not only an excellent Linguist Grammarian Historian Cosmographer and Artist but a most judicious Divine and so great an Antiquary that his delight and knowledge in antiquities especially those of our own Nation doth deserve greater commendation than I can now in a few lines express He was beloved of learned men particularly of Selden and those that adhered to the Long Parliament but had not much esteem from the Orthodox Clergy because he was a Puritan and afterwards a witness against Archb. Laud at his trial as may be elsewhere seen He hath written Totius Rhetoricae adumbratio in usum Scholae Paulinae Lond. 1644. Camb. 1650. c. oct Introduction of Grammar Several times printed He also translated from Lat. into English the Book of Polid. Virgil intit De rerum inventoribus which book had been translated by Joh. Bale in the time of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude English Our Author Langley also had made several collections of Histories and Antiquities that he had gathered in his travels through several parts of England which after his death coming into the possession as 't is said of his Brother living near Banbury he sold them with his collection of Coins merely for money sake He died in his house joyning to S. Pauls School on the 13. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in Mercers Chappel in Cheapside At which time a Funeral Sermon on Acts 7.22 touching the use of humane learning was preached by Dr. Edw. Reynolds sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. wherein he said much to the honor of the Defunct The reader is to note that one John Langley was Minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire was elected one of the Ass of Divines in 1643 and afterwards became a publisher of several matters of Divinity but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former Joh. Langley JOHN GUMBLEDEN a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler of Broadgates Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 18 years made Student of Ch. Ch. soon after took the Degrees in Arts preached at Longworth in Berkshire several years and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with the Presbyterians became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards for a short time Rector of Coytie in Glamorganshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gen. 6.5.6.7 printed 1626. qu. 2 Serm. on Gen. 22.1.2 print 1627. qu. 3 Gods great mercy to mankind in Jesus Christ at Pauls cross 1628 on Isa 53.6 Oxon. 1628. qu. 4 Two Sermons preached before the Univ. of Oxon on Matth. 11.28 and on Acts 10.3.4 Lond. 1657. qu as also another on Acts 1. from 1. to 5 which I have not yet seen Christ tempted the Devil conquered or a short exposition on a part of the fourth chapt of S. Mathews Gospel Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded his last day in Sept. or Oct. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Coytie beforemention'd He had other things of the like nature fit for the press laying by him which had he lived he would have published JOHN FRENCH Son of Joh. Fr. of Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was born at Broughton entred into New Inn 1633 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line practiced his faculty in the Parliament Army by the encouragement of the Fiennes men of Authority in the said Army and at length became one of the two Physicians to the whole Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight In 1648 at which time the Earl of Pembroke visited this University he was actually created Doctor of Physick being about that time Physician to the Hospital called the Savoy and one of the Coll. of Physicians His works are these The Art of Distillation or a treatise of the choicest spagirical preparations performed by way of Distillation c. in 6. books Lond. 1651. 53. c. qu. The London Distiller exactly and truly shewing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong-waters printed with The Art of Distillation c. The Yorkshire Spaw or a treatise of four medicinal Wells viz. the Spaw or Vitrilone Well c. their causes virtues and use Lond. 1652. in tw One J. F. Med. Doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 A new light to Alchymie and a treatise of Sulphure Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius 2 Nine books of the nature of things Lond. 1650. qu. written by Paracelsus 3 A Chymical Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus c. Lond. 1650. qu. Which J. F. this translator I take to be the same with our Author Joh. French who died in Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at or near Bullogne in France he being then Physician to the English Army there He had a Brother named William French of Caies Coll. in Cambridge said also to be Doctor of Physick and Physician
Provinces of Flanders Lond. 1652. fol. written by Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio 3 Hist of the Wars of Flanders Lond. 1654. fol. written by the said Cardinal This translation hath the E. of Monmouths picture before it 4 Advertisements from Pernassus in two centuries with the politick touchstone Lond. 1656. fol. written by Trajano Boccalini 5 Politick discourses in three books Lond. 1657. fol. written by Paul Paruta a noble Venetian to which is added a Short Soloquie in which Paruta briefly examines the whole course of his life 6 Historie of Venice in two parts Lond. 1658. fol. written by the said Paruta with the Wars of Cyprus wherein the famous seiges of Nicossia and Famagosta and the battle of Lepanta are contained He also began to translate from the said Italian Language The Historie of France written by the Count Gualdo Priorato but died after he had made some progress therein Afterwards it was finished by Will. Brent Esq and printed at Lond. 1677. fol. being the same Person that had before wrot a book intit A discourse upon the nature of eternity and the condition of a separated Soul according to the grounds of reason and principles of Christian Religion Lond. 1655 in a small oct written while he was a Prisoner in the Gatehouse at Westminster It was afterwards printed there again in 1674 in 6. sh and an half in qu. By the way it must be known that tho we have had several of the Brents who have been Students in this University yet this Will. Brent was not but educated while a youth in the Coll. of English Jesuits at S. Omer Afterwards being entred into the society of Greys-inn he became a Barrister and a Solicitor or such like Officer under Tho. Earl of Strafford when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland He was born at Stoke Lark in Glocestershire in the Parish of Ilmington in Warwickshire and having suffered much for his Religion by Imprisonments payments of money and I know not what lived privately several years at Foxcote in Warwickshire and in his last days at London He died in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London in the beginning of the year 1691 aged 80 years or more He the said Hen. Carey E. of Monmouth did also translate from French into English 1 The use of the passions Lond. 1649. oct 2 Man become guilty or the corruption of his nature by sin printed at Lond. Both written by Joh. Franc. Senault before the first of which is the picture of the said Earl a shoulder peice standing on a Pedestall What other translations this noble Count hath made besides unless The Hist of the late Wars of Christendome printed in fol. 1648. which I have not yet seen I know not nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate on the 13 of June in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in the Church of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire He had an ingenious Brother named Thomas whom I have mention'd in the Fasti 1613. One H. Cary a Lawyer hath written The Law of England or a true guide for all Persons concerned in Ecclesiastical Courts printed 1666 in tw but what relation he hath to the Earl I know not WILLIAM TAYLOR was born at Kighley in Yorks 30. Sept. 1616. entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in 1631 took one degree in Arts was made Schoolmaster of Keniton or Keynton in Herefordshire proceeded in his faculty went to Cirencester in Glocestershire about the latter end of 1639 became Schoolmaster there in the place of Henry Toppe then ejected by the puritanical Townsmen But that Town being taken by storm by the Royal party 2. Feb. 1642 Toppe was restored So that Taylor retiring to London became Preacher at Bowe near that City and afterwards Minister of S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet in the place of Joh. Goodwin turn'd out by the Parliament But he meeting with opposition there he exercised his function for some time in a Church in Woodstreet and kept a Lecture at S. Giles near Cripplegate every Sunday and another Lecture on a week day at S. Peters Cornhill Afterwards being recalled by the Rump Parliament to S. Stephens he kept it to his dying day He was a frequent Preacher not only in his own but in other Churches and a laborious and learned man in his profession He hath written and published Sermons as 1 Serm. on Phil. 2.10 and others as 't is said which I have not yet seen and also collected and reviewed several of Mr. Christop Loves Sermons before they went to the press and set epistles before some of them He died on the fifth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Stephen beforemention'd at which time Dr. William Spurstow of Hackney preached his funeral Sermon wherein he spoke many things to his honour which for brevity sake I now omit This Will. Taylor tho he was a zealous Presbyterian yet he was a lover of the King in all revolutions as a Doctor of his perswasion hath often told me BARTEN HOLYDAY Son of Thomas Holyday a Taylor was born in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxford in an house opposite to Linc. College entred into Ch. Ch. and exhibited unto by his kinsman Dr. Ravis somtimes Dean of that House an 1605 aged 12. or more years and was I think at that time a Chorister Afterwards when he was about to take the degree of Bach. of Arts he was elected one of the number of Students being then noted to have a most admirable veine in Poetry and Oratory In 1615 he proceeded in Arts took Holy Orders soon after became a most eloquent and quaint Preacher and had two Benefices in the Dioc. of Oxon. confer'd on him whereof one was the rectory of Crowell In 1618 he went as Chaplain to Sir Franc. Steaart when he conducted to Spaine Dedicus Sarmiento de Acunna the Earl of Gundamore after he had continued several years in the English Court as an Embassador from the K. of that Country in which journey behaving himself in a facete and pleasant way did much obtain the favour of that Count. Afterwards he became Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and succeeded Mr. Will. Bridges Son of Dr. John Bridges B. of Ox in the Archdeaconry of Oxon. before the year 1626. In 1642 he was by vertue of the Letters of the said King actually created with others Doct. of Divinity and sheltred himself in and near Oxon during the time of rebellion but when the royal Party declin'd and the Independent had taken place upon the installation of Oliver to the Protectorship he who before had lost his Livings and the profits of his Archdeaconry did side with that faction so far as to undergo the examination of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors in order to be inducted into the rectory of Chilton in Berks in the place of one Tho. Laurence ejected for being not Compos mentis For which
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
latter books which he calleth The opening of Mr. Prynns Vindication Apologetical narrative of the late petition of the Common Council and Ministers of London to the honorable houses of Parliament with a justification of them from the contumacy of the weekly Pamphleteers These two last things are printed with the Examinat of J. Saltm new Query c. Light for smoak or a clear and distinct reply to a dark and confused answer in a book made and intit The smoake of the Temple by Joh. Saltmarsh late Preacher at Breasteed in Kent now revolted from his pastoral calling and charge Lond. 1646. qu. To this book is joyned Novello mastix or a scourge for a scurrilous News-monger In answer to the ignorant and malevolent aspersions cast upon that rev and learned Divine Mr. Joh. Ley by the Writer of a Pamphlet called by the figure Antiphrasis The perfect Passages Said there to be written by C. D. Master of Arts. An after reckoning with Mr. Saltmarsh or an appeal to the impartial and conscientious Reader c. against his last paper called An end of our controversie or an answer or letter to Mr. Ley's last large book Lond. 1646. quar This book as Mr. Ley's special friend hath told me was written by the said Ley yet the Reader is to know that in the title it is said that L. M. Student in Divinity wrot it The said book called An end of our controversie c. was written in answer to Light for Smoake This Saltmarsh by the way it must be known was descended from an antient family of his name living sometimes at Saltmarsh in Yorkshire but whether born in that County or at Strubby in Lincolnshire where was a branch of his name living for three generations before his time I know not educated in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge graduated there and afterwards beneficed being esteemed then a person of a fine and active fancy no contemptible Poet and a good Preacher But upon the turn of the times in 1641 he as a mutable man became of a zealous observer a violent opposer of Bishops and Ceremonies At that time he was a Preacher at Northampton and at other places where he was much followed by and found esteem from such who entitled themselves The godly Afterwards he was Chaplain in the Parliament Army under Sir Tho. Fairfax where he always preached the bonds of love and peace praying that that might be the cord to unite Christians in unity He medled not in the pulpit with Presbytery and Independency but solely laboured to draw the soul from sin to Christ Thus he lived among Soldiers in time of health and how his departure was from the Army a little before his death you shall hear more anon and in the mean time I shall tell you of several things that he hath written besides what are before mentioned which shew him to be an Antinomian as 1 The Assemblies petition defended against his Exception 2 Holy discoveries and flames Printed in tw 1640. 3 Free Grace or the flowings of Christs blood freely to sinners being an experiment of Jes Ch. upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled spirit at times for twelve years till now c. Lond. 1645. in tw 4 New Quere c. Lond. 1645. qu. 'T is about Church-Government and 't is mention'd before 5 Shadowes flying away Lond. 1646. qu. Animadverted upon by Tho. Gataker in his Shadowes with substance c. Ibid. 1646. qu. 6 Dawnings of light wherein the true interest of Reformation is opened in general and in particular for the establishing of weaker judgments Lond. 1646. in tw 7 Maxims of Reformation Printed with the former 8 Reasons for unity peace and love in answer to Mr. Tho. Edwards his Gangraena Lond. 1646. qu. 9 Groanes for liberty c. presented from the Presbyterian Brethren reputed the most learned among them in some Treatises called Smectymnus to the honorable Court of Parliament an 1641 by reason of the Prelates Tyranny Lond. 1646. qu. 10 Beame of light discovering the way to peace 11 Some Queries for the better understanding of Mr. Edwards last book called Gangraena Lond. 1646. qu. 12 Parallel between Prelacy and Presbytery Ibid. 1646. qu. 13 The divine right of Presbytery asserted by the present Assembly and petitioned for accordingly to the H. of Com. in Parliament with reasons discussing this pretended divine right Lond. 1646. in 3 sh in qu. 14 Sparcles of Glory or Some beams of the morning star wherein are many discoveries as to peace and truth Lond. 1647. in tw 15 Wonderful Predictions declared in a message as from the Lord to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Council of his Army Lond. 1648. in one sh in qu. with other things which I have not yet seen as 1 Several sermons 2 Practice of Policy printed in tw 3 Flagellum Flagelli c. against Dr. Jo. Bastwick and lastly Animadversions on Mr. Tho. Fullers sermon wherein he taxeth him of Popery At length on the 4 of Decemb. 1647 he being then at his house near to Ilford in Essex told his wife that he had been in a trance had seen a vision and received a command from God to go presently to the Army to make known to them what the Lord had revealed to him which would be the last work that he had to do for them and taking leave of his wife he hasted to London that night and declared to Sir Hen. Mildmay a Parliament-man that he was sent by the Lord with a message to the Army to make known some things unto them which God had revealed unto him The next day being Sunday he with much ado got a horse and about 3 of the clock in the afternoon rode towards Windsore the Head-quarter of the Army and about 11 of the clock at night came to a certain Town about 7 miles distant from Windsore where he laid that night and spoke of many wonderful things that the Lord had revealed to him But the man and woman of the house gave no credit at first to what he said tho before he left them they did and began to be taken with his preaching discourses Before break of day the next morning being Munday Dec. 6. he went towards Windsore and being there about 9 of the clock he repaired to the General Council where some of the Officers were met in expectation of the General and the rest to sit in Council before whom he spoke these words with his eyes almost fix'd in his head or rather as if he had come out of a trance with fear and trembling to express what he had received I am come hither to reveal to you what I have received from God That tho the Lord hath done much for you and by you yet he hath of late left you and is not in your Councils because you have forsaken him God will not prosper your Consultations but destroy you by divisions among your selves I have formerly come to you
Preacher against Bishops Ceremonies c. and being a frequent and constant holder forth was followed by those of the vicinity especially such who were of his perswasion In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting in any thing whereby he might express his zeal for the aforesaid cause His works are these The light of faith and way of holiness shewing how and what to believe in all estates and conditions Lond. 1630. oct Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated or a confutation of a Treatise of the Sabbath written by Mr. Edw. Brerewood against Mr. Nich. Byfield Lond. 1632. qu. The Power of the Christ of God or a Treatise of the power as it is originally in God the Father and by him given to Christ his Son c. Lond. 1641. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Zions answer to the Nations Embassadors c. Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons 25 June 1645 on Isay 14.32 Lond. 1645. qu. 2 Sermon on 1. Cor. 3.17 Lond. 1653. qu. c. The Gospels Glory without prejudice to the Law shining forth in the Glory of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the Salvation of sinners who through grace do believe according to the draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.34 Lond. 1659. Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ Lond. 1660 in tw Whether any other matters were by him published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity he retired to Mortclack in Surrey where dying in December in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Church there leaving this character behind him among the Godly and such that frequented his Conventicles that he was a pious good and harmless man He had another Brother called Adoniram Byfield who became first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous cause by being Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondiley's Regiment in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex the Generalissimo for the Parliament in 1642 and soon after for his being one of the scribes to the Assemb of Divines and a most zealous Covenantier He was afterwards Minister of one of the Collingborns in Wilts was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters He died about the time of his Majesties restauration as it seems for on the 12 of Feb. 1660 Catherine his Relict had letters of administration granted to her to administer the goods debts c. of him the said Ad. Byfield of the Parish of S. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex lately deceased JEREMY STEPHENS Son of Walt. Stephens sometimes Rector of Bishops Castle in Shropshire was born there 1592 entred a Student in Brasn Coll. 29 March 1609 where by continual lucubration he diligently ran through all the forms of Logick and Philosophy and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615. In Decemb. the same year he was made Deacon and about that time Chaplain of All 's Coll. In 1616 May 26 he received the Orders of Priesthood and in 1621 was made Rector of Quinton in Northamptonshire Five years after that he had confer'd upon him the Rectory of Wotton within a Mile of Quinton which with Quinton were bestowed on him by K. Ch. 1. In 1628 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1641 was made Prebendary of Biggleswade in the Church of Lincolne by the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury as a reward of his Labours with Sir Hen. Spelman in the Edition of the first tome or volume of the Councils In 1644 he was sequestred from all his Ecclesiastical preferments by a Committee sitting at Northampton plunder'd imprison'd barbarously used and silenced After the Kings returâ— in 1660 he was restored to them and for a requital of his sufferings had the Prebendship of Ilâ—racomb in the Church of Salisbury confer'd upon him upon the resignation of Edw. Davenant He hath written and published these things following Notae in D. Cyprian de unitate Ecclesiae Lond. 1632. oct Notae in D. Cypr. de bono patientiae Lond. 1633. oct Both which were collated with antient Mss by the care of certain Oxonian Theologists Apologie for the antient right and power of the Bishops to sit and vote in Parliaments Lond. 1660 the question then of restitution being under debate In the year 1663 he began to print the History of Sacriledge designed and began by Sir Hen. Spelman and left to Stephens to perfect and publish but that work sticking long in the Press both the copy and sheets printed off perished in the grand conflagration of London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted for the Press divers other pieces whereof the argument of some were superseded by the Kings happy restauration such as A comparison between the Belgick Gallick Bohemian and Scotch with the English Covenant Account of the principles and practices of the Presbyterians The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym and Joh. White Other things which he finished but prevented their publication by death are these Treatise of the Laws of England The design of the Cormorants upon the Church Lands defeated in the time of K. Hen. 5 effected in the days of K. Hen. 8. and other things He also published B. Gregorii magni Episcopi Romani de curâ pastorali liber verè aureus accuratè emendatus restitutus è Vet. Mss cum Romanâ Editione collatis Lond. 1629. oct This was the Book that the most renown'd K. Alfred translated into the Saxon Language and recommended to all the Diocesses of his Kingdom in that great dearth of learning when scarce a Priest on the North of Humber was found able to translate the Lords Prayer or to understand the Latine Service This I say he published being collated with antient Mss by the care of several Oxford Doctors and Bach. of Divinity In the year also 1633 he was joyned with Sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling and publishing the first Tome of the English Councils a work that cost them seven years labour And tho the Book bare the name of Spelman yet is the assistance of our Author Stephens acknowledged by Spelman in the Preface to the Reader in these words Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt me jam sane propemodum exhausto secundus tertius viz. Tomus haud ausim polliceri Nisi illos vir dilectus bono natus publico Jeremias Stephens typis curaverit mandandos cujus operâ primuâ— hic Tomus me adhuc tantum non invito in lucem prodiit After this viz. in 1641 Spelman died and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the door of S. Nicholas Chappel 24. oct and then some years after our Author Stephens published Spelmans larger
Mathematician an example of great candor and moderation and such as is rarely found among the Nonconformists c. as I have been informed by one of his near Relations JAMES SCUDAMORE Son of Joh. Scud. of Kenchurch in Herefordshire was born in that County educated in Westminst School transplanted to Ch. Ch. in Midsomer term 1661 aged 19 years and soon after was made one of the Students of that house This person who was poetically given wrot Homer a la mode A mock Poem upon the first and second books of Homers Iliads Oxon. 1664. in 9 sh in oct and in the next year he took the degr of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards retiring to his Relations then living in the City of Hereford was drown'd in the River adjoyning to the great reluctancy of all those that were acquainted with his pregnant parts as he was recreating himself by swimming in the month of July in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to the graves of his Relations where he was with great lamentation inter'd In 1681 was published in oct Homer a-la-mode the second part in English Burlesque or a mock Poem upon the ninth book of Iliads Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees but who the Author of it was I know not WILLIAM STREAT was born of gentile Parents in Devons became either a Batler or Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and was benefic'd in his own Country Upon the change of the times in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and preached very schismatically being about that time Rector of South-Pool near to Kingsbridge in Devonshire When the Cause of K. Ch. 1. declined he preached bitterly against him and his Followers blasting them with the name of bloody Papists and when his Son K. Ch. 2. was in Exile he became a desperate enemy to and continually preached against him And every trivial thing that he could hear or read in those satyrical Prints called Merc. Politici and other Pamphlets against him be sure he published in the Pulpit to his Parishioners as I have been credibly informed by some Ministers of his Neighbourhood After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he wheeled about as many covetous and poor spirited Saints did sneak'd to the great men then in authority conformed and kept his rectory to his dying day to the great reluctancy of the generous Royalists of those parts He hath written a book entit The dividing of the Hoof or seeming contradictions throughout sacred Scriptures resolved and applied c. Lond. 1654 in a pretty thick qu. dedicated to God and Gods People Other matters they say he hath published but such I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of this Author who should rather have been buried in oblivion than mention'd only that dying at South-Pool was buried in the Church there in sixteen hundred sixty and six leaving then this character behind him among the said Ministers of his neighbourhood that he was as infinite a rogue and as great a sinner that could be and that 't was pity that he did escape punishment in this life ROBERT VAUGHAN was born of an antient and gentile family in Merionithshire was entred a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the year 1612 and in that of his age 20 where passing his course in Logick and Philosophy retired without a degree to his patrimony in the said County called Hengwrt or Hengherst near Dolgethle became noted for his admirable skill in the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country of Wales having had a natural genie to them and took infinite pains in describing the Genealogies of the most antient families thereof The things of his composition that are extant are only these British Antiquities revived Oxon. 1662. qu. Pedegree of the Earl of Carbury Vaughan Lord President of Wales Short account of the five tribes of Cambria These two last are printed with the first He hath also several letters extant which he formerly wrot to the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland in one of which dated 14 Apr. 1651 he tells the said Primate that he had translated into the English Tongue The Annals of Wales which he then sent to him to be perused He died at Hengwrt before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and six being then a Justice of Peace as I have been informed by Mr. Thom. Ellis sometimes Rector of Dolgethle and was buried in the Church of that Parish wherein Hengwrt said to be in Kyntons land in the Lordship of Huntyndon is situated He left behind him a choice Library of MSS. in the British Tongue now as I have been informed in the custody of Sir William Williams of Greys Inn Baronet occasion'd by a Law sute concerning it JOHN FAIRECLOUGH commonly called Featley Son of Joh. Featley of Oxon elder brother to Dr. Daniel Featley was born in Northamptonshire became either Clerk or Choirister of All 's Coll. in Mich. term 1620 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts four years after and in 1626 had the honor to be the first Preacher of the Gospel in the infancy of the Mother Colony of S. Christophers in the Western Indies How long he continued there I know not sure I am that after his return he became beneficed in Surrey Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Prebendary as it seems of Lincoln In the beginning of the Rebellion he lost all was for a time Curate at Acton for his Uncle Dr. Featley and in June 1643 he with his Wife Children and Servants shipped themselves for S. Christophers before mention'd where he and they continued several years After his Majesties return in 1660 he became one of his Chaplains was installed Chantor of Lincoln in the same year was in the next actually created D. of D. and soon after had the Vicaridge of Edwinstow in Nottinghamshire worth about 60 l. per an confer'd on him by the Dean and Chapter of the said Church He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. to the West-India Company on Josh 1.9 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Obedience and Submission at S. Saviours in Southwark at a Visitation 8 Dec. 1635. on Heb. 13.17 Lond. 1636. qu. c. A succinct history of the life and death of the learned and famous Divine Daniel Featley D. D. Lond. 1660. in tw Printed at the end of a book intit Dr. Dan. Featley revived proving that the Protestant Church is the only Cath. and true Church A divine Antidote against the Plague or mourning tears in Soliquies and Prayers as 1. For this general Visitation 2. For those whose houses are shut up of the Plague c. Lond. 1665. He also published a book intituled The league illegal Lond. 1660. qu. Written by his said Uncle Dr. Featley and ded to Edw. Earl of Clarendon by the Publisher who
the second Vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts and printed at Lond. 1665. fol. having been by him performed during his retirement in the time of sickness at Kingston upon Thames This author was afterwards published in lesser volumes with this title The Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse adorned with sculptures and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1673. 74. in two vol. in oct The next things that he composed were The Ephesian Matron and The Roman Slave two heroick poems dedicated to Thomas Earl of Ossory And altho a second part met with a fate not common yet it was esteemed equal with the former Afterwards he wrot Carolies an Epick poem in 12. books so called from our miracle of Heroes K. Ch. 1. being the best pattern of true prudence valour and christian piety This was utterly lost in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 when then the habitation of our author Ogilby in the White friers near Fleet-street was burnt and he himself undone having but 5 l. left to begin the world again But so it was that he had such an excellent invention and prudential wit and was Master of so good addresses that when he had nothing to live on he could not only shift handsomly but would make such rational proposals which were embraced by rich and great men that in short time he would obtain an estate again He never failed in what he undertook but by his great industry and prudence went through it with profit and honor to himself Soon after the said conflagration he had his house in the White friers before mention'd rebuilt set up a Printing-house therein employed able workmen became his Majesties Cosmographer and Geographick Printer and by proposals printed several books that he and his Assistants had translated and collected as 1 An Embassy from New Batavia to the Emperor of China c. Lond. 1669. fol. adorned with Maps prospects and various sculptures as all the books following which he published were 2 Description of Africa c. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first part of his English Atlas 3 Descript of America c. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second 4 Atlas Japanensis Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassie from the East India Company of the Unital Provinces to the Emperour of Japan c. Lond. 1670. fol. 5 Atlas Chinensis Being the second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two Embassies from the East India Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simlamong c. Lond. 1671. fol. 6 Asia the first part being an accurate description of Persia and the several Provinces thereof c. Lond. 1673. 74. fol. The 2d part the author did not live to finish however this is looked upon as another part of the English Atlas 7 Description of Europe not finished by the Author who intended it to be the fourth part of the Engl. Atlas 8 Britannia An Historical and Geographical description of Britanie c. The first part fol. All which are printed on imperial paper adorned with maps and most curious sculptures and were carried on and sold by way of standing Lotteries There also goes under his name A pocket book of Roades in England and a new map of the City of London as it is new built c. Printed in one sheet of large paper He also and Will. Morgan made A new and accurate Map of the City of London distinct from Westminster and Southwark c. which is six foot long and six foot deep with a long narrow book to describe the places therein as also A Map of London Westminster and Southwark and A survey of Essex with the roads therein exactly measured c. At length Mr. Ogilby having lived to a fair age gave way to fate on the fourth day of Sept. 1676. and was buried in the Vault under part of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London At which time many Persons of great knowledg usually said that had he been carefully educated when a young man in an University might have proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch Nation JAMES HOWELL was born in Caermerthenshire particularly as I conceive at Abernant of which place his Father was Minister In what year he was born I cannot precisely tell you yet he himself saith that his ascendant was that hot constellation of Cancer about the midst of the Dog-days After he had been educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Hereford he was sent to Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1610 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then being a pure Cadet a true Cosmopolite not born to land lease house or office was in a manner put to it to seek his fortune but by the endeavours of friends and some money that his Father assisted him with he travelled for three years into various Countries whereby he advantaged himself much in the understanding of several languages Some years after his return he was sent into Spain 1622 to recover of the King of that place a rich English Ship seized on by his Vice Roy of Sardinia for his Masters use upon some pretence of prohibited goods therein Three years after his return in which interval he was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1623 he was entertained by Emanuel Lord Scrope Earl of Sunderland and Lord President of the North and by him was made his Secretary So that residing in York for that purpose he was by the Mayor and Aldermen of Richmond chose a Burgess for their corporation to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster in the year 1627. Four years after he went Secretary to Robert Earl of Leycester Embassador extraordinary from our King to the King of Denmark before whom and his Children he shew'd himself a quaint Orator by divers lat speeches spoken before them shewing the occasion of their Embassie to condole the death of Sophia Qu. Dowager of Denmark Grandmother to Ch. 1. K. of England Afterwards going through several beneficial employments particularly the assisting the Clerks of the Council was at length in the beginning of the Civil War made one of those Clerks but being prodigally inclined and therefore running much into debt he was seized on by order of a certain Committee after the King was forc'd from his Parliament and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. So that having nothing to trust to but his wits and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Pernassus which he held in fee of the Muses he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books which tho several of them are meer scribbles yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistance during his long stay there After the Kings return in 1660 we never heard of his restauration to his place of Clerk of the Council having before flatter'd Oliver and sided with the Commonwealths men only that he was made the Kings Historiographer being the first in England that bore that title and having no
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justiceâ—Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
was with the said Earl at Wolverhampton he preached twice there before his Lordship as Quarter-master General to Sir Tho. Middleton and within two hours after his last Sermon he fell to practice on one of his brethren and plundered a Townsman to the value of 500 l tho the man was as notorious as any in Coventry Banbury or Colchester c. This Keme was asked at Namptwich by a Brick-layer why the Earl of Denbigh gave offence by wearing long hair To which he made answer being then the chief leader in cases of conscience That to wear long hair was not against the rule but to have it was the thing forbidden by the Apostle for truly said he if my Lord should have long hair of his own I hold my self bound to tell him of it but that which his Lordship wears is not his own hair and if S. Paul were in England he would not mislike it tho it reached down as low as his knees Such Levites as this Keme were Sprat and Lorkin the two twins of Greenwich where they libell'd and blasphemed every Sunday according to their talents In Nov. the same year 1644 he went with his Colonel Basil Earl of Denbigh and the other Commissioners constituted by Parliament to treat with his Majesty at Oxon for peace where he with great confidence preached before them and about that time was made a Major and became very active in several places within this Kingdom to carry on the cause as well by fighting as preaching Afterwards he took all oathes to keep what he had and to gain more took all advantages to rake and scrape what he could together meerly to satisfie his unsatiable desire The truth is he was a man of a very servile spirit a flatterer a time-server an Epicure a Lecher c. and yet always a pretender to Saintship After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he turned about endeavoured to express his Loyalty took the oathes again as he had done when he took the Academical degrees and when he entred on the Minister and all to keep his living of Albury and the trade of eating and drinking He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Martialists dignity on Deut. 23.14 Printed 1640. qu. 2 The messengers preparation for an address to the King for a well grounded peace preached at Oxon. 24. Nov. 1644 before the Commissioners of both Kingdoms the morning before their presenting the propositions to his Majesty on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1644. qu. Dedic to the said Commissioners 3 The King of Kings his privy marks for the Kingdoms choice of new members c. preached at Bristol at the choice of new Burgesses of that City 28. Feb. 1645 on Prov. 10. ver 10.11 Lond. 1646. qu. The said City was then under the command of the Parliament 4 The Olive-branch c. on 2. Thes 3.16 Lond. 1647. qu. 5 Serm. on 1. Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1647. qu. This last with others which he hath published I have not yet seen He died at Albury before mention'd on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was two days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to an inscription which he before had caused to be painted on the wall to the memory of Anne Ball only daughter of John Ball Citizen and Skinner of London Jemimah Pelham eldest dau of Herbert Pelham of Lincolnsh and of Feriars Court in Essex Esq and of Mary Bridger second daughter of Samuel Bridger of Dursley in the County of Glocester Which three Women had been the wives of him the said Samuel Keme who at his death left behind him a young buxom Widow with whom he had a good portion but left her nothing as having spent all that he could get to satisfie his Epicurisme JOHN STRICKLAND was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name in the County of Westmorland became a Batler of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 17 years took the degrees of Arts holy Orders and was made Chaplain as I have been informed to the Earl of Hertford In the month of May 1632 he was admitted Bach. of Div. and in Dec. following he became Rector of Middleton alias Pudimore Milton in Somersetshire by the presentation of Sir John Horner Knight c. This person who was always puritanically affected sided with the rebellious party in the beginning of the Civil War took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines preached frequently before the Long Parliament exciting the members thereof to proceed in their blessed cause prayed several times blasphemously and in 1645 or thereabouts was made Minister of S. Peters le poor in London where he exercised his gifts against the King and his party and was never wanting to excite his Auditors to carry on the said Cause Afterwards he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in Salisbury was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and took upon him great authority in his Apostleship especially if he had to do with the loyal and suffering Clergy He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods work of mercy in Sions misery Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons 27. Dec. 1643 on Isay 10.20 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 A discovery of peace or the thoughts of the Almighty for the ending of the peoples calamities c. on Jer. 29.11 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 Immanuel or the Churches triumph in God with us c. Thanksgiving serm before the House of Lords 5. Nov. 1644. on Psal 26.7 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Mercy rejoycing against Judgment Fast-serm before the House of Commons 29. Oct. 1645 on Isay 30.18 Lond. 1645. qu. In his Epist dedic to the House of Com. he desires them to have a care how they plant the towns in Cumberland and Northumberland with able preachers that they reform the Universities c. He hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen See more of him in Hum. Chambers under the year 1662. p. 207. This Mr. Strickland who is stiled by one of his opinion Praeco fidelissimus and so he was esteemed by the factious party was ejected from his Living for his refusal to conform to the service and ceremonies of the Church of England an 1662 Whereupon keeping Conventicles in and near Salisbury was several times as I have been informed imprisoned At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred and seventy was buried on the 25 of Octob. in the Church of S. Edmund before mention'd being then accompanied to his grave by many of his perswasion VAVASOR POWELL having often told his friends and the Brethren not without boasting that he was once a member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon I shall therefore upon his word number him among these writers Be it known therefore that this person who was famous in his generation for his ill name
