having before been accounted by all those that well knew him to have been a person well vers'd in the Greek and Lat. Poets in Musick whether practical or theoretical instrumental or vocal and in other things befitting a Gentleman Some of the said persons have also added in my hearing that his common discourse was not only significant and witty but incomparably graceful which drew respect from all Men and Women Many other things I could now say of him relating either to his most generous mind in his Prosperity or dejected estate in his worst part of Poverty but for brevity sake I shall now pass them by At the end of his Posthume Poems are several Elegies written on him by eminent Poets of that time wherein you may see his just character FRANCIS ROUS a younger son of Sir Anth. Rous Knight by Elizab. his first wife daugh of Tho. Southcote Gent. was born at Halton in Cornwall and at 12 years of age became a Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1591 where continuing under a constant and severe discipline took the degree of Bach. of Arts which degree being compleated by Determination he went afterwards as it seems to the Inns of Court tho some there be that would needs perswade me that he took holy orders and became Minister of Saltash in his own Country Howsoever it is sure I am that he being esteemed a man of parts and to be solely devoted to the puritanical Party he was elected by the men of Truro in his own Country to serve in Parliaments held in the latter end of K. James and in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. In 1640 also he was elected again for that Corporation to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov wherein seeing how violently the Members thereof proceeded he put in for one and shew'd himself with great zeal an Enemy to the Bishops Prerogative and what not to gain the Populacy a Name and some hopes of Wealth which was dear unto him In 1643 he forwarded and took the Covenant was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines and for the zeal he had for the holy cause he was by authority of Parliament made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore the same year in the place of Dr. Rich. Steuart who then followed and adhered to his sacred Majesty In the said Parliament he afterwards shew'd himself so active that he eagerly helped to change the Government into a Commonwealth and to destroy the negative Voice in the King and Lords In 1653 he was by the Authority of Ol. Cromwell nominated a Member of the Little Parliament that began to sit at Westm 4 July and was thereupon elected the Speaker but with a collateral Vote that he should continue in the Chair no longer than for a month and in Decemb. the same year he was nominated one of Olivers Council But when the good things came to be done which were solemnly declared for for the not doing of which the Long Parliament was dissolved He as an old bottle being not fit to leave that new wine without putting it to the question he left the Chair and went with his Fellow old bottles to Whitehall to surrender their Power to General Cromwell which he as Speaker and they by signing a Parchment or Paper pretended to do The colourable foundation for this Apostasie upon the monarchical foundation being thus laid and the General himself as Protector seated thereon he became one of his Council and trusted with many matters as being appointed in the latter end of the same year the first and prime Tryer or Approver of publick Preachers and the year after a Commissioner for the County of Cornwall for the Ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he sate in the following Parliaments under Oliver and being an aged and venerable man was accounted worthy to be taken out of the H. of Commons to have a negative Voice in the other house that is House of Lords over all that should question him for what he had done and over all the people of the Land besides tho he would not suffer it in the King and Lords This person who was usually stiled by the Loyal Party the old illiterate Jew of Eaton and another Proteus hath divers things especially of Divinity extant wherein much enthusiastical Canting is used the Titles of which follow The art of Happiness consisting of three parts whereof the first searcheth out the happiness of Man The second c. Lond. 1619. oct at which time the Author lived at Lanrake in Cornwall The diseases of the time attended by their remedies Lond. 1622. oct Oyl of Scorpions The miseries of these times turned into medicines and curing themselves Lond. 1623. oct Testis veritatis The Doctrine of K. James of the Ch. of England plainly shewed to be one in the points of Predestination Free-will and certainty of Salvation Lond. 1626. qu. Discovery of the grounds both natural and politick of Arminianisme Printed with Test ver The only remedy that can cure a People when all other Remedies fail Lond. 1627. in tw The heavenly Academie Lond. 1638. in tw dedicated to John L. Roberts of Truro Catholike Charity complaining and maintaining that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Cath. Church and especially to Protestants and is therefore uncatholike And so a Romish book called Charitie mistaken though undertaken by a second is it self a mistaking Lond. 1641. oct Meditations endeavouring the edification and reparation of the house of God The great Oracle Even the main frame and body of the Scriptures resolving the Question Whether in mans free will and common grace stands the safety of man and the glory of God in mans safety The mystical marriage or experimental discoveries of the heavenly marriage between a Soul and her Saviour Lond. 1653. in tw All which treatises in number eleven were reprinted in one folio at Lond. 1657. under the title of Works of Francis Rous Esq Or Treatises and meditations dedicated to the Saints and to the excellent throughout the three Nations Before which works is the picture of the Author aged 77 years an 1656 engraven by the curious hand of Will. Faithorne Parliamentarie Speeches as 1 Sp. concerning the goods liberties and lives of his Maj. Subjects c. Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 2 Sp. before the Lords in the upper house 16. of March 1640 against Dr. Jo. Cosin Dr. Roger Manwairing and Dr. Will. Beale upon the complaint of Mr. Pet. Smart Lond. 1641. in one sh in qu. 3 Sp. in the H. of Commons against making Dr. Jo. Prideaux Dr. Th. Winniff Dr. R. Holdsworth and Dr. Hen. King Bishops till a setled Government in Religion was established Lond. 1642. in one sh in qu. Mella Patrum nempe omnium quorum per prima nascentis patientis ecclesiae tria secula usque ad pacem sub Constantino divinitûs datam scripta prodierunt atque adhuc
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 placââ 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
to some Women actors mentioned in his book as he affirmeth It hapned that about six weeks after this the Queen acted a part in a Pastoral at Somerset-house and then the Archbishop Laud and other Prelates whom Prynne had angered by some books of his against Arminianism and against the jurisdiction of the Bishops and by some prohibitions which he had moved and got to the High Commission Court These Prelates and their instruments the next day after the Queen had acted her Pastoral shewed Prynne's book against Plays to the King and that place of it Women actors notorious Whores and they informed the King and Queen that Prynne had purposely written this book against the Queen and her Pastoral whereas it was published six weeks before that Pastoral was acted Yet the King and Queen though thus exasperated did direct nothing against him till Laud set Dr. Heylyn who bare a great malice to Prynne for confuting some of his doctrines to peruse Prynne's books and to collect the scandalous points out of them which Heylyn did though as Prynne affirms not at all warranted by the text of his book but these two Gentlemen were well matched and alike in other things though so much different in Divinity or shew of it c. Thus our Author here quoted of whom I shall hereafter make large mention Upon the said Complaints concerning that book Heylyn being appointed to collect such passages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the King Queen State and Government of the Realm did after some time deliver them in writing to Sir John Coke or Cook Secretary of State and to Dr. Laud Bishop of London the last of which did soon after on a Sabbath-day morning go to Will. Noy Attorney Gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne for the said book which Noy did rigorously enough Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the Lords in the Inner Star Chamber where being examined about the said matters was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London on the first day of Febr. 1632 where remaining without permission of Bayle till the month of Feb. 1633 was at last brought to a Trial in the Court of Star Chamber having been first pre-condemned by the Gentlemen of his own profession and afterwards sentenced by that Court on the 17 day of the said month thro the eager prosecution of the said Noy to be fined 5000 l. to the King expelled the University of Oxford and Lincolns Inn degraded and disinabled from his profession in the laws to stand in the Pillory first in the Pallace-yard in Westminster and three days after in Cheapside in each place to loose an ear tho this last part of his censure was much moderated in the execution to have his book called Histriomastix publickly burnt before his face by the hand of the Hangman and remain prisoner during life After this sentence was executed which was in May an 1634. he was remitted to his prison But all this was so far from working any remorse in him that it rather hardned him in his ways for on the 11 of June following as soon as he could provide himself of pen ink and paper he wrot a most sharp and libellous Letter to Dr. Laud then Archb. of Cant. touching his censure in the said Court and that which the Archb. in particular had declared against him With this letter the Archb. acquainted his Majesty who thereupon commanded him to refer it to Attorney Noy Noy sent for Prynne from his prison and demanded of him whether the letter was of his own hand-writing or not to which Prynne cunningly replied that he could make no answer to that demand unless he could see the letter and might read the same No sooner was the letter put into his hands and Noy's back turn'd a little towards him but presently he tore it to pieces and flung the pieces out of the window to the end that the said letter might not rise in judgment against him if the Attorney should proceed to an Ore-tenus as he meant to do For this affront and the principal passages of the letter the Attorney acquaints their Lordships in open Court but there was no remedy for being there was no proof of the misdemeanour but the letter it self and that the letter could not be brought in evidence as it should have been the Archb. thought it a more noble act to remit the Crime than trouble the Court or any of his Majesties Ministers in the prosecution of it But herein Prynne sped better than some others who had before been snarling at him and laboured to expose him to scorn and danger In Apr. the same year which is a step back in this discourse he was solemnly degraded in the Univ. of Oxon and his name dashed out of the Matricula In 1636 he published two books at once or immediately after each other One of them was called The Quench Coal in answer to that called A coal from the Altar against placing the Communion-table altarwise The other named The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus against the Apostolical institution of Diocesan Bishops But that which was entituled to him by the name of a Libel was his Pamphlet called News from Ipswich intended chiefly against Dr. Wrenn then Bishop of Norwych who had taken up his dwelling in that Town and fell as scandalously foul on the Archb. himself and some of the other Bishops also and such as acted under them in the present Service For therein he descants very trimly as he conceived on the Archb. himself with his Arch-piety Arch charity Arch-agent for the devil c. With like reproach he fell on the Bishops generally calling them Luciferian Lord Bishops execrable Traytors devouring Wolves c. with many other odious names not fit to be used by a Christian and more particularly on Wrenn c. In Midsummer term he was brought to his Trial in the Star Chamber for what he had done but his Answer was so libellous and full of scandal that no Counsellor could be found to put his hand to it according to the course of that Court. So that instead thereof he exhibited a cross bill against the Archb. and his Confederates as he called them charging them with the greatest part of those Reproaches which had been made the subject matter of his former libels which being signed by no hands but by his own and tendred so to the Lord Keeper was by him rejected and himself taken pro confesso his obstinacy in not answering in due form of Law being generally looked upon by the Court as a self conviction On the 14 of June an 1637 he received his sentence which briefly was to this effect that he be fined 5000 l. to the King to loose the remainder of his ears in the Pillory to be branded on both cheeks with the letters S. L. for a schismatical libeller and to be perpetually imprison'd in Caernarvan Castle At the pronouncing of which sentence the Archb. made a long and elaborate
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
Ap. 1646. and once as it seems before the Commons 30. July 1645 and his sermons without doubt were published but such I have not yet seen nor a little thing printed in tw going under the name of Thom. Ford entit The Anatomy of the times This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried on the 28 day of the same month in the Church of S. Lawrence before mention'd near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him I find one Thomas Ford who entitles himself Philothal to be author of Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on our late K. Ch. 1. c. attended with several other pieces from the said pen viz. 1 A theatre of Wits being a collection of Apothegms 2 A century of familiar Letters 3 Loves Laberynth a Trag. Comedy 4 Fragmenta Poetica or poetical diversions concluding with a Panegyrick on his sacred Majesties return Lond. 1660. oct But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell nor whether he was the same T. Forde who translated into English Lusus fortunae c. Lond. 1649. oct GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristow was born in the City of Madrid in Spain in the month of Oct. 1612 made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626 and was then entred a Noble man there At which time and so long as he continued there he was very familiar and held great correspondence with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning In 1636 just after his Majest had left Oxon where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University and by the Archbishop at S. Johns Coll he was among other Persons of honor actually created Master of Arts being then esteemed a Person of good parts and in hopes to do the State service In the beginning of the Long Parliament of which he was a member he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People as being a Person discontented and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford 11. Nov. 1640 and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him he became his Advocate tho all the advantage he got by it was that he lost his own esteem both among the House of Commons and among the Faction From that time he became their declared enemy by being a bold friend of truth and justice which he shewed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl 21. Apr. 1641 ordered to be burnt as I shall tell you anon and therefore was posted up by some in the head of those called Straffordians He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function when both were called into question about that time and a zealous enemy to the Covenant All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness On the 10. of June 1641. he was expell'd the House of Commons not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to saying he was a perjur'd Person but because he was the day before made a Baron and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit in a Coach with 6 horses and no other equipage with him save only a servant riding by him and a Companion in a Coach But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty he was proclaimed Traitor banished and made the publick hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians But the King soon after leaving the Parliament because of their desperate proceedings he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him together with this Lord from beyond the Seas and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty and high Steward of this University in the place of Will Lord Say who adher'd to the Parliament and in the next year he would have been question'd for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon because of a Mutiny that hapned among the Soldiers of the Garrison there but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter In the latter end of 1645 he being then a stirring active man he went into Ireland where he did good service for his Majesty and underwent great hazards of his life but upon the declining of the Kings cause he left that place and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristow and Knight of the Garter being then in exile beyond the Seas suffering much by the loss of his Estate After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost and the year after was installed with others Knight of the said Order became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellour Under his name were printed these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in Parl. 9. Nov. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection c. p. 505. 2 Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments 19. Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections 3 Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition 9. Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby This Sp. spoken 9. Feb. is called the L. Digby's third speech 4 Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publickly burnt on Friday after at 10. of the clock in the morn by the hands of the common hangman in the Pallace-yard at Westminster and another part
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
both express'd the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendor of the Kingdom which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses Upon consideration thereof those Gent. declined it and pitch'd upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been inter'd being on the north side of the Choire near the Altar that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honorable mention of and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoyning having a range of iron bars gilt curiously cut according to Church work c. But as they were about this work some Noble-men came thither namely the Duke of Richmond the Marq. of Hertford the Earl of Lindsey and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London who had license from the Parliament to attend the Kings body to his grave Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Paâement with his staff perceived a hollow sound and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another the one very large of an antique form and the other little These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife as indeed they were The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh tho they had laid there above 100 years The Lords agreeing that the Kings body should be in the said Vault inter'd being about the middle of the Choir over against the eleventh stall upon the Soveraigns side they gave order to have the Kings name and year he died cut in lead which whilst the Work-men were about the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chappel door and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice The Sexton did his best to clear the Chappel nevertheless Isaac the Sextons man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself so as he was not discern'd and being greedy of prey crept into the Vault and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body as he judged would hardly be missed and wimbled also a hole thro the said Coffin that was largest probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person who being searched a bone was found about him with which he said he would haât a knife The Governour being therefore informed of he gave him his reward and the Lords and others present were convinc'd that a real body was in the said great Coffin which some before had scrupled The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the Kings Coffin had only these words King Charles 1648. The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber down into S. George's Hall whence after a little stay it was with a slow and solemn pace much sorrow in most faces being then discernable carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall and the Governour with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after It was then observed that at such time as the Kings body was brought out from S. George's Hall the sky was serene and clear but presently it began to snow and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corps came to the west end of the royal Chappel the black velvet Pall was all white the colour of innocency being thick covered over with snow The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer which the Lords likewise desired but would not be suffer'd by Col. Whitchcot the Governour of the Castle by reason of the Directory to which said he he and others were to be conformable Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign To let pass Merlins Prophecy which some allude to the White Sattin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm Abbey former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus Crownes and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honor and reputation Those must have a period with my life but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity MARTIN LLEWELLIN Lluellyn or Lluelyn so many ways I find him written the seventh son without any daughter between of Mart. Lluellyn was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616 and on the 22 of the said month was baptized in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 at which time he bore arms for his Majesty and was at length a Captain In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that afterward going to the great City he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physick as before it had to Poetry In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power then in the University to be admitted Doctor of Physick and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians In 1660 he was sworn Physitian to his Majesty at that time newly return'd to his Kingdoms and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Mary the Virgin but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon in which office he shew'd himself active enough In 1664 he left the University and setling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks called Great Wycombe practised his faculty there was made a Justice of the Peace for that County and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation in which offices he behaved himself severe against the Phanaticks He hath written Men-miracles A Poem Printed 1656. in oct Divers Poems Printed 1656. in oct Satyrs Printed 1656. in oct Elegies Printed 1656. in oct Divine Poems Printed 1656. in oct Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright a third upon Dr.
