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
Upminster in Essex and he the son of Adrian D'ewes a lineal descendant of the antient Family of Des Ewes Dynasts or Lords of the dition of Kessell in the Dutchy of Gelderlandht who came first thence into England in the time of K. Hen. 8. when that Dutchy had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued between Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his son 3 That he was educated in the University of Cambridge the antiquity of which he zealously asserted against that of Oxon. in a Speech spoken in a grand Committee of Parliament in Jan. 1640 as I have elsewhere told you and afterwards retired to his estate called Stow hall in Suffolk 4 That he was a Burgess for Sudbury in the same County to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 and soon after he was made a Baronet and in 1643 he took the Covenant I find going under his name these things following viz. 1 The Greek Postscripts of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus cleared in Parliament And an occasional Speech concerning the Bill of Acapitation or Poll money printed 1641 in one sheet and half in qu. 2 Speech in a grand Committee touching the antiquity of Cambridge 3 Sp. touching the priviledge of Parliament in Causes criminal and civil Which two Speeches were printed in 1641. 42. qu. 4 Sp. in Parl. on the xi of January concerning the proceedings against the eleven Bishops accused of High Treason an 1641 2. 5 The primitive practice for preserving truth or an historical narration c. Lond. 1645. qu. 6 Sp. in the H. of Commons 2â— Jul. 1644. qu. at the end of which is a Postscript by way of advice to all those who have gotten into their possessions either the Church Revenues or other mens Estates Lond. 1646. qu. in 2 sh 7 Journal of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and H. of Commons Lond. 1682. fol. Revised and published by Paul Bowes of the Middle Temple Esq This person D'ewes who was a great searcher into Records and the best of his time for the knowledge of Coins and Coinage yet of a humourous and minical disposition died in the beginning of the year 1650 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Stowlangâ—oft in Suffolk I have seen a copy of his Will written by himself in Latine wherein are most particulars of his life recited But let 's go forward with the Works of Great Selden who hath also written Of the Judicature of Parliaments wherein the Controversies and Precedents belonging to the Title are methodically handled Lond. 1681. oct Englands Epinomis Of the original of ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Testaments Of the disposition or administration of Intestates goods These three last were published by Redman Westcot before mention'd with the English Translation of Jani Anglorum c. Lond. 1683. fol. Under his name is also published Table-talke being the discourses or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State Lond. 1689. qu. published by Rich. Milward who had observed his discourses for 20 years together Letters to learned men Among which are several to the learned and godly Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland as at the end of his life printed in fol. you may see Speeches Arguments Debates c. in Parliament He also had a great hand in and gave directions and advice towards that Edition of Plutarchs Lives printed 1657 with an addition of the year of the World and the year of our Lord together with many chronological notes and explanations out of divers Authors He left behind him also divers MSS. of his own writing some of which are since published as before you may see among these are 1 The life of Rog. Bacon 2 Collections of many Records and Antiquities 3 Collection of Notes and Records of various Subjects marked with M. 4 Extracts out of the leiger books of Battel Evesham Winton c. 5 Vindication of his history of Tithes This last I once saw in the library of MSS. belonging to his Godson named Joh. Vincent son of August Vincent sometimes Windsore Herald but where it is now I cannot tell At length after this great light of our Nation had lived to about the age of man was extinguished at Lond. on the last of Nov. being S. Andr. day in sixteen hundred fifty and four in the large house called the Carmelite or White Fryers then belonging to Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Henry Earl of Kent whose estate he for several years had managed and commanded which was the reason he died very wealthy whereupon on Thursday the 14 of Decemb. following he was magnificently buried in the Temple Church on the south side of the round walk in the presence of all the Judges some of the Parl. men Benchers and great Officers His grave was nine foot deep at least the bottom pav'd with bricks and walled about two foot high with grey marble coarsly polished each piece being yoated that is fastned with lead molted in with iron champs Into this repository was the Corps in a woodden Coffin covered with a black cloth let down with a pulley or engine Which being done a stone of black polish'd marble six inches thick was let down also and made fast to the top of the repository with champs of iron yoated in to the end that in future ages when graves are dug there it might not be remov'd Upon the said marble stone was this engraven Hic inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni or to that effect Over the said sepulchre and stone was turned over or made an arch of brick the diameter being about three foot and above was left room to bury other bodies in future time On the surface of the earth even with the pavement of the Church was soon after laid a plain marble with the Bakers Arms engraven thereon and this Inscription Johannes Seldenus J. C. heic situs est Over which in the wall was fastned a white marble table and thereon an Epitaph made by himself a copy of which with encomiastical Verses under his printed picture made by Dr. Ger. Langbaine you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 350. The learned Usher Primate of Ireland preached his funeral Sermon but did not or could not say much of his sound Principles in Religion Mr. Ric. Johnson Master of the Temple buried him according to the Directory and said in his Speech with reference to the saying of a learned man that When a learned man dies a great deal of Learning dies with him and added that if Learning could have kept a man alive our brother had not died But notwithstanding the said Usher's silence concerning our Author's Religion Sir Matth. Hale one of his Executors hath often profess'd that Selden was a resolved serious Christian and that he was a great
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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
such materials I have lying by me in every one of which I find his hand writing either in interlining adding or correcting and one of those four which is entituled Collectaneorum lib. secundus is mostly written by him collected from Parliament Rolls the Paper Office at Whitehall Vicar Generals Office books belonging to the Clerks of the Councill Mss in Cottons Library Books of Convocations of the Clergy c. printed Authors c. And there is no doubt that as he had an especial hand in composing the said Life of K. Hen. 8. which as some say he turned mostly into Latine but never printed so had he a hand in latinizing that Lords book De veritate or others At length being overtaken by a malignant feaver the same which I have mention'd in Dud. Digges and Will. Cartwright died thereof to the great reluctancy of those that well knew him in the Winter time either in Dec. or Jan. in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the north part of the outer Chappel belonging to New Coll. His Epitaph is written in Latine by the said L. Herbert in his Occasional Verses p. 94. who hath also written a lat Poem in praise of his Mensa lubrica which may be there also seen But the said Epitaph must not be understood to have ever been put over his grave WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH son of Will. Chill Citizen afterwards Mayor of Oxford was born in S. Martins Parish there in a little house on the north side of the conduit at Quatervois in Octob. 1602 and on the last of that month received baptism there After he had been educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester a noted Latinist and Greecian who taught privately in Allsaints Parish or in the Free school joyning to Magd. Coll. or in both he became scholar of Trin. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Skinner on the second of June 1618 being then about two years standing in the University and going thro with ease the Classes of Logic and Philosophy was adm M. of A. in the latter end of 1623 and Fellow of the said Coll. 10 June 1628. He was then observed to be no drudg at his study but being a man of great parts would do much in a little time when he setled to it He would often walk in the College grove and contemplate but when he met with any scholar there he would enter into discourse and dispute with him purposely to facilitate and make the way of wrangling common with him which was a fashion used in those days especially among the disputing Theologists or among those that set themselves apart purposely for Divinity But upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Puritan that way forsooth was accounted boyish and pedagogical to the detriment in some respects of learning About the same time being much unsetled in his thoughts he became acquainted with one who went by the name of Joh. Fisher a learned Jesuit and sophistical Disputant who was often conversant in these parts At length by his perswasions and the satisfaction of some doubts which he could not find among our great men at home he went to the Jesuits Coll. at S. Omer forsook his Religion and by these motives following which he left among them under his own hand became a Rom. Catholick First because perpetual visible profession which could never be wanting to the Religion of Christ nor any part of it is apparently wanting to Protestant Religion so far as concern the points in contestation 2 Because Luther and his followers separating from the Church of Rome separated also from all Churches pure or impure true or untrue then being in the World upon which ground I conclude that either Gods promises did fail of performance if there were then no Church in the world which held all things necessary and nothing repugnant to salvation or else that Luther and his Sectaries separating from all Churches then in the world and so from the true if there were any true were damnable Schismaticks 3 Because if any credit might be given to as creditable Records as any are extant the doctrine of Catholiques hath been frequently confirmed and the opposite doctrine of Protestants confounded with supernatural and divine miracles 4 Because many points of protestant Doctrine are the damned opinions of Hereticks condemned by the primitive Church 5 Because the prophecies of the Old Test touching the conversion of Kings and Nations to the true Religion of Christ have been accomplished in and by the Catholique Rom. Religion and the Professours of it 6 Because the doctrine of the Church of Rome is conformable and the doctrine of the Protestants contrary to the doctrine of the Fathers of the primitive Church even by the confession of Protestants themselves I mean those Fathers who lived within the compass of the first 600 years to whom Protestants themselves do very frequently and confidently appeal 7 Because the first pretended Reformers had neither extraordinary commission from God nor ordinary mission from the Church to preach protestant doctrine 8 Because Luther to preach against the mass which contains the most material points now in controversie was perswaded by reasons suggested to him by the Devil himself disputing with him So himself professeth in his book De missa privata that all men might take heed of following him who professeth himself to follow the Devil 9 Because the protestant Cause is now and hath been from the beginning maintained with gross falsifications and calumnies whereof their prime controversie writers are notoriously and in high degree guilty 10 Because by denying all humane Authority either of Pope or Councils or Church to determine controversies of Faith they have abolished all possible means of suppressing heresie or restoring unity to the Church These were his motives as my Author tells me who adds that they were so strong that he Chillingw could never since frame his mind to Protestancy And the profession of Catholique Religion not suting with his desires and designs he fell upon Socinianism that is no Religion c. To these motives which are owned and reprinted by Mr. Chillingworth he made an Answer three years or better before the first edition of his book called The Religion of Protestants c. came out Which answer was not published for two reasons one because the motives were never publick until the author of The direction to N. N. made them so The other because he was loth to proclaim to all the world so much weakness as he shew'd in suffering himself to be abused by such silly sophismes All which proceeded upon mistakes and false suppositions which unadvisedly he took for granted as 't will quickly appear when the motives with his respective answers made to them and printed shall be impartially weighed in the ballance against each other Tho Mr. Chillingworth embraced Protestantism very sincerely as it seems when he wrot his book of The Religion of Protestants c. yet
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
all likelyhood in a certain possibility of rising higher if the times had not interrupted him In the beginning of 1640 he was elected Burgess for Q. Mynhead in Somersetshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. the same year and soon after siding with his Maj. in the rebellious times suffer'd much in his estate having 300 l. at one time given thence to one Serle a widdow In the month of Sept. in 1648 he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to Newport in the Isle of Wight by his Majesty to be assisting to him in his Treaty with the Commissioners sent from Parliament But that Treaty taking no effect he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near London where living to see his Master murdered before his own door he soon after ended his life He was a person of smooth Language was an excellent Civilian and a tolerable Poet especially in his younger days and well vers'd in Histories whether ecclesiastical or civil He hath extant Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis sub Regibus Henric. V. VI. Oxon. 1617. qu. remitted into the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Bates an 1681. De usu authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Christianorum lib. 2. Lond. 1â—53 and 79. oct Leydâ—â— 1654. Lips 1668. in tw c. In which book Dr. Gerard Langbaines labours were so much that he deserved the name of Co-author Dr. Duck paid his last debt to nature in the month of May in sixteen hundred forty and nine and was buried in the Church at Chiswick in Middlesex to the poor of which place he gave 10 l. He left considerable legacies to Exeter and All 's Colleges and 10 l. to the poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire besides other gifts of charity elsewhere which for brevity sake I now pass by RICHARD ALLEN was born in or near to Abendon in Berks was originally of Ball. Coll. and as a member of that house he took one degree in Arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first Scholars of Pembr Coll proceeded in his faculty was made Fellow and at length beneficed near Ewelme in Oxfordshire He hath written An antidote against heresie or a preservative for Protestants against the poyson of Papists Anabaptists c. Lond. 1648. dedicated to his Uncles Sir Tho. Gainsford Kt and Humph. Huddleston Esq One of both his names but after in time was Pastor of Henfield in Sussex and Author of Englands Distemper their cause and cure according to the judgment of famous Princes Peers Parliaments c. occasion'd by a learned Frier accusing the whole Nation of Perjury for abjuring Transubstantiation and sent to the Author for a reply Lond. 1677. qu. in 3 sh and an half Whether this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know not I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among these Writers under the year 1681. NICHOLAS DARTON a Cornish man born was entred into Exet. Coll. either in the condition of a Batler or Servitour in Mich. term 1618 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts afterwards holy orders and at length became Minister of Killesbye in Northamptonshire He hath extant Several sermons as 1 The true and absolute Bishop with the Converts return unto him on 1 Pet 2.25 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to Will Lord Say at which time the Author who was always before esteemed a Puritan closed with the Presbyterian Party He hath one or more extant which I have not yet seen Ecclesia Anglicana or his clear and protestant Manifesto as an evangelical key sent to the Governour of Oxford for the opening of the Church doors there that are shut up without prayers or preaching Printed 1649. qu. JOHN PRIDEAUX was born in an obscure town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devon on the 17 of Sept. 1578 became a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme Bach. of Div. in Act term 1596 and in 1602 was elected probat Fellow of that house being then Bach. of Arts. In the year after he proceeded in that Faculty and thereupon entred into holy Orders so that being soon after noted for his great Learning and profound Divinity he was elected Rector of his Coll. upon the death of Holland in 1612 he being then Bach. of Div. and the same year proceeded in the same faculty In 1615 he was upon the promotion of Dr. Abbot to the See of Sarum made the Kings Professor of Divinity by vertue of which he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire And afterwards did undergo the Office of Vicechancellour of this University for several years as I have elsewhere told you In the Rectorship of his College he carried himself so winning and pleasing by his gentle government and fatherly instruction that it flourished more than any house in the University with Scholars as well of great as of mean birth as also with many Foreigners that came purposely to set at his feet to gain instruction So zealous he was also in appointing industrious and careful Tutors that in short time many were fitted to do service in the Church and State In his Professorship he behaved himself very plausible to the generality especially for this reason that in his Lectures Disputes and Moderatings which were always frequented with many Auditors he shew'd himself a stout Champion against Socinus and Arminius Which being disrellish'd by some who were then rising and in authority at Court a faction thereupon grew up in the University between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side and the Remonstrants commonly called Arminians on the other which with other matters of the like nature being not only fomented in the University but throughout the Nation all things thereupon were brought into confusion to the sorrow of the Puritan who had with all his might opposed Canterbury in his generous designs of making the English Church glorious At length after he had sate 26 years Professor he was one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late made a Bishop by the endeavours as some say of James Marq. of Hamilton his somtimes Pupil The See which he was design'd to govern was Worcester to which being elected 22. of Nov. was consecrated at Westminster on the 19. of Dec. following an 1641 but received little or no profit from it to his great impoverishment So that upon that account and for his adhering to his Maj. in the time of the Civil War wherein he pronounced all those of his diocess that took up arms against him excommunicated he became at length Verus Librorum helluo for having first by indefatigable studies digested his excellent Library into his mind was after forced again to devour all his books with his teeth turning them by a miraculous faith and patience into bread for himself and his children to whom he left no legacy but pious poverty Gods blessing and a Fathers prayers as it appears in
dying 26. Sept. 1607. aged 23 was buried at the upper end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards Christian put up a monument over his grave which is yet remaining but defaced Mark Zeiglier a German was entred into the Coll. about 1624. Wibbo Jansonius Artopaeus Finsoendensis Civis Gen. was admitted into the Coll. in June 1635 aged 20. Hieronimus Ernesti Erffurtoâ—Thuringus was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of Aug. 1638 and continued in the College till July 1641. Besides these and many more which shall now be omitted have been several of the Scotch nation that have been received into the said House upon the same account among which have been 1 Joh. Balcanquall see in the Fasti 1612. among the Incorporations 2 .... Gilman who studied there 1613 and some time after 3 Sam. Balcanquall 1616. One of both his names occurs Fellow of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge 20 years after See in the Fasti 1618 among the Incorporations 4 Rob. Spotswood M. of Arts of Glascow was admitted to the Fellows table in the beginning of the year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour of K. James and K. Ch. 1. unto great honours as his singular virtues did merit K. Jam. made him a Knight and a Privy Counsellour K. Charles advanced him to be Lord President of the Sessions and at length Principal Secretary of Scotland in the place of William Earl of Lanerick afterwards Duke of Hamilton when he revolted to the Covenateers of that Kingdom After James Marquess of Montross had gained great victories against the said Cov. the said Sir Rob. Spotswood conveyed from the King at Oxon to him the said Montross letters pattents whereby he was made Vice-Roy of Scotland and General of the Army there But being soon after taken prisoner upon the defeat of Montross near Silkerke he was conveyed to S. Andrews where at length they found him guilty of High Treason lamented by many because he never bore arms against them for his eminency laid in the way of peace and knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword His treason being for conveying the said let pat he was beheaded at S. Andrews in 1645 leaving then behind him the general character of a most excellent and good man He was a Gentleman of great abilities both in the Art of Government and study of the law hath written things in nature of our Reports of the law which have been highly valued among Lawyers in Scotland His Father was Dr. Joh. Spotswood the famous and orthodox Theologist of Scotland consecrated Archbishop of Glascow in the Archbishps Chappel at Lambeth near London according to the ceremonies of the Church of England on the 20. of Oct. 1610. At which time Gawen Hamilton was consecrated Bishop of Galloway and Andr. Lamb B. of Brechin The said Dr. Spotswood was afterwards translated to St. Andrews and dying on the fourth of the Cal. of Dec. an 1639. aged 74 years was buried in the Abbey Church at Westminster 5 James Hamilton Earl of Arran Baron of Evenu in Scotland and of Ennerdale in Cumberland eldest Son of James Marquess of Hamilton was admitted a Noble man under the said Dr. Prideaux his tuition 6. Jul. 1621. He was afterwards Marquess and Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Cambridge 6 James Baylie Governour to the said Count was admitted at the same time to the Fellows table with him See in the Fasti 1621. among the Creations It is farther also to be noted that as the said College did send out many eminent men into the Church and State that had been under the Government of Prideaux so also many that did great mischief and were enemies to them as you may see at large in this work in the lives and characters of several that had been educated in the said College Some also of the English Nobility having been sent thereunto have by the Principles that they have sucked in proved no great friends either to the Church or State Among such have been John Lord Roberts E. of Radnor a severe predestinarian and a Promoter of the grand Rebellion Philip Lord Wharton another Promoter Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury of whom shall be large mention made elsewhere Philip the second Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who lived and died little better than a Quaker c. HENRY TOZER was born at North Tawton in Devonshire entred into Exeter Coll. in 1619 and in the year of his age 17 took one degree in Arts and then was made Prob. Fellow of his House 1623. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty took holy orders and became a useful and necessary Person in the society by moderating reading to Novices and lecturing in the Chappel At riper years he was admitted Bach. of Div became an able and painful Preacher had much of the Primitive Religion in his Sermons and seem'd to be a most precise Puritan in his looks and life which was the true reason why his preachings and expoundings in the Churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were much frequented by Men and Women of the Puritanical party In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines but refused to sit among them choosing rather to exercise his function in Oxon before the K. or Parliament or in his cures there than venture himself among rigid Calvinists In 1646 a little before the garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he was one of those noted Theologists who had either preached at Ch. Ch. before his Majesty or at S. Maries before the Parliament that were nominated by the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of D. of D. bestowed upon them but that also he as others refused In 1647. and 48 he behav'd himself a stout Champion against the unreasonable proceedings of the Visitors appointed by Parliament For which being by them posted up for an expell'd Scholar revoked their sentence so far that by an order dated 2. Nov. 16â—8 they impower'd him to have liberty to use his Chamber in Exeter Coll. as also that he enjoy a Travellers allowance for three years Afterwards he went into Holland and became Minister to the worshipful company of English Merchants at Roterdam His works are these Directions for a godly life especially for communicating at the Lords table Oxon. 1628. oct There again the tenth time 1680. oct Several Sermons as 1 A Christian amendment Serm. on New-years-day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. on 2. Cor. 5.17 Oxon. 1633. oct 2 Christian Wisdom or the excellency c. of true wisdom Serm. on 1. Kings 10.24 Oxon. 1639. oct 3 Sermon on Joh. 18.3 Ox. 1640. c. Dicta facta Christi ex quatuor Evangelistis collecta in ordme disposita Oxon. 1634. oct He gave way to fate on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred and fifty old stile and was buried in the English Church at Roterdam appropriated to
were printed together with the two Speeches before mention'd of an accommodation at Caen in the year 1647. in a thin fol. reprinted 1656. qu. Answer to the Declaration of the H. of Commons of the eleventh of Febr. 1647 in which they express the Reasons for their Resolution of making no more Addresses or receiving any from his Majesty Printed at Caen 1648. qu. Dedicated to his good Country-men of England and Fellow-subjects of Scotland and Ireland After this Answer was printed it came into the mind of our Author the Earl of Bristow to make some additions thereunto as well to the Preface as Work it self Which being so done they were not printed only reserved in MS being larger than the Answer it self as a copy of them which I have perused shew Besides these things he hath 1 Several Letters in the book called Cabala Mysteries of State c. Lond. 1654. quart 2 Several Letters in the Cabala or Scrinia sacra Lond. 1663. fol. and also hath translated from French into English Pet. du Moulins book Concerning the Protestants Faith which he published in the name of Joh. Sanford his Chaplain He hath also several scatter'd Copies of English Verses flying abroad to one of which is an Ayre of 3 Voices set by the incomparable Hen. Lawes in his Ayres and Dialogues c. Lond. 1653. fol. This great Count yielded to Nature at Paris on Friday the 21 of January in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried there in a piece of ground then or before a Cabbage Garden as 't is said which Sir Rich. Browne Clerk of the Council had a little before bought to bury the bodies of Protestants that die in or near that City A scurrulous Writer saith that He was buried in a mean Churchyard with little solemnity not one Lord appearing at his funeral nor any other person of quality except his second Son Mr. Joh. Digby and a certain Knight His eldest the Lord George Digby absented himself tho he was in town and not only so but 't is said he forbore inviting any to save funeral expences which being talked abroad hath much crak'd his Reputation because he is observed lavish enough upon other occasions c. But let the truth of these things remain with the Author while I proceed to speak of other matters This Earl left behind him his eldest son named George whom I shall at large mention elsewhere and another son named John born in London entred a Nobleman into Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 16 sided with the King in the beginning of the Civil War an 1642 and being esteemed a valiant and good man was made General of the Horse in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton When the King's Cause declined he went into France and sometimes followed the Court of K. Ch. 2. but getting nothing thence he lived very obscurely and came into England in 1654 where continuing for a time among the afflicted Royalists retired afterwards to Pontoise in France entred himself among the Religious there became a secular Priest and said Mass daily there to the English Nuns in which condition he was living there after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. as I have been informed by a Servant who then belonged to Walter Montague Abbat of Pontoise ROBERT MEAD Son of Rob. Mead a Stationer was born at the Black Lyon in Fleetstreet London elected Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School in the year 1634 and that of his age 18 took the degrees in Arts bore Arms for his Maj. in the Garrison of Oxon and at length was made a Captain In May 1646 he was appointed by the Governor thereof one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces then besieging Oxon for the surrender thereof and in June following he was actually created Doctor of Physick In 1648 he was deprived of all right he had to his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that going into France he was employ'd by our exil'd King as an Agent into Sweedland Afterwards he returned into England took up his Quarters in the house of his Father where being overtaken by a malignant fever died soon after He was tho little a stout and learned man and excellent in the faculty of Poetry and making Plays His eminent and general Abilities were also such that they have left him a character pretious and honorable to our Nation He hath written The Combate of Love and Friendship a Comedy Lond. 1654 qu. formerly presented by the Gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in this University He is also said by one or more Writers to have been the Author of The costly Whore a Com. But whether true I cannot justly say because a late Author very knowing in such matters doubts it This worthy person Captain Mead who hath also written several Poems some of which are occasionally printed in the books of other Authors died in his Fathers house before mentioned on the 21 of Feb. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet on the 23 of the same month being then Ashwednesday RICHARD JONES son of John Pew of Hentllan in Denbighshire was born in that County entred a Student in Jesus Coll. in the year 1621 and in that of his age 18 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and was afterwards a Preacher This is the person that wrot a book in his own Country Language containing with admirable brevity all the Books and Chapters of the Bible This book is called Gemma Cambricum c. Oxon. 1652. Before which Jam. Howell hath a short Epistle in commendation of it The Author died in Ireland but when 't is not known as I have been informed by Dr. Mich. Roberts sometimes Principal of Jesus College RICHARD PARR a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasn Coll. on the 2 of Sept. 1609 aged 17 elected Fellow thereof in 1614 being then Bac. of Arts Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he entred into the sacred Function and became a frequent Preacher in these parts In 1624 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and two years after became Rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire But giving that place up two years after upon the obtaining of the rich Parsonage of Eccleston where as they say he was born did proceed Doctor of his Faculty in 1634 and about an year after became Bishop of the Isle of Man in the place of Will. Forster deceased He was a person very painful in reading the Arts to young Scholars while he was of Brasn Coll and afterwards having a Cure of Souls he was no less industrious in the Ministry especially after he was made a Bishop He hath written and published Concio ad clerum habita Oxoniae in Comitiis 12 July 1625 in Apocal. 3.4 Oxon 1628. oct Several Sermons as 1 The end of the
same Edition He had likewise translated the aforesaid Odes into Lat. but that vrrsion is omitted Versio Latina annotationes in Joh. Malalae Chronographiam Oxon. 1091. oct See in the Prolegomena to that Author written by Humph. Hody Bac. of Div. and Fellow of Wadh. Coll. § 42. He hath written also a little thing De sonis which I presume is yet in MS as also Catalogus Manuscriptorum Graecorum in Bib. Bod. pro ratione Auctorum alphabeticus an 1636. MS. in Bodleys Library of great use to curious and critical Students He hath translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the Essence causes symptoms prognosticks and cure of Love or Erotique Melancholy Oxon. 1640. oct Written by Jam. Ferrand Doctor of Phys 2 Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians Lond. 1650. in a large oct Written by Jam. Gafferel Also from Lat. into English 1 Discourse touching the Spanish Monarchy Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Tho. Campanella Which Translation laying dead on the Booksellers hands Will. Prynne of Linc. Inn wrot an Epist and caused this Title to be printed and put before the remaining copies Thomas Campanella a Spanish Frier his advice to the King of Spayne for the obtaining of the universal Monarchy of the World Lond. 1659. qu. 2 Treatise of the Globes Lond. 1639 and 59. oct Written by Rob. Hues and lastly from Ital. into English The History of the rites customs and manner of life of the present Jews throughout the world Lond. 1650. oct Written by Leo Modena a Rabbin of Venice At length this curious person resigning up his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19 of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried in S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London having before with Joh. Gregory another Critick received relief in his necessities from Edw. Bysshe Esq then K. of Arms by the Parliaments Authority and also assisted Sir Hen. Holbroke Kt. by whom he had been exhibited to in his Translation of Procopius of Caesarea his History of the Warrs of the Emperor Justinian in 8 books c. Lond. 1653. fol. by exactly comparing the English with the Greek as it was written by David Hoeschelius who had it out of the Duke of Bavaria's library GEORGE JOLLIFF or Joyliff son of Joh. Jol. Gent. was born at East-Stower in Dorsetshire entred a Commoner in Wadham Coll. in Lent Term an 1636 7 but before he had spent two years there he retired to Pembr Coll. and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 being about that time a Lieutenant for the King under Ralph Lord Hopton Afterwards he entred on the Physick line and exercising himself much in Anatomy with the help of Dr. Clayton Master of his Coll. and the Kings Prof. of Physick he made some discovery of that fourth sort of Vessels plainly differing from veins arteries and nerves now called the Lympheducts Afterwards he went to Clare Hall in Cambridge took the degree of Doctor of Physick there and afterwards made a full and open discovery of the said Vasa Lymphatica in Anatomy Lectures in the Coll of Physitians about the year 1653 got to himself a great name and was for a time much retired to for his knowledge in Physick He lived mostly at Garlick hithe in London and dying before the immortal Harvey not without some perturbation of spirit as having been bound for the debts of his Brother was buried in the Church of S. James Garlick hithe about 1655. CUTHBERT SYDENHAM son of Cuthb Syd Gent. was born at Truro in Cornwall became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in Lent term 1639 aged 17 continued there till the City of Oxford was garrison'd for the King at which time being entertained by some of the godly party became a forward Zealot among them About the year 1644 he became Lecturer of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tyne without any orders unless those of the Presbytery confer'd upon him where by his constant and confident preaching he obtained more respect from the Brethren than any grave or venerable Minister in that or another Corporation could do In the latter end of 1650 he was actually created Master of Arts by vertue of Letters sent to the Members of Convocation from the Committee of Parliament for regulating the University of Oxon which partly say that he Mr. Cuth Sydenham hath long since full time for taking the degree of Master of Arts and is likewise of sufficient abilities in learning whereof he hath given large and publick evidence both by his Writings in asserting the cause of the Parliament and otherwise That though he cannot for his pressing occasions perform his Exercises for that degree yet he hath performed some part of them before the Enemies possessing Oxon c. Among several of his Writings only these following as yet have come to my hands viz. The false Brother or the Mapp of Scotland drawn by an English Pencil Printed in quar Anatomy of Joh. Lilbourn's Spirit and Pamphlets or a Vindication of the two honorable Patriots Oliver Cromwell Lord Governour of Ireland and Sir Arth. Haselrigg Knight and Baronet wherein the said Lilbourn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar and unworthy of civil converse Printed in qu. This Joh. Lilbourn being several times occasionally mention'd in this work I shall be more large of him by and by A Christian Sober and plain exercitation of the two grand practical controversies of these times Infant-baptisme and singing of Psalmes Lond. 1653. in tw Answer'd by Will. Kaye Minister of Stokesley in his book called Baptisme without bason c. Lond. 1653. qu. and by others The greatness of the Mysterie of godliness opened in several Sermons Lond. 1654. 56. and 1672. in oct and tw Which book is the sum of ten Sermons on 1. Tim. 3.16 and hath before the second Edition of it the Authors picture with this written under it Aet 31. 1654. Hypocrisie discovered in its nature and workings being the sum of seven Sermons on Luke 12. latter end of the first verse Lond. 1654. oct with his picture before it in a cloak Printed there again in 1657. and 71. oct This book was published by T. W. one of his perswasion who in his pref to it saith that Cuthb Sydenham was trained up under religious education from his Childhood which made him often profess his jealousie of professors especially such who had the advantage of a godly education through the many experiences and deceits of their own hearts That he was extreme painful even to the visible wasting of his own bodily strength in the work of the Ministry and his great care over his flock c. The said Sermons were taken from his mouth in short hand by the said T. W. who published them without any alteration At lengâ—h our Author retiring to London to gain health and to print some of his books took up his Lodging in
Axe-yard joyning to Kingstreet within the City of Westminster where he died in the very beginning of the year about 25 of March sixteen hundred fifty and four but where he was buried I cannot tell for the register of S. Margarets Church wherein Axe-yard is situated mentions him not to have been buried in that Parish Now as for John Lilbourne before-mention'd he having been very famous for his infamy I shall say these things of him He was born of a good Family at Thickley-Punchardon in the County Pal. of Durham and when very young was sent to London and bound an Apprentice to a packer of Cloth in S. Swithins-lane At which time and before he was esteemed a youth of an high and undaunted spirit of a quick and pregnant apprehension and of an excellent memory yet always after much addicted to contention novelties opposition of Government and to violent and bitter expressions About the year 1632 he upon the dislike of his trade had a mind to study the common Law and therefore upon his and the desire of his friends he was taken into the service of Mr. Will Prynne of Linc. Inn who shortly after suffering for his Histrio-Mastix as I shall tell you at large when I come to him his Servant Lilbourne took his Masters part imprinted and vended a book or books against the Bishops for which being committed Prisoner to the Fleet was afterwards whipped at a Carts tail from the said Fleet to Westminster the indignity of which he being not able to endure railed all the way against his Persecutors When he came to the Pallace yard he stood in the Pillory two hours and talking there to the People against the State was gagg'd In 1640 he was released from his Prison by the Members of the Long Parliament and soon after took upon him the place of a Captain in their Service and after the battle of Edghill being taken Prisoner at Brainford in the year 1642 was carried to Oxon and there arraigned for a Traytor for levying War against the Person of the King Afterwards he being released he was made a Lieutenant Colonel and became for a time the Idol of the factious party But he being naturally a great trouble-world in all the variety of Governments became a hodg-podg of Religion the chief ringleader of the Levellers a great proposal maker and modeller of state and publisher of several seditious Pamphlets among which were 1 A Salva Libertate 2 Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his Son in Law Hen. Ireton Esq 3 The outcry of the young men and the Apprentices of Lond. or an inquisition after the loss of the fundamental Laws and Liberties of England c. 4 The legal fundamental Liberties of the People of England revived 5 Preparation to an hue and crie after Sir Arth. Haselrig c. For which and for his endeavors to disturb the peace and subvert the Government of this Nation he was committed Prisoner to Newgate in Aug. 1645 where continuing a considerable while several Petitions subscribed by hundreds of Citizens and others as also by his Wife and many Women were put up to the Parliament for his releasment Afterwards he was transmitted to the Tower where having too much liberty allowed him he and his party spake very disgracefully of the two Houses of Parliament to whom it appeared that there was a design of many thousands intended under a colour of Petition to dishonour the Parliament and their proceedings whereupon his liberty was restrained and he was ordered to appear at the bar of the H. of Commons This was in Jan. 1647 and accordingly appearing he made a large answer to the information against him at which time the reading of proofs and examination of the business held till six of the Clock at night and then the House ordered that he be remanded to the Tower and tried by the Law of the Land for seditious and scandalous practices against the State Which order being not obeyed for his party withheld him under a pretence of a great meeting to be at Deptford in Kent about their Petition that is The Petition of many thousands of the free-born People of England c. it was ordered that the Officers of the Guards do assist the Sergeant in carrying him and Maj. Jo. Wildman to Prison which was done and that the Committee of Kent take care to suppress all meetings upon that Petition and to prevent all tumults and that the Militia of London c. take care to suppress such meetings and to prevent inconveniencies which may arise thereby and upon the said Petition Afterwards he seems to have been not only set at liberty but to have had reparations made for his sentence in the Star Chamber and sufferings before the Civil War began But he being of a restless spirit as I have told you published a Pamphlet entit Englands new Chains discovered c. which was the bottom and foundation of the Levellers design of whom he was the Corypheus Whereupon being committed again about the beginning of 1649 was brought to his trial in the Guild-hall where after great pleadings to and fro he was quitted by his Jury to the great rejoycing of his party Afterwards he went into the Netherlands and there as 't is said became acquainted with the Duke of Buckingham Lord Hopton Captain Titus c. At length being desirous to see his native Country he returned into England where after he had continued some time in his projects to disturb the Government he was apprehended and committed to Newgate and at length brought to his trial at the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie 20. Aug. 1653. but quitted again by his Jury Soon after he was conducted to Portsmouth in order to his conveyance beyond the Seas but by putting in for his peaceable deportment for the future he return'd fell into the acquaintance of the Quakers became one of them setled at Eltham in Kent where somtimes he preached and at other times at Wollidge and was in great esteem among that party At length departing this mortal life at Eltham on Saturday 29. of Aug. 1657 his body was two days after conveyed to the house called The Mouth near Aldersgate in London which was then the usual meeting place of Quakers Whence after a great controversie among a strange medley of People there mostly Quakers whether the Ceremony of a Hearse-cloth should be cast over his Coffin which was carried in the negative it was conveyed to the then new burial place in Morefields near to the place called now Old Bedlam where it was interred This is the Person of whom the magnanimous Judge Jenkins used to say that if the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne Lilbourne would quarrel with John and John with Lilbourne This Jo. Lilbourne who was second Son of Rich. Lilbourne Esq by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Thom. Hixon of Greenwich in the County of Kent Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Qu. Elizabeth had
an elder Brother called Robert who being puritanically educated sided with the rout against his Majesty in the beginning of the rebellion and being thorow-pac'd to Olivers interest was by him advanced to be a Colonel of Horse sometime before the Murther of K. Ch. 1. and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility than to requite him with having a hand in it Afterwards he was made Major General of the North of England and Commander in chief of all the Parliament Forces in Scotland After his Majesties restauration he surrendered himself upon Proclamation was attainted and committed Prisoner during life But his Father being then living the Estate at Thickley devolved upon the said Roberts Children begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret only Daughter of Hen. Beke of Hadenham in Bucks Gent. viz. 1 Robert born an 1650 2 Richard born 1652 3 Ephraim born about 1662 c. all which were living in 1688. This Col. Lilbourne spent the remainder of his days in close confinement in St. Nicholas Island called by some Plymouth Isle near Plymouth in Devonshire where dying in August an 1665. aged 52 years or thereabouts was buried as his Son Richard thinks at Plymouth ALEXANDER GROSSE was a Devonian born educated in Academicals in Gonvill and Caius Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became a Preacher at Plympton in his own Country But being desirous to receive instruction in matters pertaining to Divinity from Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of this University he entred himself a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. was incorporated M. of A. and in Feb. 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Soon after he obtained a License from the University to preach Gods word became Rector of Bridford near Exeter and at length of Ashberton in his own Country where he being a Presbyterian and a sider with the times was much frequented by People of that perswasion He hath extant Sweet and Soul-perswading inducements leading unto Christ c. Lond. 1632. qu. The happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ c. Lond. 1640. oct Several Sermons as 1 The Lord Jesus the Soules last refuge Serm. at the funeral of Mr. S. H on Rev. 22.20 2 Deaths deliverance and Eliahes fiery Chariot or the holy mans trial after death in two Sermons at Plymouth one on the 16. and the other on the 19 of Aug. 1631. The former at the funeral of Tho. Sherwill a pious Magistrate of that place on Isa 57.1.2 and the other Eliahes fierie chariot at the funeral of Mathias Nicolls Bac. of Div. Preacher to the Town of Plymouth on 2 Kings 2.11.12 All which Sermons were printed at Lond. 1640. oct The mysterie of self denial or the cessation of mans living to himself and the inchoations of Christs living in man Lond. 1642. qu. Mans misery without Christ opening the sinful perplexed dishonourable and Soul destroying condition of man without Christ c. Lond. 1642. qu. The way to a blessed life composed by way of Catechisme c. Lond. 1643. oct or tw This is sometimes called The fiery pillar c. Happiness of enjoying and making a true and speedy use of Christ setting forth 1. The fulness of Christ 2. Danger of neglecting Christ c. Lond. in qu. The Anatomy of the heart printed in oct This I have not seen nor his book On sacred things printed in tw Buddings and blossomings of old truths or several practical points of Divinity gathered out of the sacred Evangelist S. John chap. 3. from the 22 verse to the end Lond. 1656. oct Published by a Presbyterian Minister called John Welden then living at Stratcley in Armington in the County of Devon Whose Preface to it shews that A Gross was a zealous and mighty man in the Presbyterian way as by the character of him there appears At length after he had in a manner spent himself in carrying on the beloved Cause laid his head down and willingly died in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried at Ashberton beforemention'd He had a Son of both his names who became a Student in Exeter Coll. 1638 but whether he lived to publish any thing I know not WILLIAM ERBURY was born at or near Roath-Dagfield in Glamorganshire became a Student in Brasn Coll. in Lent term 1619. aged 15 years took one degree in Arts retired into Wales took Holy Orders and was there beneficed But being always schismatically affected he preached in Conventicles and denying to read the Kings Declaration for pastimes after Divine Service on the Lords day was summoned divers times to the High Commission Court at Lambeth where he suffered for his obstinacy In the beginning of the Long Parliament 1640 he shew'd himself openly preached against Bishops and Ceremonies and made early motions towards Independency Whereupon by the endeavours of those inclin'd that way he was made a Chaplain in the Earl of Essex his Army and therein he sometimes exercised himself in Military concerns but mostly in those relating to his function whereby he corrupted the Soldiers with strange opinions Antinomian Doctrines and other dangerous errours and by degrees fell to grosser opinions holding as a Presbyterian Writer saith Universal redemption c. and afterwards became a Seeker and I know not what At length he left that Army and lived about London and vented his Opinions there in 1645. Since which he betook himself to the Isle of Ely for his ordinary residence and thence took his progress into one County or another and there in private houses vented his opinions among the Godly under the habit of holiness At S. Edmundsbury he used to exercise in private and to declare himself for universal redemption that no man was punished for Adams sin that Christ died for all that the guilt of Adams sin should be imputed to no man c. Not long after he went into Northamptonshire where in a private Meeting the main scope of his exercise was to speak against the certainty and sufficiency of the Scriptures alledging there was no certainty to build upon them because there were so many several copies After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon in 1646 we find him there to be Chaplain to a Regiment of Parliamenteers to keep his Conventicles for them in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church wherein afterwards in the time of Oliver the Royal Party had their religious Meetings and to study all means to oppose the Doctrine of the Presbyterian Ministers sent by the Members of Parliament to preach the Scholars into obedience as I have elsewhere told you But being desir'd to depart thence where he had maintained several Socinian opinions he went soon after to London where venting his blasphemies in several places against the glorious divinity and blood of Jesus Christ especially in his Conventicle at Christ Church within Newgate where those of his opinion met once or more in a week was brought at length before the Committee