he wrot a scoffing ballad At length he having lived beyond the age of man concluded his last day in the Navy-Office in Seething-lane within the City of London on Saturday the 18. of Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventy Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church of S. Olaves in Hart-street on the 27 day of the same month Soon after was a neat monument erected over his grave with an inscription thereon much becoming the person for whom it was set up His eldest Brother which his Father had by his first Wife Elizabeth Warham was named Matthew who was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 1. The second was named Thomas who was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Sandwych in Janu. 1631. EDWARD LEIGH Esq Son of Hen. Leigh was born at Shawell in Leycestershire 24. of March 1602 being the day and year on which Qu. Elizabeth deceased bred in Grammar learning under one Mr. Loe of Walshall in Staffordshire became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Will. Pemble an 1616 ran through the severe discipline then and there used and proceeded in Arts in 1623 But before his Regency was expired he went to the Middle Temple and studied the common Law wherein he made considerable progress yet before he had been there two years he with others were forced thence by tho great plague that violently raged in London an 1625. So that instead of retiring into the Country he went into France and spent there half an year with great improvement to himself and his studies After his return he spent some years in the said Temple not only in the study of the Laws but of Divinity and History in both which in his elder years he attained to some eminence Afterwards he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire and became a constant hearer for some time of that noted puritanical preacher Will. Wheatley But he dying in 1639 our author Leigh receeded to London where continuing till the civil distempers broke forth was upon the withdrawing of divers members of that unhappy convention called the Long Parliament to the King at Oxon chose a Recruiter or Burgess for the Town of Stafford Afterwards upon a vacancy he was appointed one of the House of Commons to sit in the Ass of Divines as did Philip Earl of Pembroke Will. Visc Say c. of the House of Lords with Joh. Selden Franc. Rous Bulstr Whitlock c. other members of the said house where he behaved himself as learnedly as most of the Divines then sitting He was also then a Colonel of a regiment for the Parliament was Custos Rotulorum for the County of Stafford and afterwards was numbred among those Presbyterian members that were turned out of the House of Commons by the Army 6. Dec. 1648 and imprisoned thereupon in the publick Inn called the Kings head in the Strand From which time till towards the Kings restauration when he with the rest of the ejected members then living were restored by General Monk to their places in Parliament he had little else to do but to write books the titles of which among others which he wrot before that time do follow Selected and choice observations concerning the twelve first Caesars c. Oxon. 1635. oct To which he added six more making up the number 18 which were printed with the former in another Edition The observations on the rest that followed were made by Henry Leigh the authors eldest Son M. of A. of Magd. Hall which being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct had this title put to them Analecta Caesarum Romanorum Afterwards they were illustrated with their several effigies and coines Lond. 1664. oct and in another Edit that came out in 1670 in oct they had observations of the Greek Emperours added to them by the same hand Treatise of Divine promises in 5. books Lond. 1633 there again the third time 1650 and the fourth in 1657. octavo Critica sacra on the Hebrew words of the old and on the Greek of the New Testament Lond. 1639 and 46. in qu. There again in two parts in fol. 1662. In which book the author expressing his great skill in the Languages was the reason therefore why the learned Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness for him Supplement to the Critica sacra Lond. 1662. fol. A Treatise of Divinity in three books Lond. 1646. qu. The Saints encouragement in evil times or observations concerning the Martyrs in general Lond. 1648. 51. oct Annotations on all the New Test Lond. 1650. fol. A philological Commentary or an illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the Law with their distinctions and divers acceptations as they are found as well in Reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed Lond. 1652. 58. 71. oct A Systeme or body of Divinity in 10 books Lond. 1654. and 62. fol. Treatise of religion and learning in 6. books Lond. 1656. fol. Which book laying dead on the Booksellers hands had this title put to it in 1663. Faelix consortium or a fit conjuncture of religion and learning in one entire volume consisting of six books c. From which Treatise Will. Crowe of Suffolk Master of the Free-school at Croydon in Surrey took many things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum in sacram scripturam c. Lond. 1672. octavo Choice French proverbs Lond. 1657. 64. oct Annotations on the five poetical books of the old Test viz. Job Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles Lond. 1657. fol. Second considerations of the High Court of Chancery Lond. 1658. in 2 sh in qu. England described or the Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled Lond. 1659. oct Copied mostly from Camden Choice observations on all the Kings of England from the Saxons to the death of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. oct Three Diatriabes or discourses 1. Of travel 2. Of money 3. Of measuring c. Lond. 1671. oct This book is called in another edit 1680. The Gentlemans guide in the three discourses c. He also published The Magistrates Authority in two Sermons Lond. 1647 qu. penn'd by Christopher Cartwright B. of Div. and Minister at York To which our Author Leigh put a preface to vindicate himself against a lying pamphlet as he calls it which entitles him a man of a fiery disposition and one generally made chair-man upon any business that doth concern the Clergy He paid his last debt to nature in his house called Rushall Hall on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Rushall near to Walshall a Market Town in Staffordshire before mention'd as I have been informed by letters written to me by his Son Henry EDMUND STANTON son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight was born in Bedfordshire became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years was
1971. On the plank of black marble which covers the monument are the Armes of Bagshaw impaling the pretended Armes of Peacock the said Bagshaw having some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous and superannuated maid but perfectly blind named Margaret the daugh of John Peacock of Chawley in the parish of Comnore near Abendon in Berks but had no issue by her WILLIAM NICOLSON son of Christop Nicolson a rich clothier was born at Stratford near to Hadleigh in Suffolk on the first day of Nov. 1591 educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Madg. Coll being then choirester of that House Afterwards having made an entrance into the Logical Class he was made one of the Clerks took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 at which time I conceive he was Chaplain to Henry Earl of Northumberland then a prisoner in the Tower of London and Tutor to his son the Lord Percy But his cheif delight being exercised in the fac of Grammar and therefore noted by many for it he was made Master of the Free-School at Croydon in Surrey to which office he was admitted 3 Jul. 1616 in the place of one Robert Davys Bach. of Arts of Oxon then displaced for his frequent hunting with dogs and neglecting the School From that time to the beginning of 1629 he continued there doing great benefit by his instruction and then being succeeded by one Joh. Webb M. of A. of Madg. Hall our author retired into Wales where having a little before obtained the rectory of LLandilo-vaour or LLandellovar in Caermerthenshire was made soon after Residentiary of S. David and Archdeacon of Brecknock in the place of one Isaac Singleton in the beginning as it seems of the rebellion In 1643 he was elected one of the Ass of Divines but never as I conceive sate among them and soon after loosing his spiritualities he taught a private School in Caermerthenshire and by his writings defended and maintained the Church of England then exceedingly clouded against its Adversaries After the Kings restauration he was by the endeavours of Edward Earl of Clarerdon L. Chanc. of England designed Bishop of Glocester by his Majesty by vertue of whose letters he was diplomated Doct. or Div. in the beginning of Dec. 1660. and on the sixth of Jan. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster after it had laid void several years by the death of Godfrey Goodman Which Bishoprick he kept without any translation to another See to his dying day keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of Brecknock and the Rectory of Bishops-Cleeve in Glocestershire He was a right learned Divine well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen but above all most excellent he was in the critical part of Grammar in which faculty none in his time or perhaps before went beyond him His writings which shew him to be a person of great erudition prudence modesty and of a moderate mind are these A plain but full exposition of the Catechisme of the Church of England enjoyned to be learned of every child before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop Lond. 1655. 61. 63. 71. qu. c. Apologie for the discipline of the antient Church intended especially for the Church of England Lond. 1659. qu. Exposition on the Apostles Creed delivered in several Sermons Lond. 1661. fol. An easie Analysis of the whole book of Psalmes Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the Bishops Pallace at Glocester on the fifth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried on the eigth day of the same month in a little isle joyning on the South side to the Virgin Maries Chappel in the Cathedral there Over his grave was afterwards a blew stone laid and on the wall near it a table of black marble erected with this inscription following in golden letters Aeternitati S. In spe beatae resurrectionis hîc reverendas exuvias deposuit Theologus insignis Episcopus verè primitivus Gulielm Nicolson in agro Suffolciano natus apud Magdalenenses educatus ob fidem Regi Ecclesiae affictae praestitam ad sedem Glocestrensem meritò promotus an 1660. In concionibus frequens in Scriptis nervosus legenda scribens faciens scribenda Gravitas Episcopalis in fronte emicuit pauperibus quotidianâ Charitate beneficus comitate erga Clerum literatos admirandus gloriae ac dierum satur in palatio suo ut vixit piè decessit Febr. 5. anno aetatis LXXXII Dom. MDCLXXI Elizabetha conjux praeivit in hoc sacello sepulta Apr. xx an Dom. MDCLXIII Owenus Brigstock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermerthen Armiger praedictae Elizabethae nepos hoc grati animi monumentum executore recusante propriis sumptibus erexit an MDCLXXIX The said Brigstock was Grandson to the said Elizabeth GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernarvonshire educated in a private School in Caernarvon applyed his muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church in the latter end of 1603. aged 16 years but before he was honoured with a degree he left that House and by the perswasions of John Williams afterwards B. of Lincoln he removed to Cambridg where he prefer'd him to a Tutor patroniz'd him further'd his entrance into the Ministry and after he had attained to the degree of M. of A. got him to be Chaplain to Philip Earl of Montgomery being about that time also 1614. Parson of S. Bennet Sherhogg in London About the time that he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences he was made Parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales where he received good encouragement in the Ministry from Sir John Wynne Baronet and Sir Rich. Wynne his son and was infinitely admired for his excellent way in preaching and for his religious life and conversation He was then accounted a person very well read in scholastical and historical Divinity as also in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councils and therefore it was that he was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1. he being then D. D. In 1628 he became Prebendary of the eighth Stall in the collegiate Church of Westminster in the room of Dr. Laud who till then had kept it in commendam with his Bishopricks and in 1633 he was made Dean of Banger installed therein 28 Mar. 1634. and Archdeacon of Anglesy which Deanery had before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith Afterwards he was designed to be Tutor to Pr. Charles but Archb. Laud commending to his Majesty Dr. Duppa for that Employment our Author Williams who had been Tutor to the Lord Charles Herbert Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery I mean that Charles who died at or near Florence an 1634. was then put aside to his great discontent In 1641 he was at the motion of his ever honored Lord the said Earl made to the King constituted Bishop of Ossory in Ireland to which See being consecrated
on the â—â— of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
he died on the 10. of March another by Anon. who tells us the 12. of the said month c. but both false HUGH CRESSEY or Cressy son of Hugh Cressey a Counsellour of Lincolns Inn by Margerie his wife dau of Dr. Tho. D'oylie a Physitian of London was born in a market Town in Yorksh called Wakefield descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living sometimes at Holme near Hodsack in Nottinghamshire and being educated in Grammar learning in his native country was at 14 years of age sent to the University of Oxon. in Lent term an 1619 but for want of a vigilant Tutor he lost much time yet having good natural parts did in the fourth year after his coming to the Univ. take the degree of Bach. of Arts and in 1625 being a candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. he was elected Probationer and the year after was made true and perpetual Fellow So that what time and learning he before had lost was by a strict and severe discipline then and there observed recovered and advanced After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had entred into holy Orders he became Chaplain to Thom. Lord Wentworth while he was President of the North and afterwards when he was Earl of Strafford but what he obtained from that most noble Lord while he enjoyed that honourable employment I know not In 1638 he went in the quality of a Chaplain as I conceive with his most honoured Lord Lucius Viscount Falkland when he went into Ireland and in the year after returned into England but had nothing then and there conser'd upon him In the latter end of 1642 he became by the favour and interest of the said Viscount then one of the Secretaries of State Canon of Windsore in the room of Dr. Gilb. Primerose deceased but was never installed in that Dignity and much about the same time had the Deanery of Laighlen in Ireland confer'd upon him In which year all things being in a confusion he received no profits from either Dignity So that being destitute of a comfortable subsistance especially in the next year when he lost his most beloved Lord Falkland at Newbury fight he travelled as a Tutor with Charles Berkley Esq afterwards Earl of Falmouth an 1644 and upon a foresight that the Church of England would terminate through the endeavours of the peevish and restless Presbyterians he began to think of setling himself in the Church of Rome At length after mature consideration he renounced his religion and made a publick recantation at Rome of his errours and heresie as they are there called before the Inquisition an 1646. Which being so done he returned to Paris and there published his Motives that induced him to change his religion not that he was so considerable a person that all the World should take notice of it but that he might give some proof both of the mature advice and also reasonableness of his change A certain author tells us that it was not devotion but necessity and want of a subsistence which drove him first out of the Church of England and then into a Monastery And another that he became a Roman Catholick and was insnared to that new choice by the hopes and promise of being to be admitted an idle Drone or Monk in the Charterhouse at Paris where he might live as warmly as lapt all over in Lambskins and like a Bee in a plentiful hive fed with the purest amber honey c. But how such a bait should allure him no man that understands the rules of that order can easily imagine it so to be considering that the Monks thereof spend most of their time whether early or late in prayer in fasting loneness and abstinence from all flesh whatsoever c. Of this I am sure that when he wrot and published his Motives his mind became so humble that it was his eager desire to be a Monk of the English Coll. of Carthusians at Neiuport in Flanders a poor place God wot and very slenderly endowed as the Prior thereof Peter Bilcliff a Yorkshire man born did once tell me But so it was that he being diswaded from that Order because he could never be in a capacity or Master of so much time as to vindicate himself or the Roman Catholick Church by writing he took upon him the habit of the Benedictine Order as I shall anon tell you As soon as his Motives called Exomologesis were made publick he sent a copy into England to his dear friend Dr. Henry Hammond who in a kind letter return'd him thanks for the book and without the least exception against the stile gave this judgment of it that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did privily run through the whole contexture of the book He did not interpret wherein the fallacy consisted but added we are friends and I do not purpose to be your Antagonist At the end of the letter he kindly invited him into England assuring him that he should be provided of a convenient place to dwell in and a sufficient subsistence to live comfortably and withal that not any one should molest him about his religion and conscience Our author Cressey had reason to believe that the said invitation was an effect of a cordial friendship and he was also inform'd that he was well enabled to make good his promise as having the disposal of great charities and being a very charitable man himself Yet rendring such thanks as gratitude required of him he told him that he could not accept of so very kind an offer being engaged almost by vow to leave all pretensions to the World and to embrace poverty for his portion Besides also such a friend as this he had many more several near his Majesty among whom one especially there was of the highest rank to whom formerly upon the rebellion in Ireland he being destitute of a present subsistance he did acknowledge all gratitude due for by his care alone he was provided of a condition both honorable and comfortable So that if he had lost all other friends he had reason to assure himself he would have freely contributed rather than extremity of want should have forced him to quit the world But to return while he continued at Paris Henrietta Maria the Queen of England was very civil to him and being about to leave that place she assign'd him an hundred crowns to furnish him in his journey towards a Monastery Afterwards upon an invitation he went to Doway took upon him the habit of the Benedictine order in the Coll of the English Monks of that Order there And being setled he changed his name from Hugh Paulin which he received at the Font in Wakefield Church to Serenus de Cressy lived according to their discipline for 7 years or more and afterwards became one of the Mission in England At length upon the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal he became one of her Servants
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
Scotch man born Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland Bishop of Brechen and of the house of Milneton was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch from Westm School an 1642 aged 16 years bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon and elsewhere took one degree in Arts after the surrender of that garrison and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament So that at present being out of all employ he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2 paid his obedience to him when in Scotland served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651 at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances then most unjustly usurped by Fanaticks was there wounded taken Prisoner brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London where by the importunity of friends he was released Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. Bysshe Esq K. of Arms and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the White-fryers near Fleetstreet in London After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Students place was actually created Master of Arts and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty as hundreds of Cavaliers had not because poor and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers he was taken into the service of John Earl afterwards Duke of Lauderdale and became his Chaplain I mean that Earl whose Sirname was Maitland who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews day 1682 his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family The said Dav. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Greecian and Philologist hath published with a translation in latin verse Musaei Moschi Bionis quae extant omnia London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat. Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to Bysshe before mention'd who is by Whitford stiled Asylum perfugium afflictis egenis He also translated into Latine the said Bysshe his notes an old authors that have written of Armes and Armory as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person under the year 1679. He also wrot an Appendix to The compleat History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquess of Montrose or Montross as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well which History was written by the learned and famous Geor. Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written published or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Ch Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four at which time his Bedmaker found him dead lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him was buried in the south trancept joyning to the Cathedral Church there near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother a stout and desperate man called Colonel Walter Whitford who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is Dorislaw as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 as a certain author tells us as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mention'd but is still Sept. 1691. living in Edenburgh and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells us also that about the same time June 1650 one Spotswood another Officer Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account at which time was an acknowledgment made as he farther adds that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde of Pyrton in Wilts by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an 1608 entred a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622 went after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. of Apr. the same year and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nov. following and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York and afterwards to Oxford where he continued most of the time that that place was in the Kings hands was made Chancellour of the Exchequer a Privy-counsellor and a Knight At length upon the declining of the Kings cause he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley then for Jersey and afterwards for France From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince and attending his motions in foreign parts he was by him when King sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders 29. Jan. 1657. After the Kings restauration he was elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon made Baron of Hindon in Wilts Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellour for seven years or more the Great Seal was taken from him 30. Aug. 1667 and about 4 months after retired into France where he remained seven years spending his time in several places there Under his name were these things following published Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North an 1640. 2 Sp. at a conference between both Houses 6. Jul. 1641 at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport Baron Trevor and Baron Weston Lond. 1641. qu. c. besides several arguments and debates See in John Rushworths book called Historical Collections in the first vol. of the second part an 1640 and in the Impartial Collection c. of Dr. John Nalson A full answer to an infamous and traiterous Pamphlet intit A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King Lond. 1648. qu.
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
sacris liberarum Windsorensis Wolverhamptonensis capellarum à restitutione sereniss Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba Fide in rebus Regis promovendis Zelo in rebus Ecclesiae promovendis Affectu in rebus Regni promovendis Toto nuperae rebellionis tempore nemini secundus celeberrimis hujus seculi concionatoribus à primo juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annumeratus hic sepultus jacet beatam expectans resurrectionem Obiit Julii 13. an dom 1677. aetatis suae 81. Some are pleased to say that this Dr. Ryves hath written An exposition on the Church Catechisme printed in qu. but mistaken as I conceive because it seems to have been written by one Edm. Reeves Quaere WILLIAM BERKLEY a Knights son was born of an ancient and honorable family near to and in the Diocess of London elected probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1625 and four years after was admitted Master of Arts. In 1630 he travelled into various Countries and at his return he was much valued for his experience and knowledge in many matters In 1646 he was sent to Virginia about publick concerns and in 1660 when Colonel Mathews the then Governour of that Country died this our Author being then a Knight was in consideration of the service he had done there in defending the people thereof from being kill'd by the Natives and destroying the great number of the Indians without the loss of three men of his own made Governour thereof by the unanimous Votes of all that Country and there continued in that honorable Office till 1676 in which year he was sent for into England where he soon finished his course He hath written The lost Lady a Trag. Com. Lond. 1639. fol. Description of Virginia Printed in fol. and said in the title to be performed by an eye-witness The Laws of Virginia now in force collected out of the Assembly records and digested into one vol. Revised and confirmed by the grand Assembly 23 Mar. 1661. c. Lond. 1662. fol. Published by Franc. Moryson and by him dedicated to Sir Will. Berkley in whose Epistle 't is said that Sir William was Author of the most and best of the said Laws and that little addition had been made to what he himself had done during the time of his Government only what vitious excrescencies had grown in the body of them by the corrupt humour of the times This Sir Will. Berkley was buried in the middle Chancel of the Par. Church of Twittenham or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex on the 13 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven Afterwards a Vault being made for the Lord J. Berkley in the south Chancel of the said Church Sir William's body was removed to it and there deposited 4 Septemb. 1678. TIMOTHY WOODROFFE son of Rich. Woodr sometimes Vicar of Sherton and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts was born in that County at Sherston as it seems educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer who taught school there 40 years and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher In 1610 T. Woodr being then 16 years of age he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term and â—hen matriculated as a Ministers son After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Albans Hall and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty About that time he entred into holy orders and became Chaplain in the family of the St. Johns of Lidyard St. Johns in his own Country but before he had continued long there he by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England was prefer'd to the Vicaridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts which being about 14 or more miles from Oxon gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College where he set up a Divinity Lecture and himself read it for several years he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies and was plundered of a very good library whereupon he left his Living and removed to London and thence without his seeking he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex where he was recieved as an Angel and became a frequent Preacher Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford from whence by his favour he was again in the year 1649 removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physick wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis he finished his course He hath written and published Heavens Alarum c. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4 Lond. in tw A religious Treatise upon Simeons song or instructions advertising how to live holily and dye happily Lond. 1659. oct Built on Luke 2.29.30 and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned when weakness and old age confin'd him to his chamber Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood who stile the said book a sound and savoury discourse and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite c. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll now a Physitian at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and Benj. Woodr D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John Wags Citizen of London descended from those of his name of Hasland Hall in Derbyshire was born in Cheapside within the City of London became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the latter end of 1649 took the degrees in Arts and applied himself to the study of Politicks and other learning At length being call'd from an academical life to the inheritance of Hasland by the death of an Uncle who died without male-issue he spent his life afterwards in a single estate But before he left Oxon he wrot and published Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome chiefly discovering those events of humane affairs which most advance the Papal Usurpation Oxon. 1660. qu. This book tho much commended at its first appearance yet the author was laughed at because that he being a little crooked man and of a despicable presence should adventure to encounter with so great person as the Pope After he had left the University he wrot and published The question of Witchcraft debated or a discourse against their opinion that affirm Witches Lond. 1669. oct To which is added Lucians dialogue called Lovers of lyes translated by another hand But an answer coming out against the said book intit The opinion of
After his Majesties restauration he was made one of his Advocates being then esteemed a learned man and as well read in Divinity as in his own faculty as may be seen in the books following of his writing The holy Limbeck or an extraction of the Spirit from the letter of certain eminent places in the holy scripture Lond. 1650. in tw Other copies have this title The holy Limbeck or a semicentury of spiritual extractions c. The holy arbour containing the whole body of Divinity or the sum and substance of Christian Religion Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. A view of the Admiral jurisdiction wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed c. Lond. 1661. oct A Catalogue of such that have been dignified with the office of Lord high Admiral in this Kingdom c. Printed at the end of the said View and all or most taken from Sir Hen. Spelman's Glossary in the word Admiralius The Orphans legacy or a testamentary abridgment in three parts 1. Of last Wills and Testaments 2. Of Executors and Administrators 3. Of Legacies and Devises c. Lond. 1674. qu. c. Repertorium Canonicum or an abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm consistent with the temporal wherein the most material points c. Lond. 1678. 80 c. qu. He also translated into English out of Garsias alias Ferrand An extract of the antient Laws of Oleron Lond. 1661 printed with The view of Admiral jurisdiction before mention'd to which translation he put marginal observations He died in or near Fleetstreet on the fourth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the north isle of Clarkenwell Church near London As for Ch. Geor. Cock before mentioned he was of the Inner Temple and a Counsellor there but whether he was ever of this Univ. I cannot tell However this I know of him that he being a great Antimonarchist was in some manner contributary to the death of K. Ch. 1 that he was one of those 21 persons that were appointed to be of a Committee to consult of a reformation of the Law in Jan. 1651 he being then living and residing in Norwych that he was one of the Commissioners of the Prerogative Court one of the High Court of Justice in Nov. 1653 and author of a canting whimsical and enthusiastical book intit English-Law or a summary survey of the houshold of God on earth and that both before and under the Law and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus c. Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. To which is added Essay of Christian Government under the regiment of our Lord and King the one immortal invisible c. Prince of Peace Emanuel Written by the same hand THOMAS GOOD became scholar of Ball. Coll. in the latter end of 1624 aged 15 years Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Mich. term 1628 and on the 29 of Nov. the next year he was admitted probationer Fellow of that house ran thro all exercises of the Coll. and University till he was Bach. of Div. in 1639. Afterwards tho he was absent in the times of distraction yet he kept his Fellowship and submitted to the men of the interval At length having obtained a small Cure at Coerley in his native Country of Shropshire he resigned his Fellowship in 1658 and at the Kings restauration was as a Sufferer for the Kings Cause as 't is said in the Univ. Reg. of that year actually created D. of D. About that time he was made one of the Residentiaries of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford and Rector of Winstanstow in his own Country and at length on the death of Dr. Savage Master of Ball. Coll. He was in his younger years accounted a brisk Disputant and when resident in his Coll. a frequent Preacher yet always esteemed an honest and harmless Puritan A noted author of the Presbyterian perswasion tells us that he was one of the most peaceable moderate and honest Conformists of his acquaintance and subscribed the Worcestershire agreement for concord and joyned with the Presbyterians in their association and meetings at Kedirminster and was the man that drew the Catalogue of Questions for their disputations at their meetings and never talked then to them of what he afterwards wrot in his book called Dubitantius Firmianus which when published he lost his credit among them and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter the pride and glory of that party He hath written and published Firmianus and Dubitantius Or certain Dialogues concerning Atheisme Infidelity Popery and other Heresies and Schismes c. Oxon. 1674. oct Animadverted upon by the said Mr. Baxter in a letter directed to him dat 10 Feb. 1673 in the Apologie here quoted from pag. 142 to 146. A brief English Tract of Logick Printed 1677. in a little oct of 2 sh and an half He had as I have been informed other things laying by him at his death fit for the press but of what subject they treated or in whose hands they are gotten I know not He died at Hereford on the ninth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Cathedral Church there On the 24 day of the same month was elected in his place of Master of Ball. Coll. John Venn M. A. and Fellow of that House BENJAMIN WELLS second son of John Wells the famous Mathematician of Deptford in Kent was born there or at least in that County became a Communer of S. Albans Hall in 1632 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and then being translated to that of S. Mary was admitted Master as a member thereof an 1639 and the next year was elected Probat Fellow of All 's College Afterwards entring on the Physick line he was admitted to practise that faculty in Dec. an 1650 having been about that time in some of the Western Plantations Afterwards he setled at Greenwich alias East Greenwich in his native County where he practised his faculty but being of a morose temper tho able in his profession was but little resorted to by Patients which was the reason he died very indigent He hath written A treatise of the Gout or Joint Evil. Lond. 1669. in tw and translated into English The Expert Physitian learnedly treating of all agues and feavers Lond. 1657. oct Written originally by Dr. Brice Bauderon This Mr. Wells died at East Greenwich before mentioned in April in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Church there on the 13 day of the same month John Wells Esq the father before mention'd was Store-keeper of the naval Arsenal at Deptford a charge of good credit and requiring extraordinary application was much valued for his mathematical sufficiencies by Briggs Gunter Gellibrand Oughtred c. and learnedly wrot Sciographia Or the art of Shadows plainly demonstrating out of the Sphaere how to project both great and small circles upon any place whatsoever with
Antiquities of that County He wrot also The description of Harwich and all its appurtenances and antiquities which is now in Ms in a private hand He had great skill not only in the practical but theoretical part of Musick did compose several lessons some of which were tried and played in the publick School of that fac in this University while Dr. Wilson held the chair before his Majesties restauration and after that time he being well acquainted with that most admired Organist to the Queen called Matthew Lock who had married one Garnons a Herefordshire Woman he did compose several Anthems two or more of which were sung in his Majesties Chappel which being well performed his Maj. was pleased to tell the author that he liked them He had also good skill in the Mathematicks and the Tongues and might have proved excellent in them had his continuance in the University been longer or had he not spent most of his time in military matters He died on the fourth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Harwich before mention'd He died much in debt so that all such Mss and Papers that were then laying by him some of which he had before pawned were with his goods seized on by his Creditors His Father Silvanus Taylor before mention'd who also had been one of the High Court of Justice and a grand Oliverian wrot and published Common good or the improvement of Commons Forrests and Chases by enclosure Wherein the advantage of the Poor the common plenty of all and the increase and preservation of timber with other things of common concernment are considered Lond. 1652. in 7. sh and an half in qu. Dedicated to the supreme authority of the Nation the Parliament of England He had a son of both his names sometimes a Communer of Wadham Coll. afterwards M. A. and Fellow of that of Allsouls an ingenious man and well skill'd in the practical part of Musick who died at Dublin in Ireland in the beginning of Nov. 1672. MARCHAMONT NEDHAM was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire in the month of Aug. 1620 and on the 21. of the said month received baptisme there He was son of a Father of both his names born of gentile parents in Derbyshire sometimes Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. and Gloc. Hall afterwards an Attendant on the Lady Elizab. Lucas Sister to John Lord Lucas and Wife of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden near Burford before mention'd by Margery his Wife Daughter of John Collier the Host of the George inn then the principal place for the reception of Guests in Burford But the said Father dying in the year following the Mother was the next year after that scil in 1622 married to Christoph Glynn Vicar of the said Town and Master of the Free-school there which Glynn perceiving his Son-in-law to have very pregnant parts did take him under his tuition and spared not to encourage his forwardness At about 14 years of age he was sent to All 's Coll. where being made one of the Choristers continued there till 1637 at which time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. So that being not capable of keeping that place any longer because inconsistent with his degree he retired to S. Maries Hall for a time At length being invited to London he had confer'd upon him an Ushers place in Merchant Taylors School then presided by one Mr. Will. Staple but how long he continued there I cannot justly tell Sure it is that upon the change of the times he became an under-clerk in Greys inn where by vertue of a good legible court-hand he obtained a comfortable subsistance Soon after siding with the rout and scum of the people he made them weekly sport by railing at all that was noble in his intelligence called Merc. Britan. wherein his endeavours were to sacrifice the fame of some Lord or person of Quality nay of the King himself to the beast with many heads Diego writeth that Barcaeus meeting with the Devil sitting at his ease upon a chair bid him rise up and give place to his betters The tale was moraliz'd in Britanicus who might very well have challenged the precedency of Satan and to have thrust him out of his chair the seat of the scornful wherein he sate several years and out-railed all the Shimies and Rabsekehs and out-lyed all the Simmeasses and Psedolusses that ever sate in that chair So that this Nedham being become popular and an active man in person among the rout he was commonly called Capt. Nedham of Greys inn and what he said or wrot was looked upon as Gospel About that time he studied Physick followed the chymical way and in 1645 began to practice it and by that and his writing maintained himself in very gentile fashion But so it was that whether by his imprisonment in the Gatehouse for his aspersions of his Majesty in the opening or explaining his Cabinet Letters an 1645 or for some scorn or affronts put upon him he forthwith left the blessed cause and obtaining the favour of a known Royallist to introduce him into his Majesties presence at Hampton-court an 1647 he then and there knelt before him and desired forgiveness for what he had written against him and his cause which being readily granted he kiss'd his Majesties hand and soon after wrot Mercurius Pragmaticus which being very witty satyrical against the Presbyterians and full of Loyalty made him known to and admired by the Bravadoes and Wits of those times But he being narrowly sought after left London and for a time sculk'd at Minster Lovel near Burford in Oxfordsh in the house there of Dr. Pet. Heylyn At length being found out imprison'd in Newgate and brought into danger of his life Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Commons who knew him and his Relations well and John Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice treated him fairly and not only got his pardon but with promise of rewards and places perswaded him to change his stile once more meaning for the Independents then carrying all before them So that being brought over he wrot Merc. Politicus so extream contrary to the former that the generality for a long time especially the most generous Royallists could not believe that that intelligence could possibly be written by the same hand that wrot the M. Pragmaticus The truth is these last were written for about an year and an half and were endeavoured by the Parliamenteers to be stifled but the former the Politici which came out by authority and flew every week into all parts of the Nation for more than 10 years had very great influence upon numbers of inconsiderable persons such who have a strange presumption that all must needs be true that is in print He was then the Goliah of the Philistines the great Champion of the late Usurper whose pen in comparison of others was like a
