for plunder'd Ministers at Westminster where he began to make a solemn profession of his faith in Orthodox Language to the admiration of some there that had heard and were ready to witness against him the said blasphemies But the then Chairman took him up and commanded him silence saying we know your tricks well enough c. To say the truth he had Language at command and could dissemble for matter of profit or to avoid danger and it was very well known he was only a meer Cantâ—r However he is characterized by those of his perswasion to have been a holy harmless man for which not only the World hated him but also those of the Church and add that 't is hoped they did it ignorantly On the 12 of Octob. 1653 he with John Webster sometimes a Cambridge Scholar endeavoured to knock down Learning and the Ministry both together in a disputation that they then had against two Ministers in a Church in Lombard-street in London Erbury then declared that the wisest Ministers and purest Churches were at that time befool'd confounded and defiled by reason of Learning Another while he said that the Ministers were Monsters Beasts Asses greedy Dogs false Prophets and that they are the Beast with seven heads and ten horns The same Person also spoke out and said that Babylon is the Church in her Ministers and that the great Whore is the Church in her Worship c. So that with him there was an end of Ministers and Churches and Ordinances altogether While these things were babled to and fro the multitude being of various opinions began to mutter and many to cry out and immediatly it came to a mutiny or tumult call it which you please wherein the Women bore away the bell but lost some of them their kerchiefs And the dispute being hot there was more danger of pulling down the Church than the Ministry This our Author Erbury hath written The great Mysterie of Godliness Jesus Christ our Lord God and Man and Man with God one in Jesus Christ our Lord. Lond. 1640. oct Relation of a publick discourse between him and Mr. Franc. Cheywell in S. Maries Church in Oxon 11. Jan. 1646. Lond. 1646. in 4 sh in qu. published by Cheynell or some of Erburys Party Ministers for tythes proving they are no Ministers of the Gospel Lond. 1653. qu. Sermons on several occasions one of which is entit The Lord of Hosts c. printed 1653. qu. An Olive leaf or some peaceable considerations to the Christian meeting at Ch. Church in London Munday 9. Jan. 1653. The raigne of Christ and the Saints with him on Earth a thousand years one day and the day at hand These two last were printed at London 1654 in one sh and half and dedicated to Mr. John Rogers Mr. Vavasor Powell and other Fanatical People at Ch. Ch. in London His Testimony left upon record for the Saints of succeeding ages printed with his Tryal at Westminster This was published after his death at Lond. 1658. qu. What other things he hath written or go under his name I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in the beginning of the year in April I think sixteen hundred fifty and four and was as I conceive buried either at Ch. Church beforementioned or else in the Cemiterie joyning to Old Bedlam near London Quaere Within few days after was a silly and impudent Pamphlet written and published by J. L. entit A small mite in memory of the late deceased and never to be forgotten Mr. Will. Erbury printed at Lond. in Apr. 1654 in one sheet in oct Whereunto are added Two new Songs one of which are brief touches on the 12. Chapt. of the Revelat. c. to the tune of When the King enjoys his own again The other touching the doing away of sin through our Lord Christ in our Souls c. to the tune of Sound a charge In my readings I meet with one Dorcas alias Mary Erbury who was a great admirer and follower of James Nayler the Quaker after the death of Will. Erbury Which Dorcas who was his Widow did really confess upon her examination for her villanies by a Magistrate that the said Nayler was the holy one of Israel and the only begotten Son of God that he raised her after she had been dead two days and that he should sit at the right hand of the Father and should judge the World with equity c. JOHN GRAYLE Son of Jo. Gr. of Stone in Glocestershire Priest was born in that County entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a Puritannical Preacher In 1645 or thereabouts he succeeded one Mr. George Holmes in the Mastership of the Free-School at Guilford in Surrey and afterwards was made Rector of Tidworth in Wilts where he was much followed by the precise and godly party He hath written against Will. Eyre of Sarum A modest vindication of the Doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace and the Defenders thereof from the aspersions of Arminianisme and Popery Which W. E. cast on them Lond. 1655. qu. published after the Authors death by Constantine Jessop who hath put a preface to it What else our Author hath written unless Sermons I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four was buried in Tidworth Church At which time Dr. Hump. Chambers his neighbour preached his funeral Sermon before the Brethren then in great numbers present In the latter end of which Sermon which is printed as also in the Epistle before it you may read much in commendation of our Author Grayle who tho a Presbyterian yet tinged he was with Arminianisme HENRY ELSYNGE eldest Son of Hen. Els Esq and he the Son of another Henry a Citizen of London Son of John Elsynge of Daxworth in Cambridgshire was born in Surrey particularly as I conceive at Battersey where his Father who was Clerk of the Lords House of Parliament and a Person of great abilities mostly lived educated in Grammar learning in Westminster School under Mr. Lamb. Osbaldeston a Person very fortunate in breeding up many Wits became Commoner of Ch. Church in the beginning of the year 1622 took one degree in Arts and afterwards at several times spent more than 7 years in travelling through various Countries beyond the Seas whereby he became so accomplished that at his last return his company and conversation was not only desired by many of the Nobility but Clergy also and was so highly valued by Dr. Laud Archb of Canterbury that he procured him the place of Clerk of the House of Commons This crown'd his former labours and by it he had opportunity given to manifest his rare abilities which in short time became so conspicuous especially in taking and expressing the sense of the House that none as 't was believed that ever sate there
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
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
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
to print his Sermons which much deserve to be publish'd but such as are set forth are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon before his Majesty on Good Friday at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1664. on Joh. 19. part of the 19 ver Lond. 1665. qu. 2 Serm. before the K. on Tuesday 20 June 1665 being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the late Victory at sea on Psal 54.6.7 Lond. 1665. qu. 3 Serm. before the K. 1666 on the like occasion on Psal 18.1.2.3 Land 1666. qu. c. He died of the Small Pox on the eleventh day of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed from Bishops Thorp to York and there inter'd in the Cathedral When he was promoted to the See of York Dr. Franc. Turner succeeded him in Rochester and Dr. Tho. Sprat in the Deanery of Westminster and an year and a half after his death Dr. Tho. Lamplugh B. of Exeter succeeded him in the See of York as I shall tell you elsewhere Soon after was put a large and comely Monument over his grave with this inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Dolben filius Gulielmi S. Th. Professoris Ex antiqua familia in Cambria septentrionali oriundus Natus Stanvici in Agro Northampton Mart. 20. A. D. 1624. Anno aetatis 12 Regiam scholam Westmonast auspicato ingressus Singulari istius loci genio plenus 15 exivit In numerum Alumnorum Aedis Christi Oxon electus Exardente bello civili Partes regias secutus est in pugna Marstonensi Vexillarius In defensione Eboraci graviter vulneratus Effuso sanguine consecravit locum Olim morti suae destinatum A. D. 1656. à Rev. Episc Cicestrensi sacris ordinibus initiatus Instaurata Monarchia factus est Aedis Christi Canonicus Deinde Decanus Westmonasteriensis Mox Carolo II. Regi optimo ab Oratorio Clericus Episcopus postea Roffensis Et post novennium Regis Eleemosynarius Anno denique 1683. Metropol Eboracens honore cumulatus est Hanc provinciam ingenti animo pari industria administravit Gregi Pastoribus exemplo Intra 30 circiter menses seculi laboribus exhaustis Caelo tandem maturus Lethargia Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus A. D. 1686 aet 62 Potentis Princ. Jac. II. altero die dominico Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes In Eccles sua Cathed septimanatim celebrandas instituerat Caelo fruebatur Maestissima conjux magni Gilberti Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis Ex qua tres liberos suscepit Gilbertum Catharin Johan Monumentum hoc posuit Desideratissimo Marito In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructâ Bromleiensi Palatio reparato in Caenobio Westmon conservato In Senatu Ecclesiis Eloquentiae gloriâ In Diocoesibus suis Episcopali diligentia In omnium priorum animis justâ veneratione semper Victuro WILLIAM COVENTRIE fourth son of Tho. Lord Coventrie sometimes Keeper of the Great Seal of England by Elizabeth his wife daughter of John Alderley of London was born either in the City or Suburb of London became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 14 years but leaving that house without a degree he travelled beyond the Seas and at his return seemed to adhere to the cause of K. Ch. 2. After his restauration he was elected a Burgess for the Town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 and two years after was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University being about that time Secretary to his Royal Highness James Duke of York In 1665 Jun. 26 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and was afterwards sworn one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council being then esteemed upon all accounts qualified for noble employments for at that time if I mistake not he was Secretary to the Navy the said Duke being then General at Sea in the Wars against the Dutch by which employment he got a considerable estate in money which ever after kept up his port according to his quality But at length behaving himself displeasing to the said Duke when there was need of him he was removed from his service whereupon setling at Minster Lovel near Witney in Oxfordshire became much respected by the neighbouring Gentry for whose sake he was the first that found out a way for the ease of him or them that should bear the Office of Shrievelty For whereas before it was usual for the High Sheriff to expend four or five hundred pounds ere he could be quit of his Office he then in Octob. 1675 by certain Articles which he framed and were afterwards subscribed by the Gentry to stand to brought that sum to 50 or 60 l and the first High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that enjoyed the benefit of the said Articles was Sir Edm. Fetyplace of Swinbroke near Burford Baronet who was elected to that office in Nov. the same year Among several things which the said Sir Will. Coventrie wrot and published without his name set to them were these Englands appeal from the private Cabal at Whitehall to the great Council of the Nation the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Printed 1673. in 7 sh in qu. Letter written to Dr. Gilb. Burnet giving an account of Cardinal Pole's secret powers From which it appears that it was never intended to confirm the alienation which was made of the Abbey-Lands To which are added two Breves that Card. Pole brought over and some other of his Letters that were never before printed Lond. 1685. in 5 sh in qu. He hath also written another thing to which his name was set intit The Character of a Trimmer His opinion of 1. The Laws and Government 2. Protestant Religion 3. The Papists 4. Forraign Affairs Lond. 1689. in 6 sh in qu. sec edit the first of which had not his name set to it At length this honorable Knight retiring to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the sake of the Water there to cure his distemper died at Somerhill near thereunto of the gout in the Stomach which the Physitians took to be the Stone on Wednesday 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to Penshurst in the said County and buried in the Church there He bequeathed 2000 l. to the French Protestants that were then lately come into England upon their expulsion from their own Country upon account of Religion and 3000 l. for the redemption of Captives at Algiers as the current report then went appointing Dr. Compton B. of London and Dr. Jo. Fell B. of Oxon Overseers of his gift JOHN FELL son of Dr. Sam. Fell sometime Dean of Ch. Ch. by Margaret his wife daughter of Tho. Wyld of the Commandery in the Suburbs of Worcester Esq was born at Suningwell near to Abendon in Berks educated mostly in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire founded by John Lord Williams made Student of Ch.