at Court had a high value for him and so continued for several years after He was highly valued by the most noble Tho. Earl of Strafford with whom he went into Ireland and continued there for some time to the end that his advice and counsel might be used which tho advantageous in several respects to that generous Count yet it was disliked by many especially those of the precise party after they had understood Tob. Mathew's character from one Andr. ab Habernfield in a pretended discovery of a plot of treason against the King sent in a Letter from Sir Will. Boswell his Majesties Agent at the Hague to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury in the month of Octob. 1640 which runs thus Sir Tob. Mathew a Jesuited Priest of the order of Politicians a most vigilant man of the chief Heads to whom a bed was never so dear that he would rest his head thereon refreshing his body with sleep in a chair for an hour or two neither day nor night spared he his machinations a man principally noxious and himself the plague of the King and Kingdom of England a most impudent man who flies to all banquets and feasts called or not called never quiet always in action and perpetual motion thrusting himself into all conversations of superiors He urgeth conferences familiarly that he might fish out the minds of men Whatever he observeth thence which may bring any commodity or discommodity to the part of the conspirators he communicates to the Popes Legat and the more secret things he himself writes to the Pope or to Cardinal Barbarino In sum he adjoins himself to any mans company no word can be spoken that he will not lay hold on and communicate to his Party In the mean time whatever he hath fished out he reduceth into a Catalogue and every Summer carrieth it to the general consistory of the Politician Jesuits which secretly meet together in Wales where he is an acceptable guest c. He was a Person extremely hated by the Presbyterians and more especially by Prynne who spared not to say because he was acquainted with Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. that he was sent into England by the Pope Urban the 8. with whom he was in great esteem to reconcile England to the Church of Rome in which work also he as they further say received a Pension from the said Card. Barbarino the Protector of the English Nation at Rome But letting these bare reports pass I shall only tell you that he had all his Fathers name and many of his natural parts was also one of considerable learning good memory and sharp wit mixed with a pleasant affability in behaviour and a seeming sweetness of mind though sometimes according to the company he was in pragmatical and a little too forward He hath written and translated several things but all that I have yet either seen or heard of are only these A rich Cabinet of precious Jewells When printed unless in 1623 or where I know not A collection of Letters Lond. 1660. oct Character of the most excellent Lady Lucy Countess of Carlile Printed with the collection She being the Goddess that he adored was the reason why Sir John Suckling brought him into the Poem called The Session or Court of Poets thus Toby Mathews Pox on him what made him there Was whispering something in some-bodies eare When he had the honor to be named in court But Sir you may thank my Lady Carleil for't The said Lucy was Daughter of Hen. Percy Earl of Northumberland who dying issuless in Nov. 1660 was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex by her Ancestors Letters to several Persons Lond. 1660. oct printed with the collection and character with his picture before them Among which letters are perhaps those of his writing in the Cabala Mysteries of state published in 1654 and in the Cabala or Scrinia Sacra printed at Lond. 1663. He also wrot a book to shew the benefit that proceeds from washing the head every morning in cold water which I have not yet seen and had gone far in the History of the late times but leaving it imperfect it never yet saw light He translated into English 1 S. Austins confessions printed in oct sold in 1624 about which time it was printed for sixteen shillings a Copy tho as one saith it might have been afforded for 2 s. 6 d. 2 The Life of S. Teresa pr. about 1623. in oct 3 The penitent Bandito or the history of the conversion and death of the most illustrious Lord Signor Troilo Savelli a Baron of Rome printed about the same time The second edit of it came forth in 1663 in oct He also translated into the Italian tongue The Essaies of Francis Lord Bacon printed at Lond. in oct He concluded his last day at Gaunt in Flanders on the 13. of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and five according to the accompt they there follow in the house of the third probation of the English FF of the society of Jesus and was buried in a Vault under the Church belonging to them without any kind of pomp or splendor in funeral according to his will On his Coffin of wood was a leaden plate fastned with this written thereon Hic jacet D. Tobias Matthaei JEROM TURNER Son of George Turner was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there made his first entry into the University in Easter term 1633 aged 18 years and soon after being made Batler of S. Edmunds Hall took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member thereof in the year 1636 and compleated it by Determination Not long after he became Schoolmaster of Beer belonging to Seaton in Devon where also he preached as an Assistant to his very good Friend Hugh Gundrey his Fathers kinsman for the space of two years Thence he removed to Axmonth in the said County where he served as an Assistant also to Will. Hook then Minister of that place afterwards in New England and at length Master of the Savoy in the Strand near London with whom he continued about two years more From thence he removed to Compton two miles from the place of his nativity where he continued a while and thence removed to Sir Thom. Trenchard to be his Chaplain continuing there till 1641 about which time the Civ War breaking out he was forced to fly to Southampton for refuge where he continued during the heat of the Wars and preached with the great approbation of the Presbyterian Ministers and People there So much it seems they were taken with his Sermons that they earnestly perswaded him to print an exposition he had made on the first Chapter of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Ephesians but he could not be prevailed upon to do it The Wars being over and Neitherbury a great country Parish in Dorsetshire being void of a Minister he by the sollicitations of friends went thither and became their Pastor in the beginning of
the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
in that of his age 77. His Father also had been educated in C. C. Coll. under the tuition of Will. Cole and his Grandfather Sir John Higford under Joh. Jewell both whom were afterwards zealous puritans as the Son was JAMES CRANFORD Son of Jam. Cranford Master of the Free-school at Coventry was born in that City became either Commoner or Batler of Ball. Coll. in Lent term 1617 aged 15 years or thereabouts took the Degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function became Rector of Brookhall or Brockold in Northamptonshire and at length of S. Christopher Le Stocks near to the Old Exchange in London which if I mistake not he obtained upon the ejection of a Loyalist in the beginning of the grand Rebellion He was a painful Preacher as to the Doctrine he professed being a zealous Presbyterian an exact Linguist well acquainted with the Fathers not unknown to the Schoolmen and familiar with the modern Divines He hath written Confutation of the Anabaptists Lond. in qu. Exposition on the Prophesies of Daniel Lond. 1644. qu. Haereseo-Machia or the mischief which heresies do and the means to prevent them Serm. in Pauls before the Lord Mayor 1 Febr. 1645 on 2. Tim. 2.17 Lond. 1646. qu. What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he concluding his last day on the 27. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven was buried in the Church of S. Christopher beforemention'd In the beginning of the Rebellion he was appointed by the Presbyterians a Licenser of the Press in London which gave him occasion to write several Epistles before Books that were to be published one of which was set before a Book intituled The tears of Ireland wherein is represented a list of the unheard off cruelties of blood thirsty Jesuits and the Popish faction Lond. 1642. oct Which Book as I have been informed by one of his perswasion was also collected by him Quaere THOMAS BLAKE a Staffordshire man born was entred into Ch. Church in the year 1616 and in that of his age 19 but whether in the condition of a Student or Servitour I know not took the degrees in Arts Holy Orders and had some petite employment in the Church bestowed on him At length when the Presbyterian began to be dominant he adhered to that Party took the Covenant and soon after shewing himself a zealous Brother while he was Pastor of S. Alkmonds in Shrewsbury where I find him in 1647 he received a Call and was made Minister of Tamworth in Staffordshire and Warwickshire where also being a constant Preacher up of the cause was thought fit by Oliver and his Council to be nominated one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Staffordshire for the ejecting of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His works are these Births priviledg or right of Infants Baptisme Lond. 1644. qu. In which year one Charles Blackwood having published a Book intit The storming of Antichrist in his two strong garrisons of compulsion of conscience and Infants baptisme c. Our Author came out with another book intit Infants Baptisme freed from Antichristianisme against Mr. Blackwood c. Lond. 1645. qu. Afterwards our Author published An answer to Mr. Tombes his Letter in vindication of the birth priviledge or covenant holyness of believers and their issue in the time of the Gospel together with the right of Infants to Baptisme c Lond 1646. See more in Jo. Tombes Vindiciae Foederis A treatise of the Covenant of God with mankind in the several kinds and degrees of it wherein the condition of the Covenant of grace on mans part is asserted c. several corollaries containing many controverted heads of Divinity c. Infant Baptisme maintained in its Latitude c. Lond 1653. qu. The Covenant sealed or a treatise of the Sacrament of both Covenants polemical and practical especially of the Sacrament of the Covenant of grace c. Lond. 1655. qu. Commended to the Reader by the Epistles of Rich. Vines of S. Laurence Jewry in Lond. and Christop Cartwright of York Postscript to the rev and learned Mr. Rich. Baxter in which these following questions are friendly debated c. With an enquiry into the judgment of antiquity about several things in reference to justification This Postscript is added to The Covenant sealed c. Mr. Joh. Humphreys second Vindication of a disciplinary anti-erastian orthodox free admission to the Lords Supper taken into consideration Lond. 1656. qu. This is written by way of Letter Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gal. 2.15 Printed 1644. qu. 2 Serm. on Acts 20.36 c. printed 1658. qu. and others which I have not yeâ— seen nor his answer to B. Cox about Free admission to the Sacrament and his meditations called Living truths in dying times Printed 1665. in tw He was buâ—ied in the Church at Tamworth beforementioned on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at which time being many of the Ministers and others of the neighbourhood present Mr. Anth. Burgess of Sutton Colfield stept up into the Pulpit and preached his Funeral Sermon wherein in the conclusion he said many things of the Defunct relating to his learning and godliness The Sermon is scarce and I could never see a copie of it otherwise I might have been more large of our learned Author GILBERT WATS of kin to Rotherham the second Founder of Linc. Coll. became either a Batler or Servitor of that house in the year 1607 took the degrees in Arts and in 1616. Nov. 9. was elected Fellow thereof for the County of York Afterwards he became a very florid Preacher tho seldom appear'd in publick and in 1642 when the K. and his Court were in Oxon he was actually created Doct. of Divinity He was a Person that understood several Languages well was esteem'd an excellent wit and a Master of so smooth a Pen whether in Lat. or English that no man of his time exceeded him He hath translated from Lat. into English the Lord Bacons Book intituled De augmentis scientiarum Lond. 1633. Oxon. 1640. qu. c. In which work he hath come so near that English part which was originally written by the said Lord that it is a hard matter to discover any difference in their stiles as was the general vogue of Scholars living when the translation first came out Since that time but many years after have been some who have wished that a translation had been set forth in which the genie and spirit of the Lord Bacon had more appeared And in a letter written and subscribed by certain Gentlemen to Dr. Will. Rawley his sometimes Chaplain it appears that they were importunate for another version It is our humble sute to you say they and we do earnestly sollicite you to give your self the trouble to correct the too much defective translations of the book De aug Scientiarum which Dr. Wats hath
Lat. serm of Dr. Dan. Featly were printed at Utrecht in 1657 in tw and both intit Pedum pastorale c. Advice and council to his family Written in 1636 and printed at the end of his life Two letters in vindication of himself from the slanders of an unknown Writer Printed 1648 in one sh in qu. The said unknown Writer was the Author of A Letter from Oxon dat 17. Apr. 1648. which letter is the second part of Pegasus or the flying horse from Oxon bringing the proceedings of the Visitours and other Bedlamites there by the command of the Earl of Montgomery The slanders as Dr. Harris calls them were Non-residency exchange of Churches and Pluralities as also the guilt of Covetousness which he used to preach against The Pluralities were as the Author of the letter tells us Hanwell worth 160 l. per an Hanborough in Oxfordsh towards 300 l. Beriton and Petersfield in Hampshire not above 500 l. or 600 l. more besides 4 shill a day for the Assembly Membership and 10 shillings for Apostleship in Oxon. But the Reader must know that he lost Hanwell in 1643 when he retired to London and was made one of the Ass of Divines and did not keep all the rest together yet whether he was restored to Hanwell when the War ceased in 1646 I cannot justly tell He departed this mortal life in Trin. Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. late in the night in sixteen hundred fifty and eight aged 80 years and was buried at the upper end of the Chappel of that College Over his grave was a fair monument set up in the Wall with an inscription thereon wherein he is said to have been per decennium hujus collegii Praeses aeternùm celebrandus Perspicatissimus indolum scrutator potestatis Arbiter mitissimus merentium fautor integerrimus c. The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 301. b. RICHARD LOVELACE the eldest son of Sir Will. Lovelace of Woollidg in Kent Knight was born in that County educated in Grammar learning in Charter house school near London became a Gent. Commoner of Glocester Hall in the beginning of the year 1634 and in that of his age 16 being then accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld a person also of innate modesty virtue and courtly deportment which made him then but especially after when he retired to the great City much admired and adored by the female sex In 1636 when the King and Queen were for some days entertained at Oxon he was at the request of a great Lady belonging to the Queen made to the Archb. of Cant. then Chancellor of the University actually created among other persons of quality Master of Arts tho but of about two years standing at which time his Conversation being made publick and consequently his ingenuity and generous soul discovered he became as much admired by the male as before by the female sex After he had left the University he retired in great splendor to the Court and being taken into the favour of George Lord Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich was by him adopted a Soldier and sent in the quality of Ensign in the Scotch Expedition an 1639. Afterwards in the second Expedition he was commissionated a Captain in the same Regiment and in that time wrot a Tragedy called The Soldier but never acted because the stage was soon after suppress'd After the Pacification at Berwick he retired to his native Country and took possession of his Estate at Lovelace place in the Parish of Bethersden at Canterbury Chart Halden c. worth at least 500 l. per an About which time he was made choice of by the whole body of the County of Kent at an Assize to deliver the Kentish Petition to the H. of Commons for the restoring the King to his Rights and for setling the Government c. For which piece of service he was committed to the Gatehouse at Westminster where he made that celebrated song called Stone walls do not a prison make c. After 3 or 4 months prisonment he had his liberty upon bayle of 40000 l. not to stir out of the Lines of Communication without a Pass from the Speaker During this time of confinement to London he lived beyond the income of his Estate either to keep up the credit and reputation of the Kings Cause by furnishing men with Horse and Arms or by relieving ingenious men in want whether Scholars Musitians Soldiers c. Also by furnishing his two Brothers Colonel Franc. Lovelace and Capt. Will. Lovelace afterwards slain at Caermarthen with men and money for the Kings Cause and his other brother called Dudley Posthumus Lovelace with moneys for his maintenance in Holland to study Tacticks and Fortification in that school of War After the rendition of Oxford Garrison in 1646 he formed a Regiment for the Service of the French King was Colonel of it and wounded at Dunkirk and in 1648 returning into England he with Dud. Posthumus before mention'd then a Captain under him were both committed Prisoners to Peterhouse in London where he fram'd his Poems for the Press intit Lucasta Epodes Odes Sonnets Songs c. Lond. 1649. oct The reason why he gave that title was because some time before he had made his amours to a Gentlewoman of great beauty and fortune named Lucy Sacheverel whom he usually called Lux casta but she upon a strong report that Lovelace was dead of his wound received at Dunkirk soon after married He also wrot Aramantha A pastoral printed with Lucasta Afterwards a musical Composition of two parts was set to part of it by Hen. Lawes sometimes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick After the Murther of K. Ch. 1. Lovelace was set at liberty and having by time consumed all his Estate grew very melancholy which brought him at length into a Consumption became very poor in body and purse was the object of charity went in ragged Cloaths whereas when he was in his glory he wore Cloth of gold and silver and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places more befitting the worst of Beggars than poorest of Servants c. After his death his Brother Dudley before mention'd made a collection of his poetical papers fitted them for the Press and intituled them Lucasta Posthume Poems Lond. 1659. oct the second part with his Picture before them These are all the things that he hath extant those that were never published were his Trag. called The Soldier or Soldiers before mention'd and his Com. called The Scholar which he composed at 16 years of age when he came first to Gloc. Hall acted with applause afterwards in Salisbury Court He died in a very mean Lodging in Gun-powder Alley near Shoe lane and was buried at the west end of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London near to the body of his Kinsman Will. Lovelace of Greys Inn Esq in sixteen hundred fifty and eight
Theologicae Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu. These were defended by him when he was made Doctor at Leyden 12. Feb. 1630. according to the accompt there followed He wrot other things worthy of the Press but are not yet made publick At length after he had spent most of his time in prosperity and part in adversity yet all in celebacy he surrendred up his pious Soul to God at South Stoke beforemention'd on the 16 day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there About that time was a comly mon. set up in the wall over his grave with a large inscription thereon written mostly by himself the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted By his last Will and Test he gave 5 l. to the Church of S. Stoke and 100 l. to buy Land for the poor of that town Six hundred pounds also he gave to purchase free land of soccage to the value of 30 l. per an for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster there to be purchased by the Warden and Fellows of Mert. Coll. whom he appointed Patrons of the School to be erected there He also gave several Books to the publick Library at Oxon was a benefactor to S. Johns Coll. and a greater to Merton to the last of which he gave all his Library that had been for the most part plundered in the time of rebellion and put into the Library at Stafford But upon several attempts that the members of that house made to gain it they were as often repuls'd by the Staffordians to their great charge He gave to the said Coll. also as much money that would clearly purchase 10 l. per an to be bestowed on one of the society thereof to be keeper of the Library there THEOPHILUS HIGGONS Son of Rob. Higgons was born at Chilton near Brill in Bucks educated partly in the Freeâ—school at Thame in Oxfordshire made Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592 aged 14 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 he being then noted to be a young man of pregnant parts and a tolerable lat Poet. During his residence in the said house he was esteemed a Person to be much stained with Puritanisme and to be violent against all such that were suspected to favour the Romish See When he was Censor also he was so zealous as to saw down a harmless maypole standing within the precincts of the said house because forsooth he thought it came out of a Romish Forest Upon the promotion of Dr. Ravis Dean of Ch. Ch. to the See of Glocester he was honoured so far by him as to be taken into his service and to be made his domestick Chaplain with whom continuing till about the time he was translated to London made sute to be Lecturer at S. Dunstans Ch. in Fleetstreet Which desire of his being obtained he was much followed there by all sorts of People for his sweet and eloquent way of preaching But so it was that many of his contributary auditors thought that his long prayers and spitting pauses were too short because the reverend Bishops yea his own Lord and Master were ever left out for wranglers and Antichristian Hierarchies After he had been setled for some time in that place he married a Wife but in such a clandestine manner that his Father Relations and many of his Admirers did much blame him for it So that being sensible of the disrespect that followed and neglect of many that loved him before he left his Wife and went into the north parts of England From whence returning soon after to London he published a small book in print flatly against the absurdities which he afterwards strongly seemed to maintain But all this availed nothing for being a Person very ambitious and finding not preferment sutable as he thought to his merits did thereupon and by a contraction of debts occasion'd by his marriage fall into a deep discontent Which being quickly perceived by some especially by one called Fludde a Priest the same I suppose with Joh. Floyd a Jesuit a Person excellently learned as well in Philosophy as Theology was by his endeavours drawn over to the Church of Rome and forthwith did write a little Pamphlet Of venial and mortal sin flat as 't is said by some against the principles of the Romish profession but of this Pamphlet I can give no account because I have not yet seen it Afterwards he ship'd himself for France and being setled at S. Omers to which place his Father went afterwards to fetch him home but could not he wrot His first motive to adhere to the Roman Church c. with an appendix against Dr. Laur. Humphrey Dr. Ric. Field and Dr. Tho. Morton c. printed 1609. in oct Which motive as he saith was drawn up chiefly upon the detection of some egregious falshoods in the said Humphreys perverting S. Austin and Fields traducing S. Ambrose and learned Protestants in their writings touching the question of purgatory and prayer for the dead But this was otherwise made apparent by Sir Edward Hoby's letter to him in answer to his motive to which if it may be seen I refer the Reader Afterwards he went to Roan where he lived for some time but finding not that which he expected namely Respect Preferment and I know not what was at length regained to the English Church by Dr. Tho. Morton Dean of Winchester afterwards Bishop of Durham who had answer'd one of his books as I shall tell you anon A scholastical examination of Mans iniquity and Gods justice Lond. 1608 written before he turned Papist Apologie refuting Sir Edw. Hoby's Letter against his first motive Roan 1609 in oct Sermon at S. Pauls Cross 3 March 1610 on Ephes 2.4 5 6 7. in testimony of his hearty re-union with the Church of England and humble submission thereunto Lond. 1611. qu. This recantation Sermon he made upon his being regained by Dr. Morton Reasons proving the lawfulness of the oath of allegiance Lond. 1611. qu. Mystical Babell or Papal Rome A treatise on Apocalips 18.2 in two Serm. Lond. 1624. qu. After his regainment to the Ch. of England he was promoted to the rectory of Hunton near to Maidston in Kent lived there till the Rebellion brake out and afterwards being sequestred as I have heard lived in the house of one Dan. Collins of Maidston where dying in sixteen hundred fifty and nine a little before the Kings restauration as the said Collins who was afterwards Jurat of Maidston told my friend for his name stands not in the register there was buried in the Cemitery belonging to the Church of that place near to the S. E. door of the Chancel but hath no stone or mon. over his grave WILLIAM ROWLAND Son of Griffin Rowland of the City of Worcester was born there became either a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1627 aged 17 years took the
degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made either a Reader or Curate of S. Margarets Church in the City of Westminster In the time of the rebellion when he saw the Church of England declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and went to Paris where by the name of Rolandus Palingenius he made a shift to get a livelyhood by his mendicant scribbles his lepid veine and art of Poetry among the English Gentlemen and other Grandies of France He hath written Varia Poemata Mostly in Lat. some in English and some in French to which he would somtimes make additions of copies to them on new Patrons as they came to his knowledg just as Payne Fisher afterwards did to shark money from those who delighted to see their names in print This Will. Rowland who wrot himself in the title of his Poems Gul. Rolandus Poeta Regius was a boon Droll a jolly companion and was generally called Doctor having had that degree conferâ—d on him as I have heard at Paris At length retiring for health sake to a village called Vambre near to that great City he having brought his body into a consumption by too much lifting ended his days there in sixteen hundred fifty and nine or thereabouts I have seen a Book intit Legenda lignea c. containing a character of some hopeful Saints revolted to the Church of Rome Lond. 1653. oct In which book p. 172 c. you may see a full if not too smart character of this Will. Rowland but whether all is true that is said of him there for the Book is full of scurrilities may be justly question'd Since I wrot this I find one Will. Rowland Master of Arts and Dr. of Physick as he writes himself to have translated into English besides several books of Physick that he hath written A Treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body Lond. 1668. qu. Written by Dr. Jo. Fienus but the translation being by him dedicated to the vertuosi of the Royal Society first founded 1660 I cannot take him to be the same with the former ROBERT DINGLEY Son of Sir Joh. Dingley of London Knight and Nephew by the Mother to Dr. Hen. Hammond was born in Surrey entred a Student in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a great observer of Church ceremonies and a remarkable Bower to the Altar when he came into the Chappel But soon after the Presbyterians carrying all before he as a vain man sided with them became an enemy to those things which he before had a zeal for and for the love he bore to the cause became by the favour of his Kinsman Coll. Robert Hammond Governour of the isle of Wight Rector of Brightestone alias Brixton or Brison in the said Isle where he was much frequented by the godly party for his practical way of preaching and hated by the Royallists for his activity in ejecting such that were by some called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters during the time that he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Hampshire an 1654. 55. c. He hath written The Spiritual tast described or a Glimpse of Christ discovered in two parts grounded on Psal 34.8 and on Malac. 4 2. Lond. 1649. oct Before which book is the picture of the Author fat and jolly in a Presb. Cloak This book came out in 1651. with this title Divine relishes of matchless goodness c. The disputation of Angells or the Angell-Guardian 1 Proved by the divine light of nature c. 2 From many rubs and mistakes c. 3 Applied and improved for our information c. chiefly grounded on Acts 12.15 Lond. 1654. oct As the former book was perused and commended to the World by Tho. Goodwin Pres of Magd. Coll. and Will. Strong so this by Nich. Lockyer of New Inn afterwards Provost of Eaton Coll. Messiah's splendor or the glimpsed glory of a beauteous Christian printed in oct Divine Opticks or a treatise of the eye discovering the vices and virtues thereof as also how that Organ may be tuned chiefly grounded on Psal 119.37 Lond. 1655. in oct Philosophical Historical and Theological observations of Thunder with a more general view of Gods wonderful works Lond. 1658. oct in which year he had a Sermon published on Job 26.14 in oct which I have not yet seen But our Author Dingley having said and preached some things not pleasing to the Quakers he was animadverted upon by George Fox in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 361. c. He died at Brightestone beforemention'd in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there with this inscription on his grave Here lieth the body of Mr. Robert Dingley Minister of this place second Son of Sir John Dingley Knight who died in the fortieth year of his age on the twelfth day of January 1659. JOHN SALKELD fourth Son of Edw. Salkeld Gent. second brother to George Salkeld somtimes of Corby Castle in Cumberland Esquire lineally descended from Sir Rich. Salkeld Kt Lord Warden of Carlile in the time of K. Ric. 3 was born at Corby Castle and when very young journied through Oxon beyond the Seas but in what house he was entred unless in Qu. Coll. I cannot tell His continuance there as I have been informed was so short occasion'd by his Religion that we can scarce reckon him among the Oxonians For so it was that his Father soon after conveyed him into Spain entred him among the Jesuits in the University of Conimbria where as also at Corduba and Complutum he continued among them in the condition of a Jesuit many years and was Assistant in the studies to the famous Jesuits Franc. Suarius who was his fellow student several years and Mich. Vasquez Afterwards he was sent into Portugall where he read Philosophy about six years then into the English mission but being taken and brought before K. Jam. 1 who had several times heard of him and his eminency for learning he entred into divers disputes with him at several times At length being overcome by his solid arguments Salkeld turned Protestant was recommended to Dr. King Bishop of London for maintenance and in Nov. 1613 became by the presentation of his Majesty Vicar of Wellington in Somersetshire being then Bach. of Div. where he used to boast of his conversion and to stile himself the Royal Convert In 1635 he was made Minister of Church Taunton in Devonshire worth to him about 200 l. per an whereupon one Walt. Travers was instituted Vicar of Wellington in his place on the 16. of July the same year But after the Civil Wars broke forth he suffer'd for the Royal cause being esteemed by the obstinate and incredulous Presbyterians a Papist in his heart or at least popishly affected He was a Person profoundly read in Theological and other Authors and K. Jam. 1. doth
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â— 1â— aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
I know not Sure I am that when the Presbyterians began to be dominant in 1641 he closed with them took the Covenant succeeded Joh. Owen in the Ministry of that factious Town in Essex called Coggeshall whence after he had exercised his parts there for a time he was translated to Winbourne-Minster in Dorsetshire of which County he was an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he became Rector of Fyfield in Essex where I find him in 1660 which is all I yet know of him only that he is reported by a Brother to be a learned faithful and suffering Servant and Minister of Jesus Christ and that he wrot these things following the last of which shews him to have been inclined to Arminianism The Angell of the Church of Ephesus no Bishop of Ephesus on Rev. 2.1 Lond. 1644. and 1660. qu. Concerning the nature of the Covenant of Grace wherein is a discovery of the judgment of Dr. Twysse in the point of Justification clearing him from Antinomianism therein Lond. 1655. qu. Written by way of Preface to Joh. Grayles book intit A modest Vindication c. and contains 49 pages in a small character being more in matter than Grayles book that follows it He left behind him at his death a son of both his names and a true son of the Church of England who being importun'd when he proceeded D. of D. in this University 1685 to give the Author information concerning his Father and his Writings he seemed not to care to have the memory of him perpetuated otherwise the Author would have spoken more fully of him and his end JOSEPH BROOKBANK son of Georg. Br. of Halyfax in Yorkshire was entred a Batler in Bras Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts entred into the sacred Function and had some petite Cure bestowed on him At length retiring to London he taught School in Fleetstreet and exercised the Ministry there He hath written and published Breviate of our Kings whole Latine Grammar vulgarly called Lillies or a brief grammatical table thereof c. Lond. 1660. oct Well-tuned Organ or whether Musick be lawful in holy and public Assemblies Lond. 1660. qu. Rebells tried and cast in three Sermons on Rom. 13.2 c. Lond. 1661. in tw How long afterwards he continued among the living I know not nor any thing else of him BRIAN DUPPA or de Uphaugh was born at Greenwich in Kent on the tenth day of March an 1588 educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings Scholar in the College School at Westminster while Dr. Lanc. Andrews was Dean of that Church of whom he learned Hebrew From thence he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. in the month of May 1605 and thence to be Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1612 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he took holy Orders travelled beyond the seas and in the year 1619 he was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University In 1625 he took the degrees in Divinity being then Chaplain to the Prince Palatine and in the year after he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. In 1632 and 33 he did execute the Office of Vicechanc. of the University with great moderation and prudence and in June 1634 he was made Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Franc. d ee promoted to the See of Peterborough Soon after he was made Tutour to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 2. which proved his future happiness being then accounted by all a most excellent man On the 19 of May 1638 he was presented to the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex and being elected to the See of Chichester upon the translation of Dr. Rich. Mountague to Norwych had restitution made to him of the Temporalities of that See on the 12 of June the same year which Church of Petworth he kept I presume for some time in commendam with his See In 1641 he was translated to Salisbury in the place of Dr. Jo. Davenant who died on the 20 of Apr. the same year but soon after Episcopacy being silenced by the Long Parliament which the Presbyterians called The blessed Parliam when a prevalent party therein turned the Nation topsie turvey he retired to Oxon for a time to wait on his Majesty and the Prince and left not the former till his last days After his Maj. was beheaded this our worthy Author and Bishop retired to Richmond in Surrey where spending most of his time in great devotion and solitude till the happy Restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 was translated to Winchester on the 24 of Sept. the same year to the great joy and comfort of many Lords and Gentlemen as well as the reverend Clergy who all had a deep sense and memory of his Prudence and Piety owing then a lasting tribute not only for his great example of vertue and godliness but for those excellent seeds and principles so happily laid in the youth of the then Sovereign Lord the King About that time he was made Lord Almoner and began that conspicuous monument of his charity an Almshouse at the said place of Richmond He was a man of excellent parts and every way qualified for his Function especially as to the comeliness of his person and gracefulness of his deportment which rendred him worthy the service of a Court and every way fit to stand before Princes He was beloved of K. Ch. 1. of happy memory who made use of his pious Conversation during his imprisonment in the Isle of Wight and so much respected by his son K. Ch. 2. that when this worthy Prelate laid on his death-bed at Richmond he craved his blessing on his bended knees by his bed-side He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Souls soliloquie c. preached before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight 25 Oct. 1648 being the monthly Fast during the Treaty there on Psal 42.5 Lond. 1648. qu. 2 Angells rejoycing for Sinners repenting on Luke 15.10 Lond. 1648. qu. c. A Guide for the penitent or a modell drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with sin Lond. 1660. Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice in 2 parts Lond. 1674 in tw with the Authors picture before them which book was published by Ben. Parry of C. C. Coll. 'T is said by some particularly the Bookseller that printed The Church Hist of Scotland pen'd by Dr. Joh. Spotswood Archb. of S. Andrews and printed at Lond. 1654. fol. c. that he Dr. Duppa did write The life of the said Archbishop which stands and is put before the said History But the Reader is to know that the person who wrot the Preface to the said History saith that the said life was pen'd by a reverend person of that Nation meaning Scotland So that if it be
true which he delivers Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author yet Quaere He surrendred up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wonted piety and goodness He died as he lived honoured and beloved of all that knew him a person of so clear and eminent candor that he left not the least spot upon his life or function maugre the busie sedition of those Brethren who then as before black'd the very Surplice and made the Liturgy profane He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond where he privately resided several years in the late broken times as I have before told you but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand where it laid in state for some time was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chappel of S. Edward the Confessor At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory containing many Elogiums of the Defunct which as also his monuments of piety and charity I shall for brevity sake now pass by Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble fastned to the Wall over his grave with an inscription thereon In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580 having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa and Brian to be his elder brother deceased HAMLETT PULESTON was born at Old Ailresford in Hampshire admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 20 Aug. 1647 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow of Jesus Coll. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a Preacher in these parts He hath written a book intit Monarchiae Britannicae singularis protectio or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial Providence over the British Monarchy c. Lond. 1660. qu. He died at London in a poor condition and in an obscure house in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two but where buried I cannot tell His Father Rich. Puleston was a learned Doct. of Div. was Parson of Abbotsworthy in Hampshire and tho born at Bircot in the Parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire yet he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flintshire WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest Kinsman to William of Wykeham Founder of New Coll as being lineally descended from William Lord Say killed in the battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471 by his Wife Margaret dau and heir of Will. de Wykeham Lord of the Mannour of Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire Son of Sir Tho. de Wykeham Knight Son of Will. Perot by Alice his Wife Daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his Wife Sister to Will of Wykeham B. of Winton and Founder of New Coll. before mention'd This person Will. Fiennes whom we are farther to mention was born at Broughton aforesaid being the eldest Son of Sir Rich. Fiennes to whom King Jam. 1. in the first year of his Reign had recognized and confirmed the dignity and honour of the Baron Say and Sele was trained up in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Fellow Commoner of New Coll. at about 14 years of age in 1596 where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals was called home for a time Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas and at his return being invested in a fair Estate did some years after give and obtain a vast sum of money towards the Waâ— in the Palatinate which was very pleasing to his â— â— K. Jam. 1. yet shewing kindness to his neighbours by leaving it to their pleasure to pay towards that War what they thought fit he was on notice given to his Majesty committed to custody in the month of June 1â—22 whence being soon after released he was on the 7 of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624. advanced from a Baron â—o be Viscount Say and Sele at which time he stood up 〈◊〉 the Privileges of Magna Charta but after the grand Rebellion broke out he looked upon it as a ridiculous 〈◊〉 such was the mutability of the man The truth is he being ill natur'd cholerick severe and rigid and withal highly conceited of his own worth did expect great matters at Court but they failing he sided therefore with the discontented party the Puritan and took all occasions cunningly to promote a Rebellion For so it was that several years before the Civil War began he being looked upon at that time the Godfather of that Party had meetings of them in his house at Broughton where was a room and passage thereunto which his Servants were prohibited to come near and when they were of a compleat number there would be great noises and talkings heard among them to the admiration of those that lived in the house yet could they never discern their Lords Companions At other times he would be present at their meetings in the house of Knightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire where as at other places in the Kingdom they had their Council Chambers and chief Speakers And what Embryo's were conceived in the Country were shaped in Greys-Inn-Lane near London where the Undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet brought them to pass and put them out to Nurse in London In 1639 he was a great Favourer of the Scotch Covenant and had much correspondence with the Scotch Commissioners and when the Long Parliament began in 1640 for the continuance of which he perswaded as 't is said his Majesty to consent shewed himself soon after so active therein as in others before that he with Pym Hamden and Strode three of the five Members were esteemed Parliament-drivers or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat Whereupon his Majesty being fully satisfied that he was discontented as indeed he was for want of Offices he had ran himself much into debt he confer'd upon him the Mastership of the Court of Wards 17 May 1641 in the place of Francis Lord Cottington who some months before had given it up to please a new Favourite and admitted him to be one of his Privy Council But all this satisfying not he grew more active in the House when it was to be continued and when the King was forced from his Parliament to take up Arms in his own defence then did he cause his House at Broughton to be fortified for the use of the Parliament shewed himself an enemy to Prelacy to Archb. Laud an incliner to
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