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
72 persons Members of the House of Commons Officers of the Army and Citizens of London sate upon benches some degrees above one another as Judges Hacker I say by order of the Court which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the President at which time John Cook the Sollicitor General was placed on the Kings right hand I shall pretermit the Judges names the formality of the Court and the proceedings there by way of charge as also his Majesties replies in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers Nor indeed was much to be observed seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him would sometimes smile but not acknowledge their jurisdiction or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King it being without example also whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the Kings Chamber The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the Kings bed which he did and there slept Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had as his Majesty desired the Liberty to attend the King which was much to his comfort and as he said no small refreshing to his spirit especially in that his uncomfortable condition The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King Munday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting as formerly in Westminster Hall Now the more noble the person is the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings Here it was otherwise for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice justice some of the Officers joyning with them At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed but overcame it with patience Sure to persecute a distressed soul and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart is the very pitch of wickedness yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer as the learned Bishop of Winchester Bilson saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday which was here very applicable As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir The King thank'd him but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head which his Majesty observing said The punishment exceeded the offence Being come to his apartment in Cotton house he immediatly fell upon his knees and went to prayer which being done he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice he answer'd he did and marvell'd much at it So did not I said the King for I am well assur'd the Soldiers bare no malice towards me the cry was no doubt given by their Officers for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sate in the Court and who they were he replied there were upward of threescore some of them members of the House of Commons others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London some of whom he knew but not all The King then said he viewed all of them but knew not the faces of above eight and those he named The names tho Mr. Herbert told me not yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie William L. Monson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Danvers Oliver Cromwell who had shew'd seeming civility to him at Childerlie Newmarket and Hampton Court Major Harrison Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond c. Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned and as formerly guarded to the Court where as at other times he persisted in his judgment that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the President of the Court but was gently interrupted by the King laying his staff upon the Solicitors arme the head of which being silver hapned to fall off which Mr. Herbert who as his Majesty appointed waited near his Chair stoop'd to take it up but falling on the contrary side to which he could not reach the King took it up himself This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it hapned on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King The Court sate but a little time that day the K. not varying from his principle At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind the Soldiers who as his Majesty pass'd said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty for which the King returned them thanks Saturday 27. Jan. The President came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown whereupon the K. having quick notice of it he forthwith went seated himself in his chair and observing the President in his red Gown did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting and therefore he earnestly press'd the Court that altho he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther whereupon the President and Court arose and withdrew In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sate The King therefore going away he seated himself in the Chair The President told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence His Majesty had the former day mov'd the President that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publickly read by the Clerk but neither would that desire be granted The President then gave judgment against the King who at the Presidents pronouncing it
was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers who were silent as his Majesty passed but shop-stalls and windows were full of People many of which shed tears and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's Nothing of the fear of death or indignities offer'd seem'd a terrour or provok'd him to impatience nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges albeit he well knew that some of them were or had been his domestick servants nor against any member of the House or Officer of the Army so wonderful was his patience tho his spirit was great and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastry of his passion and submission to the will of God under such temptations The same night after which sentence was pronounced Coll. Hacker who then commanded the Guards at S. James's about the King would have placed two Musquetiers in the Kings Bedchamber with which his Majesty being acquainted he made no reply only gave a sigh Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horrour of it and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature The King now bidding a farewel to the World his whole business was a serious preparation for death which opens the door unto eternity In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned who under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition And resolving to sequester himself so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him I know said the K. my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me which I would take in good part but my time is short and precious and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation I hope they will not take it ill that they or any have not access unto me only my Children The best office they can do now is to pray for me What he had said it fell out accordingly for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond William Marq. of Hertford Thomas Earl of Southampton and Mountague E. of Lindsey with some others having go leave came to the Bedchamber door where Mr. Herbert persuant to the Kings command acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge and thereupon they acquiesced and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers which done they return'd with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces The Prince of Wales also then in Holland did by the States Embassadors interceed to the Parliament and used all possible means to prevent or at least to defer his Majesties execution and applyed themselves likewise to the Army At this time Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said came to S. James's Edm. Calamy Rich. Vines Jos Caryl Will. Dell and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King with their humble desires to pray with him and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul sutable to his present condition he would have none other The Ministers were no sooner gone but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service whom the King also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were he then as at sundry times enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for and how he liked it Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it The Earl fell presently into a passion marvell'd thereat and was much troubled least his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James's he as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James's he went to meet him and demanding of him if he knew his Cosin Tom Herbert that waited on the King the Officer said he did and was going to S. James's The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Larme desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it My Lord said Mr. Herbert I have sundry times seen and past by that Officer since and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise nor said any thing concerning it nor has the King it I am certain The Earl was very angry and gave the Officer his due character and threatned to question him But such was the severity of the times that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person so as no notice was taken of it Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith who gave the Earl thanks and said had he not told the Officer it was for me he would probably have delivered it he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsore The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a
Laud Archb. of Cant. and a fourth upon Sir Hen. Spelman the Antiquary Verses on the return of K. Ch. 2 James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Glocester Lond. 1660. in 3 sh in folio Elegie on the death of Henry Duke of Glocester Printed 1660. in a fol. paper Wickham wakened or the Quakers Madrigall in rime dogrell Printed 1672 in one sheet in qu. Written while he was Mayor of Wycombe against a Practitioner of Phys who was a Quaker and took much from his practice He died on the 17 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the middle of the north isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of Gr. Wycombe before mentioned Over his grave was soon after a black marble stone laid with this inscription thereon Hic jacet Martinus Lluelyn eruditus Medicinae Doctor ex Aede Christi olim Alumnus saeviente Civilis belli incendio dum Oxonium praesidio muniebatur cohorti Academicorum fideli Praefectus erat adversus ingruentem Rebellium ferociam posteaquam sereniss Carolo secundo inter juratos Medicus Colleg. Med. Lond. socius Aulae sanctae Mariae dudum Principalis dein hujusce comitatus Irenarcha necnon municipii hujus semel Praetor Regiae authoritatis religionis Eccles Angliae legibus stabilitae strenuus assertor inconcussus amator celeberrimus insignis Poeta Qui res egregias sublimes pari ingenio facundia depinxit Bino matrimonio foelix septem liberos superstites reliquit Laetitiam Martinum ex priore Georgium Ricardum Mauritium Martham Mariam ex posteriore nuper amantissima conjuge Georgii Long de Penn Generosi filiâ Heu quam caduca corporis humani fabrica qui toties morbos fugavit ipse tandem morbo succumbit Anhelus doctorum proborum maximum desiderium Obiit xvii Martii MDCLXXXI annoque aetatis LXVI THOMAS CASE son of George Case Vicar of Boxley in Kent was born in that County became Student of Ch Ch. upon the recommendations of Tob. Mathew Archb. of York in the year 1616 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders preached for some time in these parts and afterwards in Kent at or near the place of his nativity At the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with them and being schismatically addicted he became an enemy to the Bishops and Liturgy a great Boutifieu and firebrand in the Church a leader and abettor of the pretended reformation and what not to vent his spleen to become popular in the City of London and so consequently to get preferment and wealth which before he wanted and therefore discontented About the same time he was made Minister of S. Mary Magd. Ch. in Milkstreet in Lond upon the sequestration thence of a Loyalist where it was usual with him at his invitation of the people to the Lords table for the receiving of the sacrament to say You that have freely and liberally contributed to the Parliament for the defence of Gods Cause and the Gospel draw near instead of You that do truly and earnestly repent c. To the rest he threatned damnation as coming unwillingly to the holy sacrament In 1643 he as a grand lover of the cause was made by ordinance of Parliament one of the Ass of Divines being then as before and after a frequent Preacher before the members of the said Parliament and about that time the Thursdays Lecturer at S. Martins in the Fields He was so zealous a Covenanteer also that he published a Sermon about the solemn League and Covenant advised all to take it and was angry with those that did not tho they understood it not He was during the War as most of the Brethren were a common Preacher of Rebellion Atlength he and they being cozened of their King and the designs they had upon him by the Independents he became a bitter enemy to that party plotted with Love Jenkyns c. and with the Scots to bring in his son K. Ch. 2 an 1651 Case being about that time Minister of S. Giles in the Fields near London but their Plot being discovered and Love the Corypheus suffering for the rest our author Case with his Brethren that were in the Conspiracy made a Petition to Oliver by way of acknowledgment and submission for what they had done In the year 1653 he made it his endeavours to be one of the Triers for the approbation of Ministers appointed by Oliver but was rejected yet when the Presbyterians began to lift up their heads in the latter end of 1659 upon the generous proceedings of General Monk he was constituted by Act of Parl. dated 14 of Mar. that year one of the Ministers for the approbation and admission of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that foppery being soon after laid aside he himself upon the coming out of the Act of Conformity an 1662 was laid aside also yet ever after so long as he lived he was not wanting to carry on the beloved Cause in Conventicles for which he sometimes suffer'd He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Two Serm. before the House of Commons on Ezek. 20.25 and on Ezra 10.2.3 Lond. 1642. sec edit 2 Gods rising his Enemies scattering before the H. of C. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 68.1.2 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 The root of Apostasy and fountain of true Fortitude Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of C. 9 Apr. 1644 for the great Victory given to Sir Will. Waller and the Forces with him against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton on Dan 11.32 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Deliverance-obstruction or the set-backs of Reformation Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 26 Mar. 1646 on Exod. 5.22.23 Lond. 1646. qu. 5 A model of true spiritual Thankfulness Thanksgiving Serm. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Spiritual whoredome discovered in a Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 26 May 1647 on Hosea 9.1 Lond. 1647. qu. 7 Serm. before the H. of C. 22 Aug. 1645 being the day appointed for the solemne Thanksgiving unto God for the Parliament forces their gaining of Bathe and Bridgwater Scarborough and Sherburne Castle and for the dispersing of the Club-men and the good success in Pembrokshire on Isa 43.14 Lond. 1645. qu. Other Sermons as 1 Gods waiting to be gracious unto his people together with Englands encouragements and cautions to wait on God delivered in certain Sermons at Milk-street in Lond. on Isa 30.18 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Sermon on Ezek. 50.5 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Jehosaphats caution to his Judges on 2 Chron. 19.6.7 Lond. 1644. 45. qu. This Sermon which I have not yet seen was preached if I mistake not in Aug. 1644 upon the occasion of a Court Martial From the Epistle before which and from the Sermon it self the Independents took great advantage and quoted it when the
came out in which he reflected on the falseness of it as 't was also in a smart and ingenious answer to it pen'd by John Northleigh of Exeter Coll. Besides also I conceive that scarcely any body besides Shaftesbury would have adventured on such insolent and bold arraignments of some chief Ministers of State not sparing the Government it self He also made the little short Speech intit The Earl of Essex's Speech at the delivery of the petition to the King 25. of Jan. 1680 which petition was that the King would change his mind from the setting of the Parl. at Oxon to be at Westminster Answer'd in a letter sent to him by Anon. in half a sh in fol. as big as the speech and petition He was also deeply supposed to have written A vindication of the Association which was seized on in the hands of his servant Stringer as he was going to the Press with it in the beginning of Dec. 1682 who being examined about it confessed that it was written by Rob. Ferguson a Nonconformist Minister author of as he added The second part of the growth of Popery Whereupon soon after a Messenger was sent to Brill in Holland to demand the body of him the said Ferguson and of Shaftesbury but the States refused so to do as the common Letters dat 13 January following told us Much about the same time I was informed by Letters also that since the said Earls retirement to Amsterdam he printed and published a book there in which he endeavoured to free himself from all cause of Jealousie and aspersions cast on him upon which a back friend of his immediatly dispers'd a satyrical reply in opposition thereunto Which coming early to his Lordships hands he printed a second book justifying the validity of the first but he did so much confound himself therein that the States had then a jealousie that he came among them for some other intent than barely his Majesties displeasure with him At length dying at Amsterdam of the Gout on the 21. of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two his body was conveyed into England and buried at Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire beforemention'd What Epitaph there is over his grave I know not and therefore in its place take this character of him given by a most ingenious author For close designs and crooked counsels fit Sagacious bold and turbulent of wit Restless unfixt in principles and place In power unpleas'd impatient of disgrace c. In friendship false implacable in hate Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the State c. Before his death came out several Pamphlets in vindication of him but very partially written by his admirers At the time of his death or thereabouts was published The compleat Statesman demonstrated in the life actions and politicks of that great Minister of State Anth. Earl of Shaftsbury c. Printed in tw at Lond. in Hillary term 1682. And after his death was published besides some Memoirs of his life which made against him under the name of Philanax Misopappus a book intit Rawleigh redivivus or the life and death of the honorable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it It is divided into two parts and dedicated to the protesting Lords but partially written and containeth many errors and slightly passeth over and omits many of his actions during the time of Rebellion wherein he had a prime hand There were also published Elegies on him pro and con as also A supplement to his last Will. and Test written in verse the particulars of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by THOMAS HUNT son of Hen. Hunt was born in the City of Worcester an 1611 became a Student in Pembr Coll. 1628 Master of Arts in 1636 but whether ever Bach. of that faculty it appears not and therefore Hen. instead of Tho. Hunt in the Fasti 1630 among the Bachelaurs is to be taken away Afterwards he went into the Country and taught a private School then to London and taught in the Church of S. Dunstan in the East and at length being preferred to the Mastership of the Free-school of S. Saviours in Southwark did much good among the Youth there as elsewhere he had done by his admirable way accompanied with much industry in teaching For the use of whom he wrot Libellus Orthographicus or the diligent School-boys Directory c. Lond. 1661 and several times after in oct One Edit of which bears this title Libel Orthograph Or the diligent School-boys Directory very useful for Grammar scholars Apprentices c. or any that desire to be exactly perfect especially in the English Orthography Abecedarium Scholasticum or the Grammar Scholars Abecedary Lond. 1671 oct or thus in the title of another edition Abecedarium Scholasticum Or the Grammar Scholars Flower-garden wherein are these following flowers to wit Proverbs proverbial Sayings Sayings also on several subjects What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died 23 January in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Saviour in Southwark close to the wall in the corner on the left hand of that door that leads from the Bull Churchyard or Bull-head Churchyard into the said Church The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this hath been another Thom. Hunt who tho no Oxford man by education yet having been famous in his generation among certain schismatical persons for several things that he hath written and published I shall therefore give you these brief memoirs of him viz. That he was born in London in the Augustine Friers as I conceive near the Old Exchange was first Scholar then Fellow and Master of Arts of Queens Coll. in Cambridge where he was esteemed a person of quick parts and of a ready fluence in discourse but withall too pert and forward Thence he went to Greys Inn where before he had been entred a Student and making proficiency in the municipal Laws was made Barrister was had in repute for his practice and acknowledged by most persons to be a good Lawyer In 1659 he became Clerk of the Assizes of Oxford Circuit but ejected from that office at his Majesties restauration to his great loss to make room for the true owner Afterwards he lived and followed his profession at Banbury in Oxfordshire was Steward for a time to part of the Duke of Buckinghams Estate and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk c. He hath written and published 1 Great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor to the Crown c. considered And an answer to a Letter c. Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. 2 An Argument for the Bishops right in judging in capital Causes in Parliament c. To which is added A postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferior Clergy mischievous to our Government and Religion Lond. 1682. oct For the writing of
by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary entit Misnae pars ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq with an inscription thereon beginning thus MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti è Coll. Oriel in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti Linguar praecipue Orientalium peritissimi Critici Rhetoris Mathemat Theologi in omnibus adeò eximii ut raro quisquam in singulis in juventute ut raro quisquam in senio quem ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret c. HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire sometimes Capt. of a Foot company descended from the antient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire was born in Hampshire elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School 1645 or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 and afterwards going to the great City became a member of the Examiners office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latine verse He hath written Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique c. Lond. 1664. oct Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton and to The ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read so if not so it is so so and so farewell Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides or Virgil Travestie c. He hath also written Latine Songs with their English and Poems Lond. 1685. oct Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns inn on the 23. of Oct. being the first day of the Term in sixteen hundred eighty and three aged 56 or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Twyford West Twyford near Acton in the County of Middlesex I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an 1657. WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor became Master of a good Latine stile and a considerable Disputant Soon after tho the Civil War broke forth and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars yet he continued there bore arms for his Majesty and had so much time allowed him that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage but so it was that he being engaged in that honorable tho unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 wherein as I have been credibly informed he was a Captain of a Foot Company he was thereby disingaged from enjoying it So that entring himself into Greys inn studied the municipal Law went through the usual Degrees belonging to it was made Serjeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted and the same year on the 2 of Nov. he was sworn his Majesties Serjeant In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford but not long after his advancement the Popish conspiracy was discovered So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concern'd therein to publick justice he in several trials of them behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country whose all seem'd then especially to the fanatical party to lay at stake and to be threatned with apparently impendent ruin But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possess'd with an opinion that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him read in the H. of Commons and ingrossed and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 meerly to stop their mouthes and so obtain quietness Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day as it seems and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts a good Orator and a fluent Speaker but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy his Speeches effected more in the reading than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery Under his name were printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech before the L. Chancellor when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench Printed in half a sh in fol. 2 Sp. in the Kings Bench in Westm hall on the first day of Mich. term 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow and remarks made on it in one sh in fol. entit A New years gift for Justice Scroggs c. He hath other Speeches extant as I shall tell you by and by Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill when he and R. Green were executed 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh in fol. Answer to the Articles against him given in by Titus Oates and Will Bedlow in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses arguings and speeches printed in divers Tryals and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in 1 The Tryal of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty c. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 2 Tryal of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King subversion of the government c. 28. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was as I have heard a Ministers Son had been
grave or jocose as also noted for one whose extraordinary parts and indefatigable industry and study promised great things After he was Master of Arts he took upon him the cure of Little S. Maries Church in Cambridge chosen to it by the Master and Fellows of Peter House all Colleges being ambitious some way or other to make him theirs When the grand rebellion began or at least about to begin he was very zealous in opposing the attempts of the then spreading Schism and troubles and did not forbear to protest publickly against the faction when it was most formidable In a Sermon also at S. Maries in Cambr. he vehemently and convincingly urged the University to publish a formal protestation against the rebellious League And being occasionally about that time in Kent upon a short visit to his mother lately then a widow he was hunted about and forced to lye in Woods and at length was imprison'd for having assisted some Forces belonging to the King at Tunbridge with the charity he had moved a neighbouring Congregation to by two Sermons Thence he was forced to his College to take the Covenant which he resolutely denying so to do was thrown out of his Fellowship and soon after one John T ... n who took it was put therein But before he left Cambridge he with Mr. Barrow afterwards B. of S. Asaph Mr. Ward afterwards B. of Salisbury and Mr. John Barwick with two or three others did write a resolute and well pen'd Treatise against the Covenant which was afterwards published In the beginning of the year 1644 if not before he with the said Mr. Barrow his great companion and fellow-sufferer journied to Oxon then his Majesties head-quarter and being forthwith made known to that most worthy patron of learning Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll he entred them Chaplains of that House where they had lodging and diet In July the same year Mr. Gunning was incorporated Master of Arts of this University but whether Mr. Barrow was or took any other degree it appears not in the publick register About the same time Mr. Gunning became Curat for Mr. Jasp Mayne at Cassington four Miles North-west distant from Oxon in which service continuing about two years he endured several affronts and abuses by the Parliamentarian Soldiers from Abendon and elsewhere either by interrupting him with base Language or by pulling him out of the Church Besides the constant duty at New Coll. and his reading Prayers and Preaching every Sunday at Cassington he somtimes preached either before the King or Parliament sitting at Oxon. In consideration of which he was one of those many that had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him and accordingly he was admitted on the day before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament So that he having been incorporated and afterwards admitted to a superior degree with us is the reason why I now put him among the Oxford Writers tho indeed Cambridge is more properly his Mother After the surrender of Oxon. he undertook the charge and tuition of Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton and Sir Franc. Compton in both whom he instill'd most excellent Principles of Loyalty Afterwards he was Chapl. to Sir Rob. Shirley father of Rob. which last was made Lord Ferrers of Chartley who setled on him about an 100 l per an for his life being more particularly moved thereunto for his great abilities and the learning which he shew'd in the silencing a Popish Priest with whom he held two or three set disputations for the satisfaction of his Patron and others that engaged him in them Not long after Sir Rob. Shirley dyed in the Tower having been committed to that place for his Loyalty so that thereupon Mr. Gunning betaking himself to the holding a constant Congregation in the Chappel at Exeter house in the Strand did by his reading the English Liturgy Preaching and administring assert the cause of the Church of England with great pains and courage when the Parliament was most predominant And his Sermons and Prayers being performed very regularly according to the antient usuage of the Church great numbers of well affected and honest people flocked to them as others did to other Loyal Preachers in several parts in and near the City of London whereby thousands being confirmed in the communion of the Church of England as in other parts of the Nation was thereby frustrated and taken away the groundless reproach cast upon the true Protestants by the Romanists that their Church was lost Besides these his Labours for which he was often sent for and reprov'd by the Usurper Oliver he would on the week days look out all sorts of Sectaries and dispute with them openly in their own Congregations Nor was there any considerable Sect whether Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist Quaker Brownist Socinian c. but that he held with them some time or other a set publick disputation in defence of the Church of England About the time of the Kings restauration he was posses'd of the Rectories of Cotesmore in the County of Rutland and of Stoke-Brewen in Northamptonshire which he long before had title to but kept out for his Loyalty The Vicaridge of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster was first design'd him and a Prebendship of Canterbury The last he had but the other not as being thought more for the service of the publick to fix him for a while in the University of Cambridge where being first made D. of D. and Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. and soon after of S. Johns he was for a little while Margaret Professor and as soon as Dr. Ant. Tuckney was removed he was made Reg. Professor of Divinity as the fittest man for that Chaire that could be then chosen to settle the University right in their Principles again after many corruptions had crept in there by means of the Rebellion I say that he did not only succeed the said Tuckney in the Divinity Chaire but also in the Mastership of S. Johns Coll who having been lawfully ejected from both as having had no right title to either yet such was the goodness of Dr. Gunning that he allowed him a very considerable annuity during his life Which act of his being excellent and singular is here remembred to his everlasting fame and the rather for this reason that no Presbyterian or Independent was ever known to allow any Loyallist whose places they had occupied for several years the least farthing but rather rejected and avoided them vilified scorn'd and exposed them to the Plebeians as empty formal and starch'd nothings These things I have known and do remember them as done in this University and the like without all doubt was used at Cambridge and yet so it is that some of the dreggs of these men that yet remain among us have not been content with the Kings clemency to keep their places to this day but take all occasions upon the least interruption in the Nation to breed faction
ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month at Hampton Court But no Council being then held notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day the matter was defer'd till the 27 of the same month Another Council being therefore there held on that day the charges and answers were debated Which done and the Lords concerned being withdrawn this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty against his now Majesty and against the Government When the Parties or Lords concern'd were called in again the Lord Chancellour only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mention'd as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following but Anglesey continuing extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudg'd by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July he wrot a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty which being openly read in Council the next day he did in some manner as 't was said resent it for some passages therein yet nothing appear'd entred to be done thereupon Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven James Touchet was called in several times and question'd about his Memoires which he acknowledging to be his the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682 the Privy Seal by command from his Majesty was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State without any farther hearing and was given to George Marquess of Halyfax Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven containing Observations c. was another book published intit Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires c. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase Author of The Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion c. and printed at London 1682. oct But the said Author who commends Anglesey's Letter was not regarded Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrot A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council c. Lond. 1682 in 18 sh in fol. and A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian Lond. 1683. in two sh in qu which Jovian was wrot by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2 but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat died soon after as I shall anon tell you leaving behind him The History of Ireland MS. and The Kings right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nov. 1687. in 10 sh and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8 put at the bottom of the title So that that person who in the time of the Popish Plot had shew'd himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists and Duke of York by publishing The weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome and other things was when the said Duke came to the Crown taken so much into favour as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws the publishing of which book was one At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Polititian for more than 45 years he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster on Easter Tuesday the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire where he had an Estate was buried in the Church there He left behind him a choice Library of Books which were exposed to sale by way of Auction in Oct. Nov. c. following JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire of which his father was Rector elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school an 1640 aged 15 years bore arms for a time in Oxon when made a Garrison for his Majesty and having made proof of his Courage in that service he was appointed an Ensign and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty but after the surrender of Oxford the declension of the Kings Cause and his Army disbanded he returned to Christ Church again and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647 and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Soon after he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of All 's Coll. with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660 in the place of John Pointer then ejected and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King he was upon his recommendation deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster upon the promotion of Dr. Earle to the See of Worcester in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nov. the same year he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty and at that time and before that place was manag'd to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity At length upon the death of Dr. Sterne Archb. of York he was by vertue of the Kings Conge d'eslire elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683 and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth was on the 23 of the same month enthronized He was a man of a free generous and noble disposition and withall of a natural bold and happy Eloquence As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours both in his Deanery of Westminster and his Archbishoprick of York He was not very careful
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
a Batler of Madg. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament forces and being Puritannically educated from his childhood he submitted to the power of the Visitors when they came to reform or rather deform the University an 1648. In the latter end of the next year he was made by them Probationer-Fellow of Mert. College where as in the public Schools he shew'd himself a quick dexterous and smart Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a frequent preacher in these parts without any Orders from a Bishop especially in the Church or Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell in the Suburbs of Oxon where he was much frequented by those of his perswasion and somtimes by others too for his edifying way of Preaching Much about the time of his Majesties restauration he left the College and preached in London with the good approbation of those of his party So that upon the vacancy of the Church of S. Matthew in Fridaystreet in London he was by the majority of the Parishoners votes elected the Rector thereof In 1662 he was ejected at Barthelmew-tide for Nonconformity whereupon taking all opportunities he preached in Conventicles for which he was somtimes brought into trouble In the latter end of the year 1671. when then an Indulgence of Liberty was granted to Nonconformists he preached openly in London and somtimes at his native place where those of his party would usually say that the Gospel was then come among them But that Indulgence being soon after annul'd upon the petition of the Parliament made to his Majesty he return'd to his customary preaching in private and about 1675 his preaching being much admired by Elizabeth Countess or Anglesey he was taken into the service of her Family and made Chaplain to her Lord with whom he continued several years Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in Sept. 1678 he shewed himself very active in aggrevating the concerns thereof in his preachments and common discourses And it was usual with him to vent his mind in Conventicles not without some passion many things savouring of Treason But when the Fanatical which was generally call'd the Presbyterian Plot broke out in June 1683 he sculk'd being closely sought after and was several times in danger of being brought into trouble When K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown and another Indulgence was soon after allowed he preached openly again and continued his Lectures in and near London to the time of his death His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The inability of the highest improved natural man to attain a sufficient and right knowledge of indwelling sin discovered in three Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxford all on Rom. 7. latter part of the 7 verse Oxon. 1659. oct The running title on the top of every page is The natural mans blindness In an Epistle to the Reader set before them which cut the very sinews as t is said of Pelagius and Socinus in some of their doctrines written by one of the authors perswasion named Hen. Wilkinson D. D. Princ. of Magd. Hall is this Character given of the author viz. that he was sufficiently known to him and many others to be a godly learned and orthodox Divine and that through his modesty and low opinion of himself did deny for a long time his consent to the making of those Sermons of publick use c. 2 Whether well composed religious vowes do not exceedingly promote religion on Psal 116.12 and 14. This is the thirteenth Sermon in The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept 1661 Lond. 2661. qu. 3 Kings and Emperours not rightful Subjects to the Pope on Acts 26.2 This is the third Sermon in The Morning Exercise against Popery preached by Nonconformists in Conventicles in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 The faithful and diligent Servant of the Lord a funeral discourse on the death of Mr Tho. Cawton on Luke 12.43 Lond. 1677. qu. 5 How we may best cure the love of being flattered on Prov. 26.28 in the continuation of The Morning Exercise 1682. 6 How we may enquire after news not as Athenians but as Christians for the better managing our prayers and prayses for the Church of God on Acts 17.21 Preached in Oct. 1689. The revival of Grace in the vigour and fragrancy of it by a due application of the blood of Christ a Sacrifice a Testator and bearing a curse for us particularly each for the exciting and increasing the graces of the believing Communicant Lond. 1678. oct Dedicated to his Patron Arthur Earl of Anglesie Annotations upon Ezekiel and the twelve lesser Prophets In continuation of M. Poole's Annotations of the holy Scripture At length this learned and religious Nonconformist preaching on the Lords day in a Conventicle or Meeting-House in or near Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster on a Lords day Apr. 13 was taken with an apoplectical fit whereupon being conveyed to a Goldsmiths house adjoyning expired the next day ascending as t were from the Pulpit to the Throne in sixteen hundred and ninty aged 61 or thereabouts Afterwards his body was buried in the yard near the Sun-Dial within the Railes belonging to the Church of S. Paul within the said Cov. Garden wherein he before had buried 3 of his children at which time Rich. Adams M. A. somtimes Fellow of Brasn Coll. a Nonconformist Divine preached his funeral Sermon Which being extant the Reader may see more of the person at the latter end thereof p. 21.22 c. ABRAHAM WRIGHT son of Rich. Wr. Citizen and Silk dier of London son of Jeffr. Wr. of Longborough in Leycestershire was born in Black-Swan Alley in Thamestreet in the Parish of S. James Garlickhith in Lond. on the 23. of Decemb. 1611 educated in Grammar learning partly in Mercers-Chapel School in Cheapside but mostly in Merchant-Taylors School under Dr. Nich. Grey elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1629 by the endeavours of Dr. Juxon President there who finding him to be a good Orator especially in proper and due pronuntiation which in his elderly years he retained in his Sermons and public Offices favoured him then and afterwards in his studies In 1632 he was elected Fellow and having then a Genie which enclined him to Poetry and Rhetorick did while Bach. of Arts make his collection of Delitiae Poetarum being then esteemed also an exact master of the Latine tongue even to the nicest criticisme On the 30. Aug. 1636 at which time Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. entertained the King and Qu. at S. Johns Coll he spoke an English Speech before them when they entred into the Library to see and be entertained in it at a dinner and after dinner he was one of the principal persons that acted in the Comedy called Loves Hospital or The Hospital of Lovers presented before their Majesties in the public refectory of that House The chief Actor was the author Mr. Geor. Wilde and the others who were all of that House