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
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of Noâ—wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le Bâ—w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of Wâ—nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 â— Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
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Mr. William Walker of Cliffords Inn. Mr. William Wickins Tho. Wyatt D. D. Rector of Bromhang Wiltsh Edm. Wayle M. A. Rector of Sommerfield magna VVilts Isaac VValton M. A. Rector of Polshott VVilts James Wight of the Middle Temple Esq Francis VVhite B. D. Fell. of Bal. Coll. Oxon. Robert VVinne B. D. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. John VVinne M. A. of Jesus Coll. Oxon. Mr. William Winne Mr. John Walker Mr. Williams Mr. John Williams of West-Chester Mr. Rich Walker of Oxford Vintner Mr. Christopher Wilkinson Bookseller Mr. Geo. West Bookseller in Oxon. Mr. Joseph Wats Bookseller Mr. Weld Bookseller Mr. Roger Warne of Chippenham Y. ARchibald Young Esq Mr. Charles Yardley Minister of Ex. Hall Warwicksh Charles Yaulding M. A. of Ch. Ch. in Ox. Matthew Yate A. M. Mr. Ch. Yeo. Bookseller in Exeter Z. MR. Zouch FINIS 1641. (a) Arth. d ee in his Preface to the Students in Chymistry to his Fasciculus Chimicus c. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. 1641. (a) Pat. 4. Car. 1. p. 37. 1641 2. 1641 2. 1641 2. Clar. 1641. (a) Pag. 123.124.125 (b) In his book intit Canterburies Doome c. p. 217. (c) pag. 123.124 (d) p. 51.54 Clar. 1641. Clar 1641. (e) By Anon. in a book intit The surfeit to A. B. C. Lond. 1656. in tw p 22. (*) Id. Anon. (f) Ms in bib Cottoniana sub Tito A. 13. 1642. 1642. 1642. (a) Sir Joh. Borough in his book in t Impetus juveniles epistolae p. 136. 1642. 1642. 1642 3. 1642 3. (a) George Kendal in Tuissii Vita Victoria c. and Sam. Clarke in his Lives of Eminent persons c. printed 1683. fol. p. 16. 1642 3 Clar. 1642. Clar. 1642. 1643. 1643. (a) Reg. congreg Univ. Ox. notat in dors cum litera O fol. 3. a. (b) Sober sadness or historical observations c. of a prevailing party in both Houses of Parl. Lond. 1643. in qu. p. 33. (c) The Author of Merc. Aulicus in the fortieth week an 1643. p. 576. 1643. (d) Idem ibid p. 640. (e) The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph (f) Robert Earl of Essex 1643. (*) See in a book intit Ayres and Dialogues for one two and three Voices Lond. 1653. fol. composed by the said Hen. Lawes and in another intit Select Ayres and Dialogues to sing to the Theorbo-Lute and Bass Viol. Lond. 1669. fol. composed also by the said Hen. Lawes 1643. 1643. (a) Edw. Knott in his Direction to be observed by N. N. c. Lond. in oct p. 37. c. (b) Ibid. p. 40. (c) In the preface to the author of Charity maintain'd c. sect 43. (d) sect 42. (e) sect 44. (f) sect 29. 40. (g) Franc. Cheynell in his book intit A discussion of Mr. Joh. Fry's tenents lately condemned in Parliam c. p. 33. (h) Hug. Cressy in his Exomologesis chap. 22. (i) In his Epistle Apologetical to a person of honour sect 7. p. 82. (k) Tho. Long in his pref before Mr. Hales his
and death of that great Cynick Diogenes whom Lucretius stiles Canis coelestis the heavenly dog c. Lond. 1615. in tw The guide of honour or the ballance wherein she may weigh her actions c. Lond. 1634 in tw written by the author in foreigne parts The female glory or the life of the Virgin Mary pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635 in oct This little book pen'd in a flourishing stile was in another impression intit The President of female perfection or the life c. But the said book being esteemed egregiously scandalous among the Puritans who look'd upon it as purposely publish'd to encourage the papists Hen. Burton Minister of Friday street in London did pretend to discover in his Sermon entit For God and the King several extravagant and popish passages therein and advised the people to beware of it For which and nothing else as W. Prynne tells us he was brought into the Starr-chamber and there censured But on the contrary this popish book of Staffords as he calls it with many scandalous passages in it were by the Archbishops special direction professedly justified both by Dr. Heylyn in his Moderate answer to Mr. Burton and by Christoph Dow in his Innovations justly charged and this book neither called in nor corrected so audaciously popish was he grown in this particular among many others c. See more in Canterburies Doome p. 215.216.217 Our Author Stafford hath also written A just apology or vindication of a book intit The female glory from the false and malevolent aspersions cast upon it by Hen. Burton of late deservedly censured in the Starr-chamber c. Whether this book was ever published I know not I once saw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr. Tho. Barlow given to him by Sir Joh. Birkenhead Honour and virtue triumphing over the grave exemplified in a fair devout life and death adorned with the surviving perfections of Henry Lord Stafford lately deceased which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sun sets in a serene sky c. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of which are divers Elegies upon the death of the said Lord mostly written by Oxford men especially those of S. Johns Coll. Our author A. Stafford who was Kinsman to the said Lord hath also translated from Latine into English The oration of Justus Lipsius against Calumny Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died as I have been informed in the time of the Civil Wars SHAKERLEY MARMION son and heir of Shak. Marm. Esq sometimes Lord of the Mannour of Ainoe near Brackley in Northamptonshire was born in the Mannour house at Ainoe in January 1602 and baptized there 21 of the said month educated in Grammar learning in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire under Rich. Boucher commonly called Butcher LL. Bac. the then Master thereof became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1617 took the degrees in Arts and soon after was cried up for a noted Poet and a copious writer of English comedy which appeared by these his writings following which afterwards were made public Hollands Leaguer or a discourse of the life and actions of Donna Britannica Hollandia the Archmistris of the wicked women of Utopia A comedy Lond. 1632. quart A fine Companion com Lond. 1633. qu. Cupid and Psiche or an Epick poem of Cupid and his mistress as it was lately presented to the Prince Elector Lond. 1637. qu. 'T is a moral poem contained in two books the first having in it four sections and the other three The Antiquary com Lond. 1641. qu. besides copies of verses dispersed in several books and other things in Ms which he left ready for the press but are either lost or in obscure hands This Poet Marmion who was descended from an antient and noble family was a goodly proper Gentleman and had once in his possession seven hundred pounds per ann at least but died as the curse is incident to all Poets poor and in debt about the beginning or in the height of the civil war JOHN BARCHAM second son of Laur. Barcham of S. Leonards in Devonshire by Joan his wife dau of Edw. Bridgman of the City of Exeter Son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorsetshire where his ancestors had lived more than three generations before him was born in the parish of S. Mary the Moore within the said City entred a sojourner of Exeter Coll. in Michaelm Term 1587 aged 15 years admitted scholar of Co. Ch. Coll. 24 Aug. in the year following Probationer-Fellow 21 June 1596. being then M. of A. and in orders Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was made Chaplain to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. as afterwards he was to his successour Rector and Dean of Bockyng in Essex and Doctor of his faculty He was a person very skilful in divers Tongues a curious Critick a noted Antiquary especially in the knowledge of Coins an exact Historian Herald and as 't is said an able Theologist He was also a strict man in his life and conversation charitable modest and reserv'd in his behaviour and discourse but above all he was remarkable for those good qualities which became a man of his profession He hath written The history or life of John King of England which is the same that is in the History of Great Britaine published by John Speed and the same which sheweth more reading and judgment than any life besides in that History 'T is reported also that he wrot or at least had a chief hand in composing The hist or life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl. Remitted by Speed also in his said History Which Hist. or Life Dr. Barcham wrot as my Author says in opposition or rather to suppress the same written by one Boulton a Rom. Catholick who did too much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket c. This Boulton was the same with Edmund Boulton who wrot The elements of Armorie Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulatorium de traductione corporis Mariae Reginae Scotorum à Petroburgo ad Westmonasterium Dr. Barcham hath also written The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. much used by Novices and the best in that kind for method that ever before was published This book being mostly composed in his younger years he deemed it too light a subject for him to own being then when published a grave Divine Chapl. to an Archb. and not unlikely a Dean Wherefore being well acquainted with John Guillim an Officer of Arms he gave him the copy who adding some trivial things to it published it with leave from the Author under his own name and it goeth to this day under the name of Guillims Heraldry Our Author also published Crackanthorps book against Marc. Ant. de Dominis and wrot a preface to it He also wrot a book concerning coins in Ms but
the year 1592 aged 19 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602 and six years after leaving that House travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas whereby he obtained as well learning as experience At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois and by him respected and exhibited to After his death our Author with his Wife retired to Gloc. Hall where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen that by his endeavours the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall the which with his Lecture he kept to his dying day and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man and by others a Calvinist He hath written De ratione methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Oxon. 1625. oct printed there again in 1637. in oct with this title Relectiones hyemales de ratione methodo legendi utriusque historias civiles ecclesiasticas c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct and had at the end this Speech of our Author printed with it viz. Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica added thereunto and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia set before it They were rendred into English I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know these things following viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County being the only Son of Baxter Bohun who with his ancestors have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8. that in the year 1663 he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge and continued there till the latter end of 1666 when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there to his great hindrance in Learning In 1675 he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg'd In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary he was restored to that office upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting without his seeking and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation in three parts being the History of three Sessions of Parliament The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. 2 A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments printed with and added to the Address 3 A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there Lond. 1684. in 4. sh and an half in fol. 4 The Justice of Peace his calling a moral Essay Lond. 1684. oct 5 A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book entit Paetriarcha or the natural Law of Kings c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book Lond. 1685. oct 6 A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities c. of the whole world with a short historical account of the same and their present state Lond. 1688. oct 7 The history of the desertion or an account of all the publick affairs in England from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following Lond. 1689. oct 8 An answer to a piece called The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country Gentleman printed at the end of The Hist of desertion The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed was written by Jer◠Collier of Cambridge 10 The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern'd in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells which Mr. Bohun is satisfied is not true and therefore he desires that and the whole paragraph in which it is may be cancel'd 11 Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury as I shall tell you by and by He hath also translated into English several things among which is 1 The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus Lond. 1684. qu. 2 An Apologie of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent Lond. 1685. in oct written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell collected by Mr. Bohun from the large life of the said Person written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 3 The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories as I have told you before 4 The universal Historical Bibliotheque or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages wherein a short account is given of the design of almost every book and the quality of the author if known For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687 Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London 5 The 25. and 26 th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome began in Germany by Mart. Luther Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. 6 The present state of Germany or an account of the extent rise forme wealth c. of that Empire c. Lond. 1690. oct written in lat by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name What other things he hath written and translated I know not sure I am that our Author Whear hath besides the before-mentioned things published these following Parentatio Historica Sive commemoratio vitae mortis V. C. Guliel Camdeni Clarentii facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus Charisteria These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis
whether vented ex tempore or forethought by a speaker Lond. 1682 in one sh in qu. said by the Bookseller who printed it that Dr. Rich. Steuart was the Author See more in Rich. Sherlock an 1689. The design of this small treatise is as also another of the same subject viz. about the meaning of the 55 Canon published by Dr. Heylyn to make out and evidence that the 55 of K. Jam. 1. enjoyns only an exhortation to or bidding of Prayer and that that Canon contains an express and precise form of Prayer not in the least to be deviated from by Ministers and that the primary design and scope of this Canon was not barely to lay down and prescribe matter heads and contents of Prayer which were to be left to be worded and expressed according to the discretion of the Minister which last is owned to be the more general practice of our Divines tho he saith it is directly against the intendment of the Canon These are all the things that Dr. Steuart hath written as I conceive and therefore I shall only say that when he lay upon his Death-bed at Paris in Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and one K. Ch. 2. gave him two visits being then newly arrived there from his escape from Worcester Fight and his concealment in England and that he was interred in an open burying place in the suburbs of S. German walled in and some time before granted to those of the reformed Religion to bury the bodies of their deceased His Epitaph over his grave made some years after his decease tells us that he died on the 14 of Nov. 1652 but false for it should be 1651 for every one of the English Nation that was then at Paris saith that he died shortly after K. Ch. 2. came into France after his Escape from Worcester Fight which was in the month of Octob. 1651. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 182. HENRY IRETON eldest son and heir of German Ireton of Attenton in Nottinghamshire Esq and brother to Sir Jo. Ireton Lord Mayor of London 1658 was born there or at least in that County became a Gent. Com. of Trinity Coll. in the year 1626 and in that of his age 16 took one degree in Arts in 1629 but left the University without compleating that degree by Determination At which time he had the character in that house of a stubborn and sawcy fellow towards the Seniors and therefore his company was not at all wanting Afterwards he went to the Middle Temple learned some grounds of the common Law became a man of a working and laborious brain which in the end led him into some errors When the grand Rebellion broke out he as a person natur'd to mischief took up Arms against the King and about that time married Bridget one of the daughters of Oliv. Cromwell then a Colonel of a Regiment afterwards Lord Protector of England By whose endeavours he became first a Captain afterwards a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and at length Commissary General upon the new modelling of the Army in the beginning of the year 1645. About that time I find him an active man and one very busie in breaking the Presbyterian Faction in the House of Commons to the end that the Independents might get the King into their own clutches His parts and abilities were such his dissimulation so profound and his mischievous designs had so clean a conveyance that his Father-in-law Cromwell made frequent use of him when he was put to a push to compleat his wicked designs And having always found him to be very capacious of overthrowing Monarchy and a thorow-pac'd dissembler under the mask of Religion being absolutely the best Prayer-maker and Preacher in the Army he with Col. Joh. Lambert who had likewise studied in the Inns of Court and was of a subtle working brain did put him upon writing a Remonstrance on the Armies behalf for justice to be done on the King Whereupon retiring in private for some days to Windsore Castle as I have been informed he drew up the Remonstrance and after he had communicated it to Fairfax the Generalissimo whom he and Cromwell made a stalking horse and to believe any thing and the prime Officers of the Army they caused it to be delivered to the H. of Commons by the hands of Col. Isaac Ewer and seven other Officers Which done it was printed under this title A Remonstrance of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax Lord General of the Parliament Forces and of the general council of Officers held at S. Albans the 16 of Nov. 1648. presented to the Commons assembled in Parliament the 20 instant and tendered to the consideration of the whole Kingdom Lond. 1648 in 9 sheets in qu. Which Remonstrance being read to his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight he propounded four Queries thereupon against the power of the Army which may be seen in his Works printed 1662. p. 671. The said Ireton also who was about that time one of the Commissioners of the Navy did write or at least had a chief hand in a certain Pamphlet called The Agreement of the people meaning of the Army published in the month of Jan. 1648 judiciously answer'd by Will. Ashurst Esq a Parliament man for Newton in Lancashire and a Presbyterian The said Agreement with a Petition was presented to the Parliament in the name of all the Army by Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond and divers chief Officers thereof on the 20 day of the same month of Jan. He the said Ireton was chiefly employed also and took upon him the business of the pen in all the Declarations Desires Modules and Transactions of the Army nay and in all or most Letters written by Fairfax the General to the Parliament before the K. was beheaded being esteemed a person full of invention and industry and skill'd in the common Law About that time he became a busie man to bring his Maj. to his Tryal had a hand in drawing up the Ordinance for it and the Precept for proclaiming the High Court of Justice sate as a Judge among the rest when he was tried and was one of the Committee that appointed the time and place of his Execution Afterwards in June 1649 he was appointed by Parliament the next Commander in chief under Cromwell in his Expedition for Ireland that is to be Maj. General and after his arrival a Commission and Patent was sent to him to be President of Mounster After Cromwell the Lord Lieutenant had given an account to the Parliament of affairs done there he returned into England in June 1650 at which time he left Ireton his Deputy to prosecute the Parliaments Interest there and acting highly against such that they called Rebels was in his way to Limerick taken with a sudden disease some said the plague on the 16 day of November whereupon being conveyed in all hast to Limerick died there on the 26 of the said month in sixteen
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
Afterwards the said Duke made him Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Pisa where he was held in great veneration not only for his great sufficiencies in that Tongue but also in Divinity for his great knowledge in the Fathers and in polite and curious learning His works are Notae observationes in Apologiam L. Apulei Madaurensis Philosophi platonici Par. 1635. qu. To which are added certain fragments of Antiquity in copper cuts Matthaeus ex S. Paginâ sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus ex parte illustratus Par. 1646. oct Annotationes in epistolam Jacobi Par. 1646. in a little octav Acta Apostolorum ex S. pagina sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus illustrata Par. 1647. in tw In undecim Apuleianae metamorphoseos sive Milesiarum libros annotationes uberiores Goud 1650. in a large thick oct with Pricaeus his picture before it in a cloak Towards the publishing of this book he borrowed an ancient copy of it from Archb. Laud's MSS. Index scriptorum qui in Hesychii Graeco vocabulario laudantur confectus alphabetico dispositus This is printed at the end of the former book viz. In undecim c. 'T is also printed at the end of Hesychius's Lexicon published by Corn. Schrevelius an 1668. Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros Involved in the fifth tome of the Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Among these his Commentaries are those on Matthew Acts of the Apostles and James before mentioned remitted Annotationes in Psalmorum librum Involved in the said 5 tome of Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Epistles to several learned men in Lat. and English This great Critick who had a rambling head left the territory of the Duke of Tuscany and went to Venice under pretence of putting out Hesychius his Lexicon there and afterwards going to Rome he was received as I have heard into the retinew or at least patronage of the famous Card. Franc. Barbarini the Protector of the English Nation lived in his last days in the Covent of S. Augustin in that great City where dying in sixteen hundred seventy and six or thereabouts was buried in the Church or Chappel there I have sent once or twice for the exact time of his obit and for a copy of his Epitaph if there be any over his grave but as yet I have received no answer I shall make mention of another John Price among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1680 but he was Doctor of Divinity GASPER HICKS a Ministers son was born in Berks. entred a Batler or Com. of Trin. Coll. in Mich. term 1621 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Lanerake in Cornwall where he continued a constant Preacher under the name of a Puritan several years At length upon the change of the times he openly expressed his zeal for the Cause in his Sermons more than before he had done but finding that place uneasie to him when the Royalists were dominant in that County he retired to the great City became one of the Ass of Divines a frequent Preacher in London and sometimes a Holder-forth before the Members of the Long Parliament Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings Cause he returned again to his Vicaridge and had something added to it in consideration of his sufferings In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cornwall for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and ever after â—ll the Act of Conformity came forth he was esteemed there the chief of the Presbyterian Ministers He hath â—â—blished Several Sermons as 1 The glory and beauty of Gods portion Fast-sermon before the H. of Commons 26 June 1644 on Isay 28.5.6 Lond. 1644. qu. The Author complaining either in this or another sermon that he had been plundred and wanted books the H. of Commons gave him 30 l. to buy more 2 Serm. at the funeral of Will Strode Esq a member of the H. of Com. 22 Sept. 1645. on Acts 13.36 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 The advantage of afflictions Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 28 Jan. 1645 on Hosea 5.15 Lond. 1646. qu. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the Act of Conformity was published he was turn'd out of Lanerake lived there and near it several years not without keeping up private meetings for which he was sometimes brought into trouble At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was according to his desire buried in the porch of the Parish Church of Lanerake before mentioned At his interrment on the 10 of Apr. the same year were present very many of the godly Party living near to and remote from that place THOMAS CAWTON son of Tho. Cawton a learned and religious Puritan sometimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was born as it seems at Wivenhoe near to Colchester in Essex his Father being then Parson of that place educated in Hebrew Syriake and Arabick tongues at Roterdam in Holland under Mr. Rob. Sheringham then an Exile for his Loyalty as Tho. Cawton the Father was for preaching against the murder of K. Ch. 1 and for being in the same plot with Christop Love for the raising of moneys to supply the Army of K. Ch. 1 when he was about to come into England from Scotland to gain his right there Afterwards our Author Tho. Cawton was by his father setled in the University of Utrecht whence after he had spent 3 years in Academical learning he came into England and at length to Merton Coll. in Oxon. for the sake if I mistake not of Mr. Sam. Clark an eminent Orientalian where at his first coming and after he was much esteemed and held in great respect for his admirable knowledge in the oriental tongues In the beginning of the year 1660 he was admitted Bach. of Arts at which time was publickly read his Testimonial dated 18 May 1659 subscribed by Joh. Leusden the ordinary Professor of the Holy Tongue in Utrecht Where in among other things I find this of Cawton Totum vetus Testamentum Hebraicum partim punctatum partim non punctatum perlegit explicuit Regulas Grammaticae syntaxeos Hebraicae optime perdidiscit Deinde in lingua Chaldaica Danielis Paraphrasibus Chaldaicis in lingua Syriacâ Novi Test in lingua Arabica commentariis Rabbinorum strenuè sese exercuit Denique quaestiones philologico-Hebraicas circa Vetus Test Hebraeum movere solitas ita perdidiscit ut summo cum honore duas disputationes philologicas publicè defenderit priorem de versione Syriaca veteris Novi Test posteriorem vero de usu linguae Hebraicae in philosophia Theoretica illius fuit Respondens hujus vero author Respondens Certe in disputatione hac componenda in ejusdem strenua defensione ingenium eruditionem suam omnibus palam