before he took a degree entred into holy Orders and taking to wife the daughter of Sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire Chancellour of Peterborough and afterwards Dean of the Arches was put into the Commission of Peace being then Rector of Water-Stratford in Bucks by the gift of Sir Arth. Throcmorton of Paulerspury About that time shewing himself a fierce Persecutor of the Puritans living near him was thro the means of his Father-in-law made Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and by the endeavours of Dr. Piers Vicechanc. of this University Doctor of Divinity an 1624 being then a Member of Linc. Coll. tho he before had not been honoured with any degree in this or as I presume in any other University He with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors of the Kings Cause and Prerogative and great promoters for the raising a Loan of money without the knowledge and assistance of his Parliament an 1626. For which service both had preferment Manwaring being afterwards made Rector of Stanford Rivers in Essex c. and Sibthorpe Chaplain in ord to his Maj. Prebendary of Peterborough and Rector of Burton Latimers in Northamptonshire from which two last he was violently ejected in the beginning of the Civil Wars He was a person of little learning and of few parts only made it his endeavours by his forwardness and flatteries to gain preferment If you 'll believe one that was no great friend to the Church of England he 'll tell you that Sibthorpe and Manwaring were exceeding pragmatical so intollerably ambitious and so desperately proud that scarce any Gentleman might come near the tail of their Mules c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A counterplea to an Apostates pardon on Jerem. 5.7 Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Apostolical obedience an Assize Serm. at Northampton on Rom. 13.7 Lond. 1627. qu. The whole scope of which is to justifie the lawfulness of the general loan then set on foot by the Kings ill Counsellors as one saith to keep off Parliaments and of the Kings imposing publick taxes by his own regal Power without consent in Parliament and to prove that the People in point of conscience and religion ought chearfully to submit to such loanes and taxes without any opposition For which matters he was called into question and censured by the Parliament He hath other things extant as I have been informed but such I have not yet seen and therefore can only say that in the time of the Rebellion he suffered very great calamities for his Majesties cause but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. in 1660 he was restored to his Prebendship Rectory of Burton Latimers and other Ecclesiastical Benefices if he had any besides them and that dying in a good old age was buried on the 25 of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two in the Chancel of the Church of Burton Latimers One Robert Sibthorpe Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Northcadbury in Somersetshire became a Student of Ball. Coll. in 1613 aged 18 years which is all I know of him being not to be understood to be the same with the former And another Rob. Sibthorpe I find to have been M. of A. of Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland See more in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1619. PETER HEYLYN Son of Henry Heylyn descended from an antient Family of his name living at Pentrie-Heylyn in Mountgomeryshire was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire on the 29 of Nov. 1599 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there under Mr. Thom. North first and after under Mr. Edw. Davys where profiting in Trivials to a miracle especially in Poetry in which he gave several ingenious Specimens as occasion offer'd was in the year 1613 plac'd by his Father in Hart Hall under the tuition successively of two Tutors viz. Mr. Joseph Hill and Mr. Walt. Newbury a zealous Puritan The next year he stood to be Demie of Magd. Coll but being then put by was the year following elected by which time he had made a considerable progress in Academical Literature After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts which was in Oct. 1617 he read every Long vacation till he was Master Cosmography Lectures in the common refectory of the said College of which the first being performed in the latter end of July 1618 it was so well approved that for that and his other learning he was chose Probationer and the year following perpetual Fellow of the said house On the 22 of Feb. 1619 he began the composing of his Geography according to the hint which he had taken the year before in his Cosmography Lectures and finished it on the 29 of Apr. following In Nov. the same year it was printed and being dedicated to Prince Charles he presented him being then at Theobalds with a copy of it which was very graciously received In 1623 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxon in S. Aldates Church and the year after having augmented and corrected his Geography 't was printed again and presented to the Prince the Author being then introduced by Henry Lord Danvers who then spake very affectionately in his commendations About that time Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester presenting a Copy of it to the King he approved of it well but unfortunately falling on a passage therein whereby the Author gave precedency to France before England he became so much offended that he gave order to the Lord Keeper to call in the Book whereupon the Author then at Oxon being advised to repair to the Court and make use of the Prince to salve that sore he gave such satisfaction concerning it in writing sent to the said Dean that the King perusing it rested very well contented with the matter In 1625 he went into France where spending about six weeks in several placâ—â— wrot the particulars of the said journey in a Book the original of which he presented to the said Lord Danvers but a copy of it he kept by him which at length 30 years after or thereabouts he publish'd to correct a false copy that had crept abroad On the 24 April 1627 he answer'd pro forma on these questions 1 An Ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis 2 An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined negatively contrary to the mind and judgment of Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity in his lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae who thereupon fell foul upon him calling him Bellarminian Pontifician and I know not what and did his best to beat him from his grounds but he held his own This raised great clamour for the present which Prideaux increased the munday after when Heylyn opposed Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. Hall at which time he was once again proclaimed a Papist by him in the publick School of Divinity which might have done him more mischief among his friends but that as he saith God stood with him On the
all of them with great respect save only by Archb. Abbot and William Earl of Exeter the first of which disliked the argument and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar which he was after much asham'd of when it came to be known Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill which was as Heylyn saith full of most base and malicious calumniations both against the Person and Religion of the Author Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there Which command he accordingly obeying occasioned a second edition of the said History an 1633 as I have before told you wherein he answer'd all Hakewills allegations letting pass his slanders Upon the coming out of which Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature entit An Apol. or Declaration of the Power c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist of S. George in several letters sent abroad one of which speaketh thus In the second impression of his book The Hist of S. George where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he villifies them more than he did in his first edition But the matter is not much what he saith of the one or of the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander c. From the said Hist of S. George written by Heylyn is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln entit The Hist of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part intit The Hist of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also with due acknowledgment by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632 since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography History of the Sabbath in two books Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply entit A coal from the Altar or an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return'd an answer under this title The holy table name and thing c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons Can. 55. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636 and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636 and in the Apologie set before them Lond. 1637. qu. Antidotum Lincolniense or an answer to a book entit The holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table c. entit Two looks over Lincolne or a view of his holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh and an half written by Rich. Day who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar is sometimes animadverted upon An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations Lond. 1640 qu. De jure paritatis Episcoporum MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill under the year 1649. An help to English history containing a succession of all the Kings of England and the English Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales c. As also of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said dominions In three tables Lond. 1641 c. in oct Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book were made by Christop Wilkinson a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street London the first edition of which additions with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England in his succession of Archb. and Bishops and of Ralph Brook and August Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls c. 'T is said also that in the same year 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit Persecutio Undecima c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary which I have several times perused I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author History of Episcopacy in two parts Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata c. Lond. 1657. qu. Historical narration of Liturgies c. written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata c. Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642 3. in one sh in qu. Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland
from all appearance of evil c. Oxon 1640. 1660. oct and qu. Want of Church-government no warrant for a total omission of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1650. qu. Ox. 1653. oct Vindication of Dr. Will. Twysse from the Exceptions of Mr. Joh. Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed Oxon. 1653. fol. The Examiner examined or a Reply to Mr. Fulwoods Examination of want of Church-Government no warrant for omission of the Lords Supper Lond. 1653. This Mr. Fulwood is the same with Franc. Fulwood sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Minister of West Alvington in Devonshire Archdeacon of Totness D. of D. and Canon of Exeter an eminent Writer of his time A mixture of scholastical Divinity with practical in several Tractates Oxon. 1656. qu. The titles of those Tracts are 1 Concerning the sinful fear of man 2 Of Christs incarnation 3 Of the resurrection of Christ 4 Concerning the fulness of Christ and 5 Of the excellency of Praise and Thanksgiving being all the effect of certain Sermons Dr. Hammond's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a greater ardency of Christs love of God at one time than another proved to be utterly irreconcileable with his fulness of habitual grace and perpetual happiness and impeccability of the Soul Oxon. 1657. qu. Replyed upon by a third person in a book intit The Refuter refuted See in Will. Creed under the year 1663. Treatise concerning the indifferency of humane actions Oxon. 1659. qu. Brief and scholastical discourse touching the nature of Thanksgiving on Ephes 5.20 Oxon 1660. qu. Mostly the same mention'd in the fifth head of A mixture of scholastical Divinity c. Of original righteousness and its contrary concupisence Oxon. 1660. qu. Written against Dr. Jer. Taylor Sermon enlarged into a Treatise concerning the last and general judgment c. on Rom. 2.16 Oxon. 1660. qu. Certain Letters between him and Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning a passage of his Hen. Jeanes in his farther explication of original sin Oxon 1660. qu. Uniformity in humane doctrinal Ceremonies grounded on 1 Cor. 14.40 Or a reply to Dr. Hammonds Vindication of his grounds of Uniformity Oxon. 1660. qu. Dr. Creed's voluminous defence of Dr. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 briefly examined and the weakness thereof fully discovered Lond. 1661. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The work of heaven upon earth c. Serm. at Taunton in Somersetsh 11 May 1648 being a day set apart for the annual commemoration of the deliverance of that Town by the relief which they received on the 11 of May 1645 on Psal 92. ver 1. Lond. 1649. qu. and others besides what are before mention'd as also an Answer to John Milton's book intit Iconoclasies c. printed 1651. qu. and said to be written by one Jeans which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in the City of Wells some few days before the fatal day of S. Barthelmew in the month of August in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Cathedral Church there At which time one of his perswasion intended to preach a Sermon of Mortality but Dr. Piers the then Bishop of that place who had no affection for Jeanes because he knew him to have been an Heretick and often had call'd him so examined the Sermon least any thing therein might be spoken in commendation of him and his opinions JOHN BIDDLE or Biddellus as he is by some Authors written Son of Edw. Bid. a Taylor was born at Wotton Under Edge in Glocestershire baptized on the 14. of January 1615 and afterwards being a youth of great hopes was by the benevolence and exhibition of George Lord Berkley educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there by John Rugg and John Turner successive Masters thereof Under the last he made so great proficiency in his studies that he englished Virgils Bucolicks and the Two first Satyrs of Juvenal Both which were printed at Lond. in 1634 in oct and dedicated to John Smith of Nibley in the said County Esq Mecaenas of the Wottonian Muses In the beginning of that year having a little before composed and recited before a full auditory an elaborate oration in Latine for the gracing the funeral of an honorable School fellow he was entred a Student of Magd. Hall and for a time if I mistake not was put under the tuition of John Oxenbridge a Person then noted to be of no good principles Before he had taken the degree of Master of Arts being about that time a Tutor in the said Hall he was invited to take upon him the care of teaching the School wherein he had been educated by the Overseers thereof but refused it and after he had compleated the said degree which was in 1641 he became Master of Crypt School within the City of Glocester where for a time he was much esteemed for his diligence in his profession severity of manners and sanctity of life At length the Nation being brought into confusion by the restless Presbyterians the said City garrison'd for the use of the Parliament and every one vented his or their opinions as they pleased he began to be free of his discourses of what he had studied there at leisure hours concerning the Trinity from the holy Scriptures having not then as he pretended convers'd with Socinian Books But the Presbyterian Party then prevalent there having notice of these matters and knowing full well what mischief he might do among his disciples the Magistrate summoned him to appear before him and after several interrogatories a form of confession under three heads was proposed to him to make which he accordingly did 2. May 1644 but not altogether in the words proposed Which matter giving then no satisfaction he made another confession in the same month more evident than the former to avoid the danger of imprisonment which was to follow if he should deny it Afterwards being more satisfied in his mind by reading various Authors he drew up several arguments against the generally received deity of the Holy Ghost which he intended shortly after to print but being betrayed by one whom he took to be his sure friend who had as it seems a copy of them he acquainted the Magistrate and Parliament Committee then in the said City of the matter Whereupon after they had perused them they committed the Author then labouring under a feaver to the common Goal there on the 2. of Decemb. 1645 to remain in that place till the Parliament should take cognizance of the matter But a certain Person of note dwelling in Glocester who had a respect for Biddle for the truth is except his opinions there was little or nothing blame worthy in him he procured his liberty by giving sureties for his appearance when it should please the Parliament to send for him About the month of June in 1646 the learned Usher Primate of Ireland travelled through that City in his way to London and having before heard of spake to and used him with all fairness and
Prison in hot weather contracting a disease he died thereof in the month of Septemb. one tells me the second and another the 22d day about 5 of the Clock in the morning to the great grief of his disciples in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being conveyed to the burial place joyning to Old Bedlam in Morefields near London was there deposited by the Brethren who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon shewing that he was Master of Arts of the University of Oxon and that he had given to the world great specimens of his learning and piety c. He had in him a sharp and quick judgment and a prodigious memory and being very industrious withal was in a capacity of devouring all he read He was wonderfully well vers'd in the Scriptures and could not only repeat all St. Pauls Epistles in English but also in the Greek tongue which made him a ready Disputant He was accounted by those of his perswasion a sober man in his discourse and to have nothing of impiety folly or scurrility to proceed from him Also so devout that he seldom or never prayed without being prostrat or flat on the ground as his life which I have attests Soon after his death his Twofold Catechisme was turned into Latine and printed in oct 1665. The first called A Scripture Cat. was done by Anon. The other called A brief Scripture Cat. for Children was done by a youth called Nathaniel Stuckey and at the end of it was printed 1 Oratiuncula de passione morte Christi made by the said Stuckey 2 Exemplum literarum Jeremiae Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum dated at Dantsick 24. Aug. Styl vet 1654. This Nath. Stuckey who had been partly bred up in Grammar and Logick by Biddle or at least by his care died 27. Sept. 1665 aged 16 years and was buried close to the grave of Biddle as it appears by an inscription engraven for him on one side at the bottom of Biddles monument A certain Author tells us that the said Biddle translated into English the Alchoran and the book called The three grand Impostors damn'd for shame But upon what ground he reports these things he tells us not Sure I am that there is no such thing mention'd in his life and whether there be such a book in rerum natura as the Three grand Impostors meaning Moses Mahomet and Christ is by many knowing men doubted After the coming to the Crown of England of William Prince of Orange when then more liberty was allowed to the press than before were several of John Biddles things before mention'd reprinted in the beginning of the year 1691 viz. 1 His 12 questions with An exposition of five principal passages c. 2 A confession of faith c. 3 The Testimonies of Irenaeus c. And before them was set a short account of his life taken from that written in Latine by J. F. as I have here in the margin told you WILLIAM LENTHALL second Son of Will. Lenth of Lachford in Oxfordshire by Frances his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Southwell of St. Faiths in the County of Norfolk was born in a Market Town called Henley upon Thames in the said County of Oxon in an house near to the Church there in the latter end of June 1591 descended from Will Lenthall or Leynthall a Gentleman of Herefordshire who in the beginning of K. Edw. 4. married with the Dau. and Heir of .... Pyperd of Lachford before mention'd Which Pyperd also was descended from a younger Son of those of his name living at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire who I mean the said younger Son much in renown in the beginning of K. Edw. 3. performed military acts so valiantly against the Scots that he did not only receive the honour of Knighthood from the King but the mannour of Lachford from his Father to hold by Kings service of the mannour of Pyperd of Great Haseley before mention'd in which Parish Lachford is situated It is here to be noted by the way that both the Haselies did for many descents belong to the Pyperds whose mannour-place was the same which is now the Farm-place situated near to the Church But the Male line being there worn out in the raign of Ed. 3. the said mannour place with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley was given to the College at Windsore of the Dean and Canons of which the said Farm-place is and hath been for several generations held by the said Lenthalls As for Little Haseley now called Haseley Court where in the time of K. Hen. 8. was a right fair mansion place with marvellous fair walks toperarii operis and orchard and pools belonging to Sir Will. Barentine whose Daughter Marie Anth. Huddleston Esq took to Wife was also numbred among the antient possessions of the Pyperds and was held of their mannour by Knights service As for this Will. Lenthall of whom we are now to speak he became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the year 1606 where continuing about 3 years departed without the honour of a degree and went to Lincolns Inn where applying his mind to the study of the municipal Law became a Counsellor of note and in the 13. of Ch. 1. Lent-reader of the said Inn being then as before noted for his practice in his profession In the latter end of 1639 he was elected Burgess for the Corporation of Woodstock in Oxfordsh to serve in that short Parliament which began at Westm 13. of Apr. 1640 and in Oct. following he was chose again for the same place to serve in that unhappy Convention called the Long Parliament begun 3. of Nov. the same year At which time being elected Speaker worth to him 2000 l. per an he kept that honorable office by siding with the leading Party till its dissolution without any adherance to the King when by force he left that Parliament Whether he acted justly in his place 't is to be question'd forasmuch as he was not only false to the members thereof in many things but also kept correspondence with that noted Minister of State in France Cardinal Julius Mazarini as 't is very well known Being thus put into the road to get beneficial places and so consequently riches which he hungred after by the continual importunities of his covetous Wife named Elizabeth Dau. of Ambrose Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire Gent he became Master of the Rolls 8 Nov. 1643 worth as 't is said 3000 l. per an one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 1646 worth 1500 l. per an Chamberlain of Chester 1647 in the room of James E. of Derby a place of profit as well as honour which last he occupying till 1654 was succeeded by John Glynn Lord Ch. Justice but obtained it again 14. March 1659. About the same time 1647 he became Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster worth
in many rhetorical strains bitterly scolded against his quondam Fellow Covenantiers he hath this angry and uncharitable passage That the projects of Presbyterians have froth in their heads and blood in their bottom as the water of those men that labour with the Stone and Strangury and have their wounds from within It pleased God within a few days after the publishing of this book to smite the Bishop with that tormenting distemper which he there makes use of to set off his false and scandalous impeachment of so considerable a part of the most conscientious and peaceable people in the Land He lay in a very great extremity of torture and by reason of the stopping of his water his life was in great hazard and so was forced to send for a Chyrurgeon who by making use of his Probe did help him to make water which was froth at the top and blood at the bottom And that the Lord might make him more sensible of it he repeated the stroke a second time after the same manner as we have been credibly informed from very eminent and considerable persons We could heartily wish that there were now alive another Mr. Rogers of Wethersfield who would deal effectually with the conscience of this proud Prelate that he might be blessed with a more sanctified use of the hand of the Lord in the visitation of the Strangury then of his broken leg in the former times c. Thus the nameless Author in his Mirabilis annus secundus The first of which years was published in Aug. 1661 the second in Aug. 1662 and the third in Dec. the same year but whether any more followed I find not They were published purposely to breed in the vulgar an ill opinion of the change of Government and Religion after the Kings Restoration A just invective against those of the Army and their Abetters who murthered K. Ch. 1. on the 30 of Jan. 1648 with some other poetick pieces in Latin referring to those tragical times written 10 Feb. 1648. Lond. 1662. Discourse of artificial beauty in point of conscience between two Ladies Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning publick Oaths and the lawfulness of swearing in judicial proceedings in order to answer the scruples of the Quakers Lond. 1649. Lat. ibid. 1662. English Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Lond. 1663. qu. Published then with other Prophecies of that subject written by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Cant. Rob. Sanderson Rich. Hooker c. The whole duty of a Communicant being rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1681. c. in tw He hath written other things which I have not yet seen particularly a Tract about Tender Consciences which is answer'd by Sam. Fisher He gave way to fate in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on the 20 of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 57 and was buried in the Chappel at the east end of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. there Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument containing his Effigies to the middle in his episcopal habit with an inscription under it a copy of which is printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 328. a. What the disease was which took him out of this mortal life I know not Neither dare I say says one for all the world that the disease that befell him and of which he died befell him for his fierceness against the Presbyterians and it was the very disease unto which he had compar'd the Presbyterians sermons and it befell him not long after he had made that odious comparison c. EDWARD BAGSHAW a younger Son of a Gentleman descended from those of his name living in Derbysh was born in London became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Bolton in Mich. term an 1604 took one degree in Arts four years after setled in the Middle Temple studied the municipal Law and at length became a Bencher and a knowing man in his Profession In 15 Car. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader for that Society and beginning to read 24 Feb. did select for the argument of his discourse the Statute of 35 Ed. 3. cap. 7. wherein he laboured to suppress Episcopacy by lopping off the branches first and afterwards by laying the axe to the root of the tree But after he had read once Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterb had notice of it who forthwith acquainting the King he commanded the Lord Keeper Finch to prohibit him from proceeding any farther which accordingly was done So that Bagshaw being looked upon as a discontented and seditious person was the year following chose with Joh. White another Lawyer known afterwards by the name of Century White a Burgess for the Borough of Southwark to serve in that most wicked Convention that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640. But soon after perceiving full well what mad courses the Members thereof took he left them after he had expressed his envy among them against the Bishops went to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there called by his Majesty where continuing for some time was taken by the Rebells in Oxfordshire and sent to London to the House of Commons who forthwith committed him Prisoner to the Kings-bench in Southwark 29 June 1644 where he had been with great Shoutings and Acclamations elected Burgess of that place by the fiery Zealots for the Cause Afterwards he suffered in his Estate in Northamptonshire but what his requital was after the return of his Maj. 1660 about which time he was Treasurer of the Mid. Temple I know not Sure I am that he hath these things following going under his name The life and death of Mr. Rob. Bolton Lond. 1633. qu. Wherein the Author shews himself a Calvinist commends Calvin and Luther much and speaks against the Innovations in the Church then used with reference I presume to Laud whom he had no affection for Several Speeches as 1 Sp. in Parliament 7 Nov. 1640. Lond. 1640. qu. 2 Sp. in Parl. concerning Episcopacy and London Petition Lond. 1640 1. qu. c. Two Arguments in Parliament The first concerning the Canons the second concerning the Praemunire upon those Canons Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise defending the Revenues of the Church in Tithes and Glebe Lond. 1646. qu. Treatise maintaining the Doctrine Liturgy and Discipline of the Church of England These two last were written by their Author during his long imprisonment Short censure of the book of Will Prynne intit The University of Oxfords plea refuted Printed 1648. in 2 sh in qu. Just Vindication of the questioned part of his reading had in the Middle Temple Hall 24 Feb. 1639. Lond. 1660. qu. True narrative of the cause of silencing him by the Archb. of Cant. Printed with the Just vindication See Joh. Rushworths third volume of Collections pag. 990. The Rights of the Crown of England as it is established by Law Lond. 1660. oct Written by him also during
Redeeming the time serm on Ephes 5.16 Lond. 1658. qu. Looking unto Jesus A view of the everlasting Gospel or the Souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation Lond. 1658. qu. Printed with the former In the penning of which he took most delight as being a subject as he complains almost wholly neglected by all others Warre with Devils Ministration of and Communion with Angells Printed also with the former At the end of this Treatise are subjoined two Letters the first written by Rich. Baxter dat at Lond. 29 Nov. 1661. and the other by Will. Cole dat at Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He hath also a Sermon extant preached at the funeral of the Lady Houghton which I have not yet seen nor others He died suddenly of an Apoplexy as I have heard but when I know not JAMES HEATH Son of Rob. Heath the Kings Cutler living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster was born I presume there educated in Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646 aged 17 ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 lived afterwards upon his Patrimony and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent and then married which hindred his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them He was a good School-scholar had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen but wanted a head for a Chronologer and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. Lond. 1661. oct enlarged by the Author and compleated from 1637 to 1663 in four parts Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War which makes the book valued the more by some Novices But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets and all sorts of News-books are innumerable Errors therein especially as to name and time things chiefly required in History To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662 to 1675. by Joh. Philipps Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazets Another Edit is continued to 1691. Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable Writer who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist from the time of Christ till the year 1648 and and of divers other things The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659 till this present c. Lond. 1662. in a large oct It reaches to the month of May 1661 and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Gaâ—ter the Nobility Archb. and Bishops Judges Baronets and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662. Flagellum or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper Lond. 1663. The third Edit came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct Elegy with Epitaph on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincolne who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh of paper A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors who have endured the pains and terrors of death arraignment c. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State Lond. 1663. in tw Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant all the particulars of that Subject c. Printed in tw but when I know not for I have not yet seen it He died of a Consumption and Dropsie in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish near to the Skreen-door leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish as also the foundation of other matters which he intended to have published if life had been spared JOHN L'ISLE son of Sir Will. L'isle of Wootton in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire Knight was born there became a Communer of the upper Order of Magd. Hall in the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took a degree in Arts went to one of the Temples and at length became a Barrister and Counsellor of note In the year 1640 he was chose a Burgess for Winchester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13 of Apr. and again for the same place in that unhappy Convention that met on the 3 of Nov. following In which last Parl. he improved his interest to the purpose bought State lands good cheap was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester which belongs to a Divine upon the Ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis which Office he voluntarily surrendring up into the hands of the Parliament in the latter end of June 1649 it was confer'd upon John Cook the then Sollicitor General In Dec. 1647 he was appointed one of the Commons to carry to his Maj. in the Isle of Wight the four Bills dethroning Bills and in Jan. 1648 was one of the Judges to condemn to death his said Majesty Soon after he was constituted a Member of the Council of State and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary and from that to Kingly again and did swear Oliver Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate contrary to the four Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that made it Treason so to do In 1654 he by the name of John L'isle one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal and Recorder of Southampton was chose Burgess for that place to serve in the Parliament which began 3 of Sept. the same year was afterwards taken out of the House to have a negative Voice in the other House that is House of Lords and made President of the High Court of Justice for a time by whose violence acted there fell many gallant and heroick Spirits some of which I am now about to mention He hath extant under his name Several Speeches as 1 Speech spoken in a common Hall London 3 Jul. 1645. concerning observations on the Kings Cabinet of Letters See more in Tho. Browne under the year 1673. 2 Speech while he was Pres. of the High Court of Justice at the pronouncing of sentence of death on Sir Hen.
Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh and Dr. Joh. Hewit Jun. 2. an 1658. 3 Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton Edm. Stacy Oliv. Allen Will. Carrent Joh. Betteley Hen. Fryer and Joh. Sumner July 2. 1658 c. Which Speeches I have seen printed Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others among whom are Rog. Boyle Baron of Broghill in Ireland Sir Charles Wolseley Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey c. all Oliver's Lords A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he with other Regicides fled beyond the seas and L'isle setling at Losanna he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellour of England being always vested with the robe of that dignity At length certain Irish-men taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him as they did Edm. Ludlow Will. Goffe Edward Whaley c. for a time and shew him so much respect and honour as they did one of them ventred upon him as he was going to Church accompanied with the chief Magistracy and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four Which done two more Irish men rode into the press and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there as I have been credibly informed leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Non-conformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutch-man born originally a Schoolmaster and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden Whence coming into England upon no good account was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge which he was about to found some years before his death But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy was upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cosin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. which afterwards came to his Majesties knowledge silenced and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex lived there for some time Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute their designs he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage in the beginning of May 1649 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging and finding him at supper stab'd him in several places and cut his throat whereupon one of them said Thus dyes one of the Kings Judges This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword Afterwards they quietly departed and 't was not known but privately for some time after who did the fact Within few days following this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note then in their custody and certainly they had done it had he not made a timely escape Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following where continuing till Sept. 1661 was then taken up with the bodies of other Cromwellians and buried in a hole in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning He hath published as 't is said several things but all that I have seen of his is De praelio Nuportano Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu. JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon 2 Febr. 1598 bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a Communer for a time of Brasn Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615 and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton and after the Kings restoration in 1660 he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing was a sententious and acute Preacher and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages He hath written Grammatica Arabica In 3. vol. in qu. Danielis Prophetiae Liber Syriace In one vol. qu. Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia formâ oblonga In 4. vol. oct Flexio Verborum Arabicorum In one octavo All which are written with his own hand and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton on the twentieth day of Octob. RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622 was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitour or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he left the University and through some petite employments of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause a reformer of his Church of Superstition as he called it by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel by denying his Parishioners particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton the Sacrament unless they would take it any way except kneeling c. He was one of the Assemb of Divines a great Covenantier an eager
come within the compass of a remedy in a short time and likewise the Tooth-ach infallibly Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants Lond. 1661. oct and 69. qu. Spoken on the 23 of Jan. 1660 in a large meeting of the Royal Society in Gresham Coll. Printed in Lat. at Amsterd 1663. and 69. in tw under this title Dissert de plantarum vegitatione Choice and experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery Cordial and distilled Waters and Spirits Perfumes and other Curiosities These two last things were translated out of several Languages for so they were collected and written by George Hartman sometimes Steward to Sir Kenelme the Collector and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct The first was printed afterwards under this title Medicina experimentalis Franc. 1677. oct His Closet opened whereby is discovered several ways of making Metheglin Sider Cherry-wine c. Lond. 1669. 77. oct Excellent directions for Cookery c. Lond. 1669. 77. octavo Choice collection of rare chymical Secrets and Experiments in Philosophy As also rare and unheard of medicines Menstruums and Alkahests with the true secret of volatizing the fixt salt of Tartar c. Lond. 1682. oct c. Published by Hartman before mention'd who had operated for Sir Kenelme for many years These are all the things which he hath written that I yet know of except as some are pleased to say which I scarce believe the Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and the Revenues thereof Lond. 1646. 47 which he published at the request of the Earl of Dorset See more in Rich. Steuart under the year 1651. He also translated into English A Treatise of adheering to God Lond. 1654. oct Written by Albert the great Bishop of Ratisbon To conclude he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Covent Garden on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in a Vault built at his own charge under the east end of the south Isle or Alley joyning the Choire of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London by the body of Venetia his sometimes wife daughter and co-heir of Sir Edw. Stanley of Tongue-Castle in Shropshire to whose memory he had some years before his death erected over the said Vault a stately altar monument of black marble and thereon had caused her bust made of Copper gilt to be fastned with four inscriptions of Copper gilt to be affixed to the said monument Which being done he caused the draught or picture of the said monument with the several inscriptions to be entred in a large folio book of Vellam containing the history of the family of Digby which our Author caused to be made of all matters relating thereunto that could be found from record either remaining in the custody of his family or in the Tower or any office in London together with the pictures of their monuments that could be found in any Church whatsoever in which they had been buried Which book as his son John hath said did cost his father about 1000 l. The next year after our Author Sir Kenelme was buried the said monument with bust was spoiled and defaced when the Church it self was burnt in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London His study of books being a most admirable collection which he had conveyed into France in the time of the Rebellion fell after his death for want of his being naturalized into the French Kings hands of whom being beg'd by a certain Gentleman it was sold as the report then went for ten thousand Crowns Sir Everard Digby father to Sir Kenelme was a most goodly Gentleman and the handsomest man of his time but much pitied for that it was his ill fate to suffer for the Powder-plot in 1605 aged 24 at which time when the Executioner pluck'd out his heart when his body was to be quartered and according to the manner held it up saying Here is the heart of a Traytor Sir Everard made answer Thou liest This a most famous Author mentions but tells us not his name in his Historia vitae mortis The said Sir Everard was son of Everard Digby of Dry stoke before mention'd sometimes Master of Arts and Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge an 1579 a Publisher then and after of several books as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you among which is A Dissuasive from taking away the Goods and Livings of the Churchy c. Printed at Lond. in qu. This Everard the Writer died at Dry-stoke in 1592. or thereabouts Sir Ken. Digby had a younger brother called Sir Joh. Digby who very readily serv'd his Majesty K. Ch. 1. when his Parliament took up Arms against him was a Colonel and afterwards a Major Gen. in the western parts of England while Mr. Joh. Digby a younger son of John Earl of Bristow was a Gen. there for his Maj. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN LEWGAR was born of gentile parents in London admitted Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 and in that of his age 14 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and in 1632 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time beneficed in Essex After Will. Chillingwrrth returned from beyond the seas he had several Conferences with him about matters of Religion wherein Chillingworth shewing himself a person of great dexterity Lewgar was at length meerly by the force of his Arguments induced to believe that the Roman Church was a true Church and that the Protestants were all in the wrong as he used often to tell his friends and withall to add that Chillingworth was of no meek and winning spirit but high and conceited and so consequently unfit for a Religion that required Humility and Obedience c. Afterwards our Author Lewgar left his Benefice and Religion and upon the invitation of Cecil Lord Calvert called Lord Baltimore who had been his intimate acquaintance while he was a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. travelled into Maryland belonging to the said Lord where after he had spent several years and had buried his wife he returned into England some years before the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. with Father Andrew White a Jesuit who had been sent thither to gain the Barbarians to his Religion After which time he lived in Wild-street near Lond. in the house of the said Lord Baltimore where he wrot Erastus junior a solid Demonstration by Principles forms of Ordination Common Laws Acts of Parliament that no Bishop Minister nor Presbyter hath any Authority to preach c. from Christ but from the Parliament Lond. 1659. 60. Erastus senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that admitting Lambeth Records to be true those called Bishops here in England are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction or so much as legal c. Lond. 1662. oct He died of the Plague in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London in sixteen hundred sixty and five by too much exposing
put an Introduction to the book He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in one of the Chappels joyning to the Cath. Church Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley a true and zealous son of the Church of England was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a non-conforming Minister and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow one or more of whose Sermons you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4 July 1682 aged 61 and was inter'd in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London in the presence of 500 Persons who accompanied him to his grave Of the same family tho remote was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark p. 153. JOHN WARNER received his first breath as 't is said in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an 1599 aged 16 years where being put under the tuition of a careful Person made a considerable progress in his studies took the degrees in Arts and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house being then esteemed a witty man a good Logician and Philosopher In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesties Chaplains Prebendary of Canterbury Governour of Sion Coll Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell promoted to the See of Peterborough an 1633 and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles was consecrated thereunto on the 14th and installed 21 of January the same year being then noted for a good School Divine and one well read in the Fathers In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury built one at his proper charge which whether more curious or more costly was difficult to judge and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishops votes in the H. of Parliament Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren by having the Lands of his See taken away but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable He hath written Church Lands not to be sold or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold Printed 1646. 48. qu. Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium Printed in the said Dr. Taylor 's Collection of Polemical discourses See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen and perhaps other things Quaere At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave with a large Epitaph thereon wherein 't is said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test he left his personal estate for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows tho himself had always led a single life the Relicts of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an always reserving so much out of their exhibition as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon and not out of any other House And the election of the said 20 Widows is to be made by his Executors for the time being and after their decease by such Trustees as they shall appoint In his life time and at his death he gave a 1000 l. for the encrease of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more To the repair of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To â—he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l to Bromley where his Bishops seat is 20 l and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an to issue out of his mannour of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of Gods word c. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them thoughts were had of making Glocester Hall a College for them and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter the Scholars for the present time were placed there At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol which was in 1672 he took order that they should be translated thither where they yet remain JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1604 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Chaplain as I conceive to Philip Lord Stanhop and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased which he kept to his dying day notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time In Nov. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof which also keeping till his