1661 he was admitted Bach. of Div and four years after publishing observations on the Evangelists did thereby revive his memory so much in his Coll. that the Society chose him fellow thereof without his knowledge or seeking 17. Dec. 1668. In the year following he proceeded in his faculty was elected Rector of his Coll. an 1672 upon the promotion of Dr. Crew to the See of Oxon and afterwards was made Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In the month of May an 1680 he became Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and upon the promotion of Dr. Frampton to the See of Glocester he was nominated Dean of that Church in Jan. 1680 in which Deanery being installed on the 30. of Apr. 1681. he gave up Bladon in Feb. 1682. He was a person very well vers'd in books was a noted Critick especially in the Gothick and English Saxon tongues a painful preacher a good man and governour and one every way worthy of his station in the Church He hath written Observationes in Evangeliorum versiones perantiquas duas Gothica scil Anglo-saxonica c. Dordrecht 1665. in a thick large quarto The Catechisme set forth in the book of Common-prayer briefly explained by short notes grounded upon holy Scripture Oxon. 1679. oct and several times after The said short notes were drawn up and composed by our author upon the desire and motion of Dr. John Fell Bish of Oxon to be used by the Ministers of his Diocess in the catechising of the Children of their respective Parishes In other editions that followed soon after was added An Essay of questions and answers framed out of the same notes for the exercise of youth by the same hand which Catech. with notes and essay were translated into Welsh by John Williams a Cambridge Scholar Tutor to a certain person of quality in Jesus Coll. in this University Printed at Oxon. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Marshall did also take a great deal of pains in compleating the large English life of the aforesaid Dr. Usher published by Rich. Parr sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll. but died before it was published which hapning suddenly in his lodgings in Linc. Coll. early in the morning of the 19. of Apr. being then Easter Sunday in sixteen hundred eighty and five was buried in that Chancel commonly called the College Chancel of the Church of Allhallows alias Allsaints within the City of Oxon. By his last Will and Test he gave to the publick Library of the Univ. of Oxon all such of his books whether Manuscript or printed that were not then in the said Library except only such that were in his said will otherwise disposed And the remaining part to Linc. Coll. Library I mean such that were not there at that time already c. Also so much money which was raised from his estate that came to 600 l. and more he gave to the said College with which was purchased fourteen pounds per an a fee-farm rent issuing out of the mannour of Little Dean in Glocestershire and twelve pounds per an a rent-charge out of some Lands in Brill in Bucks Which benefaction three Scholars of Linc. Coll. do now successively enjoy In his Deanery succeeded Will. Jane D.D. Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Professor of Div. in this Univ. of Oxon and in his Rectory of Linc. Coll. Fitzherbert Adams Bach. of Div. and Fellow of the said House who hath since been a considerable Benefactor thereunto and may in time be a greater Besides the said Tho. Marshall who was always taken to be an honest and conscientious Puritan was another of both his names author of The Kings censure upon Recusants that refuse the Sacrament of the Lords Supper delivered in three Serm. Lond. 1654. qu. and of other things JOHN MARSHAM second son of Tho. Marsham Citizen and Alderman of London descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in the Parish of S. Barthelmew in London 23. Aug. 1602 educated in the Coll. School at Westminster under Dr. John Wilson became a Communer of S. Johns Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Walker afterwards Master of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1625 in which year he went into France and wintred at Paris In the two following years he visited most parts of that Nation and of Italy and some of Germany and then returned to London In 1629 he went through Holland and Gelderlandht to the siege of Boldoc or Balduck and thence by Flushing to Bologne and Paris to attend Sir Tho. Edmonds Embassador extraordinary to swear the peace at Fountaine Bleau During his abode in London he studied the Municipal Laws in the Middle Temple and in 1637 8 he was sworn one of the six Clerks in Chancery In the beginning of the Civil War he left London followed his Majesty and the Great Seal to Oxon and thereupon was sequestred of his said place by the members of Parl. sitting at Westm plundred and lost to an incredible value After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and compounded among several hundreds of Royallists for his real estate At which time he betook himself wholly to his studies and lived in a retired condition In the beginning of the year 1660 he served as a Burgess for the City of Rochester in that happy Parliament that recalled the King and took away the Court of Wards about which time being restored to his place in Chancery he had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him on the first of July 1660 being then of Whornplace in Kent and three years after was created a Baronet He was a person well accomplish'd exact in Histories whether civil or profane in Chronology and in the Tongues Pere Simon calls him in a preface to a work of his Le grand Marsham de Angleterr and Monsieur Corcaoy the K. of France his Libr. keeper and all the great and learned men of Europe his contemporaries acknowledg him to be one of the greatest Antiquaries and most accurate and learned Writer of his time as appears by their testimonies under their hands and seals in their letters to him which would make a vol. in fol. He hath written Diatriba Chronologica Lond. 1649. qu. Most of which was afterwards remitted into the book that follows Chronicus Canon Aegyptiacus Ebraicus Graecus disquisitiones Lond. 1672. fol. This was reprinted in Lower Germany in qu. with a new Index and Preface wherein are given to the author very great Encomiums by a Forreigner unknown to him There are many things worthy to be inserted thence which for brevity sake I shall now pass by He also wrot the Preface set before the first vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum Lond. 1655. which he entit ΠΡÎΠΥÎÎÎÎÎ Johannis Marshami Printed in 7 sheets and an half in fol. but much disliked and disrellish'd by the Rom. Cath.
Coll. in Oxon and Trin. Coll. in Cambr besides great and large sums of money annually bestowed some to publick and some to private charities His Legacies at his death for charitable uses came to 1500 l which afterwards were paid part to All 's Coll part to the Church of Canterbury part to the Hospital of Harbledowne in Kent and the rest to indigent persons I have heard Sir Joseph Sheldon before mentioned say who was afterwards buried near to the body of his Uncle that from the time of Dr. Sheldon's being made Bishop of London to the time of his death it did appear in the book of his Accompts that he had bestowed upon publick pious and charitable uses about threescore and six thousand pounds In his Archbishoprick succeeded Will. Sancroft D. D. Dean of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in Lond. and sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge who after he had been nominated by the King thro the endeavours of James Duke of York was consecrated in the Abbey Ch. of S Peter at Westm on Sunday the 27 of Jan. 1677. What he hath written and published except 1 Modern policies taken from Machiavel Borgia and other choice authors by an eye witness Lond. 1652 in tw 2 Serm. on the first Sunday in Advent 1660 at the consecration of John Bishop of Durham William Bishop of S. Dav. c. Lond. 166â qu. and 3 Serm. preached to the H. of Peers 13 Nov. 1678 being the Fast day appointed by the King c. Lond 1679. qu. I say what he hath published besides these things let others speak while I tell you that after he had sate in the said See without the exception of any and had behaved himself with great prudence and moderation was after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown deprived with five other Bishops for not swearing Allegiance and Supremacy to that Prince and his Queen JOHN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin afterwards Fell. of Jesus Coll. in this Univ was consecrated Bish of Ossory in Ireland on the death of Griff. Williams in the beginning of the year 1672 and died a little before the Nativity in sixteen hundred seventy and seven under which year you may see more among the Writers p. 448. In the said See succeeded his brother Ben. Parry as I am now about to tell you BENJAMIN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin afterwards of Jesus in this Univ and at length Fellow of Corp. Ch. was consecrated Bish of Ossory in Jan. 1677 and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 462. In the said See succeeded Dr. Michael Ward as I have elsewhere told you RALPH BRIDEOAKE son of Rich. Brid by Cicely his wife dau of John Booth of Lancashire and he the son of another Richard of Adbaston was born as I have been informed at Chitham Hill near Manchester in the said County was admitted a Student in Brasn Coll. 15 Jul. 1630 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and determining soon after his Disputations did so much please Dr. Pink Warden of New Coll then Vicechancellour of the Univ that he forthwith upon enquiry that his condition was mean made him a Pro-Chaplain of the said New Coll. In 1636 he among many others was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of his Maj. Letters dated at Oxon he being then accounted a good Greecian and Poet But having nothing to keep up the degr of Master only his employment in the said Coll he became Curat of Wytham near Oxon for Dr. Joh. Brikenden sometimes of Magd. Coll and Corrector of the Press in Oxon. In which last employment hapning to correct a book of Dr. Tho Jackson President of C. C. Coll to whom he had often recess that Doctor had such an affection for him that upon the vacancy of the Free-school at Manchester founded by Bishop Hugh Oldham of which the President of the said Coll. for the time being is Patron he forthwith gave the government of it to him So that being soon after setled there he by his interest and great forwardness became Chaplain to the Earl of Derby whom and his family he much pleased And when Latham House in Lanc. belonging to the said Count was besieged by the Forces belonging to Parliament he was all the time in it and did good service When the Kings Cause declined he stuck close to the said family and managed as 't is said most of the Estate belonging to it In 1651 his Lord James Earl of Derby being engaged for K. Ch. 2. at Worcester fight and before he was after the loss of the day taken by the Parliamenteers in Cheshire Whereupon he being like to lose his life this his Chaplain Mr. Brideoake with others were desired to sollicit the Grandees at Westminster to save him and Will. Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Com. being much plyed by the said Chaplain with more than ordinary reason and application Lenthall thereupon when he saw nothing could save his Lords life finding him to be a man of parts and business made him his own proper Chaplain and soon after Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane Which act of his tho noble and generous yet he was clamour'd at and gained the ill will of divers members of Parliament for his entertaining openly and afterwards preferring a Malignant as they term'd him Soon after by Lenthall's endeavours he became Vicar of a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Witney where being setled he preached twice every Lords day and in the Evening catechised the Youth in his own house outvying in labour and vigilancy any of the godly Brethren in those parts He also by his Patron 's means got the Rectory of the said place which had been leased out to be annexed to the Vicaridge whereby it became one of the richest Rectories in Oxford Diocess and not long after he was made Minister of S. Bartholmew near the Royal Exchange in London where in holding forth preaching and laying about him in the Pulpit he equalled any of the holy Brethren of that City On the 14 of March 1659 he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Act of Parliament for the approbation and admission of Ministers of the Gospel after the Presbyterian mode but that Act soon after vanishing upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he by his unwearied diligence and application was made Chaplain to his Majesty installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thom. Howell B. of Bristow several years before dead on the 11 day of July and actually created Doct. of Div. in the beginning of Aug. following an 1660. About that time he became Rector of the rich Church of Standish in his native Country given formerly to him by the Earl of Derby but hindred from enjoying it by the Triers in Oliver's Reign between whom and him followed some controversie concerning that matter but how terminated I cannot tell
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râg Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
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. Atkâns Kt. of the Bath then late
of Magd. Hall The first of these two who was the celebrated Poet of his time I have mention'd among the Writers the other who was afterwards of All 's Coll. I shall mention among the Masters an 1677. 25. Joh. Kettlewell of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. Nov. 3. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. Nov. 3. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall Of these two you may see more among the Masters 1677. Jan. 19. Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 6. George Tully of Qu. Coll. 13. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll. Mar. 1. George Royse of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Oriel Coll. These three last Bachelaurs with J. Parkinson J. Kettlewell c. having since published several things ought therefore to be remembred at large hereafter Adm. 244. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch. May 16. Joh. Barrow of S. Edm. Hall He was admitted Master two terms sooner than he ought to have been by vertue of the Chancellours Letters because he was to go Chaplain to Sir Will. Temple of Shene in Surrey Bt his Maj. Embassador to Holland After his return he became Lecturer of S. Mich. Cornhill in Lond. and Curat to Dr. George Hooper at Lambeth during the said Dottors attendance on Mary Princess of Orange in Holland Afterwards he became Vicar of New Windsore in Berks and on the 26. of Aug. 1682 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Butler deceased He hath published A Sermon preached at the triennial Visitation of Seth L. Bish of Sarum held at Reading 6. Sept. 1683 on Philip 1.15.16.17.18 Lond. 1683 qu. This person who was a Northamptonshire man born was esteemed while he continued in the University a man of polite parts a good Poet and Orator He died in 1684 or thereabouts June 26. Aaron Baker of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards a Preacher at or near Putney in Surrey and at length beneficed in his own Country of Devonshire He hath published Achitophel befool'd Sermon preached 5. Nov. 1678 at S. Sepulchres in Lond. on 2. Sam. 15.31 Lond. 1678-79 qu. July 4. Francis Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 9. Matthew Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Archdeacon of Merioneth July 9. Jonath Blagrave of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Sub-Almoner to Qu. Mary Preb. of Worcester c. Oct. 24. Joh. Bennion of Hart lately of S. Edmunds Hall He was afterwards Vicar of Malmsbury in Wilts and author of Moses's charge to Israels Judges opened in an Assize Sermon at Salisbury 27. Feb. 1680 on Deut. 1.16 and part of the 17 vers Oxon. 1681. qu. Adm. 129. Bach. of Phys June 27. Joh. Floyer of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Joh. Locke of Ch. Ch. Adm. 5. Bach. of Div. July 9. Obad. Howe of Magd. Hall Oct. 13. Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Stogursey in Somersetshire hath two Sermons extant viz. 1 Our Saviours passion in a Serm. on Good Friday 1. Apr. 1670 in S. Peters Cath. Ch. Exon on Acts 2.23 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached at Taunton on the Feast of Epiphany before the Forces of the Militia of the County of Somerset met there for the preservation of the peace of the town on Luke 2.17 Lond. 1689. qu. Oct. 29. Thom. Smith of Magd. Coll. Nov. 3. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. 11 William Jane of Ch. Ch. 11 Joh. Morton of Linc. Coll. The last who was afterwards Preb. of Durham was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland on the death of Dr. William Turner sometimes of Trin. Coll on the 5 of Octob. 1685. The degree of Doct. of Div. was granted to him on the 6. of Apr. 1692. Mar. 24. Nathan Sterry of Mert. Coll. In the month of Sept. going before he was made Dean and Rector of Bocking in Essex Adm. 19. Doct. of Law May 30. Thom. Taylor of Magd. Hall Doct. of Phys June 25. Joh. Jacobeus a Dane Accumulators July 4. Franc. Eedes of Ch. Ch. Accumulators The first of these two had spent 14 years in study in several Universities and more than the last five in Oxon where he wholly addicted himself to the study of Physick He did not stand in the Act to compleat his degree neither was he licensed to practice his faculty tho sometimes he did it privately in these parts whereupon he returned to his Country of Denmark and practised there c. Doct. of Div. Apr. 6. Thomas Ryves of New Coll. June 4. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. 17. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. a Compounder In the month of Feb. 1675 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. upon the translation of Dr. Henry Compton from the See of Oxon to that of London who while he was B. of Oxon held his Canonry in Commendam with it 17. Timothy Halton of Queens Coll. a Comp. Archdeacon of Brecknock and Canon of S. David In 1675 he became Archdeacon of Oxford on the promotion of Dr. Thom. Barlow to the See of Linc and on the 7 of Apr. 1677 he was elected Provost of Queens Coll which place Dr. Barlow had kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick two years July 9. Obad. Howe of Magd. Hall He accumulated the degrees ân Div. Incorporations From the 5. of May to the 14. of July were 12 Cambridge Masters of Arts incorporated whereof 9 of them were received into the bosom of this University on the said 14. of July being the next day after Act Munday but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop July 18. Michael Ward Doct. of Div. of Dublin and Cambridge was incorp in the said degree with liberty given him to suffragate in Congreg and Convoc He was afterwards Provost of Trinity Coll. near to and the Kings Professor of the Univ. of Dublin afterwards B. of Ossory and at length of London-Derry in which last he was succeeded by Ezek. Hopkins an 1681. CREATIONS In the month of June the Sweedish Embassador with other Forreigners accompanied by some English men coming to the University were Creations made in the two faculties of Arts and Civil Law Mast of Arts. June 27. David Macklier Captain of a prefectorian company belonging to the King of Sweedland Sam. Monsson Agriconius Secretary to the extraordinary Embassie from the K. of Sweedland was created the same day Christianus Fredericus Secretary to the Embassador or Envoy extraord from the Elector of Brandeburg was also created at the same time Doct. of Law June 27. The most illustrious and excellent Lord Peter Sparre free Baron in Croneberge Lord of Nynas Peuteberg and Tulgarne General of the Army of Foot belonging to the King of Sweedland Governour of Elfborglhen and Daal and extraordinary Embassador to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said King of Sweedland was with solemnity actually created Doct. of the Civil Law The illustrious Lord Otto free Baron of Schwerin Counsellour of the State of
notwithstanding not long before and I think then also he refused to subscribe the 39 Articles and so consequently did not desert the Religion of Rome out of desire of preferment or for temporal ends which the Author of The direction to N. N. objected to him by reason that this his refusal did incapacitate him for all places of benefit in England a previous subscription of the said 39 Articles being the only common door that here leads to any such This refusal was grounded on his scrupling the truth only of one or two Propositions contained in them and these his small doubts too were afterwards fully satisfied and removed before his advancement in the Church otherwise he could not have conscientiously subscribed the 39 Articles which is indispensibly required of all persons upon any ecclesiastical promotion But to return so it was that he finding not that satisfaction from the Jesuits concerning various points of Religion or as some say not that respect which he expected for the common report among his Contemporaries in Trin. Coll. was that the Jesuits to try his temper and exercise his obedience did put him upon servile duties far below him he left them in the year 1631 returned to the Church of England tho the Presbyterians said not but that he was always a Papist in his heart or as we now say in masquerade and was kindly received by his Godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London So that fixing himself for a time in his beloved Oxford he did in testimony of his reconcilement make a Recantation and afterwards wrot a book against the Papists as I shall anon tell you For which his service he was rewarded with the Chancellourship of the Church of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. Br. Duppa to the See of Chichester in the month of July 1638 and about the same time with the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital in the antient Borough of Leycester Both which and perhaps other preferments he kept to his dying day He was a most noted Philosopher and Orator and without doubt a Poet also otherwise Sir Joh. Suckling would not have brought him into his Poem called The session of Poets and had such an admirable faculty in reclaiming Schismaticks and confuting Papists that none in his time went beyond him He had also very great skill in Mathematicks and his aid and counsel was often used in making Fortifications for the Kings Garrisons especially those of the City of Glocester and Arundell Castle in Sussex He was a subtile and quick Disputant and would several times put the Kings Professor to a push Hobbes of Malmsbury would often say that he was like a lusty fighting fellow that did drive his Enemies before him but would often give his own party smart back-blows And 't was the current Opinion in this University that he and Lucius Lord Falkland had such extraordinary clear reason that if the great Turk or Devil were to be converted they were able to do it He was a man of little stature but of great soul which if times had been serene and life spared might have done incomparable service to the Church of England He wrot and published The Religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation or an answer to a book entit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholicks which pretends to prove the contrary Oxon. 1636. 38. Lond. 1664. 74. c. All which impressions were in fol. In which book the Author made very much use of Joh. Daillé a learned French Divine as about the same time the L. Falkland did in his Writings who was wont to say it was worth a Voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him He calls him our Protestant Perron c. The book that The Religion of Protestants c. answer'd was written by Edw. Knott a Jesuit against Dr. Potters book entit Want of Charity c. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of him under the year 1645. Before the said Relig. of Protestants c. went to the press it was at the desire of Dr. Laud corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux who afterwards among his friends would liken it to an unwholsome Lamprey by having a poysonous sting of Socinianism throughout it and tending in some places to plain infidelity and atheisme After it was published the general character given of its Author was that he had better luck in pulling down buildings than raising new ones and that he has managed his sword much more dexterous than his buckler c. yet the very same Author who reports this doth in a manner vindicate him elsewhere from being a Socinian which may in some sort confute the Jesuit Edw. Knott before mention'd It must be now known that our Author being of intimate acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eaton he did use his assistance when he was in compiling his book of The Religion c. especially in that part wherein he vindicates the English Church from schism charged on her by Knott And that he might more clearly understand Hales he desired him that he would communicate his thoughts in writing concerning the nature of Schism Whereupon he wrot a Tract thereof as I shall tell you when I come to him out of which our Author Chillingworth urged some Arguments which as one thinks are the worst in all his book and so it is thought by many more However if not as some affirm yet they have caused ill reflections not only on the private reputation of Hales and Chillingworth but on the Church of England as if it did favour the Socinian Principles But as for an exact summary of the doctrines of his belief after what manner to be qualified and how little he favoured Socinianism which that he did in an high degree his adversaries of Rome and some of the sectarian party at home did constantly and malitiously suggest When the said book was in the press Dr. Potter of Qu. Coll. wrot to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. 15 Sept. 1637 that Knott the Jesuit was in Oxon and had the sheets thereof sent to him as they came from the press giving five shillings for every sheet but this doth otherwise appear from Knott's words elsewhere There was also another Jesuit called Will. Lacey then dwelling in Oxon who perusing the said book gave his opinion of it in a Treatise entit The judgment of an University-man on Mr. Chillingworth's book which I shall elsewhere mention Besides him were two or three more at least that answered it as J. H. in Christianity maintained or a discovery of sundry doctrines tending to the overthrow of Christian Religion contained in the answer to a book entit Mercy and truth c. printed 1638. qu the Author of The Church conquerant over humane wit c. printed the same year and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmask'd c. Our Author Chillingworth hath also written The apostolical institution of Episcopacy demonstrated Lond. 1660. qu. there again