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Mossâ—m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
favour he had free access Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London by his interest with old Mr. Collet the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose from those rarities there reposed He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes which have since been made publick by the press He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer thro whose kindness and favour he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book as also to the Fines Plea-Rolls and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there Nor was Sir Christ Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following an 1638 and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursevant at Arms extraordinary by the title of Blanch Lyon and thereupon so created him at the Kings royal Pallace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursevant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald his Lordship obtained his Majesties Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursevant in ordinary bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Heralds Office and some benefit by funerals and other ways with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the Kings Exchequer for his support he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which aiming at the subversion of Religion established which came afterwards to pass and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of Gods publick Worship destruction of monuments in Churches and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mention'd then a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh who timely foresaw the near approaching storm did in the summer time 1641 taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone All which being done with great exactness Mr. Dugdale rode to Peterborough in Northamptonshire Ely Norwich Lincoln Newark upon Trent Beverley Southwell Kingston upon Hull York Selby Chester Lichfield Tanworth Warwick and did the like in all those cathedral collegiate conventual and divers other parochial Churches wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found to the end that the memory of them in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass might be preserved for future and better times As it was feared so it soon after fell out all things thro the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself his Queen and royal issue forc'd by tumults were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places viz. the King Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York and the Queen to her own relations in France His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts where many of the Nobility attended him he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual bearing date 1 June 1642 command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook which he had gathered together for the Parliament by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him But they having secur'd the Castles of Banbury and Warwick Mr. Dugdale did by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings in his Coat of Arms with a Trumpet sounding before him repair to those Castles and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband c. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight they did contemn the said Summons c. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did by his Majesties special Warrant dated the next day summon the said City of Coventry a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament with his Coat bearing the Kings Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty and depart peaceably to their respective homes c. but they obstinately denying his Summons he proclaimed them Traytors and forthwith returned Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire where the grand battel between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battel being finished and the royal party victorious he attended his Maj. to Oxon and thence to Reading and Brainford his Maj. intending for London but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City he did after some skirmishes had at Brainford where the royal party took many Prisoners return to Oxford fix his chief residence there and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better
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 the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ— c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ— Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râ—g Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
Creation of Masters made to the number of about eleven Among whom were Paul Boston of Cambridge After his Majesties return he became Minister of S. Brides Parish in London whence being forced by the dreadful fire that hapned in 1666 he became Reader of S. Giles in the Fields in Middlesex Rich. Powell a Retainer to the Lord Mowbray Will. Jay a Retainer to the Marq. of Hertford Charles Whittaker Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State c. Aston Cockaine was also about the same time created but neglected to be registred Bach. of Phys From the first of Nov. to the 31. of Jan. were actually created 17 Bach. of Phys or more of which number were Nov. 1. Hen. Jacob of Mert. Coll. Nov. 1. Edw. Buckoke of Trin. Coll. Nov. 1. Will. Croot of Exet. Coll. Nov. 1. Hen. Sawyer of Magd. Coll. Nov. 1. Steph. Boughton of Magd. Coll. The aforesaid Edw. Buck. was created Dr. of the same faculty in 1645. Dec. 10. Jam. Hyde of Corp. Ch. Coll. Dec. 10. George Rogers of Linc. Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards the Kings professor of Phys and the other a publisher of certain things of his faculty and is now or at least lately was living Jan. 31. Nich. Oudart Jan. 31. Tho. Champion or Campion Jan. 31. Tho. Johnson Of the first I have spoken already in the Fasti under the year 1636. p. 887. Of the second I know nothing only that one of both his names was a noted Poet in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. see in the Fasti under the year 1624 p. 848. And of the other you may see more among the created Doctors of Phys 1643. Bach. of Div. From the first of Novemb. to the 21. of Feb. were about 70 Bachelaurs of Div. actually created of which number were these following Nov. 1. Caesar Williamson lately M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge After the declining of the Kings cause he went into Ireland became Fellow of the College at Dublin where being esteemed a good Orator was put upon several Harangues ex tempore and wrot a Panegyrick on Henry Cromwell Lord Lieutenant of the said Kingdom which I have seen several times quoted Afterwards the College gave him a Living at or near Tredagh where he ended his days in a craz'd condition about 4 or 5 years after his Majesties restauration Edw. Sylvester of Ball. Coll. was created the same day This person who was a professed Tutor in the Latin and Greek tongues for many years in a private house in Allsaints Parish in Oxon was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire and had his sole education in the said Coll. He was the common drudge of the University either to make correct or review the Latine Sermons of certain dull Theologists thereof before they were to be delivered at S. Maries as also the Greek or Latin verses of others as dull as the former that were to be put in or before books that occasionally were published He lived to see several of his Scholars to be heads of Houses in this University Among whom were John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch John Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall who with other Scholars of his that were Doctors Bachelaurs of Div. Law and Phys and Masters of Arts had an annual feast together to which their Master was always invited and being set at the upper end of the table he would feed their minds with learned discourses and criticisms in Grammar He died on the first of Dec. 1653 aged 67 or more and was buried in the Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon. Near to his grave was afterwards buried his Brother Henry Sylvester sometimes Mayor of the City Rob. Wild of Cambridge was also created the same day Nov. 1. He was afterwards a Covenantier Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire in the place as I conceive of an honest Cavalier sequestred â—rom it ejected thence for Nonconformity after the Kings restauration being then D. of D. and much celebrated for his Poetry which he wrot in behalf of the Presbyterians as John Cleavland did against them Some of his works are 1 The tragedy of Christ Love at Tower-hill Lond. 1660. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. 2 Iter boreale Attempting something upon the successful and matchless March of the L. Gen. George Monck from Scotland to London c. Lond. 1660. A Poem in 2 sh and an half in qu. Another Iter boreale you may see in Rich. Eedes in the first vol. p. 280 a third in Rich. Corbets Poems and a fourth in Thomas Master in this vol. p. 19. There is extant an ingenious Lat. Poem entit Iter australe a Regimensibus Oxon an 1658 expeditum printed the same year in 3. sh and an half in qu. Which Poem was written by Thom. Bispham a Gent. Com. of Qu. Coll. Son of Dr. Sam. Bispham a Physitian of London and by him dedicated to the Provost thereof Tho. Barlow who had the author in his company when he and some of the society of that House went the College progress into Hampshire and other places Dr. Wild hath also written 3 A Poem upon the imprisonment of Mr. Edm. Calamy in Newgate printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper an 1662 whereupon came out two Poems at least in answer to it viz. First Anti-boreale An answer to a lewd piece of Poetry upon Mr. Calamy's late confinement Secondly Hudibras on Calamy's imprisonment and Wilds Poetry both printed the same year and each on one side of a sheet of paper In 1668 and 1670 was published in oct Iter boreale with large additions of several other Poems being an exact collection of all hitherto published written by the said Dr. Wild author also of 4 A Letter 〈◊〉 Mr. J. J. upon his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience Lond. 1672. qu Against which came out soon after Moon-shine being an answer to Dr. Wilds letter and his poetica licentia pr. in qu. the same year 5 Certain Sermons as 1 The arraignment of a sinner on Rom. 11.32 Lond. 1656 qu. 2 Sermon on Rom. 1.32 Ib. 1656. qu. c There are extant some of his Poems with some of John Wilmots Earl of Rochester and others in a collection intit Rome Rhym'd to death but whether genuine I cannot tell This Dr. Wild who was a fat jolly and boon Presbyterian died at Oundle in Northamptonshire about the beginning of Winter an 1679 and soon after had a Poem written on his death intit A pillar on the grave of Dr. Wild besides another called A dialogue between Death and Dr. Wild both printed in folio sheets an 1679. In the month of May 1672 there had like to have been a Poetical war between this Dr. Wild and Tho. Flatman but how it was terminated I cannot tell Nov. 1. Christop Ayray of Qu. Coll. Nov. 1. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jonathan Edwards of Jes Coll. The last who was fellow of his House
of March 1674 aged 74 years was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mention'd Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet This person who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet was born in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in London not bred in any University only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any now 1642 in Oxon when then he assisted in all Councils and was in all Treaties particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament an 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty and at length was permitted a quiet retirement He hath written 1 An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars 2 Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their dayes concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion viz. Adoration Almes Fasting and Prayer Printed with the former book 3 Supream power and common right c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title nor the time when printed He died in the year 1684 aged 84 or more and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned among the graves of his Ancestors The report among his Relations at this day is that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physick but false for he being versed in the Common thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil Law and among those doth his name stand Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643 and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Houshold he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England for which he suffered in a high degree Some time after the restauration his Majesty was pleased of his own accord in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty to make him one of his privy Council and as a testimony of further favour he not only made him Governour of the Isle of Guernsey for his life but confer'd the reversion of that Government on his son as a lasting mark of honour on his family This Christop L. Hatton was a principal Mecaenas of Learning and more especially of Antiquities wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb the Nobility that I know Sir Brian Palmes of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt. This loyal Knight son of Sir Guy Palmes who had been educated in Trin. Coll was chose a Burgess for Aldbuâ—g in Yorkshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 13 Apr. 1640 but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not He died in 1654. Sir Will. Brounker Kt late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1 was then also Nov. 1. actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This loyal Knight who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker President of Mounster in Ireland by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley was created Vicount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645 and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nov. following was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joyning on the west side to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon leaving then behind him a son named William aged 25 years or thereabouts of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker dau of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire died 20 July 1649 after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon and buried by that of her husband Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their Statua's sitting both leaning on a table that stands between them Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk was also then created Doctor of the Civ Law He was Uncle to John Lord Byron was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot K. Ch. 1. did so much value him that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him I have been told by persons that had degrees confer'd upon them in these Creations that Thomas Robert and William Byron all Knights valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most couragious Lord Byron before mention'd had degrees confer'd on them but in what faculty they knew not nor are they registred For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him Nay those also that are by him remembred have only their bare names and sometimes only their Sirnames set down without the addition of their Titles Quality Office or place of habitation Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joyning on the south side of the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 9 Feb. 1643. Wingfield Lord Cromwell He was after the death of his father Earl of Arglas in Ireland Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University Will. Chadwell Esq He was a Burgess for Michel in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein retired to his Majesty at Oxon and sate in the Parl. there Ferdinando Stanhope Esq He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament but leaving it he retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliament This worthy person who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield was made a Colonel of Horse in the Kings Army and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door as other Royalists were he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon and sate there He was a learned and a prudent man and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England He was active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxon when the Garrison was to be surrendred to the Parliament for which and his steddy Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmiths Hall at London John Lufton of S. Johns Coll.
He was now Rector of Ibstock in Leycestershire where being always esteemed a great Royalist and Episcoparian was therefore forc'd thence by the faction So that flying to Oxon as an Asylum he was created Doctor of the Civil Law and often preached there He died at Ibstock I think an 1647. or thereabouts Daniel Vivian of New Coll. He was a Founders Kinsman and dying at Farndish in Bedfordshire an 1670 was there I suppose buried Brome Whorwood of Halton in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. This person tho he stuck close to K. Ch. 1. in his necessities yet he did not to his son K. Ch. 2 after whose restauration he was several times elected Burgess for the City of Ox. He died in the Old Pallace Yard at Westminster 12 Apr. 1684 and was buried in the Church of Halton near to the grave of his father Sir Thom. Whorwood Kt leaving then behind him a natural son named Thomas begotten on the body of his servant named Catherine daugh of Thom. Allen of the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon Baker Sir Thom. He le of Devonsh Bt. He was Burgess for Plimpton in the Parl. that began 13 Apr. 1640 and with Sir Joh. Hele both Lords of great Estates in their Country and Walt. He le of Winston did retire to his Majesty at Oxon adhere to him and thereby brought his Cause into great credit for the justness of it as also rich contributions thereunto and many forces to maintain it Will. Dowdeswell of Pembr Coll. This person who was accounted a learned man among those of his Society became Preb. of Worcester in 1660 in the place of Francis Charlet M. A. some years before that dead and had if I mistake not other Spiritualities in the Church In his Prebendship succeeded Dr. George Benson Archdeacon of Hereford an 1671. On the same day Nov. 1. were also created Doctors of the Civil Law Joh. Knotsford a Knight I think Joh. Wandeston Will. Atkyns Joh. Palmer and one Peachy or at least were permitted to be created when they pleased which is all I yet know of them Nov. 10. Will. Smith Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. He was a Burgess for one of the Cinque-Ports called Winchelsey for that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but left it went to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there 1643. Dec. 20. Sir Tho. Manwaring Kt Recorder of Reading in Bâ—rks Hen. Moody sometimes a Gent. Com. of Magd. Hall I take this person to be the same with Sir Hen. Moody Bt son of Sir Hen. Moody of Garsdon in Wilts Knight and Baronet who was now in some esteem at Court for his poetical fancy The father who had been a well bred Gent died in 1630. Dec. 20. Tho. Thory Dec. 20. George Thorald Sir Joh. Heydon or Heyden Kt. Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance belonging to his Majesty He was of the family of the Heydens in Norfolk was as great a Scholar as a Soldier especially in the Mathematicks suffered much for his Majesties Cause and died in the Winter time an 1653. One Joh. Haydon Gent. was entred into the publick or Bodleian Library under the title of Juris Municipalis studiosas an 1627 Whether the same with the former I cannot tell I have made mention of Sir Christop Heyden who perhaps was father to Sir John in the first vol. of this work p. 278. Jan. 31. Edw. Lord Littleton Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Sir John Banks Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law the same day This worthy person was born of honest parents in Cumberland at Keswick as 't is said became a Commoner of Qu. Coll. in this University an 1604 aged 15 years left it before he took a degree entred himself a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London where applying himself most severely to the study of the Common Law became a Barrester and a Counsellor of note In the 6 of Car. 1. he being then a Knight and Attorney to Pr. Charles he was constituted Lent Reader of that house and in the 7 of Car. 1. he was made Treasurer thereof In 1640. 16 Car. 1. he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and soon after following his Majesty when he was forc'd by tumults from Westm he was made one of his Privy Council at Oxon and L. Ch. Just of the Com. Bench or Pleas where dying 28 Dec. 1644 was buried in the north trancept joyning to Ch. Ch. Cathedral See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. p. 289. a. Sir Francis Crawley of Luton in Bedfordsh Kt one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was also then actually created Doct. of the Civ Law You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives and actions of excellent Personages c. published by Dav. Lloyd M. A. Lond. 1668. fol. Sir Rob. Forster Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was then also created He was the youngest son of Sir Thom. Forster Kt. one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the time of K. Jam. 1 was after he had left the University a Student in the Inner Temple where he became a Barrester and Counsellor of note In the 7 of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of that House in the 12 he was made Serjeant at Law and in the 15 of the said Kings Raign one of the Justices of the Kings Bench and about that time a Knight Afterwards he followed his Majesty to Oxon sate in the Parl. there as Sir Joh. Banks and Sir Franc. Crawley did suffered as other Royalists when the Kings Cause declined and compounded for his Estate After his Majesties restauration he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench 31 May 1660 and in Octob. following L. Ch. Just of the Common Pleas. He died on the fourth day of Octob. 1663 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Egham in Surrey where there is a comely monument in the wall over his grave in the body of the said Church Febr. 7. Sir Rob. Heath L. Ch. Just of the Com Pleas was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law This noted and loyal person was born in the Parish of Eatonbridge in Kent and baptized in the Church there educated in the knowledge of the Common Law in the Inner Temple made Recorder of London 10 Novemb. 1618 in the place of Rich. Martin deceased Summer Reader of the same Temple in 1619 Sollicitor General in the year following being then of Micham in Surrey and Justice of the Peace for that County Attorney General in 1625 Serjeant at Law 1632 one of the Justices of the Common Bench in 1640 and two years after or more Lord Chief Just of the Common Bench or Pleas he being then with his Maj. at Oxon. He hath extant Objections in a Conference discoursed by the Lords and held by a Committee of both Houses against the
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
should choose provided he stirred not five miles from the place without leave from the Parliament During which time and other vacant hours he made several Translations and wrot divers Poems as I shall tell you by and by In Feb. 1659 he repaired to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. at Breda who there knighted him in Apr. 1660 and made him his Secretary of the Latin Tongue in which he did excell and Master of the Requests In 1661 he being then Burgess for the University of Cambridge he was sworn one of the privy Council of Ireland and sent Envoy to the Crown of Portugal with a dormant Commission to be Embassador which he was to make use of as occasion should require In 1662 he was again sent to that Crown with the title of Embassador and at his return thence in 1663 he was sworn one of his Majesties privy Council and took his place accordingly and in January the same year he was sent Embassador to both the Crowns of Spain and Portugal in which time the foundation of Peace betwixt those Crowns and England was laid by him His deportment during his former Employments in those Courts won him such high value and estimation with the Princes that his reception was most splendid and magnificent exceeding all that were before which those Kings declared was done as a particular respect to the person of the Embassador and was not to be a precedent for succeeding Embassadors He hath written 1 Divers Poems Lond. 1664. oct Printed with his Translation of Il pastor fido The first of the said Poems is An ode upon occasion of his Majesties proclamation an 1630 commanding the Gentry to reside upon their Estates in the Country 2 A summary discourse of the Civil Wars of Rome Lond. 1664. oct extracted out of the best Lat. Writers in prose and verse He hath translated from English into Lat. verse The faithful Shepherdess a Pastoral Lond. 1658. written originally by Joh. Fletcher Gent and from Lat. into English 1 The fourth book of Virgils Aeneis on the Loves of Dido and Aeneas Lond. 1664. oct 2 Two odes out of Horace relating to the Civil Wars of Rome against covetous rich men Ibid. 1664. oct He hath translated from Italian into English I l pastor fido The faithful Shepherd a Pastoral Lond. 1646. qu. 1664. oct Written originally by Guarini a Native of Ferrara in Italy And from Spanish into English an Historical Poem called Querer per solo querer To love only for Loves sake Lond. 1671. qu. 'T is a dramatick Romance was originally written by Anton. de Mendoza and translated and paraphrased by our author at Tankerley Park in Yorkshire 1654 when then he had obtained leave from the superior power to range beyond 5 miles within Lond. To this is joyned another Translation by the same hand intit Fiestus de Aranjuez Festivals represented at Aranjuez He also translated from Portuguese into English The Luciad or Portugals historical Poem Lond. 1655. 56. c. fol. Written originally by Lewis de Camoens Besides these Translations he hath performed others as I have been enformed which continue partly in MS and hath written other Poems as well Lat. as English which for brevity sake I shall now pass by the mentioning At length this worthy person being overtaken with a violent Feaver at Madrid in Spain on the fourth of June 1666 during the time of his being there Embassador died thereof on the 16 of the same month old stile aged 59 years Whereupon his body being embalmed was after his funeral had been solemnized there 25 of the said month conveyed by his disconsolate Lady with all his Children then living by land thro France to Calais whence it was transported to England and landed near Tower-hill at London Thence it was removed to Lincolns Inn fields to the Pine Apples which was then his Ladies hired house The next day the corps was carried to Allhallowes Church in Hertford and there deposited in the Vault of his father in law Sir John Harrison until the 18 of May 1671 on which day it was removed into the Parish Church of Ware in the said County and there laid in a new Vault made and purchased on purpose for him and his family together with a fair Monument erected for him and his Lady near the old Vault where all his Ancestors of Ware Park lye interred Doct. of Phys May 1. Sir Arth. Aston Kt Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was created Doctor of Phys with great solemnity and admitted by the Vicechancellour with this clause Honoratiss Domine tu dabis fidem ad observand statuta libertates consuetudines hujus Vniversitatis This person who was of an antient and knightly family in Lancashire was a great Traveller had spent most of his time in Wars in several Countries beyond the Seas Whence coming in the beginning of the grand Rebellion into Engl with as many Soldiers of note that he could bring with him joyned himself and them to his Majesties Forces commanded the Dragoons at Edghill fight and with them did excellent service Afterwards his Majesty having a great opinion of his valour and conduct made him Governour of the Garrison of Reading in Berkshire where he beat the Earl of Essex General of the Parl. Forces thrice from that place till having received a dangerous Wound he was forced as 't is said to devolve his Command upon Col. Rich. Feilding called Lord Feilding of the family of those of his name at Newenham Padox in Warwickshire who afterwards surrendring that Garrison to the use of the Parliament upon quick and easie terms suffered much in his reputation for so doing yet recovered it afterwards in the battels at Newbury and Naseby As for Aston who was lately made Governour of the Garrison of Oxford and afterwards expressed himself very cruel and imperious while he executed that office broke his leg by a fall from his horse on Bullington Green near Oxon on the 19 of Sept. this year and on the 25 of Dec. following being discharg'd of his office to the great rejoycing of the Soldiers and others in Oxon Colonel Will. Legge was placed in his room and in his Sir Tho. Glemham 8 Oct. 1645 who kept the said Garrison till it was surrendred to the Parliament Sir A. Aston had at that time his broken leg cut off to save his life and in its place had one of Wood put So that being recovered and in a posture to do his Majesty farther service he went with the flower of the English Veterans into Ireland where he became Governour of Drogheda commonly called Tredagh about which time he laid an excellent plot to tire and break the English Army But at length the said Garrison being overpower'd and soon after taken by Ol. Cromwell and his Forces in September 1649 all the Defendants were put to the sword and Aston the Governour a zealous R. Catholick was hewen in pieces and his brains beat out of his head with his wooden leg He
several copies of verses that are extant in various books which shew him to have been a good Poet. He was put out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 was restored in 1660 but was no gainer by his sufferings as many honest Cavaliers were not by theirs He is now living and will tell you the reason why c. Others were created this year which for brevity sake I shall now omit to set down However the Reader must know that several persons besides were allowed to take the same degree of Bach. of Div among whom were Obadiah Walker of Vniv Coll. and Ant. Hodges Chapl. of New Coll but they refused that favor Doct. of Phys April 9. Peter Massonet lately of the City of Geneva now second or under Tutor to James Duke of York was then actually created June 23. Charles Scarborough of Merton Coll lately Fellow of that of Caies in Cambr. was then actually created by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University in which 't is said that he was Master of Arts of Cambridge of 7 years standing and upwards and that he was spoiled of his Library in the beginning of these troubles and afterwards for his conscience deprived of his Fellowship at Cambridge c. His Letters testimonial under the hand of the famous Dr. Will. Harvey say also that he is well learned in Physick Philosophy and Mathematicks c. While he abode in Mert. Coll he did help the said Dr. Harvey then Warden of that House in his Chamber at the end of the Library there in the writing his book De generatione Animalium which was afterwards published by the said Harvey Afterwards he became a most learned and incomparable Anatomist one of the Coll of Physitians principal Physitian to K. Ch. 2. from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 15. of Aug. 1669 and to his royal Highness James his Brother while Duke of York and when King Physitian to the Tower of London and afterwards to K. Will. 3. c. He was the first that introduced Geometrical and Mechanical speculations into Anatomy and applyed them as well in all his learned conversation as more particularly in his famous Lectures upon the Muscles of humane Bodies for 16 or 17 years together in the publick Theater at Surgeons Hall which were read by him with infinite applause and admiration of all sorts of learned men in the great City He is also most admirably well skill'd in the Mathematick Arts and was so esteemed by the famous Mr. Will. Oughtred who speaks thus of him after he had given a just character of Mr. Christop Wren Accessit alter Hortator vehemens D. Car. Scarborough Doctor Medicine suavissimis moribus perspicatissimoque ingenio Vir cujus tanta est in Mathesi solertia supra fidem faelix tenaxque memoria ut omnes Euclidis Archimedis aliorumque nonnullorum ex Antiquis propositiones recitare ordine in usum proferre potis sit c. He hath extant under his name 1 Syllabus Musculorum which is added to The Anatomical administration of all the Muscles of an humane body as they rise in dissection c revived with additions by Will. Molins Master in Chirurgery This book which hath been several times printed in oct is and ever will be used as having a prospect of two excellent ends especially one to shew all the Muscles as they naturally rise in dissection the other to place every one of them by his proper Antagonist 2 Trigonometry printed in qu. He hath also compendiously methodized the Grammar of the famous Will. Lilye which shews him to have been a critical Grammarian as indeed he is but this I have not yet seen nor his Elegy upon Mr. Abr. Cowley which goes from hand to hand in Ms This worthy person is now living in great repute and veneration at Court within the liberty of Westminster of whom you may see more in the discourse of Dr. Seth Ward among the Writers in this vol. num 522. June 23. Rob. Mead M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Captain in his Majesties service William Lord Brouncker Vicount of Castle Lyons Son of Sir Will. Brouncker mention'd among the created Doctors of the Civil Law under the year 1642 was actually created Doctor of Physick the same day This noble person did then solely addict himself to the study of Mathematicks and at length became a very great Artist in that faculty He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and President thereof for about 15 years which society he did much honour and advance by his learning and experience The places of honour and profit which he held were the Chancellourship of her Majesties Courts and keeping of her Great Seal one of the Lords Commissioners for the executing the office of the Lord High Admiral and the Mastership of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London which last place he obtained in Nov. 1681 after a long suit of Law had depended between him and Sir Rob. Atkins a Judge concerning the right thereof He hath extant under his name Experiments of the recoiling of Guns mention'd in the Hist of the Royal Society and Several Letters to Dr. Jam. Vsher Primate of Ireland which are at the end of his life published by Dr. R. Parr He died in his house in S. James-street within the liberty of Westm on the 5. of April early in the morning an 1684 aged 64 years and was buried on the 14 of the same month in a little vault which he had caused to be made eight foot long and four broad in the middle of the choir belonging to the Hospital of S. Catherine before mention'd Which choir he a little before had divided in the middle with a good skreen set up at his own charge whereby he hath spoiled the beauty and state of it Hen. Brouncker younger brother to the said L. Brouncker was created the same day Jun. 23. After the death of Will Lord Brounker this Henry succeeded him in his honour and dying about the 4 of January 1687 was buried at Richmond in Surrey where there is a mon. over his grave Doct. of Div. Jun. 6. In a Convocation then held the Vicechancellour signified to the Members thereof c. as before under the title of Bach. of Div this year Whereupon these persons following were created either for their preaching before the Court or Parl. at Oxon or for their Sufferings for the Royal Cause Jun. 17. Matthew Brookes of Mert. Coll. Jun. 17. Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 17. Tho. Philpot of New Coll. This last Tho. Philpot son of Dav. Philpot was born at Michel Dever in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1609 and afterwards taking holy Orders he became Rector of Turveston and Akeley in Buckinghamshire In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much for his Loyalty and a
good Conscience suffer'd also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment and therefore retiring to Oxon was there actually created D. of D. He hath published 1 An adieu to the Duke of Glocester or a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church Turweston or Turveston near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660 on Eccles 3.20 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The Cripples Complaint c. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7 Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts and was I suppose buried at Turveston Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll. Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll. 23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll. He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire was first a Com. of Linc. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules M. of A. and beneficed but suffering for his Majesties Cause he retired to Oxon and was there created D. of D. as 't is here said After his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased in which being instal'd 7 Aug. 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapning on the 27 Jul. 1670 he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich His said Brother Will. Lord Croft died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677. Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West was actually created the same day June 23. Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire had been public Metaphysick Reader and Proctor of the University Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648 and suffer'd much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and dying on the 27 of January in the same year was buried in the Chappel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands that it is doubted whether ever they will see light Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch. Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester He resigned the said Mastership soon after was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt and died in 1659. This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven Convocation that Hen. Tozer Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll Rob. Barker of New Coll Rich. Washington of Vniv Coll Edm. Diggle of Magdalen and John Good of New Coll might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity but they all refused then and the next year to accept of that favour At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll Will. Haywood of S. Johns Coll c. who had fled to Oxon as an Asylum and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament had each a license given to them under the public Seal of the Univ. to preach the word of God throughout England This year Jun. 24 being Wednesday and Midsummer day the Garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers besides 500 or thereabouts northward and a little before and after them five hundred more mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege On Munday going before Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother with their attendants departed and those that followed them the next day were about 300 persons most of them of quality and their attendants When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entred who were all Presbyterians Independents or worse were among them their Chaplains of the same perswasion who forthwith upon all occasions thrust themselves into the pulpits purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselites or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants Among them were Hugh Peters that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon Will. Dell Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax John Saltmarsh Will. Erbury c. and what they did there besides during their stay is too large a story now to tell you In Sept. following were seven Presbyterian Ministers who had formerly their education in this University appointed by Parliament sent to Oxon to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles but Edw. Corbet one of them being about that time called thence the six carried on the work yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries of whom Will. Erbury was one yet all upon any occasion would joyn together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants that is Cavaliers and Royalists So that whereas before the surrender there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince orthodox and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers there appeared nothing but confusion darkness c. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant and they were over-run by Sectaries Blasphemers Hypocrites Exciters to Rebellion Censurers Covetous persons men of self-pride envy and what not So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons did either leave the University or abscond in their respective houses till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits and to thrust themselves into the public Schools and there in the places of Lecturers speak to the Scholars against humane learning and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ c. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed who to fill their coffers raise families please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else care not what mischief they do or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends An. Dom. 1647. An. 23 Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Marquess of Hertford c. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year as I shall tell you by and by Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors 8 Oct. this year because as they said he was neither nominated or lawfully admitted thereunto yet notwithstanding he took no