Rome left his Living and taught a Grammar School in the said Town of S. Alban which employment also he finding uneasie to him he retired to the Metropolis lived in Greys inn and set up for a play-maker and gained not only a considerable livelyhood but also very great respect and encouragement from Persons of quality especially from Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort who made him her servant When the rebellion broke out and he thereupon forced to leave London and so consequently his Wife and Children who afterwards were put to their shifts he was invited by his most noble Patron William Earl afterwards Marquess and Duke of Newcastle to take his fortune with him in the wars for that Count had engaged him so much by his generous liberality towards him that he thought he could not do a worthier act than to serve him and so consequently his Prince After the Kings cause declined he retired obscurely to London where among other of his noted friends he found Tho. Stanley Esq who exhibited to him for the present Afterwards following his old trade of teaching School which was mostly in the White Fryers he not only gained a comfortable subsistance for the acting of plays was then silenced but educated many ingenious youths who afterwards proved most eminent in divers faculties After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms several of his plays which he before had made were acted with good applause but what office or employ he had confer'd upon him after all his sufferings I cannot now justly tell His works are these The Wedding A comedy Lond. 1629. qu. Grateful Servant com Lond. 1630. qu. Love tricks or the School of Complements Pr. 1631. oct Changes or Love in a maze com Pr. 1632. qu. The triumph of peace A mask presented by the four houses or inns of Court before the K. and Qu. in the Banquetting house at Whitehall 3 Feb. 1633 Printed several times within the compass of one year Witty fair one com Lond. 1633. qu. Contention for honor and riches a maske Lond. 1633. qu. The Traytor trag Lond. 1633. qu. Bird in a cage com Lond. 1633. qu. The last of these was dedicated to Will. Prynne then a Prisoner for high misdemeanors Gamester Comedies Lond. 1637. qu. Hide Park Comedies Lond. 1637. qu. Example Comedies Lond. 1637. qu. Young Admiral Comedies Lond. 1637. qu. Lady of pleasure Comedies Lond. 1637. qu. Dukes Mistress trag com Lond. 1638. Royal Master com Lond. 1638. Maides revenge trag Print at the same place 1639. qu. S. Patrick for Ireland The first part A History Lond. 1640. qu. Opportunity com Lond. 1640. qu. Pastoral called the Arcadia Lond. 1640. qu. Loves cruelty trag Lond. 1640. qu. Constant Maid com Lond. 1640. qu. The last was also printed at the same place 1667. qu. Poems c. Lond. 1646. oct with his picture before them Narcissus or the self-lover Lond. 1646. oct Poetry Via ad Latinam Linguam complanata c. Lond. 1649 oct Written in English and dedicated in fine language to William Son of Philip Lord Herbert Before this book are several copies of verses in praise of the Author made by the Poets of that time among whom is Edward Sherburne Esq Brothers com Lond. 1652. 53. oct Sisters com Lond. 1652. 53. oct Doubtful heir tr com Lond. 1652. 53. oct Imposture tr com Lond. 1652. 53. oct Cardinal trag Lond. 1652. 53. oct Court secret tr co Lond. 1652. 53. oct The first five were acted at the private house in Black Friers the last was never acted They have the picture of the author before them as before his Poems and tho not like to it yet it most resembles that in the School-gallery Gentleman of Venice tr com Lond. 1655. qu. Politician tr Lond. 1655. qu. Manuductio or a leading of Children by the hand to to the Lat. tongue by a short vocabulary and familiar formes of speaking in Engl. and Lat. Lond. 1656. octavo Honoria and Mammon Lond. 1660. oct The Scene Metropolis or New Troy represented by young Gentlemen of quality at a private entertainment of some Persons of honour Before this play is a shoulder-piece of the author standing on a pedestall And thereunto is added The Contention of Ajax and Ulisses for the armour of Achilles Cupid and death A private entertainment represented with Scenes and Musick vocal and instrumental Lond. 1659. qu. Coronation Com. Humorous Courtier Com. Triumph of beauty a maske These last three I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell when or where they were printed He the said James Shirley was half author also of these two plays following viz. The Ball com Lond. 1639. qu. Admiral The trag of Chabot of France Lond. 1639. qu. Admiral The other half author or partner was George Chapman a poetical writer in the raign of K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1 and not the meanest of the English Poets of his time who dying 12 of May 1634 aged 77 years was buried in the yard on the South side of the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near London Over his grave near to the South wall of the Church was soon after a monument erected built after the way of the old Romans by the care and charge of his beloved friend Inigo Jones the Kings Architect whereon is engraven this Georgius Chapmannus Poeta Homericus Philosophus verus etsi Christianus Poeta plusquam celebris c. He hath been highly celebrated among men for his brave language in his translation of Homers Iliads those I mean which are translated into Tessara-decasyllabons or lines of fourteen syllables Our author Shirley did also much assist his generous Patrone William Duke of Newcastle in the composure of certain Plays which the Duke afterwards published and was a Drudge for John Ogilby in his translation of Homers Iliads and Odysses and some of Virgils works into English verse with the writing of annotations on them At length after Mr. Shirley had lived to the age of 72 years at least in various conditions and had seen much of the world he with his second Wife Frances were driven by the dismal conflagration that hapned in London an 1666 from their habitation near to Fleetstreet into the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields in Middlesex where being in a manner overcome with affrightments disconsolations and other miseries occasion'd by that fire and their losses they both died within the compass of a natural day whereupon their bodies were buried in one grave in the yard belonging to the said Church of S. Giles on the 29 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six I find one Henry Shirley Gent. author of a play called The martyr'd Soldier Lond. 1638. qu. Which Henry I take to be brother or near kinsman to James As for John Ogilby who was a prodigie in that part of learning which he profess'd considering his education was born in or near to Edenburgh in Scotland in the month of Nov. about the 17th day an 1600. His Father
who was of antient and gentile extract had run out of his estate and being a Prisoner in the Kings-bench could give his Son but little education at School however the youth being very industrious obtained some knowledge in the latine Grammar and afterwards so much money as not only to relieve his Father and get him out of Prison but also to bind himself an Apprentice to one Draper a Dancing master living in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourn near London Soon after he being dextrous in that art and by insinuation into and complying with his Masters customers got so much money from them as to buy out the remaining paâ—t of his time and set up for himself But so it was that he being afterwards selected from the company of Masters to be one of those that should dance when the Duke of Buckinghams great Mask was to be represented it hapned that by his high dancing and cutting of Capers according to the then mode he did by a false step sprain a vein in the inside of his leg which ever after occasioned him to go lamish Afterwards he taught to dance the Sisters of Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton at Wytham in Somersetshire where at leisure hours he learned from that generous and accomplish'd Kt how to handle the pike and musquet and all postures belonging to them When Thomas Earl of Strafford became L. Lieutenant of Ireland he was entertained by him to teach his art in his family and having a command of his pen as to the writing a good hand was also employed sometimes to transcribe several matters for that most noble Count. In his family it was that he first of all gave proof of his inclinations to Poetry by translating some of Aesops Fables in verse which afterwards when he came to understand latin better and had communicated them to several Scholars he made publick And being then one of the Troop of Guard belonging to his Lord he composed in English verse a witty thing entit The character of a Trooper About that time he became by the favour of the said Lord Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland built a little Theater to act plays in in S. Warburghs-street in Dublin and was then and there valued by all ingenious men for his great industry in promoting morality and ingenuity But the rebellion breaking out soon after in that Kingdom he lost all and was several times in jeopardy of his life particularly when he had like to be blown up by gunpowder in the Castle of Refernam near Dublin Much about the time that the war was terminated in England he left Ireland and in his return being wreckt at Sea went to London in a poor condition Thence after some short stay he footed it to Cambridge where his great industry and greater love to learning being discovered was encouraged by several Scholars there who in compliance to his zeal resolved his many doubts put to them and in fine made him so great a Master of the Latine tongue that he translated The works of Pub. Virgil Maro which he published with his picture before them in a large oct Lond. 1649. 50. and dedicated them to his most noble Patron William Marquess of Hertford and thereupon obtained a considerable sum of money in his pocket At that time living in London Aesop the Prince of Mythologists became his quarry descanted on his plain song and paraphras'd his short and pithy sayings whereby he rais'd his voice to such an heigth that he took the degree among the Minor Poets after the publication of that author with this title Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse and adorn'd with sculptures Lond. 1651. qu. In commendation of which Sir Will. D'avenant then a Prisoner in the Tower and Jam. Shirley made verses Hitherto his translation of Virgil continuing in a mean oct he printed it in a royal folio with this title The works of Publius Virgilius Maro translated adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1654. It was the fairest Edition that till then the English Press ever produced and hath his picture before it also as most of the books which he published have The said sculpture and the very same cuts were also by him put into the bare Latin Edition of that author without annotations which was by him published at London in 1658 in a large fol. He also published the said author with sculpture and annotations in a large oct Lond. 1675. and 85. Which was much bought up by young Scholars and Gentlemen such who could not spare money to purchase the folio that being reserved for libraries and the Nobility By the publication with annotations of that most noble author Mr. Ogilby obtained the reputation of a good translator a faithful interpreter and of one that had dabled well in anothers Helicon About that time viz. 1654 he by his great and unwearied diligence accompanied with an unsatiable desire of obtaining knowledge did learn the Greek tongue of one of his Country-men called David Whitford at that time Usher to Jam. Shirley before mention'd And being in a manner Master of it he put out Homer his Iliads translated adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1660. fol. This author the King of Pernassus being by him performed with great cost and labour was by him dedicated to his most gracious Majesty K. Ch. 2. In the same year he put out The Holy Bible according to the translation set forth by special command of K. Jam. 1. with the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England with chorographical sculpture This was printed at Cambr. in a large fol. and on very large paper In the beginning of the year following he received orders from the Commissioners for the solemnity of his Maj. Coronation for the conduct of the poetical part thereof as Speeches Emblems Mottoes and Inscriptions and thereupon drew up for the present The relation of his Majesties entertainment passing through the City of London to his Coronation with a description of the triumphal Arches and solemnity Lond. 1661. in 10. sh in fol. This I say was put out for the present but by command from his Majesty the author did with most admirable sculpture and speeches at large publish it soon after in a royal folio and it hath been much made use of in succeeding coronations About the same time 1662 he went into Ireland being then by pattent made Master of the Revels there after Sir Will. D'avenant had made some strugling for that place And at Dublin he built a noble Theater which cost him about 2000 l the former being ruined in the troubles Afterwards he put out Homer his Odysses translated adorned with sculpture and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1665. fol. dedicated to his most noble Lord James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of Ireland He then a second time betook himself to Aesop became a Mythologist and not only paraphrased it but was a designer of his own or new Fables therein This was called
and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there In 1609 May 17 he was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England This person Will. Thomas being always a Puritan closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty 1642 was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that perswasion in the neighbourhood where he lived He afterwards took the Engagement as before he had the Covenant and in 1654 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to Olivers Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he ran thro the remaining part of the changes and took the Oaths again after his Maj. return of Allegiance and Supremacy His works are these The dead speaking or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells and Mr. Sam. Croke c. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them Lond. 1653 qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristow Rayling rebuked or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristow unhappily became the Quakers Advocate c. Lond. 1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. c. The Protestants practice or the compleat Christian being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw A vindication of Scripture and Ministry in a rejoynder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed formerly but unsutably Merchant in the City of Bristol and a Preacher lately but more sadly Merchant and Quaker c. Lond. 1657. qu. Answer'd also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book p. 104 105. c. A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness c. Lond. 1662. qu. Exposition on Ruth Lond. 166 ... in tw The Countries sense of Londons sufferings in the late most lamentable fire discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah Lond. 1667. oct Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Salomon Jerem. Lam. Ezeck and Daniel Lond. 1675 and 83. oct He died at Ubley before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quà m quadragenarius qui populum docuit publicè domatim sermone exemplo Quem non tam mors rapuit quà m ille mortem munere scilicet priùs cedere coactus quà m mundo vitam quam pro grege diutius insumere ut Pastor non potuit avidissimè summo pastori reddidit Nov. 15. an dom 1667. aetat 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas under the year 1689. WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire at which time his father who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest by which employment gaining a considerable subsistance lived in a fashionable condition and bred up his children very well This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term 1634 aged 15 years being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house and shewing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek Latine and Physicks was elected Prob. Fell. an 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow he was prefer'd to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country and soon after to a rich Wife tho the Daughter of a plain country man which school he brought into great credit during his abode there In 1641 he proceeded in Arts and having not long after buried his wife he removed to London where having obtained a considerable practice in Physick he married a young lass daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physitian son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mention'd who brought him forth a child that lived within the seventh month after marriage In 1649 and 52 he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it doth not appear in our Registers Afterwards as before being a man of those times and a sider with factious people he was prefer'd to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 was then as it seems forced to leave that place So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City taught there privately to the time of his death He hath writen Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico geographico in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt explicantur obscura plurima elucidantur ac tabulis illustrata Lond. 1658. 59. 1663. 1679. c. in a large oct used in many schools and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physitian which I have not yet seen nor a certain MS. of his which he wrot to justifie his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself which MS. he shewed to two Physitians for their approbation before it went to the press but they looking upon the work as done by a meer scholar unknowing in the world returned it with seeming content and afterwards jeer'd him behind his back for an antidated Cuckold He died of a pestilential fever which took away most of his family in the month of November in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 29 of the said month just before the Ministers seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned I find another Will. Hill of Merton Coll. also the son of a Committee-man a notorious Schismatick of Herefordshire who
and advantage of the said Coll. by the Rector and Fellows thereof with the advice of Dr. John Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. if he be then living WILLIAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller Knight Lieutenant or Constable of Dover Castle and chief Butler of England as he is sometimes stiled by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sampson Lennard Lord Dacre was born at Knolle in Kent matriculated at his first coming to the University as a member of Magd. Hall in Mich. term an 1612 aged 15 years but making no long stay there was translated to Hart Hall where he spent most of his time during his abode in Oxon. Afterwards he went to Paris and in an Academy there he learn'd to fence and manage the great Horse Thence he went to the German Wars where he served in the Army of the confederate Princes against the Emperour After his return he was knighted at Wansted 20. June 1622 and took to Wife Jane Daughter and Heir of Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire Knight who dying at Bathe in the Month of May 1633 was buried in the south trancept of the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there over whose grave is a very fair monument erected and thereon the statua's of her and her husband lying at length Afterwards taking to him a second Wife he was elected a Burgess for Anâ—over in Hampshire to serve in that most unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein he shew'd himself an active person against the prerogative and every thing that looked that way Soon after when the rebellion broke out he was for his great knowledge in martial affairs constituted tho little in person by the said Parliament one of their Generals to fight against their King an 1642 in which year and after he performed in the opinion of those of his perswasion many notable exploits yet not without great violation and injury to the Church and its orthodox members and therefore flatter'd and cajoul'd by the Parliament with several sums of money part of which was given as a largess to his soldiers the more to encourage them in their service About that time that he might shew his zeal for the beloved cause he took the Covenant twice in the H. of Commons meerly to put forward some that had not taken it before and was not wanting on all occasions to promote and carry on the War But being soon after very unfortunate by loosing two Armies in the service of the said Parliament caused a diminution of his former fame which was raised up near to a competition or emulation with Robert Earl of Essex the Captain General In Jan. 1646 when Winchester Castle was disgarrison'd it was given to him as part of a reward for his former service but the next year shewing himself active among the Presbyterians in the H. of Commons against the designs of the Independents was one of the eleven members impeached by the Army of high treason Whereupon absconding for a time returned and took his place but in the very next year 1648 he was with forty more members turned out of the House by the Army on the 6. of December and on the 11. of Jan. following he was committed Prisoner to S. James's house and afterwards to Windsore and Denbigh Castles and to the Tower of London during the raign of Oliver as many of his brethren the Presbyterians were least he and they should carry on plots for the bringing in of the King or at least cross the designs of the said Oliver So that all that time being esteemed by the generality of Royalists an honest man and a Patriot of his Country was committed to custody upon suspicion of being engaged in Sir George Booth's Insurrection in Aug. 1659 where continuing till the beginning of Nov. following gave then Bail for his farther appearance What he got by his sufferings at the Kings restauration an 1660 I know not sure I am he was no looser Under this Persons name were printed these things following Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the Parliament forces concerning a great victory obtained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts dated 23. March 1642. Lond. 1643. Mar. 28. in one sh in qu. Tho this victory was very inconsiderable scarce worthy to be taken notice of yet to encourage the party it was made a very bloody matter Full relation of the late proceedings victory and good success obtained by the Parl. Forces under his conduct at the taking of the Town and Castle of Arundell in Sussex Dec. 20. and Jan. 6. an 1643 Sent to Will. Lenthall Speaker of the H. of Com. and printed in one sh in qu. Narration of a great victory obtained by the Parl. forces under his conduct at Alton in Surrey 13. Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643. in 1. sh in qu. Letter of a great victory obtained against Col. Sir James Long High Sherriff of Wilts at the Devises Lond. 1644. in 1. sh in qu. or more It is dated 13. Mar. 1644. concerning these his victories tho little or inconsiderable yet they were highly cried up by the Godly Brethren See more in a book very partially written by a grand Presbyterian named Josiah Ricraft a Merchant of London entit A survey of Englands Champions and truths faithful Patriots Or a Chronological recitement of the principal proceedings of the most prosperous Armies raised for the preservation of Religion the Kings Majesties Person the priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject c. with a most exact narration of the several victories c. with the lively portraitures of the several commanders Lond. 1647. oct with the authors picture before it Divine meditations upon several occasions with a dayly directory Lond. 1680. oct They were written in his retirement from business and publick employ and hath set before them his picture engraven to the life He hath also written Vindication for his taking up Arms against the King This he left behind him in MS but whether publish'd I cannot tell In 1680. was published in one sh in folio Sir Will. Waller his vindication by a friend that understood his life and conversation Military discourse of the ordering of Soldiers This he also left behind him in MS. but whether printed I know not He departed this mortal life in his house at Osterley Park in Middlesex on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the new Chappel near the Chancel in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Whose funeral as to honour being then falsly managed by an Herald Painter without the advice of any of the Officers of the Coll. of Arms his atchievment helmet with a false crest banners c. which were hung over his grave by the said Painter were soon after plucked down by the aforemention'd Officers and thrown aside as false things He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll afterwards a Knight and Justice of Peace for the
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâ—e in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
after to the Rectory of Allhallows Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire by the favour of Edw. Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of England about 1664 which he kept to his dying day His works are these Sermons meditations and prayers upon the plague Lond. 1636. 37. oct The sermons are on 2. Chron. 7.13.14 on Matth. 6.2.5.16.33 c. The Soveraigns desire peace The subjects duty peace in 3. sermons the first on Psal 112.6 the second on Rom. 13.1 and the third on Rom. 15.2 Lond. 1643. qu. Which Sermons were preached in the Summer-time an 1642 at S. Pauls Cath. and S. Botolph near Aldgate but such offence was given to the nice and precise party for several passages in them tho they contained praying for peace and preaching for obedience to the King that he was as a Malignant imprison'd from the 29. Oct. to 26. Dec. 1642. In all which time being unseen and unheard he by his letter sent to the Lord Mayor for releasment was sent for to him But being there accused of several things by John Levet a Tallow chandler which were only praying for peace and preaching up obedience at an unseasonable time he was remitted back to prison not to Crosbie House where he was detained before but to Gresham Coll. where he continued a long time and afterwards in Newgate where he had scarce straw allow'd him to lie in whilst his Majesty was exclaimed against when he afforded the Rebels better usuage He hath also written and published The Scriptures vindicated from the unsound conclusions of Card. Bellarmine and the controverted points between the Church of Rome and the reformed Church stated according to the opinion of both sides Lond. 1643. qu. Manual of Devotions suiting each day with prayers and meditations answerable to the work of the day as also each mans calling viz. the Noble-man the Soldier the Lawyer Tradesman c. Lond. 1643. in tw The Soldiers Catechisme composed for the Kings Army c. Lond. 1645. oct the eighth edit The Jesuit the chief if not the only state-heretique in the world or a Venetian quarrel disgested into a dialogue Pr. 1647. qu. Mercurius Academicus communicating the intelligence and affairs of Oxford to the rest of the passive party thorowout the Kingdom Commencing from Munday in Easter-week 1648. Pr. in 1. sh in qu. How many sh or numbers followed I know not for I have only yet seen the first There was also a Merc. Academicus that began to come out at Oxon. in the beginning of Jan. 1645 but who wrot it I know not A Letter of an Independent to Mr. John Glynne Recorder of Lond. Pr. 1645 in tw sh in qu. His name is not set to it only common report makes him the Author To all Paupertatis ergò Nè peream fame To some Gratitudinis ergò Ne peream infamiâ Whether it be better to turn Presbyterian Roman or continue what I am Catholick in matter of religion Lond. 1658. in two sh in qu. Six and thirty questions propounded for resolution of unlearned Protestants c. Pr. 1659. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 136.26 Print 1639. qu. 2 Divinity no enemy to Astrology serm for the society of Astrologers in the year 1643 preached as it seems on Matth. 2.2 3 The hand of God or King Davids choice on 2. Sam. 24.14 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Twelve anniversary Sermons on the funeral of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. Among them is one on 1. Sam. 10.27 another on 1. Kings 21.19 a third on Ps 169.30 c. What other things he hath written and published I know not and therefore I can only say that he died on the ninth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried the next day in the Chancel of Allhallows Church in Stanford before-mention'd and that his last words were Hic vixit temporibus quibus Carolum primum magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regem farino more trucidarunt Rebelles Which he would have to be put over his grave JOHN DAVENPORT son of John Davenport and elder brother to Christopher Davenport commonly called Franc. à Sancta Clara whom I shall in his proper place mention was born in the City of Coventry in Warwickshire an 1597 and in Grammatical learning there educated In the beginning of the year 1613 he was by his Relations sent to Merton Coll where continuing about two years under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Lane was for a certain reason which I shall tell you in the life of the said Christop Dav. translated to Magd. Hall where continuing under a severe and puritanical discipline for some time he left it without a degree retired to London became a noted preacher among the Puritans and at length Minister of S. Stephens Church in Coleman-street In 1625 he retired to Magd. Hall for a time performed his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Div accumulated and took that degree and in short time after retired to London again where by the Brethren he was esteemed a person of excellent gifts in preaching and in other qualities belonging to a Divine About the year 1630 he was appointed by certain factious and discontented persons one of the Feoffees for the buying in of impropriations but that project tho seem'd good to some being quash'd he about the year 1633 left his pastoral charge under pretence of opposition by the Prelates because he scrupled at certain ceremonies but without a certificate or testimony to shew what he was or what he had been and forthwith went beyond the Seas to Amsterdam without a call or invitation At that place he endeavouring to be a Minister in the English congregation and to joyn with them in all duties he was much opposed by Mr. John Paget an Elder or one of the chief Ministers there and especially for this reason that he would not agree with him in all things relating to baptisme Whereupon our author Davenport taking these and other matters in great disdain he wrot in his own defence Letter to the Dutch classis containing a just complaint against an unjust doer wherein is declared the miserable slavery and bondage that the English Church at Amsterdam is now in by reason of the tyrannical government and corrupt doctrine of Mr. Jo. Paget their Minister Printed 1634. qu. Certain instructions delivered to the Elders of the English Church deputed which are to be propounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in Amsterdam Pr. the same year in a qu. paper About the same time he wrot 1 A report of some passages or proceedings about his calling to the English Ch. in Amsterdam against Joh. Paget 2 Allegations of Scripture against the baptizing of some kind of infants 3 Protestation about the publishing of his writings Which three things were pr. at Amsterd 1634. qu. In the year following most of the aforesaid little scripts were answered by Paget and at the same time were answer'd by him the complaints of one Will. Best a member of
he return'd again and told him that the Lieu. Gen. intended his good and advancement and that his particular errand was that he would make use of his Pen to write the History of the late War desiring withal that nothing but matters of fact be impartially set down c. To which he returned answer that he desired his humble service and hearty thanks be returned for that great honour done unto him and withal that he was uncapable in several respects for such an employment and could not so impartially engage in it but that his subject would force him to make such reflections as would be ungrateful if not injurious to his Lordship Notwithshanding this answer Cromwell seemed so sensible of his worth that tho he could not win him over to his desires yet he acknowledged a great respect for him and as a testimony thereof he ordered that upon the first demand there should be delivered three or four hundred pounds by a certain Bookseller in London whose name was Cromwell whensoever his occasions should require without acknowledging any benefactor at the receipt of it But this offer as I have been informed by our authors Son John Casaubon a Chirurgion of Canterbury he scorned to accept tho his condition was then mean At the same time it was proposed by the said Greaves who belonged to the library at S. James that if our author would gratifie him in the foregoing request Cromwell would restore unto him all his Fathers books which were then in the Royal Library there given by K. James who had invited him into England and withal a Patent for 300 l. per an to be paid to the family so long as the youngest Son of Dr. Is Casaubon should live but this also was refused Not long after there was a proposal made by the then Sweedish Ambassador in England from Christina Qu. of Sweedland to our author M. Casaubon whereby he was invited by the said Queen into her Country to have the government of one or inspection of all her Universities and for an encouragement she proposed not only an honorable Salary for himself but offered to settle 300 l. per an upon his eldest Son during life But this also was waved with full design to spend the remainder of his days in England After the Kings return he was restored to his Spiritualities and went on in writing books which he continued almost to his last He was a general Scholar but not extraordinary in any one sort unless in criticisms wherein his Fathers notes might probably have set him up He was also a religious man loyal to his Prince exemplary in his life and conversation and very charitable to the poor The Writings and Translations which he published were many as the Catalogue following will tell you Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis religionis hostes Lond. 1621. oct Vindicatio patris adversus impostores qui librum ineptum impium De origine idolatriae nuper sub Isaaci Casauboni nomine publicavit Lond. 1624. 25. in 8. sh in qu. Which book Of the original of idolatry was translated out of a French copy by Abr. Darcy Isaac Casaubon having been dead about 10 years before and was dedicated to Prince Charles and presented to K. James and all the Lords of the Council It is said to have been written before Isaac Casaubon was born but his name being fraudently inserted in the title page Meric the Son who was then a Student of Ch. Ch. informed his Majesty by Letters of the wrong done to his Father by making him the author of such a book contrary to his Genius and constant profession being full of impertinent allegations out of obscure and late authors whom his Father never thought worthy the reading much less the using their authority After his Majesties perusal of that letter he was much incensed at the matter and Dr. Mountaigne Bishop of Lond. had much ado to make his Chaplains peace for licensing it the printer and translator being for some time kept in prison Yet after all this the same translation was printed at Amsterdam with a justificatory preface of the former edition to make the book more vendible for their own profit tho discredit to the memory of others He the said Mer. Casaubon hath also written Notae emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani Episcopum de schismate Donatistarum Lond. 1631. oct Translation out of Gr. into English of and notes upon Marc. Aurel. Antoninus his meditations concerning himself Lond. 1634. 35. qu. Revised and corrected Lond. 1664. oct 3d. edit c. Treatise of use and custome in things natural civil and divine Lond. 1638. qu. The use of dayly publick prayers in three positions Lond. 1641. qu. Notae emendationes in Marci Antonini Imperatoris de seipso ad seipsum libros XII Lond. 1643. oct Guil. Xylander did first of all make the said book publick in Gr. and Lat Which version our author did mend in many places and made it new c. The original cause of temporal evils Lond. 1645. qu. Discourse concerning Christ his incarnation and exinanition Lond. 1646. qu. Before which is an introduction Concerning the principles of Christianity and Divinity De verborum usu accuratae eorum cognitionis utilitate Diatriba Lond. 1647. in tw De quatuor linguis commentationis pars prior quae de lingua Hebraica de lingua Saxonica Lond. 1650 oct The author had not opportunity of finishing the other two tongues Gr. and Lat. Some annotations on the Psalmes and Proverbs Done at the earnest request of certain Booksellers whereof our author hath given a farther account in the first part of Credulity p. 106. Which Annotations were in the last edit of the Assemblies Annotations on the Bible reprinted with some additions Notae in Hieroclem de providentia fato Lond. 1655. octavo Treatise concerning Enthusiasme as it is an effect of nature but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration or diabolical possession Lond. 1655. 56. oct Translation into Engl. of and notes on Luc. Florus Hist of the Romans Lond. 1658. 59. oct Notae in Epicteti Enchiridion Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Cebetis tabulam Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Paraphrasin Enchiridii Lond. 1659. oct De nupera Homeri Editione Lugdunâ-Batavicâ Hackiana dissertatio Lond. 1659. oct Dissertatiuncula super loco Homerico quo Dei in hominem tam mentes quam fortunas imperium asseritur Printed with the former book 1659. Vindication of the Lords prayer as a formal prayer and by Christs institution to be used by Christians as a prayer Lond. 1660. oct The first occasion of writing this treatise was the relation of a strange affront done publickly unto Christ or if you will more punctually to the Lords Prayer in the chief Church of Oxon by one Dr. John Owen that had under the usurping powers the chief â—â—vernment of that famous University from 1652 to 1657. Concerning the heinousness of which affront viz. by putting
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâ—m Tongue c. were executed but how he
freed himself from that suspicion I know not Sure it is that he was a most dangerous and seditious Person a politick Pulpit driver of Independency an insatiable esurient after riches and what not to raise a family and to heap up wealth He hath written Letter from Scotland to his Brethren in England concerning his success of affairs there Lond. 1643. qu. Steph. Marshalls name is also subscribed to it Exhortation to the taking of the solemn league and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion c. Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1643 and there again once or twice That edit which came out in 1645 is in tw The excellency and lawfulness of the solemn league and covenant set forth in a speech to the H. of Commons and the reverend Assembly of Ministers at the taking of the said covenant 25 Sept. 1643. Lond. 1660. second edit qu. Apologetical narration submitted to the honourable Houses of Parliament Lond. 1643. qu. In this narration are joyned with Phil. Nye others as Thom. Goodwin Sidrach Simpson Jerem. Burroughs and Will. Bridge all formerly in exile but then members of the Ass of Divines In an answer to this by Anon 't is said that it was written by Tho. Goodwin and Phil. Nye only as the title of the said answer tells you thus An anatomy of Independency or a brief commentary and moderate discourse upon The Apologetical narration of Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Phil. Nye Lond. 1644. qu. An Epistolary discourse about toleration Lond. 1644. qu. In this discourse are joyned with him Tho. Goodwin and Sam. Hartlib The keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and power thereof according to the word of God c. Lond. 1644. sec edit Thom. Goodwin had also a hand in this book Mr. Anth. Sadler examined or his disguise discovered shewing the gross mistakes and most notorious falshoods in his dealing with the Commissioners for approbation of publick preachers in his Inquisitio Anglicana c. Lond. 1654. qu. Tho no name is set to this pamphlet yet 't was generally reported that it was wrot by Joh. Nye Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. and Clerk to the said Triers or Commissioners assisted therein by his Father The Principles of faith presented by Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nye c. to the Committee of Parliament for religion by way of explanation to the proposals for propagating the Gospel Lond. 1654. qu. Beames of former light discovering how evil it is to impose doubtful and disputable formes for practices upon Ministers especially under the penalty of ejection for nonconformity unto the same c. Lond. 1660. qu. Case of great and present use c. Printed 1677. oct The lawfulness of the oath of Supremacy and power of the King in Ecclesiastical affairs with Qu. Elizabeths admonition c. Lond. 1683. qu. It was then reprinted and in 1687 being printed again it was dedicated by Hen. Nye the Authors Son to K. Jam. 2. Vindication of Dissenters proving that their particular congregations are not inconsistent with the Kings supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs Printed with The Lawfulness c. 1683. Some account of the nature constitution and power of Ecclesiastical courts Printed with the former also an 1683. The Lawfulness of hearing the publick Ministers of the Church of England proved by Phil. Nye and John Robinson Lond. 1683. qu. He hath also a Sermon extant preached before the Citizens of London an 1659 Printed that year in qu. and perhaps more and something about catechising which I have not yet seen He died in the Parish of S. Mich. Cornhill or near it in Lond. in the month of September in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried on the 27 day of the same month in the upper Vault under part of the said Church of S. Michael I have been informed by those that knew this Mr. Nye that he had much more moderation in his last years than he ever before shewed To which I then made answer that good reason he had so to be because he was altogether incapacitated from being otherwise JOHN WILKINS Son of Walt. Wilk Citizen and Goldsmith of Oxon was born at Fawlsley near to Daventry in Northamptonshire in the house of his Mothers Father Joh. Dod the Decalogist educated in Grammar Learning under Edw. Silvester a noted Greecian who taught a private School in Allsaints Parish in Oxon entred a Student in New Inn in Easter Term an 1627 aged 13 years but making no long stay there he was removed to Magd. Hall under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Tombes and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to William Lord Say and afterwards to Charles Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Prince Elector of the Empire with whom he continued for some time At length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians having always before been puritanically affected and took the Covenant Afterwards being designed by the Committee for the reformation of this University to be Warden of Wadham Coll he was actually created Bach. of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation 12 Apr. 1648 and the next day was put into possession of his Wardenship in the place of a loyal person then ejected The next year he was created Doct. of Div. and about that time took the Engagement that is to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1656 or thereabouts he took to wife Robina the widow of Pet. French sometimes Canon of Ch. Ch. and sister to Oliver Cromwell Protector of England which marriage being contrary to the Statutes of Wadh. Coll. because they prohibit the Warden thereof from marrying while he is Warden he obtained a dispensation from Oliver to keep it notwithstanding Afterwards by the favour of Richard Cromwell who succeeded Oliver in the Protectorship he had the Headship of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge confer'd upon him upon the death of Dr. Jo. Arrowsmith in the beginning of 1659 which is the best preferment in that University But being ejected thence the next year about the time of his Majesties Restauration he became Preacher as it seems to the honorable Society of Greys Inn Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London in the place of Dr. Ward took the Oaths again which he before had taken when he took his Academical degrees and entred into the Ministry and became a member of the Royal Society of and to which he was one of the Council and at length a considerable benefactor Soon after he was made Dean of Rippon in the room as I suppose of Tho. Dod D. D. Rector of Malpass in Cheshire and sometimes Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. who dying 10 of March 1647 was buried in the Church of Malpass and at length by the endeavours of George Duke of Buckingham then in favour with K. Ch. 2 he obtained upon the death of Dr. George Hall the
Scotch man born Son of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monkland Bishop of Brechen and of the house of Milneton was elected one of the Students of Ch. Ch from Westm School an 1642 aged 16 years bore Arms for his Majesty soon after within the Garrison of Oxon and elsewhere took one degree in Arts after the surrender of that garrison and in 1648 was thrown out of his Students place by the impetuous Visitors appointed by Parliament So that at present being out of all employ he adhered to the cause of K. Ch. 2 paid his obedience to him when in Scotland served him in the quality of an Officer at Worcester fight 1651 at which time he came to obtain his rights and inheritances then most unjustly usurped by Fanaticks was there wounded taken Prisoner brought to Oxon and thence among other Prisoners carried to London where by the importunity of friends he was released Afterwards he was relieved by Edw. Bysshe Esq K. of Arms and became Usher to James Shirley the Poet when he taught School in the White-fryers near Fleetstreet in London After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Students place was actually created Master of Arts and having had no preferment bestowed upon him for his Loyalty as hundreds of Cavaliers had not because poor and could not give bribes and rewards to great and hungry Officers he was taken into the service of John Earl afterwards Duke of Lauderdale and became his Chaplain I mean that Earl whose Sirname was Maitland who dying at Tunbridge Wells in Kent on S. Bartholomews day 1682 his body was conveyed by Sea to Scotland and there deposited in a Church of his own erection called Lauder Church where is the Mansion House and Seat of his Family The said Dav. Whitford who was always accounted an excellent Greecian and Philologist hath published with a translation in latin verse Musaei Moschi Bionis quae extant omnia London 1655. qu. in Gr. and Lat. Selectiora quaedam Theocriti Eidyllia in Gr. and Lat. Both dedicated to Bysshe before mention'd who is by Whitford stiled Asylum perfugium afflictis egenis He also translated into Latine the said Bysshe his notes an old authors that have written of Armes and Armory as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Person under the year 1679. He also wrot an Appendix to The compleat History of the Wars in Scotland under the conduct of James Marquess of Montrose or Montross as I have been credibly informed by those that knew him well which History was written by the learned and famous Geor. Wishart D.D. as I shall tell you elsewhere What other things this Mr. Whitford hath written published or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying suddenly in his Chamber in Ch Ch. in the morning of the 26. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and four at which time his Bedmaker found him dead lying on his bed with his wearing apparel on him was buried in the south trancept joyning to the Cathedral Church there near to the body of his elder Brother called Adam Whitford Bach. of Arts and sometimes Student of the said house who was buried 10. of Feb. 1646. There was another elder Brother a stout and desperate man called Colonel Walter Whitford who had a prime hand in dispatching that notorious Villain Is Dorislaw as I have told you before in Jo. L'isle pag. 228. Which Colonel was not executed in Scotland by the covenanting party there in June 1650 as a certain author tells us as having been one of the party under the illustrious and truly valiant Montross before mention'd but is still Sept. 1691. living in Edenburgh and in opinion a R. C. The said author tells us also that about the same time June 1650 one Spotswood another Officer Son of a Bishop was beheaded on the said account at which time was an acknowledgment made as he farther adds that he was one of those that murdered Dr. Dorislaus in Holland EDWARD HYDE son of Hen. Hyde of Pyrton in Wilts by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Edw. Langford of Trobridge in the same County third Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Mich. in Dors descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Northbury in Cheshire was born at Dinton near Hindon in Wilts on the 16. of Febr. or thereabouts an 1608 entred a Student of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622 went after he had taken one degree in Arts to the Middle Temple where he studied the Law In the beginning of the year 1640 he was chosen Burgess for Wotton Basset in his own Country to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. of Apr. the same year and again for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that unhappy Parl. that began on the third of Nov. following and when the troubles began betwixt the King and Parliament he left the House of Commons and went with the King to York and afterwards to Oxford where he continued most of the time that that place was in the Kings hands was made Chancellour of the Exchequer a Privy-counsellor and a Knight At length upon the declining of the Kings cause he with the Lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying Prince Charles ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the Isle of Scilley then for Jersey and afterwards for France From which time our author Hyde adhering closely to the said Prince and attending his motions in foreign parts he was by him when King sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and at length L. Chanc. of England at Bruges in Flanders 29. Jan. 1657. After the Kings restauration he was elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon made Baron of Hindon in Wilts Viscount Cornbury in Oxfordshire of which he was afterwards Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Clarendon near Salisbury After he had held the honourable Office of Lord Chancellour for seven years or more the Great Seal was taken from him 30. Aug. 1667 and about 4 months after retired into France where he remained seven years spending his time in several places there Under his name were these things following published Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the House of Lords concerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North an 1640. 2 Sp. at a conference between both Houses 6. Jul. 1641 at the transmission of several impeachments against the Lord Chief Baron Davenport Baron Trevor and Baron Weston Lond. 1641. qu. c. besides several arguments and debates See in John Rushworths book called Historical Collections in the first vol. of the second part an 1640 and in the Impartial Collection c. of Dr. John Nalson A full answer to an infamous and traiterous Pamphlet intit A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled expressing their reasons and grounds of passing their late resolutions touching no further address or application to be made to the King Lond. 1648. qu.