in 1642. quarto 2 Speech in the House of Commons at the passing of two Bills Lond. 1641. qu. c. Several Arguments and Discourses See in Joh. Rushworths Append. p. 28. and in a book intit The Sovereigns Prerogative and Subjects Privileges discussed c. Lond. 1657. fol. Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in the 2.3.4.5.6 and 7. of King Charles I. Lond. 1683. fol. These things I think are all that he hath extant except his Humble submission and supplication to the House of Lords 28. Sept. 1642. which is more than once printed under his name yet whether genuine I cannot tell He was untimely taken from this world to the sorrow of his Majesty on the 27. of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and five being then a Colonel of a Foot Regiment in Oxon and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty and was buried between the two lower Pillars which divides the first North isle from the second on the North side of the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Hammond the University Orator did lay open to the large Auditory then present the great Loyalty prudence knowledge virtue c. that had been in the person that then lay dead before them Over his grave was a costly monument of black and white marble erected in the month of May an 1683 at the charge of his only daughter and Heir Anne Littleton the Widdow of Sir Thom. Littleton Bt with a noble inscription thereon wherein 't is said that this Edward Lord Littleton was descended from Tho. Littleton Knight of the Bath qui sub Edwardo IV. Justiciarius Leges Angliae municipales prius indigestas in Enchiridion feliciter reduxit Opus in omne aevum Jc tis venerandum c. GILES WIDDOWES was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1610 being then Bac. of Arts of that House of two years standing or more Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty entred into Orders and became a noted Preacher At length being made Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon he resign'd his Fellowship in 1621 and lived in the condition of a Commoner for several years in Gloc. Hall of which he was for the most part of his time Viceprincipal He was a harmless and honest man a noted Disputant well read in the Schoolmen and as conformable to and zealous in the established discipline of the Church of England as any Person of his time yet of so odd and strange parts that few or none could be compared with him He was also a great enemy to the schismatical Puritan in his Sermons and Writings which being much offensive to his quondam Pupil Will. Prynne a controversie therefore fell out between them an 1630 and continued for some time very hot till Prynne was diverted by other matters He hath written The schismatical Puritan Serm. at Witney concerning the lawfulness of Church authority for ordaining c. on 1. Cor. 14. ver ult Oxon. 1630. qu. Which being unadvisedly written and much displeasing to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. was as scurrilously answer'd by Prynne in his appendix to his Ante Arminisme The lawless kneeless schismatical Puritan Or a confutation of the Author of an appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus Oxon. 1631. qu. and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He was buried in the Chancel of S. Martins Church before-mention'd on the fourth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and five having been before much valued and beloved and his high and loyal Sermons frequented by the Royal Party and Soldiers of the garrison of Oxford to the poorer sort of whom he was always beneficial as also ready at all turns to administer to them in their distressed condition CHRISTOPHER POTTER Nephew to Dr. Barn Potter mention'd under the year 1641 received his first breath within the Barony of Kendall in Westmorland became Clerk of Queens Coll. in the beginning of 1606 and in that of his age 15 afterwaâds Tabarder M. of Arts and Chaplain in 1613 and at length Fellow of the said College He was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray Provost of that House some of whose works he published and a zealous puritanical Lecturer at Abendon in Berks. where he was much resorted to for his edifying way of preaching In 1626 he succeeded the said Dr. Barn Potter in the Provostship of his Coll. and the next year proceeded in Divinity Soon after when Dr. Laud became a rising favourite in the Royal Court he after a great deal of seeking was made his creature and therefore by the precise Party he was esteemed an Arminian In the latter end of 1635 he being then Chapl. in Ord. to His Maj. he was made Dean of Worcester upon Dr. Rog. Manwarings promotion to the See of S. David having before had a promise of a Canonry of Windsore but never enjoyed it and in the year 1640 he executed the office or Vicechancellour of this University not without some trouble from the members of the Long Parliament occasion'd by the puritanical and factious party of the Univ. and City of Oxon. Afterwards the grand rebellion breaking out he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and therefore upon the death of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall he was designed and nominated by his Maj. to succeed him in the Deanery of Durham in the month of January 1645 but died before he was installed He was a Person esteemed by all that knew him to be learned and religious exemplary in his behavior and discourse courteous in his carriage and of a sweet and obliging nature and comely presence He hath written and published A Sermon at the consecration of Barnab Potter D. D. Bish of Carlile at Ely House in Holbourne 15. March 1628 on John 21.17 Lond. 1629. oct It must be now noted that a certain Jesuit known sometimes by the name of Edw. Knott and sometimes by that of Nich. Smith and at other times by Mathew Wilson which was his true name born at Pegsworth near Morpeth in Northumberland did publish a book intit Charitie Mistaken c. whereupon our Author Potter answered it in another intit Want of charity justly charged on all such Romanists as dare affirme that protestancie destroyeth salvation c. Oxon. 1633. oct Which book being perus'd by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. he caused some matters therein to be omitted in the next impression which was at Lond. 1634. oct But before it was quite printed Knott before-mention'd put out a book intit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholiques By way of reply upon an answer fram'd by Dr. Potter to a treatise which had formerly proved that charity was mistaken by Protestants c. printed beyond the Sea 1634. in qu. Whereupon Will. Chillingworth undertook him in his book called The religion of Protestants c. which contains an answer only to the first part of Mercy and truth c. For tho Chillingworth had made
then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsore castle then under the command of Collonel John Venn In which office he shewed him so violent against the King and his cause that he was usually stiled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsore This Venn by the way it must be known did while Governour of that Castle exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there but being dismist of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place he retired to London carried on the cause there with great zeal was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber as some say others that he died suddenly in his bed on the 7 of July at night or early next morning an 1650. In the year 1644 when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them on the first day of their meeting Jan. 30 being the Market-day In which his Sermon full of dire he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesties Person and derogatory to his honour stirring up the People against the Treatie and incensing them against the Kings Commissioners telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood and that there was as great distance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell or words to that effect with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster who thereupon tho they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love yet they did confine him and where should it be but to that very house where his Mistress then lived whom for two years going before he had wooed with prayers sermons and ugly faces After this he was made Minister of S. Anns Church near to Aldersgate a Recruiter of the Assemb of Divines and at length Minister of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it which was upon this account After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them and to that end corresponded with him and supplied him and his with money contrary to an Act of Parliament then lately made in that case provided These matters being discovered our Author Love Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Will. Jenkyns and other London Ministers as also one Dr. Roger Drake a Physician as it seems were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651 as being the chief Actors in the said treason as they then called it Soon after it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster that Mr. Love the Minister then Prisoner in the Tower should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651 not for any matter of doctrine as it was then given out but for high treason as they said and conspiracy against the common-wealth of England He and the rest as the Independent then said had outstript the Jesuit both in practice and project as having not only tamper'd with mens consciences in private beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial and one Jackson a Minister Arth. Jackson as it seems refusing then to give in evidence against him was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again and as 't was then said by his enemies in his carriage and behaviour he discover'd as much ridiculous impudence equivocation and hypocrisie as ever any Person did upon the like occasion adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June he appeared again and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale Mr. John Archer and Mr. Tho. Walter but the two last having not taken the Engagement were not suffer'd to plead for him At which time Mr. Love as the Independent said was full of malepert carriage matchless impudence obstinacy and impatiency On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf viz. one from divers Ministers another from himself and a third from his Wife he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following and thence to the 22. of the same month What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession you shall have it from his own mouth which he spoke When he was tried for his life thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilst I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to this day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King I gave my all and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war but unless my books and wearing apparrel I contributed all I had in the world and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away yet for all that I repent not of what I have done I have in my measure ventured my all in the same quarrel that you were engaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another I die cleaving to all those Oathes Vowes Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my judgment for them to the protestation the vow and the covenant the solemn league and covenant And this I tell you all that I had rather die a Covenant keeper than live a Covenant breaker c. As for his writings and works they are these The debauched Cavilier or
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
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
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
at Bridgnorth also and afterwards was Bishop of Cork Cloyne and Ross in the said Kingdom of Ireland who if I mistake not had received some of his Education in this University WILLIAM STAMPE son of Tim. St. of Brâwern-Abbey near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire Gent. was born in that County entred a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1626 and in that of his age 16. Afterwards being made Fellow of that House he proceeded in Arts entred into holy Orders and exercised his Function in S Aldates Church joyning to his Coll. in 1637. Some time before the Rebellion brake out he was made Vicar of Stepney near London where he was much resorted to by persons of orthodox principles for his edifying way of preaching But when the restless Presbyterians had brought all things into confusion he was violently thrust out imprison'd plunder'd and at length forced to get away and fly for the safety of his life At that time Oxford being the chief place of refuge for men of his condition he made shift to get there about the beginning of 1643 and his case being made known to the King then there this Order following was written by Lord Falkland his Secretary to the Vicechancellour of the University that he have the degree of Doctor of Div. confer'd on him The Kings Majesty taking into his princely consideration the great Sufferings of Mr. Will. Stampe who hath not only undergone a long and hard Imprisonment of 34 weeks but also is now outed of a very good Living and all this for preaching Loyalty and Obedience to a disaffected Congregation to the extream hazard of his life His Majesty being willing to repair these his Sufferings and to encourage his known Abilities for which by special favour and grace he is sworn Chaplain to his dearest son the Prince hath commanded me to signifie to you that you forthwith confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity c. In obedience to which order he was actually created Doctor of that Faculty in July the same year Afterwards upon the declining of the King and his Party he followed the Prince beyond the seas was afterwards made Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia and became a frequent Preacher among the Protestants at Charenton near to Paris and a zealous Assertor of the English Liturgy His works are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Serm. preached before his Maj. at Ch. Ch. in Oxford 28 Apr. 1643 on Isa 59.1.2 Oxon. 1643. qu. 2 Spiritual Infatuation delivered in several Sermons on Isa 6.9 c. printed at the Hague 1650. in oct Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of Engl. Whether printed I know not He died of a fever at the Hague in Holland about sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Church of Loesdune near that Town or City as I have been informed by the most rev and learned Dr. Morley late Bishop of Winchester In the said Church at Loesdune is a Bason wherein according to the vulgar tradition were baptized as many Children as there be days in the year born at one birth of the body of Margaret Countess of Hennenberg LANCELOT DAWES was born at Barton-Kirk in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1597 aged 17 and two years after being made a poor serving child was when Bach. of Arts standing made Tabarder and in the year 1605 M. of Arts and Fellow While he continued there he became by a studious retiredness and a severe discipline a singular Ornament of that House But being thence called to the pastoral charge of that place which first welcom'd him into the world he was quickly taken notice of as worthy of a more eminent station in the Church that is a Prebendship in the Cath. Church of Carlile to which he was accordingly prefer'd to the general liking of all the knowing and pious Divines in his Diocess with whom for a comprehensive and orthodox judgment adorned with all variety of learning he was ever held in great estimation About that time he was made Doctor of Div. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland and Rector of Ashby in his own County His works are these Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1653. qu. divided into two parts The first containeth six Sermons under this general title Gods mercies and Jerusalems miseries The first is on Jer. 5.1 c. In this first part are contained Two Sermons preached at the Assize holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times Oxon. 1614. oct The first is on Math. 26.15 the other on Psal 82.6.7 The second part containeth six more Sermons under this tit The healing of the plague of the heart The first is on Luke 12.32 c. Before this last part Tho. Tully M. A. of Queens Coll. hath an Epist to the Reader in commendation of them This Dr. Dawes who had submitted to the men in Authority during the time of Rebellion died in the month of Febr. as it seems in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel belonging to the Church at Barton Kirk before mentioned Over his grave was afterwards a plain stone laid with an Inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Pastor of the said Church 48 years and that he died in March 1654. Which last is false for in the Will Office near S. Pauls Cathedral I find that Letters of Administration were issued out to William his Brother dated the eleventh of March 1653 whereby he was impower'd to administer the Goods Debts Chattels of him the said Lanc. Dawes lately deceased Besides his Epitaph were made three copies of Verses viz. one in Greek by the said Tho. Tully another in Lat. and the third in English by Joseph Williamson and Clem. Ellis Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. All which being fairly transcrib'd were put in a frame and fastned to the Wall over the grave of the Defunct near whom was his son of both his names buried 18 May 1655. EDMUND CHILMEAD was born at Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire became one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 and not long after was made one of the petty Canons or Chaplains of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Whence being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he was forced such were the then times to obtain a living by that which before was only a diversion to him I mean by a weekly musick meeting which he set up at the Black Horse in Aldersgatâstreet in London He was a choice Mathematician a noted Critick and one that understood several Tongues especially the Greek very well He hath written De musicâ antiquâ Graecâ Published at Oxon at the end of Oxford Edition of Aratus an 1672. oct Annotationes in Odas Dionysii Printed also there in 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 lengâh our Author retiring to London to gain health and to print some of his books took up his Lodging in
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
for plunder'd Ministers at Westminster where he began to make a solemn profession of his faith in Orthodox Language to the admiration of some there that had heard and were ready to witness against him the said blasphemies But the then Chairman took him up and commanded him silence saying we know your tricks well enough c. To say the truth he had Language at command and could dissemble for matter of profit or to avoid danger and it was very well known he was only a meer Cantâr However he is characterized by those of his perswasion to have been a holy harmless man for which not only the World hated him but also those of the Church and add that 't is hoped they did it ignorantly On the 12 of Octob. 1653 he with John Webster sometimes a Cambridge Scholar endeavoured to knock down Learning and the Ministry both together in a disputation that they then had against two Ministers in a Church in Lombard-street in London Erbury then declared that the wisest Ministers and purest Churches were at that time befool'd confounded and defiled by reason of Learning Another while he said that the Ministers were Monsters Beasts Asses greedy Dogs false Prophets and that they are the Beast with seven heads and ten horns The same Person also spoke out and said that Babylon is the Church in her Ministers and that the great Whore is the Church in her Worship c. So that with him there was an end of Ministers and Churches and Ordinances altogether While these things were babled to and fro the multitude being of various opinions began to mutter and many to cry out and immediatly it came to a mutiny or tumult call it which you please wherein the Women bore away the bell but lost some of them their kerchiefs And the dispute being hot there was more danger of pulling down the Church than the Ministry This our Author Erbury hath written The great Mysterie of Godliness Jesus Christ our Lord God and Man and Man with God one in Jesus Christ our Lord. Lond. 1640. oct Relation of a publick discourse between him and Mr. Franc. Cheywell in S. Maries Church in Oxon 11. Jan. 1646. Lond. 1646. in 4 sh in qu. published by Cheynell or some of Erburys Party Ministers for tythes proving they are no Ministers of the Gospel Lond. 1653. qu. Sermons on several occasions one of which is entit The Lord of Hosts c. printed 1653. qu. An Olive leaf or some peaceable considerations to the Christian meeting at Ch. Church in London Munday 9. Jan. 1653. The raigne of Christ and the Saints with him on Earth a thousand years one day and the day at hand These two last were printed at London 1654 in one sh and half and dedicated to Mr. John Rogers Mr. Vavasor Powell and other Fanatical People at Ch. Ch. in London His Testimony left upon record for the Saints of succeeding ages printed with his Tryal at Westminster This was published after his death at Lond. 1658. qu. What other things he hath written or go under his name I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in the beginning of the year in April I think sixteen hundred fifty and four and was as I conceive buried either at Ch. Church beforementioned or else in the Cemiterie joyning to Old Bedlam near London Quaere Within few days after was a silly and impudent Pamphlet written and published by J. L. entit A small mite in memory of the late deceased and never to be forgotten Mr. Will. Erbury printed at Lond. in Apr. 1654 in one sheet in oct Whereunto are added Two new Songs one of which are brief touches on the 12. Chapt. of the Revelat. c. to the tune of When the King enjoys his own again The other touching the doing away of sin through our Lord Christ in our Souls c. to the tune of Sound a charge In my readings I meet with one Dorcas alias Mary Erbury who was a great admirer and follower of James Nayler the Quaker after the death of Will. Erbury Which Dorcas who was his Widow did really confess upon her examination for her villanies by a Magistrate that the said Nayler was the holy one of Israel and the only begotten Son of God that he raised her after she had been dead two days and that he should sit at the right hand of the Father and should judge the World with equity c. JOHN GRAYLE Son of Jo. Gr. of Stone in Glocestershire Priest was born in that County entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a Puritannical Preacher In 1645 or thereabouts he succeeded one Mr. George Holmes in the Mastership of the Free-School at Guilford in Surrey and afterwards was made Rector of Tidworth in Wilts where he was much followed by the precise and godly party He hath written against Will. Eyre of Sarum A modest vindication of the Doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace and the Defenders thereof from the aspersions of Arminianisme and Popery Which W. E. cast on them Lond. 1655. qu. published after the Authors death by Constantine Jessop who hath put a preface to it What else our Author hath written unless Sermons I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four was buried in Tidworth Church At which time Dr. Hump. Chambers his neighbour preached his funeral Sermon before the Brethren then in great numbers present In the latter end of which Sermon which is printed as also in the Epistle before it you may read much in commendation of our Author Grayle who tho a Presbyterian yet tinged he was with Arminianisme HENRY ELSYNGE eldest Son of Hen. Els Esq and he the Son of another Henry a Citizen of London Son of John Elsynge of Daxworth in Cambridgshire was born in Surrey particularly as I conceive at Battersey where his Father who was Clerk of the Lords House of Parliament and a Person of great abilities mostly lived educated in Grammar learning in Westminster School under Mr. Lamb. Osbaldeston a Person very fortunate in breeding up many Wits became Commoner of Ch. Church in the beginning of the year 1622 took one degree in Arts and afterwards at several times spent more than 7 years in travelling through various Countries beyond the Seas whereby he became so accomplished that at his last return his company and conversation was not only desired by many of the Nobility but Clergy also and was so highly valued by Dr. Laud Archb of Canterbury that he procured him the place of Clerk of the House of Commons This crown'd his former labours and by it he had opportunity given to manifest his rare abilities which in short time became so conspicuous especially in taking and expressing the sense of the House that none as 't was believed that ever sate there
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
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. Strâde 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