the Sermons at S. Maries preached by the 6 Ministers appointed by Parliament and other Presbyterian Ministers that preached in other Churches in Oxon and sometimes frequenters of the Conventicles of Independents and Anabaptists The generality of them had mortified Countenances puling Voices and Eyes commonly when in discourse lifted up with hands laying on their breasts They mostly had short hair which at this time was commonly called the Committee cut and went in quirpo in a shabbed condition and looked rather like Prentices or antiquated School-boys than Academians or Ministers and therefore few or none especially those of the old stamp or royal party would come near to or sort themselves with them but rather endeavour to put scorn upon them and make them ridiculous c. This year was a Sojourner and Student in Oxon for the sake of the public Library Pet. Laur. Scavenius a noble Dane who after his return to his own Country became a learned man and a publisher of certain books whereby he obtained an increasing admiration from his Countrymen An. Dom. 1648. An. 24 Car. 1. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Montgomery c. who took possession of the chair in his own person in a Convocation held Apr. 12. Vicechanc. Edward Reynolds sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll who being designed to this office thro the recommendations of the Chancellour by an order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament 18 of Feb. 1647 he was first declared Doct. of Div. by another order and afterwards presented to his office before the Chanc. sitting in his chair in Convocation by Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Mert. Coll on the 12 day of the said month of Apr. Proct. Joshua Cross of Linc. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr. Ralph Button of Mert. Coll. Adm. 12 Apr. The said Proctors who were godly Brethren were designed to their office by the same Authority that the Vicechanc. was without any regard had to the Caroline Cycle which appointed New and Allsoules Coll. to elect Proctors for this year And being admitted on the said day Apr. 12. by the same Authority Will. Bew or Beaw of New Coll. afterwards Bishop of Landaff who had been chosen by the Society of New Coll for their Proctor on the first Wednesday in Lent 1647 was put aside as also one Ed. Allason who as 't is said in the Visitors Register was chose by those of Allsoules yet whether he was of that House or had taken the degree of M. of Arts I cannot yet find Bach. of Arts. Nov. 3. Dan. Greenwood of Brasn Coll. Nov. 3. Rich. Adams of Brasn Coll. Of these two I shall speak more among the Masters an 1651. Mar. 16. Josias Banger of Magd. Coll. Mar. 16. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two I shall speak more among the Masters in 1651. The other is mention'd among the Writers Adm. 37. Bach. of Law Aug. 4. Will. Scot of All 's Coll. This person who was the only Bachelaur admitted this year had before spent six years in the study of humane literature and in the Civ Law in Cambridge whence coming to get preferment here from the Visitors was by them made this year Fellow of All 's Coll by the endeavours of his father Thom. Scot who being a great creature of Oliver Cromwell was by him nominated to be one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory in the latter end of this year and accordingly did fit but paid the debt for it after his Majesties restauration Mast of Arts. Jul. 6. George Hopkins of New Inn. Jul. 6. Giles Collier of New Inn. Jul. 6. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. Jul. 20. Sam. Clark of Mert. Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Chetwynd of Ex. Coll. Nov. 16. Benj. Woodbridge of Magd. Hall Dec. 12. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall The last of these two was afterwards a Student of Ch. Ch and is now living in Worcestershire a Conformist to the Church of England Dec. 12. Joh. Rowe of New Inn. He was about this time made Fellow of C. C. Coll. 14. Edward Littleton of All 's Coll. This person who was son of Adam Littleton of Stoke S. Mildrid in Shropshire of the antient and gentile family of the Littletons in that County and elsewhere became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in the beginning of the year 1641 aged 15 years or thereabouts and in 1647 he was elected Fellow of the said Coll. of All 's In 1656 he was installed one of the Proctors and continued in his House as I conceive till his Majesties restauration He hath written and published De juventute Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxoniensibus Lond. 1664. in 10 sh in qu. This Oration was spoken by him when he was Rhetorick Reader of the University of Oxon. The second edit of this came out at Lond. 1689. qu. Which by an Epist before it the author dedicates to Westminster School wherein he was educated in Grammar Learning to All 's Coll wherein he was educated in Academicals to Linc. Inn where he had studied the Common Law and to the Island of Barbadoes where he as a Judge had administred the Law Feb. 13. Will. Ley of Ch. Ch. He occurs not either matriculated of any House or Bach. of Arts of this University and therefore I suppose he was a Stranger put in Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors I take him to be the same Will. Ley son of Joh. Ley mention'd among the Writers an 1662. p. 190. who was afterwards Minister of Wanting alias Wantage in Berks Author of A Buckler for the Church of England in answer to Mr. Pendarves his Queries called Arrowes against Babylon c. Oxon. 1656. qu. Adm. 38. or thereab ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys Bach. of Div Doct. of Law Doct. of Phys or Doct. of Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year INCORPORATIONS The Incorporations this year did mostly consist of Canâ—abrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Visitors when the great rout of Royallists were by them made in this University Bach. of Arts. About 20 were incorporated of which number were these June 10. Rich. Maden of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge This person who afterwards took the degree of Master as a member of New Inn I set down here not that he was afterwards a Writer but to distinguish him from another of both his names who was author of certain Sermons of Christs love towards Jerusalem Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things Jul. 4. Peter Pett of Sydney Coll. He was soon after made Fellow of All 's Coll became a great Vertuoso and at length a Kt. and a Writer and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers with honour Oct. 10. Jam. Ward of Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge in New England His testimony dated 3 Dec. 1646 is subscribed by Hen. Dunster President and Sam. Danforth Fellow of that Coll but whether this J. Ward published any thing afterwards I know not After he was incorporated he
Presbyterian was now 1648 a forward Preacher up of the cause in the Church of S. Martin and in that of Allsaints within the City of Oxon. His usual form of prayer for the King before his Sermons was that if God took any pleasure in him he would do so and so c. When he was created Bach. of Div. he took the oath of Allegiance but with this salvo I take this Oath so far forth as it doth not contradict the national Covenant Feb. 9. George Marshall M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge a Student in Divinity for twenty years at least Chaplain to the Garrison of Oxon belonging to the Parliament and the designed and nominated Warden of New Coll was then also created Johan Progulbicki born in the Province or Dukedome of Samogitie in Poland was created the same day He was now or at least lately Deacon or Catechist of the Church of Keidun in the said Dukedome and one of the Scholars of the illustrious Prince Janusius Radzevill the chief Fautor and Patron of the reformed Church in those part This Progulbicki had spent before this time four years in several Universities in Germany and Holland Mar. 8. Isaac Knight Chaplain to Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Army Doct. of Law April 14. Samuel Aneley of Qu Coll. This person who wrot himself afterwards and was called by the name of Annesley because it is the same with a noble name hath written and published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers He is now or at least was lately living a Nonconformist Divine either in or near London See in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 404. b. Jan. 5. John Miils LL. Bach. one of the Visitors and Canon of Ch. Ch. He had been lately Judge Advocate of the Parliament Army and was this year put into possession of his Canonry but in 1651 being turned out thence for denying the Oath called the Engagement Ambr. Vpton succeeded as I have before told you On the 13. of March 1659 he was restored to his Canonry by the Rump Parliament with the secluded members added to them but soon after upon his Majesties restauration he was forced to leave it to make room for Dr. Edw. Pococke See Hist Antiq. Vniv Ox lib. 2. p. 259. a. 261. a. Soon after by the favour of Dr. Edward Reynolds he became Chancellour of Norwich and died in or near Doctors Commons in London about the beginning of the year 1676. Doct. of Phys April 12. Joh. Palmer alias Vaulx Bach. of Phys of Queens Coll now a Recruiter of the Long Parliament was actually created Doct. in the presence of the Chancellour The next day he was put into possession of the Lodgings belonging to the Warden of All 's Coll. by the said Chancellour and Visitors Dr. Sheldon the Warden being then dismist by them and imprison'd See Hist Antiq. Vniv Ox. lib. 1. p. 402. b. 403. a. Apr. 14. Tobie Garbrand alias Herks Bach. of Phys and Principal of Gloc. Hall was also actually created In 1660 he being turn'd out from his Principality he retired to Abendon in Berks practised his faculty there and dying 7. Apr. 1689 was buried in S. Helens Church in that Town Samuel Thompson of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of Will. Thomp of Westbury in Wilts Minister of Gods word wrot Exercitations and Meditations on some texts of holy Scripture and most in Scripture phrase and expression Lond. 1676. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Master of Arts and Doct. of Physick but whether he was Mast of Arts of this University it appears not in the publick register April 14. John French of New Inn. I have spoken of him at large among the Writers Apr. 15. Peter Dormer of Magd. Hall He was the fifth Son of Fleetwood Dormer of Grange in Bucks and a Neighbour and Relation to the Earl of Caernarvan Feb. 9. Humphrey Whitmore of S. Maries Hall was then created by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation from Fairfax the General now Lord Fairfax which say that he is a Physitian of note and eminency in those Cities and Towns where he hath lived and that he hath been a member of both Vniversities c. Mar. 8. Abraham Huard alias Lomprè sometimes of the University of Caen in Normandy was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that his affections to the cause of the Parliament have exposed him to sufferings That he is a Protestant of France and his quality and sufferings have been made known to me by persons of honour Gentlemen of quality and Physitians of this Kingdom as also by one Mr. Joh. Despaigne one of the French Ministers of London c. Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Edward Reynolds M. A. Dean of Ch. Church by order of Parliament and actually put into possession of it by the breaking open the doors belonging to the Dean in the morn of this day by the Chancellour Visitors and a band of the Soldiers of the Garrison of Oxon was declared Doct. of Div in a Convocation held in the afternoon by order of Parliament He was not presented Doctor according to the usual manner and custome only stood near the Chancellours Chair while the order of the said Parliament was reading And the reason for this unusual way was because there was no Vicechancellour to whom he should be presented and if he had been presented to the Chancellour he could not have returned any Latine for he understood it not After the said order was read and he seated among the Doctors another was produced by vertue of which he was to be Vicechancellour which being read he was admitted by Sir Nathan Brent as I have before told you in the beginning of this year and thereupon he took his place Apr. 12. Rob. Harris Bach. of Div. of Magd. Hall The next day he was put into possession of the Presidents lodings of Trinity Coll by the breaking open the doors thereof a little before which time the old and loyal President had withdrawn himself to avoid imprisonment Afterwards he removed his family to the said Lodgings but before they were setled there three quarters of a year the new President employed a Painter to do some work there for him in the week before that of the Act if one had been solemnized an 1649. Which Painter pulling down some old boards and shelves found two bags sealed and a paper in the mouth of each which signified that there was an 100 l. in each bag And tho they were covered with dust about half an inch thick yet Dr. Harris and his Wife solely addicted to money and reformation presently own'd them and said confidently that they were theirs but oportet mendacem esse memorem For first he had not been setled in his Lodgings scarce 3 quarters of a year and the baggs were so old and overcovered with dust as if they had laid there 40 years
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
Zanchy with a flattering speech in a most humble posture which being done he that then held the Chancellours Chair who all the time stood up bare admitted him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Which being done Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him to his place next on the left hand to the Chancellours Chair This person also who had a greater name in his time than Fairfax had not only in England but throughout the whole World which he obtained more by policy dissimulation under the cloak of religion whether in prayer preaching discourse and action rather than valour must according to method have something said of him which shall with as much brevity as may be done because all Histories ring of his fame as well as infamy Born therefore he was in the Parish of S. John in the antient Borough of Huntingdon on the 24 of Apr. 1599 41. of Elizab. and was Christned in that Church on the 29 of the same month where Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle gave him his name His Father who lived in the same Town was Rob. Cromwell second Son of Sir Hen. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingdonshire Kt. who died in 1603 His Mother was Elizabeth sister to Sir Thomas Son of Sir Richard Steward Kts whence 't was that when Oliver gaped after the Protectorship it was given out by those of his party that he was descended of the Royal Blood and had right to the Crown of England His said Mother Elizabeth lived to See her Son Lord Protector and dying in Whitehall 18. Nov. 1654 was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chappel at Westm where her body continuing till after his Majesties restoration was removed from that place 12. of Sept. 1661 and buried with other Cromwellian bodies in a pit dug in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning where it now resteth Oliver her Son was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Huntingdon under one Dr. Tho. Beard a Minister in that Town and in Academical in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge but his Father dying while he was there he was taken home and sent to Lincolns Inn to study the Common Law but making nothing of it he was sent for home by his Mother became a Debauchee and a boysterous and rude Fellow At length being reformed and pretending to Saintship he married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Essex became heir to his Uncle his Mothers Brother spent the estate which was considerable took a Farm at S. Ives thrived not and therefore had intentions to go to New England a receptacle for Puritans and Nonconformists but that project taking not he removed to the Isle of Ely where he more frequently and publickly own'd himself a Teacher In 1640 he by the endeavours of one Rich. Tyms afterwards Alderman of Cambridge who had several times heard him preach at Ely was first made free of the Corporation of Cambridge then a Burgess thereof to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640. Soon after when the rebellion began towards which he gave a considerable helping hand he had a Commission given to him to be a Captain of Horse which he soon raised in his native Country and doing great service in those parts he soon after was made a Colonel and at length Lieutenant General to Edward Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct supremacy of the associated Counties Afterwards doing great service at Marston-moor near York after Sir Tho. Faâ—rfax and the Scots had been totally routed there Cromwell and his party of Curassiers being then in the left wing his atchievment was industriously cried up at Westminster and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto Within 4 months after we find him in the second battle at Newbury in Beâ—ks where the fates favoured him again tho not with a complete victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the Person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit Soon after the Army being new modell'd Essex the General was laid aside as unfortunate and Sir Thomas Fairfax being put into his place Cromwell was made Lieutenant General of the same Army from which time he continued as Fairfax did victorious and upon all occasions did lull and bewitch with the syrene charmes of his zealous insinuations the said Fairfax to carry on his pernitious designs Afterwards we find him the chief person under the cloak of great dissimulation of hurrying the King from place to place of defaming him among the people and bringing him to judgment Which done he sat with the rest of the Judges on him stood up when sentence was passed and set his hand and seal to the warrant for his execution Soon after he being made one of the Council of State he was ordained Commander in chief or Lord Governour of Ireland in June 1649 conquer'd there returned and was made General of the Parliament Army upon Fairfax's laying down his Commission Afterwards he went into Scotland did some seats there against K. Ch. 2 but that King giving him the go-by he followed him into England encountred him at Worcester conquer'd his party and put him to flight Thence he went to London and was highly caressed by the Citizens and Parliament and soon after dissolving the Parliament he called another but that being not suitable to his designs he dissolv'd that and took upon him the Protectorship which he enjoyed during his life time Under his name were published Many Letters written to the Speaker of the House of Commons to the House of Commons Sir Thomas Fairfax Committees c. containing relations of skirmishes victories taking of Castles Towns c. as also some Speeches and Declarations c. By his Wife Elizabeth before mention'd he had Sons and Daughters as 1 Rich. Cromwell who being young when the War began did not bear arms but several years after they were concluded he was made Colonel and Privy-Counsellour in order to have the Protectorship confer'd on him 2 Henry Cromwell afterwards Commander of the Generals Life-guard and at length on the 25 of Nov. 1657 was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon the recalling of Charles Fleetwood He married the Dau. of Sir Francis Russell of Cambridgshire Kt and Bt first a Royallist afterwards a Parliament Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchâ—ster and Chamberlain of Chester 3 Bridget the Wife of Hen. Ireton of whom I have made mention among the Writers an 1651. p. 81. After his death she was married to Charles Fleetwood before mention'd a Gent. of Bucks and a Recruiter of the Long Parliament afterwards a Colonel in their service a strong Anabaptist Lord Deputy of Ireland one of Olivers Lords and Lieutenant General of the Army and Major General of several Counties in the time of Cromwells Protectorship 4 Elizabeth the Wife of John
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
a constant Actor and as 't was observed had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as Comptroller Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks and in the same year he finished a new Chappel at Vgbrook which was consecrated and dedicated to S. Cyprian by Anthony Bishop of Exeter Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672 until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh and in June following he gave him and his heirs males the mannours of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire On the 28 of Nov. the same year his Maj. valuing his many eminent services and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton At which time his Maj. confer'd the place of Treasurer of the Houshold on the L. Newport beforemention'd and the place of Comptroller on Will Lord Maynard On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. pass'd for the entailing of Vgbrook and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesties hands his staff as L. Treasurer because he as 't was said refused the Test it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died and was as I suppose buried at Chudleigh ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted incorporated or created this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll. He afterwards lived a Nonconformist and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock mention'd among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others Quaere One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love describing the folly of Youngmen and the fallacy of Women Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this or of any other University I know not yet Nov. 19. Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll. 30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll. Jan. 14. Tho. Neast of New Coll. This person who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks Thence going to London lived for some time after his Majesties Restauration a Nonconformist and preached in Conventicles Afterwards conforming he became Minister of S. Martins Ch. in Ironmonger-lane and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet London He hath extant Serm. on Ephes 6.24 printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate c. Lond. 1661. qu published by Sam. Annesley or Anely and perhaps other things Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv Coll. Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty 10 Dec. Bach. of Div. ..... George Kendall of Exeter Coll was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year but the day or month when it appears not Doct. of Law Oct. 19. John Wainwright of All 's Coll Chancellour of the Dioc of Chester ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Doctor of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May .... Christoph Tearne or Terne Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London hath published something of his faculty and died about 1685. He was as it seems originally of Cambridge May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys of Cambridge This person who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University was lately Fellow of that House also but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors Afterwards he travelled into remote parts of the World resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Mosco for the space of nine years and wrot The History of the present state of Russia in a letter written to a friend in London Lond. 1671. oct illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physitians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538 and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge This person who took that degree in Camb. 1649 was now or soon after Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Univ. See more in the year 1652 and 59. 18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Anger 's in France This Gent. who had that degree confer'd on him in the said Univ. in Nov. 1648 was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells was educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642 and travelled during the time of the War Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster became Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894. Nov. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr. The next day he was admitted M. of A as before I have told you Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell whose Sister he had married See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was now or soon after made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Univ. Creations Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne was created Master of Arts. 12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Univ. which partly run
who shewed himself a zealous brother for the interest and Party of James Duke of Monmouth for whose title to the Crown speaking certain matters at Châ—chester he was on the 10 of Febr. 1685 tryed upon an information of high misdemeanour of which being found guilty he was thereupon committed to the Kings Bench Prison July 8. Dan. Capell of Magd. Coll. July 8. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is mention'd among the Writers the other who was son of Will. Cole of London Gent was educated in Westm School and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch. In 1656 he became Principal of S. Maries Hall but being ejected thence by the Kings Commissioners in 1660 he lived afterwards a Nonconformist kept a Boarding-school and taught Youths of the Presb. and Indep perswasion at or near Nâ—ttlebed in Oxfordshire Under his name hath been published 1 How we may steer an even course between presumption and despair on Luke 3.5.6 printed in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 A discourse of regeneration faith and repentance preached at the Merchants Lecture in Broadureer in London Lond. 1689. oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Jul. 10. Josich Banger of Magd. Coll. This person who was son of Bern. Banger M A. and Rector of Yerlington in Somersetshire became Fellow of Trin. Coll. this year He hath written An alarm to secure sinners or God discovered to be as well a burning as shining light Lond. 1676. oct This is the same I suppose which was several years before printed under the title of A serious Item to secure sinners What other things he hath written I know not or whether he was a Nonconformist after his Majesties restauration Jul. 10. Walt. Pope of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 10. Charles Potter of Ch Ch. Dec. 17. Sam. Thomas of S. Joh. Coll. He was before incorporated B. of A. as I shall tell you in the Incorporations following Admitted 54. Bach. of Phys Three were admitted who also were admitted Doctors this year as I shall anon tell you Bach. of Div. Oct. 10 Obadiah Grew of Balliol Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. following ☞ Not one admitted Doct. of Law only created as I shall tell you by and by Doct. of Phys June 14. Anth. Nourse of Wadh. Coll. Accumulators Aug. 10. Tho. Arris of Brasn Coll. Accumulators Dec. 13. Alan Pennington of Qu. Coll. Accumulators As for Arris he was licensed to proceed by vertue of an order from the Committee for the regulating of the University which partly runs thus He is thirteen years standing in the Vniversity and is well affected to the Parliament and present Government c. In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for S. Alban in Hertfordsh to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8 May the same year Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Obad. Grew of Ball. Coll. 16. Henr. Savage of Ball. Coll. The first accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations Aug. 20. Sam. Thomas lately Bach. of Arts of 4 years standing of Peter House in Cambridge was then incorporated Bach. of Arts. After his Majesties restauration at which time he was turn'd out of his Fellowship of S. Johns Coll he became one of his Chaplains or Petty-Canons and at length Chauntor of Ch. ch He hath written and published several things and therefore ought hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 6. John Twisden a Kentish man born who had taken the degree of Doctor of Phys in the University of Anger 's an 1646 was incorporated in the same degree He was afterwards a Physitian of note in the great City a Mathematician one of the Coll. of Physitians and author of several books among which are these 1 Medicina veterum vindicata or an answer to a book intit Medela medicinae c. Lond. 1666. oct 2 Answer to Medicina instaurata c. Lond. 1666. oct written by Dr. Edw Bolnest Physitian in ord to his Maj. 3 The use of the great Planisphere called the Analemma in the resâ—lution of some of the chief and most useful Problems of Astronomy Lond. 1685. 86. qu. See more of the said Dr. Twisden's Works in Joh. Greaves among the Writers p. 89. and in Hen. Yelverton p 341. Dec. 12. Joh. Rant L. L. Pac. of Cambr. He was now Fellow of All 's Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors Jan. 14. Jonathan Goddard Doctor of Phys of Cambr. He was now Warden of Mert. Coll. by the favour and power of Oliver Cromwell 21. Rich. Gibbon Doct. of Phys of Padua He had that degree confer'd upon him at Padua 1645. Mar. 11. Sam. Argall Doct. of Phys of the said Univ. was also then incorporated He was an Essex man born and took that degree at Padua in 1648. 24. Will. Aymes M. A. of Cambr. c. Creations Apr. 9. Will. Stephens a Parliament man and one of the Judges of the Admiralty was openly declared in Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law by a Diploma then dated by vertue of a Statute tit x. § 4. quo Magnates vel Nobiles honoris causa gradus academicos intra Vniversitatem dignentur as it is said in the publ Reg. of this time He died in 1658 being then an Inhabitant of the Isle of Wighâ— Jul. 3. Edw. Wise of Exeter Coll. Esq who had spent some terms in Cambr. was actually created Bach. of Arts. On the 24 of July 1652 it was granted by the Delegates of the Univ. that he the said Edw. Wise ex nobili stemmate ortus as they say might be admitted to the degree of Mast of Arts in Congregation but whether he was really admitted it appears nor Sept. 9. Sir Thom. Honywood of Essex Kt was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law This person who was brother in law to Sir Hen. Vane the same who was beheaded in 1662 was a Committee man in the time of the Long Parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640 was also a military man and led as a Colonel a Regiment of Essex men to fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2. an 1651. To which place coming in good time he endeavoured to shew his valour against Kingship and the House of Stuarts In 1654 he was one of the Knights to serve for Essex in that Parliament began at Westm 3 of Sept. the same year and a Knight again for the same County in that Parl. which began at the same place 17 Sept. 1656 both which Parliaments were called by Oliver L. Protector And being a man soft in spirit and too easie like a nose of wax to be turn'd on that side where the greatest strength then was was taken into Olivers Court and by him made one of the Other House that is House of Lords One Sir Rob. Honywood his near Relation was made one of the Council of State about the 16 of May 1659 but had no degree confer'd on him in this University as I can yet find Thom. Cooke a
to be celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the Country to whom the Bankers case was formerly sent In 1680 was a book published entit The rights of the Bishops to judge in Capital cases in Parliament cleared Being a full answer to two books lately published the first entit A letter from a Gentleman to his friend c. The other A discourse of the Peerage and jurisdiction of the Lords spiritual in Parliament endeavouring to shew the contrary Lond. in oct Tho no name is set to this book yet it was commonly then reported to have been written by Thom. Turner the same I suppose who was author of The Case c. Sir Tim. Turner before mention'd died very aged in 1676. and his Son Thom. the Writer about the beginning of the year 1680. Qu. Jan. 25. Lancelâ—t Addison of Qu. Coll. 29. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll. Both these are Writers and now living and therefore are to be remembred hereafter The first is Dean of Lichfield the other B. of Rochester Feb. 13. Tho. Tomkins of Ball afterwards of All 's Coll. 24 Rob South of Ch. Ch. He is also living and hath published several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers Adm. 147. Bach. of Law Oct. 12. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. Dec. 14. Nath. Bond of All 's Coll. Mar. 15. Joseph Keble of All 's Coll. As for Nath. Bond who was of the same family with Dennis Bond mention'd in the first vol. p. 323 he was as I conceive Recorder afterward of Weymouth being then a man of those times In the latter end of Apr. 1689 he being by writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law by K. Will. 3 was sworn on the 2 of May at the Bar of the Common-pleas in Westm Hall with several others that had been with him called to that degree Afterwards he was Knighted made one of the Kings Serjeants c. The last of the said three Joseph Keble is living in Greys Inn and hath published several things and therefore he ought hereafter to be mentioned among the Writers Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. May 30. Benj. Parry of Jesus Coll. 31. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. June 1. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 13. John Cawley of All 's Coll. July 6. Zachary Mayne of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Ch. Ch. and afterwards made by the Visitors first Demie of Magd. Coll and then Fellow took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1652 at which time he had the letters of the Chancellour O. Cromwell for the dispensation of the want of two or three terms in which letters he is stiled eminently godly and of able parts Afterwards he was senior Collector of the Lent in 1652 and when Master of Arts a godly preacher in these parts After his Majesties restauration he conformed and wrot 1 Treatise of Justification c. Lond. 1662. oct 2 S. Pauls travelling pangs c. Pr. 1662. oct and perhaps other things He is now living a School-master in or near Exeter as I have lately been informed by one of his contemporaries in Magd. Coll. July 6. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall He accumulated the degrees in Arts and was admitted in Convocation Adm. 65. Bach. of Phys Apr. 11. Joh. Betts of C. C. Coll. June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. These were both learned Physitians the former of which hath published several things of his faculty the other not but left his profession for his original fac of Div. as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Two were admitted this year as Jam. Stopes of Magd. Hall and Thomas Harward of Trin. Coll. but neither of them were Writers ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Apr. 11. John Arnold of Mert. Coll. He afterwards withdrew himself and stood not in the Act to compleat his degree went to York and there practised his faculty to the time of his death Joh. Betts of C C. Coll was adm the same day He accumulated the degrees in Phys June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He accumulated having before been employed in the service of the State as Physitian to the sick and wounded of the Navy which work he managed with much diligence and success to the full satisfaction both of the Generals at Sea and also of the Commissioners of the Admiralty c. After his Majesties restauration he reassumed his former fac of Divinity became one of the Royal Society President of his Coll one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 28. June 1670 was installed Dean of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Rob. Creighton to the See of B. and Wells In Apr. 1691 he was nominated by their Majesties Bishop of Bristow with liberty to keep his Deanery in Commendam but he refused it because he was minded to carry on his benefaction to his Coll being then about to reedifie the Chappel thereof and to do good thereunto and his Church of Wells He is accounted a most celebrated Latine Poet as it appears by those many Copies of verses of his that are extant some of which are made publick in a book lately printed at the Theater in Oxon entit Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta c. printed in oct Doct. of Div. May 29. Joh. Conant M. A. Rector of Exeter Coll. was then admitted in Convocation In 1662 he left his Rectory because he refused to subscribe to the Act of conformity but afterwards upon better thoughts conforming he became a Minister in Northampton where he now continues an aged man In 1676 June 8. he was installed Archdeacon of Norwich in the place of Mr. John Reynolds deceased which Dignity was confer'd upon him by Dr. Edw. Reynolds B. thereof whose Daughter he formerly had married and on the 3. of Dec. 1681 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Nath. Tomkins deceased He is a learned pious and meek Divine but hath published nothing Seth Ward of Wadham Coll Savilian professor of Astron was admitted in the same Convocation May 31. Joh. Wallis of Exeter Coll. Sav. Prof. of Geom. About this time arose a controversie between Dr. Wallis and Dr. Ward before mention'd concerning seniority in Doctorship Wallis he aver'd that he was incorporated Mast of Arts of this University before Ward and therefore 't was his but it appearing that Ward stood first in the Proctors book at Cambridge for they proceeded in Arts both in one year the Vicechancellour Dr. Owen decided the matter on Wards behalf Whereupon Wallis went out Grand compounder and so got seniority not only of Ward but of the rest that proceeded in Div. this year Dr. Wallis was afterwards against oath and statute elected Custos Archivorum in the place of Dr. Langbaine at which time stood for that office one every way capable of it viz. Dr. Rich. Zouche which being a most unjust act as being carried on and done by the godly
having a hand in the said vile Pamphlet but those then of the House who knew the proud and malicious humour of Peirce have often told me that that was not the reason of his ejectment but because Dr. Jeanes had found fault with his Concio Synodica ad Clerum Anglican published that year wherein he said were several barbarisms and false Latins Which report coming to ears of Dr. Pierce his malice became so great against that he never left till he had outed him from the College After his expulsion which the generality of the Society were against and did lament because they knew he was sorry for what he had done in his raw years he went to Peterborough where he practised his Faculty with good success but in his journey homeward from a certain noble Patient in a dark night without a Companion his horse floundred in a Gravel-pit flung him off from his back and was forthwith stifled in the month of Nov. 1668. Jun. 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. Accumulators Jul. 2. Joh. Hill of All 's Coll. Accumulators 4. Peter Vasson or Vashon of Ball. Coll. 9. Thom. Millington of Allsoules Coll. The last did succeed Dr. Thom. Willis in Sedly's Lecture of Nat. Philosophy an 1675 and had the honour or Knighthood confer'd on him in the latter end of 1679 he being then Fell. of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Jul. 9. Rich. Higges of Hart Hall Jul. 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Jan 19. Humph. Brooke of S. Johns Coll. This person who was son of Rob. Br. of Lond Gent was bred in Merchant-Taylors School and thence was elected Scholar of S. Joh. Coll of which he was afterwards Fellow In 1646 he took the degree of Bach. of Physick and thereupon soon after retiring to Lond. practised that Faculty there and wrot and published A Conservatory of health comprised in a plain and practical discourse upon the six particulars necessary for mans life 1. Aire 2. Meat and Drinke c. Lond. 1650. in tw Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness and prolongation of life After he had taken the degree of Doct. of his Faculty he became one of the Coll. of Phys and is now as I conceive living in London ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May 5. Barnham Dobell Doct. of Phys of Padua He had that degree confer'd on him at Padua in the beginning of the year 1654. Jun. 6. Will. Parker Doct of Phys of Padua 21. Tim. Hodson Doct of Phys of Aurange 24. Sam. Collins Doct of Phys of Padua The last of which was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London was known by the name of Dr. Sam. Collins junior and hath if I mistake not published one or more vol. in fol. of Anatomy Quaere Creations Apr. 13. Thom. Hyde of Qu. Coll. was created Master of Arts by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is of full standing since his admission into the Vniv of Cambridge for the degree of M. of A that he hath given public testimony of his more than ordinary abilities and learning in the Oriental Languages c. The Delegates of the University ordered the day before that he should accumulate the degree of M. of A. by reading only a Lecture in one of the Oriental Languages c. which was afterwards accordingly done in the Persian Language in Schola Linguarum Since that time he hath published several books and being now living he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers of this University An. Dom. 1660. An. 12 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell lately L. Protector but he upon a foresight of the restauration of K. Ch. 2 resigning his Office by his Letter sent to the University dated at Hursley in Hampshire 8 May this year read in Convocation 16 of the same month the most noble William Marquess of Hertford c. was restored to his place of Chancellour by the House of Lords on the 26 following and on the 6 of June was confirmed by the Convocation But the said Marquess dying in the night time of the 24 of Octob. being then Duke of Somerset Sir Edw. Hyde Kt. sometimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall now L. Chanc. of England and of the Privy Council to his Majesty was elected into his place on the 27 of the same month and installed at Westminster 15 Nov. following Vicechanc. Paul Hood D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. was admitted on the first of Aug. having before been nominated by our Chanc. the Duke of Somerset At which time Dr. Conant was remov'd from his Office of Vicechanc. Proct. Tho. Tanner of New Coll. May 2. John Dod of Ch. Ch. May 2. The senior Proctor being Fellow of New College was ejected thence in Aug. by his Majesties Commissioners to make room for those that had been turned out by the Visitors appointed by Parl. So that then he retiring to Hart Hall he spent the remainder of his Proctorship there The junior Proctor wanting time when he was elected a Protestation was openly read in Convocation at the time of his admission by Mr. Will. Hawkins of Ch. Ch. a Candidate for the Procuratorial Office The particulars of which being many and large I shall now pass them by for brevity sake and only say that Mr. Dod continued in his Office while Mr. Hawkins appealed to the Court of Chancery The Scene of all things was now changed and alterations made in the Countenances Manners and Words of all men Those that for 12 years last past had governed and carried all things in a manner at their pleasure did now look discontented and were much perplex'd foreseeing that their being in the University must inevitably vanish Those that had laid under a cloud for several years behind appear with cheerful looks while others that had flourished droop'd or withdrew themselves privately they knowing very well that they had eaten the bread of other men and that if they should continue in the University should undergo a Visitation and Censure by those persons whom they themselves had formerly visited and ejected But Justice being to be done Commissioners were appointed by his Majesty after his restauration to rectifie all things in the University who sitting several weeks in Aug. Sept. c. restored all such that were living unmarried to their respective places and many that were peaceable and willing to conform and renounce their factious Principles they kept in c. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 3. Thom. Cawton of Mert. Coll. 5. Thomas Bevan of Jes Coll. Of the last of which you may see more among the Doct. of Div. 1683. May 3. Will. Morehead of New Coll. Oct. 11. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. 15. Moses Pengry of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the M. of A. 1663 of the second among the Doct. of Div. 1681 and of the last among the Bach. of D. an 1672. Jan. 16. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16.