his learning desiring to be Master of no more than he knew how to use He was constantly known every day to walk his rounds among the Booksellers shops especially in Little Britaine in London and by his great skill and experience he made choice of such books that were not obvious to every mans eye He lived in times which ministred peculiar opportunities of meeting with books that were not every day brought into publick light And few eminent Libraries were bought where he had not the liberty to pick and choose Hence arose as that vast number of books so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them and that of all kinds and in all sorts of learning especially in History of which he had the most considerable Writers of all ages and nations antient and modern especially of our own and the neighbouring nations of which as 't was thought there was scarce any thing wanting that was extant He was also a great collector of Mss whether antient or modern that were not extant and delighted much to be poring on them He collected also abundance of pamphlets published at and before the time of reformation of religion relating to Ecclesiastical affairs and it was supposed that the copies of some of them were not then extant in the World and therefore esteemed as choice as Mss Among the books relating to history were his collection of Lives the Elogia of illustrious men the authors who have written the lives and characters of Writers and such who have writ of the foundations of Monasteries Nor was he the owner of this choice treasure of books as an idle possessor or did he barely turn over the leaves but was a constant peruser of and upon his buying did generally collate them observed the defects of impressions the all arts used by many and compared the differences of editions concerning which and the like cases he with great diligence and industry entred many memorable and very useful remarks and observations upon very many of his books under his own hand He hath written Letter to Dr. Hen. Hammond concerning the sense of that article in the Creed He descended into Hell Dated from his house in Little Moorfields near London where he mostly lived after he had buried his Son in Apr. 1659. Which Letter being answer'd by Dr. Hammond in the same month were both afterwards published an 1684. See more in Dr. Hammond under the year 16â—0 p. 161. This I think is all that R. Smith hath extant Those things that are not are these Observations on the three grand Impostors Exposition on these words used in the form of Marriage with my body I thee worship Written in qu. Collection of expositions of Baptisme for the dead Wr. in qu. Collection of several expositions and opinions of Christs descent into hell See more in Dr. Hammond before mentioned Miscellaneous tracts chiefly Theological Collection of Arms belonging to the name of Smith in colours MS. in oct Vita S. Simonis Stock Angli Carmelitae Collected from the Writings and Mss of John Bale Life of Hugh Broughton and Cat. of his works He also translated from Latin into English 1 The fifth book of Histories of Corn. Tacitus 2 The order of receiving the new Bishop after his consecration before he enter into the Cathedral Church of Salisbury taken out of an old Ms ritual belonging to that Church and from French into English Bosquires Sermon before the company of Shoomakers in France an 1614. on the Festival of S. Crispin and Crispiana Besides these and others of his writing and translations he made ten thousand instances or remarks with his own hand either of authors in or before the title or in the margin of their works This Mr. Rich. Smith who was a man of an excellent temper great justice c. died 26. March in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Church of S. Giles near to Cripplegate in London Soon after was a marble monument erected over his grave for him his Wife and Children with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by Afterwards there was a design to buy his choice Library for a publick use by a collection of moneys to be raised among generous persons but the work being publick and therefore but little forwarded it came into the hands of Richard Chiswell a Bookseller living in S. Pauls Ch. yard London who printing a catalogue of with others added to them which came out after Mr. Smiths death they were exposed to sale by way of Auction to the great reluctancy of publick spirited men in May and June 1682. HEZEKIAH WOODWARD the youngest of the nine Children of his Father was born in Worcestershire and after he had spent six years or more in a Grammar school was sent to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1608 and setled in Ball. Coll. where being put under a careful Tutor took a degree in Arts in the latter end of the year 1611. Afterwards he retired to London taught school there several years and was esteemed eminent in his profession but having been always puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon the change of the times in 1641 was a great Zealot and frequent Preacher among them either at S. Mary in Aldermanbury or near it Afterwards he took the Covenant and shewed the use and necessity of it in his discourse and preachings but soon after when he saw the Independents and other factious people to be dominant he became one of them and not unknown to Oliver who having quartered more than an year in the Vicaridge-house at Bray near Maydenhead in Berks during the time of the Rebellion in which time he had opportunity to know the Parish to be very large being a whole Hundred of it self he sent afterwards thither our Author Woodward being then his Chaplain or at least Favourite under the notion of doing some eminent good to that great place and to take care of it and the souls therein This was about the year 1649 at which time one Mr. Brice the then Vicar left it and was afterwards Minister of Henley in Oxfordshire Here he continued ten years or more and had the good opinion of the rabble and factious people but of others of sense and judgment not He was always very invective in his sermons which by the sober party were accounted dull against the King his Followers whom he call'd Malignants the Church of England her Rites Ceremonies and all Forms of Worship and it is commonly now reported among the Inhabitants of Bray that he wrot a book against the Lords Prayer which was answer'd by Brice before mention'd He was also an eager man and spent much time in preaching against observation of times and days as Christmas Easter c. against May-poles Morices Dancing c. He had a select Congregation out of his Parish of those that were to be saved who frequently met to pray in the Vicaridge-house which if he had
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
1680. EDWARD REYNOLDS son of Austin Reynolds one of the Customers of Southampton by Bridget his wife son of John Reynolds of Langport in Somersetshire and he the son of another John was born in the parish of Holy-rood within the said borough of Southampton in the month of Nov. 1599 bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School there founded by K. Ed. 6. in the 7. year of his raign became one of the Portionists or Postmasters of Merton Coll. in 1615 and Probationer Fellow in 1620 in which place which he got by his skill in the Greek tongue as also throughout his Bachelaurship he shewed himself a good Disputant and Orator After he had taken the degree of Master he entred into holy Orders and became a noted Preacher tho of an hoarse voice afterwards Preacher to the honorable society of Lincolns Inn and Rector of Braunston or Braynton in Northamptonshire At length the grand rebellion breaking forth in 1642 he sided with the Presbyterian party having long before that time been puritanically affected and in the year 1643 he became one of the Assembly of Divines a Covenantier a frequent preacher in London and somtimes before the Long Parliament In 1646 he was appointed by the Parliament one of the six Ministers to go to and settle in Oxon to preach the Scholars into obedience to the said Parliament afterwards one of the Visitors to brake open turn out and take possession Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Sam. Fell ejected and Vicechancellour of the University at which time he became Doctor of Div. by actual creation and what not But being forced to leave his Deanery in the latter end of 1650 because he refused to take the Independent Engagement he retired to his former cure for a time Afterwards he lived mostly in London preached there and flatterd Oliver and his Gange and after his death being then Vicar of S. Lawrence in the Jewry he did the like to Richard and was the Orator or Mouth of the London Ministers to welcome that Mushroom Prince to his Throne 11. Octob. 1658. Also when hopes depended on Monke's proceedings from Scotland he struck in with him and who more ready than he Dr. Reynolds and other Presbyterians when he and they saw how things would terminate and could not be otherwise holpen to bring in the King after his long exile by using his interest in the City of London where he was the pride and glory of the Presbyterian party When the secluded Members were restored to sit in Parliament they restored him to his Deanery of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of March 1659 with hopes to continue there and carry on the Presbyterian discipline In May following 1660 when his Majesty was at Canterbury in order to his restauration he and Edm. Calamy another zealous Presbyterian were admitted his Chaplains on the the 26. of that month and after his restauration he preached several times before him as he did also before the Houses of Parliament But in the latter end of June following he being desired to leave his Deanery to make room for an honest and Orthodox man he was in the next month elected by vertue of the Kings Letter Warden of Mert Coll choosing rather to have somthing than nothing Soon after upon the feeling of his pulse the King bestowed on him the Bishoprick of Norwych which See he willingly taking without a Nolo was after he had taken the Covenant and had often preached against Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church of England consecrated thereunto in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster on the sixth day of January an 1660 by vertue of which Bishoprick he became an Abbat a strange preferment me thinks for a Presbyterian I mean Abbat of S. Bennet in the Holme which he kept with great regret to his quondam Brethren whom he then left to shift for themselves to his dying day He was a person of excellent parts and endowments of a very good wit fancy and judgment a great Divine and much esteemed by all parties for his preaching and florid stile A writer of another persuasion tells us that he was a person of great authority as well as fame among the men of the Calvinistical perswasion c. and many there were that were of the like opinion One that knew him well saith that he was a person of singular affability meekness and humility of great learning a frequent preacher and constant Resident And it was verily thought by his contemporaries that he would have never been given to change had it not been to please a covetous and politick Consort who put him upon those things he did His works are these The vanity of the creature on Eccles 1.14 Sinfulness of sin on Rom. 7.9 and on 6.12 Use of the Law on Rom. 7.13 Life of Christ on 1. Joh. 5.12 An explication of 110. Psal Meditations on the holy Sacrament of the Lords lâ—st suppper Explication of the 14 chapter of Hosea in seven humiliation Sermons Treatise of the Passions and faculties of the soul of man All or most of which having been printed several times in qu. were all printed in one folio at London an 1658 with the authors picture before them and went by the name of Dr. Reynolds his works They were much bought up read and commended by men of several persuasions and one who was esâ—eâ—meâ— by all that knew him a jovial wet Presbyterian that had read them several times could not forbear to write two short Poems in commendation of them Thirty Sermons preached on several solemn occasions They were preached between the year 1634 and that of his death and some of them had been printed several times At length they were reprinted in the second impression of his works at Lond. 1679 fol. Among them is his Lat. Sermon preached at Oxon. 1649 entit Animalis homo on 1. Cor. 2.14 He also wrot the Ass of Divines Annotations which are on Ecclesiastes which being admirably done it was wished by many learned men of the Presbyterian perswasion that the rest had been all wrote pari filo eruditione He also was the author of the Epistolary preface to Will. Barlee's Coâ—reptory Correction c. of some notes of Tho. Pierce concerning Gods decrees especially of Reprobation which book of Barlee with the said Ep. Preface a second of Tho. Whitfield and a third of Dan. Cawdrey somtimes of Cambridge were printed at Lond. 1656. qu. At length this learned Bishop Dr. Reynolds who probably hath written other things besides those I have already mention'd made his last change in this world on the 28 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried at the upper end of the Chappel built by him 1662 joyning to the Bishops Pallace in in Norwych Over his grave was soon after fastned marble to the wall with this Epitaph engraven thereon H. I. S. I. Edoardus Reynolds SS T. P. primus a reditu Regis Caroli
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
mark and number of the name of the beast c. Lond. 1656. qu. grounded on Rev. 13.18 Which book is much commended by Matth. Poole in his fifth vol. of Synopsis Criticorum on the Rev. and doth acknowledge that he had some MS. notes from our Author concerning that matter which he had made use of in that volume Vindiciae fundamenti Or a threefold defence of the doctrine of original sin Together with some other fundamentals of Salvation The first against the exceptions of Mr. Rob. Everard in his book intit The Creation and the Fall of man The second against the Examiners of the late Assemblies Confession of Faith The third against the Allegations of Dr. Jer. Taylor in his Unum necessarium and two lesser Treatises of his Lond. 1658. qu. After his Majesties restauration he the said Mr. Stephens kept his Rectory of Fenny-Drayton because the owner of it had been some years before dead but upon the publication of the Act of Uniformity in 1662 he left it because he would not conform resided for some time in the said town and preached thereabouts as a Nonconformist At length after several disturbances he removed to Stoke-Golding two miles distant from Fenny-Drayton and preached there in Conventicles till he was disabled by lameness some years before his death which hapning in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Church-yard of Stoke-Golding on the 24 of Feb. the same year One of both his names an Esquire was appointed one of the Commissioners of Glocestershire 1654 for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters who had before been educated in this University THEOPHILUS GALE son of Theoph. Gale D. D. and sometimes Prebend of Exeter was born in Devonshire became a Commoner of Magd. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1648 and afterwards Fellow In the year 1652 he proceeded in Arts became a frequent Preacher in the University and a great resorter to the Presbyterian and Indep meetings especially that of Tho. Googwin in the Presidents Lodgings of his College At the Kings return he lost all the right he had to his Fellowship to make room for the true owner and being then wholly addicted to nonconformity travelled beyond the seas as a Tutor to the sons of Philip Lord Wharton After his return he lived in London was for some time an Assistant to Joh. Rowe in carrying on the work of preaching in his private congregation in Holbourne and published these books following which shew him to have been a person of great reading an exact Philologist and Philosopher The court of the Gentiles Or a discourse touching the original of humane literature both of Philology and Philosophy from the Scriptures and Jewish Church c. part 1. of Philology Oxon. 1669 and there again 1672 both in qu. The second part which is Of Philosophy was printed at Oxon. 1671 and at Lond. 1676 both in qu. Of these two parts there is a laudable account in the Philosophical Transactions num 74. p. 2231. an 1671. The third part Of the vanity of Pagan Philosophy was pr. at Lond. 1677 and the fourth Of Reformed Philosophy was pr. there the same year and both in qu. These four books or parts shew the Author to have been well read in and conversant with the Writings of the Fathers the old Philosophers and those that have given any account of them or their works As also to have been a good Metaphysician and School-Divine The true Idea of Jansenisme both historick and dogmatick Lond. 1669. oct The large preface to it was written by Dr. Joh. Owen Theophilie or a discourse of the Saints amity with God in Christ c. Lond 1671. oct The Anatomie of Infidelity or an explication of the nature causes aggravations and punishment of unbelief Lond. 1672. oct Discourse of Christs coming and the influence with the expectation thereof c. Lond. 1673. oct Idea Theologiae tam contemplativae quam activae ad formam S. Scripturae delineata Lond. 1673. in tw Wherein the love of the World is inconsistent with the love of God Sermon on 1 Jo. 2.15 Lond. 1674. and 76 in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata una de ortu progressu philosophiae c. Altera 1. De minorum gentium philosophia 2. De novem habitibus intellectualibus 3. De philosophiae objecto c. Lond. 1676. oct Ars sciendi sive Logica novâ methodo disposita novis praeceptis aucta Lond. 1682. oct This is Joh. Clauberg's Logick and Ars cogitandi called the Jansenists Logick digested into one volume with some alterations and enlargments A summary of the two Covenants This is set before a book by him published intit A discourse of the two Covenants c. Lond. 1678. fol. Written by Will. Strong sometimes Preacher in the Abbey Church at Westminster This learned and industrious person Mr. Gale did design to have published other matters but was cut off in the prime of his years aged 49 or thereabouts at Newington Green near London in Middlesex where then his habitation was in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the burial place of Dissenters joyning to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill Fields in Cripplegate Parish near London He left all his real and personal estate for the education and benefit of poor Presbyterian and Independent Scholars to be managed by certain Nonconformists for their use All his Library also he gave to the Coll. in New England except such philosophical books which are needful for Students of his opinion in Old England JOHN GODOLPHIN the third son of Joh. Godolphin Esquire of the ancient and gentile family of Godolphin in Cornwall was born in the Island of Scilly beyond the lands end in the said County in the Castle there which belonged to his name on S. Andrews Eve an 1617 became a Commoner of Glocester Hall in Mich. term 1632 where profiting much in Logick and Philosophy as afterwards in the Civil Law under the tuition of Will. Sandbrooke was four years after admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions that is to the degree of Bach. of the said Law In the beginning of 1643 he was actually created Doctor of his faculty being then puritannically inclined and going afterwards to London he sided so much with the men there in power that after he had taken the wicked oath called the Engagement he was by Act of Parl. 30 Jul. 1653 constituted and appointed with Will. Clerke Doct. of the Civ Law and Charles George Cock Esq Judges of the Admiralty and in the middle of Jul. 1659 Clerke being then dead he and Cock were constituted again yet to hold and exercise the said office but till 10 of Dec. following
a new conceit of the reflecting of the Sun beams upon a Dial c. Lond. 1635. oct He married Catherine daughter of Thom. Wallenger Esq by Benedicta Gonson his wife who dying 5 Jul. 1634 aged 47 was buried in the Church at Deptford Afterwards Joh. Wells went into Hampshire and lived and died at Brembridge as 't is said leaving a son of both his names to succeed him in his office at Deptford FRANCIS POTTER was born in the Vicaridge house at Meyre in Wilts on Trinity Sunday an 1594 educated in Grammar learning in the Kings school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright became a Communer of Trin. Coll under the tuition of his elder brother Hannibal Potter in the latter end of the year 1609 took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity and continued in the Coll. a close Student till his father died an 1637 and then succeeding him in the Rectory of Kilmanton sometimes called Kilmington and Culmington left the University for altogether retired to that place led a single and monkish life without the conversation of ingenious men till the day of his death He was from a boy given to drawing and painting and the Founders picture that hangs in the Refectory of Trin. Coll. is of his copying His genie laid most of all in the Mechanicks had an admirable mechanical invention and excellent notions for the raising of water and making Water-engins many of which inventions being presented to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection were highly approved by them and forthwith the members thereof admitted him one of their number About the year 1640 he entertained the notion of curing diseases by transfusion of blood out of one man into another the hint whereof came into his head from Ovid's story of Medea and Jason Which matter he communicating to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection was entred into their books But this way of transfusion having as 't is said been mention'd long before by Andr. Libavius our author Potter who I dare say never saw that Writer is not to be esteemed the first inventer of that notion nor Dr. Rich. Lower but rather an Advancer He hath written and published An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein not only the manner how this number ought to be interpreted is clearly proved and demonstrated but it is also shewed that this number is an exquisite and perfect character truly exactly and essentially describing that state of government to which all other notes of Antichrist do agree Oxon. 1642. qu. Which book as one saith is the happiest that ever yet came into the world and such as cannot be read save of those persons that will not believe it without much admiration c. A book also called The key of the Scripture written by a London Divine wherein being large upon the Revelations he prefers the said Interpretation before all others It was afterwards translated into French Dutch and Latine the last of which was done by several hands and severally printed One copy was all or mostly performed by Tho. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall printed at Amsterd 1677. oct And that or the other was partly remitted into Matth. Poole's Synopsis Critic in the second part of the fourth volume on the Revelations What answers were made to the said Interpretation that were printed I think there were none sure I am that one Lambert Morehouse Minister of Pertwood about 6 miles from Kilmanton accounted by some a learned man and a good Mathematician did write against it and seemed to be angry with the Author that 25 is not the true but the propinque root To which the Author replied with some sharpness The MS. of this controversie Morehouse gave to Dr. Seth Ward B. of Salisbury an 1668 before which time he was prefer'd by Dr. Henchman then B. of that place to the spiritual Cure of Little Langford in Wilts where he died about 1672. He was a Westmorland man by birth was educated I think in Clare Hall in Cambridge and wrot other things but are not printed As for our author Potter he lived to a good old age died perfectly blind at Kilmanton between Easter and Whitsuntide in the month of Apr. I think in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there His memory is preserved in Trin. Coll. by a Dial that he made and set up on the north side of the old Quadrangle where it doth yet remain His fathers name was Rich. Potter an Oxfordshire man born sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity and afterwards Vicar of a little mercate Town in Wilts and Rector of Kilmington or Kilmanton in Somersetshire before mention'd ABRAHAM WOODHEAD son of Joh. Woodh of Thornhill in Yorks was born at Maltham in the Parish of Albonsbury alias Ambury in the said County entred a Student in Univ. Coll. under the tuition of Jonas Radcliff an 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts and soon after was made Scholar Afterwards going thro the several classes of Logick and Philosophy with very great industry he took the degrees in Arts became Fellow in 1633 entred into holy Orders passed a course in Divinity and in 1641 was elected one of the Proctors of the University which office being quitted not without trouble occasion'd by the denying of the Grace of Franc. Cheynell of which he complained to the Long Parliament he travelled into France with a Gent. Com. of his House called Thomas Radcliff son of Sir Geor. Radcl and afterwards with Thom. Culpeper and Thom. Strode both of the same House At length setling for a time in Rome he was entertained by George Duke of Buckingham whom he instructed in Mathematicks and was much respected by him After his return into England being depriv'd of his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliam for absence and non-appearance an 1648. he lived for some time in York house in the Strand near London by the appointment of the said Duke but Arthur Lord Capell being informed of the great merits of the person he entertained and learned of him the Mathematical Sciences In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. Commissioners and remained in his Coll. for a time But his opinion as to Religion being then alter'd as it had been since he was at Rome which he always very warily conceal'd got leave of the Master and Society to be absent as intending again to travel with the allowance of 20 l. per an So that retiring to London he afterwards setled at Hoxton alias Hogsden near to that City where he lived very obscurely and retiredly upon that allowance that the College made to him as a Traveller all therein except one knowing not to the contrary but that he was beyond the seas There I say being setled he not only caused Youths to be trained up in the R. Cath. Religion of which certain members of Parliament did openly make mention in the House after
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
one that would give it to him died with meat in his mouth that is suddenly in Chepstow Castle before mention'd in Sept. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the ninth day of the same month buried in the Church of Chepstow Some time before he died he made this Epitaph by way of Acrostick on himself which runs thus Here or elswhere all 's one to you to me Earth aire or water gripes my ghostless dust None knowing when brave fire shall set it free Reader if you an oft tryed rule will trust You 'l gladly doe and suffer what you must My life was worn with serving you and you And now death's my pay it seems and welcom too Revenge destroying but it self while I To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly Examples preach to the eye care then mine sayes Not how you end but how you spend your dayes Aged 78. Another Epitaph was made by his daughter who usually attended him which for brevity sake I now omit JOSEPH GLANVILL was born at a Sea-port Town in Devons called Plymouth became a Batler of and entred into Commons in Exeter Coll 19 Apr. 1652 aged 16 years where being put under a good Tutor Sam. Conant M. A. and severely disciplin'd in religion Logick and Philosophy makes me wonder considering that that House was then one of the chief nurseries for youth in the University why he should afterwards lament that his friends did not first send him to Cambridge because as he used to say that new Philosophy and the art of Philosophizing were there more than here in Oxon and that his first studies in this University did not qualifie him for the world of action and business After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of July 1656 where taking the degree of M. of Arts in the beginning of 1658 was about that time made Chaplain to old Franc. Rous one of Olivers Lords and Provost of Eaton Coll. But he dying soon after Glanvill return'd to Oxon continued in Linc. Coll. for a time and became a great admirer of Mr. Rich. Baxter and a zealous person for a Commonwealth After his Majesties restauration he turned about became a Latitudinarian a great pretender to the new Philosophy wrot and published The vanity of Dogmatizing to gain himself a name among the Virtuosi was made a member of the Royal Society entred into holy orders according to the Church of England and by the favour of Sir James Thynne was presented to the Vicaridge of a Mercate Town in Somersetshire called Frome-Selwood in the beginning of Nov. 1662 in the place of John Humphrey a Non-conformist In 1666 Jun. 23 he was inducted Rector of the great Church in Bathe dedicated to S. Pet. and S. Paul and in July 1672 he changed Frome for the rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton annex'd in Somersetshire with Rich. Jenkins M. A. So that by vertue of the presentation to those two Churches by Tho. Thynne Esq Jenkins was instituted to Frome and Glanvill to Streat and Walton on one and the same day viz. 26. July 1672. About that time he was made one of the Chaplains in ordinary to K. Ch. 2. and at length by the endeavours of Henry Marquess of Worcester to whom our authors Wife pretended some alliance he became one of the Prebendaries of Worcester in the place of Hen. Greisley deceased in which dignity he was installed 22. June 1678. A certain author named Hen. Stubbe who wrot much against and did not care for him saith that Mr. Glanvill was the most impudent Lyer in the world that he would prove him a lyer and so ignorant and illiterate a fellow that he was not fit to come into any learned company or to open his mouth among them He tells us also that he did not understand Greek only to read it he could not construe Aristotle he knew not Logick either in the practice or notion that he was an ignorant and inconsiderate fellow that as much as he pretends to have studied Aristotle and the peripatetick Philosophy yet he did not know that Aristotle held the gravity of the air and was therefore followed by the Avicennists and Averroists c. that he was against the fertility of the way of notion and dispute concerning which he affirmed that it produced no practical useful knowledg He charged him with impiety and indiscretion with decrying the learning of the Lord Bacon yet to excuse his errour and insolence he made use of his great name and thought it a sufficient apology that he could shew that the subject of his most obnoxious periods and passages were to be found largely and often insisted on by so great and learned a man He tells us also that he was a renegado Presbyter Latitudinarian a proud and conceited person c. But all these things with many more having been spoken by a rash person and one that was well known not to abound with good nature and seldome to have spoken well of any body I shall take the liberty to give this character of him Glanvill with which those that knew him as I did partly will without doubt concur viz. that he was a person of more than ordinary parts of a quick warm spruce and gay-fancy and was more lucky at least in his own judgment in his first hints and thoughts of things than in his after-notions examined and disgested by longer and more mature deliberation He had a very tenacious memory and was a great Master of the English Language expressing himself therein with easie fluency and in a manly yet withal a smooth stile He catcht at all occasions as well in his discourse as in his writings of depreciating that renowned Master of reason and celebrated advancer of knowledge Aristotle and of undervaluing his philosophy altho it hath been received in the Schools for many ages as if great authority with general approbation and advantage and in the place of it he substituted many pretty new fangled and fantastical Hypotheses of that Philosophy which bidding defyance to the old boasts it self in the winning and glorious title of being new This also must be said that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sloath of elder dijudicants from whom a more generous temper might be expected than to sit down in a contended despair of any farther progress into Science than hath been made by their idolized Sophy as he is pleased to term it and depriving themselves and all this world of their liberty in Philosophy by making a Sacramental adherence to an heathen authority And this it was together with the pedantry and boyishness of humour that drew from him those reflections he directed against Aristotle in the Letter which I shall anon mention He did more especially applaud and recommend that more free and generous
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
followed the Court from Newcastle and having received satisfaction concerning their sobriety and education he was willing to receive them as Grooms of his Bedchamber to wait upon his person with Mr. Maule and Mr. Maxwell which the Commissioners approving they were that night admitted and by his Majesty instructed as to the duty and service he expected from them So as they thenceforth attended his Royal Person agreeable to that great trust with due observance and loyalty and were by Maule and Maxwel affectionately treated Being thus setled in that honorable office and in good esteem with his Maj. Mr. Herb. continued with him when all the rest of the Chamber were removed till his Majesty was to the horror of all the world brought to the block It was then that Mr. Herbert was fully satisfied that the King was not the Man that the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people who obtained their ends by lies and slanders made him to be He clearly found that he was no Papist no obstinate Person no cruel or bloody Man no false dealer c. but purely a man of God which made him in an high manner lament his untimely death His Majesty tho he found him to be Presbyterianly affected yet withal he found him very observant and loving and therefore entrusted him with many matters of moment among which was his sending by him from the Isle of Wight his gracious Message to the Parliament which in the evening he gave it sealed up to him directed to the Speaker of the Lords House with a Letter to his Daughter the Princess Elizabeth who was then at S. James's with her Governess The wind was then averse and much ado Mr. Herbert had to cross the Sea But no delay was suffer'd in regard the King had commanded him to hasten away that his Letters might be delivered next day before the Lords rose When he was Landed at S. Hampton he took post and it may not be forgotten that at one stage the Postmaster a malevolent person understanding from whom the pacquet came and that it required extraordinary speed he mounted him upon an horse that had neither good eyes or feet so as usually he stumbled much which with deep ways and dark weather would have abated his hast and endanger the Rider Yet so it fell out by good providence that the horse albeit at full Gallop most of that 12 miles riding neither stumbled nor fell at which the People at the next stage admired The Kings pacquet was within the time limited delivered to William Lord Grey of Werk at that time Speaker Which done Mr. Herbert waited on the young Princess at S. James's who gave him her hand to kiss and was overjoyed with his Majesties kind Letter to which her Highness the next day returned an answer by the said Mr. Herbert who at his arrival at Carisbroke had the Kings thanks for his diligence And for a badge of the fair esteem that K. Ch. 2. had of him for faithfully serving his royal Father during the two last years of his life he did after his restauration by Lett. Pat. dat 3. July 1660 advance him to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne in Monmouthshire because Little Tinterne about half a mile from Tinterne Abbey was his own estate and the seat of Tho. Herbert before mention'd He hath written A relation of some years travels into Africa and the greater Asia especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy and some parts of the oriental Indies and Iles adjacent Lond. 1634. 38. c. 1677. which is the fourth impression wherein many things are added which were not in the former All the impressions are in fol. and adorn'd with Cuts He also at the proposal of John de Laet his familiar friend living at Leyden did translate some books of his India occidentalis but certain business interposing the perfecting of them was hindred He left behind him at his death an historical account of the two last years of the life of K. Ch. 1. the Martyr which he entit Threnodia Carolina written by him an 1678. in qu. on this account viz. that the Parliament a little before taking into their consideration of appointing 70 thousand pounds for the funeral of the said King and for a monument to be erected over his grave Sir Will. Dugdale then Garter King of Armes sent to our author Sir Thomas living at York to know of him whether ever the said King spoke in his hearing where he would have his body bestowed in burial to which Sir Tho. returning a large answer with many observations and things worthy of note concerning that King Sir William thereupon being much taken with it as containing many things which he never heard of before did desire him by another Letter to write a Treatise of the actions and sayings of the said King from his first confinement to his death which he did accordingly About the same time the author of this book having occasion to write to Sir Thomas for information of certain persons then or about that time attending the King he thereupon sent him several Letters in answer to his Queries with divers other matters by way of digression which Letters contain as it seems the chief contents of Thren Car. and are several times quoted in this work He also assisted the said Sir Will. Dugdale in his compiling the third vol. of Monast Anglic. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Knight in the Fasti an 1642. At length this worthy person Sir Thomas Herbert who was a great observer of men and things in his time died in his house at York on the first day of March S. Davids day in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 76 years and was buried in the Church there commonly called S. Crux or S. Cross situated in the street called Fossegate Over his grave was a monument soon after erected by his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Gervas Cutler of Stainborough in Yorksh Knight with a large inscription thereon Wherein we are instructed that he took to his first Wife Lucia Daughter of Sir Walt. Alexander Servant to K. Ch. 1 by whom he had issue Philip Henry Heir to his Father Montgomery Thomas William c. This Sir Thomas a little before his death gave several Mss to the publick Library at Oxon and others to that belonging to the Cathedral at York and in the Ashmolean Musaeum there are certain collections of his which he made from the registers of the Archbishops of York given thereunto by Sir W. Dugdale Knight I find one Tho. Herbert to be author of a poem entit An Elegy upon the death of Thomas Earl of Strafford c. Printed in one sh in qu. an 1641. but him I take not to be the same with our author Sir Thomas nor to be the same with Sir Tho. Herbert Knight Clerk of the Council at Dublin of Hen. Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland an 1657. 58.
72 persons Members of the House of Commons Officers of the Army and Citizens of London sate upon benches some degrees above one another as Judges Hacker I say by order of the Court which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the President at which time John Cook the Sollicitor General was placed on the Kings right hand I shall pretermit the Judges names the formality of the Court and the proceedings there by way of charge as also his Majesties replies in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers Nor indeed was much to be observed seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him would sometimes smile but not acknowledge their jurisdiction or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King it being without example also whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the Kings Chamber The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the Kings bed which he did and there slept Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had as his Majesty desired the Liberty to attend the King which was much to his comfort and as he said no small refreshing to his spirit especially in that his uncomfortable condition The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King Munday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting as formerly in Westminster Hall Now the more noble the person is the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings Here it was otherwise for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice justice some of the Officers joyning with them At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed but overcame it with patience Sure to persecute a distressed soul and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart is the very pitch of wickedness yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer as the learned Bishop of Winchester Bilson saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday which was here very applicable As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir The King thank'd him but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head which his Majesty observing said The punishment exceeded the offence Being come to his apartment in Cotton house he immediatly fell upon his knees and went to prayer which being done he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice he answer'd he did and marvell'd much at it So did not I said the King for I am well assur'd the Soldiers bare no malice towards me the cry was no doubt given by their Officers for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sate in the Court and who they were he replied there were upward of threescore some of them members of the House of Commons others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London some of whom he knew but not all The King then said he viewed all of them but knew not the faces of above eight and those he named The names tho Mr. Herbert told me not yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie William L. Monson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Danvers Oliver Cromwell who had shew'd seeming civility to him at Childerlie Newmarket and Hampton Court Major Harrison Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond c. Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned and as formerly guarded to the Court where as at other times he persisted in his judgment that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the President of the Court but was gently interrupted by the King laying his staff upon the Solicitors arme the head of which being silver hapned to fall off which Mr. Herbert who as his Majesty appointed waited near his Chair stoop'd to take it up but falling on the contrary side to which he could not reach the King took it up himself This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it hapned on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King The Court sate but a little time that day the K. not varying from his principle At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind the Soldiers who as his Majesty pass'd said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty for which the King returned them thanks Saturday 27. Jan. The President came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown whereupon the K. having quick notice of it he forthwith went seated himself in his chair and observing the President in his red Gown did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting and therefore he earnestly press'd the Court that altho he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther whereupon the President and Court arose and withdrew In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sate The King therefore going away he seated himself in the Chair The President told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence His Majesty had the former day mov'd the President that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publickly read by the Clerk but neither would that desire be granted The President then gave judgment against the King who at the Presidents pronouncing it
was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers who were silent as his Majesty passed but shop-stalls and windows were full of People many of which shed tears and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's Nothing of the fear of death or indignities offer'd seem'd a terrour or provok'd him to impatience nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges albeit he well knew that some of them were or had been his domestick servants nor against any member of the House or Officer of the Army so wonderful was his patience tho his spirit was great and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastry of his passion and submission to the will of God under such temptations The same night after which sentence was pronounced Coll. Hacker who then commanded the Guards at S. James's about the King would have placed two Musquetiers in the Kings Bedchamber with which his Majesty being acquainted he made no reply only gave a sigh Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horrour of it and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature The King now bidding a farewel to the World his whole business was a serious preparation for death which opens the door unto eternity In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned who under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition And resolving to sequester himself so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him I know said the K. my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me which I would take in good part but my time is short and precious and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation I hope they will not take it ill that they or any have not access unto me only my Children The best office they can do now is to pray for me What he had said it fell out accordingly for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond William Marq. of Hertford Thomas Earl of Southampton and Mountague E. of Lindsey with some others having go leave came to the Bedchamber door where Mr. Herbert persuant to the Kings command acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge and thereupon they acquiesced and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers which done they return'd with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces The Prince of Wales also then in Holland did by the States Embassadors interceed to the Parliament and used all possible means to prevent or at least to defer his Majesties execution and applyed themselves likewise to the Army At this time Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said came to S. James's Edm. Calamy Rich. Vines Jos Caryl Will. Dell and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King with their humble desires to pray with him and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul sutable to his present condition he would have none other The Ministers were no sooner gone but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service whom the King also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were he then as at sundry times enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for and how he liked it Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it The Earl fell presently into a passion marvell'd thereat and was much troubled least his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James's he as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James's he went to meet him and demanding of him if he knew his Cosin Tom Herbert that waited on the King the Officer said he did and was going to S. James's The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Larme desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it My Lord said Mr. Herbert I have sundry times seen and past by that Officer since and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise nor said any thing concerning it nor has the King it I am certain The Earl was very angry and gave the Officer his due character and threatned to question him But such was the severity of the times that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person so as no notice was taken of it Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith who gave the Earl thanks and said had he not told the Officer it was for me he would probably have delivered it he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsore The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a
of Boston 9 Oct. 1663 at the Archd. Visitation on Isa 16.13 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Elohim or God and the Magistrate on Psal 82.6 Ibid. 1663. qu. c. In 1674 our author Howe accumulated the degrees in Divinity became much respected for his learning in Lincolnsh and dying in the winter time in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in his Church at Boston before mentiond I find one Will. Howe to have been Minister of Gedney in Linc. a grand Presbyterian and Independent in the time of Oliver but what he hath written I know not Since I wrot this I find one O. H. Minister of the Gospel to have written Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations on Col. 1.12 c. Lond. 1690. in tw Designed for a funeral Legacy by the said O. H. but whether the same with Ob. Howe I know not Qu. HENEAGE FINCH the eldest Son of Sir Heneage Finch of Kensington in Midd. Kt Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London by Frances his Wife Dau. of Sir Edm. Bell of Beaupre in Norfolk Kt was born in Kent particularly I presume at Eastwell on the 23. of Dec. 1621 educated in Westminster School became a Gent. Communer of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1635 continued there two or three years went to the Inner Temple where by his sedulity and good parts he became a noted proficient in the municipal Laws was successively Barrester Bencher Treasurer Reader c. In 1660 on the 6 of June he was made Sollicitor general to his Majesty and on the day after being then a Knight he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Sir Heneage Finch of Raunston in Buckinghamshire The next year he was Autumn or Summer Reader of the Inner Temple choosing then to read upon the Statute of 39. Elizab. concerning The payment and recovery of the debts of the Crown which Statute tho ever seasonable and then most necessary was never before read upon as 't was then reported by any but himself The reading and entertainment lasted from the 4th to the 17 of Aug. The former was with great strength of reason depth of Law and admirable sense and the other with as great variety as could be imagined carried on The first days entertainment was of divers Peers of the Realm and Privy Counsellors with many others of his noble friends The second of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London The third which was two days after the former of the whole College of Physitians who all came in their caps and gowns The fourth was of another long robe for all the Judges and Advocates Doctors of the Civil Law and all the Society of Doctors Commons The fifth was of the Archbishops Bishops and chief of the Clergy and the last which was on the 15 of Aug. was of the King Duke of York Lord Chancellour most of the Peers and great Officers or Court the Lords Commissioners of Scotland and Ireland c. In Apr. the same year 1661 he was chosen Parliament man for this University but did us no good when we wanted his assistance for the taking off the tribute belonging to Hearths In 1665 after the Parliament then sitting at Oxon had been prorogued he was created in a full Convocation Doctor of the Civil Law he being then one of the four members of Parliament that had communicated the thanks of the honorable H. of Commons lately sitting in the said Convocation House to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant negative Oath c. made 1647. Which creation being concluded in the presence of several Parliament Men besides the said four the Vicechancellour stood up and spoke to the publick Orator to do his office Whereupon he making a most admirable harangue said among other things to this effect that the University wished they had more Colleges to entertain the Parliament men and more Chambers but by no means no more Chymneys c. at which Sir Heneage changed his countenance and drew a little back In 1670 he was constituted the Kings Attorney General and upon the removal of Shaftesbury from being Lord Chancellor he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 9. Nov. 1673. Shortly after which he was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this realm by the title of Lord Finch of Daventre in Northamptonshire and upon his surrender of the Great Seal to his Majesty on the 19. of Dec. 1675 he received it immediatly back again with the title of Lord high Chancellor of England In the most boisterous and ticklish times when the swoln waves beat highest occasion'd by the Popish Plot he behaved himself with so regular exactly pois'd and with such even steadiness whilst others whose actions not being so justly ballanced either were discharged from their Offices or else they themselves by an ungenerous cowardise voluntarily resign'd them up as unwilling manfully to encounter approaching difficulties of which they pretended to have prospects that he still stood firm in the good opinion of his Prince and which is more to be admired at that time when many worthy Ministers of State were by the malice of designing men branded with the old infamous character of Evil Counsellours in order to have them to be run down and worried by the violent outrages of the unthinking giddy and head-strong multitude During all which time and clamour against persons which continued from Oct. 1678. to the beginning of the year 1681 after the Oxford Parl. was dissolved he was neither bandied against or censur'd in the more private seditious Cabals nor was his Master publickly addressed to for his removal In 1681. May 14 or thereabouts he was created Earl of Nottingham as a mark of the great satisfaction his Majesty had in the many faithful services which his Lordship had rendred the Crown being then a person of so eloquent and fluent speech and of so great sapience that he was usually stiled the English Roscius and the English Cicero A noted author tells us that his great parts and greater vertues are so conspicuous that it were a high presumption in him to say any thing in his commendation being in nothing more eminent than in his zeal for and care of this Church of England See his character most excellently described under the name of Amri in the second part of a poem entit Absalom and Achitophel Lond. 1682. first edit p. 30. Under the name of this worthy person are published Several speeches and discourses in the trial of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. He being then Sollicitor General See in the book entit An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment arraignment trial and judgment according to Law of 29 Regicides c. Lond. 1660. qu. 1679. oct Speeches to both Houses of Parliament 7. Jan. 1673 13. of Apr. and 13. Oct. 1675. 15. Feb. 1676. 6. March 1678 and 30. of Apr. 1679. These were spoken while he was Lord
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168â— should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament
came out in which he reflected on the falseness of it as 't was also in a smart and ingenious answer to it pen'd by John Northleigh of Exeter Coll. Besides also I conceive that scarcely any body besides Shaftesbury would have adventured on such insolent and bold arraignments of some chief Ministers of State not sparing the Government it self He also made the little short Speech intit The Earl of Essex's Speech at the delivery of the petition to the King 25. of Jan. 1680 which petition was that the King would change his mind from the setting of the Parl. at Oxon to be at Westminster Answer'd in a letter sent to him by Anon. in half a sh in fol. as big as the speech and petition He was also deeply supposed to have written A vindication of the Association which was seized on in the hands of his servant Stringer as he was going to the Press with it in the beginning of Dec. 1682 who being examined about it confessed that it was written by Rob. Ferguson a Nonconformist Minister author of as he added The second part of the growth of Popery Whereupon soon after a Messenger was sent to Brill in Holland to demand the body of him the said Ferguson and of Shaftesbury but the States refused so to do as the common Letters dat 13 January following told us Much about the same time I was informed by Letters also that since the said Earls retirement to Amsterdam he printed and published a book there in which he endeavoured to free himself from all cause of Jealousie and aspersions cast on him upon which a back friend of his immediatly dispers'd a satyrical reply in opposition thereunto Which coming early to his Lordships hands he printed a second book justifying the validity of the first but he did so much confound himself therein that the States had then a jealousie that he came among them for some other intent than barely his Majesties displeasure with him At length dying at Amsterdam of the Gout on the 21. of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two his body was conveyed into England and buried at Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire beforemention'd What Epitaph there is over his grave I know not and therefore in its place take this character of him given by a most ingenious author For close designs and crooked counsels fit Sagacious bold and turbulent of wit Restless unfixt in principles and place In power unpleas'd impatient of disgrace c. In friendship false implacable in hate Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the State c. Before his death came out several Pamphlets in vindication of him but very partially written by his admirers At the time of his death or thereabouts was published The compleat Statesman demonstrated in the life actions and politicks of that great Minister of State Anth. Earl of Shaftsbury c. Printed in tw at Lond. in Hillary term 1682. And after his death was published besides some Memoirs of his life which made against him under the name of Philanax Misopappus a book intit Rawleigh redivivus or the life and death of the honorable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it It is divided into two parts and dedicated to the protesting Lords but partially written and containeth many errors and slightly passeth over and omits many of his actions during the time of Rebellion wherein he had a prime hand There were also published Elegies on him pro and con as also A supplement to his last Will. and Test written in verse the particulars of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by THOMAS HUNT son of Hen. Hunt was born in the City of Worcester an 1611 became a Student in Pembr Coll. 1628 Master of Arts in 1636 but whether ever Bach. of that faculty it appears not and therefore Hen. instead of Tho. Hunt in the Fasti 1630 among the Bachelaurs is to be taken away Afterwards he went into the Country and taught a private School then to London and taught in the Church of S. Dunstan in the East and at length being preferred to the Mastership of the Free-school of S. Saviours in Southwark did much good among the Youth there as elsewhere he had done by his admirable way accompanied with much industry in teaching For the use of whom he wrot Libellus Orthographicus or the diligent School-boys Directory c. Lond. 1661 and several times after in oct One Edit of which bears this title Libel Orthograph Or the diligent School-boys Directory very useful for Grammar scholars Apprentices c. or any that desire to be exactly perfect especially in the English Orthography Abecedarium Scholasticum or the Grammar Scholars Abecedary Lond. 1671 oct or thus in the title of another edition Abecedarium Scholasticum Or the Grammar Scholars Flower-garden wherein are these following flowers to wit Proverbs proverbial Sayings Sayings also on several subjects What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died 23 January in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Saviour in Southwark close to the wall in the corner on the left hand of that door that leads from the Bull Churchyard or Bull-head Churchyard into the said Church The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this hath been another Thom. Hunt who tho no Oxford man by education yet having been famous in his generation among certain schismatical persons for several things that he hath written and published I shall therefore give you these brief memoirs of him viz. That he was born in London in the Augustine Friers as I conceive near the Old Exchange was first Scholar then Fellow and Master of Arts of Queens Coll. in Cambridge where he was esteemed a person of quick parts and of a ready fluence in discourse but withall too pert and forward Thence he went to Greys Inn where before he had been entred a Student and making proficiency in the municipal Laws was made Barrister was had in repute for his practice and acknowledged by most persons to be a good Lawyer In 1659 he became Clerk of the Assizes of Oxford Circuit but ejected from that office at his Majesties restauration to his great loss to make room for the true owner Afterwards he lived and followed his profession at Banbury in Oxfordshire was Steward for a time to part of the Duke of Buckinghams Estate and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk c. He hath written and published 1 Great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor to the Crown c. considered And an answer to a Letter c. Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. 2 An Argument for the Bishops right in judging in capital Causes in Parliament c. To which is added A postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferior Clergy mischievous to our Government and Religion Lond. 1682. oct For the writing of
the event proved to be known that he was the author Theologo-Historicus or the true life of the most rev Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Lond. 1683 oct Published as the author pretended to correct the errours supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire who had before published the said Doctors life Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn Printed with the Theologo-Historicus c. Catechisme for the use of his Parish This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you when or where 't was printed This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spaw on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mention'd as I have been enformed by his son of both his names lately Fellow of Brasn Coll who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianisme which is not yet printed JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington in Oxfordshire was born in the said Town of Stadham bred in Grammar learning mostly under Edw. Sylvester who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon entred a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628 instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being taken and compleated in 1635 at which time as the cumstom and statute is he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King his heirs and lawful successors Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have and shall mention in this Work About the same time he entred into holy Orders and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire where continuing till the turn of the times he sided then with the rebellious rout preached against Bishops and their Courts Common Prayer Book Ceremonies c. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex took the Covenant became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent he changed his mind adhered to them and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians He violated all Oathes as of canonical Obedience Solemne League and Covenant c. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them especially in preaching up Sectarisme as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell who had him ever after in great respect and in some things relied on his Council In the latter end of 1648 when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded he in his discourses and Sermons applauded the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwells victory over the Levellers at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen who had about that time taken the Engament preached to them out of the Politicks and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness On the 17. Sept. 1650 it was ordered by the Parliament according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland and on the 18 of March following it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after setled he with Tho. Goodwin President of Madg. Coll. the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency did with some others who were their admirers endeavour to setle Independency in the University according to Cromwells mind but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellour in which Office he being then also one of the Visitors for by that time several Independents had been added to them he endeavoured to put down Habits Formalities and all Ceremony notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians While he did undergo the said Office he instead of being a grave example to the University scorned all formality undervalued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar with powdred hair snake-bone bandstrings or bandstrings with very large tassels lawne band a large set of ribands pointed at his knees and spanish leather boots with large lawne tops and his hat mostly cockâ—d On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen Tho. Goodwin R. Fairclough the elder Nich. Lockyer Jos Caryl c. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for ejecting and setling Ministers according to the rules then prescrib'd but that project taking not effect there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of publick preachers whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest and in the year following Commissioners from the Layty and Assistants to them from the Clergy in every County for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon together with Thankful Owen Pres of S. Jo. Coll Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton Cristoph Rogers Ambr. Upton Pet. French Hen. Wilkinson Ralph Batton Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henley c. In 1654 Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon to sit in a Parliament then called and rather than he would be put aside because he was a Theologist he renounced
his orders and pleaded that he was a meer Layman notwithstanding he had been actually created D. of Div. in the year before But his election being question'd by the Committee of Elections he sate only for a little time in the said Parliament While he was Vicechanc. he preached frequently blasphemed God with bold and sensless effusions and in his Sermons and Prayers he did often confound the Royal Family He had a wonderful knack of entitling all the proceeding of his own party however villainous and inhuman nay any the least revolutions or turn of affairs which hapned to be in favour of his own cause to an especial Providence to the peculiar and plainly legible conduct of heaven which he zealously preached up as sufficient to unty the strictest bonds of faith allegiance and all other Oaths to overlure all the obligations of conscience and religion He could easily make the transactions of the three kingdoms to be the fulfilling of many old prophetical predictions and to be a clear edifying comment on the Revelations still teâ—ching as most of the Brethren did that to persue a success in villany and rebellion was to follow the guidant of providential dispensations He was also then while he was Vicechancellour so great an enemy to the Lords Prayer that when some Preachers concluded their own with it which was very seldom done by any especially the Presbiterians and Independents because it was looked upon forsooth as formal and prelatical so to do he would with great snearing and scorn turn aside or sit down and put on his hat Which act of his being looked upon as diabolical especially by the Royal party it gave occasion to Dr. Mer. Casaubon to write and publish A vindication of the Lords Prayer c. as I have told you elsewhere In 1657 when Rich. Cromwell son of Oliver was elected Chancellour of this University our author Owen was removed from his Vicechancellourship and the year after when he was made Protector he was by the endeavours of the Presbyterians removed also from his favour and St. Maries Pulpit cleansed of him and Goodwin All which our author taking in great scorn he out of spite set up a lecture at another Church using these words I have built Seats at Maries but let the Doctors find Auditors for I will preach at Peters in the East and so he did for a time and many flocked to him In the latter end of 1659 he was outed of his Deanery of Ch. Ch and then retired to Stadham the place of his birth where a little before he had bought Land and a fair dwelling House There he lived for some time called together some of his party to preach and many of his Disciples went from Oxon to hear him and receive comfort from his doctrine but they being several times silenc'd by Soldiers of the Militia Troop belonging to the County of Oxon and sorely threatned that Congregation was broken After all this when our author for his rebellious actions blasphemies preachings lyings revilings perjuries c. was not excepted from the Act of Oblivion which was much wondred at and desired Sir E. Hyde then Lord Chancellour treated him with all kindness and respect and designed him if he could not Conform to employ his time and abilities in writing against the Papists and not to violate public Laws and endanger public Peace by keeping Conventicles Whereupon Owen gave his word that he would be obedient to his commands but being not long after found preaching to about 30 or 40 of the godly party in his house at Stadham by an officer of the Militia Troop he was complained of to the Lord Chancellour Soon after Owen having received intelligence that that great person was very angry upon information of the matter made to him while he was at Cornbury in Oxfordshire he wrote to Dr. Tho. Barlow whom he had obliged with the like kindness in the raign of Oliver and desired him to mediate on his behalf to the said person Whereupon Barlow went from Oxon to Cornbury where the L. Chanc. hearing his Errand he told him then that Dr. Owen was a perfidious person in that he had violated his engagements and therefore he would have nothing to do with him but leave him to the penalty of those laws he had transgressed c. Upon this our author resolved to go to New England but since that time the wind was never in a right point for a voyage After this he setled in London set up a Church preached and prayed having been encouraged thereunto as t is said by the Papists and at length burying his wife married after 60 years of age the young widdow of Thom. D' oyley his neighbour younger brother of Sir Joh. D' oyley of Chesilhampton near Stadham Baronet and took all occasions to enjoy the comfortable importances of this life A certain Nonconformist J. H. doth charactarize our author thus He is a reverend man a Doct. of Div. of much gravity and of long standing excellent in learning and all sorts of it for his profession of dignity in his time as much as any have been capable of a person of noted constant piety and a studious life of universal affability ready presence and discourse liberal graceful and courtious demeanour that speak him certainly whatsoever he be else one that is more a Gentleman than most in the Clergy and that he is accordingly favoured somtimes with the Princes converse and the general veneration of the people c. Thus the author here quoted whom I take to be Joh. Humphrey but another a great Loyallist several times before quoted saith that this our author Dr. Owen was the Prince the Oracle the Metropolitan of Independency the Achitophel of Oliver Cromwell Or which is more than all a servant of Jesus Christ in the the work of the Gospel and that as in the same sense as the innocent mâ—ek and devout Christian is the servant of the Devil in the work and vassalage of sin He also often stiles him a blasphemer and perjur'd person a libeller of authority after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 that he praised god for shedding the blood of Christian Kings and their loyal subjects that he was guilty of reiterated perjuries against that God whom he confidently affirmed to be inspirer of all his prayers and therefore as he further adds he ought in conscience before he departs this life to give satisfaction to the English Church and Nation for those mischiefs which his Councells Preachings Prayers and writings drew not only upon the Royal Family and Church but upon the lives liberties and fortunes of so many loyal Gentlemen who were either murthered in cold blood and imprisoned and banished c. Another high-flown Loyallist tells us of Dr. Owen that there is scarce a Principle of Blasphemy or Rebellion in the Alcoran that that wretch hath not vouched upon divine authority He is a person of such a rank complexion that
Spelling-book or reading and spelling English made easse wherein all the words of our English Bible are set down in an alphabetical order and divided into their distinct Syllables Together with the grounds of the English Tongue laid in verse wherein are couch'd many moral Precepts Lond. 1674. oct c. What other Sermons or books are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Bednal green near London on the seventh day of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Ch. of Clapham in Surrey in which Town he had usually held forth in Conventicles with Dr. Hen. Wilkinson commonly called Long Harry and Will. Bridge sometimes Minister of Yarmouth He also for a better livelyhood instructed the sons of Nonconformists JOSHUA SPRIGGE son of Will. Sprigge sometimes servant to Will Lord Say afterwards Steward of New Coll was born at Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsummer term an 1634 aged 16 years left it without a degree journied into Scotland and became Master of Arts at Edinburgh and a Preacher A little before the Rebellion began he retired to London was a Preacher at S. Mary Alderm afterwards took the Covenant was made Minister of S. Pancras Ch. in Soperlane and at length a retainer to Sir Tho. Fairfax General of the Parliament Army In 1648 he was constituted one of the Fellows of All 's Coll. by the Committee and Visitors appointed by Parliament to reform the University and in the year following he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Edinburgh While he continued in All 's Coll he was of civil conversation but far gone in Enthusiasme and blamed much by some of the Fellows then there for his zeal of having the history of our Saviours Ascension curiously carved from stone over that Coll. gate to be defaced after it had remained there since the foundation of that House About that time he was esteemed also a noted Independent and afterwards very well known to be a great favourer of factious and blasphemous persons particularly that grand Impostor James Naylor Quaker in whose behalf he did in the head of an 100 men deliver a Petition in favour of him to Oliver L. Protector After the Kings return he retired to an Estate which he had purchased at Crayford in Kent lived privately there and frequented Conventicles At length upon the death of James Lord Say which was in the latter end of 1673 he married his widow named Frances daughter of Edward Viscount Wimbledon with whom he had great familiarity during the time of her first Husband But she being a holy Sister and kept or caused to be kept Conventicles in her house they upon trouble ensuing removed to Highgate near London where our Author Sprigge died as I shall tell you anon He hath extant these things following viz. Several Sermons viz. 1 God a Christians all himself nothing on Gen. 5.24 Printed 1640. 2 A Testimony to approaching glory in five Sermons delivered at S. Pancrass Church in Soperlane Lond. 1649 sec edit In which Sermons are contained several blasphemies as certain Pamphlets inform us See more in Joh. Owen 3 A farther Testimony c. Printed in oct This I have not yet seen 4 The dying and living Christian c. on Rom. 14.8 Lond. 1648. oct and others as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Anglia rediviva Fnglands recovery Being the History of the motions actions and successes of the Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight Capt. General of all the Parliament forces in England Lond. 1647. fol. Characterized falsly by an outlandish author to be opus rude moles indigesta c. This book goes under the name of J. Sprigge but if a knowing author saies true Nath. Fiennes second son to Will Lord Say had a chief hand in compiling the said book Certaine weighty considerations humbly tendred and submitted to the consideration of such of the Members of the High Court of Justice for the trial of the King as they shall be presented unto Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. Solace for Saints in the saddest times Printed in oct This I have not yet seen News of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determined and by the same right the days of the son of man are already commenced with an account of the times of Gog and Magog and of the three last Viols Lond. 1676. oct Besides these he hath other things without doubt extant but I cannot yet in all my searches find them out He died at Highgate before mention'd in the month of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being carried to Crayford aforesaid was buried in the Church there About a fortnight after his beloved wife Frances dying was I presume buried near him So that the Estate of him the said J Sprigge went to his younger brother William who hereafter is to be mention'd as a writer RICHARD HAYTER son of Will. Hayt of the City of Salisbury was born in Wilts became a Commoner of Madg. Hall in 1628 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts retired to Salisbury lived three as a Lay-man and wrote The meaning of the Revelation or a paraphrase with questions on the Rev. of the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine c. wherein the Synchronismes of Mr. Joseph Mede c. are called into question c. Lond. 1675. qu. Errata Mori The errours of Henry More Doct. of Div. contained in his Epilogue annex'd to his exposition of the Revelation of S. John in which these questions are debated c. This was made ready for the Press in Apr. 1683 and another book but whether yet printed I cannot tell He died on the 30. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Thomas in Salisbury which is all I yet know of him only that he and Joh. Warner are by the Printers mistake put among the Masters of Arts in the Fasti an 1634. as Masters of Magd. College instead of Madg. Hall and that by another mistake in this vol. p. 254 he hath set down the death of Dr. H. More before mentioned to be on the 3. of Apr. instead of the first of Sept. 1687. PETER GUNNING son of Pet. Gunn Minister of How in Kent by Elianor Trest his wife a Kentish woman of a good family was born at How on the eleventh and baptized on the 16 of Janu. 1613 bred up in the Free-School at Canterbury where being found remarkably ripe for the University he was at 15 years of age sent to Clare Hall in Cambridge of which House he was soon after made Fellow having been from his first admittance very much in the Eye of all that University as having and never wanting in any kind of exercise either
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
great effects if ever it shall be retrieved upon the publick stock of the Nation c. A model of it tho lost was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society made with his own hand and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College To conclude he was a person of an admirable inventive head of a prodigious working wit and of so great worth and learning that he was both fit for and an honour to the highest preferment He hath written Advice concerning the education of youth c. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P. Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning Lond 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib This title which I have received from a second hand may be for I have not yet seen it the same with the Advice before mentioned A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him with the state of the controversie between them Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland were 1 That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes 2 That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute 3 That he had gotten vast summs of money and scopes of land by fraud 4 That he had used many foul practices as Surveyor and Commissioner for setting out lands 5 That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim denying right to others 6 That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies security the debt still remaining chargeable on the state All which were according to the said Brief of proceedings cleared by Petty what the event of the matter was I cannot have Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland by letters to and from him Doct. Petty with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament Lond. 1660. oct written mostly against his busie and envious Antagonist Zanchy of whom I shall speak elsewhere A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of Crown-lands assessments customs poll-moneys lotteries benevolence c. Lond. 1662 and 67. in about 10. sh in qu. Discourse made before the Royal society 26. Nov. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars Lond. 1674 in tw See in the Philosoph Transact nu 109. p. 209. A new Hypothesis of springing or elastique motions Printed at the end of the said Discourse An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying See in The Hist of the Royal Society written by Tho. Sprat Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. c. Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships It was presented by the author in MS to the R. Society about 1665 contained in about a quire of paper of his own writing but William Lord Brounker President of the Council pertaining to that Society took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after perhaps to the time of his death saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused The author tho he had no copy of it by him yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum de magnalibus dei Lond. 1679 in two sh in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter was composed by the author 25 of March 1678 under the name of Cassid Aureus Minutius Political Arithmetick or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land people buildings husbandry manufacture commerce fishery artizans seamen soldiers publick revenues c. as the same relates to every County in general and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain and his neighbours of Holland and France This was presented in MS by the author to his Majesty Ch. 2 and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it but was not printed till Mich. term 1690 'T is in oct as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are Another Essay in political Arithmetick concerning the growth of the City of London with the measures periods causes and consequences thereof an 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh in oct Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality 1681. and the state of that City Lond. 1683 in 3. sh in oct He had also long before assisted or put into a way John Graunt in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond. Maps of Ireland being his actual survey of that whole kingdom These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind Lond. 1686. oct With this was printed the second edit of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. c. Further observations upon the Dublin bills or accompts of the houses hearths baptismes and burials of the City Lond. 1686. oct Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the people housing hospitals of London and Paris with observations on the Cities of London and Rome Lond. 1686. 7. oct Five Essays in political Arithmetick viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia and from Monsieur Aurout against two former Essays answer'd and that London hath as many people as Paris Rome and Rouen put together 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars 3. Proofs that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People 4. An estimate of the people c. Lond. 1687. oct A treatise of taxes and contributions particularly fitted for the state of Ireland Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit A Collection of three state Tracts c. Treatise of naval philosophy c. Lond. 1691 oct Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc about building of Ships before mention'd The Political Anatomy of Ireland c. Lond. 1691. oct Verbum Sapienti or an account of the wealth and expence of England c. Ibid. 1691. oct This is animadverted upon in a pamph intit A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City c. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street almost opposite to S. James's Church within the liberty of Westminster of a Gangreen in his foot occasion'd by the swelling of the Gout on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey the place of his nativity and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton he had issue two sons viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his fathers death and Henry and a daughter named Anne He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children who was an
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
Smerne about the year 1651. While he was in Oxon he had a book of Musick laying by him which as he said was of his own composition And being well skill'd in that faculty his Countryâ—men in their Letters sent to stil'd him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the notes were such as are not in use with or understood by any of the Western Churches When he died or what he wrot after he had left England I know not It was observed that while he continued in Ball. Coll. he made the drink for his own use called Coffey and usually drank it every morning being the first as the Antients of that House have informed me that was ever drank in Oxon. You may see more of this Conopius in the Epistles of Ger. Joh. Vossius written to learned men lately published part 2. p. 145. RICHARD PARR sometimes Fellow of Brasnose College was made Bishop of Sodor or the Isle of Man about the year of the Lord 1635 and dyed in the times of Usurpation but the year when I cannot tell tho several times I have sent Letters to know it See more of him among the Writers p. 96. The See of Man laid void till 1662 and then in June Dr. Isaac Barrow being elected to govern it was consecrated thereunto in K. H. 7. Chap. at Westm on the 5. of July 1663 and not before at which time his Nephew Son of his Brother Thomas called Dr. Isaac Barrow Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. preached the Consecration Sermon This worthy and godly Bishop who was Son of Isaac Barrow of Spiney-Abbey in the County of Cambridgeshire Esq was educated in S. Peters Coll. commonly called Peter House in Cambridge of which he became Fellow but turn'd out thence by the Presbyterians an 1643 or thereabouts whereupon going to Oxon and his eminency being known there he was made one of the Chaplains of New Coll by the most loyal and generous Warden thereof Dr. Pink where continuing till after the garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament shifted afterwards from place to place and suffered with the rest of the loyal and orthodox Clergy till the most blessed return of K. Ch. 2. At which time he was not only restored to his Fellowship but also made one of the Fellows of Eaton Coll. near Windsore which he held in Commendam with the Bishoprick of Man In Apr. 1664 he was made Governour of the Isle of Man by Charles Earl of Derby governed it piously and prudently held that office all the time he was Bishop of Man and sometime after his translation to S. Asaph He was a great benefactor to the Island especially to the Clergy did collect by his great care and pains from pious persons one thousand eighty one pounds eight shillings and four pence with which he bought all the impropriations in the Island from the Earl of Derby and setled them upon the Clergy as every one had need He ordered them all to teach School in their respective Parishes and allowed 30 l. per an for a Free-school and 50 l. per an for Academical learning He got also one hundred pounds a year setled which was like to have been lost upon the Clergy which was given by K. Ch. 2 and gave 135 l. of his own money for a lease upon lands of twenty pounds a year which is setled towards the maintenance of three poor Manks Scholars in the College at Dublin that in time there might be a more learned Clergy in the Island He gave likewise 10 l. towards the making a bridge over a dangerous water and did many other good works there Afterwards going into England for healths sake and continuing in a house of the Countess of Derby in Lancashire called Cross-hall he received the news of his Majesties conferring on him the Bishoprick of S. Asaph See more of him in Hen. Glemham among these Bishops under the year 1667. p. 670. ROGER MANWARING was born at Stretton in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School at Worcester under Hen. Bright entred a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1604 and soon after was made one of the Clerks of All 's Coll. After he had run through the usual courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts being about that time as I conceive one of the Chaplains of that House At length being made Vicar of S. Giles in the fields near London he took the degrees in Divinity and was made Chaplain in Ordinary to K. Ch. 1 before whom while he was in his attendance at Oatlands he preached two Sermons in July 1627 entit Religion and Allegiance on Eccles 8.2 Lond. 1627. qu. and about the same time preached them at his Country cure In the year following on the fourth of May he preached on the same subject in his Church of S. Giles before mention'd for which as also for his former Sermons he was the same year June 14 censur'd in Parliament to be imprisoned fined 1000 l to make submission and to be disinabled to have or enjoy any preferment or office At that time John Pym a busie Man in the House of Commons brought into the House a charge against him that he endeavoured to destroy the King and Kingdom by his Divinity c. On the 21 of the said month he made his submission and in the next month following he was presented by the King to the rich rectory of Stanford Rivers in Essex void by the promotion of Dr. Richard Mountague to the See of Chichester with license to hold it and his other Living with it On the 9. of Jan. following he procured his pardon which in the next month made some stir in the Session of Parliament that then was In the month of May 1633 he was made Dean of VVorcester in the place of Dr. VVill. Juxon promoted to the See of Hereford where he made some alterations for the better in that Church and in Dec. 1635 he was nominated Bishop of S. David on the translation of Dr. Theoph. Field to Hereford On the 28 of February following he was consecrated thereunto by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants in the Chap. at Lambeth where he sate till his function was silenced On the 22. Feb. 1640 were several complaints made against him in the Long Parliament but not for the present prosecuted because the members thereof were employed on greater matters Afterwards the rebellion breaking out he was imprison'd violently persecuted from place to place lost all his Spiritualities and had only some small temporal Estate left to maintain him and his Family He was a person that had some curiosity in learning but greater zeal for the Church of England He was of a pious life and conversation charitable and tho with Sibthorpe accounted a Sycophant by the Puritans yet by the Royallists he was esteemed worthy of the function of a Bishop He finished his course at Caermerthen after he had
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Mossâ—m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
security thereof So that Mr. Dugdale being bound by his place to attend his Majesty he setled for a time in Hart Hall and on the 1 of Nov. 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts as I have before told About that time he committed to writing the most memorable passages in the battel at Edghill and that the relation of all particulars might be the better understood he went to that place in Feb. following being accompanied with some Gentlemen of note At which time taking with him a skilful Surveyor he rode to Banbury the Castle there being then his Majesties Garrison and thence to the field where the battel was fought which he exactly surveyed and noted where each Army was drawn up where the Canons were placed and the graves where the slain persons were buried observing also from the relation of the neighbouring Inhabitants the certain number which lay buried in each pit or grave Which by a just computation did not amount to full one thousand tho the report of the Vulgar made them at least five thousand Returning thence to Oxford he continued there by his Majesties command until the surrender of that Garrison for the use of the Parliament 24 June 1646 which wanted not 4 months of 4 years his Estate in the Country being all that while sequestred in which time he notwithstanding got a subsistance by attending the Funerals of several noble persons and of others of great quality some of which were slain in the Wars according to the duty of his Office On the 16 of Apr. 1644 he was created Chester Herald upon the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to be Norrey and soon after he took a journey to Worcester within which Diocess the southern parts of Warwickshire lye where having perusal of the Registers both of the Bishop and Dean and Chapter he thence extracted several Collections in order to his historical work of Warwickshire as he before had done at Lichfield within which Diocess the rest of the said County lies as by the quotations in the elaborate work of The Antiq. of Warwicksh afterwards made public it appears While he continued in Oxon. where he had leisure enough to follow his studies he applied himself to the search of such Antiquities as were to be found in the famous Bodlelan Library as also in the Libraries of certain Colleges and in private hands as he thought any way conduceable to the furtherance of the work designed by Rog. Dodsworth and himself touching the Monastery-foundations before mention'd as also of whatsoever might relate to matter of History in reference to the Nobility of this Kingdom in which he found very much for that purpose whereof he made great use in his Volumes intit The Baronage of England since published After the surrender of Oxford Mr. Dugdale repaired to London and made his Composition in Goldsmiths Hall for at least 168 l. After which having proceeded very far in collecting materials in the Country for his designed work of Warwickshire he repaired again to London for the farther perusal of the Records in the Tower and other places and there perfected his Collection touching the Antiquities of that County where hapning to meet with Mr. Dodsworth he told him how he had bestowed his time in Oxon and elsewhere by gaining materials in order to that work of the Monasteries and Mr. Dodsworth did the like to him whereby Mr. Dugd. did understand that he had transcribed many Foundation-Charters and other Grants of consequence relating to the Monasteries of Yorkshire and some other northern Counties which he copied for the most part from the Originals remaining in sundry large chests deposited in S. Maries Tower at York This Tower with all such evidences therein was accidentally blown up in the War time so that had not Mr. Dodsworth made his Collections thence before that accident fell out the loss would have been irreparable Other matters that he collected thence are now in many volumes remaining in the Bodleian Library by the gift of Thomas Lord Fairfax who also to his great honour be it spoken shew'd himself very generous to all such Soldiers at York that could retrieve any of the said Charters that were so blown up After Mr. Dugdale's communication with Mr. Dodsworth concerning each others Collections he waited upon the Lady Eliz. Hatton to Calais in the month of May 1648 there to meet with the Lord Hatton her husband from Paris which being so done he went back with that Lord thither and making stay there about three months he thro the favour of Monsâ—er Franc. du Chesne son to the learned Andr. du Chesne deceased had a view of divers excellent Collections made by the said Andrew relating to divers Monasteries in France Normandy and other parts of that Kingdom Among which discovering divers things of note touching divers Religious Houses in England formerly called Priories Aliens which had been Cells to sundry great Abbies in foreign parts he took copies of them of which he made good use in those volumes called Monasticon Anglicanum afterwards published and then returned into England having Letters of safe conduct under the Sign manual and Signet of the then Queen of England Henrietta Maria bearing date at S. Germans in Lay upon the third of Aug. This so fair and industrious Collection being got together by Mr. Dodsworth as hath been observed as also that made by Mr. Dugdale gathered out of divers Leiger-books and other authentick MSS. at Oxon did encourage them to proceed in perfecting the work Whereupon they resolved to go to the Records in the Tower of London to which having free admission they made a perfect and thorough search and took copies of all that they deemed most material for their work Which being done they retired to the Cottonian Library making the like search there and left nothing omitted from the multitudes of Leiger-books there that might serve them in that most elaborate work Their business being there finished Mr. Dugdale discovered many bundles of papers of State which were original Letters and other choice memorials obtained by Sir Rob. Cotton from sundry hands some whereof were the Transactions between Cardinal Wolsey Thom. Cromwell afterwards Earl of Essex Secretary Will. Paget Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh Secretary Francis Walsingham and others relating as well to foreign as domestick affairs As also the Letters and Papers of Mary Qu. of Scots Thomas Duke of Norfolk c. All which Mr. Dugdale sorted methodically both as to time and otherwise and caus'd them to be bound up with clasps and Sir Tho. Cotton's Arms impressed on each side of every book with the Contents in the beginning what each book contained All which amounted to 80 volumes and were made useful to all lovers of historical learning The Collections of the two volumes of the Monastery Foundations intit Monast Anglic. being thus compleated and the publishing of them by the Press desired an offer was made to several Booksellers of the Copies upon such different terms
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
Creation of Masters made to the number of about eleven Among whom were Paul Boston of Cambridge After his Majesties return he became Minister of S. Brides Parish in London whence being forced by the dreadful fire that hapned in 1666 he became Reader of S. Giles in the Fields in Middlesex Rich. Powell a Retainer to the Lord Mowbray Will. Jay a Retainer to the Marq. of Hertford Charles Whittaker Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State c. Aston Cockaine was also about the same time created but neglected to be registred Bach. of Phys From the first of Nov. to the 31. of Jan. were actually created 17 Bach. of Phys or more of which number were Nov. 1. Hen. Jacob of Mert. Coll. Nov. 1. Edw. Buckoke of Trin. Coll. Nov. 1. Will. Croot of Exet. Coll. Nov. 1. Hen. Sawyer of Magd. Coll. Nov. 1. Steph. Boughton of Magd. Coll. The aforesaid Edw. Buck. was created Dr. of the same faculty in 1645. Dec. 10. Jam. Hyde of Corp. Ch. Coll. Dec. 10. George Rogers of Linc. Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards the Kings professor of Phys and the other a publisher of certain things of his faculty and is now or at least lately was living Jan. 31. Nich. Oudart Jan. 31. Tho. Champion or Campion Jan. 31. Tho. Johnson Of the first I have spoken already in the Fasti under the year 1636. p. 887. Of the second I know nothing only that one of both his names was a noted Poet in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. see in the Fasti under the year 1624 p. 848. And of the other you may see more among the created Doctors of Phys 1643. Bach. of Div. From the first of Novemb. to the 21. of Feb. were about 70 Bachelaurs of Div. actually created of which number were these following Nov. 1. Caesar Williamson lately M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge After the declining of the Kings cause he went into Ireland became Fellow of the College at Dublin where being esteemed a good Orator was put upon several Harangues ex tempore and wrot a Panegyrick on Henry Cromwell Lord Lieutenant of the said Kingdom which I have seen several times quoted Afterwards the College gave him a Living at or near Tredagh where he ended his days in a craz'd condition about 4 or 5 years after his Majesties restauration Edw. Sylvester of Ball. Coll. was created the same day This person who was a professed Tutor in the Latin and Greek tongues for many years in a private house in Allsaints Parish in Oxon was born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire and had his sole education in the said Coll. He was the common drudge of the University either to make correct or review the Latine Sermons of certain dull Theologists thereof before they were to be delivered at S. Maries as also the Greek or Latin verses of others as dull as the former that were to be put in or before books that occasionally were published He lived to see several of his Scholars to be heads of Houses in this University Among whom were John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch John Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall who with other Scholars of his that were Doctors Bachelaurs of Div. Law and Phys and Masters of Arts had an annual feast together to which their Master was always invited and being set at the upper end of the table he would feed their minds with learned discourses and criticisms in Grammar He died on the first of Dec. 1653 aged 67 or more and was buried in the Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon. Near to his grave was afterwards buried his Brother Henry Sylvester sometimes Mayor of the City Rob. Wild of Cambridge was also created the same day Nov. 1. He was afterwards a Covenantier Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire in the place as I conceive of an honest Cavalier sequestred â—rom it ejected thence for Nonconformity after the Kings restauration being then D. of D. and much celebrated for his Poetry which he wrot in behalf of the Presbyterians as John Cleavland did against them Some of his works are 1 The tragedy of Christ Love at Tower-hill Lond. 1660. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. 2 Iter boreale Attempting something upon the successful and matchless March of the L. Gen. George Monck from Scotland to London c. Lond. 1660. A Poem in 2 sh and an half in qu. Another Iter boreale you may see in Rich. Eedes in the first vol. p. 280 a third in Rich. Corbets Poems and a fourth in Thomas Master in this vol. p. 19. There is extant an ingenious Lat. Poem entit Iter australe a Regimensibus Oxon an 1658 expeditum printed the same year in 3. sh and an half in qu. Which Poem was written by Thom. Bispham a Gent. Com. of Qu. Coll. Son of Dr. Sam. Bispham a Physitian of London and by him dedicated to the Provost thereof Tho. Barlow who had the author in his company when he and some of the society of that House went the College progress into Hampshire and other places Dr. Wild hath also written 3 A Poem upon the imprisonment of Mr. Edm. Calamy in Newgate printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper an 1662 whereupon came out two Poems at least in answer to it viz. First Anti-boreale An answer to a lewd piece of Poetry upon Mr. Calamy's late confinement Secondly Hudibras on Calamy's imprisonment and Wilds Poetry both printed the same year and each on one side of a sheet of paper In 1668 and 1670 was published in oct Iter boreale with large additions of several other Poems being an exact collection of all hitherto published written by the said Dr. Wild author also of 4 A Letter 〈◊〉 Mr. J. J. upon his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience Lond. 1672. qu Against which came out soon after Moon-shine being an answer to Dr. Wilds letter and his poetica licentia pr. in qu. the same year 5 Certain Sermons as 1 The arraignment of a sinner on Rom. 11.32 Lond. 1656 qu. 2 Sermon on Rom. 1.32 Ib. 1656. qu. c There are extant some of his Poems with some of John Wilmots Earl of Rochester and others in a collection intit Rome Rhym'd to death but whether genuine I cannot tell This Dr. Wild who was a fat jolly and boon Presbyterian died at Oundle in Northamptonshire about the beginning of Winter an 1679 and soon after had a Poem written on his death intit A pillar on the grave of Dr. Wild besides another called A dialogue between Death and Dr. Wild both printed in folio sheets an 1679. In the month of May 1672 there had like to have been a Poetical war between this Dr. Wild and Tho. Flatman but how it was terminated I cannot tell Nov. 1. Christop Ayray of Qu. Coll. Nov. 1. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jonathan Edwards of Jes Coll. The last who was fellow of his House
was esteemed by those thereof a learned man as were his contemporaries Jam. Birch Philip Flower and Dan. Evans all three Bachelaurs of Div. and fellows of the said Coll. No. 1. Jaspar Mayne of Ch. Ch. No. 1. Rob. Joyner of Pemb. Coll. The last succeeded Will. Cartwright in the Succentorship of Salisbury Jan. 16. Aylmer Lynch of Cambridge Jan. 16. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Henry Myriell of Cambr. Jan. 16. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. The first of these four was after his Majesties restauration made Prebend of Stratford in the Church of Salisbury and of Welton-Westhall in the Church of Linc. The third Hen. Myriell died 22. Apr. 1643 aged 33 years and was buried in Allsaints Church in Oxon. As for Fulham and Gurgany there will be mention made of them in these Fasti an 1660. Tho 't is said that Nath. Conopius a Greecian and about this time one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch. was actually created Bach. of Div yet no thing appears in the University register of that matter Doct. of Law From the first of Nov. to the 21. of Febr. were actually created 60 or more Doctors of the Civil Law the names of most of which do follow Nov. 1. Rob. Lord Pierpont Vicount Newark and Earl of Kingston upon Hull sometimes a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. was actually created Doct. of the said faculty He was now Lieutenant General of all his Majesties forces within the Counties of Lincolne Rutland Huntingdon Cambridge and Norfolk and lost his life in his service near to Gaynsborough in Lincolnshire 30 of July 1643. The most Loyal Sir Franc. Wortley hath an Elegy on him in his Characters and Elegies which being just and deservedly spoken of him I shall refer the Reader to it but the book I doubt is scarce to be seen or had This most noble Count Pierpont was Father to Henry Marq. of Dorchester born at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire an 1606 educated for some time in Eman. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards was a hard Student for 10 or 12 hours every day Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty was with him at Oxon after the battel at Edghill and had a degree confer'd on him or at least was incorporated tho neglected to be registred by the common scribe of the University He was then esteemed a learned man as being well read in the Fathers Schoolmen Casuists the Civil and Can. Law and reasonably well vers'd in the common Law having about that time been admitted a Bencher of Greys Inn. In 1649 he applyed his study to Medicine and Anatomy and in 1658 he was admitted Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond and became their pride and glory He hath published 1 Two speeches spoken in the House of Lords One Concerning the rights of Bishops to sit in Parliament 21 of May and the other Concerning the lawfulness and conveniency of their intermedling in temporal affairs on the 24 of the same month Lond. 1641. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to the Trained-bands of Nottinghamshire at Newark 13 July 1642 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Letter to John Lord Roos written the 13 and printed on one side of a sheet of paper on the 25 of Feb. 1659. It was written upon occasion of some differences between the said Lord Roos and his Wife Anne Daughter of the said Marquess From which Lord the said Anne was afterwards for her whorishness lawfully divorced by sentence of the Court-Christian and then commonly known by the name of the Lady Anne Vaughan As soon as the said Letter was received by the Lord Roos he wrot another in answer to it in a buffooning stile 25 Feb. 1659 assisted therein by Sam. Butler afterwards known by the name of Hudibras which being printed also on one side of a sh of paper the Marq. made a reply with another paper entit 4 The reasons why the Marq. of Dorchester printed his letter 25. Feb. 1659 together with his answer to a printed paper called A true and perfect copy of the Lord Roos his answer to the Marquess of Dorchesters Letter written 25. Februar 1659. Printed 20. of March 1659 on one side of a sh of paper He the said Marquess hath as 't is probable other things extant or at least fit to be printed which I have not yet seen He died in his house in Charterhouse yard near London 8. Decemb. 1680 whereupon his body after it had laid in state for some time was conveyed to his antient Seat called Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire where it was buried in the Church of that place among the sepulchers of his name and family Soon after was published an Elegy on this noble and generous Marquess by John Crouch sometimes his domestick servant which being too large for this place shall be now omitted Rob. Dormer Earl of Caernarvan was actually created at the same time Nov. 1 This most loyal Count who was Mercurio magnus sed Marti major was kill'd the next year at Newbury fight and soon after had an Elegy made on him by Sir Francis Wortley before mention'd which is printed among his Characters and Elegies His body was for the present deposited in Jesus Coll. Chappel but soon after removed to his seat in Bucks James Lord Compton He was afterwards Earl of Northampton Lieutenant of the County of Warwick as also of the City of Coventry Recorder likewise of the said City as also of Northampton and of Tamworth and did excellent service for his Majesty in the time of the Rebellion especially by his routing the Parliament Forces near Banbury 6 of May 1643. He died at Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire 15 Dec. 1681 and was buried in a Vault by his Ancestors under the Church of Compton Winniate commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire He had a younger brother named Sir Charles Compton a most valiant person and one that had done his Maj. great service in the said Rebellion He died in the latter end of Nov. 1661 being then a Parl. man for the Town of Northampton and was buried at Sywell in Northamptonshire Robert Lord Rich. The same if I mistake not that was afterwards Earl of Holland Colonel Sir John Byron Knight of the Bath lately Lieutenant of the Tower of London He was about this time made Field-Marshal of all his Majesties Forces in the County of Worcester Salop Chester and North-Wales and in the 19 of Car. 1. was advanced to the title of Lord Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire Sir Will. Le Neve Kt Clarenceaux King of Arms. This person was of the antient family of his name living at Aslacton in Norfolk received some Academ education in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards by the favour of the Earl Marshal of England was created Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray 29 June 1624. Soon after he was made York Herald was imployed into France in the first of Car. 1 and from thence attended Qu. Henrietta Maria into
of March 1674 aged 74 years was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mention'd Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet This person who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet was born in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in London not bred in any University only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any now 1642 in Oxon when then he assisted in all Councils and was in all Treaties particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament an 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty and at length was permitted a quiet retirement He hath written 1 An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars 2 Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their dayes concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion viz. Adoration Almes Fasting and Prayer Printed with the former book 3 Supream power and common right c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title nor the time when printed He died in the year 1684 aged 84 or more and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned among the graves of his Ancestors The report among his Relations at this day is that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physick but false for he being versed in the Common thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil Law and among those doth his name stand Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643 and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Houshold he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England for which he suffered in a high degree Some time after the restauration his Majesty was pleased of his own accord in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty to make him one of his privy Council and as a testimony of further favour he not only made him Governour of the Isle of Guernsey for his life but confer'd the reversion of that Government on his son as a lasting mark of honour on his family This Christop L. Hatton was a principal Mecaenas of Learning and more especially of Antiquities wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb the Nobility that I know Sir Brian Palmes of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt. This loyal Knight son of Sir Guy Palmes who had been educated in Trin. Coll was chose a Burgess for Aldbuâ—g in Yorkshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 13 Apr. 1640 but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not He died in 1654. Sir Will. Brounker Kt late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1 was then also Nov. 1. actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This loyal Knight who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker President of Mounster in Ireland by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley was created Vicount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645 and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nov. following was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joyning on the west side to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon leaving then behind him a son named William aged 25 years or thereabouts of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker dau of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire died 20 July 1649 after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon and buried by that of her husband Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their Statua's sitting both leaning on a table that stands between them Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk was also then created Doctor of the Civ Law He was Uncle to John Lord Byron was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot K. Ch. 1. did so much value him that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him I have been told by persons that had degrees confer'd upon them in these Creations that Thomas Robert and William Byron all Knights valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most couragious Lord Byron before mention'd had degrees confer'd on them but in what faculty they knew not nor are they registred For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him Nay those also that are by him remembred have only their bare names and sometimes only their Sirnames set down without the addition of their Titles Quality Office or place of habitation Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joyning on the south side of the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 9 Feb. 1643. Wingfield Lord Cromwell He was after the death of his father Earl of Arglas in Ireland Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University Will. Chadwell Esq He was a Burgess for Michel in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein retired to his Majesty at Oxon and sate in the Parl. there Ferdinando Stanhope Esq He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament but leaving it he retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliament This worthy person who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield was made a Colonel of Horse in the Kings Army and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door as other Royalists were he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon and sate there He was a learned and a prudent man and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England He was active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxon when the Garrison was to be surrendred to the Parliament for which and his steddy Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmiths Hall at London John Lufton of S. Johns Coll.