what he had done and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire On Ap. 10. an 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne W. Prynne and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford By the first because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College By the second because he had furnished the Lords of the Council with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears c. and by the last because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle to the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service In the year 1642 leaving his Preb. of Westminster and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come he followed the King to Oxon where having little to live upon did by the Kings command write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus which had been begun by John Birkenhead who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries far more than Heylyn In the beginning of the year following 1643 he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm because of his retirement to the King and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate and seize upon his Goods Which Order being put in execution his incomparable Libâary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth In 1644 hâs singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded his hopes of rising higher in the Church were totally blasted So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate he stuck to his temporal for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall and to the earning of money by writing books In 1645 he left Oxon and shifted from place to place like the old travels of the Patriarchs and in pity to his necessity some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies he left them in a disguise and being entertained by several Loyalists removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647 where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books the publishing of which especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio was a great relief to him Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court which being but five miles from Oxon he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure either from Shops the Libraries of acquaintance there particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll. or by his repair to Bodlies Library and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England and the true genuine sense thereof Afterwards he suffer'd in his Estate by Decimation which trick being brought up by Oliver while Protector many Families thereby especially such that had before compounded were thereby undone In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his spiritualities but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster which was a wonder to many and a great discontent to him and his but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther He was a Person endowed with singular gifts of a sharp and pregnant wit solid and clear judgment In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet but very conceited and pragmatical in his elder a better Historian a noted Preacher and a ready or extemporanean Speaker He had a tenacious memory to a miracle whereunto he added an incredible patience in study in which he persisted when his Eye-sight failed him He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes tho of very mean port and presence and therefore by some of them he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative either in their afflicted or prosperous estate a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks a despiser of envy and in mind not at all discouraged He writ many books upon various Subjects containing in them many things that are not vulgar either for stile or argument and wrot also History pleasant enough but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme His works which are very many are these Spurius a Tragedie Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed Theomachia a Com. Made in the year 1618 but not printed Microcosmus A description of the great World Oxon. 1622. 24 c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio entit Cosmography in four books Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand 1651 for after it was finished his eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church and opposition of the present Lond. 1631. and 33. qu. The institution of the most noble Order of S. George named the Garter Printed with the former Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging Printed also with the Hist of St. George 1631. and 33. In which last edition is at the end A review of the whole work consisting of additions and emendations On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day the Author of the said History and its adjuncts was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London a great incourager of learning and industry to his Majesty being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall to whom he did present them Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book he did graciously accept of it and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster and was used by
1000 l. per an and any thing else that he desired Besides these honourable places he had 6000 l. at one time given to him by the Parliament and at another the Rectory and Demesness of Burford in Oxfordshire with a stately house there lately belonging to Lucius Viscount Falkland as the Author of the Mystery of the good old cause reports but falsly as I suppose for about the year 1634 the said Will. Lenthall did for the sum of 7000 l. or thereabouts purchase of the said Lucius the Priory house the stately house before mention'd and Land belonging thereunto descended to him from Elizabeth Dau. and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfeild Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer sometimes the Wife of Henry Lord Falkland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Father of Lucius In Aug. 1648 when there was a debate in the Parliament house whether the Treaty should be with the King in the Isle of Wight upon the propositions of Hampton Court there were for it 57 yeas and against it 57 noes Whereupon he as Speaker turn'd the Scales to yeas which was the best thing he ever did Oliver once made a spunge of and squeez'd from him 15000 l. and turning him and his tribe the Long Parliament out of doors in 1653 after he had sate it out in all changes and resisted many storms and high complaints against him he veered about to save himself his great offices and chiefly to avoid a new encounter or frown from the present power So that he that had been so long the Belweather in the H. of Commons was thought fit for his compliance and money to be one of the Other House In 1654 he was elected one of the Knights of Oxfordshire and Burgess for the City of Glocester to serve in that Parliament called by Oliver to meet at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year of which Parliament he was chosen Speaker When that Convention call'd the Rump Parliament was invited by the Army to sit again 6 May 1659 for they had been turn'd out by Oliver in 1653 he became Speaker also as he had been before and on the 23 of the said month he was constituted and appointed Keeper of the Great Seal for the Commonwealth of England for eight days only next ensuing But that Parliament which was filled up by the members secluded thence in 1648 being dissolved on the 16 of March following he endeavoured by his Agents to be chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 25 Apr. 1660 as at one or two places besides where he had canvas'd for votes but missing his design he retired in private and endeavoured to hide or convey away the vast deluge of wealth which he had obtained as also to secure to his posterity that estate he had purchased in the name of other People But being at length to be called to an accompt for what he had done the Healing Parliament that then met resolved on the eleventh of June that he the said Will. Lenthall be one of the twenty to be excepted out of the general Act of indempnity and oblivion to suffer such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to life as shall be thought fit to be inflicted by an Act hereafter to be made for that purpose But that Act being soon after made I find therein that if he the said Will. Lenthall should after the first of Sept. 1660 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 by name in the said Act. And well it was that he escaped so for had it not been for his money and the mercy of his Prince whereby he got a general pardon he might have been totally sequestred of his Estate and made perpetual Prisoner So that then being free he became a witness on the Kings side against Tho. Scot the Regicide when he and others of that gang were to be tried for their lives And afterwards retiring to his house at Burford before mention'd where he built a pretty Chappel joyning thereunto shewing great love to Scholars and the neighbouring Clergy we heard no more of him till the time of his death He was a Person very inconstant and wavering in his Principles of a slavish temper a taker of all Oathes whether Covenant or engagement or those to be faithful to Oliver and Richard besides what he had before done to K. James and K. Ch. 1. He minded mostly the heaping up of riches and was so besotted in raising and setling a family that he minded not the least good that might accrue to his Prince As for those things that are published under his name as either utter'd or written by him are these following Several Speeches as 1 Sp. to his Maj. in the High Court of Parl. 5. Nov. 1640 when he was presented Speaker 2 Sp. at his presenting these 3 Bills 1. for the shortning of Mich. term 2. For the pressing of Marriners for the Kings Ships 3. For the remainder of 6 intire subsidies 3 Sp. in Parl. 13. May 1641. 4 Sp. in the Lords House of Parl. 22 Jun. 1641. concerning the bill for Tonnage and Poundage 5 Sp. before the K. in the Lords H. of Parl. 3 Jul. 1641. concerning the passing of three bills viz. of Poll-money Star-Chamber and High Commission 6 Sp. to both Houses of Parl. at the passing of the bill for Tonnage and Poundage 2 Dec. 1641. 7 Sp. to Sir Tho. Fairfax Gen. of the Parl. Army to congratulate his success and victories over the Kings Army 14 Nov. 1646. 8 Sp. to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax General after the Army had granted the members of Parl. to sit in safety 6 Aug. 1647. Several Letters as 1 Letter to Sir Jac. Ashley 4 May 1641. 2 Let. to the Vicech and Heads of Houses of the Univ. of Oxon together with the protestation and declaration with it 8 Feb. 1641. 3 Let. to the Sheriffs of several Counties by the command of the H. of C. an 1641. 4 Let. to all Corporations in England and to the Justices of Peace of all Counties written about the same time 5 Let. to the K. concerning the great affairs and state of the Kingdom 6 Let. with that of the Speaker of the H. of Lords to the Lords Justices and Council of the Kingdom of Ireland dat 4 Jul. 1643. Declaration wherein is contained the grounds and reasons that moved him to absent himself from the service of the House on Friday 30 Jul. 1647. Oxon. 1647. in one sh in qu. This Declaration was written upon occasion of his going away with the Mace and a party of the H. of Com. with him to the Army at Windsore Arguments whereby Monarchy is asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference held at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and a Committee of Parl. in Apr. 1657 Printed at Lond. with the Arguments and Speeches
his good service by Philip Earl of Pembroke as I have been informed for from thence a loyal person had been ejected In 1648 he was actually created Doctor of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation and had several boones bestowed on him by that Convention called by the Presbyterian the Blessed Parliament After the Kings Restoration he was suffer'd to keep his Parsonage because no body laid claim to it he being then accounted the prime leader of the Faction in those parts but when the Act of Conformity was published he quitted it and his life together He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Divine ballance to weigh religious Fasts in Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 27 Sept. 1643 on Zach. 7.5.6.7 Lond. 1643. qu. He was also one of three that preached before the House of Lords on the 22 of Oct. 1644 being a Fast sermon upon the uniting of the Army together but whether 't was printed I find not 2 Pauls sad farewell to the Ephesians preached at the funeral of Mr. Joh. Grayle Minister of Tidworth in Wilts on Acts 20.37.38 Lond. 1655. quart and others which I have not yet seen Motive to peace and love Printed 1649. qu. Animadversions on Mr. W. Dells book intit The crucified and quickned Christian Lond. 1653. qu. Apology for the Ministers of the County of Wilts in their meetings at the election of Members for the approaching Parliament In answer to a letter sent out of the said County pretending to lay open the dangerous designs of the Clergy in reference to the approaching Parliament by some of the defam'd Ministers of the Gospel of the same County Lond. 1654 in 4 sh in qu. In the writing of which Apol. Dr. Chambers was assisted by Joh. Strickland Adoniram Byfield and Pet. Ince Presb. Ministers Answer to the charge of Walt. Bushnel Vicar of Box in Wilts published in a book of his intit A narrative of the proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers c. Lond. 1660. quar Vindication of the said Commissioners Printed the former He was one of the number of Assistants belonging to the said Commissioners and carried himself very severe against the Ministers What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of Pewsey before mention'd on the eighth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two with no other ceremony than that we would use to a dog and about the same time was his wife buried there also In the said Rectory succeeded Rich. Watson D. D. sometimes Fellow of Gonvill and Caies Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to James Duke of York and afterwards Prebendary of Wells and Salisbury as I shall elsewhere at large tell you JOHN GAUDEN Son of the Minister of Mayland in Essex was born there or at least in that County educated in Grammar learning at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk and afterwards at about 16 years of age was admitted a Student of S. Johns College in Cambridge under one Mr. Wright where making great proficiency in academical learning took the degrees in Arts. In 1630 or thereabouts he removed to Wadham Coll. in this University where he became Tutor to Francis and Will Russell sons of Sir Will Russell Baronet into whose family he about that time had matched and after their departure to other Gentlemen of quality While he continued there the greatness of his parts were much improved by the greatness of industry bestowing the most part of the day and night too in the study of divine matters In 1635 he took the degree of Bach. of Div was afterwards Chaplain to Robert Earl of Warwick Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks beneficed in Cambridgeshire D. of D. and when the Assembly of Divines was to be setled in 1643 he was nominated one of them to the Parliament by Sir Dudley North and Sir Thom. Chichley Knights for Cambridgeshire to serve in the Long Parliament to sit among them but by what trick Mr. Tho. Goodwin was substituted in his place as a person more fit for the great designs then carrying on you may see in our Author Dr. Gaudens book intit Anti-Baal-Berith c. printed at Lond. 1661. p. 89 90. At that time 1643. he being a Covenantier as the Presbyterians and fanatical people generally affirm tho positively denied by himself he had the Rectory and Deanery of Bocking in his own Country confer'd upon him which he kept during the time of Usurpation and was as before at Brightwell and elsewhere much resorted to for his most admirable and edifying way of preaching After the death of Dr. Brownrig Bishop of Exeter which was in Decemb. 1659 he became Preacher of the Temple at London and after the Restoration of K. Ch. 2. Chaplain in ordinary to him who taking notice that he upon all occasions had taken worthy pains in the pulpit and at the press to rescue his Majesty and the Church of England from all the mistakes and heterodox opinions of several and different Factions as also from the sacrilegious hands of those false brethren whose scandalous conversation was consummate in devouring Church-lands and then with impudence to make sacrilege lawful I say for these his services his Majesty confer'd upon him the Bishoprick of Exeter to which being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent in the year 1660 sate there but little more than an year and a quarter Afterwards he was translated thence to Worcester on Dr. Morleys Translation to Winchester in the beginning of the year in the month of May I think 1662 where he soon after ended his course having been esteemed by all that knew him a very comely person a man of vast parts and one that had been strangely improved by unwearied labour His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The love of truth and peace on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Three Sermons preached upon several publick occasions Lond. 1642. qu. The first of which preached before his Maj. is on Heb. 12.14 The second before the Judges at Chelmsford in Essex is on Zach. 8.16 and the third at S. Maries in Oxon on Act Sunday 11 July 1641 is on Ephes 4.23 3 Funeralls made cordials Sermon prepared and in part preached at the solemn interment of the corps of Rob. Rich heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick who died at Whitehall 16 of Feb. an 1657 aged 23 years and was honorably buried on the 5 of March following at Felsted in Essex Lond. 1658. qu. 4 Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Brownrig Bishop of Exeter 17 Dec. 1659 on 2 Kings 2.12 Lond. 1660. oct 5 Slight healing of publick hearts c. Serm. in S. Pauls Cathedral before the Lord Mayor Lord General Aldermen c. 26 Feb. 1659 being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the secluded Members of
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
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUEâ FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
the second Vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts and printed at Lond. 1665. fol. having been by him performed during his retirement in the time of sickness at Kingston upon Thames This author was afterwards published in lesser volumes with this title The Fables of Aesop paraphrased in verse adorned with sculptures and illustrated with annotations Lond. 1673. 74. in two vol. in oct The next things that he composed were The Ephesian Matron and The Roman Slave two heroick poems dedicated to Thomas Earl of Ossory And altho a second part met with a fate not common yet it was esteemed equal with the former Afterwards he wrot Carolies an Epick poem in 12. books so called from our miracle of Heroes K. Ch. 1. being the best pattern of true prudence valour and christian piety This was utterly lost in the grand conflagration that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 when then the habitation of our author Ogilby in the White friers near Fleet-street was burnt and he himself undone having but 5 l. left to begin the world again But so it was that he had such an excellent invention and prudential wit and was Master of so good addresses that when he had nothing to live on he could not only shift handsomly but would make such rational proposals which were embraced by rich and great men that in short time he would obtain an estate again He never failed in what he undertook but by his great industry and prudence went through it with profit and honor to himself Soon after the said conflagration he had his house in the White friers before mention'd rebuilt set up a Printing-house therein employed able workmen became his Majesties Cosmographer and Geographick Printer and by proposals printed several books that he and his Assistants had translated and collected as 1 An Embassy from New Batavia to the Emperor of China c. Lond. 1669. fol. adorned with Maps prospects and various sculptures as all the books following which he published were 2 Description of Africa c. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first part of his English Atlas 3 Descript of America c. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second 4 Atlas Japanensis Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassie from the East India Company of the Unital Provinces to the Emperour of Japan c. Lond. 1670. fol. 5 Atlas Chinensis Being the second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two Embassies from the East India Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simlamong c. Lond. 1671. fol. 6 Asia the first part being an accurate description of Persia and the several Provinces thereof c. Lond. 1673. 74. fol. The 2d part the author did not live to finish however this is looked upon as another part of the English Atlas 7 Description of Europe not finished by the Author who intended it to be the fourth part of the Engl. Atlas 8 Britannia An Historical and Geographical description of Britanie c. The first part fol. All which are printed on imperial paper adorned with maps and most curious sculptures and were carried on and sold by way of standing Lotteries There also goes under his name A pocket book of Roades in England and a new map of the City of London as it is new built c. Printed in one sheet of large paper He also and Will. Morgan made A new and accurate Map of the City of London distinct from Westminster and Southwark c. which is six foot long and six foot deep with a long narrow book to describe the places therein as also A Map of London Westminster and Southwark and A survey of Essex with the roads therein exactly measured c. At length Mr. Ogilby having lived to a fair age gave way to fate on the fourth day of Sept. 1676. and was buried in the Vault under part of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London At which time many Persons of great knowledg usually said that had he been carefully educated when a young man in an University might have proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch Nation JAMES HOWELL was born in Caermerthenshire particularly as I conceive at Abernant of which place his Father was Minister In what year he was born I cannot precisely tell you yet he himself saith that his ascendant was that hot constellation of Cancer about the midst of the Dog-days After he had been educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Hereford he was sent to Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1610 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then being a pure Cadet a true Cosmopolite not born to land lease house or office was in a manner put to it to seek his fortune but by the endeavours of friends and some money that his Father assisted him with he travelled for three years into various Countries whereby he advantaged himself much in the understanding of several languages Some years after his return he was sent into Spain 1622 to recover of the King of that place a rich English Ship seized on by his Vice Roy of Sardinia for his Masters use upon some pretence of prohibited goods therein Three years after his return in which interval he was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. 1623 he was entertained by Emanuel Lord Scrope Earl of Sunderland and Lord President of the North and by him was made his Secretary So that residing in York for that purpose he was by the Mayor and Aldermen of Richmond chose a Burgess for their corporation to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster in the year 1627. Four years after he went Secretary to Robert Earl of Leycester Embassador extraordinary from our King to the King of Denmark before whom and his Children he shew'd himself a quaint Orator by divers lat speeches spoken before them shewing the occasion of their Embassie to condole the death of Sophia Qu. Dowager of Denmark Grandmother to Ch. 1. K. of England Afterwards going through several beneficial employments particularly the assisting the Clerks of the Council was at length in the beginning of the Civil War made one of those Clerks but being prodigally inclined and therefore running much into debt he was seized on by order of a certain Committee after the King was forc'd from his Parliament and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. So that having nothing to trust to but his wits and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Pernassus which he held in fee of the Muses he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books which tho several of them are meer scribbles yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistance during his long stay there After the Kings return in 1660 we never heard of his restauration to his place of Clerk of the Council having before flatter'd Oliver and sided with the Commonwealths men only that he was made the Kings Historiographer being the first in England that bore that title and having no
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at JusticeâHall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