D. of D. and Bish of Cloyne in Irel. 1679 on the death of Dr. Edw. Singe who being Bish of Cloyne Cork and Ross the two last Sees were then the same year confer'd on Dr. Edw. Wâ—tenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll. Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys of Leyden 7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these two who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mention'd among the Writers p. 195 was Fellow of New Coll and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys of Leyden was incorporated the same day Aug. 7. This person who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643 Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other was educated in the Coll. near Dubl and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr of Doct. of Phys confer'd on him there 1650. Afterwards he setled in the City of Chester where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these 1 Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1670. oct dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby 2 The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England With the Governours since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2 an 1172 with some passages in their Government A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also the original of the Vniv of Dublin and the Coll. of Physitians Lond. 1675. in a large oct 3 The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion traced from many preceeding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit The Irish Rebellion or the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland 23 Oct. 1641 c. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties honorable privy Council in Irel. 4 Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are vindicated from aspersions cast on both Lond. 1682. oct In the third p. of the Epist to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit A short view of the late Troubles in England as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend upon notice of a book entit A short view c. Wherein in the eigth Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken This Letter which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681 was printed at Lond. in 1 sh in fol. the same year What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Chester after the year 1682. Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys of Padua was â—hen incorporated This person who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl first for Non-submission and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers This last reason was mention'd in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mention'd which is under the ninth But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty he upon the perusal of that passage did falsly unknowing to the author acquaint by another hand the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it Whereupon Bidgood a covetous person fearing that such a passage as that might when made public hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History to have it taken out Whereupon Dr. Fell wondring that he should scruple at such a passage which made much for his Loyalty the sheet wherein it was was reprinted and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a was made the tenth in its place This Health tho said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers yet the author of the aforesaid History finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions but as it is word by word before mention'd therefore did he set it so down without any invention of his own as some did surmise This Dr. Bidgood who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690 after he had cashier'd and disinherited his nat son call'd Joh. Sommers sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman and some to pious uses And having been a person of a surley and proud nature and offensive in word and action he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys of Padua Oct. 17. Christop Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two who was son of Onuphrius Henchman had the degree of Doct. confer'd on him at Pad an 1654 the other in 1659 and afterwards practised his fac in Lincolnshire Nov. 19. Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr One of both his names and Mast of Arts hath written and published The wicked Petition or Israels sinfulness in asking a King explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments CREATIONS After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 it was his and the pleasure of the Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox and of Sir E. Hyde who succeeded him in that Office this year that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffer'd for his Majesties Cause and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an 1648. 49. c. Mast of Arts. Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created among whom some that had not been Sufferers thrust themselves into the crowd for their money Others yet few were Gentlemen and were created by the favour of the Chancellours Letters only Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created I shall mention these following Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely
the taking of their degrees only to have the benefit of the publick Library c. This person who was much addicted to Musick while he studied in Oxon which was about 8 years was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesties restauration had other spiritualities as I conceive confer'd upon him and became a member of the Royal Society He died in 1679 being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll. Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll. The first who afterwards practised Phys in the City of Salisbury was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648 was also created by vertue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse and continued in Armes until the surrender of Pendennis Castle from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall his native Country where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physick c. Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Univ. of Cambr. 16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch. He was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theorie and practice of Physick He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon and hath studied in Foreign Countries c. This person who was Son of John Jacob a Physitian of Canterbury was bred in Ch. Ch afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City and was if I mistake not a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot. Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll. 30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camdens Professor of History This person who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Wykehams School there made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636 entred on the Physick line when Master of Arts ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship became Camdens Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Rogers ejected for Non-conformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall He hath published of other mens works with Epistles before corrections on and sometimes additions to them these following 1 Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis c. and Dictata Both written by Hugh Lloyd See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. 2 Monarchia Britannica c Written by Tho. Master See in this sec Vol. of Athenae pag. 19. 3 Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton preces privatae Graecè Latinè Oxon. 1675 in tw Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers which he was about to publish but hindred by other affairs 4 Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita 1592. 'T is the oration of Sir Hen. Savile and 't was published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec edit of Monarchia Britannica See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. 5 Questiones selectiores in Logica Ethica c. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon a good generous and fatherly man of a publick Spirit and free from pharasaical leven or the modish hypocrisie of the age he lived in died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688 aged 73 years and was buried in the outer Chappel near the W. door belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camdens Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 29. Rich. Franklin of Qu Coll. He was put in among the rest tho no sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 6. Henry Wyat of Pemb. Coll. He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 and by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physitian with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa and practised his faculty there with good success At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country on the 3. of May 1664 were all some very few excepted cut off after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party who having had notice by the treachery of a certain person that they would take a view of the Country there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland and sheltred by a thick wood and seconded as 't was supposed by his whole Army March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physick but whether he was so it appears not Doct. of Div. Aug. 1. Nich. Monke sometimes of Wadh. Coll now Provost of Eaton Brother to Gen. George Monke Duke of Albemarle at this time in high value by the King Church University and all British People was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the Kings Professor of Div. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty and actually created by the Vicechancellour in Convocation by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing sufficiency and merit of Nich Monke M. of A as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for our self and the Church during the late distractions c. These persons following till you come to Byrom Eaton were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug tho several of them had not suffered for the Kings cause Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll. Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll. The last was
26. of Feb. 1675 aged 54 years and was buried in Ball. Coll. Chappel There was an epitaph made for him but not put over his grave part of which runs thus Hic jacet Johannes Good â— T B. Coll. Ball XXX plus minus annos socius meritissimus omnigenâ oâ—natus eruditione neutiquam inflatus Sic excultus ipse alios pariter excoluit sedulitate usus adeò indefessâ ut celebriori Tutoris quam Johannis prenomine diu innotuerit c. Octob. 17. Thomas Ellis M. A. of Jesus Coll. He is at large mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 248. Adm. 4. Doct. of Law May 14. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. He was then licensed to proceed but did not stand in the Act following to complete that degree ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was licensed this year only created Doct. of Div. July 3. George Escourt of Trin. Coll. a Compounder Incorporations May 21. George Smith Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who was lately of Qu. Coll. in this Univ took the said degree at Pad in Mar. 1651 8. He was afterwards of the Coll. of Phys June 18. Edw. Wetenhall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge In the next month he was admitted M. of A. as I have before told you 25. Joh. Parry Fellow of Jesus Coll. and M. of A. of 8 years standing who having performed all his exercise for Bach. of Div. in Trin. Coll. Chap. near Dublin on the 26. of January 1660 and the same day declared Bach. of Div. there was incorporated Bach. of Div. of this Univ. He was afterwards B. of Ossory as I have among the Writers told you p. 448. Ralph Whitfield B. A. of Dublin was incorporated the same day He took that degree at Dub. 7. Aug. 1655 which is all I know of him July 9. Tim. Puller M. A. and Fellow of Jes Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Sawcombe in Hertfordshire D. of D. of Cambr. an 1675 Rector of the Church of S. Mary de la Bow in London and author of The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted Lond 1679 oct c. At the same time when this worthy person Mr. Puller was incorporated which was just after the Act time nine Mast of Cambr. were incorporated also among whom Joh. Ellis of Caies Coll. was one Will. Williams of Emanuel another of both whose names have been several Writers and Tho. Leigh of the said Coll a third One Thom. Leigh Bach. of Div. and Vicar of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordsh hath published The keeping of Holydays Serm. preached at Hadham before Henry B. of London at his Lordships conference with the Clergy there Lond. 1684. 85. qu. Whether he be the same with the former Tho. Leigh I know not Quaere Hamnet Ward Doctor of Physick of Anger 's in France was incorporated on the same day July 9. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born had the said degree confer'd on him at Anger 's an 1646 and was now Vicar of Stourminster-Newton-Castle in his own Country and one of the Minor Preb. of Wells He hath published 1 The Protestant Soldier fighting under truths banner printed 1642. 2 Sermon preached at Shaftesbury in the primary visitation of Guy B. of Bristow on Ephes 3.8 Lond. 1674. qu and other things which I have not yet seen See more in Hen. Byam among the Writers p. 307. July 9. Tobias Dickson Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 11. Will. Bright Doct. of the same fac at Padua The same degree was confer'd on him at Pad an 1658. He was afterwards Hon. Fell. of the Coll. of Phys Sept. 9. Rob. Wishart M. of A. of S. Andrew in Scotland He was Son of the learned and famous George Wishart D. D of whom the Reader may be pleased to know that he was a Scotch man born and a Minister in the Church of S. Andrew in the same University that he had suffered in the time of the Covenant a long and tedious imprisonment in the nastiest part of the Tolbooth at Edinburgh called the Thiefs hole and afterwards did accompany the most victorious and noble James Marquess of Montross in his conquest of Scotland But upon the much lamented declension of that immortal person he became Chaplain to the Sister of K. Ch. 1. called the Queen of Bohemia and about the time of his Majesties restauration a Minister in Newcastle upon Tyne where he was held in great veneration for his unspotted Loyalty In 1662 Jun. 1 he was consecrated at S. Andrews Bishop of Edinburgh with Dr. Dav. Michell to Aberdene and dying at Edinburgh in Jul. or Aug. 1671 was buried in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house He was a person of great religion and very charitable to the poor and having been a Prisoner he was always careful at each dinner that he made to send the first dish from his table to the Prisoners He hath written The compleat Hist of the Wars of Scotland under the conduct of the illustrious and truly valiant James Marquess of Montross c. Printed several times in Lat. and English The first edit came out at the Hague in 1647. oct See in Dav. Whitford among the Writers pag. 389. Nov. 12. Rich. Trevor of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Phys of Padua This well-bred Gent. who was son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt and younger brother to Sir Joh. Trevor who was made Secretary of State in the latter end of Oct. 1668 after his return from his Embassy in France died near the Temple Gate on the 17 of July 1676 and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. 21. Levin Fludd Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Rob. Stapâ—ey Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Aug. 1639 and the other in May 1648. Dec. 7. John Downes Doct. of Phys of Leyden Mar. 4. Joh. Atfield Doct. of Phys of Caen. 13. Thom. Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these three was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. The second who was a Londoner born and had taken his degree at Caen in 1657 was also afterwards Fellow of the said Coll and the third who took his degree at Leyden in 1659 was afterwards a Knight and I think Fell. also CREATIONS Creations were made in all Faculties either by the favour of his Majesty or of Clarendon the Chancellour of the University when he was entertained by the Univ. in Sept. 1661. Bach. of Law About five were created but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them were Tho. Wilkins of Jes Coll a Sufferer for his Majesties Cause Sept. 12 Edm. Arnold of Mert. Coll. belonging to the Court of Arches Oct. 10. c. Mast of Arts. The Creations of Masters were mostly made in a Convocation held in the morn of the 9 of Sept at which time Edw. Earl of Clarendon Lord
Chanc. of England and Chanc. of the Univ. was seated in the supreme Chair Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester of Wadh. Coll. Jam. Levingston Visc of Kimardin as 't is said in the Reg. and Earl of Newburgh in Scotland sometimes of Mert. Coll. Edw. Mâ—ntague eldest son of Edw. L Montague of Boughton Edw. Hyde of Ch. Ch. third son of Edw. Earl of Clarendon He died of the Small pox on the 10 of January an 1664 aged 19 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster leaving then this character behind him that he was the most hopeful youth and the best natur'd Creature in the world John Lovelace of Wadh. Coll. eldest son of John Lovelace He was after the death of his father Lord Lovelace but obtaining no great matter during the reigns of K. Ch. 2. and K. Jam. 2 which he expected because his father had been a great sufferer for the cause of K. Ch. 1 he was by the favour of K. Will. 3. to whom he adhered when he arrived in the West in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and for his sake was for some time imprison'd at Glocester made Captain of his Band of Gentlemen Pensioners in the beginning of March 1688. Edw Sebright of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets John Williams of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets The former was of Besford in Worcestershire the other of Dorsetshire Sir Alan Broderick Kt His Majesties Surveyour General for the Kingdom of Ireland This person who was endowed with a poetical wit and hath several Specimens thereof extant died at Wandesworth in Surrey 25 Nov. 1680 and was buried there 3 of Dec. following John Bulteel Secretary to Edw. Earl of Clarendon This person who was son of John Bulteel a Frenchman sometimes living at Dover died a Bachelaur in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster an 1669. One Joh. Bulteel Gent. translated from French into English A general chronological History of France before the raign of K. Pharamond and ending with the raign of K. Hen. 4. c. Lond. 1683. fol. Whether he be the same with the former who was created M. of A. I know not I have made mention of another Joh. Bulteel in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 849. Matthew Wren or Wrenn Secretary to the said Edw. Earl of Clar. This person who was the eldest son of Dr. Matthew Wren Bish of Ely was originally a Student in Cambridge and afterwards a Student for several years in the time of Usurpation in this University not in a Coll. or Hall but in a private House After his Majesties restauration he was taken into the service of the Earl of Clarendon was elected a Burgess for S. Michael in Cornwal to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 8 May 1661 became a Member of the Royal Society and of the Council thereof and after the fall of the said Clarendon he became Secretary to James Duke of York and continued in his service to the time of his death At length giving way to fate on the 14 of June or thereabouts an 1672 aged about 42 years his body was conveyed to Cambridge and there buried in Pemb. Hall Chappel in the same Vault wherein his father was five years before buried This ingenious person hath written 1 Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana restrained to the first part of the preliminaries Lond. 1657. oct Before these Considerations is a large Letter sent by the author to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll by whom the said author was desired to give his judgment concerning the Commonwealth of Oceana 2 Monarchy assâ—rted or the state of monarchical and popular Government in vindication of the Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Oceana Lond. 1659 and 1660. oct See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers p. 440. Joh. Dugdale chief Gent. in the Chamber of the said Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of Engl. This person who was the son of Sir Will. Dugdale mentioned in these Fasti an 1642 p. 643 c. was afterwards Windsore Herald upon the resignation of Elias Ashmole Esq and at length Norroy King of Arms upon the promotion of Sir Thom. St. George to the office of Garter in the place of the said Sir William deceased in the beginning of March 1685 about which time he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty This Sir Joh. Dugdale hath published A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their respective precedencies as it was presented to his Majesty on New-years day an 1684. To which is added The Blazon of their paternal Coates of Arms and a List of the present Bishops by permission of the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal This was printed at Lond. on a broad side of a large sh of paper an 1685 and came out again with additions in 1690. Thom. Agar Sam. Gabrie All which persons from Joh. Earl of Rochester to the said Sam. Gabrie were created Masters of Arts on the 9 of Sept. Sept. 12. Rich. Newporn of Ch. Ch. eldest son of Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall Sept. 12. Seymour Shirly of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stradling of Jes Coll. Baronets Sept. 12. Jam. Rushout of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stanley of Brasn Coll. Baronets All which were created by the favour of the said Chanc. Oct. 19. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Salisbury and a publisher of Several Sermons and therefore he ought hereafter to be mention'd more at large Nov. 6. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Besides all these were several others created among whom were Rich. Newborough of Ball. Coll May 28 who had served his Maj. in the late Wars and was this year Preb. of Hereford Bach. of Div. Thirteen Bach. of Div. were created by vertue of the Chancellours recommendations among whom were these Jul. 1. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. As for Wyatt who was born at Todenham in Glocestershire was not graduated in Arts because before the time came when he should take the degree of Bach the Civil War began Afterwards he was Assistant to Dr. Jer. Taylor when he taught School in Caermerthenshire and wrot as 't was usually said which he himself did also acknowledge A new and easie institution of Grammar c. which was published under Dr. Taylor 's name See more in the life of the said Doctor among the Writers p. 285. Afterwards Mr. Wyatt taught at Evesham in Worcestershire and at length assisted Mr. Will. Fuller while he taught a private School at Twittenham in Middlesex Afterwards when that person became Bishop of Linc he made him not only his Chapl but also Preb. and afterwards Chantor of the Church there Which Dignities he resigning in 1681 he retired to Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire where he died in the house of Sir Ric. Newdigate about 1686. What other things the said Mr. Wyatt hath
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
Edward Rogers of Magd. Coll. The first of these two a most celebrated Lat. Poet of his time hath published several things of his profession and therefore he ought to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Incorporations Jul. 5. John Boord Doct. of the Laws of Cambr. He was of Trin. Hall in that University Sept. 8. Edward Montague Earl of Mancester Baron of Kimbolton c. Master of Arts and Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge which University he had ruin'd in the time of the grand and unparallel'd Rebellion was incorporated in the same degree as he had stood at Cambridge After he had been conducted into the House of Convocation in his Masters Gown and Hood by the Beadles and seated on the right hand of the Vicechancellour the Orator of the University who then stood on the other side near and above the Registraries desk did then speak directing his voice to him an eloquent Oration which being done the said Oratoâ— went from his place and going to he took him by the hand and led him to the middle of the Area where he presented him to the Vicechancellour and ven Convocation which being done and he incorporated by the Vicechancellours Sentence he re-took his place This is that Kimbolton who with 5 members of the House of Commons were demanded by his Majesty on the 4 of Jan. 1641 for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government and to deprive the King of his legal power c. and the same who after he had sedulously endeavoured to promote did carry on a Rebellion and continued his course till the Wars were ceased Afterwards striking in with Oliver he became one of his Lords that is one of the Lords of the other house and was a great man a thorough-pac'd Dissembler c. and never a looser for his high actings against the Royal Family After his Majesties restauration towards which he pretended to be a great helper when it could not otherwise be avoided he was made L. Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold and in that quality did he with Edw. Earl of Clarendon Chanc. of the Univ come this year to Oxon from Salisbury where they left their Majesties in order to have Lodgings provided for them about to come hither to take up their Winter-Quarters to avoid the Plague then raging in Lond. and Westminster This Edw. Earl of Manchester had a younger brother named Walter Montague born in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate in London educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambr afterwards travelled beyond the Seas and returning with an unsetled mind did at length after he had been sent once or more into France about public concerns give a farewel to his own Country and Religion wherein he had been born and baptized and going beyond the Sea he setled himself in a Monastery for a time and wrot A Letter in justification of his change which was afterwards answer'd by Lucius Lord Falkland Afterwards being received with great love into the favour of the Qu. Mother of France she made him Abbat of Nantveil of the Benedictine order in the dioc of Mets and afterwards Abbat of the Benedictines of S. Martins Abbey near Pontois in the dioc of Roan in the place of Job Franc. de Gâ—ndy deceased He was also one of her Cabinet Council and a promoter of Mazarine into her favour who when fix'd shew'd himself in many respects ungrateful to Montague and his friends And whereas Mazarine made it one of his chief endeavours to raise a family and to do such things that might perpetuate his name so Montague who was of a most generous and noble spirit and a person of great piety did act to the contrary by spending all that he could obtain for public and pious uses In his younger years before he left the Ch. of England he wrot The Sheppards paradise Com. Lond. 1629. oct And after he had left it Miscellanea spiritualia Or devout Essayes in two parts The first was printed at Lond. 1648 the other at the same place in 1654 and both in qu. I have seen a book intit Manchester al Mundo Contemplations on death and immortality Lond. 1635. oct and several times after the fifteenth impression of which was made at Lond. in 1690. in tw Which book was written by one of the family of the Earl of Manchester but whether by this Walter Montague who was a younger son to Henry Montague the first Earl of Manchester of his name I cannot tell because his name is not set to it This person who was commonly called Abbat Montague and sometimes Lord Abbat of Pontois died after Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England who concluding her last day on the last of Aug. 1669 he soon after followed as I have been informed by one of his domestick Servants who told me further that he was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the Hospital of Incurables at Paris You may read much of him in a book called Legenda lignea c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 137.138 c. but that book being full of Satyr persons of moderate Principles believe little or nothing therein As for the other persons who were incorporated besides the said Earl of Manchester were these Dec. 8. Joh. Logan M. A. of Glascow with liberty to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg which is all I know of him Mar. 8. Henr. Montague M. A. of Cambridge a younger son to the said Edward Earl of Manchester and others CREATIONS The Creations this year were mostly made on the 8 of Septemb. when the said Edward Earl of Manchester was incorporated M. A. at which time the Chancellour of the University was then in Oxon. Mast of Arts. Rob. Montague Visc Mandevile eldest son to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was presented by the Orator of the University with a little Speech and afterwards was seated on the left hand of the Vicechancellour After his fathers death in 1671 he became Earl of Manchester and died at Paris about the latter end of Decemb according to the English Accompt an 1682. Charles Dormer Visc Ascot of Mert. Coll eldest son of Charles Earl of Caernarvan Edward Capell of Wadh. Coll. a younger son of Arthur Lord Capell Vere Bertie a younger son of Montague Earl of Lindsey He was made Serjeant at Law in 1675 and afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer Charles Bertie his brother He is now Treasurer of the Ordnance Nich. Pelham Bt. of Ch. Ch. Scrope How Kt. of Ch. Ch. Will. Dolben a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and brother to Dr. John Dolben He was afterwards Recorder of London a Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench. Rich. Cooling or Coling Secretary to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was afterwards Secretary to Hen. Earl of Arlington while he was L. Chamberlain and on the 21 of Feb. 1688 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Maj. Privy Council in ordinary at which time were sworn with
a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll. in 1664 and on the 16 of January 1666 he was created a Baronet He hath translated into English The Epistle of Sapho to Phaon which is in a book entit Ovids Epistles translated by several hands c. Lond. 1681. sec edit in oct And in another book called Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684 oct Sir Carr hath translated The fourth Elegy of Ovids first book of Elegies which is in the 110 page of the said Miscellany Poems as also The parling of Sireno and Diana out of the 3 book of Ovids Elegies which is in the 173 page of that Miscellany He wrot also the Prologue to The Rival Queens or the death of Alexander Trag. Lond. 1677 qu. made by Nath. Lee And as divers Satyrical copies of verses were made on him by other persons so he hath divers made by himself on them which to this day go from hand to hand He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster in Nov or thereabouts 1680. All which persons from Jam. Russell to Sir Carr Scrope were created on the fourth of Feb. Feb. 5. John Scudamore a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. Grandson and Heir of Visc Scudamore of Slego in Ireland He was to be created the day before with the rest but was absent Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Thom. Boteler Earl of Ossory in Ireland and Lord Roteler of More-Park in England the eldest Son of James Duke of Ormonde and General of all the Forces in Ireland under his Father now Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom was created Doct. of the Civil Law with more than ordinary solemnity He was afterwards made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and in 1673 May 17 he was made Reer-Admiral of the Blew-Squadron of his Majesties Fleet in order to the great Sea-fight against the Dutch which shortly after hapned In which fight as also in others he gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a Romance Afterwards he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and on the 16 of Apr. 1680 he was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Council At length this brave Gent of whom enough can never be spoken died of a violent Feaver in Whitehall on Friday 30. July 1680 whereupon his body was in the next evening carried privately and deposited in a vault in the Chap. of Hen. 7 joyning to the Abbey Church at Westminster there to remain till his Father the Duke of Ormonde should order the farther disposal of it Afterwards it was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland as I have been informed and there laid in the Vault belonging to the Ormondian Family under part of the Cath. Church His eminent Loyalty and forward zeal on all occasions to serve his Majesty and Country were manifested by many brave and generous actions which as they made him to be honoured and esteemed by all when living made him also when dead generally lamented There were several Elegies made on his death deploring much the untimely loss of so great and valiant a Commander as he was the chiefest and best of which was made by Thomas Flatman which being his Master-piece he was nobly rewarded for his pains as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 626. George Douglas Son of the Marquess of Douglas in Scotland lately an Officer of note in the Army under the K. of France now an Officer or Captain under the K. of Poland was created next after the Earl of Ossory Sir Nich. Armorer Kt Governour of Duncannon Castle with the territory adjoyning in Ireland The said three persons were presented by Dr. Hen. Deane of New Coll and created by the Vicechanc. with a little complemental Speech which being done and they conducted to their respective Seats among the Doctors Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. the Dep. Orator did congratulate them with an accurate Speech in the name of the University Afterwards were created Masters of Arts certain Noblemen and persons of quality of this University as I have before told you among these Creations In the latter end of this year Joh. Jacob. Buxtorfius Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Basil became a Sojournour in this University for the sake of the Bodleian Vatican and continued there some months He was a learned man as by the things that he hath published appears An. Dom. 1667. An. 19. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. E. of Clar c. but he being accused of divers crimes in Parl which made him withdraw beyond the Seas he resigned his Chancellourship of the University by his Letter bearing date at Calis Dec. 7. Which being read in Convocation on the 20 of the same month the right reverend Father on God Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury was then elected into his place Vicechanc. the same viz. Joh. Fell D. D. Aug. 16. by the nomination of the E. of Clar. Proct. George Roberts of Mert. Coll. Apr. 17. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. May 21. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch. May 21. George Walls of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682. Jun. 27. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. Jun. 27. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1670. July 4. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. July 4. Thom. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. Oct. 17. Tho. Crane of Brasn Coll. Of the first and last of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1684 and among the Masters 1670. As for Thomas Jekyll he hath published several Sermons and other things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 17. Maurice Wheeler of New Inn afterwards Chaplain or Petty Canon of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1670. Oct. 17. William Pindar of Vniv Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Thompson of Vniv Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1670. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ I must mention here He was the Son of Rob. Thomps of Wakefield in Yorkshire was bred in Grammar learning there and thence sent to Vniv Coll. where he became a Scholar of the old foundation took one degree in Arts left it upon pretence of being unjustly put aside from a Fellowship there went to Cambridge took the degree of Master of Arts had Deacons orders confer'd on him and afterwards those of Priest which last he received from Dr. Fuller B. of Linc. in Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm 14 of March 1670. Being thus qualified he became Curat of Brington in Northamptonshire for Dr. Thomas Pierce who when made Dean of Salisbury an 1675 left that Living and took his Curat with him to that City and in 1676 he gave him a Prebend there and afterwards a Presentation to S. Maries in Marlborough in Wilts In