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
be created D. D. but he came not to take it nor was he diplomated Nov. 10. John Earle sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll. Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. ..... Staunton of Ch. Ch. ..... Hodges of Ch. Ch. These two last were created the same day or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with and attended the Kings Court lodging now in that house I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament one of the Ass of Divines and a Covenantier After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill London and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an 1661 which Deanery he holding to the time of his death was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer an 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant 1 A Glimps of Gods glory Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast 28 Sept. 1642 on Psal 113.5.6 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The growth and spreading of Heresie Fast-serm before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1 Lond. 1647. qu 3 Inaccessible glory or the impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20 Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesties return Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire and Bach. of Divinity not of this University but of that of Cambridge and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll in the time of Oliver which he kept with his Rectory This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire first admitted into Emanuel Coll and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mention'd When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor viz. one Will. Twyne Fellow of the said Coll and then Hodges leaving the place he retired to Okingham in Berks and became Chaplain to the Hospital there where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688 as I have been informed from Soulderne The said Mr. Hodges hath written 1 A Treatise concerning Prayer containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. in tw 2 A Scripture Catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours of the present times Lond. 1658. oct Besides which two things he hath also several Sermons extant as 1 The hoary head crowned a fun serm on Prov. 16.31 2 The creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hands and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures c in two sermons printed twice at least 3 A cordial against the fear of death preached before the University of Oxon on Heb. 2.15 Oxon. 1659. qu. and one two or more which I have not yet seen This Thomas Hodges tho he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated or took any degree in Divinity Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the antient borough of Shrewsbury educated in the Kings School there transplanted thence to St. Johns Coll. in the said University where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty retired to Oxon to attend and preached sometimes before him there When his Majesties cause declined he suffered as other Royallists did attended his Son in his adverse fortune while he himself endured great misery After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex Finchingfield I think to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Marshall had instil'd into them In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland to which being consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year sate there for some time and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation Among several things that he hath extant are these 1 Eulogia The Parents blessing their Children and the Children begging on their knees their Parents blessings are pious actions warrantable by the word of God and practiced by Gods saints and servants Lond. 1661. c. oct 2 Eudoxia A module of private prayers or occasional helps in retired devotions Printed with the former book 3 Loyalty amongst Rebels the true Royallist c. Lond. 1662. oct ... Edmonds M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. ... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. Both which were actually created the same day Jan. 16. Christoph Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll. On the 24 of Dec. 1641 he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph Rogers who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament This person who was always esteem'd a good Greecian and well furnish'd with other parts of learning dyed about half a year before his Majesties return and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the Kings cause but his promotion to higher Dignities Will. O' dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers without any provocation given on his part between Adderbury in Oxfordshire of which place he was Vicar and the Garrison of Oxon about 1644. Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll. Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr. Jan. 16. Edw. Hyde of Cambr. The last of these four I take to be the same Edward Hyde who is mention'd in Alexander Hyde among the Bishops nu 34. ... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1637 as I have in the Fasti of that year told you So that if the said Fowler be the
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
good Conscience suffer'd also by the loss of his Goods and Imprisonment and therefore retiring to Oxon was there actually created D. of D. He hath published 1 An adieu to the Duke of Glocester or a Sermon preached in a poor Parish Church Turweston or Turveston near Buckingham 23 Sept. 1660 on Eccles 3.20 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The Cripples Complaint c. Sermon on S. Joh. 5.7 Lond. 1665. qu. He died in 1669 or thereabouts and was I suppose buried at Turveston Jun. 22. Ger. Langbaine Prov. of Qu. Coll. Jun. 22. Thomas Bravell of Magd. Coll. 23. John Croft now of Wadham Coll. He was a younger son of Sir Hen. Croft of Teddington in Bedfordshire was first a Com. of Linc. Coll afterwards Fellow of that of Allsoules M. of A. and beneficed but suffering for his Majesties Cause he retired to Oxon and was there created D. of D. as 't is here said After his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of William Lord Croft his brother promoted to the Deanery of Norwich in the place of Dr. Joh. Hassall some years before deceased in which being instal'd 7 Aug. 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapning on the 27 Jul. 1670 he was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwich His said Brother Will. Lord Croft died either in Aug. or Sept. 1677. Will. Stutevile of Ch. Ch. who had lately done his Maj. special service in the West was actually created the same day June 23. Tristram Sugge of Wadh. Coll. was also created the same day This person who was born at Yeovill in Somersetshire had been public Metaphysick Reader and Proctor of the University Afterwards he was ejected by the Visitors in 1648 and suffer'd much in the interrupted times for his Loyalty In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and dying on the 27 of January in the same year was buried in the Chappel of Wadham Coll. He was esteemed by all that knew him a profound Philosopher and Divine and very fit to publish what he had written of those Subjects but since his death his papers are gotten into such hands that it is doubted whether ever they will see light Jul. 1. Edward Boughen of Ch. Ch. Aug. 13. Joh. Pottinger of New Coll the famous Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester He resigned the said Mastership soon after was succeeded by Mr. Will. Burt and died in 1659. This year it was allowed by the Members of the ven Convocation that Hen. Tozer Joh. Proctor and Baldwin Acland of Exeter Coll Rob. Barker of New Coll Rich. Washington of Vniv Coll Edm. Diggle of Magdalen and John Good of New Coll might have liberty when they pleased to be created Doctors of Divinity but they all refused then and the next year to accept of that favour At the same time also Isaac Basire and Rich. Dukeson of Cambr. Thom. Bunbury of Ball. Coll Rob. Sibthorp of Linc. Coll Will. Haywood of S. Johns Coll c. who had fled to Oxon as an Asylum and there had several times preached before his Majesty and the Members of Parliament had each a license given to them under the public Seal of the Univ. to preach the word of God throughout England This year Jun. 24 being Wednesday and Midsummer day the Garrison of Oxford was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time marched out in a body eastward about 3000 Soldiers besides 500 or thereabouts northward and a little before and after them five hundred more mostly Horsemen and private persons engaged in the Siege On Munday going before Prince Rupert and Pr. Maurice his brother with their attendants departed and those that followed them the next day were about 300 persons most of them of quality and their attendants When the forces belonging to the Parliament were entred who were all Presbyterians Independents or worse were among them their Chaplains of the same perswasion who forthwith upon all occasions thrust themselves into the pulpits purposely by their rascally doctrine to obtain either Proselites or to draw off from their loyal Principles and orthodox Religion the Scholars and Inhabitants Among them were Hugh Peters that diabolical Villain and Pulpit-buffoon Will. Dell Chapl. to Sir Tho Fairfax John Saltmarsh Will. Erbury c. and what they did there besides during their stay is too large a story now to tell you In Sept. following were seven Presbyterian Ministers who had formerly their education in this University appointed by Parliament sent to Oxon to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere to draw off the Scholars from their loyal principles but Edw. Corbet one of them being about that time called thence the six carried on the work yet found opposition by the Independents and other Sectaries of whom Will. Erbury was one yet all upon any occasion would joyn together to pluck down and persecute the Malignants that is Cavaliers and Royalists So that whereas before the surrender there was no place in England more loyal to their Prince orthodox and observant of the Ceremonies of the Church of England than the Scholars and the generality of the Inhabitants of Oxon were so after the entry of the said Parliamenteers there appeared nothing but confusion darkness c. Hell was broke loose upon the poor remnant and they were over-run by Sectaries Blasphemers Hypocrites Exciters to Rebellion Censurers Covetous persons men of self-pride envy and what not So that those of the Gown that could not brook such persons did either leave the University or abscond in their respective houses till they could know their doom by the approaching Visitation The Soldiery did declare their impudence so much that they forbore not to preach in some of the Pulpits and to thrust themselves into the public Schools and there in the places of Lecturers speak to the Scholars against humane learning and challenge the most learned of them to prove their Calling from Christ c. But let the restless Presbyterians be thanked for the original of all these Evils and others that followed who to fill their coffers raise families please and cherish their private lusts and endearments and nothing else care not what mischief they do or what ruin they bring upon this poor Nation so that they might obtain their own unworthy ends An. Dom. 1647. An. 23 Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Marquess of Hertford c. who continuing in his office till the beginning of February Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery was about that time restored and according to an order of the Lords in Parl. dated 2 March he was desired to go to Oxford and re-take possession of his place According to which order he went in the beginning of the next year as I shall tell you by and by Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell without any nomination by the Chanc. So that being discharged of his office by order from the Visitors 8 Oct. this year because as they said he was neither nominated or lawfully admitted thereunto yet notwithstanding he took no
any thing else of him only that he was a fiery violent and hot-headed Independent a cross and ill natur'd man and dying on the 20 of Octob. 1680 aged 77 years was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster in the Parish of which he had before lived several years CREATIONS The Creations this year were made in all faculties especially in that Creation called by some the Fairfaxian Creation that is that Creation which was made when the Lord Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliam Army and his Lieut. Gen. Cromwell were created Doctors of Law and when others afterwards were created by the said Generals nomination when he was entertained by the then Members of the University Bach. of Arts. May 19. Robert Scrope lately made Fellow of Linc. Coll. by the Visitors was then actually created Bach. of Arts being done in the same Convocation that Fairfax and Cromwell were created Doctors of the Civil Law as I shall tell you by and by He was a younger son of Adrian Scrope of Wormesley in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Hart Hall and afterwards a noted Puritan which made him take up Arms for the blessed Cause in the beginning of the Presbyterian Rebellion in which being first a Captain was at length a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse When K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was tried for his life by a pack of Hell-Hounds this person sate and was one of his Judges in that dismal Tragedy and afterwards signed the bloody Warrant for severing his head from his body Just after his Majesties restauration Sir Rich. Browne soon after elected L. Mayor of Lond. did accidentally meet him in the Speakers Chamber to whom I suppose he came to surrender himself upon his Maj. Proclamation and when the said R. Browne was acquainted who he was he drew up and said to him What a sad case have we brought this Kingdom unto Whereupon Scrope answer'd Why Saith Browne then Do you not see how it is ruined now the King is murthered c. To which Scrope made answer I will not make you my Confessor or words to the same effect All which being witnessed against him at his Tryal as words to justifie what he had done Browne being then L. Mayor elect were the chief Cause of his Execution otherwise as 't was then thought he would only have suffer'd perpetual imprisonment and the loss of his Estate as many others of the same Gang did He suffer'd by hanging drawing and quartering with Tho. Scot Greg. Clement and Joh. Jones at Charing Cross on the 17 of Octob. 1660 Whereupon his Quarters were not hanged up as others were but given to his Relations to be buried His death was then much pityed by many because he was a comely person beg'd the Prayers of all good people and that he was of a noble and antient family being descended from the Scropes Barons of Bolton After his death were printed under his name his Speech and Prayer spoken at the Gallows May 31. Aubrey Thompson of Qu. Coll. He was then created by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon. Jul. 14. Franc. Blackwall an Assistant to or an Officer about a Captain in the Parl. Army He is stiled in the common Register Optimae indolis eruditionis Adolescens In 1657 I find one Capt. Blackwall to be Treasurer of the Army whether the same I cannot tell Mar. 14. Edw. Reynolds lately of Merton now of Magdalen Coll. He was about this time made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors See among the Doct. of Div. an 1676. 20. Brook Bridges of Glâ—c Hall lately a Student of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was son of Coll. John Bridges Governour of Warwick and was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Bach. of Law Jun. 5. Vnton Croke a Captain in the Parl. Army was then created by vertue of a Dispensation from the Delegates of the University This person who was son of Vnton Croke of Merston near Oxon Counsellour at Law descended from the antient family of the Crokes of Chilton in Bucks had been made a Captain or at least a Lieutenant for his ventrous service done in seizing on and carrying away with his party to Abendon Garrison where he was a Soldier many horses belonging to the Royalists of Oxford Garrison while they were grazing in the meadows joyning on the east side to Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Major and in 1658 made High Sheriff of Oxfordshire by Richard and his Council and soon after a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse This is the Gentleman who became infamous to the Royalists and all true generous Hearts for his falsness in denying and breaking the Articles which he had made with the truly loyal Col. Joh. Penruddock when he and his party were taken by him and his at South Molton in Devonshire 15 March 1654 after they had retreated from Salisbury where they first rose at which time they endeavour'd but in vain to redeem the Kingdom from Slavery and Tyranny For this Service done by Croke his father was called to the degree of Serjeant at Law by Oliver by a Writ bearing date 21 of June following and he himself if I mistake not to that of Major of a Reg. of Horse After his Majesties restauration when he and his Reg. were disbanded he was shun'd and hated by Gentlemen and Royallists where he abode whether in Dâ—vonshire from whence he married his wife at Cheddington in Bucks in Oxford or at the Wick in the Parish of Hedington near Oxon or elsewhere He is now or at least was lately living in a gouty condition at or near London He has a younger brother named Charles Croke sometimes Com. of Ch. Ch who after he had taken many rambles been a Soldier and seen the vanities of the World published Youths Vnconstancy c. Lond. 1667. oct Dec. 18. Rob. King lately made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Visitors was created by vertue of an order from the Delegates of the University This person who was a younger son of Sir Rob King Kt Commissary of the Musters in Ireland in the time of the Lord Lieut. Hen. Cromwell was after his Majesties restauration made a Baronet and elected several times a Parliament-man in that Kingdom He had an elder brother called Henry who was also made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Visitors and another elder than he named John who was by King Ch. 2. made Baron of Kingston in the same Kingdom Jan. 18. Peter Pett of All 's Coll. was admitted by vertue of an Order from the said Delegates Besides the three before mention'd Rowl Hunt who had been lately made Fellow of the said Coll was created also this year which is all I know of him only that he was a Salopian born Mast of Arts. Those that were created this year Masters of Arts were mostly Officers that attended Fairfax the General and Cromwell his
dinner when he convey'd him to Windsore he appointed several of his Officers to ride close to the King least he should make an escape from them Fourthly that after the K. had continued at Winds for some days keeping his last but very sad Christmas he conveyed him in a Coach thence to S. James's in order to his trial at which time Harrison was with him in the said Coach with his head covered talked with little or no reverence to him And when the King proposed to him What do they intend to do with me whether to murther me or not the Major made answer that there was no intention to kill him me have no such thoughts yet the Lord hath reserved you for a public example of justice c. Fifthly That when the King was to be brought to his Trial there was a Committee sate in the Exchecquer Chamber at which the Major being present he used these expressions before them Gentlemen it will be good for us to blaken him meaning his Majesty what we can pray let us blacken him or words to that purpose Sixthly that he was one of the hellish crew that sate publickly in judgment on his Majesty when he was by them tried for his life in Westm Hall was there when sentence passed for his decollation and stood up as the rest did as consenting thereunto and did afterwards set his hand to the bloody Warrant for his Execution c. For these his services he was soon after made a Colonel and at length a Major General and on the 24 of Nov. 1652 he was one of those that were elected to be members of the Council of State While he was Major Gen. and in favour with Oliver the Principality of Wales was appointed to be under his command where the then Laws appointed were by him put in full force No orthodox Minister could there be suffered but whom he pleased to allow and with the assistance of his Chaplain Vav Powell a giddy-headed person and second brother to Hugh Peters he endeavoured the modelling of that Country so as that none but their own Proselytes should teach and instruct the people c. At length he perceiving full well that Cromwell gaped after the Government by a single person he with great scorn and indignation left him and became the Ring-leader of all the Schismaticks especially of that dangerous party called the Fift-monarchy men and great with Joh. Lilbourne as mad as he Whereupon Cromwell to be quick with committed him to safe custody and put him out of all commission Afterwards he was set at liberty but committed again and again upon every suspicious account and in Feb. 1657 he was re-baptized purposely to gain the Anabaptists to his party At length engaging himself with Maj. Gen. John Lambert newly escaped from his Prison in the Tower to raise Forces against the King who was then voiced in most parts of the Nation to be returning from his exile to take possession of his Kingdom he was snapt in the very point of time wherein he intended to have headed a party and was conveyed Prisoner to the Tower of London for the same After his Majesties restauration a greater matter being laid to his charge viz. of having a very deep and signal hand in the murder of his Prince his imprisonment was made more close At length being conveyed thence to Newgate and so to Hicks Hall and afterwards to the Sessions house in the Old Bayly was after a long Trial condemned to dye for the same 11 Octob. 1660 and thereupon was sent to the said Prison of Newgate On the 13 of the same month he was conveyed thence on a Hurdle guarded by a Troop of Horse and some of the Trained Bands to the rail'd place where Charing Cross stood within which railes a Gibbet was set up on purpose whereon he was hanged with his face towards the Banquetting house at Whitehall where the pretious and innocent blood of K. Ch. 1. was spilt by the said Harrison and the rest of the bloody Regicides When he was half hanged he was cut down his bowels burned his head severed from his body and his quarters carried back on the same Hurdle to Newgate to be disposed at his Majesties pleasure On the 16 of the same month his head was set on Westminster Hall and his quarters exposed to public view on some of the Gates of the City of London Soon after was published under his name Some occasional Speeches and memorable Passages after his coming to Newgate with his Speech upon the Ladder Printed at London in qu. With The Speeches and Prayers of other Regicides as also Observations upon the last actions and words of Maj. Gen. Harrison Written by a Minister to a Country-Gentlewoman who seemed to take some offence at the same Lond. 1660. in two sh and an half in qu. May 19. Colonel Richard Ingoldesbie now Governour of the Garrison of Oxon was also then presented Master by Proctor Zanchy and by him conducted to the other Officers just before presented sitting in the Doctors seats This person who was the second son of Sir Rich. Ingoldesbie of Lethenborough in Buckinghamshire Kt by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Sir Oliv. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingtonshire was born of a good family at Lethenborough educated in the Free School at Thame as the rest of his brethren were founded by Joh. Lord Williams and being a stout young-man when the Civil War began he betook himself by the perswasions of his puritanical Parents to the Parliament Cause was a Captain in Col. Joh. Hamdens Regiment when he first of all appeared in Arms against his Majesty and in short time after he was made by the endeavours of his Kinsman Ol. Cromwell afterwards Protector a Colonel of Horse and at length by his allurements one of the Judges of the said King in that bloody Court called The High Court of Justice where he was present and stood up as consenting when Sentence passed for his decollation and afterwards set his hand to the Warrant for his Execution He was a Gentleman of courage and valour and tho he could neither pray preach or dissemble being rather a boon companion yet complying very kindly with Oliver's new Court and being in his Principles for Kingship he was reckoned fit to be taken out of the House of Commons having before been one of the Council of State and to be made a Member of the other House that is House of Lords by his cosin the Protector who about that time committed him to the Tower but soon released him thence for beating the honest Inn-keeper of Ailesbury in Whitehall In the beginning of the year 1660 when Colonel commonly called Maj. General Joh. Lambert broke loose from his prison in the Tower to which he some time before had been committed by the restored Members of the Long Parliament least he and his Party should hinder their intended settlement of the Nation and thereupon had got into the
head of a considerable party of desperate Phanaticks near to Daventry in Northamptonshire to hinder if possibly it might be not only the said Settlement but Restauration of the King he the said Col. Ingoldesbie did with his own Regiment and some other Troops and Companies of Foot such as he could confide in draw towards him and about the 23 of Apr. making an Onset took Lambert with his own hands while the other prime Officers were taken by others of Ingoldesbie's party c. Whereupon for this his good service his Majesty did not only spare his life as having been one of his fathers Judges but gave order that he should be made a Knight of the Bath at his Coronation which accordingly was done Afterwards he retired to Lethenborough lived several years after in a quiet repose and died in the beginning of Sept. 1685. Before which time his Estate at Lethenborough was as it was then reported sold to Elianor Gwynn for the use of her natural son which she had by K. Ch. 2. called Sir Charles Beaucleer Earl of Burford and afterwards Duke of S. Albans This Col. Ingoldesbie was elder brother to Henry Ingoldesbie a Colonel also in the Parliam Army and to Thomas a Captain c. May 19. Col. John Hewson a Colonel of Foot was also presented by Proct. Zanchy and by him conducted to his place among the other Officers He was sometimes an honest Shoomaker in Westminster but getting little by that trade he in the beginning of the grand rebellion went out a Captain upon the account of the blessed cause was very zealous for it fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel When K. Ch. 1. was by the godly brethren brought to trial for his life he sate as one of the Judges consented to the sentence passed upon him and sealed and subscribed the warrant for his execution Afterwards for his said service he became Governour of Dublin one of the Council of State in July 1653 a member of the Little or Barebones Parliament held the same year and of all the Parliaments since before his Majesties restauration a Knight also of the new stamp and at length one of Olivers Lords to have a negative voice in the Other House Upon an infallible foresight of the turn of the times he conveyed himself away into Holland to save his neck and soon after died and was buried at Amsterdam about 1662 as the vulgar report went at that time Colonel John Okey was another great Officer that was then also presented by Proct. Zanchy May 19. and by him conducted to the rest His parentage was as mean as his calling having been originally as 't is supposed a Dray-man afterwards a Stroaker in a Brew-house at Islington near London and then a poor Chandler near Lyon-Key in Thamestreet in London At length changing his Apron for a Buff-coat he became thro certain military degrees a Col. of Dragoons and by the artifice of Cromwell had unknowing to him his name inserted among the Kings Judges and so consequently was by him appointed to sit among that diabolical crew which if he refus'd to do he knew full well it would displease Cromwell much and in the end contract prejudice against him This Fellow who was of greater bulk than brains and of more strength than wit or conscience left Cromwell when he saw that he aimed at the office of a single person sided with the Anab. and Fift-Monarchy-men and thereupon was committed to custody for a time and his Regiment taken from him and given to a great Creature of Ol. called Ch. L. Howard afterwards E. of Carlile At length upon a foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled into Holland and setling at Delfâ— in a very timorous condition under the name of Frederick Williamson because his fathers name was William with Miles Corbet and John Barkstead two other Regicides the last of which went by the name of Joh. Harman they were all seized upon in the beginning of March 1661 by the forward Endeavours of Sir George Downing his Majesties Envoy or Resident at the Hague by order from the States they being then in an Ale-house Soon after they were sent to England in the Blackamore Frigot and upon their arrival were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London Afterwards being convey'd to the Kings-bench Bar at Westm Hall to know what they could say for themselves why Execution should not pass upon them they were returned to the Tower again and on the 19 of April 1662 were all convey'd thence each in a Sledge to Tybourn and there hang'd drawn and quarter'd Afterwards Okey's quarters were instead of being hang'd on several gates of the City of London permitted by his Majesty's order to be inter'd by his Relations because he had behaved himself dutifully towards him in his last words at the Gallows Soon after were publish'd their Speeches and Prayers together with several passages at the time of their Execution at Tybourne with some due and sober animadversions on the said Speeches Lond. 1662. in 5 sh in qu. and A letter from Col. Barkstead Col. Okey and Mil. Corbet to their friends in their congregational Churches in Lond. with the manner of their apprehension Lond. 1662 in 1 sh in qu. But this last is a feigned thing and reflects upon Sir Geor. Downing as a Revolter from their Cause as indeed he was which afterwards was his advancement He was then a member of that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May 1661 wherein acting much to the great dislike of those that took themselves to be the honest party of the House had this character given of him Sir Geor. Downing a poor child bred upon charity like Judas betray'd his Master What can his Country expect He drew and advised the Oath of renouncing the Kings family and took it first himself For his honesty fidelity c. he was rewarded by his Maj. with fourscore thousand pounds at least and is a Commissioner of the Customes the House-bell to call the Courtiers to vote at six of the clock at night an Exchecquer teller c. May 19. Geor. Sedascue Adjutant General of the Parliament Army was also then presented and took his place He had been a Cornet of Horse in the Expedition against the Rebels in Ireland 1641. 42. Col. Edward Grosvenour Quartermaster General of the said Army was presented and created M. of A. the same day In 1656 he was chose Burgess for Westminster to serve in that Parl. which began 17 of Sept. the same year he being then a favourite of Oliver and for the same place also to serve in Richards Parliament c. May 19. Owen Roe Scoutmaster General was also then created and conducted by Proctor Zanchy to the rest of the Officers He was originally a Silk-man and in the beginning of the Rebellion being a violent Covenantier and afterwards an Independent was by Oliver's interest made a prime Officer Lieut. Col. I think in the Militia of London and
became a firebrand in that City and an enemy to its antient Civil Government In 1648 he was nominated one of the Kings Judges sate on the Bench when he was several times brought before them stood up as consenting when Sentence was passed for severing his head from his body and at length set his hand and seal to the Warrant for his Execution About that time he was made Keeper of the Magazines and Stores received 5000 l. to buy Arms which I think was never after accompted for In 1659 Jul. 7. he was constituted Colonel of the Militia of the said City by the Rump Parliament and was then in great favour with them but in the year after when his Maj. was restored and a Proclamation thereupon was issued out for all such persons that had sate in Judgment on K. Ch. 1. to come in he surrendred himself so that after his Trial had passed in the Sessions house in the Old Bayly he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment and his Estate confiscated What became of him afterwards I know not nor any thing else of him only that much about the time that he was created M. of Arts he got his son named Sam. Roe to be made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Committee and Visitors May 19. Colonel William Gough or Goffe was then also presented by Zanchy and created M. A. He was the son of Stephen Goffe Rector of Stanmore in Sussex and younger brother to Joh. Goffe mention'd among the Writers an 1661 p. 171. and to Steph. Goffe mention'd in the Fasti an 1636. p. 888. While this William was a Youth and averse to all kind of Learning he was bound an Apprentice to one Vaughan a Salter in London Brother to Col. Joseph Vaughan a Parliamentarian and a zealous Presbyterian whose time being near or newly out he betook himself to be a Soldier for the righteous Cause instead of setting up his trade went out a Quartermaster of Foot and continued in the Wars till he forgot what he had fought for At length thro several military grades he became a Colonel a frequent Prayer-maker Preacher and Presser for Righteousness and Freedom which in outward shew was expressed very zealously and therefore in high esteem in the Parliament Army In 1648 he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1 sate in judgment when he was brought before the High Court of Justice stood up as consenting when Sentence passed upon him for his decollation and afterwards set his Hand and Seal to the Warrant for his Execution Afterwards having like his General Cromwell an evil tincture of that spirit that loved and sought after the favour and praise of man more than that of God as by woful experience in both of them it did afterwards appear he could not further believe or persevere upon that account but by degrees fell off from the antimonarcal Principles of the chief part of the Army and was the man with Col. Will. White who brought Musquetiers and turned out the Anabaptistical Members that were left behind of the Little or Barebones Parliament out of the House an 1654. Complying thus kindly with the design and interest of the said General he was by him when made Protector constituted Major General of Hampshire Sussex and Berks a place of great profit and afterwards was of one if not of two Parliaments did advance his interest greatly and was in so great esteem and favour in Oliver's Court that he was judged the only fit man to have Maj. Gen. John Lamberts place and command as Maj. General of the Army of Foot and by some to have the Protectorship setled on him in future time He being thus made so considerable a person he was taken out of the House to be a Lord and to have a negative Voice in the Other House and the rather for this reason that he never in all his life as he used several times to say fought against any such thing as a single person or a negative voice but only to pull down Charles and set up Oliver c. in which he obtained his end In 1660 a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he betook himself to his heels to save his neck without any regard had to his Majesties Proclamation wandred about fearing every one that he met should slay him and was living at Lausanna in 1664 with Edm. Ludlow Edward Whaley and other Regicides when John L'isle another of that number was there by certain generous Royalists dispatch'd He afterwards lived several years in Vagabondship but when he died or where his carcass was lodged is as yet unknown to me May 19. Major John Blackmore He was a Burgess for Tiverton to serve in that Parliament call'd by Oliver which began at Westm 3 Sept. 1654. Major ..... Browne was actually created the same day This is all that appears of him in the Register otherwise had his Christian Name been set down I might have been more large upon him The aforesaid eleven Officers great favourites of Cromwell were presented in Masters Gowns on one and the same day by Zanchy before mention'd in a Convocation held by a Presbyterian Deputy Vicechancellour Presbyterian Heads and mostly Presbyterian Masters and all actually created Masters of Arts and seated in the Doctors seats Francis Buller Gent. Bach. of Arts of Cambr. was also then actually created Master but presented by an ordinary Master He was the same person as I conceive who was chose a Knight for the County of Cornwall to serve in Richards Parliament that began at Westm 27 Jan. 1658. May 21. John Rushworth of Queens Coll Secretary to Tho. Lord Fairfax was then created M. of A. and admitted to suffragate in the House of Convoc and Congreg May 21. Edward Thelwall a Capt. of Foot May 21. Hugh Courtney an Officer of note Mar. 14. .... Humphreys Gent. of kin to the Earl of Lincolne and the son of a Colonel c. In the conclusion of the aforesaid Creation May 19 were the Names of certain other Officers read to be created Masters of Arts when they were pleased to come to Oxon to be entertained Their Names were written in a paper subscribed by Fairfax and Cromwell but whether the contents of that paper were registred or that the said Officers were afterwards created it appears not Two of them who are noted to posterity for their great rudeness and impudence towards sacred Majesty I shall here set down but the others not because of little or no Name The first of these two that I shall speak of is George Joyce an Officer of note a Captain as it seems It must be now observed that when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat with the King for Peace did go to him at Newcastle upon Tyne to which place the Scots had conveyed him when he committed his person to their protection near Newark upon Trent it was the pleasure of the Parl. that he and the Commissioners should be conveyed thence to his Palace at
Zanchy with a flattering speech in a most humble posture which being done he that then held the Chancellours Chair who all the time stood up bare admitted him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Which being done Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him to his place next on the left hand to the Chancellours Chair This person also who had a greater name in his time than Fairfax had not only in England but throughout the whole World which he obtained more by policy dissimulation under the cloak of religion whether in prayer preaching discourse and action rather than valour must according to method have something said of him which shall with as much brevity as may be done because all Histories ring of his fame as well as infamy Born therefore he was in the Parish of S. John in the antient Borough of Huntingdon on the 24 of Apr. 1599 41. of Elizab. and was Christned in that Church on the 29 of the same month where Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle gave him his name His Father who lived in the same Town was Rob. Cromwell second Son of Sir Hen. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingdonshire Kt. who died in 1603 His Mother was Elizabeth sister to Sir Thomas Son of Sir Richard Steward Kts whence 't was that when Oliver gaped after the Protectorship it was given out by those of his party that he was descended of the Royal Blood and had right to the Crown of England His said Mother Elizabeth lived to See her Son Lord Protector and dying in Whitehall 18. Nov. 1654 was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chappel at Westm where her body continuing till after his Majesties restoration was removed from that place 12. of Sept. 1661 and buried with other Cromwellian bodies in a pit dug in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning where it now resteth Oliver her Son was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Huntingdon under one Dr. Tho. Beard a Minister in that Town and in Academical in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge but his Father dying while he was there he was taken home and sent to Lincolns Inn to study the Common Law but making nothing of it he was sent for home by his Mother became a Debauchee and a boysterous and rude Fellow At length being reformed and pretending to Saintship he married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Essex became heir to his Uncle his Mothers Brother spent the estate which was considerable took a Farm at S. Ives thrived not and therefore had intentions to go to New England a receptacle for Puritans and Nonconformists but that project taking not he removed to the Isle of Ely where he more frequently and publickly own'd himself a Teacher In 1640 he by the endeavours of one Rich. Tyms afterwards Alderman of Cambridge who had several times heard him preach at Ely was first made free of the Corporation of Cambridge then a Burgess thereof to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640. Soon after when the rebellion began towards which he gave a considerable helping hand he had a Commission given to him to be a Captain of Horse which he soon raised in his native Country and doing great service in those parts he soon after was made a Colonel and at length Lieutenant General to Edward Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct supremacy of the associated Counties Afterwards doing great service at Marston-moor near York after Sir Tho. Faâ—rfax and the Scots had been totally routed there Cromwell and his party of Curassiers being then in the left wing his atchievment was industriously cried up at Westminster and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto Within 4 months after we find him in the second battle at Newbury in Beâ—ks where the fates favoured him again tho not with a complete victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the Person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit Soon after the Army being new modell'd Essex the General was laid aside as unfortunate and Sir Thomas Fairfax being put into his place Cromwell was made Lieutenant General of the same Army from which time he continued as Fairfax did victorious and upon all occasions did lull and bewitch with the syrene charmes of his zealous insinuations the said Fairfax to carry on his pernitious designs Afterwards we find him the chief person under the cloak of great dissimulation of hurrying the King from place to place of defaming him among the people and bringing him to judgment Which done he sat with the rest of the Judges on him stood up when sentence was passed and set his hand and seal to the warrant for his execution Soon after he being made one of the Council of State he was ordained Commander in chief or Lord Governour of Ireland in June 1649 conquer'd there returned and was made General of the Parliament Army upon Fairfax's laying down his Commission Afterwards he went into Scotland did some seats there against K. Ch. 2 but that King giving him the go-by he followed him into England encountred him at Worcester conquer'd his party and put him to flight Thence he went to London and was highly caressed by the Citizens and Parliament and soon after dissolving the Parliament he called another but that being not suitable to his designs he dissolv'd that and took upon him the Protectorship which he enjoyed during his life time Under his name were published Many Letters written to the Speaker of the House of Commons to the House of Commons Sir Thomas Fairfax Committees c. containing relations of skirmishes victories taking of Castles Towns c. as also some Speeches and Declarations c. By his Wife Elizabeth before mention'd he had Sons and Daughters as 1 Rich. Cromwell who being young when the War began did not bear arms but several years after they were concluded he was made Colonel and Privy-Counsellour in order to have the Protectorship confer'd on him 2 Henry Cromwell afterwards Commander of the Generals Life-guard and at length on the 25 of Nov. 1657 was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon the recalling of Charles Fleetwood He married the Dau. of Sir Francis Russell of Cambridgshire Kt and Bt first a Royallist afterwards a Parliament Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchâ—ster and Chamberlain of Chester 3 Bridget the Wife of Hen. Ireton of whom I have made mention among the Writers an 1651. p. 81. After his death she was married to Charles Fleetwood before mention'd a Gent. of Bucks and a Recruiter of the Long Parliament afterwards a Colonel in their service a strong Anabaptist Lord Deputy of Ireland one of Olivers Lords and Lieutenant General of the Army and Major General of several Counties in the time of Cromwells Protectorship 4 Elizabeth the Wife of John
Cleypole a Gent. of Nâ—rthamptonshire made by Oliver Master of the Horse one of his House of Lords and a Knight and Baronet 16. of July 1657 he being then Clerk of the Hamper The said Elizabeth died 7. Aug. 1658 and was buried in Henry the Sevenths Chap. at Westm in a Vault made on purpose 5 Mary the second Wife of Thom. Bellasyse Vicount Fauconberg or Fauconbridge married to him with a great deal of state at Hampton-Court on the 18 of Nov. 1657 much about which time he was made one of Olivers Lords Several years after his Majesties restauration he was made Captain of the Guard of Pensioners 6 Frances the youngest Daughter was married to Mr. Rob. Rich the only Son of Robert Lord Rich Son of Robert Earl of Warwick on the 11 of Nov. 1657 and about the same time was made one of Olivers Lords or of the Other House This Mr. R. Rich died 16. of Feb. 1657 his Father on the 29. of May 1659 and his Grandfather on the 18 of Apr. 1658. Oliver Cromwell had also four Sisters one of which was married to John Desborow a Yeoman and a great lubberly Clown who by Olivers interest became a Colonel and if not of the Long yet of the Little Parliament which he helped to break About that time he became one of the Generals at Sea helped to set up his Brother in Law Protector for which he was made one of his Council Major General of divers Counties in the West one of the Lords of the Cinque-ports and of the other House c. Another Sister was married to Roger Whetstone an Officer in the Parliament Army but he dying before Oliver came to his greatness she was remarried to Joh. Jones a pretended Gent. of Wales a Recruiter of the Long Parliament and a Colonel afterwards one of the Kings Judges Governour of the Isle of Anglesie one of the Commissioners of Parliament for the government of Ireland in which office he acted tyrannically and one of the other House that is H. of Lords belonging to Cromwell c. He was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Charing-cross for having had a hand in the murder of his Prince on the 17. Oct. 1660. A third Sister was married to Valentine Walton of Stoughton in Huntingdonshire afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army and one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After her death he married the Daughter of one Pimm of Brill in Bucks Widow of Austen of the same place but upon the foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled from Justice to save his neck setled either in Flanders or the Low Countries and lived unknown for some time in the condition of a Gardiner with a certain Gentleman At length being sick and foreseeing he should die discovered himself to have been a man of fashion and desir'd that after his death his near relations in England might be acquainted with it His said second Wife retired after his Majesties restoration to Oxon and living in an obscure condition in Cat-street died meanly on the 14 Nov. 1662 and was buried in S. Mâ—ries Church A fourth Sister named Robina was married to Peter French D. D. and after his death to Dr. John Wilkins as I have told you elsewhere whereby she hung upon and was maintained by the revenues of the Church to her last Oliver Cromwell had several Uncles whose descendents taking not part with him only one or two they were not prefer'd by him He had also five Aunts the eldest of which named Joane was married to Francis Barrington whose Son Robert was countenanced by Oliver The second named Elizabeth was Wife of John Hamden of Hamden in Bucks Father of John Hamden one of the 5. members of Parliament excepted against by K. Ch. 1 and a Colonel for the Parliament in the beginning of the rebellion which John lost his life in their service in June 1643. By this match Oliver Cromwell came to be related to the Ingoldesbies and Goodwins of Bucks The third named Frances was the second Wife of Rich. Whalley of Kirton in Nottinghamshire Father to Edward Whalley a Colonel in the Parliament Army one of the Kings Judges Commissary General in Scotland one of Olivers Lords and a Major General He fled from justice upon the approach of the return of K. Ch. 2 and lived and died in a strange Land But now after these large digressions let 's return to the rest of the Creations this year Feb. 16. Joshua Cross lately of Linc. Coll and sen Proctor now Fellow of that of Magd and Natural Philosophy Reader of the University by the authority of the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doctor of the Civil Law by the favour of Fairfax and Cromwell lately in Oxon Soon after he left his Fellowship because he took to him a Wife but keeping his Readers place till his Majesties return was then discharg'd of it by the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for the regulation of the University He died in his house near Magd. Coll. 9. May 1676 aged 62 years and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In a meeting of the Delegates of the University the same day just before the Convocation began wherein Cross was created it was consulted among them that some Academical honour should be confer'd on Hierome Zanchy the Proctor then a Colonel in Ireland for the service of the Parliament At length it was Concluded that he should be adorned with the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the beginning of the next year but whether it was done oâ— that he was diplomated it appears not Doct. of Phys June 13. Thomas Sclater M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was created by vertue of the Commendatory Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he was put upon this recommendation by Sir Thom. Widdrington c. This Thomas Sclater was Burgess for the University of Cambridge to serve in Richards Parliament an 1658. Feb. 16. John Wilkinson sometimes of Magd. Hall now one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates He was nephew to Dr. John Wilkinson President of Magd. Coll and Brother to Dr. Henry Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall lived afterwards at Doncaster in Yorkshire where he practiced among the Godly party and dying in 1655 was buried at Arksey near to that place I have made mention of two of both his names that were Writers in the Fasti of the first vol. pag. 816. 817 but this John the Physitian was no Writer Mar. 7. Will. Petty about this time Fellow of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of a dispensation from the Delegates of the University who had received sufficient testimony of his rare qualities and gifts from L. Col. Kelsey the Deputy Governour of Oxford Garrison Doct. of Div. July 24. Daniel Greenwood Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll
a constant Actor and as 't was observed had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as Comptroller Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks and in the same year he finished a new Chappel at Vgbrook which was consecrated and dedicated to S. Cyprian by Anthony Bishop of Exeter Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672 until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh and in June following he gave him and his heirs males the mannours of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire On the 28 of Nov. the same year his Maj. valuing his many eminent services and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton At which time his Maj. confer'd the place of Treasurer of the Houshold on the L. Newport beforemention'd and the place of Comptroller on Will Lord Maynard On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. pass'd for the entailing of Vgbrook and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesties hands his staff as L. Treasurer because he as 't was said refused the Test it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died and was as I suppose buried at Chudleigh ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted incorporated or created this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll. He afterwards lived a Nonconformist and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock mention'd among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others Quaere One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love describing the folly of Youngmen and the fallacy of Women Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this or of any other University I know not yet Nov. 19. Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll. 30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll. Jan. 14. Tho. Neast of New Coll. This person who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks Thence going to London lived for some time after his Majesties Restauration a Nonconformist and preached in Conventicles Afterwards conforming he became Minister of S. Martins Ch. in Ironmonger-lane and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet London He hath extant Serm. on Ephes 6.24 printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate c. Lond. 1661. qu published by Sam. Annesley or Anely and perhaps other things Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv Coll. Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty 10 Dec. Bach. of Div. ..... George Kendall of Exeter Coll was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year but the day or month when it appears not Doct. of Law Oct. 19. John Wainwright of All 's Coll Chancellour of the Dioc of Chester ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Doctor of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May .... Christoph Tearne or Terne Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London hath published something of his faculty and died about 1685. He was as it seems originally of Cambridge May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys of Cambridge This person who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University was lately Fellow of that House also but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors Afterwards he travelled into remote parts of the World resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Mosco for the space of nine years and wrot The History of the present state of Russia in a letter written to a friend in London Lond. 1671. oct illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physitians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538 and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge This person who took that degree in Camb. 1649 was now or soon after Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Univ. See more in the year 1652 and 59. 18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Anger 's in France This Gent. who had that degree confer'd on him in the said Univ. in Nov. 1648 was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells was educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642 and travelled during the time of the War Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster became Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894. Nov. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr. The next day he was admitted M. of A as before I have told you Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell whose Sister he had married See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was now or soon after made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Univ. Creations Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne was created Master of Arts. 12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Univ. which partly run
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.