have mention'd in the first vol. of this work under the year 1621 by Joan his wife daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire was born in the same house and chamber at Wornal in Bucks wherein his father had received his first breath in the month of January 1591. and was baptized there on the 16 of the said month educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordsh and partly in the College School at Westminster from which last he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1608 being then put under the tuition of a noted Tutor Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders became a most florid preacher and successively Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. 1. of pious memory Archdeacon of Colchester Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral Canon of Ch. Ch Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 D. of D. and Dean of Rochester in which Dignity he was installed 6. Febr. 1638 but whether in the room of Dr. John Richardson who occurs Dean of that Church in Apr. 1636 in which month and year he died or in that of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall who had the grant of the Deanery of Durham made to him in 1638 but not installed therein till May 1639 I cannot justly tell In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester being one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late promoted to that honorable office to which being consecrated at Westminster as it seems on the 19. of Decemb. the same year sate there without any removal saving only that by the members of the Long Parliament to the time of his death When he was young he delighted much in the studies of Musick and Poetry which with his wit and fancy made his conversation much accepted When he was elder he applied himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity in which faculty he became eminent as his Sermons partly shew which remain'd fresh in the minds of his Auditors many years after his death His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached at Pauls cross 25. Nov. 1621. upon occasion of that false and scandalous report lately printed touching the supposed apostacy of Dr. John King late B. of Lond. on Joh. 15.20 Lond. 1621. qu. To which is added The examination of Tho. Preston taken before the Archb. of Cant. at Lambeth 20. Dec. 1621 concerning his being the author of the scandalous report of Bishop Kings apostacy 2 Davids enlargement the morning Sermon on Act Sunday on Psalm 32.5 Oxon. 1625. qu. See more in John King in the first vol. an 1638. p. 526. 3 Sermon of deliverance at the Spittle on Easter Munday on Psal 91.3 Printed 1626. qu. 4 Two Sermons at Whitehall in Lent on Eccles 12.1 and on Psal 55.6 Printed 1627. in qu. 5 Serm. at Pauls on his Maj. inauguration on Jer. 1.10 Printed 1640. in qu. 6 Sermon at Whitehall 29. May being the happy day of his Maj. inauguration and birth on Ezek. 21.27 Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Serm. at the funeral of Brian Bishop of Winchester in the Abbey Ch. of Westm 24. Apr. 1662 on Psal 116.15 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 Visitation Serm. at Lewis 8. Oct. 1662 on Titus 2.1 Lond. 1663. qu. 9 Sermon preached 30. Jan. 1664 at Whitehall being the day of the Kings Martyrdome on 2 Chron. 35.24.25 Lond. 1665. qu. Exposition on the Lords Prayer delivered in certain Sermons on Matth. 6.9 c. Lond. 1628. qu. It must be now observed that this worthy Bishop being at divine Service on Sunday in a certain Church at Langley I think in Bucks and hearing there a Psalm sung whose wretched expression quite marr'd the Pen-mans matter and his devotion he did at his return home that evening try whether from the version of our Bible he could not easily and with plainess suiting the lowest understanding deliver it from that garb which indeed made it ridiculous From one to another he passed on until the whole book was run through Which done he could not resist the advice and importunity of better judgments than his own to put it to the press He was as he confess'd discouraged knowing that Mr. George Sandys and then lately one of our pretended Reformers had failed in two different extremes The first too elegant for the vulgar use changing both meter and tunes wherewith they had been long acquainted the other as flat and poor as lamely worded and unhandsomly rimed as the old which with much confidence he undertook to amend He therefore ventur'd in a middle way as he himself said aiming without affectation of words and endeavouring to leave them not disfigur'd in the sense This version soon after came out with this title The Psalmes of David from the new translation of the Bible turn'd into meter to be sung after the old tunes used in Churches Lond. 1651. 54. in tw c. He hath also written Poems Elegies Paradoxes and Sonnets Lond. 1657. oct When these poems were first published all the report was that Dr. Philip King Brother to the said Hen. King was the author and thereupon it was put into the Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philips name Several letters Among which are extant one or more to the famous Dr. Usher Primat of Ireland and another to Isaac Walton concerning the three imperfect books of Rich. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie dat 13. Nov. 1664. Pr. at Lond. 1665. oct Divers Lat. and Gr. poems Many of which are extant in several books What remains to be observ'd of this Prelate is that he was always puritannically affected and therefore to please the Puritan he was promoted to the See of Chichester That after Episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament he mostly lived in the house of Sir Rich. Hobart who had married his Sister at Langley near to Colebrook in Bucks That being restored to his See at the return of K. Ch. 2. became esteemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and diocess the Epitome of all honors virtues and generous nobleness and a person never to be forgotten by his Tenants and by the Poor That also being not removed to a better See became discontented as I have heard and a favourer thereupon of the Presbyterians in his Diocess And lastly that dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried on the South side of the Choir near the Communion Table belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester Soon after was a comly monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was antiquâ eâque regiâ Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi prosapiâ oriundus that he was natalium splendore illustris pietate doctrinâ virtutibus illustrior c. Near to his body was in short time after buried his eldest Son named John to whose as also to the memory of the said Bishop King did his Widow Anne Daughter of Sir Will. Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh
A new magna charta Lond. 1648. The County of Somerset divided into several Classes Ibid. 1648. Mercurius Rusticus containing news from several Counties of England and their joynt addresses to the Parliament Ibid. 1648. Just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the Lord Mayor Common-council-men and Free-men of Lond. Ibid. 1648. The substance of a speech made in the H. of Com. on Munday 4. Dec. 1648 touching the satisfactoriness of the Kings answer to the propositions of both houses for settlement of a firm lasting peace c. Lond. 1648 in 18. sh in qu. Three editions of which came out in less than within the compass of one year This Speech as those of Prynnes opinion say did so admirably well state the said Kings answer with such solid reasons arguments and precedents out of Divinity Law and History that no man took up the bucklers against him Appendix for the Kingdoms better satisfaction of some occurrences since the said speech This was printed with and added to one of the editions of the said Speech True and perfect narrative of the Officers and Armies forcible seizing divers members of the Commons house Dec. 6. and 7. Lond. 1648. Second part of the narrative concerning the Armies force upon the Commons house and members Ibid. 1648. Protestation of the secured and secluded members Ibid. 1648. 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Ibid. 1654. in 7. sh in qu. Declaration and protestation against the illegal detestable and oft condemned tax and extorsion of Excise in general and for hope in particular Ibid. 1654. qu. First part of a seasonable legal and historical vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties rights laws government of all English Free-men Lond. 1654. 55. qu. The second part of this was printed at Lond. 1655. qu. New discovery of free-state tyranny containing four letters in his own vindication sent to John Bradshaw and his Associates Ibid. 1655. qu. Brief polemical dissertation concerning the true time of the inchoation and determination of the Lords day sabbath from evening to evening Lond. 1655. qu. The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs Jesuits and Franciscan Fryers sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation c. Ibid. 1655 in 5. sh in qu. printed there again in 1664. An old Parliamentary prognostication made at Westminster for the present new year and puny members there assembled Lond. 1655. Seasonable vindication of free admission to and frequent administration of the holy Communion to all visible Church members regenerate or unregenerate c. Ibid. 1656 qu. New discovery of some Romish Emissaries Quakers as likewise of some popish errours unadvisedly embraced persued by our anti-communion Ministers Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent administration of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. Legal vindication of two important Queries of present general concernment clearly discovering from our statute common and cannon laws the bounden duty of Ministers and Vicars of parish Churches to administer the Sacraments as well
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the ââttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
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
years and was buried according to his desire near the west door fast by the Christning pew in S. Pauls Church in Covent Garden within the liberty of Westm but he was no kin to the former Will. Neile because he was of the Neales of Wollaston near Northampton JOSHUA CHILDREY son of Robert Childrey was born within the City of Rochester where being educated in Grammar learning became a Student in Magd. Coll. in Lent term 1640 aged 17 years and about that time was made one of the Clerks of the said house But soon after leaving the University upon the eruption of the civil war he returned to his native Country and came not again till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time taking the degree of Bach. of Arts was two years after that expelled by the Parliamentarian Visitors Afterwards he taught School at Faversham in Kent yet not without some disturbance by the godly party where continuing till his Maj. restoration was made Chaplain to Henry Lord Herbert was actually created D. of D. and had the Rectory of Upway in Dorsetshire bestowed on him In the year 1663 Jan 23 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Anth. Hawles and on the first of June 1664 he was collated to the Prebendship of Yatminster Prima in the Church of Salisbury by Dr. Earle Bishop of that place he being then accounted a learned and religious Divine a good Astrologer and a great Virtuoso His works are Indago Astrologica or a brief and modest inquiry into some principal points of Astrology as it was delivered by the Fathers of it and is now generally received by the Sons of it Lond. 1652. in 2. sh in qu. Syzygiasticon instauratum or an Ephemeris of the places and aspects of the Planets c. calculated for the year 1653. Lond. 1653 oct His chief design is to prove the aspects of the Planets related to the Sun of greater efficacy in the change of the air then when respecting the earth as center c. Britannia Baconica or the natural rarities of England Scotland and Wales According as they are to be found in every Shire Historically related according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon c. with observations upon them and deductions from them c. Lond. 1661. oct From which book Dr. Rob. Plot took a hint for the writing The natural History of Oxfordshire As for the other works of his which are not extant you may be pleased to know from his letter dated at Upway 12. Jul. 1669. written to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg Secretary of the Royal Soâciety concerning some observations of the weather philosophical collections Portland and Purbeck stones serving for fewel shifting of tydes at Weymouth c. thus In my next God willing I shall send you part of my collections of Naturalls out of voyages and itineraries In the mean time take this brief account of my studies so far as concerns Philosophy Some two years before the happy return of the King I bought me as many paper books of about 16 sheets apiece as my Lord Verulam Bacon had Histories at the end of his Novum Organon Into which books being noted with the figure and title given them by my Lord I entred all Philosophical matters that I met with observable in my reading and intend God willing to continue it This I acquaint you with to let you see how earnest and serious I have been for several years in that which is the business of the Royal Society tho indeed I first fell in love with the Lord Bacons philosophy in the year 1646 and tried several experiments though such as I now reckon be not of any moment in 1647. 48. 49. 50 and besides these I have two larger paper books in folio one of which I call Chronologia naturalis and the other Geographia naturalis the former containing the time of all droughts comets earthquakes c. and the other the natural rarities of Countries These paper books cannot be expected to be yet full and God knows whether I shall live to see them filled But God willing such and so as they are I intend to bequeath them to the Royal Society whensoever I die c. He concluded his last day at Upway before mention'd having never been of the said Society on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In the latter end of Sept. following succeeded him in his Archdeaconry John Sherman Doct. of Div. of Camb. who dying in the parish of S. Sepulchre in London after a short injoyment of that Dignity viz. in the latter end of the year in March 1670 was succeeded in the beginning of May following by John Prideaux D. D. as I shall elsewhere tell you Besides this John Sherman was another of both his names but before him in time educated in Gramar learning in the Charter-house School in Academical in Trin. Coll. in Camb. where he arrived to great eminence in several sorts of literature He wrot a book entit White salt or a sober correction of a mad world in some well wishes to goodness Lond. 1654. oct and another called The infallibility of the holy Scripture asserted c. Lond. 1664. qu. c. This learned religious and conscientious Person died in Aug. as it seems an 1663. EDWARD FORD the eldest Son of Sir John Ford Knight was born at Uppark in the parish of Harting in Sussex became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left that House and whether afterwards he travelled or studied in the Inns of Court I know not Sure it is that about the beginning of the Civil War he was prick'd High Sherriff for Sussex adheer'd to the King at Oxon from whom he received the honour of Knighthood there 4. Oct. 1643 and about that time had a commission to be a Colonel in his Army against the Rebels for which afterwards he suffered equally with other Royalists In Nov. 1647 when the King made his escape from Hampton Court he with Dr. Steph. Goffe were committed to safe custody as being suspected for the design of the Kings escape In 1656 he upon Olivers encouragement and invitation of the chief Citizens of London raised the Thames water into all the highest streets of that City ninety three foot high in four eight-inch pipes to the wonder of all and honor of the nation done at his own charge and in one years time with his rare engine that he had invented for that purpose by which several parts of the nation did afterwards find benefit in the draining of Mines and Lands much better and cheaper than any other device before 'T was he also that made the great water Engine against Somersethouse for the serving the Inhabitants of the Strand and of other parts adjoyning with water which hindring the
he wrot a scoffing ballad At length he having lived beyond the age of man concluded his last day in the Navy-Office in Seething-lane within the City of London on Saturday the 18. of Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventy Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church of S. Olaves in Hart-street on the 27 day of the same month Soon after was a neat monument erected over his grave with an inscription thereon much becoming the person for whom it was set up His eldest Brother which his Father had by his first Wife Elizabeth Warham was named Matthew who was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 1. The second was named Thomas who was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Sandwych in Janu. 1631. EDWARD LEIGH Esq Son of Hen. Leigh was born at Shawell in Leycestershire 24. of March 1602 being the day and year on which Qu. Elizabeth deceased bred in Grammar learning under one Mr. Loe of Walshall in Staffordshire became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Will. Pemble an 1616 ran through the severe discipline then and there used and proceeded in Arts in 1623 But before his Regency was expired he went to the Middle Temple and studied the common Law wherein he made considerable progress yet before he had been there two years he with others were forced thence by tho great plague that violently raged in London an 1625. So that instead of retiring into the Country he went into France and spent there half an year with great improvement to himself and his studies After his return he spent some years in the said Temple not only in the study of the Laws but of Divinity and History in both which in his elder years he attained to some eminence Afterwards he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire and became a constant hearer for some time of that noted puritanical preacher Will. Wheatley But he dying in 1639 our author Leigh receeded to London where continuing till the civil distempers broke forth was upon the withdrawing of divers members of that unhappy convention called the Long Parliament to the King at Oxon chose a Recruiter or Burgess for the Town of Stafford Afterwards upon a vacancy he was appointed one of the House of Commons to sit in the Ass of Divines as did Philip Earl of Pembroke Will. Visc Say c. of the House of Lords with Joh. Selden Franc. Rous Bulstr Whitlock c. other members of the said house where he behaved himself as learnedly as most of the Divines then sitting He was also then a Colonel of a regiment for the Parliament was Custos Rotulorum for the County of Stafford and afterwards was numbred among those Presbyterian members that were turned out of the House of Commons by the Army 6. Dec. 1648 and imprisoned thereupon in the publick Inn called the Kings head in the Strand From which time till towards the Kings restauration when he with the rest of the ejected members then living were restored by General Monk to their places in Parliament he had little else to do but to write books the titles of which among others which he wrot before that time do follow Selected and choice observations concerning the twelve first Caesars c. Oxon. 1635. oct To which he added six more making up the number 18 which were printed with the former in another Edition The observations on the rest that followed were made by Henry Leigh the authors eldest Son M. of A. of Magd. Hall which being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct had this title put to them Analecta Caesarum Romanorum Afterwards they were illustrated with their several effigies and coines Lond. 1664. oct and in another Edit that came out in 1670 in oct they had observations of the Greek Emperours added to them by the same hand Treatise of Divine promises in 5. books Lond. 1633 there again the third time 1650 and the fourth in 1657. octavo Critica sacra on the Hebrew words of the old and on the Greek of the New Testament Lond. 1639 and 46. in qu. There again in two parts in fol. 1662. In which book the author expressing his great skill in the Languages was the reason therefore why the learned Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness for him Supplement to the Critica sacra Lond. 1662. fol. A Treatise of Divinity in three books Lond. 1646. qu. The Saints encouragement in evil times or observations concerning the Martyrs in general Lond. 1648. 51. oct Annotations on all the New Test Lond. 1650. fol. A philological Commentary or an illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the Law with their distinctions and divers acceptations as they are found as well in Reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed Lond. 1652. 58. 71. oct A Systeme or body of Divinity in 10 books Lond. 1654. and 62. fol. Treatise of religion and learning in 6. books Lond. 1656. fol. Which book laying dead on the Booksellers hands had this title put to it in 1663. Faelix consortium or a fit conjuncture of religion and learning in one entire volume consisting of six books c. From which Treatise Will. Crowe of Suffolk Master of the Free-school at Croydon in Surrey took many things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum in sacram scripturam c. Lond. 1672. octavo Choice French proverbs Lond. 1657. 64. oct Annotations on the five poetical books of the old Test viz. Job Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles Lond. 1657. fol. Second considerations of the High Court of Chancery Lond. 1658. in 2 sh in qu. England described or the Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled Lond. 1659. oct Copied mostly from Camden Choice observations on all the Kings of England from the Saxons to the death of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. oct Three Diatriabes or discourses 1. Of travel 2. Of money 3. Of measuring c. Lond. 1671. oct This book is called in another edit 1680. The Gentlemans guide in the three discourses c. He also published The Magistrates Authority in two Sermons Lond. 1647 qu. penn'd by Christopher Cartwright B. of Div. and Minister at York To which our Author Leigh put a preface to vindicate himself against a lying pamphlet as he calls it which entitles him a man of a fiery disposition and one generally made chair-man upon any business that doth concern the Clergy He paid his last debt to nature in his house called Rushall Hall on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Rushall near to Walshall a Market Town in Staffordshire before mention'd as I have been informed by letters written to me by his Son Henry EDMUND STANTON son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight was born in Bedfordshire became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years was
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 16â0 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
month of July and in the same year he was not only named one of the Kings Serjeants which he refused to accept but was made one of the 3 Commissioners of the new Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England 8. Febr at which time the King Great Seal was publickly broken in the H. of Commons And farther also on the 14. of the said month he was elected one of the 30 persons for the Council of State wherein he sate and acted according to his ability In the month of June 1649 he was made High Steward of the City of Oxon by the Mayor and Citizens thereof in the room of the Earl of Berks Whom they for his Loyalty displaced and about the same time they made him their Recorder In July following he was constituted keeper of the Kings Meddals and Library which in 1647 he had hindred from being sold And that employment he the rather took because he was put upon it by Selden and other learned men and that he himself being accounted learned took great delight in such matters However being not alwaies at leisure to attend those places he had a Deputy allowed him and one John Dury a Traveller did the drudgery of the place On the 24. of Nov. 1651 he was continued one of the Council of State and likewise on the same day in the year following In the beginning of Nov. 1653 he set forth with a gallant retinew in the quality of an Embassador into Sweedland being impowred thereto by Oliver and the Little Parliament and had a thousand pounds per ann for his Salary In which Embassie and Country behaving himself with great prudence to the liking and with the approbation of all Christina Queen of that Country made him a Knight of the honorable Order of Amaranta of which Order the Queen herself is Soveraign and wears the badg thereof which is a rich Jewel tied to a crimson riband under her left breast You may be pleased to see more of this Order in Elias Ashmole's book intit The institutions lawes and ceremonies of the Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. chap. 3. p. 123. and the copy or draught of the badge between pag. 94. and 95. After his return thence which was in July 1654. he was in Aug. following made one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer or Treasury for in his absence alteration or pretended reformation being made in the Chancery he stood off at his return from being any longer Commissioner of the Seal In January 1656 he being then Serjeant at Law was chose Speaker of the H. of Commons pro tempore upon the indisposition of him lately chosen and in the year following he was summoned by Oliver the Protector to sit in the other House by the name of Bulstrode Lord Whitlock which summons he obeying had thereupon a negative voice in that House over the people tho he had helped to put it down when it consisted of King and Lords In Aug. 1659 he was made President of the Council of State in Octob one of the Committee of Safety on the first of Nov keeper of the great seal pro tempore by the appointment of the said Committee and on the 30 of Jan. following he retired into the country for fear of being sent prisoner to the Tower by some prevalent Members in the in the Rump Parl. then newly restored for his being a member of the Committee of Safety At which time he leaving the Seal with his wife lock'd up in a desk she forthwith delivered it to Lenthal the Speaker From which time to that of his death we heard but little of him only that he lived retiredly mostly at Chilton in Wilts near Hungerford in Berks that he had been an observing person thro all changes guided more by policy than conscience and that he had advantaged himself much in Civil affairs by his relation to the publick and his eminent station To which I add that he was an excellent Com. Lawyer was as well read in books as in men and well vers'd in the Oriental Tongues and therefore belov'd of Selden who would have made him one of his Executors and the Virtuosi of his time The things that he hath extant are these Several Speeches viz. 1 Speech at a conference of both Houses 17. Feb. 1641. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Sp. to the Qu. of Sweden an 1653. The beginning of which is Madam by command of my Superiors the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England c. 3 Speech in Lat. to the said Qu. in May or Jun. 1654. The beginning of which is Multo equidem cum taedio ferrem c. 4 A learned and godly speech spoken when Serjeant Willam Steel Recorder of the City of London was made L. Chief Baron in the Court of Exchecquer at Westm 28. May 1655. 5 Sp. to the Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of London 9. Aug. 1659. 6 Another Sp. to them 8. Nov. the same year which two Sp. are published in one sh in qu. Several discourses in the trial of Tho. E. of Strafford See in Jo. Rushworths Trial of Tho. E. of Straff Monarchy asserted to be the best most ancient and legal form of government in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct Made good by way arguments in at least five Speeches then by him spoken Memorialls of the English affaires or an historicall account of what passed from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1682. fol. This is no more than a Diary which he began and continued for his private use In this book you 'll find divers of his discourses made on various occasions It was published by Arth. Earl of Anglesie but with a very bad index to it which is a disadvantage to the book in many respects He also left behind him several manuscript volumes of his own writing which are not determin'd by the heir whether they may or shall be published Several things in his life time were fathered upon him among which was a little thing published in Jan. 1659. entit My Lord Whitlocks Reports on Machiavil c. wherein the author tells us that when Whitlock was chose a member of the Long Parl. he had then no interest but contented himself with seeing the fashions of the Parl. house At length Pyms discerning eyes spying that curiosity presently attacqued his unconcerned undetermined mind and with the proffers of greatness and popularity brought him over to his design and became his Second c. Also that when he with other Commissioners attended the King at Oxon with propositions from both houses in order to peace the K. shewed to the Commissioners during their stay there great respect but of Commissioner Whitlock he took small notice c. which implanted in him ever after an implacable malice to him and his posterity c. That he was sent to make speeches against the young King at Guild hall
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
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.