Daughter named Bethiah and a Brother called Nehemiah Holmes of Machin in Hertfordshire Clerk GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Pershore in Worcestershire was born there or at least in that County became either a Batler or Servitour of New inn in Lent term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts and departed for a time closing then with the Presbyterians In 1648 when the Parliamentarian Visitors were in Oxon he proceeded in Arts took the Covenant and afterwards became Vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson in Worcestershire and a busie man when he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such whom the Godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654 and after At his Majesties restauration he continued in Blockley and when the Act of uniformity was published he conformed not without the regret of some Loyallists in the neighbourhood whom he had much displeased in the interval He hath written Vindiciae thesium de sabbato or a vindication of certain passages in a sermon of the morality of the Sabbath from the exceptions of which they are subjected by Edw. Fisher Esq in his book called A Christian Caveat c. Lond. 1653. 56. qu. Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold assertion of Edw. Fisher viz. There is an equal authority and equal antiquity for the observation of the 25 of Dec. as for the Lords day Answer to 15 questions lately published by Edw. Fisher Esq and the suggestions therein delivered against suspending ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper These two last things were printed with the Vindiciae thesium Fun. Sermon on Isaiah 57.1 Printed 1661. qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 30. day of the same month in the Church there In the said Vicaridge succeeded Sam. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you BENJAMIN PARRY younger Brother to Joh. Parry before mention'd was born as I conceive in Dublin admitted in Arts in Trin. Coll. there on the 5. of Decemb. 1648 came with his Brother to Jesus Coll. in this University took the degrees in Arts and after his Majesties restauration he was by the favour of his Commissioners appointed to visit this University made Greek Reader and so consequently Fellow of C. C. Coll. In 1663 Feb. 26 he was installed Preb. of Knaresbergh in the Church of York he being then Bach. of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Mossom which Dignity he resigning upon his going into his own Country was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Asshton in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was made Dean of Kilkenny and thence was translated to the Deanery of S. Patrick at Dublin on the 24 of March following On the 27. of Jan. 1677 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in the place of his Brother deceased which he kept to his dying day that shortly after followed He hath written Chymia Caelestis Drops from heaven or pious meditations on several places of Scripture Lond. 1659 73 in tw And also made fit for the press and published Holy rules and helps to devotion c. Lond. 1674. in tw Written by Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winton This Dr. Parry who I suppose hath published no other things died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight having a little before been married but not to his content and was buried near to the graves of his Brother and Father in S. Audoens Church in Dublin In the See of Ossory succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and soon after he was translated to London-Derry PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycest Esq was born at Nether Tabley in Cheshire 3. March 1613 became a Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. 13. Oct. 1629 but leaving that house without a degree he went I presume to the Inns of Court Afterwards he retired to his patrimony where besides the pleasures of a Country life he exercised himself much in the study of History and Antiquities After the restauration of his Majesty an 1660 for whose cause he before had suffer'd he was created a Baronet and probably had he sought he might have had beneficial places confer'd on him but such was the love he had to his native Country that postponing all matters of profit he studied and laboured to revive its antiquities that had almost been buried in oblivion which he afterwards published with this title Historical antiquities in two books The first treating in general of Great Britaine and Ireland the other containing particular remarks of Cheshire and chiefly of Bucklow hundred Lond. 1673 fol. But therein having made Amicia Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester a Bastard was as to that matter answer'd in a book intit A defence of Amicia c. by Sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire Bt who with this our author Pet. Leyc were descended from her Whereupon Sir Peter came out with An answer to Sir Tho. Manwarings book entit A defence of Amicia c. Lond. 1673. oct Addenda or some things to be added to the former answer to Sir Thomas Manwarings book to be placed immediatly after pag. 90. Lond. 1673. oct He also wrot A reply to Sir Tho. Manwarings answer to Sir Pet. Leycesters Addenda Lond. 1674. oct and Sir Tho. Manwarings Law cases mistaken and the antient Law misunderstood and the new law misapplied c. Lond. 1674. oct There was a waggish and merry Ballad that went from hand to hand in Ms concerning these petite controversies between the two Baronets and great sport there was made among idle and vain Gentlemen concerning the punctilio's and minute things they insisted on but at length at an Assize held at Chester 1675 their controversies were decided by the Justices Itinerant who as I have heard adjudged the right of the matter to Manwaring As for our author Sir Peter he dyed at Nether-Tabley on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried by his Ancestors in our Ladies Chappel on the north side of the Church at Great Budworth in Cheshire Over his grave was soon after set up a comly monument for him and his Lady who died 26. of Jan. following aged 59 years the inscription whereof being large I shall now for brevity sake omit THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vincent sometimes a Gent of Lincolns Inn and afterwards a Minister was born in the antient Borough of Hertford in the month of May 1634 educated partly in Grammar learning in Westminster school and partly in that at Felsted in Essex and in 1648 became a Student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors then and there sitting In 1654 he proceeded in Arts at which time the Governour of his house had so great opinion of him that he chose him Catechist which usually belongs
want of understanding tho 't is well known as the E. of Devonshires Chaplain hath said he several times within two years after his death received the Sacrament from him with seeming devotion He dyed at Hardwyke before mentioned about 10 of the clock at night on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine Whereupon his body being wrap'd up in a woollen shroud and coffin'd was two days after accompanied by most of the E. of Devonshires Family and some of the neighbourhood after they had received a funeral entertainment to the Parish Church called Hault-Hucknell where in an Isle joyning to the Church he was inter'd with the service in the Common-prayer book close to the rail of the monument of the Grandmother of the then present Earl of Dev. Soon after was a Marble stone with an inscription thereon laid over his grave the contents of which and a farther account of the person you may at large see in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium following the life in prose before mention'd written by himself and published by Rich. Blackbourne born in London sometimes M. of A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of Leyden in Holland The materials of which were all or at least the most part taken from the English life in Mâ— of Thom. Hobbes largely and more punctually written by John Aubrey his antient acquaintance born at Easton-Piers near Malmsbury bred under the same Master who had been a Pedagogue above 40 years that educated Hobbes in Grammatical learning afterwards he became Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in Oxon then a Student in the Middle Temple and afterwards a member of the Royal Society Mr. Hobbes by his last Will and Test dat 25. Sept. 1677. did bequeath to Mary Tirell Daughter of his deceased Broâ—ther Edm. Hobbes 40 l. To Eleanor Harding Daughter of the said Edm. 40 l. To Elizab. Alaby Daughter of Thomas Alaby 200 l for her furtherance in marriage which Eliz. was then an Orphan and committed to the tuition of Mâ— Hobbes Exec. to the said Tho. as also an 100 l which thâ— Earl of Devon gave him to dispose in his will to be equalâ—ly divided among the Grandchildren of his said Bâ—otheâ— Edm. Hobbes to the eldest of which named Thom. Hobbes he had before given a piece of Land He also lefâ— considerable Legacies to his Executor James Wheldon a servant to the Earl of Devonshire who before had for many years been his Amanuensis EDWARD BYSSHE or Bissaeus as he writes himself Son of Edw. Bysshe of Burstow in Surrey Esq a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was born at Smallfield in the Parish of Burstow the capital tenement of which he and six of his Ancestors or more were not only Lords of but of divers other Lands in Horne near thereunto and elsewhere in the said County and some of them also owners of the Mannour of Bysshe or Bysshe Court situated and being between Burstow and Smallfield As for our author whom we are now to mention he became a Communer of Trin. Coll. in 1633 aged 18 years but before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the Common Law and was made a Barrester In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year and afterwards taking the Covenant he was about 1643 made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir John Borough who had followed his Majesty to Oxon. On the 20 of Oct. 1646 there were votes passed in the House of Commons that he the said Bysshe should be Garter K. of Arms and Clarenceaux and Will. Râ—ley should be Norroy or the Northern K. of Arms and that a committee be appointed to regulate their fees so that if Bysshe was ever invested in the said office of Clarenceaux as several of the Coll. of Armes say he was then did he succeed Arthur Squibb who had obtained that office by the endeavours of his Son in Law Sir John Glynn a noted and leading member in that Parliament upon the recess to his Majesty at Oxon of Sir Will. Le Neve Howsoever it is sure I am that in the greatest part of the interrupted times our aâ—thor Bysshe was both Garter and Clarenceaux his genie being more adequat to Arms and Armory in which he did excel than to the municipal laws In 1654 he was elected Burgess for Rigate in Surrey to serve in that Convention called the Little Parliament that met at Westm 3. Sept. the same year and in 1658 a Burgess for Gatton in the same County for that Convention that met at the same place 27 Jan. in that year After the Kings restauration he was forced to leave his Gartership to make room for Sir Edw. Walker who had that office conferr'd on him by his Majesty on the death of Sir Hen. S. George an 1644. and with much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux Sir Will. Le Neve being then distracted had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for Blechenley to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May the same year which continuing 17 years or more he became a Pensioner as 't is said and received 100 l. every Session and yet was very poor In the rebellious times he was a great gainer by being a Parliament man and thereupon became an encourager of learning and learned men particularly that noted Critick John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice Library of books all richly bound with gilt dorses but after the Kings restauration running much in debt became at length necessitous and not only took dishonest courses by issuing out divers Grants of Armes under hand as Clarenceaux to the undoing of the Heralds Office meerly to supply his necessities but also sold many of his books which cost him much for inconsiderable prizes He had been one that understood Armes and Armory very well but could never endure to take pains in Genealogies and in his younger years was esteemed a worthy and virtuous Person but in his latter not being thâ—n much degenerated as to manners His works of learning are these Notae in librum Nicholaâ— Upton de studio militari Notae in Johannis de Bado aureo libellum de Armis Notae in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam These three things which were all printed together at Lond. 1654. fol. weâ—e written by Sir Ed. Bysshe in English but translated into Latine by Dav. Whitford to whom he exhibited after his expulsion fâ—om the Univ. of Oxon. for several years He also pâ—t out under his own name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some notes and corrections entit Palladius de gentibus Indiae â—ragmanibus Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr. and Lat. To which he added 1 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 2 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Both in Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces see more in Jo. Gregory under the year 646.