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Brucâ— These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Ossâ—ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depoâ—ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was
written to James Lane of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. eldest Son of Geor. Visc Lanesborough Peter Worm a Dane son of the great Antiquary Olaus Worm was a Student this year and after in Oxon where obtaining several accomplishments became after his return to his Country Secretary to the K. of Denmarke c. In the beginning of July Joh. Rodolph Westenius and Sebastianus Feschius both of Basil in Germany were entred Students in the publick library and continued in Oxon about two years The first was afterwards Professor of the Greek tongue at Basil and a publisher of several noted books the other also a publisher of certain curious and critical matters which are now highly valued by Scholars oâ— his Country c. An. Dom. 1670. An. 22 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews now Dean of Rochester Sept. 16. Proct. Alex. Pudsey of Magd Coll. Apr. 13. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. June 18. Benj. Hoffman of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters 1673. Oct. 10. Walt. Harrys of New Coll. 20. Robert Cooper of Pemb. Coll. 31. Gilbert Budgell of Trinity Coll. Of the last of these three you may see more among the Masters an 1673. Jan. 18. Austin Freezer of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 8. Edward Tyson of Magd. Hall Of A. Freezer you may see more among the Masters an 1879. Mar. 4. John Hughes of Ball. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1684. W. Harrys R. Cooper and Edw. Tyson have published several things and therefore they are to be remembred hereafter Admitted 240. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. This ingenious person hath translated from English into Latin a book written by the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq entit The Origine of formes and qualities See more of him the said Mr. Russell in William Russell among the Writers p. 150. Apr. 22. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Anne the Countess Dowager of Hâ—nry Earl of Rochester and Curat of Adderbury in Oxfordshire for Dr. Bâ—aw Bishop of Landaff who gave him a Preb. in that Church Rector of Shabington and at length one of the Vicars of Waddesdon in Bucks on the death of Joh. Ellis He hath published A Sermon preached at the funeral of John Earl of Rochester 9. Aug. 1680. on Luke 15.7 Oxon. 1680 qu. A discourse it is so excellent that it hath given great and general satisfaction to all good and judicious readers May 11. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 11. Tho. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. June 8. Will. Pindar of Vniv Coll. This person who was son of Nich. Pindar was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire bred in Grammar learning there and for a time was an Apprentice to an Oil-drawer in that Town as Rich. Thompson mention'd under the year 1667 was Afterwards entring into Holy Orders he succeeded Joh. Inett in the Rectory of S. Ebbes Church in Oxon which place he keeping but for a little time was made Chaplain to Ford Lord Grey of Werke in whose service he died He was a very ready Disputant and a noted preacher and might if life had been spared been very serviceable to the Church of England He hath published 1 A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Guildhall Chappel on Prov. 17.27 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 Sermon of divine providence in the special preservation of government and Kingdoms on Psalm 127.1 This Sermon being prophetically delivered a little before his death concerning some change that would follow was upon the discovery of the Popish Plot in the latter end of Sept. 1678 published in the beginning of Nov. following in qu. with the date at the bottom of the title of 1679. He died 23 Sept. 1678 and was buried as I have heard at Gosfield in Essex where the Lord Grey hath a Seat June 8. Jam. Lane of Ch. Ch. He was the eldest son of Sir Geor. Lane Bt Visc Lanesborough in Ireland 28. Thomas Crane of Brasn Coll. This Divine who was son of a Father of both his names of Lathom in Lancashire was afterwards Curat at Winwick in his own Country for Dr. Sherlock and published Job's assurance of the resurrection Sermon at Winwick in Lancashire 25. June 1689 at the funeral of Rich. Sherlock D. D. late Rector there on Job 19.25.26.27 Lond. 1690. qu. He is now living in Lancashire a Non-juror July 5. Maurice Wheeler of Ch. Ch. He afterwards had a hand in translating from Greek The second Vol. of Plutarch's Morals Lond. 1684. oct That part which he performed bears this title Of curiosity or an overbusie inquisitiveness into things impertinent He is now Master of the College School in Glocester and is in a capacity of doing greater matters July 7. Edward Drew of Or. Coll. July 7. Tho. Salmon of Trinity Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Exeter Coll. was afterwards Can. resid of the Church of Exeter and Archdeacon of Cornwall Oct. 20. Joh. Grayle of Exet. Coll. Mar. 1. Joh. Floyr of Queens Coll. Adm. 81. or thereabouts ☞ But one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year Bach. of Div. Apr. 16. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. This Divine who had been Proctor of the Univ. was afterwards Rector of Church-Laugton in his native Country of Leycestershire and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester for that County 23. Mar. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. May 11. Joshua Stopford of Brasn Coll. July 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. John Mayow of All 's Coll. He was now and after a profess'd Physitian Doct. of Phys Dec. 17. David Thomas of New Coll. Doct. of Div. June 25. Thomas Pitâ—is of Linc. Coll. July 2. Giles Hinton of Mert. Coll. 9. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll. The second was an Accumulator and the last a Compounder 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Accumulator His Letters Test under the hand of Humphrey B. of London which he brought with him when he was to take his degree partly run thus Vir egregiè doctus multiplici literatura excultus eoque doctis bonisque plurimi factus est adamatus tum ob singularem eruditionem humanitatem morumque suavitatem tum ob vitam inculpatam pie institutam in concionando facultatem promptam exquisitum ingenium His nominibus apud nos claret c. Incorporations July 12. Joh. Bonwick Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was of Christs Coll. in that University Octob. 26. Will. Briggs M. A. of C. C. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of Phys Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian to the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark and author of Opthalmographia sive oculi ejusque partium descriptio Anatomica Cui accessit nova visionis Theoria Camb. 1676 in tw c. An account of this book is in the Philos
of the Univ. to whom he was Chaplain Incorporations From the 5 of May to the 26 of Feb. was one Bach. of Laws and 19 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated The Bach. of Laws was Jul. 14. George Oxinden of Trin. Hall in the said Univ. He was afterwards Doct. of his Faculty Dean of the Arches Vicar-General to the Archb. of Canterbury and Chanc. to the Bishop of London Among the Masters that were incorporated were these following May 5. Matthew Smallwood of Qu. Coll senior Proctor of the Univ. of Cambridge Jul. 15. Nathan Resbury of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Minister of Wandsworth and Putney in Surrey Chaplain to Arthur Earl of Anglesey and after his death to James his son and at length Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary c. He hath published 4 or more Sermons and two little things against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. Jul. 15. Rich. Pearson of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of S. Michaels Crooked-lane in Lond. and author of three or more Sermons Steph. Vpman of Kings Coll was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Secretary to Rob. Earl of Aylesbury Fellow of Eaton Coll. an 1677 Preb. of Westminster c. Joh. Moore of Catherine Hall was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage E. of Nottingham Lord Chanc. of England D. D Minister of S. Ann's Church built in and taken from the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond afterwards Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne and Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Q. Mary He hath 4 or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things Quaere On the 5 of Jul. 1691 he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in Lond with other-Bishops in the place of Dr. Will. Lloyd deprived for not taking the Oaths to King Will. 3. and Qu. Mary Besides the said Masters were two Bach. of Div. of the said Univ. of Cambr. incorporated of which one was Richard Richardson of Eman. Coll Jul. 15. I have made mention of him and his Translation of A Treatise of Bees which he intit Caroli Butleri foeminia Monarchia sive Apum Historia c. in Ch. Butler among the Writers of this vol. p. 51. The other Bach. of Div. who was incorp was John Balderston of the said Coll. of Eman. There were also two Doctors of the Laws of the said Univ. incorporated viz. May 5. Jonas Docwra of Christs Coll and July 15. Rob. Thompson of Trin. Hall This last who was if I mistake not Secretary to the Archb. of Canterb wrot and published Sponsa nondum uxor Or the marriage between the Lady Kath. Fitz-Gerald and Edw. Villiers Esq asserted Being an answer to Dr. Dudl Loftus his book intit ΔΙΓΑΜΙΑΣ ΑΔΙΚΙΑ c. Lond. 1678. in 5 sh and half in qu. July 15. Henr. Atherton Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was of Christs Coll. in that Univ. and afterwards Author of The christian Physitian Lond. 1683. oct and perhaps of other books Qu. July 15. James Arderne D. D. of Cambr. This person who was a Cheshire man born was educated in Christs Coll. in that University and this year 1673 and in the year after he was Fellow Commoner of Brasn Coll partly for the sake of the public Library and partly for the conversation of the Divines and others in this University He was also about that time Minister of S. Botolph Aldgate in Lond afterwards Chapl. in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 who bestowing on him the Deanery of Chester upon the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman B. of the Isle of Man who had kept it in commendam with his Bishoprick was installed therein in July 1682. He hath written 1 Directions concerning matter and stile of Sermons Printed 1671. in tw 2 Conjectura circa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D. Clementis Romani Cui subjiciuntur castigationes in Epiphantum Petavium de Eucharistia de Coelibatu Clericorum de orationibus pro vitâ functis Lond. 1683. in 4 sh in qu. In the title of this book he writes himself Jacobus de Ardenna He hath also published two or more Sermons as The true Christians character and crown c. on Rev. 1.10 Lond. 1671. qu. As also A Sermon at the Visitation of John Bishop of Chester at Chester on 2 Tim. 4. ver 5. latter part Lond. 1677. qu. c. At length after this Doctor had run with the humour of K. Jam. 2 and therefore did suffer several Indignities and Affronts from the Vulgar of and near Chester when that King withdrew himself into France in Decemb. 1688 he gave way to fate on the 18 of Sept. 1691 whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of Chester on the 22 of the said month By his Will he bequeathed his books and chief part of his estate to provide and maintain a publick Library in the Cath. Church of Chester for the use of the City and Clergy Creations Aug. 10. James Alban Ghibbes or Gibbes or as he writes himself in his books Ghibbesius Poet Laureat to the Emperor was diplomated Doct. of Physick This most celebrated Poet who was too well known in Rome had to his Father Will. Gibbes a Native of the City of Bristow sometimes educated in Brasn Coll and afterwards taking to wife a zealous Catholick named Mary Stoner of the Family of Stoner near Watlington in Oxfordsh was by her endeavours as I have heard drawn over to her Religion Soon after they setled in London but finding not that quiet enjoyment relating to their opinion which they expected they went to the City of Roan in Normandy where this our Poet Laureat was born an 1616 or thereabouts and had the Christian name at the Font given him of James Alban in memory of the great Protomartyr of Engl. S. Alban Thence at 9 years of age he was conveyed into Engl and spent some time in trivial Literature there his Father being then Physitian to Hen. Maria Queen of Engl. Afterwards he was sent to the English Coll. at S. Omer where he spent some years with great advantage in Academical Learning And after he had laid a good Foundation there he travelled thro several parts of the Low Countries Germany Spain Italy c. and spent some time at Padua under the famous Anatomist Joh. Veslingius In the latter end of 1644 he setled in Rome in which year Pope Vrban 8. died and was there received especially among the English with great humanity Soon after upon the discovery of the worth of the person he was entertained by Franc. Atestinus Duke of Modena to be Tutor to Almeric his son with whom continuing about two years in which time he was mostly at Modena he was taken into the Patronage and Family of Bernardin Cardinal Spada Bishop of Fraschatie called by some Tusculan with whom living in the quality of Physitian till that Cardinal died he was taken
we may now leave him Adm. 129. Bach. of Physick But two were admitted of whom Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll. was one July 1. Bach. of Div. May 14. George Hickes of Linc. Coll. June 26. Will. Hopkins of S. Maries Hall July 6. Lanc. Addison of Qu. Coll. Adm. 7. Doct. of Law May 18. Rowl Townshend of All 's Coll. Jun. 26. Steph. Brice of Magd. Coll. Compounders and Accumulators Jun. 26. Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. Compounders and Accumulators The last of these two who was originally of Magd. Hall became Chancellour of Rochester in the place of Dr. Will. Trumbull afterwards Judge of the Admiralty a Knight Master of the Faculties c. June 26. Roger Stanley of New Coll. He died at Ham in Wilts 17 Sept. 1678 and was buried there Doct. of Phys July 6. Sam. Izacke of Exet. Coll. 8. Christop Dominick of Wadh. Coll. The first did accumulate the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. July 6. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. 8. Joh. Nicholas of New Coll. The last who was a Compounder was now Warden of his Coll to which he was elected on the death of Dr. Mich. Woodward 30. of June 1675 being then Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester and Master of S. Nich. Hospital in Salisbury On the 17 of July 1679 he was elected Warden of the said Coll. of Wykeham on the death of Dr. Will. Burt and on the second of Apr. 1684 he was installed Preb. of Winchester Incorporations On the 13 of July just after the finishing of the Act were seven Bach. of Arts one Bach. of Law 24 Masters of Arts one Bach. of Div. and one Doct. of Physick of Cambridge incorporated but not one of them can I yet find to be a Writer only Joh. Turner M. A. and Fellow of Christs Coll who was afterwards Hospitaller of S. Thomas in Southwark and author of several Sermons and discourses which being too many to be here set down shall for brevity sake be omitted Thomas Allen Doct. of Physick of Gonvill and Caies Coll was also then July 13 incorporated He was one of the Coll. of Phys at London and lived to the year 1685 but hath written nothing Quaere Besides the said Cambridge men was one John Ouchterlon M. A. of S. Salvators Coll. in the University of S. Andrew in Scotland incorporated which is all I know of him CREATIONS June 2. The most illustrious Pr. John William Prince of Neoburg Son of the Duke of Neoburg Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Giuliers Cleve and of Mons Count or Earl of Valdentia Spinhim la Mark Ravensberg and Moers Lord in Ravenstein c. was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law He was conducted bare-headed in his Doctors robes from the Apodyterium into the Convocation House with the Beadles marching before and the Kings Professor of Law with him the Vicechanc. then with the Doctors and Masters standing bare And being come to the middle of the Area the said Professor presented him with a short speech which being done the Vicech created him with another Afterwards he was conducted to his seat of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour and then the Dep. Orator who stood on the other side near to the Registraries desk complemented him with another speech in the name of the University All which being done he was conducted by the Vicechanc. Doctors and Masters to the Theater where being placed in another seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellours chair he was entertained by the Musick professor with vocal and instrumental Musick from the Musick gallery This Prince was then about 18 years of age and had taken a journey into England purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Mary the eldest Daughter of James Duke of York And after he had seen most of the rarities in the publick Library several of the Colleges Physick Garden c. the Vicechancellour Dr. Bathurst Dr. Fell and other Doctors made a present to him at his departure of Hist Antiquitates Univ. Oxon with Cuts in two Volumes very fairly bound June 23. Henry Justell Secret and Counsellour to the most Christian King was diplomated Doctor of the Civil Law He was a most noted and learned man and as the publick regist saith non modo omni scientiarum virtutum genere per se excelluit verum etiam Parentis optimi eruditissimi Christop Justelli doctrinam merita ornando atque excolando sua fecit He had given several choice Mss to the publick Library and had sent by Mr. George Hicks of Linc. Coll. who became acquainted with him at Paris the Original Ms in Greek of the Canones Ecclesia Vniversalis put out by his Father Christopher which is at this time in the publick Library What this eminent author Hen. Justell hath written and published the printed Cat. belonging to that Library commonly called Oxford Catalogue will tell you Nov. 10. Thaddeus Lantman diplomated Doct. of Div. Nov. 10. Joh. Woolnove diplomated Doct. of Div. These two persons were Ministers at the Hague and having been represented by the Prince of Orange to be persons of good esteem in Holland for their preaching learning and prudence and for the great veneration they had and have for the Church of England were upon those accounts recommended to the Chanc. of the University and by Henry Earl of Arlington lately in Holland to the Vicechanc. and Convocation for their degrees Jan. 26. Hippolytus du Chastlet de Luzancy of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts This Divine who made a great noise in his time was the Son of a famous common Woman named Beauchasteau a Player belonging to the Hostel de Burgoyn at Paâ—is and educated in the University there as I shall tell you by and by Afterwards he became Usher or Regent of the fifth form among the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine at Vitry then lived among the Monks at Vendosme and a little after in the service of a Bishop then in the Abbey of Trape next with another Prelate and at length a Preacher errant here and there but chiefly at Montdidier in Picardy where counterfeiting the name of Luzancy by a bill signed with that name he cheated the Damoizele Cartiâ—r of a piece of money So that by that and other pranks which expos'd him to the pursuit of Justice he left France went into England by the name of De la March which he quitted about a month after his arrival and at length to London without clothes without shoes without money and without any recommendation from France Soon after upon his own word and at the instance of some who solicited in his behalf he was permitted to get into the Pulpit at the Savoy within the liberty of Westminster not only to declare the motives of his conversion but his abjuration from and abhorrency of the Roman Catholick Faith which was solemnly done on the eleventh of July an 1675. The discourse he made and
Rhine and Prince Elector of the Empire elder Brother to Pr. Rupert and he the Son of Frederick Co. Pal. of the Rhine Pr. Elect. of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of King Jam. 1. of England was received with solemnity the day before in the University and took up his Lodgings in the Deans apartment in Ch. Ch. The next day being conducted to the publick Schools by the Bishop and others and thence to the Apodyterium he was there habited in scarlet with some of his retinue Thence he was conducted by the Beadles and Dr. Morison the Botanick Professor who at that time executed the office of the Kings Professor of Phys then absent to the Theater where the Convocation was solemnized And coming near to the Vicech Seat the said Doctor presented him with a little Speech which being done the Vicech created him with another and then was conducted to his seat of state on the right hand of the Vicechancellour All which with the Creation of some of his retinue being finish'd the Orator complemented him with another Speech in the name of the University The next day his Highness left Oxon went to Hampton Court and just at his arrival there Sept. 12 news was brought him that his Father died suddenly at Edingen between Manheim and Frankendale on the 7 of the said month according to the account there followed Philip Christopher de Koningsmarck Count or Earl of Westerwick and Stegholme Lord in Rotenburg and New-house was created Doct. of Physick the same day Sept. 9. as one of the retinue of the aforesaid Electoral Pr. He was Brother if I mistake not to Charles John Count of Koningsmarck who in the latter end of 1681 was committed to Newgate and brought to a publick trial of his life for a deep suspicion of having a signal hand in the murder of Tho. Thynne of Longleat in Wilts Esq in revenge as 't was then said for depriving him of his Mistress called Elizabeth Countess of Ogle dau and heir of the antient and illustrious family of Piercy Earl of Northumberland William Dutton Colt an Engl. man Master of the Horse to Prince Rupert Uncle to the Elect. Pr. He is now or else was lately his Majesties Resident at Lunenberg and Brunswick Eberhardus Frederic à Venningen of Alsatia in Germany Master of the Game or Hunting to the Elect. Prince Abraham Dorr a German of Hanaw Joh. Bernhardus Ferber a Saxon. These four last were of the retinue of his Electoral Highness Feb. 25. Andr. de Mellevil a Knight and Colonel Feb. 25. Anton. de Saictot These last two who were of the retinue of the Prince of Hannover were created Doct. of Phys after the said Prince had been created Doct. of the Civil Law Doct. of Div. Sept. 9. Fred. Christian Wincherus Professor of Medicine in Heidelberg as in the pub reg 't is said was created in the same Convocation wherein the Electoral Prince was created being one of his retinue Oct. 21. Thom. Hinde Bach. of Div. of Brasn Coll. and Chaplain to James Duke of Ormonde He succeeded in the Deanery of Limerick in Ireland one Dr. Will. Smith promoted to the See of Killala and died in his house in Limerick in the month of Nov. 1689. An. Dom. 1681. An. 33. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde who being as yet in Ireland did on the 2 of June this year upon notice received that some of the delegated power were dead appoint new Delegates to manage and execute in his absence all powers and jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton again nominated by the Chanc. Letters dat at Kilkenny 27. Sept. confirmed by Convocation 2. Oct. Proct. Joh. Halton of Qu. Coll. Apr. 13. Rich. Oliver of S. Jo. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Hudson of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters 1684. 5. Will. Digby of Magd. Coll. He succeeded his Brother Simon sometimes of Magd. Coll. in the honour of Baron of Geashill in Ireland which Simon who had succeeded in the said Barony his elder Brother Robert mention'd in these Fasti an 1676 died on the 19 of January 1685 and was buried in the Church of Coleshull in Warwickshire among the graves of his Ancestors Oct. 27. Rich. Stafford of Magd. Hall Soon after he went to one of the Temples to study the Law and is now a frequent Writer See in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 829. Dec. 1. Joh. Jones of Trin. Coll lately of New Inn. 17. Leopold William Finch of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsey Adm. 177. Bach. of Law June 6. Joh. Northleigh of Exet. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. and a publisher of certain books Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. June 10. Tho. Bent of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in or near Friday-street in London bred in the quality of a Com. in the said Coll and afterwards travelled but died before he had consummated his intended journey He hath translated from French into English An historical defence of the Reformation in answer to a book entit Just prejudices against the Calvinists Lond. 1683 in a pretty large qu originally written by Monsieur Claud Minister of the reformed Church at Charenton The Translator hath a preface to this book wherein he saith that the Romanists caused the said book of Claud to be burned in France This Mr. Bent died at Geneva 21. of May 1683 aged 23 years and was buried in the Cemitery or Yard on the south side of the Church of S. Gervaice there Soon after was a monument fixed on the wall of that Church near his grave with an Epitaph thereon made by Richard Blackmore M. A. of S. Edm. Hal◠which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Adm. 95. Bach. of Phys Feb. 9. Samuel Derham of Magd. Hall Adm. 4. Bach. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Hugh Barrow of Corp. Ch. Coll. Oct. 27. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. March 2. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. Mr. Barrow who is now Rector of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad Pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire hath written A brief account of the Nullity of K. James's title and of the obligation of the present Oathes of Allegiance Lond. 1689. qu. He is a learned man and able to write other things which would without doubt be more pleasing to the sober part of Scholars As for Mr. Cade who was now or about this time Rector of Allington and Vicar of Smeeth in Kent hath published The foundation of Popery shaken or the Bishop of Romes Supremacy opposed in a Sermon on Matth. 16.18.19 Lond. 1678. qu. Mar. 2. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain of S. Saviours in Southwark and author of A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Lond. in Guild-hall Chappel on Sunday 20.
Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law July 27. Edward Filmer of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll. Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Doct. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. and is now Bishop of Gloc. 20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 hath published 1 The State-informer enquired into Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15 part of the 3. and 4. verses Lond. 16â—4 qu. 2 Englands restauration parallel'd in Judges or the Primitive Judge and Counsellour Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689 on Isay 1.26.27 Lond. 1689. qu. July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch. He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington and after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680. Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. This learned Divine who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam in a Greek fol according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition an 1550 wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with both at home and abroad Also the Readings of the Fathers Greek and Latine with a judgment upon such Lections as are more considerable with large annotations upon them together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture and other places illustrative of particular words or passages in each verse placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference by which in every verse may be seen what part of each verse the said places of Scripture do refer to This most elaborate work was began above 15 years since and without intermission carried on with great industry and care He hath consulted all the antient Mss of the whole or any part of the New Test now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentick Ms copies at Rome Paris and Vienna The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon and the impression began at his charge in his Lordships Printing-house near the Theater After the said Bishops death his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking the author Dr. Mill refunded the prime costs and took the impression on himself and at his proper expence it is now so near finish'd that the publication is expected within an year with very learned Prolegomena that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test and other most early records of the Church Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nov. going before In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div. but whether he did so it appears not Incorporations Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year mostly after the Act but not one of them is yet a Writer as I can yet find Among them was Byron Needham Brother to Tho. Visc Kilmurrey in Ireland July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge This person who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsore about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh as it seems is a learned man as divers books published by him in English and Lat. shew the titles of which are now too many to be here set down See before in p. 286. Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year May 2 he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire Creations Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton of Ch. Ch being about to leave the University was actually created Mast of Arts. Charles Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland of Ch. Ch the eldest Son of Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquess is now Duke of Beaufort These two young Noblemen were presented by the publick Orator each with a little speech This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the publick Library one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things and afterwards became Professor of Div. in the University of Altorf Rector of a Church in Nuremberg c. An. Dom. 1682. An. 34. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Oct. 6. Proct. Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll. The first of these two who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl was born and bred in the Free-school there and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll when Bach. of Arts he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh in oct Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson To this Letter are added Two Prayers one for the submission to the divine Will another for contentment This ingenious and religious young man died in his Fathers house 20. Decemb. 1684 and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mention'd on the W. side of the Pulpit The other Rob. Harrison who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest which hapned at Oxford May 31. an 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book which is not yet extant entit Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus c. taken mostly from Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. and said to be written by a well-wisher to Astron
Tho. Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 132. Bach. of Phys Five Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. June 15. Rob. Huntingdom of Mert. Coll. 22. Rog. Altham of Ch. Ch. On the 24 of Nov. 1691 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. Edw. Pococke deceased Jul. 4. Tho. Sayer of S. Joh. Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Surrey Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 22. John Conant of Mert. Coll. He is now an Advocate in Doctors Commons c. Doct. of Phys May 9. Will. Gibbons of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 4. David Williams of Oriel Coll. The last of these two accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Jun. 15. Abrah Campion of Trin. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder the other who was an Accumulator was lately made Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and on the 31 of March 1692 was nominated Bish of Kilmore 22. Tho. Smith of Magd. Coll. 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. The last was soon after made Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 2. Tho. Turner of C. C. Coll. Comp. Jul. 2. Will. Turner of Trin. Coll. Comp. The first of these two who were brothers and both the sons of Dr. Tho. Turner sometimes Dean of Canterbury was installed Archd. of Essex in the place of Dr. Edward Layfield deceased in January 1680 was elected President of C. C. Coll. on the death of Dr. Neulin 13 March 1687 and after the death of Dr. Crowther he became Chantor of S. Pauls Cath. in London c. He hath published A sermon preached in the Kings Chap. at Whitehall 29 May 1685 on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1685. qu. At which time he was Chap. in ord to his Maj. The other Dr. Will. Turner had been collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland on the death of Dr. Is Basire 30 Oct. 1676 and dying in Oxon 20 Apr. 1685 aged 45 or thereabouts was buried in the Church of S. Giles there near to the monument of Alderman Henr. Bosworth father to Elizabeth mother to the wife of the said Dr. W. Turner Jul. 2. Tho. Beale of C. C. Coll. Jul. 2. Tho. Bevan of Jes Coll. The last of these two who is now beneficed in his native Country of Wales hath written The Prayer of Prayers or the Lords Prayer expounded Lond. 1673. oct dedicated to Nich. Lloyd M. A. and Tho. Guidott Bach. of Physick of Wadh. Coll. 5. Henr. Maurice of Jes Coll. 5. Jam. Jeffryes of Jes Coll. The first was a Compounder the other had been installed Canon of Canterbury 8 Nov. 1682 by the endeavours of his brother Sir George Jeffryes and died in few years after 6. Nich. Hall of Wadh. Coll. a Compounder He was now Treasurer and Can. resid of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter which he obtained by the favour of Dr. A. Sparrow Bishop thereof whose daâ— or else near Kinswoman he had married Incorporations Eighteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated after the Act Jul. 10 among whom were Adam Oatley of Trin. Hall as also one John Lowthorpe of S. Johns Coll. in that University afterwards Author of A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Burnet in answer to his Lordships pastoral Letter printed in 5 sh and an half in qu. in July 1690 Which being esteemed a pernitious scandalous seditious and notorious Libel against the K. and Government c. he the said Mr. Lowthorpe was indicted for high misdemeanour in Sept. following at the Sessions in the Old Bayly in London And the matter being fully proved against him he was fined 500 Marks and condemned to be degraded of his Ministerial Function the 400 Copies also of the said Letter to the L. B. of Salisbury c. that were found in his custody were then ordered to be burnt by the common Hangman in the Pallace yard at Westminster at Charing Cross and without Temple Barr. Jul. 11. Joh. Eliot Doct. of Phys of Cath. Hall in Cambr. Mar. 4. Edw. Gee M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in the said Univ was then incorporated This learned Divine who is of the Gees of Manchester in Lancash is now Rector of S. Benedicts Church near Pauls Wharf in London and Chapl. in ord to their Majesties King Will. â— and Q. Mary He hath written and published several books mostly against Popery which came out in the Reign of K. Jam. 2 the titles of which I shall now for brevity sake omit CREATIONS Mar. 26. Sir George Wheeler Kt sometimes Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll was actually created Mast of Arts. He had been before recommended to the Members of the ven Convocation for that degree by the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University who by their Letters told them that He is a person of great integrity and affection to the interests of Learning and the Church that he had spent several years in travel in the eastern parts and had brought back with him divers pieces of Antiquity and as a testimony of his respects and kindness to his Mother the University hath deposited them in this place c. This Gent. who about the same time took holy Orders was in the month of Dec 1684 installed Preb. of Durham upon the promotion of Dr. Dennis Greenvill to the Deanery thereof and is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers In the month of May his Royal Highness James Duke of York with his Royal Consort Josepha Maria or Beatricia Maria with the Lady Anne his daughter were entertain'd by the University of Oxon and it being the Duke's pleasure that some of his retinew should be created Doctors of the Civil Law there was a Convocation celebrated in the morning of that day May 22 of his departure wherein these following persons were created Doctors of that faculty viz. Doct. of Law John Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Baron of Ophalia in Ireland Christopher Lord Hatton Visc Gretton Governour of Garnsey or Guernsey I have made mention of his father in these Fasti among the created Doctors of Law in 1642. Heneage Finch eldest son of Heneage Earl of Winchelsea Captain of the Kings Halbadiers and one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York Joh. Werden Bt Secretary to the said Duke Joh. Conway Bt. Hugh Grosvener Esq Tho. Cholmondeley Esq Joh. Egerton Esq The second of these last three was afterwards a Knight for Cheshire to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 19 May 1685. 1 Jac. 2. May 23. Rob. Bulkley second son of Rob. Lord Bulkley Visc Cashels in Ireland He was nominated the day before to be created but did not then appear as others then nominated did not at that time or afterwards Among such were Henry Mâ—rdant Earl of Peterborough and Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon which last who was son of James Earl of Roscommon was educated from his youth in all kind of polite Learning but whether he had spent any time in