prefix'd being come which was about the 9. of January 1648 his Majesty took Coach near the Keep in Windsore Castle at which time was a Guard all along of Musquets and Pikes both Officers and Soldiers expressing civility as he passed by At the great gate a party of Horse commanded by Major Tho. Harrison was drawn up into the Market place and Pescod street end in the Town of Windsore who followed the Coach which passed through Brainford Hammersmith and the direct way to his Majesties House at S. James within the liberty of Westminster His Lodgings there were furnished by Mr. Clem. Kinnerslie his Majesties Servant in the Wardrobe strict guards were placed and none suffer'd to attend in his Maj. Bedchamber only Mr. Thom. Herbert before mentioned His usual diet was kept up and the Gentlemen that formerly waited were permitted to perform their respective services in the presence where a state was placed and for a few days all things were with decency and honor observed Sir Fulk Grevill was Cup-bearer and gave it upon his knee Mr. Anthony Mildmay was Carver Captain Preston was sometimes Sewer and kept the Robes Mr. Anstey was Gent. Usher Capt. Burroughs Mr. Firebrass Mr. Muschamp had their places Capt. John Joyner or Jeoner was Cook Mr. Babington Barber Mr. Reading Page of the Back-stairs and some others also waited The Kings dishes were brought up cover'd the say was given and all things were performed with satisfaction in that point But to return a little it is very well worth the observation that so soon as the King came into his Bed-chamber before he either eat or drank or discours'd with any he went to prayer or to reading in the Bible Whilst he was in this sorrowful condition none of his Nobility Chaplains or Counsellors nor any of his old Attendants had the liberty to repair to him to converse about any matters yet he had private notice that the H. of Commons in a resolve had declared that by the Laws of England it was treason in the King to levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom which resolve as he had farther been informed they sent up unto the Lords for their concurrence who assoon as they had heard it read rejected it and after some debate did pass two votes c. He had also information from private hands of the late proceedings in the House of Commons and of their violent secluding and seizure of several members by force by some eminent Army-officers under a notion of purging the House as also of their Votes passed concerning him By which he was very apprehensive of their ill intentions towards him and his government and did believe that his enemies aimed at his deposing and confinement in the Tower or some such like place and that they would seat his Son the Prince of Wales in his Throne if he would accept of it but as to the taking away his life by trial in any Court of Justice or sub dio in the face of the people he could not believe there being no such precedent or mention in any of our Histories 'T is true his Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots suffer'd under Qu. Elizabeth but in England she was no Sovereign but a subject to Law And indeed some Kings of England had been lamentably murdered by Ruffians in a clandestine way as the Chronicles inform us but the facts were neither owned or approved of by any King These were his Majesties imaginations till he came unto his trial in Westm Hall when then he alter'd his mind Nevertheless his faith overcoming his fear he continued his accustomed prudence and patience so as no outward perturbation could be discerned with Christian fortitude submitting to the good pleasure of the Almighty sometimes sighing but never breaking out into passion or uttering a reproachful or revengeful word against any that were his Adversaries only saying God forgive their impiety For about a fortnight after his Majesties coming to St. James's House he constantly dined in the presence-chamber and at meals was served after the usual state the Carver Sewer Cup-bearer and Gent. Usher attending and doing their Offices respectively His Cup was given upon the knee as were his covered dishes the say was given and other accustomed Ceremonies of State observed notwithstanding this his dolorous condition and the King was well pleased with the observance afforded him But soon after the case was alter'd for the Officers of the Army being predominant they gave order at a Council of War that thenceforth all state ceremony or accustomed respect unto his Majesty at meals should be forbourn and his menial servants tho few in number should be lest'ned And accordingly the Kings meat was brought up by Soldiers the dishes uncovered no say no cup upon the knee or other accustomed Court-state was then observed which was an uncouth sight to the King he then saying that the respect and honour denyed him no Soveraign Prince ever wanted nor yet Subjects of high degree according to antient practice and adding Is there any thing more contemptible than a despised Prince So that seeing things were so ordered the best expedient he had to reconcile them was to contract his diet to a few dishes out of the bill of fare and to eat in private His eating was usually agreeable to his exercise and his abstinence was in no wise displeasing His temperance preserved his health especially in the two last years of his life and reign without any indisposition or recourse to Physick So as in all probability had not his thread of life been immaturely cut he might have surpassed the age of any of his Royal Ancestors On Friday the 19 of Jan. his Majesty was removed from S. James to Whitehall and lodged in his Bedchamber After which a Guard of Musquetiers were placed and Centinels set at the door of his Chamber Thenceforth Mr. Herbert who constantly lay in the next room to the King according to the duty of his place was ordered to bring his pallet into his Majesties Bedchamber to the end that he might be nearer to his royal Person and so accordingly he did rest every night after during his Maj. life in the said Bedchamber near the royal bed The next day Jan. 20. the King was removed in a Sedan or close chair from Whitehall to Sir Thom. Cottons House near the West end of Westm hall Guards were placed on both sides of King-street in the Pallace-yard and Westm hall As his Maj. was carried through the Garden door belonging to Whitehall which is between the two gates leading to King-street none but Mr. Herbert went bare by him because no other of his Majesties Servants were permitted by the Soldiers At Cotton house there was a Guard of Partizans Collonel Francis Hacker sometimes and Col. Hercules Hunks at other times commanding them His Majesty being summoned by Hacker to go to the Court then sitting in Westminst Hall where Serjeant John Bradshaw was President and seated in a chair and about
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
Oliver the Protector which with the Academy there being soon after dissolved he retired to Westbury and continued at that place till 1662 at which time being ejected for Nonconformity held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived He hath written A treatise of Monarchy containing two parts 1. Concerning Monarchy in general 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer'd by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct This Sir Robert by the way must be known was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq and was as I conceive educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our author Hunton hath also written A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles was reprinted when the Press was open in 1680 when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch as 't is said therein that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation held 21. July 1683 and the book it self wherein it is was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle Afterwards as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England at which time the Nation was in a hurry it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it Under our authors name goes also a book entit Jus Regum c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen and therefore I can say nothing of it Nor no more of the author who was a man of parts only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture which maintained him and kept up his port THOMAS JONES son of John Williams was born and brought up in juvenile learning at Oswestrie in Shropshire entred into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion left it soon after returned when Oxford garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parl an 1646 became fellow of Univ. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament in 1648 to whom he then submitted and acknowledg'd the use of the Covenant and in the year following he took a degree in Arts being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause In 1652 he being then Master of his faculty he wrot Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654 he took holy orders as 't is said from a Bishop About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc of S. Asaph and learned the Welsh tongue purposely to serve those parts when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation From that place being ejected upon one Wynns's discovery of a dormant title he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle an 1661 and thence to be domestick and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York in 1663 In whose service continuing till 1666 or after was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function dismiss'd thence So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc of Bangor which he some time before had obtained found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan being as our author saith set on by the B. of Winchester In 1670 Winchester call'd him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestred for the payment of it Which fine Winchester offer'd to remit wholly if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness But when he would not the sequestration continued and 20 l. of it was sent to our author and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor and the rest for other pious uses About the same time he was condemn'd and censur'd ab officio beneficio by his Diocesan occasioned by some controversie that hapned between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog the particulars of which you may read at large elsewhere So that being in a manner undone did much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot publish Of the heart and its right Soveraigne and Rome no Mother-Church to England Or an historical account of the title of an English Church and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County Lond. 1678 oct A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above in the great question where is the true Mother Church of Christians Printed with the former book At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue Steph. Colledge c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot he wrote and published Elymas the Sorcerer or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottome of this Popish Plot c. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion Lond. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester grounded upon a passage in The Historie of Calvinisme written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh a French Jesuit wherein he resolves the Dutchess of Yorks declaration for Popery into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand tho he nameth him not to be Winchester Notice of this book therefore comming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publickly burnt and the author to the further punished But before he could compass his design the author died However Winchester that he might not sit silent published his own vindication as to M. Maimburghs words in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this
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
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
c. These two Speeches are said to be printed at Amsterdam but were not 6 Speech in the H. of Lords 25. Mar. 1679. upon occasion of the Houses resolving it self into a grand Committee to consider of the state of England 7 Speech lately made by a noble Peer of the Realm Printed in half a sheet of paper in fol. like a Gazette in the latter end of Nov. 1680 The beginning of which is this My Lord in the great debate concerning the Kings Speech c. pretended to have been spoken in Parliament but 't was not Which Speech being full of rascallities was by order of the House of Lords burnt by the hand of the common Hangman before the Royal Exchange and in the Pallace-yard at West on the 4. of Dec. following Therein in the Shuboleth of factions which he could truly pronounce he had cajoled the Brethren of Scotland But in the latter end of Jan. following came out an answer to it by Anon. intit A Letter from Scotland written occasionally upon the Speech made by a noble Peer of this Realm written by a better Protestant than the author of it tho a servant to his Royal Highness the Duke of York Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament Oxon alias Lond. 1675. qu. The first discourse is thus entit The debate or arguments for dissolving this present Parliament and the calling frequent and new Parliaments The other discourse is A Letter from a Parliament man to his friend concerning the proceedings of the H. of Com this last Sessions began 13. Oct. 1675. The first discourse contains 10 pages the other seaven And tho no name is set to them yet it was very well known to all that Shaftesbury wrot them who tells us in the said Letter that the said Parliament consists of old Cavaliers old Round-heads indigent Cavaliers and true Country Gentlemen The first of which discourses if not both together with the Speech before mention'd on the 20. of Oct. 1675 and the protestation and reasons aforesaid are all answer'd in the body of a book which I shall anon mention entit A pacquet of Advices c. part 1. A Letter from a person of quality to his friend in the Country Printed 1675. qu. It contains 32 pages and speaks much in the praise of some of the temporal Lords but gibes at the spiritual bench particularly at Ward of Salisbury whom he makes a very rogue It is also chiefly as I remember against the Test and was published after the Parl. had been prorogued 22. of Nov. the same year It was answer'd by March Nedham in his pamphlet entit A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftesbury c. part 1. As for the Test it self which was the same with the corporation oath and part of the Declaration required to be subscribed in the Act of Uniformity only with this additional clause I do swear that I will not at any time endeavour an alteration of the government either in Church or State was brought into the House by Robert Earl of Lindsey but violently opposed by Shaftesbury altho this very clause too had passed the Parliament long before meeting with little opposition in a particular Bill which concerned only Nonconformist Preachers known by the name of The Oxford or The five-mile Act which hath been ever since so loudly clamoured against by that party His case at the Kings bench on his confinement to the Tower Lond. 1679 in 4. sh in fol. Expedient for the setling of the nation discoursed with his Majesty in the House of Peers at Oxford 24. March 1680. Lond. 1681 in one sh in qu. The expedient was for setling the Crown on James Duke of Monmouth No Protestant Plot or the present pretended conspiracy of Protestants against the Kings Government discovered to be a conspiracy of the Papists against the King and his Protestant Subjects Lond. 1680 in 4 sh and an half in qu. Tho no name is put to this yet the general report was that the Earl of Shaftesbury was the author or at least found materials for it and that his servant who put it in the Printers hands was committed to prison Not long after the publication thereof which was partly answer'd in a pamphlet intit A plea for succession in opposition to popular exclusion c. Lond. 1682 in 5 sh in folio came out by the same hand The second part of no Protest Plot c. Lond. 1682 in 4. sh and an half in qu. great part of which is concerning the duty and power of Grand Juries with reference still to the Earl of Shaftesbury Afterwards came out a third part in qu. containing about 20 sheets written as 't was vulgarly said by Rob. Ferguson a Scot by the appointment and consent of Shaftesbury which mostly reflects on the printed proceedings against Shaftesbury when the indictment of High Treason was charged against him It endeavours also at large to lessen the credit and invalidate the Testimony of those several witnesses which appeared against the said Earl when the before mention'd indictment was charged against him by representing them singly in the blackest and most malicious characters that can be It doth more than ordinarily reflect upon Edmund Warcup a Justice of Peace in Middlesex as if he had corrupted and managed most of the evidences against the said Count. He is also touched upon in the first and second part which I shall now for brevity sake omit and only tell you that all three parts contain chiefly a vindication of Shaftesbury as to his not being in the least concern'd in any plotting design against the King and that they are taken to task by Roger L'estrange in some of his Observators They were written as well as the bad subject of them could bear and the third part which is very libellous was answer'd by a pamphlet entit A letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages which have been published in a late libell entit The third part of no Protestant Plot. Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. Written chiefly in vindication of James Duke of Ormonde and his administration of affairs and government in Ireland A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England with particular reference to the Earl of Shaftesbury's case And a vindication of him from two pretended Letters of a noble Peer Lond. 1682 in 5. sh in fol. Which two letters supposed to belong to George Earl of Halyfax were doubtless forged and âeigned only purposely to give Shaftesbury a greater liberty and scope of railing at and libelling the said Count. But this the reader must know that tho there is no name to this Modest account and therefore it cannot be reasonably fastned upon our author yet the general report was at its publication that 't was his and at that time it was judged to be so by Rog. L'estrange in two or three of his Observators weekly intelligences that then
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 cockâd 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
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