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
then the chiefest of the Nation as Mich. Drayton Esq Tho. Randolph of Cambridg Ben. Johnson Owen Feltham Gent. Capt. Joh. Mennes Shakerley Marmion Gent. Tho. Heywood Gent c. Others of lesser note were Joh. Trussell Gent. who continued Sam. Daniel's History of England Joh. Monson Esq Feryman Rutter of Oriel Coll Will. Basse of Moreton near Thame in Oxfordshire somtimes a Retainer to the Lord Wenman of Thame Parke Will. Denny Esq c. Before the said book of Annalia Dubrensia is a cut representing the Games and Sports as men playing at Cudgells Wrestling Leaping pitching the Bar throwing the iron Hammar handling the Pyke leaping over the heads of men kneeling standing upon their hands c. Also the dancing of women men hunting and coursing the Hare with Hounds and Greyhounds c. with a Castle built of boards on a hillock with Guns therein firing and the picture of the great Director Capt. Dover on horsback riding from place to place But all this being spoken by the by lets proceed with the remaining titles of books written by Barksdale Life of Hugo Grotius Lond. 1652 in tw Taken from Meursius his Athenae Batavae and other authors that occasionally speak of that learned person Noctes Hiberniae winter nights exercise The first night being seven Decads of sacred sentences put into English vers Lond. 1653 in one sh in oct V. Cl. Elogia Anglorum Camdeniana Lond. 1653 in about two sheets in oct Taken from those Elogia which Camden sets down at the end of every year of his Annalls of Qu. Elizabeth The disputation at Winchcombe 9. Nov. 1653. Oxon. 1653. oct This disput was between Barksdale then Minister of Sudeley Respondent and Christoph Helme Minister of Winchcombe and Joh. Wells Min. of Tewksbury Opponents It was printed again at London 1654 with some papers both before and after containing several Letters and other matters published by N. N. The said papers being reviewed wherein are contained some short notes concerning the government of the Church the Liturgy and forms of Prayer Ordination and power of Ministers were reprinted at Lond. 1657. oct An Oxford conference of two young Scholars touching their studies Lond. 1659. in one sh in oct A modest reply in three Letters touching the Clergy and Universities Lond. 1659. oct Several Sermons as 1 The Sacrifice at S. Maries in Oxon on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1655. oct 2 The Kings returne at Winchcombe 24. May 1660 on 2. Sam. 15. part of the 25. verse Lond. 1660. qu. 3 Sermon at Glocest on Psal 122.6 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Of Contentment a little treatise Lond. 1660 in 240. and 1679. which is the fourth edit In defence of the Liturgy Oxon. 1661. in one sh in qu. Memorials of worthy persons Two Decads Lond. 1661. in tw The third Decad was printed at Oxon. 1662. in oct The fourth there also 1663. in oct A remembrance of excellent men c. Lond. 1670. oct This which goes for the fift Decad contains the characters of 9 Divines and one Lay-man taken and scribled as the rest of the Decads were from the Sermons preached at their Funerals their Lives and Characters occasionally given of them in publick authors Masora A collection out of the learned Master Joannes Buxtorfius's Commentarius Masoreticus Lond. 1665. oct Collection of Scriptures illustrated by Mr. Rich. Hooker Lond. 1675. oct Three Ministers communicating their collections and notions touching several Texts at their weekly meetings Lond. 1675. oct Letter touching a College of Maides or a Virgin-Society Written 12. Aug. 1675. Printed in half a sh in oct Hugonis Grotii Annotationes selectae and VII Capita S. Matthaei Oxon. 1675 in two sh in oct Behold the Husband man A short discourse on Jam. 5.7 Lond. 1677. in tw Learne to die a little discourse Lond. 1679. oct Bezae Epitaphia Selecta Lond. 1680. oct Angl. Lat. Sententiae Sacrae Lond. in oct Angl. Lat. Aurea dicta The Kings gratious words for the Protestant Religion of the Church of England collected from his Majesties Letters Speeches c. Lond. 1681. in 3. sh in qu. Memorials of Alderm Whitmore Bish Wilkins Bish Reynolds and Alderm Adams Lond. 1681 in 3 sh in oct Collected from the Sermons preached at their Funerals Religion in verse Ox. 1683 in 1 sh in oct The old Gentlemans wish or the reformed old Gentleman Printed on half a side of a sheet of paper 1684. Of authors and books Pr. on one side of half a sh of paper 1684. A Grateful mention of deceased Bishops Pr. on one side of a broad sh of paper 1686. Written as the two former papers in dogrel Rime and other things of the like stamp He hath also translated from Lat. into English 1 A discourse 1. of God and his Providence 2. Of Christ his miracles and doctrine Lond. 1652. in tw sec edit Written originally by H. Grotius There were some annotations put on that Discourse by Barksdale 2 H. Grotius his judgment in sundry points controverted out of his vote for the Churches peace printed with the former translation 3 The Mourner comforted written also by way of an Epist Consolatory by the said H. Grotius printed also with the former 4 Of authority in sacred things Lond. 1651. oct 5 Part of the Law of War and Peace Pr. in oct 6 For the truth of Christian Religion c. the first part Lond. 1669 in tw fourth edit 7 Against Paganisme Judaisme Mahumatisme c. the sec part Lond. 1676. oct 8 Part of the Hebrew Commonwealth Lond. 1653 in tw Written by Pet. Cuneus 9 The learned Maid or whether a Maid be a Scholar A logick exercise Lond. 1659 oct Written by Anna Maria ◠Schurman whose picture 〈◊〉 before the said translation aged 52 years an 1659. 10 A conference of faith Lond. 1679. in tw Written by Sebast Castelio 11 Of Obedience his modest Apol. and defence of himself Printed with the Conference and written originally by the said Castelio 12 S. Cyprian of Virgins of Prayer and of Patience also S. Basil of Solitude Lond. 1675. oct c. He also published somthing of Will. Higford as I have told you in him under the year 1657 p. 133. and several little things written by other persons which I have not yet seen At length Mr. Barksdale having lived to a fair age he concluded his last day on the 6. of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Naunton in Glocestershire before mention'd leaving then behind him the Character of a frequent and edifying Preacher and a good Neighbour SAMUEL PARKER an eminent writer of his time was born in the antient Borough of Northampton in the month of Sept. 1640. His father was John Parker who having been bred towards the Law he betook himself as his best practice to be a subcommittee man or as the stile ran one of the Assistant-Committee in Northamptonshire in the time of the Rebellion Afterwards scraping up
tye of friendship than blood perhaps could do His genie was then much inclining to the Mathematicks which being as 't were natural to him he quickly and easily obtained them Mr. Cha. Scarborough then an ingenious young Student and Fellow of Caies Coll. in the same University was his great acquaintance and both being equally Students in that faculty and desirous to perfect themselves they took a journey to Mr. Will. Oughtred living then at Albury in Surrey to be informed of many things in his Clavis Mathematica which seemed at that time very obscure to them Mr. Oughtred treated them with great humanity being very much pleased to see such ingenious young men apply themselves to those studies and in short time he sent them away well satisfied in their desires When they returned to Cambridge they afterwards read the Clav. Math. to their Pupils which was the first time that that book was read in the said University Mr. Laur. Rook a disciple of Oughtred I think and Mr. Ward 's friend did admirably well read in Gresham Coll. on the sixth Chapt. of the said book which obtained him great repute from some and greater from Mr. Ward who ever after had an especial favour for him In 1643 he with the Master and several of his Coll. were for the Kings Cause imprison'd in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and ejected from their several places much about which time he and Mr. P. Gunning Mr. Is Barrow Mr. Jo. Barwick c. did write a well pen'd treatise against the Covenant which was made publick After his release he was civilly and kindly received by his friend and neighbour Ralph Freeman of Aspden in Hertfordshire Esq and upon the ceasing of the Civil War he was entertained in the quality of a Chaplain to Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire In 1649 his mind being then changed as to orthodox Principles he by friends made to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon became Astronomy Professor thereof in the place of Mr. Joh. Greaves then ejected who upon an infallible foresight that he should be turn'd out put Ward upon to gain it because he would be sure as far as his power laid to get an able Successor and about that time he entred himself a Gentleman Commoner in Wadham Coll for the sake of VVilkins then Warden of that House In Oct. the same year he was incorporated Master of Arts and admitted to his Professorship and soon after took the Independent Oath called the Engagement the effect of which was to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. in which year Mr. Joh. Wallis the other Savilian Professor proceeding also fell out a Controversie between them occasion'd by Wallis who should have seniority which being decided by the Vicechanc. on VVards behalf VVallis went out grand Compounder and so got superiority as I shall largely tell you in the Fasti of that year In 1656 or thereabouts he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg the silenc'd Bishop of Exeter the Chantorship of that Church then void and in the year following gaining an interest among the Fellows of Jesus Coll. he was elected by them to be their Principal upon the resignation of Dr. Mich. Roberts but Franc. Howell of Exeter Coll. an Independent got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector In 1659 he was elected President of Trin. Coll. by a majority of Fellows made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bashurst but being soon after forced to leave that place to make room for the right owner Dr. Han. Potter who had in a most woful manner endured great hardship from the time of his ejection in 1648 the Politician retired to the great City where he became Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich and in the same year 1660 he was installed in his place of Chantor of Exeter At that time it was his endeavours to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambridge by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what About that time he became a member of the Royal Society and soon after Dean of Exeter where being setled he wound himself in a short time by his smooth language and behaviour into the favour of the Gentry of the neighbourhood In 1662 Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter being translated to VVorcester he was by the endeavours of a considerable party of the Gentry of Devonsh who were of the H. of Commons advanced to that See And being consecrated thereunto 20 July 1662 sate there but few years for on the death of Dr. Hyde he was translated to Salisbury 12 Sept. 1667. In 1671. Nov. 25 he was made Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter by the restitution of K. Ch. 2 after that place had been occupied by Lay-persons about 154 years He was a benefactor to the Royal Society gave a Pendulum Clock thereunto which goes for a week together to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend Laur. Rook. Also about 1672 he gave a considerable sum of money towards the making of the River at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church in Hampshire and in 1679 he bestowed a 1000 l. on Sidâ—ey Coll. in Cambridge In 1683 he built an Hospital or College at Salisbury for the entertainment of ten poor widows of Ministers of Gods word and in 1684 he built an Alms-house at the place of his nativity for four antient men and four antient women who had lived handsomely and brought by misfortune to poverty c. His Works as to learning are these A philosophical Essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God the immortality of the souls of men and the truth and authority of Scripture Oxon. 1652. oct c. De cometis ubi de cometarum natura disseritur Nova cometarum Theoria novissimae cometae historia proponitur Praelectio Oxonii habita Oxon. 1653. qu. Inquisitio in Ismaelis Bullialdi Astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta Printed with the book De cometis Idea Trigonometriae demonstratae in usum juventutis Oxon. Oxon. 1654. qu. The method of which mention'd in the Preface to this book Mr. Oughtred challenged for his Vindiciae Academiarum Containing some brief animadversions upon Mr. Joh. Websters book stiled The Examen of Academies Oxon. 1654. qu. Before this book is an Epistle written to the author by one who subscribes himself N. S. i. e. John Wilkins of Wadh. Coll being the two last letters of both his names Appendix concerning what Mr. Hobbes and Mr. Will. Dell have published on the same arguments Printed at the end of Vindiciae Academiarum As for Dell he had been educated in Cambridge and Webster who was then or lately a Chapl. in the Parl. Army had as I conceive been educated there also See in Thom. Hall under the year 1665 among the titles of
of May in sixteen hundred and ninety Whereupon his body being conveyed to Mildin or Milding near Lavenham in Suffolk by very many persons of his perswasion and by some others too was buried in the Church there on the 15 day of the same month Soon after was a stone laid over his grave with a short inscription thereon EZEKIEL HOPKINS son of the Curat of Sandford a Chappel of ease to Crediton in Devonshire was born there became a Choirister of Magd. Coll. 1649. aged 16 years or thereabouts Usher of the School adjoyning when Bach. of Arts Chaplain of the said Coll. when Master and would have been elected Fellow had his County been elegible in all which time he lived and was educated under Presbyterian and Independent discipline About the time of his Majesties restauration he became Assistant to Dr. Will. Spurstow Minister of Hackney near London with whom he continued till the Act of Conformity was published in which time being noted for his fluent and ready preaching some of the parishioners of S. Mattew Fridaystreet in London would have chosen him to be their Rector but Mr. Henr. Hurst another Candidate carried that place away from him by a majority Afterwards the parishioners of Allhallows or else of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet did elect him to be their Preacher but the Bishop of London would not admit him because he was a popular preacher among the Fanaticks Afterwards he went to the City of Exeter where he became Minister of S. Maries Church there and much approved and applauded for his elegant and dexterous preaching by Seth Bishop of that City At length John Lord Roberts hearing him accidentally preach to his very great delight he did afterwards freely offer to him the place of Chaplain when he went in the quality of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland an 1669. Which Office he very freely accepting went accordingly with him and in the latter end of that year or in the beginning of the next he was by that Lord made Dean of Raphoe Soon after the said Lord being recalled into England he recommended his Chaplain to his Successor who also taking especial notice of confer'd on him the Bishoprick of Raphoe an 1671 so that by vertue of Letters Pat. dat 27. of Oct. the same year he was Consecrated thereunto 29. of the same month In the latter end of Octob. 1681 he was translated to London Derry in the place of Dr. Mich. Ward deceased where continuing till the Forces in Ireland under the Earl of Tirconnel stood up in the defence of K. Jam. 2. against K. William 3 he retired into England in 1688 and in Sept. 1689 he was by the parishioners of S. Mary Aldermanbury in London elected to be their Minister upon the removal of Dr. Stratford to the See of Chester He hath written Several Sermons as 1 The Vanity of the World on Eccles 1.2 Lond. 1661. oct 2 Serm. at the funeral of Algernon Grevill Esq second brother to the right hon Rob. Lord Brook who departed this life Jul. 21. at Magd. Coll. in Oxon and was buried at Warwick on the 6. of Aug. 1662 on Ecles 9.5 Lond. 1663. qu. 3 Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin Jan. 31. an 1669. on 1. Pet. 2.13.14 Dubl 1671. qu. All which were reprinted at Lond. 1685. oct 4 Serm. on John 7.19 5 Serm. on Gal. 3.10 These two last were printed at the end of the Exposition fâ—llowing An Exposition on the 10 Commandments Lond. 1692. qu. Published in the beginning of Aug. 1691. with his picture before it by the care of Dr. Edw. Wetenhall Bishop of Cork and Ross author of the Epistle before it dated at Peckham place 3. Jul. 1671. This Bishop Hopkins died on the 19. day of June in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried on the 24. of the said month in the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury before mention'd He had an elder brother named John Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll who died before he took the degree of Master and a younger called James Bach. of Arts of Corp. Ch. Coll. who dying also before he was Master of Arts in Octob. or thereabouts an 1663 was buried at Hackney near London They were all three comly and ingenious persons and beloved of their Contemporaries in their respective Colleges THOMAS FRANKLAND a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose Coll. on the first of May an 1649 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and in 1654 was made Fellow thereof Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he became a preacher tho not in Episcopal Orders in these parts In 1662 he was admitted one of the Proctors of the University and in the year after being then in holy Orders he was with much adoe his Grace being denied three times as I shall till you elsewhere admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards he applied his studies to the Faculty of Physick setled in London and pretended to be a Doctor of that Faculty of Oxon when he was in the company of Cambridg men and to be Doctor of Cambridg when in the company of Oxford men At length being a Candidate to be Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians which he could not be without being Doctor he produced a forged Certificate or Diploma to attest that he was Doctor of that Faculty and thereupon he was at length admitted Fellow of the said Coll and afterwards was Censor thereof But he being of an haughty turbulent and huffing spirit and therefore much dislik'd by the Society especially the Juniors some of them whom he had much displeased were resolv'd to take him shorter and humble him Whereupon they having received a hint that he was no Doctor they sent privately to Dr. Jam. Hyde the Kings Professor of Physick and Mr. Ben. Cooper the public Registrary of the Univ. of Oxon that they would search the Registers thereof and certifie them whether he the said Tho. Frankland ever took the degree of Doctor of Phys among them whereupon they upon their search finding no such matter did accordingly certifie them of it Afterwards they sent a Latine Letter to the Vice-chancellour Doctors Proctors and Masters of the University to acquaint them with the forgery of the said Thom. Frankland desiring them withall that they would certifie the President and Community of the Coll. of Physitians that he was no Doctor of Phys of their University which they accordingly did in Nov. 1677. However this being a just reason for his ejection yet notwithstanding by the connivance of the Seniors of the said College he did continue afterwards among them but lost much of his Credit and Practice too as I have heard This person who was esteemed a good Scholar while he continued in Oxon hath written and published The Annals of K. James and K. Charles the first containing a faithful History and impartial account of the great affairs of State and transactions of Parliament in England from the tenth of K. James 1612 to the eighteenth of K. Charles
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
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
in our fortifications c. among the created Doctors of Div. 1661. Oct. 17. John Poston Oct. 17. Cave Beck The last of these two hath published The universal character by which all nations may understand one another Lond. 1657. oct and perhaps other things Dec. 9. John Coke or Cook Jan. 31. Dan. Southmead Bac. of Arts of this University was then created Master Mar. 18. Will. Zanchie who had rendred both his life and fortunes in the Kings service under the command of Richard Vicount Molineaux and thereby had lost time in the University was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of the Kings Letters dat 10. of Jan. this year Bach. of Phys Oct. 17. Franc. Metcalf of S. Maries Hall Feb. 8. John Catchpole of Christs Coll. in Cambridge Bach. of Div. Oct. 17. James Bardsey He was a stranger as it seems and the only Bach. of Div. that was created this year In the month of May it was granted to Edw. Willisford then absent that he might be created when he came to the University but whether he came or was admitted it appears not perhaps he was the same Mr. Willisford who was lately ejected from Peter house in Cambridge for denying the Covenant Doct. of Law Apr. 12. George Owen one of the Heralds of Armes by the title of York May 29. Rich. Colchester was then also actually created He is stiled in the publick reg dignissimus vir and de republica optime meritus One Rich. Colchester of Westbury in Glocestershire Esq was one of the six Clerks in the High Court of Chancery and died in the troublesome times about 1646 whether the same Quaere June 16. Jeffry Palmer of the Middle Temple Esq This worthy Gentleman who was son of Thom. Palmer of Carleton in Northamptonshire by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Edw. Watson of Rockingham Kt sister to the first Lord Rockingham was chosen Burges for Stanford in Lincolnshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he was a manager of the evidence against Thomas Earl of Strafford and seemed to be an enemy to the prerogative But afterwards he perceiving full well what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took he boldly delivered his mind against the printing of that Declaration called the Grand remonstrance for which he was committed to custody in Nov. 1642. Afterwards being freed thence he retired to Oxon sate in the Parliament there and was esteemed a loyal and able person in his profession Upon the declining of the Kings cause he suffered as other Royallists did lived obscurely in England and upon pretence of plotting with the Cavaliers against Oliver the Protector he was imprison'd in the Tower of London in the month of May 1655. On the 31. of May 1660 his Majesty being then newly restored he was made Attorney General and about that time chief Justice of Chester and a Knight and on the 7 of June following he was created a Baronet He hath collected and written Reports bearing this title Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer Chevalier Baronet c. Lond. 1678. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hamsted in Middlesex on the fifth day of May an 1670 aged 72 whereupon his body being conveyed to the Hall of the Middle Temple laid there in state for a time attended by three Heralds of Armes Afterwards it was conveyed to the Seat of his Ancestors at Carleton in Northamptonshire before mention'd and there buried in a Vault under part of the Parish Church What inscription there is for him over his sepulcher I cannot tell sure I am that Dr. Thom. Pierce hath composed a most noble epitaph on him as also on his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Franc. More of Fawley in Berks who died on the 16. of the Cal. of May 1655 aged 47 years but it being too long for this place I shall only give you the beginning Galfridus Palmer vir ad omnia praesertim optima usque quaeque comparatus c. July 18. John Philipot Herald of Armes by the title of Somerset This person who was of Eltham in Kent was born at Folkston in that County and having a genie from his childhood to Heraldry and Antiquities was from being an Officer of Armes extraordinary called Blanch Lyon created Officer in ordinary called Rouge-Dragon 19 of Nov. 1618 and on the 8. July 1624 Herald by the title of Somerset In which capacity he was employed by his Majesty to make a presentation of the most noble Order of the Garter to his Highness Charles Lodowick Prince Elector in the Army at Bockstell or Bockstall in Brabant In the beginning of the Presbyterian rebellion in 1642 he was one of those Loyal Heralds who followed his Majesty was with him at Oxon but took up his quarters two miles distant thence at a place called Chawley in the Parish of Comnore where being seized on by certain Parliament Soldiers of the Garrison of Abendon was conveyed thence a Prisoner to London in 1644 or thereabouts But being soon after set at liberty he spent the short remainder of his days in London in great obscurity At length yielding to nature I cannot say in want was buried within the precincts of S. Bennets Church near to Paulswharf on the 25 of Nov. 1645. He hath written 1 Catalogue of the Chancellours of England the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurers of England With a collection of divers that have been Masters of the Rolls Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Additions to Will Camdens Remains concerning Britaine Lond. 1637 c. qu. 3 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the Parishes Boroughs Villages and Mannours of the County of Kent Lond. 1659. fol. Published by and under the name of Thom. Philipot his Son as I have told you among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1640. 4 An Historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent This is added to the said Villare Cautianum He the said Joh. Philipot hath also written as 't is said a book proving that Gentry doth not abate with Apprenticeship but only sleepeth during the time of their indentures and awaketh again when they are expired But this book I have not yet seen Aug. ... Sir John Borough Kt Garter Principal King of Armes His Grace did then pass in a Convocation to be Doctor of the Civil Law but whether he was admitted it appears not as several Creations do not in the publick register This person who was the Son of a Dutch man a Brewer by trade living in Sandwych in Kent as I have been informed at the Office of Armes was educated a Scholar and afterwards in the com Law in Greys Inn but his genie inclining him much to the study of Antiquity he obtained the office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London where by his searches he laid the foundation of certain books In 1623 he by the favour of the
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
their Vault at Felsted adjacent 9 Sept. following on Sam. 3.38 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 The virtuous Woman found her loss bewailed and character preached at Felsted in Essex 30. Apr. 1678 at the funeral of Mary Countess-Dowager of Warwick c. with so large additions which may be stiled the life of that noble Lady Lond. 1678. oct To which are annexed some of her Pious and useful meditations This book was afterwards reprinted twice at least in tw 4 Say on or a seasonable plea for a full hearing between man and man preached at Chelmsford in Essex at the general Assize holden for that County 8. July 1678. Lond. 1678. oct 5 Serm. at the Black-fryers before the Company of Apothecaries 8. Sept. 1681. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. 6 The true interest of nations impartially stated preached at the lent Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex 2. March 1690 proving that the c. Lond. 1691. qu. He hath also written and published The great evil of procrastination or the sinfulness and danger of deferring repentance in several discourses Lond. 1681 in tw And was as it seems the author of The holy life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker late Wife of him A. W.D. D. c. giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity c. Lond. 1680. oct with some Vseful papers and letters written by her on several occasions He hath other things extant which I have not seen as Serm. on 2. Chron. 23.11 printed 1660. qu. c. Joh. Dillingham Bach. of Div. of Sidney Coll. Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys of Camb. .... Bernard D. of D. of the fame Univ. The Christian name of this Doctor is not registred and therefore I do not know to the contrary but that he may be Nich. Bernard of whom I have spoken in the Fasti 1628. Qu. All which Cambridge men viz. Joh. and Edw. Stillingfleet Thomas White R. Cumberland M. Poole J. Meriton W. Williams A. Walker J. Diliingham Jo. Browne and ... Bernard were incorporated on the 14. of July There were 34 Masters of that University incorporated on the same day among whom besides those before mention'd was Tho. Wilson of Clare Hall one of both whose names was Rector of Arrow in Warwickshire after his Majesties restauration a Writer against the Quakers as Will. Pen G. Fox G. Whitehead c. an 1678 and author of Sermons in 1679. 83 c. whether the same I cannot tell One Will. Johnson also of the said Hall of Clare was then incorporated but not to be taken with one of both his names who was D. of D Chaplain and Sub-Almoner to K. Ch. 2 author of Deus nobiscum A narrative of a great deliverance at Sea Lond. 1659 c. oct and of other things He died 4. March 1666 aged 54 years and was buried in the north trancept or isle joyning on the north side of the choire of S. Peters Ch. in Westminster Creations July 9. Edw. Davenport of Vniv Coll. was created Bach. of Phys by dispensation from the Delegates I find this person to be admitted to the said degree 15 June 1661 and the same day admitted to practice his faculty July 29. Richard Cromwell Chanc. elected of the University of Oxon was actually created Mast of Arts in a Convocation of certain Doctors and Masters of the University held in Whitehall within the liberty of Westm and soon after in the same Convocation he was installed Chancellour of the said University which was the first publick honour done unto him in the nation He was the eldest Son of Oliver L. Protector and had no other breeding than in hawking hunting horse-racing c. He was a boon companion and had done no service in the Parliament Army unless it was the often drinking his Fathers Landlords K. Ch. 2. health His abilities in praying and preaching and love to the Sectaries was much like those of his cousin Rich. Ingoldesby mention'd among the Creations of M. of A. under the year 1649. However he being designed to be his Fathers successor in tne Protectorate was about the time that this honour was done to him sworn a Privy Counsellour made a Colonel in the Army when fighting was over to the end that he might have an interest in parties and parts of the Body politique and the first Lord of the Other House About that time he was commonly called the most noble Lord Richard and rife discourses there were of Richard the fourth but they proved no more than the story of Queen Dick. On the 4 of Sept. 1658 he was proclaimed Lord Protector his Father dying the day before at the usual places in London where Kings use to be and soon after had addresses flew to him at Whitehall from all parts of the three Nations to salute and magnifie his assumption to the Soveraignty wherein he was celebrated for his excellency of his wisdom and nobleness of mind for the lovely composition of his body c. as if he had been another Titus Deliciae Gentis Dominii Britanici c. In the latter end of Apr. 1659 he was as a pitiful thing laid aside and deposed Whereupon withdrawing to Hursley in Hampshire absconded there for a time He had before taken to Wife Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Rich. Maijor or Mager of Hursley before mention'd Son of Joh. Maijor sometimes Mayor and Alderman of Southampton by whom he had issue Oliver Cromwell and other Children The other Daughter and Coheir named Anne was married to John Dunch of Pusey in Berks Son of Sam. Dunch of North Baddisley in Hampshire Esq by whom he had a Son named Major or Maijor Dunch and other Children This Rich. Cromwell who was born in the antient Borough of Huntingdon has gone through no death as yet only a political one His younger Brother formerly called Lord Harry L. Lieut. of Ireland was born also at Hunt and died and was buried some years since at Wickhen in Cambridgshire Sept. 5. Robert Whitehall M. of A. of Mert. Coll. was created Bac. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of R. Cromwell Chanc. of the University Nov. 11. Jos Williamson of Qu. Coll now in France was diplomated M. of A. Dec. 2. Abraham Cowley the great ornament of our Nation as well by the candor of his life as the excellency of his writings was created Doctor of Phys This Gentleman who is justly characterized to be Anglorum Pindarus Flaccus Maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui was born in Fleetstreet near to the end of Chancery-lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London an 1618. His Father who was a Grocer dying before the Son was born the Mother by her endeavours and friends got him to be a Kings Scholar at Westminster where in the year 1633 being then going into the sixteenth year of his age he composed a book called Poetical Blossomes whereby the great pregnancy of his parts was discovered Soon after having obtained the Greek and Rom. Languages he was removed to Trin.