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
having a hand in the said vile Pamphlet but those then of the House who knew the proud and malicious humour of Peirce have often told me that that was not the reason of his ejectment but because Dr. Jeanes had found fault with his Concio Synodica ad Clerum Anglican published that year wherein he said were several barbarisms and false Latins Which report coming to ears of Dr. Pierce his malice became so great against that he never left till he had outed him from the College After his expulsion which the generality of the Society were against and did lament because they knew he was sorry for what he had done in his raw years he went to Peterborough where he practised his Faculty with good success but in his journey homeward from a certain noble Patient in a dark night without a Companion his horse floundred in a Gravel-pit flung him off from his back and was forthwith stifled in the month of Nov. 1668. Jun. 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. Accumulators Jul. 2. Joh. Hill of All 's Coll. Accumulators 4. Peter Vasson or Vashon of Ball. Coll. 9. Thom. Millington of Allsoules Coll. The last did succeed Dr. Thom. Willis in Sedly's Lecture of Nat. Philosophy an 1675 and had the honour or Knighthood confer'd on him in the latter end of 1679 he being then Fell. of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Jul. 9. Rich. Higges of Hart Hall Jul. 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Jan 19. Humph. Brooke of S. Johns Coll. This person who was son of Rob. Br. of Lond Gent was bred in Merchant-Taylors School and thence was elected Scholar of S. Joh. Coll of which he was afterwards Fellow In 1646 he took the degree of Bach. of Physick and thereupon soon after retiring to Lond. practised that Faculty there and wrot and published A Conservatory of health comprised in a plain and practical discourse upon the six particulars necessary for mans life 1. Aire 2. Meat and Drinke c. Lond. 1650. in tw Compiled and published for the prevention of sickness and prolongation of life After he had taken the degree of Doct. of his Faculty he became one of the Coll. of Phys and is now as I conceive living in London ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May 5. Barnham Dobell Doct. of Phys of Padua He had that degree confer'd on him at Padua in the beginning of the year 1654. Jun. 6. Will. Parker Doct of Phys of Padua 21. Tim. Hodson Doct of Phys of Aurange 24. Sam. Collins Doct of Phys of Padua The last of which was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London was known by the name of Dr. Sam. Collins junior and hath if I mistake not published one or more vol. in fol. of Anatomy Quaere Creations Apr. 13. Thom. Hyde of Qu. Coll. was created Master of Arts by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is of full standing since his admission into the Vniv of Cambridge for the degree of M. of A that he hath given public testimony of his more than ordinary abilities and learning in the Oriental Languages c. The Delegates of the University ordered the day before that he should accumulate the degree of M. of A. by reading only a Lecture in one of the Oriental Languages c. which was afterwards accordingly done in the Persian Language in Schola Linguarum Since that time he hath published several books and being now living he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers of this University An. Dom. 1660. An. 12 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell lately L. Protector but he upon a foresight of the restauration of K. Ch. 2 resigning his Office by his Letter sent to the University dated at Hursley in Hampshire 8 May this year read in Convocation 16 of the same month the most noble William Marquess of Hertford c. was restored to his place of Chancellour by the House of Lords on the 26 following and on the 6 of June was confirmed by the Convocation But the said Marquess dying in the night time of the 24 of Octob. being then Duke of Somerset Sir Edw. Hyde Kt. sometimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall now L. Chanc. of England and of the Privy Council to his Majesty was elected into his place on the 27 of the same month and installed at Westminster 15 Nov. following Vicechanc. Paul Hood D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. was admitted on the first of Aug. having before been nominated by our Chanc. the Duke of Somerset At which time Dr. Conant was remov'd from his Office of Vicechanc. Proct. Tho. Tanner of New Coll. May 2. John Dod of Ch. Ch. May 2. The senior Proctor being Fellow of New College was ejected thence in Aug. by his Majesties Commissioners to make room for those that had been turned out by the Visitors appointed by Parl. So that then he retiring to Hart Hall he spent the remainder of his Proctorship there The junior Proctor wanting time when he was elected a Protestation was openly read in Convocation at the time of his admission by Mr. Will. Hawkins of Ch. Ch. a Candidate for the Procuratorial Office The particulars of which being many and large I shall now pass them by for brevity sake and only say that Mr. Dod continued in his Office while Mr. Hawkins appealed to the Court of Chancery The Scene of all things was now changed and alterations made in the Countenances Manners and Words of all men Those that for 12 years last past had governed and carried all things in a manner at their pleasure did now look discontented and were much perplex'd foreseeing that their being in the University must inevitably vanish Those that had laid under a cloud for several years behind appear with cheerful looks while others that had flourished droop'd or withdrew themselves privately they knowing very well that they had eaten the bread of other men and that if they should continue in the University should undergo a Visitation and Censure by those persons whom they themselves had formerly visited and ejected But Justice being to be done Commissioners were appointed by his Majesty after his restauration to rectifie all things in the University who sitting several weeks in Aug. Sept. c. restored all such that were living unmarried to their respective places and many that were peaceable and willing to conform and renounce their factious Principles they kept in c. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 3. Thom. Cawton of Mert. Coll. 5. Thomas Bevan of Jes Coll. Of the last of which you may see more among the Doct. of Div. 1683. May 3. Will. Morehead of New Coll. Oct. 11. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. 15. Moses Pengry of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the M. of A. 1663 of the second among the Doct. of Div. 1681 and of the last among the Bach. of D. an 1672. Jan. 16. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16.
Charles was afterwards Burgess for the Town of Cambridge to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 19 May 1685 1 Jac. 2. He and his brother at the time of their Creation and before were Sojourners for a time in the Univ. of Oxon. Aug. 23. Joh. Drope of Magd. Coll. This person who was son of Tho. Drope Vicar of Cumnore near Abendon in Berks was born in the Vicaridge-house there became Demy of Magd. Coll an 1642 aged 16 years or thereabouts bore arms for the King soon after within the Garrison of Oxon made true and perpetual Fellow of his Coll. in 1647 and ejected thence in the year following Afterwards he was made the first Master of the Free-School in Dorchester in Oxfordshire founded by Sir Joh. Fetiplace but leaving it soon after he was succeeded therein by Dav. Thomas Usher of Thame School After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship studied Physick and practised it afterwards in a Mercate Town in Lincolnshire called Burrough He hath written 1 An Hymenaean Essay or an Epithalamy upon the royal Match of Ch. 2. and Katherine Infanta of Portugal 1662. Oxon. 1662. in one sh and an half in qu. 2 A Poem upon the most hopeful and ever flourishing Sprouts of Valour the indefatigable Centrys of the Physick Garden in Oxon. Oxon. 1664. on one side of a broad sh of paper in two Columes See more among the Works of Edm. Gayton his jocular friend and companion p. 271. 3 Poems on several occasions These I have seen ready written for the Press and tho commended by several persons yet they are not printed He died in the beginning of Octob. 1670 and was buried in the Church at Burrough before mention'd Franc. Drope brother to John before mention'd was created the same day Aug. 23. I have mention'd him already among the Writers p. 357. Aug. 23. James Metford of C. C. Coll. He was the son of Joh. Metford of Crookhorne in Somersetshire was elected Scholar of the said Coll from that of Merton in Jan. 1647 ejected soon after thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors but being restored in 1660 was after he had been created M. of A made Fellow of his house Afterwards by the presentation of the President and Society thereof he became Rector of Bassingham in Lincolnshire where he now lives and in Aug. 1687 he became Preb. of Bole in the Ch. of York by the resignation of Rob. Powell He hath published A general discourse of Simony Lond. 1682. oct having been put upon the writing of it by Dr. Mich. Honywood Dean of Linc who was pleased to inform the author with some resentment of the too great progress of it in the Nation bewailing the fatal consequence of it in the Church and commanding him to say something if possible to stop its growth Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. was created the same day I have at large made mention of him among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 624. Philip Fell of Trin. Coll. was created also the same day This person tho he was no sufferer for the Kings Cause or ever took the degree of B. of A as having before left his Coll. abruptly upon no good account yet by the favour and interest of his elder Brother Dr. Joh. Fell he was not only created M. of A but also sped Fellow of All 's Coll had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him without any Exercise for it as having been nominated by his said brother while he was Vicechancellour to answer the Doctors in Comitiis when there was no Act and at length to be Fell. of the Coll. at Eaton He was always esteemed a most excellent Latin Poet as his copies of Verses in several books occasionally published in the name of the University and in others do manifestly shew He died at Hereford in the house of Dr. George Bensâ—n Dean of the Church there who had married his sister on the 26 of Febr. 1682 aged 49 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was conveyed to Worcester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there among the graves of his Mothers relations Sept. 20. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll. 28. Dennis Greenvill of Exet. Coll. The last who had been no Sufferer for the Kings Cause nor ejected his Coll because entred therein after the Parl. Visitors had turn'd all the Royalists out thence was created by the favour of his great Relations and at length by their endeavours he became Dean of Durham He hath published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred See among the created Doct. of Div. 1670. Nov. 29. George Brereton of Qu. Coll a younger son of Will Lord Brereton This person who had been no Surferer or was expel'd was not only created among the Sufferers but also made soon after Fellow of All 's Coll which place he being in a manner forced to leave was by the favour of Dr. Cosin made Prebendary of Durham He died in the beginning of March 1672. Dec. 15. Clem. Couteur a Jersey man born of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. Dav. Whitford of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. Will. Godolphin of Ch. Ch. The last which had not any way suffer'd I shall mentâ—on hereafter Feb. 14. Henry Hyde eldest son of Edward Lord Hyde of Hindon Chanc. of this Univ. afterwards Earl of Clarendon was diplomated M. of A. This Henry who was afterwards Lord Cornbury and after his fathers death Earl of Clarendon became L. Chamberlain to Q. Catherine in which office I find him in 1665 was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and took his place at the board 26 May 1680. In the middle of Febr. 1684 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of George Marquess of Hallifax made L. President of the Privy Council and about the beginning of Dec. 1685 K. James 2. being then in the throne he was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which honorable office he keeping a full year was recalled and soon after the Privy Seal was taken from him as being a person that answer'd not that Kings expectation c. About the time of his recalment he was elected High Steward of this University and after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he suffered in several respects without offence let it be spoken because he was a Non-juror He is a true son of the Ch. of Engl a lover of the regular Clergy c. Laurence Hyde younger Brother to Henry before mentioned was also diplomated M. of A. the same day In Apr. 1661 he was elected one of the Burgesses for this University to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year and on the 30 of Oct. following he with Will Lord Croft and Sir Charles Berkley Groom of the Stole and Gent of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York began their Journey for France the two former being sent by his Majesty and the latter by the said Duke to the K. of France to congratulate the happy birth of the
the taking of their degrees only to have the benefit of the publick Library c. This person who was much addicted to Musick while he studied in Oxon which was about 8 years was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesties restauration had other spiritualities as I conceive confer'd upon him and became a member of the Royal Society He died in 1679 being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll. Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll. The first who afterwards practised Phys in the City of Salisbury was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648 was also created by vertue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse and continued in Armes until the surrender of Pendennis Castle from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall his native Country where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physick c. Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Univ. of Cambr. 16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch. He was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theorie and practice of Physick He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon and hath studied in Foreign Countries c. This person who was Son of John Jacob a Physitian of Canterbury was bred in Ch. Ch afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City and was if I mistake not a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot. Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll. 30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camdens Professor of History This person who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Wykehams School there made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636 entred on the Physick line when Master of Arts ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship became Camdens Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Rogers ejected for Non-conformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall He hath published of other mens works with Epistles before corrections on and sometimes additions to them these following 1 Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis c. and Dictata Both written by Hugh Lloyd See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. 2 Monarchia Britannica c Written by Tho. Master See in this sec Vol. of Athenae pag. 19. 3 Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton preces privatae Graecè Latinè Oxon. 1675 in tw Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers which he was about to publish but hindred by other affairs 4 Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita 1592. 'T is the oration of Sir Hen. Savile and 't was published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec edit of Monarchia Britannica See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. 5 Questiones selectiores in Logica Ethica c. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon a good generous and fatherly man of a publick Spirit and free from pharasaical leven or the modish hypocrisie of the age he lived in died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688 aged 73 years and was buried in the outer Chappel near the W. door belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camdens Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 29. Rich. Franklin of Qu Coll. He was put in among the rest tho no sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 6. Henry Wyat of Pemb. Coll. He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 and by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physitian with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa and practised his faculty there with good success At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country on the 3. of May 1664 were all some very few excepted cut off after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party who having had notice by the treachery of a certain person that they would take a view of the Country there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland and sheltred by a thick wood and seconded as 't was supposed by his whole Army March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physick but whether he was so it appears not Doct. of Div. Aug. 1. Nich. Monke sometimes of Wadh. Coll now Provost of Eaton Brother to Gen. George Monke Duke of Albemarle at this time in high value by the King Church University and all British People was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the Kings Professor of Div. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty and actually created by the Vicechancellour in Convocation by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing sufficiency and merit of Nich Monke M. of A as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for our self and the Church during the late distractions c. These persons following till you come to Byrom Eaton were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug tho several of them had not suffered for the Kings cause Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll. Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll. The last was
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
till 1689 and then surrendred it up He hath written and published 1 A genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal c. Lond. 1664. fol. 'T is partly a Translation 2 The Order and Ceremonies used at the funeral of his Grace George Duke of Albemarle c. with the manner of his Effigies lying in state in Somerset house the whole proceeding to the Abbey of Westminster the figure of his hearse in the said Abbey c. Printed in the Savoy near Londâ—n 1670 in a thin fol all exactly represented in Sculpture with the form of the offering performed at Westm 3 A genealogical history of the Kings of England and Monarchs of great Britain c. from the Norm Conq. an 1066 to the year 1677 in seven parts or books with their effigies seals tombs cenotaphs devises arms c. Pr. in the Savoy 1677. in fol. 4 The History of the Coronation of K. Jam. 2. and Qu. Mary solemnized in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster on Thursday 23 of Apr. 1685 with an exact account of the several preparations in order thereunto c. the whole work illustrated with sculptures Pr. in the Savoy 1687 in a large fol. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him besides only that he now lives in or near Bloomsbury in Middlesex An. Dom. 1666. An. 18 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. John Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch Aug. 3. Proct. Nathan Hodges of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Walt. Baylie of Magd. Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 3. Jam. Fen of Ch. Ch. He hath extant A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall Chap. 18 Jul. 1686. Lond. 1686 at which time the author was Vicar of Goudhurst in Kent Apr. 5. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 3. John Miln or Mill of Queens Coll. 8. Abraham Markland of S. Johns Coll. Of Joh. Mill you may see among the Doct. of Div. 1681. 31. Tho. Bennet of Ch. Ch. 31. Hen. Aldrich of Ch. Ch. 31. Joh Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. Of the first of these last three who were afterwards Writers you may see among the Masters an 1669. Jul. 14 Sam. Master of Ex. Coll. He hath published several Sermons and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 20. Joh. Cook of Ch. Ch. 27. John Inett of Vniv Coll. Of these two last you may see more among the Masters in 1669. Dec. 13. Charles Powell of Ch. Ch. This person who was son of Edw. Pow. of the Burrough of Stafford Minister became Student of the said House under the tuition of Mr. Benj. Woodroff in 1662 aged 17 years or thereabouts and after he had taken one degree in Arts became Curat of South Marston in Wilts and afterwards Chapl. to John Earl of Bridgwater who prefer'd him to the Rectory of Cheddington near Aylesbury in Bucks He hath published A sermon preached at South Marston near Hyworth in Wilts 9 Sept. 1683 being the day appointed for a Thanksgiving from the horrid plot of the Presbyterians on Psal 10.10 Lond. 1683. qu. This being all that he hath published I can only say that he died at Cheddington in the latter end of 1684. Jan 26. Hugh Barrow of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Feb. 12. Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. He hath published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers 14. William Williams of Jesus Coll. See among the Masters an 1669. In a Convocation held 31 of Octob. were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Will. Gould formerly of Oriel Coll. that he might accumulate the degree of Bach. of Arts that so he might be enabled to take the degree of Master c. but whether he was admitted to either I find not Adm. 170. Bach. of Law Seven were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Mar. 29. Will. Richards of Trin. Coll. Apr. 7. George Howell of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was son of Dr. Tho. Howell sometimes Bishop of Bristow was afterwards Rector of Buckland in Surrey and Author of A sermon preached July the first 1683 on Matth. 10.33 Lond. 1684. qu. May 3 â—â— Jonas Proast lately of Qu. Coll. now 1666 of Gloc. Hall This person who is a Ministers son and a Colchester man born was afterwards one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll and Author of 1 The argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly consider'd and answer'd Oxon at the Theat in 3 sh and an half in qu. an 1690 published in Apr. that year Afterwards was written and published by the same hand who wrot the said Letter a Pamphlet intit A second Letter concerning Toleration London 1690 in 9 sh and an half in qu. This second Letter which is dated 27 of May 1690 doth reflect much upon The argument c. before mention'd Whereupon our Author Proast came out with 2 A third Letter concerning Toleration In defence of the argument of the Letter concerning Toleration briefly considered and answered Oxon 1691. in 11 sh in qu. Jun. 27. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. 30. Will. Richardes of Allsoules Coll. The last of these two who was Chapl. of his Coll became Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Dr. John Sharp when he was translated from the Deanery of Norwych to that of Canterbury 1689. Jan. 17. Steph. Penton of New Coll. Feb. 12. Thom. Staynce of Trin. Coll. The first of these two who hath published several books was admitted Principal of S. Edm. Hall in the place of Dr. Tully deceased 15 Feb. 1675 Which place he at length resigning was succeeded therein by Thom. Crosthwait See among the Doct. of Div. 1684. Mar. 7. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll. 21. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 70. Bach. of Phys Jul. 14. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 8. Bach. of Div. Jâ—n 22. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. Jul. 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. Oct. 16. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law Jun. 19. Thom. Sargeant of All 's Coll. Jul. 6. Thom. Style of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys Jun. 19. Will. Levinz of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 19. Edw. Exton of Magd. Coll. Jun. 19. Joh. Speed of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these three who hath written Appendicula de rebus Britannicis plac'd at the end of a book intit Flosculi historici delibati nunc delibatiores facti c. Oxon 1663 in tw fift edit was afterwards President of his College Subdean and at length Can. resid of Wells And the last Practitioner of his faculty at Southampton and a publisher of one or two trivial things of Poetry Jun. 19. Henr. Danvers of Trin. Coll. Jun. 19. Rich. Torless of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh. Parys of C. C. Coll. 5. Will. Cole of Glocest Hall Doct. of Div. May 31. Rich. Clayton Master of Vniv Coll. He
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
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Brucâ— These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Ossâ—ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depoâ—ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was
and Astrology He is now Schoolmaster of Carlile Adm. 266. Bach. of Law Four were admitted this year of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one June 14. He was afterwards Secretary to the Royal Society for a time and wrot the Philosophical Transact from numb 167. to num 178 inclusive at which time followed Mr. Ed. Halley who began with nu 179. This Mr. Musgrave was afterwards Doctor of Physick Mast of Arts. May 24. Rawlins Dring of Wadh. Coll. June 19. Humph. Hody of Wadh. Coll. July 5. Thomas Rogers of Hart Hall Author of a Poem called Lux occidentalis c. 6. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. 6. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll. The first of these two is Vicar of Totness the other of Dartmouth in Devonshire and both authors and writers and persons of good repute in that Country for their learning and zeal for the Ch. of England Mar. 6. Hen. Hellier of C. C. Coll. Adm. 101. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Apr. 3. Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. Compounder July 18. George Walls of Ch. Ch. He hath published A Sermon preached to the Natives of the City and County of Worcester in the Church of S. Lawrence Jewry at their solemn meeting 28 June 1681. on Nehem. 8.10 Lond. 1681. qu. He was afterwards or about that time Chaplain to the Company of English Merchants trading at Hamborough Nov. 15. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. Mar. 12. Rich. Roderick of Ch. Ch. The last of these two who was Vicar of Blandford forum in Dorsetshire published A Serm. preached 19 of Aug. 1684 at the consecration of the Lord Weymouths Chappel in Longleat on 2. Chron. 7.16 Lond. 1684 qu. Dedicated to Thom. L. Thynne Baron of Warmister Viscount Weymouth c. Adm. 16. Doct. of Law Apr. 26. Thomas Wainewright of All 's Coll. July 21. Rich. Maris of S. Johns Coll. The first of these two is Chancellour of the Diocess of Chester Doct. of Phys May 24. Joh. Bateman of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow and Censor of the Coll. of Phys July 5. Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll. July 5. Charles Lybbe of Magd. Hall The first of these two is now Fellow of the said Coll. of Physitians Dec. 1. Phineas Ellwood of C. C. Coll. Doct. of Div. Apr. 3. Thom. Hyde of Queens Coll an Accumulator and Compounder July 5. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. 7. Thom. Seddon alias Sidney of All 's Coll. The first of these two is now the worthy Bishop of Bangor Incorporations Three and twenty Masters of Arts of Cambridge were incorporated this year mostly after the Act among whom I find these July 11. Charles Mountague of Trin. Coll a younger Son of Edward Earl of Sandwich He was this year Gent. Com. for a time of Linc. Coll afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Sir R. Lloyd deceased and is now High Sherriff of Durham Michael Altham of Christs Coll. was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Vicar of Latton in Essex and author of A dialogue between a Pastor and Parishioner touching the Lords Supper c. printed several times in tw As also of 3. or more Discourses against Popery in the raign of K. Jam. 2. Tho. Browne of S. Johns Coll was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and published Concio ad clerum habita coram Acad. Cantab. 11. Junii 1687 pro gradu Bach. in S. Theol. ubi vindicatur vera valida Cleri Anglicani ineunte reformatione ordinatio Lond. 1688. qu. To which is added an English Sermon of the same author turn'd by him into Lat. intit Concio habita 3 Julii 1687 de Canonica Cleri Anglicani Ordinatione as also the Instruments of the consecration of Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury Besides the said Masters were also incorporated these persons following Jul. 11. James Fulwood Doctor of the Laws of Queens Coll. in Cambridge John Worth Doct. of Div. of Dublin and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick there was incorporated the same day c. Creations Jul. 11. John Pooley M. of A. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of Kilkenny in Ireland was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the said Duke Chanc. of this Univ. Hugh Drysdale of the Univ. of Dublin Preacher in the Cath. Ch. at Kilkenny Chapl. to the said Duke and Archdeacon of Ossory was actually created Doct. of Div. on the same day by vertue of the Letters of the said Duke Feb. 12. Samuel De Langle or Del ' Angle was actually created D. of Div. without paying any fees by vertue of Chancellours Letters written in his behalf which partly runs thus Mr. Sam. De Langle Minister of the reformed Church at Paris is retired into England with his whole family with intentions to live here the remainder of his time He hath exercised his function 35 years partly at Roven and partly at Paris He is only Mast of Arts which the Protestant Divines usually take and no farther c. When he was conducted into the house of Convoc by a Beadle and the Kings Professor of Div all the Masters stood up in reverence to him and when the Professor presented him he did it with an harangue Which being done and Mr. De Langle had taken his place among the Doctors he spoke a polite Oration containing thanks for the honour that the most famous University of Oxon had done unto him c. He had been Preacher of the chief Church of the reformed Religion in France called Charenton near Paris and was afterwards made Prebendary of Canterbury c. This year was a Sojourner in the University and a Student in the public Library Fredericus Deatsch of Conigsberg in Prussia who is now or at least was lately Professor of Divinity and of the Tongues at Conigsberg and there held in great esteem for his learning c. An. Dom. 1683. An. 35 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Lloyd Princ. of Jes Coll. Proct. Henr. Gandy of Oriel Coll. Apr. 18. Arthur Charlet of Trin. Coll. Apr. 18. Bach. of Arts. May 9. Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Sowtherne of Pemb. Coll. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. 26. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters in 1686. Nov. 27. Will. Nicholls of Wadham afterwards of Merton Coll. Adm. 161. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Charles Finch of All 's Coll. was one a younger son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch. Apr. 24. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Brasnose Coll. Jun. 13. Thom. Creech of Wadh afterwards of All 's Coll. Oct. 10. Miles Stapylton of All 's Coll. The last of these two hath translated into English The Life of Caius Marius Printed in the Third vol. of Plutarch's Lives Lond. 1684. oct Dec. 13. Tho. Lane of Mert. Coll. Mar. 22.
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
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
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.
Ch. an 1636 aged eleven years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 about which time he was in arms for his Majesty within the Garrison of Oxon and afterwards was an Ensign In 1648 he was turn'd out of his place by the Parliamentarian Visitors he being then in holy Orders from which year to the Kings Restauration he spent his time in Oxon in a retired and studious condition partly in the Lodgings of his brother-in-law Mr. Tho. Willis in Canterbury Quadrangle pertaining to Ch. Church and afterwards partly in his House situate and being over against Merton Coll. Church wherein he and others kept up the devotions and orders of the Ch. of England administred the Sacrament and other duties to the afflicted Royalists then remaining in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Ralph Button ejected on the 27 of July 1660 and Dean of the said Church on the 30 of Nov. following being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary and Doctor of Divinity by actual creation By his constant residence in Oxon in the time of Usurpation he could not otherwise but behold with grief to what a miserable condition the whole University and in particular those of his quondam Coll. were reduced to as to Principles in Religion and he knew that things could not be reformed suddenly but by degrees His Predecessor Dr. Morley in that short time that he governed the Coll. restored the Members thereof then living that had been ejected in 1648 and such that remained factious Dr. Fell either removed or fix'd in loyal Principles yet when the Organ and Surplice were restored there were not wanting those that to the great concern and resentment of the Dean Dr. Dolben Dr. Allestree and others us'd both of them with contempt and Indignity As by his unwearied diligence he endeavour'd to improve his College with Learning and true Religion so also to adorn it with Buildings for no sooner he was setled but he took upon him a resolution to finish Wolsey's great Quadrangle The north side of it which was left void and open in Wolsey's time was began to be supplied with Buildings sutable to the rest of the Quadrangle by his father Dr. S. Fell and was by him the College and Benefactors carried on to the top and had all the frame of timber belonging thereunto laid but before the inside could be finished and the top covered with lead the Civil War began In that condition it continued expos'd to weather till the Reformers took place who minding their own concerns and not at all the publick took the timber away and employed it for their private use This imperfect Building I say was by the benefaction of Dr. Joh. Fell the then present Canons and others of the House as also by the benefaction of certain generous persons that had been formerly Members thereof and of others quite finished for the use of two Canons together with that part between the imperfect Building on the north side of the great gate and the N. W. corner of the said Quadrangle The next Fabrick that he undertook was that in the Chaplains Quadrangle and the long range of building joyning thereunto on the East side For whereas Philip King Auditor of Ch. Ch. had built very fair Lodgings of polish'd Free-stone about 1638 in or very near that place whereon the said long range was afterwards erected they were by carelesness burnt on the 19 of Nov. 1669 and with them the south east corner of the said Quadrangle besides part of the Lodgings belonging to the Canon of the second stall which was blown up with Gunâ—powder to prevent the spreading of the fire towards the Library Treasury and Church These Buildings being burnt and blown up were by the care of Dr. Fell rebuilt viz. the east side of the Chaplains Quadrangle with a straight passage under it leading from the Cloister into the Field which was finished in 1672 and the long range before mention'd in 1677 and 78. The third Fabrick which by his care was also erected were the Lodgings belonging to the Canon of the third Stall situate and being in the passage leading from Wolsey's Quadrangle to that of Peckwater which were finishing in 1674. And lastly the stately Tower over the great and principal gate next to Fishstreet began on the old foundation laid by Wolsey in June 1681 and finished in Nov. 1682 mostly with the moneys of Benefactors whose Arms are with great curiosity ingraven in stone on the roof that parts the Gate-house and the Belfry To this Tower was translated from the Campanile of the Church the Bell called Great Tom of Christ Church after it had been several times cast an 1683 and on the great Festival of the 29 of May 1684 it first rang out between 8 and 9 at night from which time to this a Servant toles it every night at 9 as a signal to all Scholars to repair to their respective Colleges and Halls as he did while 't was in the Campanile In 1666. 67. 68. and part of 69 Dr. Fell was invested with the office of Vicechancellour in which being setled his first care was to make all degrees go in Caps and in publick Assemblies to appear in Hoods He also reduced the Caps and Gowns worn by all degrees to their former size or make and ordered all Cap-makers and Taylors to make them so which for several years after were duly observed but now especially as to Gowns an equal strictness is not observed His next care was to look narrowly towards the performance of public exercise in the Schools and to reform several abuses in them and because Coursing in the time of Lent that is the endeavours of one party to run down and confute another in disputations did commonly end in blows and domestick quarrels the refuge of the vanquish'd side he did by his authority annul that custom Snce that time as those publick disturbances which were the scandal of the University did cease so likewise that vehemence and eagerness in disputations which was increas'd by those intestine broils having lost the incentives of malice feuds and contentions did in great measure abate and at length fall However Dr. Fell that he might as much as possibly support the exercises of the University did frequent Examinations for degrees hold the Examiners up to it and if they would or could not do their duty he would do it himself to the pulling down of many He did also sometimes repair to the Ordinaries commonly called Wall Lectures from the paucity of Auditors and was frequently present at those Exercises called Disputations in Austins where he would make the Disputants begin precisely at one and continue disputing till 3 of the clock in the afternoon so that upon his appearance more Auditors were then present than since have usually appeared at those Exercises It was his endeavour before and while he was Vicechancellour as also the
excise for the pourveyance and Tenures c. Ibid. 1664. 7 A perspective glass or some reasons against the registring Reformation c. Ibid. 1669. 8 A reforming Registry or a representation of the very many mischiefs which will unavoidably happen by the needless chargable and destructive way of Registries proposed to be erected in every County of Engl. and Wales for the recording of all deeds evidences mortgages c. Ibid. 1671. qu. c. 9 Ligeantia lugens or Loyalty bewailing the want of pourveyance and tenures 10 Some reasons for the continuance of the process of arrest Ib. 1671. qu. 11 Regale necessarium or the legality reason and necessity of the rights and privileges justly claimed by the Kings Servants c. Ib. 1671. qu. 12 The antient legal fundamental and necessary rights of Courts of Justice in their writs of Capias arrests and process of outlawry and the illegality many mischiefs and inconveniences which may arrive to the People of England by the proposals tendred to his Majesty and high Court of Parl. for the abolishing of that old and better way and method of Justice and the establishing of a new by peremptory summons and citations in actions of debt Lond. 1676. 77. 13 Reasons against the taking away the process of arrest which would be a loss to the Kings revenue c. Ibid. 1675. 14 Necessary defence of the Presidentship and Council in the principality and marches of Wales in the necessary defence of England and Wales protecting each other 15 Ursa Major Minor Shewing that there is no such fear as is factiously pretended of popery and arbitrary power Lond. 1681. 16 Plea for the pardoning part of the Soveraignty of the Kings of England Ibid. 1682 17 Investigatio Jurium antiquorum rationalium regni sive Monarchiae Angliae c. The established government of England vindicated from popular and Reipublican principles and mistakes with a respect to the Laws of God Man Nature and Nations Lond. 1686. 87. fol. 18 Legale necessarium Or a true and faithful accompt of the antiquity and legality of his Majesties and our Kings and Princes rights of and unto fines and amerciaments imposed and forfeited in his Courts of Justice c. He hath also written Veritas inconcussa or that K. Ch. 1. was no man of blood but a martyr for his people Lond. 1660. oct and other things not yet printed At length having lived to a great age he surrendred up his Soul to God on the 17 of Nov. 1690 and was buried near to the body of his Wife in the south west part of the Church of Twyford near to Acton in Middlesex Some years before he died he made his own epitaph which begins thus Ms Fabiani Philipps Armigeri Medâ—â— Tempâ—i socii qui quosdam perfidos ingratos nimium amicos amando seipsum non uti potuit amavit curis librisque consenuit c. But whether it is put over his grave I know not An. Dom. 1642. An. 18. Car. 1. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pembroke c. sometimes a Nobleman of New Coll. Vicechanc. c. The year of Vicechancellourship of Dr. Prideaux Bishop of Worcester being ended and he about the feast of S. John Bapt. not only quitting all right therein without laying down the Ensigns of his office as the manner is but rather leaving the University abruptly as the advantage of time offer'd the office for some time laid void and nothing of it was done but by Deputies The which for what reason it so hapned is perhaps at this time too great a trouble for me to tell For now the University the mother of togated peace being affrighted with the unwonted rumours of a civil war the Muses deserted and the adorers of them every where dispersed knew not as if put between the anvil and the hammer which way to turn it self or seek rest The administration therefore of its government was successively according to the manner of our Predecessors committed to Deputies of whom the first was Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll who for his Loyalty in raising and setling the University Militia for the defence of it from the common incursions of the enemy and for endeavouring to make the Citizens provide also men and arms for the defence of their City they being then backward in so doing he was afterwards treacherously seized on at Aylesbury carried to Westminster and committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse there about the 12 of Sept. After him Dr. Tolson Provost of Oriel succeeded as Provicechancellour continuing in the said office none as I think intervening till the 7 of Feb. following a little before which time he being nominated by the Chancellours Letters sent to the University was on the same day in a Convocation then held sworn and admitted Vicechancellour by the consent of the Doctors and Masters then present Proct. Edw. Young of New Coll. Ap. 20. Tristiam Sugge of Wadham Coll. Ap. 20. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. Sam. Smith of S. John Coll. He is now or at least was lately Chaplain or Ordinary to the Prison called Newgate in London and hath certain things extant June 14. George Griffith of Magd. Hall This person who was a Mountgomeryshire man born I take to be the same who was afterwards a notorious Independent a frequent preacher before Oliver and the Parliaments in his time a publisher of certain Sermons preacher at the Charterhouse near London and the same who was silenced after his Majesties restauration for his high actings in the interval and I think for Nonconformity July 8. Will. Richardson of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters of Arts an 1645. Oct. 25. Will. Lloyd lately of Oriel now of Jes Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph and is now living Nov. 29. Arthur Bury of Exet. Coll. Nov. 29. Tho. Long. of Exet. Coll. These two who have published several books especially the last are hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Dec. 13. Bartholm Ashwood of Exet. Coll. Mar. 4. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. The first of these last two hath published several things and is now or at least lately living a Nonconformist Divine Adm. 135. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Two only were admitted this year viz. Barnaby Love of New Coll. June 9. and Donney Hodges of Ex. Coll. July 4. The others were by creation some of which I shall mention anon Mast of Arts. March 26. Christoph Love of New Inn. Apr. 23. Rich. Parr of Exet. Coll. 30. John Nelme of Magd. Hall He hath a Sermon extant on Psal 118. ver 21. to 26 printed 1660. qu. and perhaps others Quaere May 14. John Dale of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards known by the name of Analysis Dale See among the Writers under the year 1684. June 18. Tho. Willis of Ch. Ch. 28. Walt. Blandford of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 6. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. This person who was the son of Isaac Maudit of the City of Exeter was afterwards a Chaplain in the
Army raised by the Parl. againâ—t the King one of the Proctors of the University and published 1 The Christian Soldiers great Engine Sermon before the Lord General Fairfax at S. Maries in Oxon 20 May 1649. qu. 2 A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monke containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of Government and Commonwealths c. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659 in one sh in qu. What other things he hath published I know not sure I am that after the restauration of K. Ch 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh to avoid Conformity and died soon after Adm. 112. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only created See among the Creations Bach. of Div. Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll. He was the only person that was admitted this year the others were created In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles Thorne and dying Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nov. 16â—4 ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations Doct. of Phys Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll. 8. Thom. Duke of S. Maries Hall ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you may see under the title of Creations Incorporations May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland He had that degree confer'd upon him in the said Univ. in the month of May 1636. Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden He had that degree confer'd upon him there in the month of Apr. 1638. This person or one of both his names was incorporated in 1660. Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Nov. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards King of England c. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then after his return from Edghill fight taken up his quarters in Oxon and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties as I shall tell you by and by Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Caies Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Padua and at his return into England of Cambridge was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578 sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he travelled into France and Italy and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Padua Eustac Radius Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend At 24 he became Doct. of Phys and Chirurgery and returning into England soon after he practised Phys in London and married At 25 or thereabouts he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and at 37 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery About which time which was in the year of our Lord 1615 he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion by which the anatomical part of Physick seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection At 54 years of age he was made Physitian to K. Ch. 1 having as 't is said by some been Physitian to K. Jam. 1. and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles he attended him at Edghill battel Thence going with him to Oxon was there incorporated as before 't is told you In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by vertue of the Kings letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose but in the year following when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he left that office and retired to London In 1654 he was chosen President of the Coll. of Physitians but refused to accept of that honorable place And after he had lived to see his doctrine the circulation of the blood with much ado established being the only man as one saith that did so he surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the 30 of June an 1657. Soon after his body being lap'd up in lead it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there Several monuments of his learning which have been and are received into the hands of all curious men as well abroad as at home are extant as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you besides his New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in general Metaphysicks c. but more in MS. he hath left behind him the titles of which you may see in the Epist dedicat before An historical account of the Colleges Coll. of Phys Proceedings against Empricks c. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr. Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr. The first who was of Pembr Hall was afterwards Doctor of Phys a practitioner in London and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver an 1656 and for that called by Richard 1658. Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Dublin Which degree was confer'd upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch afterwards of Pemb. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an 1627 being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess confer'd upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford whose Annales rerum Anglicarum c. he translated into English as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498 What other things he hath translated or what written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was incorporated M. of A. an 1628 as in the Fasti of that year in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you He wrot the Preface to Dr. Rich. Watsons book called Epistolaris Diatribe c. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658 which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians did now attend the King in Oxon and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists In 1660 after his Majesties return I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire Prebendary of Westminster and author of 1 The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Soveraigne Sermon preached 24 May 1660 being a day of Thanksgiving for the