resolved not to submit to their new Masters Soon after he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon or elsewhere for not submitting to them tho he was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had without being put to say or do or subscribe any thing against his Conscience if he would but then give his word only that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. c. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight which proving ineffectual he resolved having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell as his confessor before his execution in the beginning of Mar. 1648 to quit his Country and find out the young King and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age and found him at the Hague where he was graciously received by him From thence he went first with him into France and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda and there preach'd the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland whither being not suffer'd to carry any of his own Divines with him he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague and after some short stay there he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antwerp where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies for the space of one year or thereabouts At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia and Dr. Earle to attend on his Higness James Duke of York then in France Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Embassador for the King in Spain and all the time he was there which was about 3. or 4 years he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day catechiz'd once a week and administred the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town who would come to it as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his comming to Breda he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous thought himself so much the rather oblig'd both in Conscience towards God and in duty to the Royal Family for she was Sister to K. Charles 1. to wait on her and accordingly he did and readily officiated both in her family and in the English Church there about two years and an half without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing There as in all other places where he lived especially at Breda he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church his Catechizing of young persons his administring the holy Sacraments and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private he visited the sick and buried the dead and relieved many whom their Loyalty had impoverished His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius whom he often visited to the last of which then abiding at Leyden the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyr'd Father but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent lyer reported But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart to whom he wrote a Latine Letter from Paris declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latine the year following And as he was zealous for the Church so he was also for his Royal Master wâtness the large Epistle he wrote in Latine to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery For his friends at home of whom he never lost any but by death only were eminent both for parts and quality the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire both long since dead and Edward Earl of Clarendon who died long after them Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. Payne Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson late B. of Linc. who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant Dr. Earl of Salisbury c. with the two last of which he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad which made his banishment less tedious to him After his Majesties return this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York whence after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648 c. and had filled up the vacant places he was called to be Bishop of Worcester to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm on the 28. of Octob. 1660 and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the Kings Coronation-Sermon and soon after made Dean of the Chappel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon In 1662 he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester confirmed therein 14. May the same year where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishoprick on him that he would never be the richer for it For besides his expences in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act which impowred him to lease out Waltham Park and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham before the year 1672 and afterwards spent more and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See which when he came to he found not an house to dwell in yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person and went into the Isle of Wight where had not been a Bishop before in the memory of man In July 1664 he came to Oxon
tye of friendship than blood perhaps could do His genie was then much inclining to the Mathematicks which being as 't were natural to him he quickly and easily obtained them Mr. Cha. Scarborough then an ingenious young Student and Fellow of Caies Coll. in the same University was his great acquaintance and both being equally Students in that faculty and desirous to perfect themselves they took a journey to Mr. Will. Oughtred living then at Albury in Surrey to be informed of many things in his Clavis Mathematica which seemed at that time very obscure to them Mr. Oughtred treated them with great humanity being very much pleased to see such ingenious young men apply themselves to those studies and in short time he sent them away well satisfied in their desires When they returned to Cambridge they afterwards read the Clav. Math. to their Pupils which was the first time that that book was read in the said University Mr. Laur. Rook a disciple of Oughtred I think and Mr. Ward 's friend did admirably well read in Gresham Coll. on the sixth Chapt. of the said book which obtained him great repute from some and greater from Mr. Ward who ever after had an especial favour for him In 1643 he with the Master and several of his Coll. were for the Kings Cause imprison'd in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and ejected from their several places much about which time he and Mr. P. Gunning Mr. Is Barrow Mr. Jo. Barwick c. did write a well pen'd treatise against the Covenant which was made publick After his release he was civilly and kindly received by his friend and neighbour Ralph Freeman of Aspden in Hertfordshire Esq and upon the ceasing of the Civil War he was entertained in the quality of a Chaplain to Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire In 1649 his mind being then changed as to orthodox Principles he by friends made to the Committee for the reformation of the University of Oxon became Astronomy Professor thereof in the place of Mr. Joh. Greaves then ejected who upon an infallible foresight that he should be turn'd out put Ward upon to gain it because he would be sure as far as his power laid to get an able Successor and about that time he entred himself a Gentleman Commoner in Wadham Coll for the sake of VVilkins then Warden of that House In Oct. the same year he was incorporated Master of Arts and admitted to his Professorship and soon after took the Independent Oath called the Engagement the effect of which was to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. in which year Mr. Joh. Wallis the other Savilian Professor proceeding also fell out a Controversie between them occasion'd by Wallis who should have seniority which being decided by the Vicechanc. on VVards behalf VVallis went out grand Compounder and so got superiority as I shall largely tell you in the Fasti of that year In 1656 or thereabouts he obtained of Dr. Brownrigg the silenc'd Bishop of Exeter the Chantorship of that Church then void and in the year following gaining an interest among the Fellows of Jesus Coll. he was elected by them to be their Principal upon the resignation of Dr. Mich. Roberts but Franc. Howell of Exeter Coll. an Independent got it from him by his interest used to Oliver the Protector In 1659 he was elected President of Trin. Coll. by a majority of Fellows made by the interest of Dr. Ralph Bashurst but being soon after forced to leave that place to make room for the right owner Dr. Han. Potter who had in a most woful manner endured great hardship from the time of his ejection in 1648 the Politician retired to the great City where he became Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry upon the promotion of Reynolds to Norwich and in the same year 1660 he was installed in his place of Chantor of Exeter At that time it was his endeavours to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambridge by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what About that time he became a member of the Royal Society and soon after Dean of Exeter where being setled he wound himself in a short time by his smooth language and behaviour into the favour of the Gentry of the neighbourhood In 1662 Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter being translated to VVorcester he was by the endeavours of a considerable party of the Gentry of Devonsh who were of the H. of Commons advanced to that See And being consecrated thereunto 20 July 1662 sate there but few years for on the death of Dr. Hyde he was translated to Salisbury 12 Sept. 1667. In 1671. Nov. 25 he was made Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter by the restitution of K. Ch. 2 after that place had been occupied by Lay-persons about 154 years He was a benefactor to the Royal Society gave a Pendulum Clock thereunto which goes for a week together to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend Laur. Rook. Also about 1672 he gave a considerable sum of money towards the making of the River at Salisbury navigable to Christ Church in Hampshire and in 1679 he bestowed a 1000 l. on Sidâey Coll. in Cambridge In 1683 he built an Hospital or College at Salisbury for the entertainment of ten poor widows of Ministers of Gods word and in 1684 he built an Alms-house at the place of his nativity for four antient men and four antient women who had lived handsomely and brought by misfortune to poverty c. His Works as to learning are these A philosophical Essay towards an eviction of the being and attributes of God the immortality of the souls of men and the truth and authority of Scripture Oxon. 1652. oct c. De cometis ubi de cometarum natura disseritur Nova cometarum Theoria novissimae cometae historia proponitur Praelectio Oxonii habita Oxon. 1653. qu. Inquisitio in Ismaelis Bullialdi Astronomiae philolaicae fundamenta Printed with the book De cometis Idea Trigonometriae demonstratae in usum juventutis Oxon. Oxon. 1654. qu. The method of which mention'd in the Preface to this book Mr. Oughtred challenged for his Vindiciae Academiarum Containing some brief animadversions upon Mr. Joh. Websters book stiled The Examen of Academies Oxon. 1654. qu. Before this book is an Epistle written to the author by one who subscribes himself N. S. i. e. John Wilkins of Wadh. Coll being the two last letters of both his names Appendix concerning what Mr. Hobbes and Mr. Will. Dell have published on the same arguments Printed at the end of Vindiciae Academiarum As for Dell he had been educated in Cambridge and Webster who was then or lately a Chapl. in the Parl. Army had as I conceive been educated there also See in Thom. Hall under the year 1665 among the titles of
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
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.
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tââttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
Army raised by the Parl. againât 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. â 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. 16â4 â 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 â 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
as might have defrayed the charge of those Transcripts so made from Records and otherwise as hath been observed But the Booksellers not willing to adventure on them Mr. Dodsworth and Mr. Dugdale joined together and hired several sums of money to defray the cost and expence of them The care of which work as to the Printing lay totally on Mr. Dugdale because Mr. Dodsworth died in Lancashire about the midst of August an 1654 before the tenth part of the first vol. came off from the Press The first vol. being finished an 1655 a stop was made for some years of bringing the second to the Press until the greatest part of the impression was sold whereby money might be had to go on therewith Mr. Dugdale therefore having with no small pains and charge finished his Collections in order to his designed historical work of Warwicksh Antiquities and at length perfected the frame thereof was at the whole charge of Printing and Paper for publishing the same and continued in London to correct the Press himself by reason that the ordinary Correctors were not skil'd at all in the Pedigrees Which book was finished and expos'd to sale an 1656. In the time of his continuance in London he casually met with one Mr. Reading a Northamptonshire Gent who had been Clerk of the Nisi prius for the midland-Circuit and with whom he had been formerly acquainted This Mr. Reading knowing Mr. Dugdale to be an indefatigable searcher into Records he friendly invited him to his house at Scrivners Hall near Silverstreet promising to shew him divers old MSS original Charters and other ancient Writings So that he going thither accordingly he brought forth five antient MSS. in folio which were Chartularies of the Lordships and Lands first given to the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London All which he freely lent to carry with him to his house in Warwickshire till Mich. term ensuing and then upon the restoration of them he should have use of as many more But in the said Term when he went to London to restore them whence he had extracted what he thought fit as to any historical use he found that Mr. Reading was dead and had constituted one Mr. Williams a Barrister of the Temple his Executor Whereupon Mr. Dugd. addressing himself to that person to desire a sight of the rest he brought him to Scrivners Hall and there shew'd him many other Manuscript-books original Charters old Rolls and other very antient Writings in bags and hampers relating to the said Cathedral of S. Paul All which he freely lent to Mr. Dugdale amounting to no less than ten Porters burthens to be carried to his lodgings Being thus in his private custody he first bestowed pains to sort them into order and afterwards made extracts from them of what he found historical in reference to that Cath. Ch. And to the end that the memory of those many antient monuments therein which were afterwards utterly destroyed the Church also being made a Horse-garrison by the Usurpers might be continued to posterity Mr. Dugdale did by the help and favour of sundry worthy persons who voluntarily offered to be at the charge of the plates in which the Representations were cut in brass as also the prospects of that whole Fabrick inside and outside accomplish the same Further also having succinctly framed an historical narration of the first foundation and endowment of the said Church as also of all the Chantries and what else was most memorable therein or relating thereto made it publick by the Press an 1658. But as the longest day hath its evening so did it at last please the omnipotent to put a period to the tyrannous actions of the said Usurpers by the most miraculous Restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 which was about ââ years after the most execrable murder of his royal Father At which time to prevent the importunity of others who aimed at the Office of Norroy King of Arms void by the promotion of Sir Edw. Walker to the Office of Garter whom I shall mention by and by Sir Edw. Hyde Kt then Lord Chancellor and afterwards Earl of Clarendon having seen the Antiquities of Warwickshire and the first vol. of Monasticon did move the King on the behalf of Mr. Dugdale for the said place Whereupon it being readily granted there was a special Warrant made under the royal Signet to prepare a Patent for the same Which Patent after his Majesties return passed the Great Seal accordingly on the 18 of June 1660. At the same time the second vol. of Mon. Angl. was in the Press and the next year 't was published During the printing of which he laboured about his historical work of Imbanking and drayning the Fens and Marshes deduced out of public Records and antient MSS at the instance of the Lord Gorges and others who were the principal Adventurers in that costly and laudable Undertaking for drayning the great Level extending into a considerable part of the Counties of Cambridge Huntingdon Northampton Norfolk and Suffolk This book was adorned with several exact Maps of the parts and places so drayned and was published in 1662. Further also having been much importun'd by Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury and the Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour to perfect that Collection began by the learned Sir Hen. Spelman for his intended second vol. of the Provincial Councils in England Mr. Dugdale did in order thereunto make diligent search for all such materials that might be got either out of the Cottonian Library or otherwise Which being done he made Transcripts of them and methodized the same for the Press So that the whole vol. amounting to 200 sheets in folio all of it except 57 were totally of Mr. Dugdale's Collection It was printed in 1664 but very full of faults occasion'd if I am not mistaken by the absence of the said Mr. Dugdale Will. Somnore the Antiquary of Canterbury took a great deal of pains to correct a printed copy of it with his pen in the margin which copy is yet remaining in the Library belonging to the Ch. of Canterbury At the same time also the second part of Sir Hen. Spelmans Glossary which begins with the letter M was brought to Mr. Dugdale to have it fitted for the Press for so it was that Sir Henry having lest it very imperfect much of it being loosly written and in sundry bits of paper he took pains to dispose thereof into proper order by transcribing many of those loose papers and afterwards by marking such parts of it for differencing the character as needed The first part also that had been published by Sir Henry an 1626 was afterwards considerably augmented and corrected by its Author Which also being brought to Mr. Dugdale and by him review'd and made fit for the Press were both printed together an 1664. But the second part which Sir H. Spelman leât imperfect as is before told you comes far short of the first After this Mr. Dugdale having in many years
all the Shires Cities Burrough-Towns Cinque ports in England specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports they do respectively elect to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments c. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq Son of Christopher L. Hatton Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein c. collected and written by the same hand and thirdly A true and pârf Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland with a list of all the Shires Cities and Burroughs of Ireland which make returns of Parliament c. collected and written also by the same hand 15 A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3 to this present with Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives c. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman as I have before told you At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns died thereof in his Chair about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February S. Scholastica's day an 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mention'd was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin laying in a little vault which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent who died 18 Decemb. 1681 after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Free-stone in form of an altar joyning to the North wall with his Armes and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble bordered with the like Free-stone on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon who divers years before had married one of his Daughters where they remain and are of great use to curious and critical persons To conclude had this indefatigable person sequestred himself from worldly troubles and totally addicted himself to his studies and had minded the publick more than his private concerns the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations and those more true and accurate than such that are already published especially those in his latter days Yet however what he hath done is prodigious considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion Le ts now go on with the Creations Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the Kings Army and Brother to John Lord Byron Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards a noted Mathematician Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll. Thom. Tully of Queens Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops Edw. Walker Herald of Armes by the title of Chester This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh by Barbara his Wife Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland was born at Roobers bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundell Earl Marshall of England to whom afterwards being Secretary he gave him the Pursevants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Armes In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nov. 1640 forced from London in Jan. 1641 Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England and was with him at Edghâll fight and afterwards at Oxon where he was actually created Master of Arts being then Chester Herald as I have before told you In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norrây King of Armes in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter and in the year following upon the death of the said Sir Henry he was made Garter and on the 2. of Feb. the same year 1644 he received the honor of Knighthood This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament then Victors Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax who perusing it found one passage therein which was very observable to him viz. that whereas he Walker had taken occasion to speak of the Irish and call'd them Rebells his Majesty who before that time had perused the book did among several alterations made therein with his own hand put out the word Rebells with his pen and over it wrot Irish This book was after his Majesties restauration regain'd and is now or at least was lately in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. Georges feast at Windsore which is printed in quarto After his Majesties return he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council and dying suddenly in Whitehall 19. Febr. 1676 his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and buried in the Church there among the graves of the Cloptons of Clopton in that Parish In his office of Garter K. of Armes succeeded Will. Dugdale Norroy as I have before told you and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks. Nov. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield Ferdinando Marsham Esq He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critick Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire He had lately retired to his Majesty because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj.