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
of what he farther intends c. On the eleventh of the said month of March the Diploma for his Creation was sealed c. This learned Doctor who is a Yorkshire man born and had been bred up under Sir Matthew Lister mentioned in the Fasti of the first vol. of this Work p. 793. was educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards of the Royal Society and after when Doctor Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Among several things that he hath written are 1 Historiae Animalium Angliae tres tractatus c. Lond. 1678. qu. An account of which is in the Philos Transactions numb 139. pag. 2 De Fontibus medicatis Angliae exercitat nov prior Ebor. 1682. c. oct An account of which is also in the said Phil. Trans nu 144. This was reprinted at Lond. with additions 1684 oct and to it was added De Fontibus medicatis Angliae exercitatio altera dedicated to the Univ. of Oxon 3 Historiae Conchyliorum liber primus qui est de cochleis terrestibus Lond. 1685. fol. All represented in cuts c. There be also several of his Letters Enquiries c. in the said Transactions nu 70.72.73.75.76.77.79.83 c. 87.89.95.105.117.144.145.147.149 c. Also in Philosophical Collections numb 4. c. Doct. of Div. June 4. Thom. White Mast of Arts and Chapl. to James Duke of York or rather to the Lady Anne was declared Doct. of Div. and two days after was diplomated On the 13 of Aug. following he was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Vere Harcourt deceased who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Will. Robinson in Sept. 1660 and being nominated Bishop of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Lloyd to the See of Norwych in the latter end of July 1685 was consecrated thereunto in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Oct. following at which time Rich. Blechynden Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon preached the Consecration Sermon This worthy person who was born in Kent and educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge was one of the six Bishops that were with the most religious and conscientious William Archb. of Canterbury committed Prisoners to the Tower of London on the 8 of June 1688 for subscribing and delivering a Petition to his Maj. King James 2 wherein they shewed their great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience c. which was then esteemed libellous and seditious Afterwards coming to their Trial in Westminster Hall on the 25 of the same month they were quitted to the great rejoycing of the generality of people After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown and setled he was one of those Bishops together with the said Archb that were deprived of their respective Sees for not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and the Qu Whereupon Dr. Rich. Cumberland of Cambridge being nominated to the said See of Peterborough by their Majesties he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691. An. Dom. 1684. An. 36 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Joh. Lloyd again Sept. 1. Proct. Joh. Massey of Mert. Coll. Apr. 9. Philip Clerk of Magd. Coll. Apr. 9. Bach. of Arts. May 15. Peter Lancaster of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters an 1686. Jun. 13. Francis Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Jun. 13. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. See more of the last of these two among the Masters 1687. Adm. 153. Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one yet is a Writer Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joh. Norris of All 's Coll. Jun. 13. Rob. Boothe of Ch. Ch. a younger son of George Lord Delamere and brother to the Earl of Warrington Feb. 12. Joh. Hudson of Qu. afterwards of Vniv Coll. The last of these three is Author of Introductio ad Chronologiam sive Art Chronologica in Epitome redacta Oxon. 1691. oct c. Adm. 100. Bach. of Phys Only three were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 3. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch. Nov. 17. Joh. Hughes of Ball. Coll. While he was Master of Arts he published A Sermon on Psal 107.23.24 preached before George Earl of Berkley Governour and the company of Merchants of England trading in the Levant Seas c. It was preached in S. Peters Ch. in Broadstreet 18 Nov. 1683 the author being then Fellow of Ball. Coll. and Chapl. to James Lord Chandois Ambassador at Constantinople Dec. 17. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. This Divine who is now Rector of Kiddington near Wodstock in Oxfordshire hath published Fides Ecclesiae Anglicanae vindicata ab incertitudine Sive concio coram Academia Oxoniensi habita ineunte Termino Octob. 9. an 1688 in S. Matth. 6.23 Oxon. 1688. quart Adm. 17. Doct. of Phys Jul. 1â— Rob. Smith of Wadh. Coll. 9. Richard Adams of All 's Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder Doct. of Div. May 6. Barnab Long of Magd. Coll. a Compounder On the 6 of Feb. 1681 he was installed Prebend of Boterant in the Church of York and on the 24 of May 1682 of Stillington in the said Church on the death of Dr. Hen. Bridgman who had kept it in commendam with the See of Man On the 10 of Jan. 1682 he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake and dying in the house of Dr. Will. Beaw B. of Landaff at Adderbury in Oxfordshire he being then dignified in the Church of Landaff about the eleventh of Apr. 1685 was buried in the Church there In his Archdeaconry was installed Joh. Burton M. A. 29 Jul. 1685. Jul. 3. Charles James of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity 9. Thom. Bayley of Magd. Coll. Oct. 21. Joh. Meare of Brasn Coll. This person who accumulated the degrees in Div was elected Principal of his Coll. on the death of Dr. Thom. Yate 7 May 1681. 30. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. On the ninth of Apr. 1673 he was admitted Savilian Professor of Astronomy on the resignation of Sir Christoph Wren which place he leaving for the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks David Gregory M. A. of the Univ. of Edenburgh was admitted to it after he had been incorporated in the same degree 6 Feb. 1691. On the 18 of the said month and in the same year he accumulated the degrees in Physick and is now a Master Com. of Ball. Coll. This Gent who was born at Aberdene and mostly educated there hath extant Exercitatio Geometrica de dimensione Figurarum Sive specimen methodi generalis dimetiendi quasdam figuras Edenb 1684. qu at which time he was Mathematick Professor there Dec. 2. Thom. Crosthwait of Qu. Coll. Dec. 2. Beaumont Percival of New Coll. The first of these two was elected Principal of S. Edm. Hall on the
Ch. Ch. May 28. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. Dec. 9. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. See among the Masters in 1690. Adm. 143. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Thom. Wood of New Coll. Besides him were five more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 11. Joh. Cave of Linc. Coll. This Gentleman who is Son of a Father of both his names mention'd among the Writers p. 648 hath written and published Daphnis A pastoral Elegy on the death of that hopeful Gent Mr. Franc. Wollaston Oxon. 1685. c. Apr. 20. Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. Adm. 84. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Nov. 24. Will. Hallifax of C. C. C. He hath translated from French into English The Elements of Euclid explain'd in a new but most easie method Oxon. 1685. oct Written by F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales of the Society of Jesus Feb. 18. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law June 25. Rich. Parsons of New Coll. 30. Will. Rimes of New Coll. The first of these two is now Chanc. of the Dioc. of Glocester June 30. Joseph Woodward of Or. Coll. July 2. George Gardiner of All 's Coll. The first of these two accumulated July 7. Rich. Aldworth of S. Joh. Coll. 8. Philip Forster of Oriel Coll. 8. Lew. Atterbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these last three was a Compounder and the last an Accumulator Doct. of Phys June 30. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. July 2. Will. Gould of Wadh. Coll. July 2. Will. Coward of Mert. Coll. The last of these two translated into Lat. heroick verse the English Poem called Absalom and Achitophel Oxon. 1682 in 5. sh in qu. Written by Joh. Driden Esq Poet Laureat to K. Ch. 2. It was also about the same time translated by Franc. Atterbury and Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. July 8. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. July 8. Joh. Foley of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was incorporated Bach. of Phys of this University as he before had stood at Dublin 20 of April this year Doct. of Div. June 22. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. On the 15 of Apr. 1687 he was elected President of his Coll in the place of Dr. Hen. Clerk deceased and on the 22 of June following being the day of his admission to the degree of D. D. he was removed thence by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sitting at Westm to make room for Dr. Parker Bishop of Oxon whom the K. had nominated appointed and commanded to succeed Dr. Clerk upon the laying aside of Anth. Farmer See more in Sam. Parker among the Writers p 617. At length the Prince of Orange being about to come into England to take upon him the government thereof he was restored to his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winch. commission'd for that purpose by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 on the 25 of Octob. 1688 after Dr. Parker had enjoyed it during his natural life and after the removal thence of his Successor Bonaventure Gifford by his Majesties command Afterwards Dr. Hough succeeded Tim. Hall in the See of Oxon with liberty allowed him to keep the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. in Commendam with it July 2. Edward Winford of All 's Coll. 8. Thom. Bayley of New Inn. 8. Sam. Eyre of Linc. Coll. The first of these two was admitted Principal of his Inn or Hall on the resignation of Mr. Will. Stone 12 of Aug. 1684. The other was afterwards Preb. of Durham Incorporations The Act being put off again no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only a Bach. of Law from Dublin July 6. Creations In a Convocation held 15 Dec. were Letters read from the Chanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel born aâ— Rochelle partly bred under his Father an eminent Physitian and two years or more in the University of Samur to be created Bach. of the Civ Law but whether he was created or admitted it appears not He and his Father were French Protestants and were lately come into England to enjoy the liberty of their religion which they could not do in France because of their expulsion thence by the King of that Country Tho his Maj. K. Jam. 2. was entertained by the University in the beginning of Sept. this year yet there was no creation made in any faculty which was expected and gaped after by many An. Dom. 1688. An. 4. Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he dying at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on the 21. of July his Grandson James lately a Noble man of Ch. Ch. Son of his eldest Son Thom. Earl of Ossory was unanimously elected into his place in a Convocation held at 10. in the morning of the 23 of the same month The next day came a Mandat from his Majesty for George Lord Jeffreys L. Chanc. of England to be elected Chanc. of the University but the former election being not in a possibility to be revoked there were Letters sent to satisfie his Majesty concerning that matter The said James Duke of Ormonde was installed in his house in S. James's Square within the liberty of Westminster on the 23 of Aug. following which being concluded followed an entertainment for his noble Friends acquaintance and the Academians equal to if not beyond any that had been made by the present King or his Predecessor Vicechanc. Gilb. Ironside D. D. Sept. 19. Proct. Thom. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 26. Will. Christmas of New Coll. Apr. 26. The 25 of Apr. being S. Marks day and the first day of the Term their admission was not till the next Bach. of Arts. June 19. Samuel Westley of Exeter Coll. This person hath written and published Maggots or Poems on several subjects never before handled Lond. 1685. oct Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Mast of Arts. June 19. Will. Nicholls of Mert. Coll. He hath written An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel c. July 6. Francis Hickman of Ch. Ch. Comp. July 6. William King of Ch. Ch. Comp. Adm. 89. Bach. of Physick Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Five were admitted but not one as yet a Writer or Dignitary Doct. of Law Mar. 23. Charles Finch of All 's Coll a younger Son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Ballard of New Coll. Doct. of Div. July 6. Henry Hill of C. C. Coll. 7. Thom. Houghton of New Coll. The last of which was an Accumulator and Compounder 7. Roger Mander of Ball. Coll. 7. Peter Birch of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was elected Master of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Joh. Venn deceased 23 Oct. 1687. The other who is now Preb. of Westminster hath published A Sermon before the H. of Commons on John 26.3 Printed at the Savoy 1689 qu. Incorporations The Act being now the fourth time put off not one Cambridge Master was incorporated
he suffer in England where he then was for keeping close and adhering to the oathes of allegiance which he had taken to the said K. Jam. 2 by being deprived of the Professorship of History founded by the learned Camden to the great prejudice of learning He lives now obscurely mostly in his Cell in the north suburb of Oxon and is preparing his learned Lectures and several useful discourses for the press An. Dom. 1689. An. 1. Will. 3. An. 1. Qu. Mary Chanc. The most Illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Brecknock and Ossory Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Gent. of the Bedchamber to his Majesty Chancellour of the University of Dublin and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Vicechanc. Jonathan Edwards D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Sept. 25. Proct. Will. Cradocke of Magd. Coll. Ap. 10. Thom. Newey of Ch. Church Ap. 10. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 10. Thom. Fletcher of New Coll. He hath lately published Poems on several occasions and Translations c. 20. Albemarle Bertie of Vniv Coll. a younger Son of Robert Earl of Lindsey c. Adm. 145. Bach. of Law Two were admitted but not one yet a Writer Mast of Arts. May 30. Francis Willis of New Coll. June 6. Edw. Hannes of Ch. Ch. July 4. Geo. Smalridge of Ch. Ch. Adm. 77. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. July 5. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. July 5. Tho. Benet of Vniv Coll. The last was 〈…〉 Master of his Coll upon the death of Dr. Edw. Ferrar 〈…〉 and died there 12 of May 1692. Oct. 31. 〈…〉 Wadham Coll. Adm. 10. ☞ Not on◠〈…〉 was admitted this year 〈◊〉 of Phys July 3. 〈…〉 Joh. Coll. July 3. 〈…〉 Mert. Coll. 5. Francis 〈…〉 Coll. 6. Wilhelm 〈…〉 Coll. Doct. of Div. July 4. Will. Harris of New Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. 5. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. a Comp. This person who was a younger Son of Arthur Earl of Anglesie was now Preb. of Westminster and Dean of Exeter which last Dignity he obtained on the death of Dr. George Cary in the beginning of Febr. 1680 and Cary on the promotion of Dr. Seth Ward to the Episc See of Exeter July 5. Zacheus Isham of Ch. Ch. Compound July 5. William Wake of Ch. Ch. Compound The first of these two is now Canon of Canterbury and the last who accumulated the degrees in Div was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. Hen. Aldrich promoted to the Deanery thereof 20. June 1689. July 5. Joh. James of Ch. Ch. July 5. Edw. Ferrar of Vniv Coll. The first of these two became Chanc. of the Church of Exeter in the place of Dr. Joh. Copleston deceased an 1689 The other was elected Master of his Coll. upon the removal of Mr. Obadiah Walker for being a Roman Catholick on the 15 of Feb. 1688. He died suddenly in his Lodgings in Vniv Coll. 13. Feb. 1690 whereupon Mr. Tho. Benet Rector of Winwick in Lanc. was elected into his place as I have before told you among the Bach. of Div. Incorporations The Act being now the fifth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated at that time June 21. Joh. Deffray a French Protestant M. of A. of Samur He was lately forced out of his Country upon account of Religion July 4. Rich. Bentley M. A. of Cambr. This Divine who was of S. Johns Coll. in that University was now and after a Master-Com of Wadham Coll and afterwards domestick Chaplain to Edward L. Bishop of Worcester and author of 1 The folly of Atheisme and what is now called Deism even with respect to the present life Sermon preached in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields 7. March 1691 on Psal 14.1 being the first lecture founded by the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq Lond. 1692. qu. 2 Matter and motion cannot think or a confutation of Atheism from the faculties of the Soul Serm. preached at S. Mary-le-Bow 4. Apr. 1692 being the second Lecture founded by the hon Rob. Boyle Esq on Acts 17.27 Lond. 1692. qu. He hath also extant a Latin Epist to John Mill D.D. containing some Critical observations relating to Johan Malala a Greek Historiographer published at the end of that author at Oxon. 1691. in a large oct The said Mr. Bentley who is a Yorkshire man born designs to publish other things Creations June 15. Joh. Mesnard was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he had been 16 years Minister of the reformed Church of Paris at Charenton and afterwards Chaplain to his Majesty K. Will. 3. when he was Prince of Orange for some years in which quality he came with him into England that he has his Majesties warrant to succeed Dr. Is Vossius in his Prebendary of Windsore c. Feb. 26. George Walker an Irish Minister lately Governor of London-Derry and the stout Defender of it against the Forces under the command of K. Jam. 2. when they besieged it in Apr. May. c. this year was after he had been presented by the Kings Professor of Divinity actually created Doct. of that faculty He was born of English Parents in the County of Tyrone as 't is said educated in the University of Glascow and afterwards beneficed at Dungannon many miles distant from the City London-Derry To which place retiring when the Protestants therein and in those parts were resolv'd to keep and defend it against Richard Earl of Tirconnel Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Forces under K. Jam. 2 he became a Defendant therein and at length Governour of it which he managed with great prudence and valour After the siege was raised and that part of the Country secured from the incursions of the said Forces he went into England to pay his respects to K. Will. 3 who receiving him graciously was highly caress'd by the Courtiers and afterwards by the Citizens of London at which time the common discourse was that Dr. Hopkins Bishop of London-Derry should be translated to Chichester and Mr. Walker succeed him in Derry He hath published A true account of the siege and famous defence made at London-Derry Lond. 1689. qu. c. 2 Vindication of the true account c. Ibid. 1689. qu. c. Afterwards being about to return to Ireland to do further service therein for his Majesty he obtained the Letters of the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him so that taking Oxford in his way in the company of Dr. Joseph Veasey Archb. of Tuam he was created as before I have told you Thence he went into Ireland where having a command confer'd on him in the English Army he received his deaths wound in the very beginning of July an 1690 at what time the said Army passed over
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâ—ey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kâ—rk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws
173.212.271 Martin Tho. 280 Marvell Andr. 126.619.838 Massey Joh. 870.889 Mason Cha. 713.714 Hen. 56 Massonet Pet. 738 Master Joh. 862. Sam. 839. Tho. 19. VVill. 581 Mather Cot. 306. Eleaz. ibid. Incr. 306.385 Nath. 306. Rich. 305. Sam. 357 Mathew Tob. 120 Mathews Joac 777. Sim. 189 Maton Rob. 123 Maule Pat. 436.515 Maurice Hen. 843.878 Maxwell Jo. 504.515 Jam. 436 Maynard Joh. 335.641.651 Jos 827. Will. 773 Mayne Jasâ— 372.127.128 Zach. 784 Mayow Jo. 474.475 Rich. 353 Meara Edâ— 403 Mead Rob 95 Meade Ma. 377 Meare Jo. 812.895 Meddens â—o 904 Mede Geo. 779 Meggot Râ—ch 668 Mellevil â—nd 887 Meredith Jo. 713 Merick Wâ—ll 809 Meriton Jo. 796 Merriot Tho. 195 Mennes J. 350.193.474 Mat. 351. Tho. ibid. Merrymaâ— Capt. 763 Merton â—oll it s Christmas Lord 153 Mervin â—ich 822 Meryweaâ—er Jo. 535 Mesnard â—o 903 Metcalf â—dr 733 Metford Jam. 807. Joh. 821 Mews Pâ— 338.660.809.675.865 Michell â—av 819.822 Micklethiait Jo. 745 Middleto Cha. E. of 808.830 Jo. 83 Middleto Jo. 117 Mildmay Ant. 519.527.763 Hen. 521 Mill Jo. 895.888 Millingm Tho. 803 Mills Jo 746.747 Milton Jâ— 249.441.582 Milwarâ— Jo. 746. Rich. 111 Mody or Moody Hen. 710. Liv. 889 Moine Seph 875 Molins â—ill 738 Mompesâ— Tho. 498 Monke â—â—ch 660.661.811 Monmouâ— Jam. Duke of 828 Monro Ax. 633 Monson J. 708. Will. 521 Monsson â—m 869 Montaguâ— Cha. 837. Edw. 836. Hen. 8â— Joh. 554. Rob. 837. Walt. 86.837 See Mountague see Maâ—â—hester Montgome Godf. Earl of 825 Moore Gar 880. Joh. 864 Moray He. 515. R. 503. See Murrey Mordant Câ— 622 More Geo. 299. Hen. 253 254.425.42â— 498.499.500.577 Morehouse â—mb 455 Moreton Jo Card. 367. Will. 880 Morgan Dr 533 Morgan An 743. Mat. 859. Will. 264 Morice VVi 422. c. Morison Rol 851.852 Morley Chaâ— 77. Franc. 581. Geor. 581.582 c. 535.602.683 Morrys Sam â—55 Moryson Frâ—c 434 Morsteyn Fâ—st 792 Morstin Miâ— 897 Morton Jo. 88. Rich. 858. Tho. 668 Morwent Ch 568 Mosson Rob. 53.448.667 Moulin Lew 753.552.553.554 Pet. 791 Mountague ha 890. Ra. 622. Rich. 39.59 Sidn 304. See Montague Muddiman â—n 468.469 Mulcaster Râ— 108 Mulgrave Jâ— E. of 893 Mundy Fra â—16 Hen. 532 Murcot Jo. 112 Murrey Roâ— 253.255 Tho. 65. See Mora Musgrave Tâ— 897. Will. 890.896 Musick unkâ—â—wne 658 Musket Grâ— 38 Myriel Hen. 706 N. NAlson Jh. 645 Napie Rich. 712 Nassau Will. Hen. 856.857 Hen. 857. Will. ibid. Naylor Rich. 787 Neale Will. 338 Neast Tho. 773 Nedham Byr. 889. Gasp 788. Marchim 465.466 c. 316.328.476.545 Needler Ben. 531 Neile Joh. 405.864 Will. 338 Nelme Jo. 690 Neoburg Prince of 871 Nethersole Sir Franc. 440 Neve Sir Will. 707 Nevill Hen. 438.439.534 Newborough Rich. 820 Newcastle Will. Duke of 262. Marg. Duchess 835 Newell Rob. 822 Newport Franc. Lord 773 Newton Geor. 508.299.301 Hen. 881. Humph. 472 Joh. 471.472.851 Nicolls Dan. 794. Ferd. 150.447 Rich. 822. Rowl 737. Will. 682.900 Nicholas Joh. 812.837.871.880 Math. 670.732 Nicholson Will. 870 Nicolson VVill. 362.675 Nisbett Hen. 722 Noble VVill. 881 Noel E. of Gainsborough 622 Norfolke Hen. Duke of 698.808.846.896 Norgate Tho. 737 Norris Joh. 144.877 VVill. 692 North Francis 397.904 Joh. 850. Northampton Geor. Earl of 889. Jam. 707. Spencer 695 Northleigh Jo. 888 Northumberland Geor. Duke of 829. Joss Earl of 866 Norton Joh. 334 Nottingham Earl of see Finch Nourse Joh. 688. Tim. 793. Tho. 688 Noy VVill. 312.317.424 Nye Hen. 370. Joh. ibid. Phil. 368.369 c. 376 O. OAtley 878. Ad. 892 O Bryen Hen. 792 Ogilby Joh. 262.263.264 Okes Joh. 863 Okey Joh. 758 Oldenburgh Hen. 792 Oldham Hugh 680. Joh. 567.490 Oldis VVill. 715.844 Oldisworth Giles 737 Oley Barn 850 Oliver Joh. 250 Olor Isc 254 Onslow Rich. 228.277 Oratorship of the Vniv 35 Orery Rog. Earl of see Boyle Ormonde Jam. Duke of 546.598.599.853.879.900.902.886 Osborne Joh. 232·333 Osbourne Sir Tho. E. of Danby 430 470 Ossory Jam. Earl of 886. Tho. 626.842 Otho Jo. Hen. 861 Otto Lord 869. Count of Lipstat 894 Otway Tho. 591 Ouchterlon Jo. 871 Ouzelius Jac. 789 Oughtred VVill. 627.628 Owen Corb. 350. Dav. 667. Geor. 874. Joh. 555.556 c. 82.126.201.347.355.362.376.452.464.618.667.782.783 Morg. 655. Rich. 548. Thankf 734. Tho. 793 Oxenbridge Joh. 391 Oxford Garrison surrendred 739 its Loyalty 740 Oxfordshire High Sher. 601 Oxinden Geor. 864 P. PAcker Jo. 791 Page Tho. 714. VVill. 223.224 Paget Jo. 334 Pagit Ephr. 51.52 Palmer Ant. 472. Edw. 845. Jeffr. 718. Jo. 678.747 Sam. 581. Tho. 473 Palmes Br. 708 Paman Hen. 639.788.851 Panzani Greg. 114 Paradise Jo. 789 Pargiter Tho. 874 Parker Hen. 142.143 Joh. 616.660.682 Rob. 586. Sam. 616.617 c. 686.899 Parkhurst Hen. 822 Parkinson Ja. 867.868 Noah 331 Parliam Long 367 Parr Elnath 96. Rich. 48.96.593.658 Parry Ben. 462.177.680 Edw. 657. Jo. 448.680.818 Parsons Rich. 899. Rob. 548.854 VVill. 809 Pask Tho. 600 Pates Rich. 12 Patrick Sim. 840.841.49.685.754.795 Paul VVill. 666 Paybody Tho. 846 Peachel Tho. 897 Pearse Edw. 783 Pearson Jo. 67.237.366.579.605.675 Rich. 675.864 Peirce Rob. 158 Pelling Edw. 548 Pemberton Franc. 566 Pembroke Phil. Herbert E. of 179.364.399.510.515.522.687.716.740.745.749 Pendarves Jo. 127 Pengry Mos 91.861 Penruddock Jo. 269.701.711.755 Penton Steph. 407.840 Pepper Rob. 826 Percival Ant. 289 Percy Hen. 293 Perinchief Rich. 625.885 Perron Jam. 183 Perot or Perrot Ch. 469.781.849 Peterborough Hen. Earl of 698.808 Peters Hu. 369.376.425.494.739 Peto Edw. 695 Petre Edm. 618. VVill. 448 Petrie Alex. 123 Pett Pet. 744 Pettie Max. 439 Petty VVill 609.610 c. 439.750.770 Peyton Edw. 87 Philagathus 562 Philalethes Eiren. 255. Eugen. 253.255 Philipot Jo. 719. Tho. 25 Philipps Cath. 284.347 Edw. 33.34.742 Fath. 88.380 Geor. 794. Jo. 226.621 Steph. 878 Philpot Tho. 739 Pierce Tho. 117.162.288.360.507.629.719.803.843.848.897 Piers Jo. 672. VVill. 671.823 Pierpont Hen. E. of Kingston 706.708 Rob. 706. VVill. 568 Pigott Hen. 809. Tho. 881 Pindar VVill. 854 Pink Rob. 57.577.658.690 Pittis Tho. 613 Plant Fr. 845 Pleydell Jos 500.826 VVill. 725 Plot Rob. 339.817.893 Pocklington Oliv. 792 Pocock Edw. 91.110.565.730.747.771.843 Pointz Jo. 251. Rob. ibid. Polexfen Hen. 788 Polhill Ed. 561 Pollard Hug. 773 Pooley Jo. 891 Pole or Pool Math. 198.451.562.564.796 Pollwhele Deg. 811 Pope Edw. 117. Tho. Earl of Downe 397 Pordage Jo. 450. Jam. 451 Porter Endim. 1.614 Rich. 172 Potter Barn 6.653 Cha. 222. Christop 44.6 Fran. 454. Han. 628. Rich. 455 Pottinger Joh. 739 Poultney VVill. 439 Powell Cha. 839. Joh. 405. Rob. 832. Tho. 165. Vav 343.344 c. 270.116.757 Powis Tho. 539 Pratt Dan. 877 Presbyterians 210.379.414.740.749 Preston Rich. Visc See Graham Prez Ja. 897 Priaulx Joh. 813.840 Price Jo. 430.431.800 Owen 358. Rob. 667. Tho. 875 Prichard Rees 29. Tho. 676 Prichett Joh. 681 Prideaux Edm. 721. Humph. 48 108.861 Joh. 68.69 â—2 50 182.183.657.687.690 Mat. 50 Primerose Archb. 686. Dav. 14.15 Prince Jo. 833 Proast Jonas 839.840 Progulbicki Jo. 747 Prynne VVill. 311.312 c. 30.31 32.78.99.101.120.183.224.328.671.672 Pugh Rob. 304 Puleston Ham. 177 Puller Tim. 818 Pulleyne Jos 215 Puntaeus Jo. 751 Pym Jo. 178.659 Pyperd 203 Q. QVarles Jo. 242.243 Queckfeldt Ben. 789. Gustav ibid. Quick
Thompson Aub. 755. Rich. 843.854 Rob. 864. Sam. 747 Thorne Gil. 691.822 Thornborough Ed. 3. Gil. 3.668 Joh. 1.2.653 Thorndyke Herb. 730 Thorne Edm. 817 Thornton Tho. 349. Will. 811 Thorold Tho. 31 Throckmorton Ralp 813.841 Thurman Hen. 349 Thynne Hen. Fred. 880. Jam. ibid. Tho. 138.622.711 Tickell Jo. 368.750.777 Tillotson Joh. 371.372.488.554.561.851 Tinker alias Littleton W. 406 Tipping Will. 63.64 Tiszabetsi or Tizabetzi Gasp 783. Tho. 792 Tiveot Earl of 811 Todd Hug. 877 Tollet Geo. 591 Tolson Jo. 690 Tombes Joh. 409.410.451 Tomkins Tho. 401 Tomlinson Math. 523.526 Tomson Will. 305 Tonstall Cuth 367. Geor. 885 Tongue Ezr. 501.502 Toogood Rich. 549 Toppe Hen. 168 Touchet Jam. Earl of Castlehaven 599 Towers Will. 260 Towerson Gabr. 783 Townsend Lord 622 Townson Rob. 814 Toy Joh. 223 Tozer Hen. 71.72.739 Traherne Tho. 388 Trapp Jo. 310 Trapham Tho. 765.817 Traâ—ers Walt. 156 Treby Geor. 788 Tregoss Tho. 786 Trelawny Jonath 862 8â— Trelenie Phil. 187 Trench Edm. 745 Trevor Jo. 423 650.8â— Rich. â—19 Trigland Corn. 821 Triplet Tho. 821 Trotzigh Pet. 844 Troughton Joh. 511.512 Will. 513. Trumbull Will. 844 Tuckney Ant. 578 Tuder Mary 8â—9 Tuke Sam. 608 Tully Geor. 868. Tho. 05.99.629.880 Turbervill Daub 811. Tryl 711 Turner Bri. 851. Franc. 54.579.600.620.802 Jer. 21. Joh. 871. Pet. 83.28.91.53 Tho. 892. Will. 534.892 Turnor Tim. 784. Tho. 78 Turnour Edw. 407.408 Tuscany Cosmo Pr. of 478.850 Twells Jo. 848 Twiss Rob. 42. Will. 40.14 Twisden Jo. 89.776 See â—wysden Twyne Bri. 27.28 Twysden Cha. 878. Joh. 31.470 Tyringham Ant. 825 Tyrrell Jam. 284.831 V. VAne Hen. 412 413.4â—.415.416.440.766 Vasson Pet. 791 Vaughan Edm. 332. Edw. 31. Hen. 173.254 Joh. 391.44 Rob. 257. Tho. 253.254 Veal Ed. 335.491.775.81 Venn Joh. 236.897 Venner Tob. 158.439 Venning Ralph 377.385 Venningen Eber. Fred. 87 Verneuil Joh. 57 Verney Grev. 831 Vernon Franc. 445. Geor 89.190.555.793 Vic Hen. 832 Vicars Joh. 85.86.315 Tho. 85 Vigures 686 Villiers VVill. 829 Vilvaine Rob. 216 Vincent Aug. 700. Joh. 100. Tho. 463.737 Nath. 786 Vindigius Paul 882 Viner Tho. 788 Vines Rich. 134.159 â—2 437 Vink Pet. 564 Vitus Ign. 869 Vivian Dan. 709. Fra. 721 Vlacq Joh. 855 Vllock 815 Vossius Is 384.856 Vpman Steph. 864 Vpton Ambr. 746 Vsher Jam. 24.197.20.215.585.592.653.893 W. WAdsworth Jam. 46 Waferer Mirth â—00 Wagstaff Joh. 435. Th 833 Wainwright Joh. 773. Tâ—o 890 Waite Joh. 226. Tho. 6.745 Wake Will. 457.873 Wakeman Geor. 566 Wall Jo. 259 260.3â—â— Waldrond Am. 742 Walker 60. Ant. 796 â—em 77.78.328 Edw. 701. Geâ— 686.903 Joh. 861. Nich. 665 Obad. 456.457.458.738.840.870 Will. 122.123 Waller Edm. 294.893 Hardr. 755.756 Will. 297 29â— 299.756.771 Wallis Joh. 338 406.415.480.627.7â—5.779.785.715.816.826.881 Walls Gâ—o 890 Walsal Franc. 692 Walter Tho. 884. Will. 708.727 Walton Br. 561. Val. 156.769 Walwyn Will. 742 Wandelnus Joh. 873 Waple Idw 823.878 Warburon Geo. 664 Warcup Edm. 470.546.857 Ward Himn 307.818 Jam. 744.765 Mich. 869. Sam. 627.629 Seth 627.480.577.686.785.859 â—97 Ware Jan. 448.725 Waring Rob. 148.740 Walt. 144 Warmstiey Gerâ— 1. Tho. 250.635 Warner 572. Joh. 142.258.259.577.600.667.812 Warren Alb. 382. Joh. 406. Tho. 587.588 Warwick Rob. Earl of 769 Wase Christop 164.331.595 Washboâ—rne Tho. 608. Will. 813 Wassenâ—r Jac. 857 Waterhâ—use Edw. 774. Joh. 774. Rich. 741. Tho. 851 Watkinâ— Rich. 741 Wats Gilb. 134 Watson Rich. 207.534.825.826 Tho. 77.377.383.491.685 Will 904 Weaveâ— Tho. 212 Webb Edm. 862. Geor. 7.654 Jo. 362.882 Theoph. 7. Will. 163.267 Webster Jo. 234.498.499.628.651 Wedderbourne Jam. 736. Joh. 735.806 Weeks Jo. 723 Weemâ— Lod. 729 Weldeâ— Jo. 103 Weldoâ— Rob. 65 Wells Benj. 454.773 Edw. 904. Jer. 474. Joh. 614.454 Wensley Rob. 851 Wentworih Geo. 702. Pet. 419 Werge Rich. 649.746 West Edw. 407. Rich. 814 Westcot Redm 108 Westenius Jo. Rod. 854 Westfield Tho. 656.724 Westley Sam. 900 Wetenhall Edw. 647.806.817 Whaley or Whalley Ed. 760.762.770 Wharton Geor. 509. Phil. 179.543 Tho. 382.743 Wheare Deg. 54.55 Wheeler Geor. 892.878 Maur. 843.855 Whelock Abr. 730 Whetstone Rog. 769 Whistler Dan. 574.788 Whitaker Cha. 705. Jer. 376 Whitby Dan. 792 Whitchcot Chr. 517.528 White Franc. 6. Ign. 869. Joh. 60.358.61.211.236.507 Math. 317. Tho. 796.894 Will. 459. See Albiis Whitfield Ral. 818. Tho. 421 Whitford Dav. 388.389.484 Whitgift Dr. 210 Whitehall Rob. 595.490.596 Whitlock Bulstr 399.179 Jam. 401.645.720 Whitmore Humph. 747 Whitterne Comv 692 Whorwood Bro. 709 Wicherley Will. 816 Wickham Tho. 436 Widdowes Giles 44.227.317 Tho. 118 Wight Tho. 790 Wiggins Will. 617 Wild Rob. 76.196.705.742 Wild Geor. 252 Wildman Joh. 102.439 Wilkins Joh. 370.371.440.628.746.820.838.675 Tho. 819 Wilkinson Hen. 59.397.646.640.748.779 Joh. 770 Willes Joh. 839 William 3. King of Engl. 856.857 Williams Griff. 363.364.675 Joh. 182.183.185.213.363.364.593.684.687.786.819.861 Nath. 873. Tho. 884. Wa. 548. Will. 796.849 Williamson Caes 705. Jos 99.469.797.809.869 Willis Tho. 122.402.602.737.858 Willisford Edw. 718 Willoughby Cha. 834. Fr. 816 Wilmot Joh. 488. See Rochester Wilson Arth. 86. Edm. 736. Joh. 724.848 Nath. 686.833.897 Rowl 139. Tho. 729.797 Wincher Fred. Chr. 887 Winchester Marq. of 622 Windebank Jo. 785 Windet Jam. 789 Windham Ann. 34 Windsore Tho. Lord 622 Wingate Edm. 129 Winkleman Theod. 858 Winniffe Tho. 659 Winnington Franc. 540 Winter Sam. 112 Wise Edw. 776 Wiseman Cap. 793 Wishart Geor. 818. Rob. ibid. Wither Geor. 274.275.279.315.493 Withers Rob. 89 Wittie Rob. 885 Wolfius Tho. 782 Wolley Edw. 715. Joh. 402.845 Wolseley Cha. 228.301 Wolsey Card. 517 Wolveridge Jo. 857 Wood Hen. 829. Jam. 589. Rob. 590.439.790 S. 435. Tho. 550 Wood or à Wood Ant. 481.700 Edw. 117. Tho. 692.742.899 Woodcock Fra. 82.83 Woodbridge Ben. 586 Woodford Sam. 232.789 Woodhead Abra. 455 Woodroff Ben. 802.845 Tim. 434.435 Woodward Hez 394.395 Mich. 811. Rob. 859.896.897 Wooldridge Joh. 857 Woolnough Tho. 398 Woolnove Joh. 871 Werden Jo. 893 Workman Gil. 122. Joh. ibid. Worme Pet. 854 Worsley Edw. 285 Worth Edw. 657. Joh. 891 Worthington Joh. 753 Wotton Hen. 33 Wrench Elias 5 Wrenn Cha. 807. Chr. 669.772.820 Math. 312.440.676.819 Tho. 810 Wright Abr. 640.641 Calv. 655. Jam. 638.642 Rob. 654. Tho. 883 Wroe Rich. 850 Wulferus Jo. 877 Wyat Tho. 840. Will. 835 Wyatt Hen. 8â—1 Rich. 734. VVill. 812.820.849 Wyberd Joh. 785 Wyche Cyr. 837. Pet. 828 Wylton Tho. 366 Wynne Hug. 862. Morg. 813. Rob. 904 Y. YAte Tho. 770.812 Yeâ—verton Cha. 340. Hen. ib. Yerbury Hen. 507.801 Yerworth Sam. 73 York Jam. Duke of 302.419.693.829 Ann Dutchess of 586. See Jam. 2. Young Edw. 845. Jam. 713. Joh. 668. Patr. 137. Pet. 722 Younger Jo. 617.885 Z. ZAnchy Hier. 611.750.766.768.770 Will. 718 Zeiglier Mark 71 Zouche Rich. 166.167.415.534 A CATALOGUE Of part of the SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS BOOK BUT Above one Third are omitted for want of Returning their Names by the BOOKSELLERS that Subscribed for them Those that have this Mark †are Large Paper A. HENRY ALDRICH D. D. Dean of Christ Church Oxon. Dr. Fitzherbert Adams Rector of Linc. Coll. Ox. Roger Altham B. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Oxon. Roger Altham M. A. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. Dr. Ch. Alston Lewis Atterbury D. D. Lewis Atterbury L. L. D. Francis Atterbury M. A.