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
married to Sir Edw. Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordsh Bt afterwards Earl of Lichfield 10 Mary begotten on the body of Mary Davies a Comedian in the Duke of Yorks Play-house She had afterwards the Sirname of Tuder given to her and on the 18 of Aug. or thereabouts an 1687 she was married to the Son of Sir Francis Radcliffe afterwards Earl of Derentwater 11 James begotten on the body of the said Eleanor Quinn was born in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westminster on Christmas day or thereabouts an 1671 and died in France of a sore leg about Michaelmas in 1680. Here are eleven natural Children set down but whether in order according to Birth I cannot justly tell you There was another Daughter begotten on the body of the said Barbara Duchess of Cleveland which the King would not own because supposed to be begotten by another and whether he own'd it before his death I cannot tell He also adopted for his Daughter the Daughter of the said Rog. Palmer E. of Castlemaine which was born of Barbara his Wife before she had knowledge of his Majesty After her adoption she was married to Thomas Lennard Lord Dacres Earl of Sussex But now after this digression le ts proceed to the rest of the incorporations Feb. 13. Joh. Heaver D. D. of Cambr. He had been Fellow of Clare Hall in that University was now Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton Coll and dying 23 of June 1670 was succeeded in his Canonry by Tho. Viner Bach afterwards Doct. of Div. Mar. 15. Anthony Horneck a German of Qu. Coll Mast of Arts of Wittemberg He is now an eminent Minister in Lond hath published several books of Divinity and Sermons and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers CREATIONS By the command of the Chancellour of the University were Creations made in all faculties in the latter end of Sept. at which time the King and Queen were in Oxon. Bach. of Law Sept. 28. Joh. Baylie of S. Johns Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Dr. Rich. Baylie President of that Coll was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of B. and Wells He died at or near Wells about the 20. of Jan. 1688. Mast of Arts. These following persons were created on the 28 of Sept. in a full Convocation then celebrated James Howard Earl of Suffolk John Greenvill Earl of Bathe chief Gentleman of his Majesties Royal Bedchamber He was before the Wars began a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall and after they began a Commander of note in his Majesties Army against the Rebels and at length entrusted by his Maj. K. Ch. 2. in the great affair of his restauration c. John Middleton Earl of Middleton in Scotland and L. High Commissioner thereof Henry Hamilton a young Nobleman of Ch. Ch E. of Clanbrazill Son of James sometimes E. of Clanbrazill Henry Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland He was afterwards Marq. of Worcester and Duke of Beaufort Charles Berkley Visc Fitz-Harding He was now Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold and one of the Lords of the Privy Council and dying in Whitehall of a short apoplectical distemper on the 12 of June 1668 Sir Thomas Clifford succeeded him in his Treasurership William Lord Cavendish Son of the Earl of Devonshire He was afterwards Earl of Devonshire Joh. Hales of Ch. Ch. Bts. Franc. Hen. Lee of Ditchley Bts. Sir Allen Apsley Kt. He was originally as 't is said of Trinity Coll. in this University and afterwards a faithful adherer to his Majesties cause in the worst of times After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Captain Lieutenant in the Regiment of James Duke of York Falconer to his Majesty and Treasurer of the Houshold and Receiver general to the said Duke This person who died in S. James Square near London about the 15 of Octob. 1683 hath written and published a Poem entit Order and disorder or the world made and undone Being meditations upon the Creation and the Fall as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis Lond. 1679. in five Cantoes He was a Burgess for Thetford in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. May 1661. Henry Guy Esq sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Cup-bearer to the Qu. He was afterwards an Officer of the Excise in the North was a Recruiter for Headon in Yorkshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became Secretary to the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury 26. Mar. 1679 and in the same year one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber upon the resignation of Col. Silas Titus Afterwards he was made a Commissioner of the Custom-house c. Sidney Godolphin Esq This person who is of the antient family of Godolphin in Cornwall was afterwards a Recruiter for Helston in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 one of the Gromes of his Majesties Bedchamber and the last of the four Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury on the 26. Mar. 1679 about which time Thomas Earl of Danby was discharg'd of his place of Lord Treasurer In the middle of Apr. 1684 he succeeded Sir Leol Jenkyns in the place of Secretary of State and on the 17 of that month he was sworn to that office at a Council held at Hampton Court On the 24 of Aug. following he was by his Majesty declared the first Commissioner of the Treasury and thereupon Char. Earl of Middleton succeeded him in his Secretaryship and in the beginning of Sept. following he was by his Majesty created a Baron by the title of Lord Godolphin of Rialton in Cornwall About the 16 of Feb. 1684 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then newly dead he was by K. Jam. 2. made Lord Chamberlain to his Queen and about the 5 of Jan. 1686 he with John Lord Bellasyse Henry Lord Dover Sir Joh. Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were appointed Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer of England Laurence Earl of Rochester being about that time removed from that great office On the 15 of Nov. or thereabouts an 1690 his Majesty K. Will. 3. was pleased to order a new Commission to pass the Great Seal constituting the said Sidney Lord Godolphin the first Commissioner of the Treasury The other Commissioners then appointed were Sir Joh. Lowther of Lowther Bt. Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold Richard Hamden Esq Chanc. of the Exchecquer Sir Steph. Fox Kt. and Tho. Pelham Esq Sir Franc. Drake of Exeter Coll. Bts. Tho. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bts. Charles Berkley Knight of the Bath a Noble man of Ch. Ch. and eldest Son to George Lord Berkley Grevill Verney of Compton Murdack in Warwickshire Knight of the Bath He died at Lond. 23. July 1668. Bernard Greenvill Esq He was afterwards a Recruiter for Leskard in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661 and one of the Groomes of his Majesties Bedchamber Sir
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
his body was conveyed to Windsore and buried in the Chap. or Church of S. George within the Castle there In the year following was a table of white marble fix'd to the wall near his grave with this inscription thereon M. S. Francisco Junio Francisci Junii Biturig is filio nobilitate generis integritate morum omnigenâ doctrina conspicuo viro nato Heidelbergae anno salutis MDLXXXIX qui per omnem aetatem sine quaerelâ aut injuriâ cujusquam Musis tantum sibi vacavit Vniversitas Oxoniensis cui scripta monumenta laboris sui moriens pene nonagenarius commisit in grati animi significationem lubens meritoque titulum posuit an MDCLXXVIII The titles of some of the books that he published you may see in the Bodleian or Oxf. Catalogue To this learned person I must add another of less name much noted in his time but since not for the art and fac of Poetry who had spent about eight years in Oxen partly in custody but mostly in liberty and freedom in the public Library and conversation with ingenious Scholars The Anagram of his sirname is Benevolus given to him by Flatterers and Pretenders to Poetry for his Benevolence to them His Christian Name was Edward Son and heir of Andr. Bendlowes Esq Son of Wâ—ll Bendlowes Esq Son and heir of Andrew Bendlowes Serjeant at Law c. all Lords of Brent Hall and of other Lands in Essex but descended from those of their name of Bendlowes in Yorkshire When he was young he was very carefully educated in Grammar learning and when at about 16 years of age he became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which he was afterwards a Benefactor Thence he was sent to travel with a Tutor or Guide and having rambled thro several Countries and had visited seven Courts of Princes he returned a most accomplished person as to behaviour and discourse yet ring'd with Romanism But being a very imprudent man in matters of worldly concern and ignorant as to the value or want of money he did after he was invested in his Estate at Brent hall and elsewhere which amounted to seven hundred some say a thousand pounds per an make a shift tho never married to squander it mostly away on Poets Flatterers which he loved in buying of Curiosities which some call'd Baubles on Musitians Buffoones c. He also gave from his said Estate a large Portion with a Neice who was married to one Blount of Mapledurham in Oxfordshire Esq supposing thereby that so long as they lived he should not want but the case being otherwise he lived afterwards in a mean condition He also very imprudently entred himself into Bonds for the payment of other mens debts which he being not able to do he was committed to prison in Oxford which was the matter that first brought him thither but being soon after released he spent the remainder of his days there in studies till the time of his death This person who was esteemed in his younger days a great Patron of Poers especially of Franc. Quarles Will. D'avenant Payne Fisher c. who had either dedicated books or had written Epigrams and Poems on him hath several things whereby he hath obtained the name of a Divine Author extant among which are these 1 Sphinx Theologica seu Musica Templi ubi discordia concors Camb. 1626. oct 2 Theophila or Loves Sacrifice A divine Poem Lond. 1652. fol. with his picture before it Several parts thereof had Aires set to them or were fitted for Aires by the incomparable Musitian Job Jenkyns who had been favoured much and patronized by Benevolus A whole Canto of this Theophila consisting of above 300 verses was turn'd into elegant Latin Verse in the space of one day by that great prodigy of early parts John Hall of Durham mentioned in the first vol. p. 455. having had his tender affections ravish'd with that divine piece 3 Summary of divine Wisdome Lond. 1657. qu. 4 A glance at the glories of sacred friendship Lond. 1657 printed on one side of a large sheet of paper 5 De sacra Amicitia Printed with the former in Lat. verse and prose 6 Threnothriambeuticon Or Latine Poems on K. Ch. 2. his restauration Lond. 1660 pr. on a side of a large sheet of paper Some he caused to be printed on white Sattin a copy of which in a frame sutable to it he gave to the public Library at Oxon. 7 Oxonii Encomium Ox. 1672. in 4 sh in fol. It is mostly in Lat. verse 8 Oxonii Elogia Oxon 1673. on one side of a large sh of paper They consist of 12 Stanzaes and afterwards follow 1. Oxonii Elegia 2. Academicis serenitas 3. Academ temperantia 4. Studiosis cautela and other things 9 Magia Coelestis Oxon 1673. 'T is a Lat. Poem pr. on one side of a large sh of paper These three last under the 7.8 and 9 heads were with other things composed at Oxon while he was conversant there He hath also a Mantissa to Rich. Fenns Panegyricon inaugurale intit De celeberrima florentiss Trinobantiados Augustae civ Praetori reg senatui populoque Lond. 1637 qu. In the title of which Mr. Bendl. stiles himself Turmae equestris in Com. Essex praefectus He hath other things extant which I have not yet seen and therefore I shall only tell you that after he had been courted and admired for his antient Extraction Education and Parts by great men of this Nation and had been a Patron to several ingenious men in their necessities and by his generous mind void of a prudential foresight had spent a very fair Estate without keeping little or any thing to support him did spend his last days at Oxon but little better than in obscure condition in which for want of conveniencies required fit for old age as Clothes Fewel and warm things to refresh the body he marched off in a cold season on the 18 of Decemb. at eight of the clock at night an 1676 aged 73 years or more Whereupon by a collection of money among certain Scholars who knew what he had been he was decently buried with Escocheons in the north isle or alley joyning to the body of S. Maries Ch. in Oxon near to the door that leads thence into Adam Brome's Chappel In his younger years he was esteemed a Papist or at least Popishly affected but being drawn off from that Opinion in his elderly years he would take occasion oftentimes to dispute against Papists and their Opinions which was not at all acceptable to his Nephew and Neice Blount before mentioned which was the cause that his room rather than company was desired by them and could not endure any person that seemed to favour the Opinions of Arminius or Socinus His picture now hangs in the Gallery belonging to the public Library at Oxon. This year one Joh. Wulferus of Nuremberg became a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library went
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