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 ârom 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 ãâã 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
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
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then ân Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
I shall anon set down In 1639 he was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland and when the Rebellion broke out there he suffered much in his Estate In 1644 he with the Lord Edward Brabason afterwards Earl of Meath and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt were sent by James Marquess of Ormonde then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon about the affairs of that Kingdom Which being concluded to their minds they returned but in their way they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship just after Sir James had flung over board the Kings packet of Letters directed to Ormonde Whereupon being all conveyed to London were committed Prisoners to the Tower where continuing eleven months were then released upon exchange Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin continued there for some time and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England Afterwards the said Colonel thinking it not convenient for several reasons that he should remain there commanded him to depart so that by vertue of his pass he went into France where he continued an year and an half mostly at Caen and partly at Paris In 1651 he left that Country went into England and setling in London wrot several books and published one or more there Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he went into Ireland and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General and continued a privy Counsellor there His works are these 1 Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium Tuamensium vitae duobus expressae commentariolis Dubl 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius 2 Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia c. 3 De praesulibus Lageniae sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus Dubl 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment de praesulibus Hib. 4 De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo Dubl 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit De script maj Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit The Description of Ireland 5 De Hibernia Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones Lond. 1654 and 1658. in a thick oct 6 De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora Dubl 1665. fol. 7 Note ad Bedae epist Apologeticam Dubl 1664. oct 8 Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium Girwicensium per Bedam composit Dubl 1664. oct 9 Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum Ib. eod an oct 10 Notae ad Egberti dialogum de institutione ecclesiastica Ib. eod an oct 11 Notae ad rem Historicam Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula S. Patricio qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit adscripta c. Lond. 1656. oct He also wrot and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante Annales Pr. at the end of his Disquisit de Hibernia and De praesul Hib. comment Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Maria regnantibus Annales which are at the end of the said book De praesul besides the publication of Campians Hist of Ireland the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer that of Hen. Marleburrough and The view of Ireland by Edm. Spenser At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first an 1666 and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City He had a choice Collection of antient MSS many of which related to Irâsh affairs procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an 1648. in â sh and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an 1686 who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martins Church in the Fields in Westm a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox. This year also about the beginning thereof as it seems was a proposal made by vertue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellour that Rich. Fanshaw Esq Servant to Prince Charles should have the degr of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him but whether he was presented thereunto tho diplomated he might be it appears not in the publick Register Howsoever it is sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University did many years after report that he had that degree confer'd on him here yet whether personally presented thereunto they could not positively affirm This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw originally of the University of Cambr. was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire being the great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place brother of Henry Fanshaw and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615. father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland father of him who is now or at least was lately L. Visc Fanshaw Which three last have also been Remembrancers of the Exchecquer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw brother to Lord Thomas of whom we are farther to speak was for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an 1635 and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain Whence being recall'd in the beginning of the Troubles 1640 1 into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed and was employed in several weighty matters of State In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales afterwards King whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl and thence into the Isles of Scilly and Guernsey In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert which he managed till the year 1650 when then he was prefer'd by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain and being thence recalled into Scotland he there served in the quality of Secretary of State Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester was at the battel there 1651 taken Prisoner and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness had liberty allow'd him upon Bayle given for the recovery of his health to go to any place he
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 Glâc 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 Dâvonshire 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
Holdenby in Northamptonshire there to continue during the Treaty because it was a more convenient place for his Majesty and much more near to London than the former place On the 3 of Feb. therefore an 1646 he was conveyed thence by certain Forces appointed by Parliament and on the 16 of the said month he arrived at Holdenby with the Commissioners viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke Basil Earl of Denbigh Edward Lord Mountague of Boughton with double their number of some eminent members of the H. of Commons namely Sir Jam. Harrington Sir John Holland and Sir Joh. Coke Baronets Sir Walter Earle Kt Joh. Crew Esq and Serg. Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne Being all setled there the Treaty went on with fair hopes of a conclusion but by the diabolical machinations of O. Cromwell and his confederates the Adjutators it was after this manner dissolved and the King by force taken thence On the 3 of June 1647 his Maj. being in the afternoon at Bowls in the Green at Aâthorp near Holdenby belonging to the Lord Spencer Earl of Sunderland it was whisper'd among the Commissioners then there with him that a party of Horse obscurely headed were marching towards Holdenby and for no good it was presumed in regard that neither the Commissioners nor Colonel Rich. Greaves a most confiding Presbyterian who kept the Guard at Holdenby and was an Officer in the Army nor the Commissioners servants had the least notice of it from any Officer or other correspondent in the Army other than that the General had removed his Head-quarter from S. Edmunds Bury to Newmarket when the Army entred into an Engagement not to suffer themselves to be disbanded such a motion having been made by the Commons in Parliament Whereupon his Majesty so soon as he was acquainted with it he immediately left the Green and returned to Holdenby where the Commissioners after consultation had with Col. Greaves resolved to stand upon their guard and accordingly they forthwith doubled their guards for the defence of his Majesties person and Serg. Maj. Gen. Browne calling all the Soldiers together acquainted them with the occasion who promised to stand by him and not to suffer any attempt upon the Kings person or affront on the Commissioners as I have been informed by one then present on the place whom I shall anon mention But the difference is great 'twixt saying and doing as soon appeared for about midnight came that party of Horse which in good order drew up before the House or Pallace at Holdenby and at all avenews placed guards This done the Officer that commanded the party alighted and demanded entrance Whereupon Greaves and Browne asked him his name and business he answer'd his name was Joyce a Cornet in Col. Edw. Whalleys Regiment and his business was to speak with the King From whom said they From my self said Joyce at which they laughed and thereupon Joyce said 't was no laughing matter They advised him to draw off his men and in the morning he should speak with the Commissioners I came not hither said he to be advised by you nor have I any business with the Commissioners my errand is to the King and speak with him I must and will presently c. They then bad the Soldiers within stand to their Arms and be ready to fire when ordered But during this short Treaty between the Cornet and Greaves and Browne the Soldiers on each side had conference together and so soon as they understood that they were Fellow-Soldiers of one and the same Army they quickly forgot what they had promised for they opened the gates and doors shoke one another by the hand and bad them welcome so little regard had they to their promises either in reference to the Kings safety or the Commissioners that attended him Entrance being made strict search was made after Col. Greaves who tho faultless yet was it suggested that he would privately have conveyed away the King to London got happily out of their reach Sentinels were ordered by Joyce to be set at the Commissioners chambers doors that he might with less noise carry on his design and find way to the Back-stairs where the Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber attended Cornet Joyce being come unto the door he in rude manner knock'd Those within asked who it was that in such an uncivil manner and unseasonable time came to disquiet the Kings rest The Cornet answer'd My name is Joyce an Officer of the Army and sorry I am that I should disquiet the King but I cannot help it for speak with him I must and that presently c This strange confidence of his and the posture he was in having a cock'd Pistol in his hand amazed the four Grooms of the Bedchamber Jam. Maxwell Patr. Maule Jam. Harrington and Thom. Herbert from the last of which I had this story in writing whose duty it was and care to preserve his Majesties person and were resolv'd to sacrifice their lives rather than give him admittance They therefore in the first place ask'd Joyce if he had the Commissioners approbation for his intrusion he said no for I have ordered a guard to be set at their doors and have orders from those that feared them not They then perswaded him to lay aside his arms and to forbear giving disturbance the K. being then asleep assuring him that in the morning he should have his Majesties answer to his errand The Cornet refused to part with either Sword or Pistol and yet insisted to have the Chamber door opened But the Grooms of the Bedchamber keeping firm to their resolution that he should not enter the noise was so loud which in this contest could not be avoided that it awakened his Majesty who thereupon rung his silver bell Upon which Maxwell went into the Bedchamber to know the Kings pleasure the other three Grooms in the mean time securing the door The K. being acquainted with the business and uncivil carriage of the Cornet he sent word he would not rise nor speak with him until morning Which being told the Cornet he huff'd and seeing his design could not be effected in the night he retired so as for a few hours there was silence Morning being come the K. arose a little sooner than ordinary and having performed his morning devotions he sent for Joyce who with no less confidence than if he had been a supreme Officer approached the King and acquainted him with the commands he had concerning his removal The K. desired that the Commissioners might be sent for and his orders communicated to them the Cornet made answer that they were to return back to the Parliament by whose appointment said the King to which the Cornet made no answer The K. then said Let them have their liberty and give me a sight of your instructions That said Cornet Joyce you shall see presently And forthwith drawing up the greatest and best part of his party into the inner Court as near as he could unto the King said These
authority do when he is possest by knaves Miserable man His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his bable Elsewhere he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness of his being a Cypher or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army while Cromwell was Head-master and Ireton Vsher c. that he was a stalking horse a Brute c. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once at least in his works stile him the brutish General as being a person not fit to hearken to reason When the War was terminated and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left he went to London in Nov. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth and nothing was thought too good or great for him After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley Newmarket c. he expressed himself civil to him as he did afterwards at Hampton-court but then having no pious frauds in him or dissimulation for a good end he did not or could not endeavour as being no politician to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew He did not endeavour to repell or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members the Agreement of the People c. but was lull'd on in a kind of stupidity 'T is true that before the King was beheaded in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit he did use his power and interest to have the execution defer'd for some days forbearing his coming among the Officers and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution or have it defer'd till he could make a party in the Army to second his design But behold his policy all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded and the time when he was beheaded he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse or both in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden and knew nothing of it as it doth appear by this passage When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joyning to the Banquetting-house at Whitehall and his Corps thereupon immediatly coffin'd and covered with a black velvet Pall Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left did go with the said Corps to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with Fairfax the General Fairfax asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him he told him that the King was beheaded at which he seem'd much surpriz'd Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell who knew what had lately past for he told them unasked that they should have orders for the Kings burial speedily as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert In little more than a fortnight after viz. Feb. 14. an 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State consisting of 30 persons and soon after when K. Ch. 2. ship'd himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right he laid down his Commission as General being influenc'd thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers because he would not engage against him whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place and how he afterwards acted against that King especially when he went into England to obtain his right all Histories will tell you Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver was ready to rise with the people of his County to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire if any ways successful and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him when they were about to fight Gen. Monke at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot. to restore the Rump but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659 against illegal taxes and free-quarter as also for the freedom of a Parliament as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659 the Rump Parliament then sitting he was by them appointed one of the Council of State and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland for the greater solemnity and luster of his Court there On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyeâ of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army And when the first ceremony was past he desired as 't is said to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences which accordingly he did with all submission After the said Parliament was dissolv'd he retired to his seat lived retiredly and dying there was buried in an Isle joyning on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York Over his grave was soon after pur this Epitaph Here lye the bodies of the right honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton Baron of Camerone who died Novemb. the 12 an 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore armes for the Parliament especially when General Many Letters of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons some Relations concerning skirmishes battles taking of Castles Towns c. As also Remonstrances Declarations Speeches Messages c. He was a great lover of learning religious in the way he professed and when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took great care for the preservation of the publick Library which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possest by the Royal Party And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you May 19. Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ Law He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation the members thereof then standing bare and was presented by
Cleypole a Gent. of Nârthamptonshire 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. Mâries 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
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
Edward Rogers of Magd. Coll. The first of these two a most celebrated Lat. Poet of his time hath published several things of his profession and therefore he ought to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Incorporations Jul. 5. John Boord Doct. of the Laws of Cambr. He was of Trin. Hall in that University Sept. 8. Edward Montague Earl of Mancester Baron of Kimbolton c. Master of Arts and Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge which University he had ruin'd in the time of the grand and unparallel'd Rebellion was incorporated in the same degree as he had stood at Cambridge After he had been conducted into the House of Convocation in his Masters Gown and Hood by the Beadles and seated on the right hand of the Vicechancellour the Orator of the University who then stood on the other side near and above the Registraries desk did then speak directing his voice to him an eloquent Oration which being done the said Oratoâ went from his place and going to he took him by the hand and led him to the middle of the Area where he presented him to the Vicechancellour and ven Convocation which being done and he incorporated by the Vicechancellours Sentence he re-took his place This is that Kimbolton who with 5 members of the House of Commons were demanded by his Majesty on the 4 of Jan. 1641 for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government and to deprive the King of his legal power c. and the same who after he had sedulously endeavoured to promote did carry on a Rebellion and continued his course till the Wars were ceased Afterwards striking in with Oliver he became one of his Lords that is one of the Lords of the other house and was a great man a thorough-pac'd Dissembler c. and never a looser for his high actings against the Royal Family After his Majesties restauration towards which he pretended to be a great helper when it could not otherwise be avoided he was made L. Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold and in that quality did he with Edw. Earl of Clarendon Chanc. of the Univ come this year to Oxon from Salisbury where they left their Majesties in order to have Lodgings provided for them about to come hither to take up their Winter-Quarters to avoid the Plague then raging in Lond. and Westminster This Edw. Earl of Manchester had a younger brother named Walter Montague born in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate in London educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambr afterwards travelled beyond the Seas and returning with an unsetled mind did at length after he had been sent once or more into France about public concerns give a farewel to his own Country and Religion wherein he had been born and baptized and going beyond the Sea he setled himself in a Monastery for a time and wrot A Letter in justification of his change which was afterwards answer'd by Lucius Lord Falkland Afterwards being received with great love into the favour of the Qu. Mother of France she made him Abbat of Nantveil of the Benedictine order in the dioc of Mets and afterwards Abbat of the Benedictines of S. Martins Abbey near Pontois in the dioc of Roan in the place of Job Franc. de Gândy deceased He was also one of her Cabinet Council and a promoter of Mazarine into her favour who when fix'd shew'd himself in many respects ungrateful to Montague and his friends And whereas Mazarine made it one of his chief endeavours to raise a family and to do such things that might perpetuate his name so Montague who was of a most generous and noble spirit and a person of great piety did act to the contrary by spending all that he could obtain for public and pious uses In his younger years before he left the Ch. of England he wrot The Sheppards paradise Com. Lond. 1629. oct And after he had left it Miscellanea spiritualia Or devout Essayes in two parts The first was printed at Lond. 1648 the other at the same place in 1654 and both in qu. I have seen a book intit Manchester al Mundo Contemplations on death and immortality Lond. 1635. oct and several times after the fifteenth impression of which was made at Lond. in 1690. in tw Which book was written by one of the family of the Earl of Manchester but whether by this Walter Montague who was a younger son to Henry Montague the first Earl of Manchester of his name I cannot tell because his name is not set to it This person who was commonly called Abbat Montague and sometimes Lord Abbat of Pontois died after Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England who concluding her last day on the last of Aug. 1669 he soon after followed as I have been informed by one of his domestick Servants who told me further that he was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the Hospital of Incurables at Paris You may read much of him in a book called Legenda lignea c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 137.138 c. but that book being full of Satyr persons of moderate Principles believe little or nothing therein As for the other persons who were incorporated besides the said Earl of Manchester were these Dec. 8. Joh. Logan M. A. of Glascow with liberty to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg which is all I know of him Mar. 8. Henr. Montague M. A. of Cambridge a younger son to the said Edward Earl of Manchester and others CREATIONS The Creations this year were mostly made on the 8 of Septemb. when the said Edward Earl of Manchester was incorporated M. A. at which time the Chancellour of the University was then in Oxon. Mast of Arts. Rob. Montague Visc Mandevile eldest son to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was presented by the Orator of the University with a little Speech and afterwards was seated on the left hand of the Vicechancellour After his fathers death in 1671 he became Earl of Manchester and died at Paris about the latter end of Decemb according to the English Accompt an 1682. Charles Dormer Visc Ascot of Mert. Coll eldest son of Charles Earl of Caernarvan Edward Capell of Wadh. Coll. a younger son of Arthur Lord Capell Vere Bertie a younger son of Montague Earl of Lindsey He was made Serjeant at Law in 1675 and afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer Charles Bertie his brother He is now Treasurer of the Ordnance Nich. Pelham Bt. of Ch. Ch. Scrope How Kt. of Ch. Ch. Will. Dolben a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and brother to Dr. John Dolben He was afterwards Recorder of London a Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench. Rich. Cooling or Coling Secretary to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was afterwards Secretary to Hen. Earl of Arlington while he was L. Chamberlain and on the 21 of Feb. 1688 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Maj. Privy Council in ordinary at which time were sworn with
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâissingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâtionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii âlandriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
the Elector of Brandeburg as also of the Hall and Judicial Chamber Chamberlain and Chieftain of the Province or County of Ruppin Knight of the order of Johamites and Envoy extraordinary to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said Elector of Brandeburg was created the same day Sir Joseph Williamson Kt Mast of Arts and Fellow of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son of the County of Cumberland had been Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas and afterwards under Hen. Earl of Arlington while they were Principal Secretaries of State and on the 24 Jan. 1671 he was sworn one of the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary and Knighted About that time he was Clerk of the papers or Keeper of the Paper Office at Whitehall and a Recruiter for Thetford in Norfolk to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661. Afterwards he was sent twice in the quality of a Plenipotentiary once to Holland and another time to Colen in Germany and after his return he was sworn Principal Secretary of State upon the promotion of Henry Earl of Arlington to be Lord Chambeâlain of his Majesties Houshold and a Privy Counsellour on the eleventh of Sept. 1674. Both which offices he keeping till Feb. 1678 did on the 9 of the same month resign the seals of his Secretaryship into the hands of his Majesty who forthwith giving them to Rob. Earl of Sunderland he was sworn the next day Secretary and Privy Counsellour This Sir Jos Williamson who was then President of the Royal Society hath been a great Benefactor to his Coll. and may be greater hereafter if he think fit The illustrious Lord Ignatius Vitus Baron ot Vicque a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under his Catholick Majesty in Flanders was created the same day June 27. One Ignatius Vitus alias White second Son of Sir Dominick White of Limerick in Ireland was created a Baronet on the 29 of June 1677 and for want of issue male that title was to descend to his Nephew Ignatius Maximilian Vitus and to the heirs male of his body This Sir Ignat. White is the same as I conceive with him that was Baron of Vicque D. Car. Gabr. de la Salle Eq. Grome of the Chamber to the King of Sweedland was also then created In a Convocation held 30 of May this year were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Sam. Speed formerly a Student now Canon of Ch. Ch. to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him but whether he was created or admitted notwithstanding he had formerly suffer'd for his loyalty it appears not On the sixth of the said month of May this year he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Seb. Smith deceased and dying at Godalming in Surrey of which he was Vicar about the 22 of January 1681 Henry Aldrich M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was installed Canon in his place on the 15. of Febr. following One Sam. Speed a pretender to Poetry hath written Prison-piety or meditations divine and moral c. Lond. 1677. in tw and other trivial things but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former In the month of January this year came to this University J. Secbaldus Frabricius an old Professor of Heidelberg who was forced to leave his Country because of the Wars between the Emperour and the King of France He lived for some time here in a studious condition had a collection of moneys made throughout the University to relieve his wants And while he continued among us he published De unitate Eccles Britannicae Meditationes Sacrae Oxon. 1676 oct and wrot and drew up another book entit Dissertatio Historica Dionis Cassii Scriptoris Graec. Selectiora Commata c. Lond. 1678. oct An. Dom. 1675. An. 27. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Ralph Bathurst Oct. 7. Proct. Joh. Jones of Ch. Ch. Apr. 14. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. June 8. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall See among the Masters an 1678. 10. Will. Gough commonly called Goff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Exeter Coll. Oct. 26. Will. Hallifax of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Pigott of Wad Coll. 29. Joh. Bagley of Ball. Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1687 and of the other two among the Masters 1678. Feb. 23. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll. He hath written and published several things and therefore he ought at large to be remerabred among the Oxford Writers hereafter Adm. 149. Bach. of Law Four were only admitted of whom Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. was one See among the Doct. of Law following Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Jonathan Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. June 8. Joh. Knight of New Inn He afterwards was made Vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire upon the removal thence of Richard Knight sometimes Proctor of the University of Oxon to a good Parsonage in Worcestershire and was author of The Samaritan Rebels perjur'd by a Covenant of Association in a Sermon at the Assizes held at Northampton 30 March 1682 on Hosea 10 the former part of the 4th vers Lond. 1682 qu. He is a good Scholar very loyal and of good name and esteem where he lives and might have been Preb. of Linc. which he much deserves had not Dr. B. Bish thereof shew'd him a Dog-trick Nov. 23. Jam. Parkinson of Linc. Coll. Jan. 19. Joh. Massey or Measey of Mert. Coll. This person who was originally of Vniv Coll was one of the Proctors of the University in 1684 and then and after did not look for or expect preferment At length after K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown he was by the endeavours of Mr. Obad. Walker Master of Vniv Coll advanced by his Majesty on the death of Dr. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon about the middle of Octob. 1686. Whereupon renouncing his religion for that of Rome which he was so to do before he could be setled in it he received the Patent for it on his bended knees from his Majesty on the 19 of Decemb. and on the 29 of the same month 1686 he was installed in that Dignity in his own person Afterwards he set up and furnished a Chappel for the R. Cath. use in Canterbury Quadrangle within the Precincts of Ch. Ch and was put into the Commission of Peace for the County of Oxford At length upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in the West parts of England and the committing thereupon by the Mobile great outrages in several parts of the Nation on R. Catholicks and their Houses the said Mr. Massey did to avoid them together with Mr. Thom. Deane a R. C. Fellow of Vniv Coll. withdraw himself privately before break of day on the 30 of Nov. 1688 went to London and there continued privately till an opportunity carried him over the Sea to France where I think
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. â Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kârk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws